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- The world's skinniest skyscraper is now complete — and its interiors are remarkable
Thursday - 11/24/2022 - 10:57 AMThe designers behind the world's skinniest skyscraper have just given fans of ultra-luxury living an early Christmas gift.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Police: Al-Shabaab terror attack targets Mogadishu hotel frequented by Somali lawmakers
Sunday - 11/27/2022 - 05:08 PMThe al Qaeda linked terror group al-Shabaab has carried out a suicide attack and stormed a central Mogadishu hotel frequented by Somalia's ministers and members of parliament, Somali police said Sunday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Belarus Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei dies at 64, officials say
Saturday - 11/26/2022 - 11:51 AMThe Foreign Minister of Belarus Vladimir Makei has died at the age of 64, the country's foreign ministry said Saturday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Taiwan votes in local elections billed as message for China and the world
Friday - 11/25/2022 - 10:39 PMPolls opened in Taiwan on Saturday in local elections that President Tsai Ing-wen has framed as being about sending a message to the world about the island's determination to defend its democracy in the face of China's rising bellicosity.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Speeding tanks, booming howitzers, shaking bones: This is how South Korea sells weapons
Friday - 11/25/2022 - 07:59 PMWith a blinding yellow flash and a concussion that shakes bones, K9 self-propelled howitzers launch artillery shells onto a hill that's just been hit by rockets fired from helicopters. Then K2 tanks roar in, speeding up roads and firing as they go.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How a scoop by a little-known crypto site led to the fall of Sam Bankman-Fried and implosion of FTX
Thursday - 11/24/2022 - 10:48 AMThe staggering level of apparent deception staged by former crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried wasn't uncovered by government investigators or a major powerhouse financial news organization, such as The Wall Street Journal.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The West is struggling to set an oil price cap that hurts Russia
Friday - 11/25/2022 - 09:22 AMAllies of Ukraine want to put a price limit on Russian oil. But there's a problem: They can't agree on a number that would actually pile pressure on the Kremlin.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Rats blamed for eating 500 kilograms of cannabis stored by Indian police
Friday - 11/25/2022 - 03:56 AMRats in northern India have been accused of eating hundreds of kilograms of cannabis seized from drug dealers and stored in police warehouses.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - From prisoner to prime minister: The remarkable rise of Malaysia's Anwar Ibrahim
Friday - 11/25/2022 - 05:02 AMIt's a political journey decades in the making -- the transformation of a young student firebrand into an icon of democracy and eventually the leader of his country, via two stints in jail.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What it means if a flight attendant thinks you're a 'BOB,' and other travel secrets
Wednesday - 11/23/2022 - 10:03 AMIt feels like the summer of travel chaos only just subsided, but the holiday travel season is now upon us.
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- Opinion: Why Putin would want a truce
Thursday - 11/24/2022 - 05:40 AMA truce now in the war in Ukraine would essentially spell victory for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Protests erupt across China in unprecedented challenge to Xi Jinping's zero-Covid policy
Sunday - 11/27/2022 - 02:54 PMProtests erupted across China throughout the weekend, including at universities and in Shanghai where hundreds chanted "Step down, Xi Jinping! Step down, Communist Party!" in an unprecedented show of defiance against the country's stringent and increasingly costly zero-Covid policy.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - US bans Huawei, ZTE equipment sales amid Chinese spying fears
Saturday - 11/26/2022 - 12:02 AMThe Biden administration has banned approvals of new telecommunications equipment from China's Huawei Technologies and ZTE because they pose "an unacceptable risk" to US national security.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ford recalls 520,000 SUVs due to fire risk
Friday - 11/25/2022 - 02:39 PMFord has announced another SUV recall, this time impacting about 520,000 Ford Escape and Bronco Sport compacts in the United States. Potential cracks in the vehicles' fuel line can cause fires to break out under the hood of some cars, according to Ford and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Why Thanksgiving-weekend movies aren't doing well this year
Friday - 11/25/2022 - 11:27 AMThanksgiving weekend has historically offered a cornucopia of films, letting moviegoers get out of the house and kick back after eating copious amounts of turkey, mashed potatoes and pie.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Foxconn offers to pay workers to leave its largest iPhone factory after violent protests
Thursday - 11/24/2022 - 09:45 PMFoxconn has offered to pay newly recruited workers 10,000 yuan ($1,400) to quit and leave its largest iPhone assembly factory, in an attempt to quell protests that saw hundreds of workers clash with security forces at the facility in central China.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Analysis: What the South African state visit tells us about the new monarchy
Friday - 11/25/2022 - 10:38 AMAnother week, another set of firsts for the new King. This time round, Charles III hosted the first state visit of his reign and welcomed South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to the UK.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Indonesia needs earthquake-proof houses. Building them is a huge challenge
Friday - 11/25/2022 - 12:32 AMA deadly earthquake that reduced buildings to rubble in West Java, Indonesia has once again exposed the dangers of living in poorly built homes in one of the most seismically active zones on the planet.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Russia threatens to cut supply of gas through Ukraine
Friday - 11/25/2022 - 12:31 AM• Stories of Ukrainian resistance revealed after Kherson pullout
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• Russia's State Duma approves bill to ban 'LGBT propaganda'
• Opinion: Why Putin would want a truce - The skincare brand betting on CBD beauty in the Middle East
Wednesday - 11/09/2022 - 04:18 AMWhen mother-son entrepreneurs Yann Moujawaz and Juana Martini launch their skincare brand in the United Arab Emirates this winter, they will be the first to market CBD-based products to a region well-known for its zero-tolerance approach to drugs.
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- Mexican authorities search for 2 missing Americans in the Gulf of California
Sunday - 11/27/2022 - 05:39 PMMexican authorities are searching for two Americans who went missing after a kayaking trip off the coast of Puerto Peñasco in the Gulf of California, local authorities said late Saturday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - North Korea plans 'world's most powerful' nuclear force, Kim Jong Un says
Sunday - 11/27/2022 - 02:22 AMNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un is planning to build "the world's most powerful" nuclear force, state news agency KCNA reported on Sunday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Iran's supreme leader praises paramilitary for crackdown on 'rioters' and 'thugs'
Saturday - 11/26/2022 - 05:55 AMIran's Supreme Leader has praised the country's Basij paramilitary force for its role in the deadly crackdown on anti-regime protesters.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Chinese-Canadian pop star Kris Wu sentenced to 13 years of prison for rape in China
Friday - 11/25/2022 - 10:47 AMA Chinese court in Beijing sentenced Chinese-Canadian pop star Kris Wu, also known as Wu Yifan, to 13 years in jail after finding him guilty of sexual offenses, including rape, the court said in a post on its official Weibo account.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - At least 3 people killed and 11 others injured in Brazil school shootings
Friday - 11/25/2022 - 10:05 PMAt least three people were killed and 11 others injured Friday after a gunman opened fire at two schools in the Brazilian state of Espirito Santo, according to local authorities.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - In Britain, nearly 200,000 workers are striking on Black Friday
Friday - 11/25/2022 - 05:30 AMBritain's cost-of-living crisis is already taking the shine off Black Friday. Now, the shopping holiday faces an additional threat from strikes that could disrupt deliveries, subdue online shopping and deliver another blow to the slumping economy.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Iranian-Kurdish footballer arrested on charges of incitement against the regime
Friday - 11/25/2022 - 06:46 AMAn Iranian-Kurdish footballer has been arrested on charges of "incitement against the regime" as Tehran cracks down on anti-government protesters, according to state-aligned news agency Tasim.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The US-China chip war is spilling over to Europe
Friday - 11/25/2022 - 12:26 AMTwo European chip deals have run into trouble over their links with China, a sign of concern spreading in the West over potential Chinese control of critical infrastructure.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Hong Kong finds 90-year-old cardinal guilty over pro-democracy protest fund
Friday - 11/25/2022 - 03:34 AMA 90-year-old former bishop and outspoken critic of China's ruling Communist Party was found guilty Friday on a charge relating to his role in a relief fund for Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests in 2019.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Why you can thank The Sims for one of 2022's biggest fashion trends
Tuesday - 11/22/2022 - 05:17 AMGaming and fashion may appear to be unlikely bedfellows, but what our avatars wear — whether skydiving into a battle in Fortnite or having a dinner date in The Sims — has been of interest since video game characters could first change their clothes.
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