doc: NEWS: mention that 'date' now supports non-Gregorian calendars

Suggested by Bruno Haible in:
<https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-gnulib/2025-07/msg00091.html>.

* NEWS: Mention the improvement.
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@@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
Also on other systems the full set of supported baud rates
is determined at build time if possible.
'date' now outputs dates in the country's native calendar for the
Iranian locale (fa_IR) and for the Ethiopian locale (am_ET), and also
does so more consistently for the Thailand locale (th_TH.UTF-8).
* Noteworthy changes in release 9.7 (2025-04-09) [stable]