# NuseReal

New COVID variant XBB.1.5 rapidly spreading in US, CDC data shows — nypost — 31 December 2022 (LINK)

— masslive: What to know about XBB, the new top COVID variant:"barking at the heels of measles, and that is quite a remarkable level of transmission" (LINK)

Former Pope Benedict XVI, the first pope to resign in 600 years, dies at 95 — ground.news: 38 sources — 31 December 2022 (LINK)

— CNN: Benedict XVI asks for forgiveness, thanks God in final published letter (LINK)

EU Urges Rwanda to Stop Supporting M23 Rebels in DR Congo — ground.news: 5 sources — 31 December 2022 (LINK)

Trump tax returns reveal web of losses, write-offs, 'disguised gifts' and little charity — independent.co.uk — 31 December 2022 (LINK)

Magnus Carlsen becomes triple world chess champion for the third time in his career — cnn — 31 December 2022 (LINK)

Cristiano Ronaldo signs with Saudi Arabian side Al-Nassr FC — but for how much? — ground.news: 243 sources — 31 December 2022 (LINK)

For the first time, scientists discover organisms whose diets rely on eating viruses: ciliate microbes — salon — 31 December 2022 (LINK)

Travellers arriving in England, Spain and Canada from China will need to show negative COVID test, while France demands test from 5 January — ground.news: 105 sources — 30 December 2022 (LINK)

WHO meets with Chinese officials on current COVID-19 situation — who — 30 December 2022 (LINK)

Aung San Suu Kyi jailed for a further seven years: 33 in total — ground.news: 206 sources — 30 December 2022 (LINK)

Venezuelan Opposition Dissolves Guaido's 'Interim Government' — ground.news: 39 sources — 30 December 2022 (LINK)

Epstein's sex trafficking was aided by JPMorgan, a U.S. Virgin Islands lawsuit says — npr — 30 December 2022 (LINK)

Central Bank Gold Demand Rose at the Fastest Pace in 55 Years because of China, Analyst Says Silver Could Outperform Gold in 2023 — news.bitcoin.com — 31 December 2022 (LINK)

Top 10 philanthropy Donations of 2022 Totaled $9.3 Billion: — philanthropy ● — 30 December 2022 (LINK)

— Bill Gates topped the list after giving $5 billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for the grant maker’s work on global health, development, policy and advocacy, and U.S. education.

Wired: 22 Things That Made the World a Better Place in 2022: From spinal implants that allow paralyzed people to walk to smashing an asteroid off course with a rocket — wired — 30 December 2022 (LINK)

UNGA passes resolution asking world court to weigh in on Israeli-Palestinian conflict: court's 1st Israel probe since 2004 — timesofisrael — 30 December 2022 (LINK)

Tory and Labour MPs who caused trouble for Boris Johnson knighted in New Year Honours list — ground.news: 7 sources — 30 December 2022 (LINK)

Barbara Walters, news pioneer, dies aged 93 — apnews — 30 December 2022 (LINK)

Putin's 'rocket man' becomes latest senior Russian official to mysteriously die — days after top former Kremlin general was found dead on Christmas Day — source — 30 December 2022 (n.d.) (LINK)

— Since 2014, Nesterov has been dogged by persistent allegations of fraud and embezzlement. Authorities accused him of pocketing upwards of £57million, and he had been under house arrest pending further investigation. Alexander Buzakov, 65, director general of Admiralty Shipyards, in charge of building new submarines armed with deadly Kalibr missiles, also unexpectedly died earlier this week. And General Alexei Maslov, 69, former commander of Russian ground forces with close ties to Ukraine, died 'suddenly' on Christmas day, after Putin abruptly cancelled a trip to the tank enterprise where he worked as an international sales ambassador. Buzakov had been healthy the day before he died, and 'nothing had been heard about Maslov's health problems'.

The 10 Best-Read Articles in the Chronicle of Philanthropy in 2022 — philanthropy — 30 December 2022 (LINK)

Pelé, Brazilian soccer legend, dies at 82 — nbcnews — 29 December 2022 (LINK)

Vivienne Westwood: Pioneering fashion designer dies aged 81 — bbc — 29 December 2022 (LINK)

66 journalists killed in 2022, a steep increase from the total of 45 journalists killed in 2021: 14 in Mexico, 8 covering Ukraine war — ipi — 29 December 2022 (LINK)

Bulgaria protests to Russia after journalist Grozev put on wanted list — aljazeera — 29 December 2022 (LINK)

Israel Swears In Netanyahu As Prime Minister Of Hard-Line Government — ground.news: 170sources — 29 December 2022 (LINK)

Cambodian casino fire kills 19, dozens more feared dead — ground.news: 253 sources — 29 December 2022 (LINK)

8,000 UK patients receive message that they are dying of cancer instead of holiday greeting — nypost — 29 December 2022 (LINK)

Fake news in 2022: 10 of the oddest stories of the year — dw — 31 December 2022 (LINK)

Vox: the best, worst, and just plain dumb of American politics in 2022: From dinner with Kanye West to orating about werewolves, 2022 was strange. — vox ← — 29 December 2022 (LINK)

The Best Music Albums of 2022: from Bad Bunny to English metal to Afrobeat — thenation ● — 29 December 2022 (LINK)

DW: Top 10 Art Posts of 2022 — dw — 29 December 2022 (LINK)

Bitcoin, Ether Did Better Than You Think in 2022: same as equities, better than bonds — coindesk — 29 December 2022 (LINK)

Every Planet in the Solar System Is on Display for a Short Time in 'Planet Parade': see Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn with the naked eye — people.com — 29 December 2022 (LINK)

Energy Dashboard Switzerland — dashboardenergie.admin.ch — 29 December 2022 (LINK)

Brazil's Lula picks Amazon defender for environment minister — apnews — 29 December 2022 (LINK)

67-Year-Old Ugandan Man Who Has 102 Children And 568 Grandchildren Says He's Done Having Kids because of rising cost of living — blavity.com — 29 December 2022 (LINK)

Street Fighter returns, Link is back and vampires run amok: 15 video games to anticipate in 2023 — guardian — 29 December 2022 (LINK)

Biggest Marketing Blunders Of 2022 — mediapost — 29 December 2022 (LINK)

Emily in Paris reckoned to be spending three times her actual salary on rent, clothes and food — metro.co.uk — 29 December 2022 (LINK)

The rise and fall of Dan Price, the CEO from Idaho who set a $70K minimum yearly salary — idahostatesman — 29 December 2022 (LINK)

Switzerland is fifth-biggest hub for most valuable global companies — swissinfo — 29 December 2022 (LINK)

Germany to suspend humanitarian aid for Afghanistan — source — 28 December 2022 (LINK)

Putin bans Russian oil exports to countries that impose price cap — ground.news: 105 sources — 27 December 2022 (LINK)

Tesla’s stock is headed for its worst month, quarter and year on record — cnbc — 27 December 2022 (LINK)

What You Should Know About Chronic Coughing After COVID-19 — yahoo news — 27 December 2022 (LINK)

S. Korea to pardon former leader Lee for corruption crimes — ground.news: 73 sources — 27 December 2022 (LINK)

Serbian troops on Kosovo border in state of 'combat readiness' — aljazeera — 27 December 2022 (LINK)

Biden approves New York emergency declaration over "blizzard of the century" — axios — 27 December 2022 (LINK)

Miami Weather: record cold on Christmas Day, warm up expected this week — cbsnews — 27 December 2022 (LINK)

Russian businessman who criticised Ukraine invasion dies after falling from window of luxury hotel in India — lbc — 27 December 2022 (LINK)

— A police official told Indian news that they believed he took his own life after his friend, a Vladimir Bidenov, died in the same hotel on Thursday. It was suggested he might have been depressed because of Mr Bidenov’s death.

The real-life dog behind memecoin DOGE is seriously ill at 17 — cointelegraph — 27 December 2022 (LINK)

EPFL's top ten news articles from 2022 — epfl — 27 December 2022 (LINK)

Scientists Have Found A Way To Measure Depression — giantfreakinrobot — 27 December 2022 (LINK)

Ukraine's foreign minister on Monday said that his government is aiming to have a peace summit by the end of February, preferably at the United Nations with Secretary-General António Guterres as a possible mediator, around the anniversary of Russia's war . — ground.news: 96 sources — 26 December 2022 (LINK)

Belarus sentences in absentia former Olympian Herasimenia to 12 years in prison — ground.news: 64 sources — 26 December 2022 (LINK)

Protest-backing soccer star’s family kept from leaving Iran — ground.news: 61 sources — 26 December 2022 (LINK)

Swiss universities on guard against Chinese espionage — swissinfo — 26 December 2022 (LINK)

Greenland's glaciers are melting 100 times faster than estimated — space.com — 26 December 2022 (LINK)

Zaha Hadid Architects creates weather-proof and modular shelters for displaced communities — worldarchitecture.org — 26 December 2022 (LINK)

Russia Places Bellingcat Journalist On Wanted List — voanews — 26 December 2022 (LINK)

Foreign aid groups in Afghanistan suspend work after Taliban ban on women workers — ground.news: 31 sources — 25 December 2022 (LINK)

Pope Francis says Earth is experiencing 'Third World War' in Christmas message — upi — 25 December 2022 (LINK)

King Charles salutes late queen, public workers (many of whom are in a fight with the government over pay) in Christmas Day speech delivered standing up instead of beind desk — ground.news: 181 sources — 25 December 2022 (LINK)

China health commission stops publishing daily COVID figures — ground.news: 33 sources — 25 December 2022 (LINK)

Fiji parliament confirms Sitiveni Rabuka as prime minister after days of uncertainty, ending Bainimarama's 16-Year Grip on Power — theguardian — 24 December 2022 (LINK)

WMO releases 'tell-tale signs' of extreme weather conditions around the world: the past eight years are on track to be the eight warmest on record — news.un.org — 23 December 2022 (LINK)

Polar bears in Canada's Western Hudson Bay are continuing to die in high numbers, a new government survey has found. Since the 1980s, the number of bears in the region has fallen by nearly 50%. The ice sessential to their survival is disappearing — ground.news: 54 sources — 23 December 2022 (LINK)

China estimates COVID surge is infecting 37 million people a day — ground.news: 57 sources — 23 December 2022 (LINK)

Facebook parent Meta will pay $725M to settle user data case alleging it allowed millions of its users' personal information to be fed to Cambridge Analytica — abcnews — 23 December 2022 (LINK)

Mauritius, South Africa, and Morocco ranked as Most Innovative African countries in 2022 According to WIPO — okayafrica.com — 23 December 2022 (LINK)

euronews: all the positive environmental stories from 2022 so far — euronews — 23 December 2022 (LINK)

Judge in SBF Case Recuses Herself Over Husband's Firm's Past Work for FTX — decrypt — 23 December 2022 (LINK)

Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX execs received billions in hidden loans, ex-Alameda CEO says — nbcnews — 23 December 2022 (LINK)

Director of Conservation and Policy at the Zoological Society of London: COP15: What is the UN's 30 by 30 biodiversity target and can we hit it? We need to hold countries to account to actually make the changes and make them now — sciencefocus — 23 December 2022 (LINK)

3 dead, 3 wounded in Paris shooting at Kurdish cultural centre; 69-year-old suspect arrested — ground.news: 360 sources — 23 December 2022 (LINK)

4 dead in pileup with at least 46 vehicles in Ohio, authorities say — nbc / yahoo — 23 December 2022 (LINK)

Shell to pay 15 mln euros in settlement over Nigerian oil spills — reuters — 23 December 2022 (LINK)

Mauritius, South Africa, and Morocco ranked as Most Innovative African countries in 2022 According to WIPO — okayafrica.com — 23 December 2022 (LINK)

Koch-Funded Legal Group Fights to Protect COVID Misinformation — truthout ← — 22 December 2022 (LINK)

Germany arrests foreign intelligence employee suspected of spying for Russia — ground.news: 68 sources — 22 December 2022 (LINK)

What is Davos? Here's everything you need to know about the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting — weforum — 22 December 2022 (LINK)

65% of Antarctica's plants and animals could disappear, scientists say. Its iconic penguins are most at risk — cnn — 22 December 2022 (LINK)

Wall Street Journal Blasts Republicans 'Sneering' at Zelensky, Reminds Them 'Beijing and Moscow Are Working Together' Against the U.S. — mediaite — 22 December 2022 (LINK)

Biodiversity treaty: UN deal fails to address the root causes of nature's destruction: an expanding economic system that squeezes ecosystems by turning ever more habitat into urban sprawl or farmland, polluting the air and water with ever more toxins and heating the atmosphere with ever more greenhouse gas — source — 21 December 2022 (LINK)

UN human rights chief says UK should rethink plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda — guardian — 21 December 2022 (LINK)

— The report reveals that Trump on his federal tax returns declared negative income in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2020, and that he paid a total of $1,500 in income taxes for the years 2016 and 2017. On their 2020 income tax returns, Trump and his wife Melania paid no federal income taxes and claimed a refund of $5.47 million.

Glasgow-based chef who claimed to have invented chicken tikka masala dies at 77 — ground.news: 61 sources — 21 December 2022 (LINK)

U.S: Treasury Department to roll out new policy to make global humanitarian support easier — cnn — 20 December 2022 (LINK)

— Reports from China indicate BF.7 has the strongest infection ability out of the Omicron subvariants in the country, being quicker to transmit than other variants, having a shorter incubation period, and with greater capacity to infect people who have had a previous COVID infection, or been vaccinated, or both. To put this into context, BF.7 is believed to have an R0, or basic reproduction number, of 10 to 18.6. This means an infected person will transmit the virus to an average of 10 to 18.6 other people. Research has shown Omicron has an average R0 of 5.08. The high transmission rate of BF.7, taken with the risk of hidden spread due to the many asymptomatic carriers, is understood to be causing significant difficulty in controlling the epidemic in China.

Afghanistan: Taliban ban women from universities — source — 20 December 2022 (LINK)

— Luxembourg €100K, Belgium €72K, Switzerland €72K, UK €42K

Germany denies claim it plans to buy Russian pipeline oil next year, says it will instead turn to Kazakhstan for supplies — businessinsider — 20 December 2022 (LINK)

Peru declares Mexican ambassador in Lima persona non grata after Mexico announced asylum for Pedro Castillo's family — ground.news: 40 sources — 20 December 2022 (LINK)

Elon Musk Says He Will Resign as CEO of Twitter but will still run the software and servers teams after his replacement is found — ground.news: 359 sources — 20 December 2022 (LINK)

The World Made a Biodiversity Pact, But U.S. is not Part of It — motherjones — 21 December 2022 (LINK)

12 Years of the World's Top 10 Most Innovative Countries: Switzerland leads throughout — visualcapitalist — 20 December 2022 (LINK)

World Cup 2022: How media around world judged Qatar tournament — bbc — 20 December 2022 (LINK)

Top 5 best-performing cryptocurrencies by returns in 2022: trx-29%, xmr -37%: btc -64%, eth -68% — finbold — 20 December 2022 (LINK)

Transparent solar cell innovation generates power 1000x more efficiently — thebrighterside — 20 December 2022 (LINK)

U.N. chief to convene 'no-nonsense' climate summit in 2023 😰 — ground.news: 24 sources — 19 December 2022 (LINK)

China reports first COVID deaths in weeks as official count questioned — ground.news: 79 sources — 19 December 2022 (LINK)

Historic biodiversity agreement reached at U.N. conference — ground.news: sources — 19 December 2022 (LINK)

— Agreement on '30 by 30' target forced through by Chinese president, ignoring objections from African states

— Guardian: key points of the nature deal at a glance (LINK)

Five things to know about the global biodiversity agreement — thehill — 19 December 2022 (LINK)

UN biodiversity conference: what does living in harmony with nature look like? — /phys.org — 19 December 2022 (LINK)

— Resolving human-wildlife conflicts means resolving divisions and disharmony between people.

Director of Nobel-winning UN World Food Program to step down — apnews — 19 December 2022 (LINK)

WHO: Russian Attacks on Ukraine Infrastructure Target Critical Health Care — voanews — 19 December 2022 (LINK)

The Swiss company at the center of a drug trafficking storm: Swiss shipping company MSC says it is a victim of drug trafficking and not a co-conspirator. A new, bombshell report argues otherwise. — theswisstimes — 19 December 2022 (LINK)

EU approves measure to limit natural gas prices in effort to combat energy crisis — ground.news: 111 sources — 19 December 2022 (LINK)

South Africa's Ramaphosa re-elected as leader of ruling ANC party after unexpectedly tight race against former Health Minister Zweli Mkhize — ground.news: 85 — 19 December 2022 (LINK)

>Jan. 6 panel refers Trump on at least four criminal charges, including insurrection and obstruction of an official proceeding of Congress — axios — 19 December 2022 (LINK)

— PBS: Read the Jan. 6 committee's summary of its final report (LINK)

Crypto Twitter Delves Into Strange, Sloppy Side of Trump's NFT Collection: evidence of stolen art and shady wallet addresses — coindesk — 19 December 2022 (LINK)

>Harvey Weinstein found guilty of three counts of rape and sexual assault on one woman in Los Angeles trial, divided on 3 others, including wife of California governor — theguardian. — 19 December 2022 (LINK)

>Greenland's glaciers are melting 100 times faster than estimated — livescience — 19 December 2022 (LINK)

>Dutch leader apologizes for Netherlands' role in slave trade — ground.news: 147 sources — 19 December 2022 (LINK)

>Death Row Inmate in Vietnam Caught 42 Years After Prison Break — vice/span> — 19 December 2022 (LINK)

Peruvian president to change prime minister due to cabinet reshuffle — ground.news: 21 sources — 18 December 2022 (LINK)

— The shakeup follows the resignation of her education and culture ministers, who both resigned due to the deaths during the protests.

Twitter Bans Promos of Other Sites After Founder Jack Dorsey Flogs Rival Nostra, then scrubs order — thedailybeast — 18 December 2022 (LINK)

How Switzerland works against fair access to science — swissinfo — 18 December 2022 (LINK)

— Intellectual property rights have allowed companies like Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna to exercise control over all production and distribution of vaccines against the coronavirus. The pharma companies have done this despite receiving huge public investmentsExternal link to develop these technologies – over $430 million (CHF404 million) from Germany and $110 million from the European Union for BioNTech, and about $2.5 billion from the US for Moderna. Agreement reached last June at a WTO ministerial conference in Geneva left a bitter aftertaste. Stubborn opposition by the EU, the US, Switzerland and Britain torpedoed the idea of a patent waiver.

— “The protection of social and cultural rights in Switzerland is notoriously inadequate,” says Samantha Besson, a lecturer in human rights at the University of Fribourg. The Alpine country has never ratified the optional protocolExternal link to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights – which would allow citizens to report to the committee overseeing implementation of this text any violations of their rights under the covenant – despite being repeatedly called upon to do so by UN human rights bodies. As its stands, Switzerland has the lowest rate of people vaccinated against Covid-19 in Western Europe.

COP15 negotiations reach crucial decision point for global agreement to protect nature — theglobeandmail — 18 December 2022 (LINK)

— ncluded in the latest draft of the agreement – known as the global biodiversity framework – is the requirement to conserve 30 per cent of the planet by 2030. The “30-by-30" target is one that Canada, among several other countries, has pushed for at the talks. Other targets specify dollar amounts to be provided to developing countries, which account for the largest share of the planet’s ecosystems and species, in order to ensure that the goals of an agreement can be met. The proposed framework also lists a number of additional targets that are intended to stem the causes of biodiversity loss and promote the sustainable use of nature.

Iraq: Police officers killed in attack claimed by IS — dw — 18 December 2022 (LINK)

Iran authorities arrest actress of Oscar-winning movie on charges of spreading falsehoods about nationwide protests — ground.news: 226 sources — 17 December 2022 (LINK)

UN human rights commissioner has 'serious concerns' about Elon Musk suspending journalists on Twitter — foxnews — 17 December 2022 (LINK)

German police recover bulk of booty from $120m 2019 Dresden diamonds heist — ground.news: 56 sources — 17 December 2022 (LINK)

How the Top 10 Cryptocurrencies Performed in 2022 — gobankingrates — 17 December 2022 (LINK)

Vaccine misinformation one of the biggest public health threats, CDC director says — nbcnews — 16 December 2022 (LINK)

Switzerland slaps more sanctions on Russia — swissinfo — 16 December 2022 (LINK)

Unidentified gunman kills peacekeepers in Mali, mission chief says — ground.news: 21 sources — 16 December 2022 (LINK)

US children's hospitals are tracking increases in severe strep infections — abcnews — 16 December 2022 (LINK)

U.S. appeals court rejects bid by GOP-led states to keep Title 42 border policy in force — cnn — 16 December 2022 (LINK)

January 6 defendant arrested for allegedly planning to kill FBI agents who had investigated him — cnn — 16 December 2022 (LINK)

US 'botched' executions reach all-time high, report finds: 7 of 20 attempted executions in 2022 were 'visibly problematic' — aljazeera — 16 December 2022 (LINK)

Pope Francis orders return of Parthenon sculptures to Greece — ground.news: 52 sources — 16 December 2022 (LINK)

Twitter blocks users from sharing social media Mastodon links — bbc — 16 December 2022 (LINK)

Elon Musk restores Twitter accounts of journalists after suspensions draw backlash — reuters — 16 December 2022 (LINK)

FBI notified Twitter about users 'potentially' violating terms: Twitter Files — ground.news: 26 sources — 16 December 2022 (LINK)

— Latest ‘Twitter Files’ Thread Claims Platform Worked with Feds, State Officials to Moderate Content (LINK)

Energy Dept vacates 1950s decision revoking security clearance for �father of the atomic bomb� J. Robert Oppenheimer — thehill — 16 December 2022 (LINK)

Democratic groups ditch more than $1 million in donations linked to Sam Bankman-Fried — theblock — 16 December 2022 (LINK)

BIS backtracks on stablecoins — theblock — 16 December 2022 (LINK)

— It retracts an effort to allow stablecoins to be stress-tested based on whether they could be sold for an amount that closely tracks its peg value. Instead, it recommended stablecoin exposure for banks be supervised along existing prudential capital and liquidity requirements placed on traditional financial institutions, and that any testing of stablecoin exposure be done in addition to that, rather than instead of it. Banks would also have to limit their exposure to certain tokens to less than 1% of their core equity assets — called Tier 1 capital — or 2% in Groupd 2 assets, including criteria to determine which digital assets are safer than others.

Corruption scandal: MEPs vote to suspend Qatar access to EU Parliament and halt related legislation — euronews — 15 December 2022 (LINK)

EU agrees 9th sanctions package against Russia — diplomats — ground.news: 107 sources — 15 December 2022 (LINK)

Peru judge orders 18-month detention for ousted president — ground.news: 69 sources — 15 December 2022 (LINK)

ECB slows rate hikes by 0.5% to a main rate of 2.5% but pledges continued inflation fight — ground.news: 126 sources — 15 December 2022 (LINK)

Bank of England raises rates to 3.5%, expects more rises to come — ground.news: 122 sources — 15 December 2022 (LINK)

Bank of England raises rates from 3% to 3.5%, expects more rises to come — ground.news: 42 sources — 15 December 2022 (LINK)

Swiss central bank lifts interest rates by 50 basis points to 1% to counter 'further spread of inflation' — cnbc — 15 December 2022 (LINK)

UNHCR Will Use The Stellar Blockchain to Send Financial Aid to Ukrainians via Vibrant wallet, with USDC rather than USDT — source — 15 December 2022 (LINK)

— ? Can Stablecoins Revolutionize Foreign Aid? The UN Thinks So. (LINK)

Tornadoes leave a trail of destruction in Louisiana and the Southeast, killing at least 3, collapsing homes and knocking out power — cnn/span> — 15 December 2022 (LINK)

— As many as 5,000 structures were likely damaged when a tornado struck the city of Gretna, across the Mississippi River from New Orleans, Mayor Belinda Constant said. Farther north, at least 20 people were injured in the small Union Parish town of Farmerville when a tornado struck Tuesday night, demolishing parts of an apartment complex and a mobile home park, Farmerville police Detective Cade Nolan said.

Heather Cox Richardson: Trump's "major announcement": cartoon grifter, Michigan alt-right plotters, and more — heathercoxrichardson — 15 December 2022 (LINK)

Three-time Wimbledon tennis champion Boris Becker,55, deported from UK to Germany after being released from prison after 8 months of 2.5-year sentence for illicitly transferring large amounts of money and hiding assets after he was declared bankrupt in June 2017: had lived in Britain since 2012 — ground.news: sources — 15 December 2022 (LINK)

WHO chief says his uncle was murdered in Ethiopia's Tigray — ground.news: 21 sources — 14 December 2022 (LINK)

Iran ousted from U.N. women's group after U.S. campaign — ground.news: 106 sources — 14 December 2022 (LINK)

Mexico, the deadliest country for journalists in 2022 — ground.news: 29 sources — 14 December 2022 (LINK)

Peru Declares Nationwide State Of Emergency Amid Protests — ground.news: 181 sources — 14 December 2022 (LINK)

FTX collapse not the worst for crypto investors this year, says Chainalysis study — forkast — 14 December 2022 (LINK)

— Based on data of weekly realized gains and losses of all personal crypto wallets, Chainalysis estimates that the Terra Luna crash resulted in US$20.5 billion in realized losses, while the fall of Celsius and 3AC wiped out US$33 billion. The bankruptcy of FTX resulted in about US$9 billion in realized losses, said Chainalysis. However, the report notes that this does not include the assets of investors that have been frozen on the FTX exchange.

Four people confirmed dead after incident in English Channel — ground.news: 152 sources — 14 December 2022 (LINK)

Istanbul Mayor, an Erdogan Opponent, Sentenced to More Than Two Years in Prison on charges of insulting members of Turkey�s Supreme Electoral Council — ground.news: 90 sources — 14 December 2022 (LINK)

Former Twitter employee sentenced to more than three years in prison for spying for Saudi Arabia: found guilty for his part in a scheme to acquire the personal information of Twitter users for a Saudi government agent — nbcnews — 14 December 2022 (LINK)

● UN Biodiversity Talks Hit Impasse Over Funds for Poor Nations — bloomberg — 14 December 2022 (LINK)

Spend less on Christmas, send difference to Ukrainians, pope urges — ground.news: 68 sources — 14 December 2022 (LINK)

The 20 humanitarian crises the world cannot ignore in 2023 — and what to do about them — weforum — 14 December 2022 (LINK)

EU Parliament Sacks Vice President Over Graft Scandal — ground.news: 58 sources — 14 December 2022 (LINK)

● FIFA to re-think 2026 format as they face spoiling winning recipe — torontosun.com — 14 December 2022 (LINK)

● Here are all the positive environmental stories from 2022 so far — source — 14 December 2022 (LINK)

Six-year-old boy becomes fourth child to die after falling into icy lake — theguardian — 14 December 2022 (LINK)

U.S. gun law: Heather Cox Richardson — source — 14 December 2022 (LINK)

MIT scientists made solar panels thinner than human hair — mashable — 14 December 2022 (LINK)

— They deliver 18 times as much power per kilogram as traditional solar panels

DR Congo floods leave more than 120 dead in Kinshasa following the worst floods in years — ground.news: 69 sources — 13 December 2022 (LINK)

Security guard dies after fall at stadium set to host World Cup final — ground.news: 126 sources — 13s December 2022 (LINK)

COP15: 3 paths for protecting nature at the UN biodiversity conference — weforum — 13 December 2022 (LINK)

Bombing of Putin�s Most Feared Fighters, Wagner mercenaries, Infuriates Russia — thedailybeast — 13 December 2022 (LINK)

Musk Pledged $6B to Solve World Hunger But Gave It to His Own Foundation Instead most likely for tax-dodging purposes, like Gates Foundation: it gave only $160 million to charities — truthout.org — 13 December 2022 (LINK)

— The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation had assets worth $55 billion at the end of 2021 while distributing $6.2 billion in grants, according to a foundation spokesperson.

French court sentences eight on trial over 2016 truck attack in Nice in which 86 people were killed by suspected Islamic terrorist — ground.news: 87 sources — 13 December 2022 (LINK)

'Harry & Meghan' Becomes Netflix's Biggest Documentary Debut Ever — deadline — 13 December 2022 (LINK)

Algerian TV director fired for broadcasting Morocco's World Cup victory? — africanews — 13 December 2022 (LINK)

A secret software change allowed FTX to use client money — source — 14 December 2022 (LINK)

— In mid-2020, FTX's chief engineer made a secret change to the cryptocurrency exchange's software. He tweaked the code to exempt Alameda Research, a hedge fund owned by FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, from a feature on the trading platform that would have automatically sold off Alameda's assets if it was losing too much borrowed money. In a note explaining the change, the engineer, Nishad Singh, emphasized that FTX should never sell Alameda's positions.

Iran carries out second execution over anti-government protests: protester convicted of killing two members of security forces — ground.news: 148 sources — 12 December 2022 (LINK)

— Amnesty International criticised what it describes as "sham trials designed to intimidate those participating in the popular uprising that has rocked Iran".

Assailants attack hotel in Afghan capital Kabul, Taliban says — ground.news: 142 sources — 12 December 2022 (LINK)

Indian, Chinese troops suffer minor injuries in clash on Dec 9: Indian army — ground.news: 85 sources — 12 December 2022 (LINK)

Supporters of Brazil's defeated Bolsonaro attack police headquarters — ground.news: 38 sources — 12 December 2022 (LINK)

U.S. vegetable Prices Soar 40% as Crops Fail Under Extreme Weather — gizmodo — 12 December 2022 (LINK)

? Thousands of migrants flood over border at El Paso — many brought by Mexican authorities — nypost — 12 December 2022 (LINK)

? Musk's Twitter dissolves Trust and Safety Council that advised platform's content — foxbusiness — 12 December 2022 (LINK)

Professor says mountain ecosystems should be prioritized in biodiversity policies — phys.org — 12 December 2022 (LINK)

The Pandemic and War — Not Government Spending — Caused Inflation, According to Nobel Prize Winner Joseph Stiglitz — theintercept — 12 December 2022 (LINK)

Keystone Pipeline Leak of 14,000 Barrels of Oil in Kansas is company's biggest ever — smithsonianmag — 12 December 2022 (LINK)

5 things FTX did with its money — including customer assets — according to its new CEO: comingled assets, margin trading, spending binge, loans to insiders, unsafe exchanges — yahoo — 13 December 2022 (LINK)

Washington police chief who put Nazi insignia on his door and joked about the holocaust accepts $1.5 million to resign — boingboing — 12 December 2022 (LINK)

Snooker: Yan Bingtao suspended as match-fixing betting scandal sprawls: 7th such action against a Chinese player in a matter of weeks — dw — 13 December 2022 (LINK)

It's Official: JWST Breaks Record For Most Distant Galaxy Ever Detected: only 350 million years after the Big Bang — sciencealert — 12 December 2022 (LINK)

Heather Cox Richardson: G7 on Ukraine, 6 Jan, Trump — source — 12 December 2022 (LINK)

Peru President Boluarte to ask Congress to bring elections forward to 2024 — ground.news: 44 sources — 12 December 2022 (LINK)

Severe COVID Looks Scarily Like Old Age in The Human Brain, Study Finds — sciencealert — 12 December 2022 (LINK)

Oil-funded lobbyists are trying to trick you into killing more whales: the largest source of whale death and disruption is transatlantic shipping powered by their own product, oil — electrek — 12 December 2022 (LINK)

Metro Bank, former top bosses fined over reporting error that wiped hundreds of millions of pounds off its share value in 2019 — ground.news: sources — 12 December 2022 (LINK)

? Non-binary Biden nuclear official Sam Brinton fired after multiple luggage theft charges: reports — nypost — 13 December 2022 (LINK)

Europe's elite clubs deal blow to FIFA as they reject proposal to launch new Club World Cup in 2025 — dailymail.co.uk — 12 December 2022 (LINK)

Twenty-seven men believed to be Ethiopian migrants found dead along road in Zambia — ground.news: 44 sources — 11 December 2022 (LINK)

Pakistan says Afghan forces kill six civilians in cross-border fire — ground.news: 64 sources — 12 December 2022 (LINK)

Bali governor insists sex ban no risk to tourists: will not check the marital status of those checking in at tourist accommodations — ground.news: 23 sources — 11 December 2022 (LINK)

Judge charges four of those arrested by the Qatari bribery network — ground.news: 85 sources — 11 December 2022 (LINK)

Friend of Italian PM among three killed in Rome cafe shooting during apartment block residents' meeting — yahoo — 11 December 2022 (LINK)

Two dead and four injured in Peru protests to demand elections — ground.news: 65 sources — 11 December 2022 (LINK)

Fuego volcano in Guatemala enters a new phase of eruption — ground.news: 53 sources — 10 December 2022 (LINK)

Ukrainian, Russian Nobel Peace winners slam Putin's 'insane' war — ground.news: 70 sources — 10 December 2022 (LINK)

Cyberattack has kept Vanuatu's government offline for over a month — techspot — 10 December 2022 (LINK)

Climate change and diversity efforts are profitable, report — marketwatch — 10 December 2022 (LINK)

— Research shows that a 10-percentage-point increase in ESG spending correlates to a 1-percentage-point increase in profit growth. 41% of respondents surveyed said they experienced a return on their ESG investment within a two- to three-year window.

Economic experiments support Ostrom's polycentric approach to mitigating climate change — nature — 10 December 2022 (LINK)

—Interestingly, the minister of trade and commerce of a European country has just suggested that all households together each saving 10% energy could resolve the country's energy crisis,very close to Ostrom's ideas. Sanctioning does not help reach the target: it also hits the fair contributors and provokes them to reduce their further share neutralizing the positive effect of sanctioning.

Controversial GOP Rep. Madison Cawthorn Fined $15,000 For Promoting 'Let's Go Brandon' Cryptocurrency — uinterview — 10 December 2022 (LINK)

Cop who kneeled on George Floyd's back gets 3.5-year term — apnews — 10 December 2022 (LINK)

Proud Boy who wrote "Murder the Media" on Capitol sentenced to 4 years in prison — axios — 10 December 2022 (LINK)

Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's defection from the Democrats muddies party's path forward — usatoday — 10 December 2022 (LINK)

FIFA Charges Argentina for Disorder At World Cup Match — bloomberg — 10 December 2022 (LINK)

Student Loans: 9 Million Borrowers Mistakenly 'Approved' for Forgiveness — gobankingrates — 10 December 2022 (LINK)

?Fact Check! Claims Made In Prince Harry & Meghan Markle's Netflix Documentary Called Into Question — okmagazin — 10 December 2022 (LINK)

Africa: Rwandan Envoy Puts UN On Spot Over DR Congo Alliance With FDLR — ground.news: 2 sources — 9 December 2022 (LINK)

This U.N. tool projects the effects of global warming on each nation — domusweb — 9 December 2022 (LINK)

Russian, U.S. diplomats hold technical talks in Istanbul — ground.news: 13 sources — 10 December 2022 (LINK)

Big Oil has engaged in a long-running climate disinformation campaign while raking in record profits, U.S. lawmakers find — cnn — 9 December 2022 (LINK)

'Just Transition' policies needed to create 20 million green jobs: UN report — un — 9 December 2022 (LINK)

700 new species are facing extinction — pbs — 9 December 2022 (LINK)

Elton John quits Twitter blaming the platform's "change in policy" around misinformation — ground.news: 88 sources — 9 December 2022 (LINK)

BUSTED: Musk Twitter Files Expose Prior Platform Execs for Lying About Shadowbanning — newsbusters — 9 December 2022 (LINK)

Twitter thread dispels myth about famous billionaires starting out from nothing: hey started off from privileged positions that gave them a significant leg up — bigthink — 9 December 2022 (LINK)

EU Lawmaker Eva Kaili of Greece suspended From Party in Corruption scandal, facing accusations he's tied to a scandal involving Qatar lobbying — coindesk — 9 December 2022 (LINK)

Russian opposition figure gets 8-1/2 years' jail on 'false information' charge — ground.news: 74 sources — 9 December 2022 (LINK)

Macron, EU leaders launch €2.5bn hydrogen pipeline between Spain and France — ground.news: 48 sources — 10 December 2022 9 December 2022 (LINK)

Iranian forces shooting at faces and genitals of female protesters, medics say — ground.news: 17 sources — 9 December 2022 (LINK)

Rioter who assaulted cops at Capitol gets 5 years in prison — abcnews — 9 December 2022 (LINK)

Nobody took John F. Clauser's quantum experiments seriously. 50 years later, he's collecting a Nobel Prize: "My claim to fame is that I've lived long enough." — livescience — 9 December 2022 (LINK)

Tite steps down as Brazil manager after World Cup exit — 90min — 9 December 2022 (LINK)

FIFA in 'legal disputes' with Qatar's World Cup organisers — relations turn sour after 'last-minute U-turn' on alcohol promise — football365 — 9 December 2022 (LINK)

— According to reports, FIFA are 'embroiled in a series of legal disputes' with Qatar's World Cup organisers and relations are now at an 'all-time low'.

Tesla Stock Rout Wakes Up Elon Musk — thestreet — 9 December 2022 (LINK)

Switzerland 10th in world for clean air behind Norway, Austria, Spain and Portugal in Europe: New Zealand tops — express — 8 December 2022 (LINK)

5 countries have triple-digit inflation: Zimbabwe (269%, the highest inflation rate in the world), Lebanon (162%), Venezuela (156%), Syria (139%), and Sudan (103%) — bigthink — 8 December 2022 (LINK)

US woman Government employee Anne Sacoolas responsible for the death of teenage motorcyclist Harry Dunn when driving on the wrong ide of the road entenced in absentia to eight months in prison, uspended for a year — bbc — 8 December 2022 (LINK)

Online safety: what young people really think about social media, big tech regulation and adults 'overreacting' — theconversation — 8 December 2022 (LINK)

Catchup: Scientists finally know why people get more colds and flu in winter: the cold air itself damages the immune response occurring in the nose — theconversation — 8 December 2022 (LINK)

The Media Layoff Bloodbath: Why It's Happening and Who's Hurt the Most — thewrap — 8 December 2022 (LINK)

— Within the past week, CNN and Gannett laid off hundreds of employees across their news operations, while BuzzFeed slashed 12% of its workforce and the Washington Post let go of 10 staffers from its print Sunday magazine. The latest cuts followed Morning Brew laying off 14% of its taff and Vice Media trimming 2% of its digital news and publishing taff last month. In addition, the tech news website Protocol hut down, eliminating 60 jobs, while video news tartup The Recount also plans to uspend operations.

IOM-Microsoft Release the First Public Dataset on Victims and Perpetrators of Trafficking — iom — 8 December 2022 (LINK)

UN aid chief: Gangs control about 60 per cent of Haiti's capital — ground.news : 14 ources — 8 December 2022 (LINK)

Plans to protect 30% of the planet by 2030 could be 'devastating' for Indigenous people — euronews — 8 December 2022 (LINK)

Agroforestry 101: Everything you need to know — weforum — 8 December 2022 (LINK)

Russian forces killed hundreds of civilians early in Ukraine war — UN Human rights — ground.news: 15 ources — 7 December 2022 (LINK)

UN: With ocean in 'dire traits', Law of the ea more relevant than ever — un — 7 December 2022 (LINK)

Ukraine updates: Red Cross announces prisoners of war visits — dw — 8 December 2022 (LINK)

Kremlin says Russia Is Done Taking Territory From Ukraine — newsweek — 8 December 2022 (LINK)

Plans to protect 30% of the planet by 2030 could be 'devastating' for Indigenous people — euronews — 8 December 2022 (LINK)

The Media Layoff Bloodbath: Why It's Happening and Who's Hurt the Most — thewrap — 8 December 2022 (LINK)

— Within the past week, CNN and Gannett laid off hundreds of employees across their news operations, while BuzzFeed lashed 12% of its workforce and the Washington Post let go of 10 taffers from its print unday magazine. The latest cuts followed Morning Brew laying off 14% of its taff and Vice Media trimming 2% of its digital news and publishing taff last month. In addition, the tech news website Protocol hut down, eliminating 60 jobs, while video news tartup The Recount also plans to uspend operations.

Russian forces killed hundreds of civilians early in Ukraine war — UN Human rights — ground.news: 15 sources — 7 December 2022 (LINK)

Another New COVID Variant: BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 Have Arrived — cnet — 7 December 2022 (LINK)

—More than half — about 63% — COVID-19 cases in the US are now caused by variants BQ.1 or BQ.1.1, according to the latest estimate by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Both are ubvariants of omicron. BA.5, the highly contagious omicron ubvariant that caused a lot of reinfections or first infections in people who hadn't had COVID-19 this ummer and fall, is fading and now only responsible for about 14% of cases.

UN: With ocean in 'dire traits', Law of the ea more relevant than ever — un — 7 December 2022 (LINK)

Volodymyr Zelensky named Time's 2022 Person of the Year — axios — 7 December 2022 (LINK)