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The 76-year-old was honoured for writing that mixes verse, prose and translation from ancient Greek. She was in Iceland, “listening to the wind”, when the call came. Canadian poet Anne Carson, whose work moves between verse, prose, dialogue and translation, won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday for what the Swedish Academy called her “bold and inventive oeuvre”. Carson, 76, is the first Canadian to win the prize since the short story writer Alice Munro in 2013. The award is worth 12 million Swedish kronor ($1.2m). Asked by Icelandic broadcaster RÚV how she felt about the news, Carson…

Russia fired 70 missiles and dozens of drones overnight, Ukraine’s president said, with 20 dead in the northern town of Pryluky, five of them children. At least 28 people, including children, were killed across Ukraine on Wednesday when Russia launched waves of missiles and drones in what President Volodymyr Zelensky called one of its most “vile strikes”. Ukraine’s interior minister, Ivan Vyhivskyi, gave the nationwide death toll. Zelensky said 100 people were injured, and the attack also damaged industrial sites and energy infrastructure. The deadliest strike hit Pryluky, in the northern Chernihiv region, where a Russian missile destroyed a five-storey…

Andrew Harnik / Getty Pictures In a doubtlessly transformative second for the South Caucasus, Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a U.S.-brokered peace settlement on August 8, 2025, on the White Home, ending a battle lingering for almost 35 years. The deal, facilitated by President Donald Trump, not solely charts a course towards normalized relations but additionally reconfigures strategic affect within the area. A key element of the settlement is the creation of a transit hall connecting mainland Azerbaijan with its Nakhchivan exclave by way of Armenia — a longstanding diplomatic problem. Dubbed the “Trump Route for Worldwide Peace and Prosperity”…