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Twitter takeover: Jeff Bezos questions Elon Musk's ties to China

Twitter takeover: Jeff Bezos questions Elon Musk’s ties to China

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has asked whether Elon Musk’s deal to buy Twitter will give China “a bit of leverage” over the platform. Twitter is blocked in China but Mr Musk‘s electric car business Tesla is dependent on the company’s plant in Shanghai and sales across the country for its global profits. Explaining the motivation behind his $44bn takeover, Mr Musk said: “Free speech is the bedrock of…

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Access Asia - India feels the heat: Country reels from unusually early heatwave

Access Asia – India feels the heat: Country reels from unusually early heatwave

Issued on: 26/04/2022 – 12:46 Earlier this month, India’s northwest sweltered under a heatwave that came unusually early. Every year, hundreds of people die during heatwaves in India and the country usually also suffers severe water shortages. There are fears that because of climate change, heatwaves are coming earlier and may be more severe. Nagraj Adve, a climate activist and author of “Global…

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Beijing Starts Testing 20 Million to Try to Avoid a Lockdown Like Shanghai’s

Beijing Starts Testing 20 Million to Try to Avoid a Lockdown Like Shanghai’s

Beijing officials urged residents to work remotely, and they suspended large-scale gatherings such as cultural performances, sports events and exhibitions. Some streets in Chaoyang, where most of the cases have been detected so far, were uncommonly quiet. Officials had earlier identified a small area elsewhere in the district, covering about a square mile of southern Chaoyang, where they ordered…

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Crisis-hit Sri Lanka to sell long-term ‘golden’ visas: Report

Crisis-hit Sri Lanka to sell long-term ‘golden’ visas: Report

Foreigners who deposit $100,000 locally will be granted permission to live and work in Sri Lanka for 10 years, says the report. Cash-strapped Sri Lanka has announced it would sell long-term visas to attract desperately needed foreign currency, says a report, as the island nation runs out of dollars to pay for food and fuel. Foreigners who deposit a minimum of $100,000 locally will be granted…

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YouTuber's pilot licence revoked after he 'crashed plane to get views'

YouTuber’s pilot licence revoked after he ‘crashed plane to get views’

A man’s pilot licence has been revoked after aviation officials said he crashed his plane on purpose to get YouTube views. Trevor Jacob posted a video in December in which he jumped out of his light aircraft in California after the propeller apparently stopped working. He was already wearing a parachute when he took off – a highly unusual move – had cameras strapped to the plane as well as a…

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North Korea Holds Military Parade With Nuclear Threat

North Korea Holds Military Parade With Nuclear Threat

SEOUL — North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, vowed to expand his nuclear arsenal “at the fastest possible speed​” and threatened to use it, as his government displayed a large array of missiles and other weapons, including its newest intercontinental ballistic missile, during a nighttime military parade on Monday, the North’s state media said. With his defiant tone, Mr. Kim ​appeared to raise the…

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Alec Baldwin Rust shooting: New video released of Halyna Hutchins' death

Alec Baldwin Rust shooting: New video released of Halyna Hutchins’ death

Never-seen-before footage has been released of the moments before and after Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed on set. New Mexico Police have made public all the files associated with the ongoing criminal investigation into her death, including camera footage from detectives, incident reports, crime scene photos and witness interviews collected during the investigation. One of the…

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Photos: Beijing enforces mass COVID testing, shuts neighbourhoods

Photos: Beijing enforces mass COVID testing, shuts neighbourhoods

Authorities in China’s capital, Beijing, are enforcing mass testing and closing down access to neighbourhoods as they seek to contain a new COVID-19 outbreak. The announcement of the testing had sparked panic buying in the city of 21 million on Monday, but the situation appeared to calm down on Tuesday with public transport largely keeping to normal schedules and roads packed with…

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Baking Challah in Dubai: A Jewish Community Heads Out Into the Open

Baking Challah in Dubai: A Jewish Community Heads Out Into the Open

DUBAI — Two rows of tables covered in glossy runners, mixing bowls, wooden spatulas and containers of yeast, sugar, eggs, oil, flour and salt lined the garden of a villa set to host nearly 60 women. As the guests arrived, each received a pink apron inscribed with the name of the event in big bold type: Dubai Challah Bake. “This is not the first time we’re making challah,” said Chevie Kogan, a…

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Cary Elwes from The Princess Bride and Stranger Things bitten by rattlesnake

Cary Elwes from The Princess Bride and Stranger Things bitten by rattlesnake

The Princess Bride star Cary Elwes has been treated in hospital after being bitten by a rattlesnake. The actor, who starred as Westley in the 1987 film, thanked emergency services and shared a photo of his swollen black and blue finger after the incident in California. “Bit not by a ROUS but a rattlesnake,” Elwes said in a post on social media on Monday, referring to a “Rodent of Unusual Size”…

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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: List of key events from day 62

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: List of key events from day 62

As the Russia-Ukraine war enters its 62nd day, we take a look at the main developments. Here are the key events so far on Tuesday, April 26. Get the latest updates here. Fighting The British Ministry of Defence says Russian forces are likely attempting to encircle heavily fortified Ukrainian positions in the east of Ukraine. Oleh Synehubov, governor of Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, tells the…

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Israeli forces kill Palestinian in occupied West Bank raid

Israeli forces kill Palestinian in occupied West Bank raid

Ahmad Owaidat, 20, was killed during an Israeli raid in Jericho, the Palestinian Health Ministry announced. Israeli forces have killed a Palestinian man during a raid on the Aqabet Jaber refugee camp in the occupied West Bank city of Jericho, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. The man was identified as 20-year-old Ahmad Ibrahim Owaidat. The Ministry of Health said he had been shot…

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She Saw the Sea: A marine biologist in South Africa

She Saw the Sea: A marine biologist in South Africa

From: Africa Direct Kholofelo Sethebe never learned to swim. Now, as a marine biologist, she braves the open seas to swim with seals. Kholofelo Sethebe was first drawn to the sea as a child, on a visit to Cape Town from her landlocked home province in South Africa. But traditional fears of the ocean were deep, so it is only now, as a qualified marine biologist, that she is teaching herself to…

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Kenneth Roth, ‘Godfather’ of Human Rights Work, to Step Down

Kenneth Roth, ‘Godfather’ of Human Rights Work, to Step Down

Kenneth Roth said he first learned about human rights abuses from his father, whose Jewish family ran a butchery near Frankfurt in Hitler’s Germany. His father, Mr. Roth recalled, would describe how the Nazis forced the Jews into segregated schools, a precursor for much worse to come. While Nazi Germany was radically different from Mr. Roth’s own childhood in Deerfield, Ill., he said, “I grew up…

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Beijing begins mass Covid testing of nearly all 21 million residents

Beijing begins mass Covid testing of nearly all 21 million residents

Issued on: 26/04/2022 – 08:13 Beijing on Tuesday launched mass coronavirus testing for nearly all its 21 million residents, as fears grew that the Chinese capital may be placed under a strict lockdown like Shanghai. China is trying to contain a wave of infections in Shanghai — its biggest city — which has been almost entirely locked down for weeks and reported 52 new Covid deaths on…

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Asia facing ‘stagflationary’ risks, IMF official warns

Asia facing ‘stagflationary’ risks, IMF official warns

Senior official points to Ukraine war, soaring commodity prices and China’s economic slowdown as risks to the region. Asia faces a “stagflationary” outlook, a senior International Monetary Fund (IMF) official warned on Tuesday, pointing to the Ukraine war, soaring commodity prices and China’s economic slowdown as risks to the region. While Asia’s trade and financial exposure to Russia and…

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Russia’s Lavrov warns of ‘serious’ risk of nuclear conflict

Russia’s Lavrov warns of ‘serious’ risk of nuclear conflict

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has warned that the conflict in Ukraine risked escalating into a third world war and that NATO was “in essence” engaged in a proxy war with Moscow by supplying Kyiv with weapons. In a wide-ranging interview broadcast on state television on Monday, Lavrov said the risk of a nuclear conflict must not be underestimated and that the core of any agreement to end…

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