22 October 2026
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22 October 2026
Australian women’s cricket stalwart Megan Schutt has been banned for two matches for a prescription medication breach ...
22 October 2026
Australia’s ‘do not travel’ warning for Saudi Arabia has cited airport threats and flight disruption, with safety advice for citizens already in the country.
22 October 2026
Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers will warn of softer economic growth and higher unemployment as interest rates remain high and inflation proves stubborn, according to excerpts of a speech that was ...
22 October 2026
Semiconductor and cloud infrastructure shipments helped drive almost 10% growth in Kuehne + Nagel’s third-quarter airfreight volumes, contrasting with falling tonnage at rival DSV, as it pruned accounts and managed Schenker integration effects. K+N handled 619,000 tonnes in Q3, up 9. 8% year on year, with growth accelerating from 2. 8% in Q2. Air Logistics net turnover rose 38%, to CHF2.
22 October 2026
Intra-Asia rates are receding from their recent highs as bottlenecks in major Chinese and other Asian ports subside. On 15 October, Drewry’s Intra-Asia Container Index dipped 3%, to an average of $1,453 per 40ft. Rates from Shanghai to key destinations, including Busan in South Korea, Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, and Jawaharlal Nehru Port in India, softened as vessel waiting times declined. The Golden Week holiday in China also gave ports an ... The post Intra-Asia rates soften as congestion at major ports begins to ease appeared first on The Loadstar .
22 October 2026
Lonnie Rouse was diagnosed with a neurological disorder that medical experts attributed to exposure to chemicals during his work cleaning up the Hanford nuclear site in Washington. Margaret Albaugh for ProPublica Lonnie Rouse shuffled into a wood-paneled conference room at the Washington state Capitol in March 2018. It had been nearly a decade since medical experts diagnosed him with a neurological disease they attributed to his exposure to chemicals at work. In the time since, he had acquired a stutter, begun limping and lost several teeth biting into a banana. For nearly 20 years, Rouse had packaged plutonium and monitored radioactive waste at the Hanford Site , a now-decommissioned Department of Energy nuclear weapons production plant in south-central Washington and one of the most contaminated nuclear sites in the country.
22 October 2026
The U. S. and Israel are planning for a possible post-elections attack on Iran, an anonymous source tells NPR. And, Elon Musk considers merging his companies SpaceX and Tesla. (Image credit: Justin Sullivan)
