Power slowly coming back on in Cuba after passage of Hurricane Rafael
Cubans are having a bad sense of deja vu after the second major hurricane and islandwide power outage in two weeks.
Beyond abortion rights: Why did Kamala Harris lose women’s votes?
The number of American women voting Democratic declines after Joe Biden's election to the presidency. Why?
For many Iranians, Trump’s return intensifies worries about war. Yet some see reasons for hope – The Associated Press
- For many Iranians, Trump’s return intensifies worries about war. Yet some see reasons for hope The Associated Press
- Iran 'terrified' of Trump presidency as Iranian currency falls to an all-time low Fox News
- Iranians brace for Trump’s return, recalling tough stance during first term The Times of Israel
- Iran's Pezeshkian says Tehran indifferent to US election result Reuters
- Iran’s currency falls to an all-time low as Trump clinches the US presidency The Associated Press
How Did This Penguin End Up on a Beach in Australia? – The New York Times
- How Did This Penguin End Up on a Beach in Australia? The New York Times
- Emperor penguin turns up on Australian beach, thousands of miles from home CNN
- Lost emperor penguin recovering after record journey across Southern Ocean ABC News
- Emperor penguin surprises surfers in Australia after travelling 2,100 MILES from its home in Antarctica - the Daily Mail
- A Lost Emperor Penguin Swam From Antarctica to Australia The Inertia
China’s Playbook for Trump Tariffs Won’t Work This Time – The Wall Street Journal
- China’s Playbook for Trump Tariffs Won’t Work This Time The Wall Street Journal
- Trump's New Trade War With China Is Coming Newsweek
- How Asia Is Bracing for Donald Trump 2.0 TIME
- Why Trump Faces a Losing Tech War With China Bloomberg
- Ready or not? How China scrambled to counter the second Trump shock Reuters
Death threats, bodyguards and a Farc commander called Smurf: living dangerously with Colombia’s nature defenders – The Guardian
California wildfire forces thousands to evacuate
More than 10,000 residents have been ordered to evacuate since the blaze began on Wednesday.
Anger in Taiwan over reports SpaceX asked suppliers to move abroad
Taipei says it is paying close attention to reported request by Elon Musk’s firm
Taiwan’s government says it is paying close attention to reports that Elon Musk’s SpaceX asked Taiwanese suppliers to move manufacturing to other countries because of “geopolitical” concerns.
Reuters reported on Wednesday that SpaceX’s request to suppliers in Taiwan’s multibillion-dollar industry appeared to have prompted some to shift locations to Vietnam, Thailand and other places. In response, Taiwan’s economic affairs minister, JW Kuo, said the industry was strong and “should be able to cope”, but that the government was monitoring the situation.
Continue reading...‘It will be harder on us’: Palestinians weigh up impact of Trump election win
Many in Ramallah argue things cannot get any worse but some say US result could add unpredictability to despair
The waiters at Ramallah’s cafes and the tenders of its falafel stands all had more or less the same question: is Donald Trump’s win good or bad? It is a question reserved for outsiders. The Palestinians in the biggest city on the West Bank seem to have already come to a provisional consensus: that the US election result has no real impact here because things could not possibly be worse.
“It will not make a big difference,” said Eyad Barghouti, a retired university teacher, expressing a commonly held view as the Gaza war rages on. “What Biden was doing before with a low profile, Trump will be more vocal about.
Continue reading...Optus fined $12m after thousands could not call triple zero during 2023 outage
Australian Communications and Media Authority says telco did not check welfare of 369 people who tried to make a call while lines were down
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Optus has paid a $12m fine over its mobile network outage last year that resulted in more than 2,000 people being unable to make triple zero calls.
One year ago on Friday, a routine software upgrade to Optus’s mobile network brought down the service for 14 hours across the country for the company’s 10 million customers.
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Continue reading...Will Republicans win the House? The outstanding races to watch
It's too early to determine if Republicans will keep their majority in the US House of Representatives.
Severe drought puts nearly half a million children at risk in Amazon – report
Warming climate has caused rivers used for transport to dry up, leaving children with little food, water or school access, says Unicef
Two years of severe drought in the Amazon rainforest have left nearly half a million children facing shortages of water and food or limited access to school, according to a UN report.
Scant rainfall and extreme heat driven by the climate crisis have caused rivers in what is usually the wettest region on Earth to retreat so much that they can no longer be traversed by boats, cutting off communities.
Continue reading...IDF distances itself from ‘no return’ remarks about north Gaza evacuees
Israeli army says officer’s comments that Palestinians will not be allowed return home were taken out of context
The Israeli army has distanced itself from comments made by a brigadier general that ground forces are getting closer to “the complete evacuation” of the northern Gaza Strip and residents will not be allowed to return home.
In a media briefing on Tuesday night, the Israel Defense Forces’ Brig Gen Itzik Cohen told Israeli reporters that “there is no intention of allowing the residents of the northern Gaza Strip to return”. He added that humanitarian aid would be allowed to “regularly” enter the south of the territory but there were “no more civilians left” in the north.
Continue reading...EU leaders strain for unity after Donald Trump win and German crisis – Financial Times
- EU leaders strain for unity after Donald Trump win and German crisis Financial Times
- European Leaders Meet Amid Trump Victory and Global Uncertainty The New York Times
- Why Donald Trump’s return is a disaster for Europe | Paul Taylor The Guardian
- Trump’s return to US presidency pushes European leaders into a huddle Al Jazeera English
- 50 world leaders meet to strategize on how to deal with Trump The Washington Post
Russian anti-war teenager faces five years in jail after failed appeal
Arseny Turbin, one of Russia's youngest political prisoners, has lost an appeal to overturn his five-year jail sentence.
Germany engulfed by political crisis as Scholz coalition falls apart
Europe’s most powerful economy is left rudderless, when EU leaders are nervous about a new Trump presidency.
UN to Israel: Replacing UNRWA aid agency is your responsibility, not ours – The Times of Israel
- UN to Israel: Replacing UNRWA aid agency is your responsibility, not ours The Times of Israel
- UN agency for Palestinian refugees urges world to save it from Israeli ban The Associated Press
- 'There's an assumption that if we close UNRWA, we will cancel the Palestinian refugees' Haaretz
- UN agency for Palestinians facing its ‘darkest hour’, UNRWA chief says Al Jazeera English
- Statement of UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini to the United Nations General Assembly unrwa
A tiny grain of nuclear fuel is pulled from ruined Japanese nuclear plant, in a step toward cleanup – The Associated Press
- A tiny grain of nuclear fuel is pulled from ruined Japanese nuclear plant, in a step toward cleanup The Associated Press
- Japan electric company removes small debris from Fukushima nuclear plant Yahoo! Voices
- A robot retrieves the first melted fuel from Fukushima nuclear reactor The Associated Press
- Fuel debris sample extracted from Fukushima Daiichi reactor World Nuclear News
- Robot Removes First Bit Of Fukushima's Nuclear Fuel Debris – Just 880 Tons More To Go IFLScience
What Trump’s historic election victory means for the global economy – CNBC
- What Trump’s historic election victory means for the global economy CNBC
- Gloom, nervousness and joy: What Trump’s victory means for key world regions CNN
- How Economies Around the World Will Respond to Trump 2.0 Foreign Policy
- US diplomats brace as Trump plans foreign policy shake-up in wider purge of government The Guardian US
- Trump and the Future of American Power: A Conversation With Stephen Kotkin Foreign Affairs Magazine
Rutte’s message to Trump: North Korean troops in Ukraine war threaten the US too – Euronews
- Rutte's message to Trump: North Korean troops in Ukraine war threaten the US too Euronews
- With North Korea’s troops in Russia, South Koreans weigh role in Ukraine Al Jazeera English
- Mark Rutte: North Korean troops in Europe marks turning point POLITICO Europe
- France summoned North Korean diplomat over troops in Russia, ministry says Reuters
- NATO likely to respond if Russia sends North Korean troops to Ukraine GZERO Media