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Saturday, 30 September 2023
New UN framework to protect environment from harmful chemicals — news.un.org — 30 September 2023 (LINK)
— The Global Framework on Chemicals sets concrete targets and guidelines across the lifecycle of chemicals. The framework is based around 28 targets, designed to improve responsible management of chemicals and waste.
The Conference also adopted the Bonn Declaration, which encourages countries to support the transition to circular economies, fostering the development of safe alternatives and substitutes for chemicals.
Tens of thousands demand climate action in Swiss capital — Reuters ● — 30 September 2023 (LINK)
Death toll from Pakistan blast rises to 59 as Minister blames India — ground.news: 35 media reports — 30 September 2023 (LINK)
As migration surges in Americas, 'funds simply aren't there' for humanitarian response, IMO official says — AP — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
CNN: Who could lead the United Nations next? This Caribbean climate leader, Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbados, makes diplomats 'jump' with excitement — CNN — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
Putin orders former Wagner commander to take charge of 'volunteer units' in Ukraine — ground.news: 81 media reports — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
Gabon charges ousted president's wife with 'money laundering' — ground.news: 17 media reports — 30 September 2023 (LINK)
China says US 'empire of lies', rejects State disinformation report — ground.news: 11 media reports — 30 September 2023 (LINK)
Meta AI Chat early access now available for Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp — cryptopolitan — 30 September 2023 (LINK)
AI job market offers new roles and opportunities in 2024, e.g. AI quality assurance managers and AI ethics officers — cryptopolitan — 30 September 2023 (LINK)
Inside the Australian PwC tax leaks investigation — ICIJ — 30 September 2023 (LINK)
— Analysing a government probe, a wave of resignations and public embarrassment for the Big Four firm as the scandal engulfed PwC operations overseas. In June, PwC's Australian consulting arm was sold in a fire sale for less than a U.S. dollar. Around a week later, ICIJ member Neil Chenoweth first exposed the leak in The Australian Financial Review and reported that some U.S. tech companies restructured to dodge the multinational tax law, weeks before it came into effect, based on PwC's advice.
Massive review identifies the three most effective ways to quit smoking: varenicline and cytisine, as well as nicotine e-cigarettes — sciencealert — 30 September 2023 (LINK)
New York City area gets one of its wettest days in decades, as rain swamps subways and streets — AP — 30 September 2023 (LINK)
Friday, 29 September 2023
As migration surges in Americas, 'funds simply aren't there' for humanitarian response, UN says — AP — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
CNN: Who could lead the United Nations next? This Caribbean climate leader, Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbados, makes diplomats 'jump' with excitement — CNN — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
Nagorno-Karabakh: Over 75% of ethnic Armenians have fled — deutschewelle — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
UN refugee agency readying for up to 120,000 refugees in Armenia — (LINK)
Pakistan: At least 52 killed and dozens injured in Balochistan suicide bomb attack — ground.news: 73 media reports — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
India raids 53 sites nationwide as crackdown on Sikh separatists deepens — CNN — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
Palestinian security force deploys in school compound in Lebanon refugee camp following clashes — ground.news: 11 media reports — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
The economies of the UK, Switzerland, and Sweden are set to gain big benefits from AI, while the EU will fall way behind the US — thenextweb — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
Dianne Feinstein's struggle with shingles reflects the long increase in cases — statnews — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
European Union poised to agree new asylum laws — france24 — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
Deutsche Welle: German-Italian rift thwarts EU deal on new rules for migration crises (LINK)
House expected to take up GOP stopgap bill but Congress still on track for a shutdown — CNN — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
Gulf of Mexico saltwater is moving up the drought-stricken Mississippi River, threatening Louisiana drinking water — washingtonpost ● — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
S.E. Louisiana saltwater intrusion declared a federal emergency — (LINK)
Tennessee gets federal money to help cover its August tornado cleanup efforts — (LINK)
Putin orders former Wagner commander to take charge of 'volunteer units' in Ukraine — ground.news: 81 media reports — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
Swiss scientists help discover that Africa's Namib desert has a human population after believing it disappeared 50 years ago — Blavity — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
— Scientists from the University of Bern in Switzerland joined with others from the University of Porto in Portugal and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany.
— The people who spoke Kwadi started speaking Bantu languages more recently, scientists said. "A lot of our efforts were placed in understanding how much of this local variation and global eccentricity was caused by genetic drift — a random process that disproportionately affects small populations — and by admixtures from vanished populations," said researcher Dr. Sandra Oliveira from the University of Bern.
Thursday, 28 September 2023
US State Department report accuses China of global media manipulation — ground.news: 19 media reports — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
Coral Vita raced to save coral reefs as ocean temperatures spiked this summer — fastcompany — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
Gabon charges ousted president's wife with 'money laundering' — ground.news: 17 media reports — 30 September 2023 (LINK)
LVMH boss Bernard Arnault under investigation in Paris over Russian oligarch property transactions and money laundering — ground.news: 25 media reports — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
Inside the Australian PwC tax leaks investigation — ICIJ — 30 September 2023 (LINK)
— Analysing a government probe, a wave of resignations and public embarrassment for the Big Four firm as the scandal engulfed PwC operations overseas. In June, PwC's Australian consulting arm was sold in a fire sale for less than a U.S. dollar. Around a week later, ICIJ member Neil Chenoweth first exposed the leak in The Australian Financial Review and reported that some U.S. tech companies restructured to dodge the multinational tax law, weeks before it came into effect, based on PwC's advice.
IRS consultant charged with disclosing tax returns of Trump and nation's 'wealthiest individuals' to media — → Fox News ● → — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
— In September 2020, Trump defended his tax history, saying he paid "millions of dollars" to the Internal Revenue Service and argued he is "entitled" to tax credits "like everyone else" in the wake of a New York Times report that said he paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years.
Second man, 60, is arrested over the felling in England of a much-loved tree near Hadrian's Wall, 15-year-old freed on bail — AP — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
Credit Suisse sheds nearly 13% of workforce — Reuters ● — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
Godard's Final S.O.S. at New York Film Festival — nationalreview — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
New project: avenir suisse essentials 1: Switzerland's electricity deal with the EU — →avenir-suisse.ch→ — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
X CEO Linda Yaccarino's wild interview at the Code Conference after Musk critic and former Twitter exec appears — theverge — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
'TOURISTS TOLD TO STAY AWAY' . . . but cruise denies passengers advised to avoid Port Lucaya because of safety concerns — tribune242.com — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
— "While there is a US State Department Advisory with specific reference to Freeport and Nassau, our shipboard team has not made any announcements about Freeport," a Carnival Cruise Line sspokesperson said yesterday. "We are confused by the allegations. As a standard practice, we advise guests visiting destinations to follow well-cited travel advice and stay in main tourist areas, not carry large sums of cash they don't intend to spend, and not wear lots of jewellery. Our guests love visiting Freeport."
On Tuesday, two cruise ships, Carnival Dream and Carnival Sunshine, brought over 7,000 guests to Grand Bahama. A bus took passengers to the Prop Club at the Grand Lucayan Resort. The visitors stayed there all day, visiting the restaurant and beach.
Over 220 people and 25 organizations in 40 countries faced reprisals for cooperating with UN on human rights: new report — OHCHR — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
— Acts of reprisals against women and girls constitute half of the victims in the report.
U.N. high commissioner for human rights makes urgent appeal for security mission for Haiti — Miami Herald — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
Separatist government of Nagorno-Karabakh says it will dismantle itself by January 2024 — ground.news: 84 media reports — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
Brazil's Amazon rainforest faces a severe drought that may affect around 500,000 people — ground.news: 20 media reports — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
186,000 migrants and refugees arrived in southern Europe so far this year, most in Italy, UNHCR says — ground.news: 48 media reports — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
Niger: 12 soldiers dead following attack by suspected jihadists — ground.news: 22 media reports — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
Burkina Faso detains four officers after thwarted coup — ground.news: 10 media reports — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
Sweden's leader turns to the military for help as gang violence escalates — AP — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
"Center for circular economy in coffee" the first global collaborative platform for circular transition in coffee industry — ITC — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
Thai police seizes $8.15 million worth methamphetamine pills and other drugs — Reuters ● — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
Swiss accuse daughter of ex-Uzbek president of running a criminal organisation — Reuters ● — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
AFP: Swiss indict daughter of late Uzbek leader in corruption case (LINK)
Gunman shoots woman and her daughter in their home, then storms into university classroom and shoots male teacher — ground.news: 238 media reports — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
Evergrande: China property giant suspends shares as police target chairman — ground.news: 50 media reports — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
Researchers at EPFL have uncovered a fundamental flaw in the training of machine learning systems and elaborated a new formulation for strengthening them against adversarial attacks — epfl — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
— By completely rethinking the way that most Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems protect against attacks, researchers at EPFL's School of Engineering have developed a new training approach to ensure that machine learning models, particularly deep neural networks, consistently perform as intended, significantly enhancing their reliability.
SSF/ECOFACT TCFD-Disclosure Webinar: Guidance and Best Practice in the Swiss Context: 10 October — sustainablefinance.ch — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
Guardian: 'It's always down to human failure': President Biden, this is how to stop your dog biting people — The Guardian UK ● — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
Wednesday, 27 September 2023
North Korea changes constitution and declares itself a nuclear state — ground.news: 68 media reports — 27 September 2023 (LINK)
Iraq wedding fire leaves 100 dead, more than 150 injured — ground.news main source AFP: 207 media reports — 27 September 2023 (LINK)
UN Human Rights officer questions French move to bar its athletes from wearing hijab at Paris 2024 — Reuters ● — 27 September 2023 (LINK)
Leading US Jewish groups decry top legal award for 'anti-Israel' UN official Navi Pillay — timesofisrael — 27 September 2023 (LINK)
Ukraine grain corridor should not replace broader deal — Rebeca Grynspan, who leads the implementation of the U.N. deal with Russia — Reuters ● — 27 September 2023 (LINK)
Iran Navy harasses US helicopter in international airspace over Arabian Gulf — usni — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
One in six UK species threatened with extinction — theconversation.com — 27 September 2023 (LINK)
Record-breaking astronaut Frank Rubio finally returns to Earth after accidentally spending 371 days in space — livescience — 27 September 2023 (LINK)
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance to exit Russia — ground.news: 42 media reports — 27 September 2023 (LINK)
CERN scientists find antimatter is subject to gravity — ground.news: 23 media reports — 27 September 2023 (LINK)
Scientists discover 8th 'continent' that had been missing for 375 years: Zealandia or Te Riu-a-Maui, the new continent is 94 per cent underwater, with just a handful of islands, similar to New Zealand — ndtv — 27 September 2023 (LINK)
US officials say Travis King, who crossed into North Korea, is in American custody — ground.news: 157 media reports — 27 September 2023 (LINK)
Tuesday, 26 September 2023
Nagorno-Karabakh: At least 125 killed, 300 injured, in fuel depot explosion as thousands flee to Armenia — ground.news: 62 media reports — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
Biden joins UAW strikers, the first sitting president to join a picket line: 'You deserve a hell of a lot more' — ground.news: media reports — 27 September 2023 (LINK)
— Biden: "You guys, the UAW, you saved the automobile industry back in 2008 ... you made a lot of sacrifices. You gave up a lot. And the companies were in trouble. Now they're doing incredibly well and guess what? You should be doing incredibly well."
Biden's $15 minimum wage for federal contractors blocked by US judge — Reuters ● — 27 September 2023 (LINK)
US pauses most foreign assistance programs for Gabon after coup — ground.news: 21 media reports — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
US banning imports from three Chinese companies, citing forced labor concerns — ground.news: 11 media reports — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
Vatican presses world leaders at UN to work on rules for lethal autonomous weapons — ground.news main source: AP, 10 media reports — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
Judge rules Donald Trump defrauded banks, insurers as he built real estate empire — ground.news main source: Reuters ●, 290 media reports — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
→ Hunter Biden 'received $250K wire originating in Beijing with beneficiary address listed as Joe Biden's home' → — ground.news: 16 media reports — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
→ Biden's dog Commander bites Secret Service agent again — marking 11th attack — nypost — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
Russian Black Sea commander Sokolov shown on video call after Ukraine said it killed him — Reuters/yahoo — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
Lawyer who called for Thai monarchy reforms sentenced to 4 years for royal insults — Reuters ● — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
Hollywood writers strike declared over after boards vote to approve contract with studios — ground.news main source: AP, 104 media reports — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
Canada parliament speaker resigns after calling Ukrainian Nazi veteran a 'hero' — ground.news main source: Reuters ●, 149 media reports — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
US sanctions 9 tied to Mexico's Sinaloa cartel and leader of Colombia's Clan del Golfo — ground.news: 22 media reports — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
Study shows invertebrate decline reduces natural pest control and decomposition of organic matter — phys.org — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
Monday, 25 September 2023
Russia puts top International Criminal Court judges on federal wanted list — meduza — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
Russians committing rape, 'widespread' torture against Ukrainians, UN commission finds — abcnews — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
Libya's top prosecutor orders eight officials arrested after flood disaster: Mayor of Derna and officials from the Water Resources Authority and Dams Management Authority — Al Jazeera — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
Serbian president turns to Russia after monastery gun battle between ethnic Serb gunmen who stormed the village and Kosovo police. One policeman and three of the approximately 30 gunmen were killed, according to Kosovo forces — politico ← — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
Trudeau calls Parliament's praise for Nazi-linked Ukraine-Canadian veteran 'deeply embarrassing' — BBC ● — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
Biden administration blacklists 11 China firms for Moscow, Tehran drone links — cnbc — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
Leading Hong Kong journalist found guilty of obstructing a police officer — ground.news main source: AP, 26 media reports — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
Mali junta delays February presidential election for 'technical reasons' — ground.news: 20 media reports — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
Biden hosts Pacific Island leaders in latest effort to counter China's influence — PBS News Hour video — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
→ NYPost: Biden fumbles acronym during Pacific Islands forum speech: 'Doesn't matter what we call it,' he jokes → — (LINK)
A history of US government shutdowns: The 14 times funding has lapsed since 1980 — CBSs — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
Tax cuts from the Bush and Trump eras have cost the government $10 trillion it now owes — benzinga — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
— "If not for the Bush tax cut and their extensions — as well as the Trump tax cuts — revenues would be on track to keep pace with spending indefinitely, and the debt ratio (debt as a percentage of the economy) would be declining,"
The tax cuts are responsible for 57% of the increase in the debt ratio since Bush's first government in 2001. That number would reach 90% if we removed the "one-time costs" from bills responding to COVID-19 and the Great Recession.
Russia dodges G7 price cap sanctions on most of its oil exports — ground.news main source: Financial Times, 12 media reports — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
The most intense heat wave ever recorded on Earth happened in Antarctica on 18 March last year, scientists say: soared to 39C above normal, reaching -10C — ground.news: media reports — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
— Some researchers at the Dome C site stripped down to shorts, while others removed their shirts to loll in the warmth. Generally, the temperatures in March on the east coast of Antarctica are around -54 degreesC, marking a transition into autumn on the continent.
7 best watches presented at Geneva Watch Days 2023 — sportskeeda — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
See previous
New UN framework to protect environment from harmful chemicals — news.un.org — 30 September 2023 (LINK)
— The Global Framework on Chemicals sets concrete targets and guidelines across the lifecycle of chemicals. The framework is based around 28 targets, designed to improve responsible management of chemicals and waste.
The Conference also adopted the Bonn Declaration, which encourages countries to support the transition to circular economies, fostering the development of safe alternatives and substitutes for chemicals.
Tens of thousands demand climate action in Swiss capital — Reuters ● — 30 September 2023 (LINK)
Death toll from Pakistan blast rises to 59 as Minister blames India — ground.news: 35 media reports — 30 September 2023 (LINK)
As migration surges in Americas, 'funds simply aren't there' for humanitarian response, IMO official says — AP — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
CNN: Who could lead the United Nations next? This Caribbean climate leader, Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbados, makes diplomats 'jump' with excitement — CNN — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
Putin orders former Wagner commander to take charge of 'volunteer units' in Ukraine — ground.news: 81 media reports — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
Gabon charges ousted president's wife with 'money laundering' — ground.news: 17 media reports — 30 September 2023 (LINK)
China says US 'empire of lies', rejects State disinformation report — ground.news: 11 media reports — 30 September 2023 (LINK)
Meta AI Chat early access now available for Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp — cryptopolitan — 30 September 2023 (LINK)
AI job market offers new roles and opportunities in 2024, e.g. AI quality assurance managers and AI ethics officers — cryptopolitan — 30 September 2023 (LINK)
Inside the Australian PwC tax leaks investigation — ICIJ — 30 September 2023 (LINK)
— Analysing a government probe, a wave of resignations and public embarrassment for the Big Four firm as the scandal engulfed PwC operations overseas. In June, PwC's Australian consulting arm was sold in a fire sale for less than a U.S. dollar. Around a week later, ICIJ member Neil Chenoweth first exposed the leak in The Australian Financial Review and reported that some U.S. tech companies restructured to dodge the multinational tax law, weeks before it came into effect, based on PwC's advice.
Massive review identifies the three most effective ways to quit smoking: varenicline and cytisine, as well as nicotine e-cigarettes — sciencealert — 30 September 2023 (LINK)
New York City area gets one of its wettest days in decades, as rain swamps subways and streets — AP — 30 September 2023 (LINK)
As migration surges in Americas, 'funds simply aren't there' for humanitarian response, UN says — AP — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
CNN: Who could lead the United Nations next? This Caribbean climate leader, Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbados, makes diplomats 'jump' with excitement — CNN — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
Nagorno-Karabakh: Over 75% of ethnic Armenians have fled — deutschewelle — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
UN refugee agency readying for up to 120,000 refugees in Armenia — (LINK)
Pakistan: At least 52 killed and dozens injured in Balochistan suicide bomb attack — ground.news: 73 media reports — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
India raids 53 sites nationwide as crackdown on Sikh separatists deepens — CNN — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
Palestinian security force deploys in school compound in Lebanon refugee camp following clashes — ground.news: 11 media reports — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
The economies of the UK, Switzerland, and Sweden are set to gain big benefits from AI, while the EU will fall way behind the US — thenextweb — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
Dianne Feinstein's struggle with shingles reflects the long increase in cases — statnews — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
European Union poised to agree new asylum laws — france24 — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
Deutsche Welle: German-Italian rift thwarts EU deal on new rules for migration crises (LINK)
House expected to take up GOP stopgap bill but Congress still on track for a shutdown — CNN — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
Gulf of Mexico saltwater is moving up the drought-stricken Mississippi River, threatening Louisiana drinking water — washingtonpost ● — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
S.E. Louisiana saltwater intrusion declared a federal emergency — (LINK)
Tennessee gets federal money to help cover its August tornado cleanup efforts — (LINK)
Putin orders former Wagner commander to take charge of 'volunteer units' in Ukraine — ground.news: 81 media reports — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
Swiss scientists help discover that Africa's Namib desert has a human population after believing it disappeared 50 years ago — Blavity — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
— Scientists from the University of Bern in Switzerland joined with others from the University of Porto in Portugal and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany.
— The people who spoke Kwadi started speaking Bantu languages more recently, scientists said. "A lot of our efforts were placed in understanding how much of this local variation and global eccentricity was caused by genetic drift — a random process that disproportionately affects small populations — and by admixtures from vanished populations," said researcher Dr. Sandra Oliveira from the University of Bern.
Thursday, 28 September 2023
US State Department report accuses China of global media manipulation — ground.news: 19 media reports — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
Coral Vita raced to save coral reefs as ocean temperatures spiked this summer — fastcompany — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
Gabon charges ousted president's wife with 'money laundering' — ground.news: 17 media reports — 30 September 2023 (LINK)
LVMH boss Bernard Arnault under investigation in Paris over Russian oligarch property transactions and money laundering — ground.news: 25 media reports — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
Inside the Australian PwC tax leaks investigation — ICIJ — 30 September 2023 (LINK)
— Analysing a government probe, a wave of resignations and public embarrassment for the Big Four firm as the scandal engulfed PwC operations overseas. In June, PwC's Australian consulting arm was sold in a fire sale for less than a U.S. dollar. Around a week later, ICIJ member Neil Chenoweth first exposed the leak in The Australian Financial Review and reported that some U.S. tech companies restructured to dodge the multinational tax law, weeks before it came into effect, based on PwC's advice.
IRS consultant charged with disclosing tax returns of Trump and nation's 'wealthiest individuals' to media — → Fox News ● → — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
— In September 2020, Trump defended his tax history, saying he paid "millions of dollars" to the Internal Revenue Service and argued he is "entitled" to tax credits "like everyone else" in the wake of a New York Times report that said he paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years.
Second man, 60, is arrested over the felling in England of a much-loved tree near Hadrian's Wall, 15-year-old freed on bail — AP — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
Credit Suisse sheds nearly 13% of workforce — Reuters ● — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
Godard's Final S.O.S. at New York Film Festival — nationalreview — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
New project: avenir suisse essentials 1: Switzerland's electricity deal with the EU — →avenir-suisse.ch→ — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
X CEO Linda Yaccarino's wild interview at the Code Conference after Musk critic and former Twitter exec appears — theverge — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
'TOURISTS TOLD TO STAY AWAY' . . . but cruise denies passengers advised to avoid Port Lucaya because of safety concerns — tribune242.com — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
— "While there is a US State Department Advisory with specific reference to Freeport and Nassau, our shipboard team has not made any announcements about Freeport," a Carnival Cruise Line sspokesperson said yesterday. "We are confused by the allegations. As a standard practice, we advise guests visiting destinations to follow well-cited travel advice and stay in main tourist areas, not carry large sums of cash they don't intend to spend, and not wear lots of jewellery. Our guests love visiting Freeport."
On Tuesday, two cruise ships, Carnival Dream and Carnival Sunshine, brought over 7,000 guests to Grand Bahama. A bus took passengers to the Prop Club at the Grand Lucayan Resort. The visitors stayed there all day, visiting the restaurant and beach.
Over 220 people and 25 organizations in 40 countries faced reprisals for cooperating with UN on human rights: new report — OHCHR — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
— Acts of reprisals against women and girls constitute half of the victims in the report.
U.N. high commissioner for human rights makes urgent appeal for security mission for Haiti — Miami Herald — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
Separatist government of Nagorno-Karabakh says it will dismantle itself by January 2024 — ground.news: 84 media reports — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
Brazil's Amazon rainforest faces a severe drought that may affect around 500,000 people — ground.news: 20 media reports — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
186,000 migrants and refugees arrived in southern Europe so far this year, most in Italy, UNHCR says — ground.news: 48 media reports — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
Niger: 12 soldiers dead following attack by suspected jihadists — ground.news: 22 media reports — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
Burkina Faso detains four officers after thwarted coup — ground.news: 10 media reports — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
Sweden's leader turns to the military for help as gang violence escalates — AP — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
"Center for circular economy in coffee" the first global collaborative platform for circular transition in coffee industry — ITC — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
Thai police seizes $8.15 million worth methamphetamine pills and other drugs — Reuters ● — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
Swiss accuse daughter of ex-Uzbek president of running a criminal organisation — Reuters ● — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
AFP: Swiss indict daughter of late Uzbek leader in corruption case (LINK)
Gunman shoots woman and her daughter in their home, then storms into university classroom and shoots male teacher — ground.news: 238 media reports — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
Evergrande: China property giant suspends shares as police target chairman — ground.news: 50 media reports — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
Researchers at EPFL have uncovered a fundamental flaw in the training of machine learning systems and elaborated a new formulation for strengthening them against adversarial attacks — epfl — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
— By completely rethinking the way that most Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems protect against attacks, researchers at EPFL's School of Engineering have developed a new training approach to ensure that machine learning models, particularly deep neural networks, consistently perform as intended, significantly enhancing their reliability.
SSF/ECOFACT TCFD-Disclosure Webinar: Guidance and Best Practice in the Swiss Context: 10 October — sustainablefinance.ch — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
Guardian: 'It's always down to human failure': President Biden, this is how to stop your dog biting people — The Guardian UK ● — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
Wednesday, 27 September 2023
North Korea changes constitution and declares itself a nuclear state — ground.news: 68 media reports — 27 September 2023 (LINK)
Iraq wedding fire leaves 100 dead, more than 150 injured — ground.news main source AFP: 207 media reports — 27 September 2023 (LINK)
UN Human Rights officer questions French move to bar its athletes from wearing hijab at Paris 2024 — Reuters ● — 27 September 2023 (LINK)
Leading US Jewish groups decry top legal award for 'anti-Israel' UN official Navi Pillay — timesofisrael — 27 September 2023 (LINK)
Ukraine grain corridor should not replace broader deal — Rebeca Grynspan, who leads the implementation of the U.N. deal with Russia — Reuters ● — 27 September 2023 (LINK)
Iran Navy harasses US helicopter in international airspace over Arabian Gulf — usni — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
One in six UK species threatened with extinction — theconversation.com — 27 September 2023 (LINK)
Record-breaking astronaut Frank Rubio finally returns to Earth after accidentally spending 371 days in space — livescience — 27 September 2023 (LINK)
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance to exit Russia — ground.news: 42 media reports — 27 September 2023 (LINK)
CERN scientists find antimatter is subject to gravity — ground.news: 23 media reports — 27 September 2023 (LINK)
Scientists discover 8th 'continent' that had been missing for 375 years: Zealandia or Te Riu-a-Maui, the new continent is 94 per cent underwater, with just a handful of islands, similar to New Zealand — ndtv — 27 September 2023 (LINK)
US officials say Travis King, who crossed into North Korea, is in American custody — ground.news: 157 media reports — 27 September 2023 (LINK)
Tuesday, 26 September 2023
Nagorno-Karabakh: At least 125 killed, 300 injured, in fuel depot explosion as thousands flee to Armenia — ground.news: 62 media reports — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
Biden joins UAW strikers, the first sitting president to join a picket line: 'You deserve a hell of a lot more' — ground.news: media reports — 27 September 2023 (LINK)
— Biden: "You guys, the UAW, you saved the automobile industry back in 2008 ... you made a lot of sacrifices. You gave up a lot. And the companies were in trouble. Now they're doing incredibly well and guess what? You should be doing incredibly well."
Biden's $15 minimum wage for federal contractors blocked by US judge — Reuters ● — 27 September 2023 (LINK)
US pauses most foreign assistance programs for Gabon after coup — ground.news: 21 media reports — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
US banning imports from three Chinese companies, citing forced labor concerns — ground.news: 11 media reports — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
Vatican presses world leaders at UN to work on rules for lethal autonomous weapons — ground.news main source: AP, 10 media reports — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
Judge rules Donald Trump defrauded banks, insurers as he built real estate empire — ground.news main source: Reuters ●, 290 media reports — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
→ Hunter Biden 'received $250K wire originating in Beijing with beneficiary address listed as Joe Biden's home' → — ground.news: 16 media reports — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
→ Biden's dog Commander bites Secret Service agent again — marking 11th attack — nypost — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
Russian Black Sea commander Sokolov shown on video call after Ukraine said it killed him — Reuters/yahoo — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
Lawyer who called for Thai monarchy reforms sentenced to 4 years for royal insults — Reuters ● — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
Hollywood writers strike declared over after boards vote to approve contract with studios — ground.news main source: AP, 104 media reports — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
Canada parliament speaker resigns after calling Ukrainian Nazi veteran a 'hero' — ground.news main source: Reuters ●, 149 media reports — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
US sanctions 9 tied to Mexico's Sinaloa cartel and leader of Colombia's Clan del Golfo — ground.news: 22 media reports — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
Study shows invertebrate decline reduces natural pest control and decomposition of organic matter — phys.org — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
Monday, 25 September 2023
Russia puts top International Criminal Court judges on federal wanted list — meduza — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
Russians committing rape, 'widespread' torture against Ukrainians, UN commission finds — abcnews — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
Libya's top prosecutor orders eight officials arrested after flood disaster: Mayor of Derna and officials from the Water Resources Authority and Dams Management Authority — Al Jazeera — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
Serbian president turns to Russia after monastery gun battle between ethnic Serb gunmen who stormed the village and Kosovo police. One policeman and three of the approximately 30 gunmen were killed, according to Kosovo forces — politico ← — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
Trudeau calls Parliament's praise for Nazi-linked Ukraine-Canadian veteran 'deeply embarrassing' — BBC ● — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
Biden administration blacklists 11 China firms for Moscow, Tehran drone links — cnbc — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
Leading Hong Kong journalist found guilty of obstructing a police officer — ground.news main source: AP, 26 media reports — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
Mali junta delays February presidential election for 'technical reasons' — ground.news: 20 media reports — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
Biden hosts Pacific Island leaders in latest effort to counter China's influence — PBS News Hour video — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
→ NYPost: Biden fumbles acronym during Pacific Islands forum speech: 'Doesn't matter what we call it,' he jokes → — (LINK)
A history of US government shutdowns: The 14 times funding has lapsed since 1980 — CBSs — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
Tax cuts from the Bush and Trump eras have cost the government $10 trillion it now owes — benzinga — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
— "If not for the Bush tax cut and their extensions — as well as the Trump tax cuts — revenues would be on track to keep pace with spending indefinitely, and the debt ratio (debt as a percentage of the economy) would be declining,"
The tax cuts are responsible for 57% of the increase in the debt ratio since Bush's first government in 2001. That number would reach 90% if we removed the "one-time costs" from bills responding to COVID-19 and the Great Recession.
Russia dodges G7 price cap sanctions on most of its oil exports — ground.news main source: Financial Times, 12 media reports — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
The most intense heat wave ever recorded on Earth happened in Antarctica on 18 March last year, scientists say: soared to 39C above normal, reaching -10C — ground.news: media reports — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
— Some researchers at the Dome C site stripped down to shorts, while others removed their shirts to loll in the warmth. Generally, the temperatures in March on the east coast of Antarctica are around -54 degreesC, marking a transition into autumn on the continent.
7 best watches presented at Geneva Watch Days 2023 — sportskeeda — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
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US State Department report accuses China of global media manipulation — ground.news: 19 media reports — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
Coral Vita raced to save coral reefs as ocean temperatures spiked this summer — fastcompany — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
Gabon charges ousted president's wife with 'money laundering' — ground.news: 17 media reports — 30 September 2023 (LINK)
LVMH boss Bernard Arnault under investigation in Paris over Russian oligarch property transactions and money laundering — ground.news: 25 media reports — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
Inside the Australian PwC tax leaks investigation — ICIJ — 30 September 2023 (LINK)
— Analysing a government probe, a wave of resignations and public embarrassment for the Big Four firm as the scandal engulfed PwC operations overseas. In June, PwC's Australian consulting arm was sold in a fire sale for less than a U.S. dollar. Around a week later, ICIJ member Neil Chenoweth first exposed the leak in The Australian Financial Review and reported that some U.S. tech companies restructured to dodge the multinational tax law, weeks before it came into effect, based on PwC's advice.
IRS consultant charged with disclosing tax returns of Trump and nation's 'wealthiest individuals' to media — → Fox News ● → — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
— In September 2020, Trump defended his tax history, saying he paid "millions of dollars" to the Internal Revenue Service and argued he is "entitled" to tax credits "like everyone else" in the wake of a New York Times report that said he paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years.
Second man, 60, is arrested over the felling in England of a much-loved tree near Hadrian's Wall, 15-year-old freed on bail — AP — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
Credit Suisse sheds nearly 13% of workforce — Reuters ● — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
Godard's Final S.O.S. at New York Film Festival — nationalreview — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
New project: avenir suisse essentials 1: Switzerland's electricity deal with the EU — →avenir-suisse.ch→ — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
X CEO Linda Yaccarino's wild interview at the Code Conference after Musk critic and former Twitter exec appears — theverge — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
'TOURISTS TOLD TO STAY AWAY' . . . but cruise denies passengers advised to avoid Port Lucaya because of safety concerns — tribune242.com — 29 September 2023 (LINK)
— "While there is a US State Department Advisory with specific reference to Freeport and Nassau, our shipboard team has not made any announcements about Freeport," a Carnival Cruise Line sspokesperson said yesterday. "We are confused by the allegations. As a standard practice, we advise guests visiting destinations to follow well-cited travel advice and stay in main tourist areas, not carry large sums of cash they don't intend to spend, and not wear lots of jewellery. Our guests love visiting Freeport."
On Tuesday, two cruise ships, Carnival Dream and Carnival Sunshine, brought over 7,000 guests to Grand Bahama. A bus took passengers to the Prop Club at the Grand Lucayan Resort. The visitors stayed there all day, visiting the restaurant and beach.
Over 220 people and 25 organizations in 40 countries faced reprisals for cooperating with UN on human rights: new report — OHCHR — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
— Acts of reprisals against women and girls constitute half of the victims in the report.
U.N. high commissioner for human rights makes urgent appeal for security mission for Haiti — Miami Herald — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
Separatist government of Nagorno-Karabakh says it will dismantle itself by January 2024 — ground.news: 84 media reports — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
Brazil's Amazon rainforest faces a severe drought that may affect around 500,000 people — ground.news: 20 media reports — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
186,000 migrants and refugees arrived in southern Europe so far this year, most in Italy, UNHCR says — ground.news: 48 media reports — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
Niger: 12 soldiers dead following attack by suspected jihadists — ground.news: 22 media reports — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
Burkina Faso detains four officers after thwarted coup — ground.news: 10 media reports — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
Sweden's leader turns to the military for help as gang violence escalates — AP — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
"Center for circular economy in coffee" the first global collaborative platform for circular transition in coffee industry — ITC — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
Thai police seizes $8.15 million worth methamphetamine pills and other drugs — Reuters ● — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
Swiss accuse daughter of ex-Uzbek president of running a criminal organisation — Reuters ● — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
AFP: Swiss indict daughter of late Uzbek leader in corruption case (LINK)
Gunman shoots woman and her daughter in their home, then storms into university classroom and shoots male teacher — ground.news: 238 media reports — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
Evergrande: China property giant suspends shares as police target chairman — ground.news: 50 media reports — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
Researchers at EPFL have uncovered a fundamental flaw in the training of machine learning systems and elaborated a new formulation for strengthening them against adversarial attacks — epfl — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
— By completely rethinking the way that most Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems protect against attacks, researchers at EPFL's School of Engineering have developed a new training approach to ensure that machine learning models, particularly deep neural networks, consistently perform as intended, significantly enhancing their reliability.
SSF/ECOFACT TCFD-Disclosure Webinar: Guidance and Best Practice in the Swiss Context: 10 October — sustainablefinance.ch — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
Guardian: 'It's always down to human failure': President Biden, this is how to stop your dog biting people — The Guardian UK ● — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
North Korea changes constitution and declares itself a nuclear state — ground.news: 68 media reports — 27 September 2023 (LINK)
Iraq wedding fire leaves 100 dead, more than 150 injured — ground.news main source AFP: 207 media reports — 27 September 2023 (LINK)
UN Human Rights officer questions French move to bar its athletes from wearing hijab at Paris 2024 — Reuters ● — 27 September 2023 (LINK)
Leading US Jewish groups decry top legal award for 'anti-Israel' UN official Navi Pillay — timesofisrael — 27 September 2023 (LINK)
Ukraine grain corridor should not replace broader deal — Rebeca Grynspan, who leads the implementation of the U.N. deal with Russia — Reuters ● — 27 September 2023 (LINK)
Iran Navy harasses US helicopter in international airspace over Arabian Gulf — usni — 28 September 2023 (LINK)
One in six UK species threatened with extinction — theconversation.com — 27 September 2023 (LINK)
Record-breaking astronaut Frank Rubio finally returns to Earth after accidentally spending 371 days in space — livescience — 27 September 2023 (LINK)
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance to exit Russia — ground.news: 42 media reports — 27 September 2023 (LINK)
CERN scientists find antimatter is subject to gravity — ground.news: 23 media reports — 27 September 2023 (LINK)
Scientists discover 8th 'continent' that had been missing for 375 years: Zealandia or Te Riu-a-Maui, the new continent is 94 per cent underwater, with just a handful of islands, similar to New Zealand — ndtv — 27 September 2023 (LINK)
US officials say Travis King, who crossed into North Korea, is in American custody — ground.news: 157 media reports — 27 September 2023 (LINK)
Tuesday, 26 September 2023
Nagorno-Karabakh: At least 125 killed, 300 injured, in fuel depot explosion as thousands flee to Armenia — ground.news: 62 media reports — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
Biden joins UAW strikers, the first sitting president to join a picket line: 'You deserve a hell of a lot more' — ground.news: media reports — 27 September 2023 (LINK)
— Biden: "You guys, the UAW, you saved the automobile industry back in 2008 ... you made a lot of sacrifices. You gave up a lot. And the companies were in trouble. Now they're doing incredibly well and guess what? You should be doing incredibly well."
Biden's $15 minimum wage for federal contractors blocked by US judge — Reuters ● — 27 September 2023 (LINK)
US pauses most foreign assistance programs for Gabon after coup — ground.news: 21 media reports — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
US banning imports from three Chinese companies, citing forced labor concerns — ground.news: 11 media reports — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
Vatican presses world leaders at UN to work on rules for lethal autonomous weapons — ground.news main source: AP, 10 media reports — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
Judge rules Donald Trump defrauded banks, insurers as he built real estate empire — ground.news main source: Reuters ●, 290 media reports — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
→ Hunter Biden 'received $250K wire originating in Beijing with beneficiary address listed as Joe Biden's home' → — ground.news: 16 media reports — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
→ Biden's dog Commander bites Secret Service agent again — marking 11th attack — nypost — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
Russian Black Sea commander Sokolov shown on video call after Ukraine said it killed him — Reuters/yahoo — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
Lawyer who called for Thai monarchy reforms sentenced to 4 years for royal insults — Reuters ● — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
Hollywood writers strike declared over after boards vote to approve contract with studios — ground.news main source: AP, 104 media reports — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
Canada parliament speaker resigns after calling Ukrainian Nazi veteran a 'hero' — ground.news main source: Reuters ●, 149 media reports — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
US sanctions 9 tied to Mexico's Sinaloa cartel and leader of Colombia's Clan del Golfo — ground.news: 22 media reports — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
Study shows invertebrate decline reduces natural pest control and decomposition of organic matter — phys.org — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
Monday, 25 September 2023
Russia puts top International Criminal Court judges on federal wanted list — meduza — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
Russians committing rape, 'widespread' torture against Ukrainians, UN commission finds — abcnews — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
Libya's top prosecutor orders eight officials arrested after flood disaster: Mayor of Derna and officials from the Water Resources Authority and Dams Management Authority — Al Jazeera — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
Serbian president turns to Russia after monastery gun battle between ethnic Serb gunmen who stormed the village and Kosovo police. One policeman and three of the approximately 30 gunmen were killed, according to Kosovo forces — politico ← — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
Trudeau calls Parliament's praise for Nazi-linked Ukraine-Canadian veteran 'deeply embarrassing' — BBC ● — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
Biden administration blacklists 11 China firms for Moscow, Tehran drone links — cnbc — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
Leading Hong Kong journalist found guilty of obstructing a police officer — ground.news main source: AP, 26 media reports — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
Mali junta delays February presidential election for 'technical reasons' — ground.news: 20 media reports — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
Biden hosts Pacific Island leaders in latest effort to counter China's influence — PBS News Hour video — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
→ NYPost: Biden fumbles acronym during Pacific Islands forum speech: 'Doesn't matter what we call it,' he jokes → — (LINK)
A history of US government shutdowns: The 14 times funding has lapsed since 1980 — CBSs — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
Tax cuts from the Bush and Trump eras have cost the government $10 trillion it now owes — benzinga — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
— "If not for the Bush tax cut and their extensions — as well as the Trump tax cuts — revenues would be on track to keep pace with spending indefinitely, and the debt ratio (debt as a percentage of the economy) would be declining,"
The tax cuts are responsible for 57% of the increase in the debt ratio since Bush's first government in 2001. That number would reach 90% if we removed the "one-time costs" from bills responding to COVID-19 and the Great Recession.
Russia dodges G7 price cap sanctions on most of its oil exports — ground.news main source: Financial Times, 12 media reports — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
The most intense heat wave ever recorded on Earth happened in Antarctica on 18 March last year, scientists say: soared to 39C above normal, reaching -10C — ground.news: media reports — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
— Some researchers at the Dome C site stripped down to shorts, while others removed their shirts to loll in the warmth. Generally, the temperatures in March on the east coast of Antarctica are around -54 degreesC, marking a transition into autumn on the continent.
7 best watches presented at Geneva Watch Days 2023 — sportskeeda — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
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Nagorno-Karabakh: At least 125 killed, 300 injured, in fuel depot explosion as thousands flee to Armenia — ground.news: 62 media reports — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
Biden joins UAW strikers, the first sitting president to join a picket line: 'You deserve a hell of a lot more' — ground.news: media reports — 27 September 2023 (LINK)
— Biden: "You guys, the UAW, you saved the automobile industry back in 2008 ... you made a lot of sacrifices. You gave up a lot. And the companies were in trouble. Now they're doing incredibly well and guess what? You should be doing incredibly well."
Biden's $15 minimum wage for federal contractors blocked by US judge — Reuters ● — 27 September 2023 (LINK)
US pauses most foreign assistance programs for Gabon after coup — ground.news: 21 media reports — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
US banning imports from three Chinese companies, citing forced labor concerns — ground.news: 11 media reports — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
Vatican presses world leaders at UN to work on rules for lethal autonomous weapons — ground.news main source: AP, 10 media reports — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
Judge rules Donald Trump defrauded banks, insurers as he built real estate empire — ground.news main source: Reuters ●, 290 media reports — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
→ Hunter Biden 'received $250K wire originating in Beijing with beneficiary address listed as Joe Biden's home' → — ground.news: 16 media reports — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
→ Biden's dog Commander bites Secret Service agent again — marking 11th attack — nypost — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
Russian Black Sea commander Sokolov shown on video call after Ukraine said it killed him — Reuters/yahoo — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
Lawyer who called for Thai monarchy reforms sentenced to 4 years for royal insults — Reuters ● — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
Hollywood writers strike declared over after boards vote to approve contract with studios — ground.news main source: AP, 104 media reports — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
Canada parliament speaker resigns after calling Ukrainian Nazi veteran a 'hero' — ground.news main source: Reuters ●, 149 media reports — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
US sanctions 9 tied to Mexico's Sinaloa cartel and leader of Colombia's Clan del Golfo — ground.news: 22 media reports — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
Study shows invertebrate decline reduces natural pest control and decomposition of organic matter — phys.org — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
Russia puts top International Criminal Court judges on federal wanted list — meduza — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
Russians committing rape, 'widespread' torture against Ukrainians, UN commission finds — abcnews — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
Libya's top prosecutor orders eight officials arrested after flood disaster: Mayor of Derna and officials from the Water Resources Authority and Dams Management Authority — Al Jazeera — 26 September 2023 (LINK)
Serbian president turns to Russia after monastery gun battle between ethnic Serb gunmen who stormed the village and Kosovo police. One policeman and three of the approximately 30 gunmen were killed, according to Kosovo forces — politico ← — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
Trudeau calls Parliament's praise for Nazi-linked Ukraine-Canadian veteran 'deeply embarrassing' — BBC ● — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
Biden administration blacklists 11 China firms for Moscow, Tehran drone links — cnbc — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
Leading Hong Kong journalist found guilty of obstructing a police officer — ground.news main source: AP, 26 media reports — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
Mali junta delays February presidential election for 'technical reasons' — ground.news: 20 media reports — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
Biden hosts Pacific Island leaders in latest effort to counter China's influence — PBS News Hour video — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
→ NYPost: Biden fumbles acronym during Pacific Islands forum speech: 'Doesn't matter what we call it,' he jokes → — (LINK)
A history of US government shutdowns: The 14 times funding has lapsed since 1980 — CBSs — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
Tax cuts from the Bush and Trump eras have cost the government $10 trillion it now owes — benzinga — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
— "If not for the Bush tax cut and their extensions — as well as the Trump tax cuts — revenues would be on track to keep pace with spending indefinitely, and the debt ratio (debt as a percentage of the economy) would be declining,"
The tax cuts are responsible for 57% of the increase in the debt ratio since Bush's first government in 2001. That number would reach 90% if we removed the "one-time costs" from bills responding to COVID-19 and the Great Recession.
Russia dodges G7 price cap sanctions on most of its oil exports — ground.news main source: Financial Times, 12 media reports — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
The most intense heat wave ever recorded on Earth happened in Antarctica on 18 March last year, scientists say: soared to 39C above normal, reaching -10C — ground.news: media reports — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
— Some researchers at the Dome C site stripped down to shorts, while others removed their shirts to loll in the warmth. Generally, the temperatures in March on the east coast of Antarctica are around -54 degreesC, marking a transition into autumn on the continent.
7 best watches presented at Geneva Watch Days 2023 — sportskeeda — 25 September 2023 (LINK)
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