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Japan's Princess Mako marries commoner, loses royal status
The Times of India 26 Oct 2021
TOKYO . Japanese Princess Mako married a commoner and lost her royal status Tuesday in a union that has split public opinion after a three-year delay caused by a financial dispute involving her new mother-in-law ... No longer a royal, Mako has now taken the surname of her husband and become Mako Komuro - the first time she has had a family name ... .
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Saudi crown prince suggested killing King Abdullah, ex-official says
BBC News 25 Oct 2021
Saudi Arabia's crown prince suggested using a "poison ring" to kill the late King Abdullah, a former top Saudi intelligence official has alleged. In an interview with CBS, Saad al-Jabri said Mohammed bin Salman told his cousin in 2014 that he wanted to do so to clear the throne for his father ... "He told him ... They denied the charges.
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Hong Kong to tighten COVID-19 rules, seeks to open to China
Citizen Tribune
26 Oct 2021
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong will tighten COVID-19 restrictions despite a lack of local outbreaks to better align with China’s policies and increase chances of quarantine-free travel between the territory and mainland, leader Carrie Lam said Tuesday ... must serve a 21-day quarantine ... Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved ... ....
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Shopping mall shooting in Idaho leaves 2 dead, 4 injured
Metro USA 26 Oct 2021
BOISE, Idaho (Reuters) – Two people were killed and four others, including a police officer, were injured on Monday in a shooting at a shopping center in Boise, Idaho, that ended with the lone suspect taken into custody, authorities said ... local time ... No information about the suspect was given, nor were any of the victims identified ... .
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Bomb cyclone, tornadoes and possible nor’easter all likely to hit US over the next week
The Independent 25 Oct 2021photo: WN / Shilpa
Climate migration predicted to rise in India amid extreme weather
Al Jazeera 26 Oct 2021
A rise in extreme weather events in India – from droughts and floods to heatwaves and hailstorms – is fuelling climate migration as the nation’s poorest are forced to abandon their homes, land and livelihoods, researchers say ... Waves lash Mumbai coast on May 17, 2021, as Cyclone Tauktae bears down on India [File. Sujit Jaiswal/AFP] ... Narinder Nanu/AFP].
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Donald Trump Jr. Is Hawking Shockingly Tacky ‘Alex Baldwin Kills People’ T-Shirts
The Daily Beast 25 Oct 2021
It’s only been three days since Alec Baldwin accidentally shot and killed 42-year-old cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, but the Trump family has never been known to hang around when there’s a tawdry buck to make. The oldest Trump son, Donald Jr., is hawking $27.99 T-shirts on his official site with the mocking slogan ... J.D ... Donald Trump Jr ... Fuck him!” ... .
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Israel envoy to brief US over ban on Palestinian groups
Wtop 26 Oct 2021
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel is sending an envoy to Washington amid a deepening rift with the Biden administration over six outlawed Palestinian rights groups, a Foreign Ministry official said Tuesday ... Israel’s move marked a major escalation of its decades-long crackdown on political activism in the occupied territories. The U.S ... Source .
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International reaction to Sudan’s military coup
Metro USA 25 Oct 2021
(Reuters) – Following are international reactions to the military coup in Sudan, where soldiers on Monday arrested members of a transitional government meant to guide the country to democracy. UNITED STATES. The U.S ... U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL ANTONIO GUTERRES. “I condemn the ongoing military coup in Sudan ... ARAB LEAGUE ... AFRICAN UNION ... EGYPT ... .
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Sudan: 7 killed, 140 injured as military fires on anti-coup protesters
The Siasat Daily 26 Oct 2021
Khartoum. Thousands of people who joined the anti-coup protest were fired upon by the Sudanese military resulting in the death of at least seven people while injuring 140 people. Thousands took to the streets in protest in the capital, Khartoum, and its twin city of Omdurman after Sudan’s military seized power from a transitional government ... .
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Egypt's Sisi calls for 'abiding deal' with Ethiopia on GERD
The New Arab 25 Oct 2021
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi expressed on Sunday Egypt's keenness to reach a "biding, balanced agreement without further delay" with Ethiopia, possibly ending a long-lasting dispute on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) ... Ethiopia has frequently refused to enter into an agreement with Egypt and Sudan ... ....
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Alien false alarm: ‘Extraterrestrial’ radio signals turn out to be human
The Observer 25 Oct 2021
Astronomers searching for alien life thought they’d spotted signs of intelligence beyond the solar system – but the signals turned out to be human. Parkes Observatory’s Murriyang radio telescope detected “promising” radio signals that seemed to be extraterrestrial in 2019 ... But it was not to be ... Read more ... Many things cause Rfi, Price said ... .
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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Unveils Plans For Business Park In Space
NDTV 26 Oct 2021
Billionaire Jeff Bezos-owned Blue Origin on Monday unveiled plans to develop a commercial space station called "Orbital Reef" with Boeing, aiming to launch the spacecraft in the second half of this... .
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Leaving British Isis members in Syrian camps is a ‘coward’s Guantanamo’, says former chief prosecutor
The Independent 25 Oct 2021
Syrian camps where British Isis members and their children are being held indefinitely have been labelled “a coward’s Guantanamo” by the former director of public prosecutions ... .
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Erdogan, Azerbaijani counterpart to open Fuzuli International Airport Tuesday
Anadolu Agency 25 Oct 2021
An international airport in Fuzuli city of Azerbaijan, which was completed in eight months, will be inaugurated on Tuesday by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev. Fuzuli International Airport is the first airport built by Azerbaijan in the area recently liberated from Armenian occupation ... On Jan ... 22 ... .