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Massive cyberattack disrupts gas stations in Iran
Anadolu Agency 26 Oct 2021
A massive cyberattack has caused widespread disruption at gas stations across Iran, affecting fuel distribution facilities, authorities said on Tuesday. No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack, which has sent shock waves across the country amid fears of a fuel crisis ... Officials have mostly blamed arch-enemy Israel for the attacks ... .
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk creates history, becomes $36.2 billion richer in ONE day
DNA India 26 Oct 2021
Elon Musk, the world's wealthiest person and the CEO of big businesses such as SpaceX and Tesla, witnessed his net wealth rise by $36.2 billion (Rs 2.71 lakh crore) on Monday when Hertz Global Holdings placed an order for 100,000 Teslas. With electric cars, Tesla is speeding up the world's shift to renewable power ... and Nike Inc. at $288.6 billion ... .
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UN chief laments 'leadership gap' ahead of climate talks
Moosejaw Today 26 Oct 2021
BERLIN (AP) — The head of the United Nations says a “leadership gap” is undermining the world's efforts to curb global warming, days before presidents and prime ministers from around the globe gather for a climate summit in Glasgow. U.N ... “The clock is ticking,” he said in New York. “The emissions gap is the result of a leadership gap ... ” ... 31-Nov ... ___ ... .
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Sudan general: Prime minister is being held at a home
Moosejaw Today 26 Oct 2021
CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s top general says the deposed prime minister is being detained for own safety at the general’s own house, not in a prison. The military took power in a coup on Monday. Gen ... Burhan said Hamdok was in good health. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below ... Western governments and the U.N ... U.S ... U.S ... He said the U.S ... .
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Japan's Princess Mako marries commoner, loses royal status
The Times of India 26 Oct 2021
TOKYO . Japanese Princess Mako married a commoner and lost her royal status Tuesday in a union that has split public opinion after a three-year delay caused by a financial dispute involving her new mother-in-law ... No longer a royal, Mako has now taken the surname of her husband and become Mako Komuro - the first time she has had a family name ... .
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South African court rules Zuma’s corruption case to continue
Wtop 26 Oct 2021
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Former South African President Jacob Zuma’s effort to get a prosecutor removed from his corruption case has been dismissed by the Pietermaritzburg High Court. Zuma filed a special application to have prosecutor Billy Downer taken off his case, accusing him of bias ... The trial will continue on April 11, 2022, said the judge ... Source .
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Turkey’s Erdogan Drops Threat to Expel Western Diplomats
Balkan Insight 26 Oct 2021
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stepped back from his decision to expel ten Western diplomats who urged the release of a jailed human rights activist after they promised not to interfere in Turkey's internal affairs. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul, December 2019 Photo. EPA-EFE/ERDEM SAHIN ... Recep Tayyip ErdoganTurkey. .
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Businesses in Thailand urge government to reverse alcohol ban
The Guardian 26 Oct 2021
Just weeks ahead of the reopening, many bars, clubs and restaurants are closed or struggling to survive ....
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Facebook yanks Bolsonaro video claiming vaccines cause AIDS
Federal News Radio 26 Oct 2021
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Facebook and Instagram have removed from their platforms a live broadcast that Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro delivered in which he said people in the U.K. who have received two coronavirus vaccine doses are developing AIDS faster than expected ... Insight by GitLab. During this webinar executives from the State Department, U.S ... .
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US judge sets July deadline for Prince Andrew's testimony in accuser's lawsuit
RTE 26 Oct 2021
Britain's Prince Andrew must make himself available to answer questions under oath by 14 July next in a civil lawsuit by a woman who accuses him of sexually abusing her when she was a teenager ... Andrew has not been charged with any crimes, and has "categorically" denied Ms Giuffre's claims ... .
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Myanmar’s Suu Kyi denies junta charge of incitement to cause alarm – media
Metro USA 26 Oct 2021
(Reuters) – Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi has denied a charge of incitement to cause public alarm, media reported on Tuesday, in her first court testimony since a February coup plunged the country into chaos and ended a decade of democratic reform ... Reuters was unable to independently verify the reports ... .
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Blinken urges all U.N. member states to support Taiwan participation
Metro USA 26 Oct 2021photo: AP / Luis Hidalgo
Chile is at the dawn of a new political era
Mail Guardian South Africa 26 Oct 2021
“It feels like we are at the end of an era,” Bárbara Sepúlveda tells me on 12 October 2021. Sepúlveda is a member of Chile’s Constitutional Convention and of the Communist Party of Chile ... Neoliberalism was born in Chile, as the popular slogan goes, and it will die in Chile. This slogan seems to have come true with the ending of the Pinochet era.
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World heading for catastrophe without bolder climate plans, UN warns
The Independent 26 Oct 2021
The world is way off course from averting climate disaster, and countries’ new commitments to cutting greenhouse gas emissions – unveiled ahead of the Cop26 climate summit – “fall far short” of what is required to reach net zero by 2050, the UN has warned ... The Heat Is On, not enough action is planned. .
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U.K. becomes latest country to sign defence deal with Greece
Greek City Times 26 Oct 2021
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias and UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss signed a Strategic Bilateral Framework to enhance trade and security cooperation in the post-Brexit era ... The new framework aims to boost trade, security and digital cooperation between the two countries. Speaking to journalists following Monday’s meeting, Dendias said ... Tags ... 0 ... .