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Japan's Princess Mako marries commoner, loses royal status
The Times of India 26 Oct 2021
TOKYO ... 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 ... There will be no wedding banquet and there have been no other marriage rituals for the couple. Their marriage is not celebrated by many people, the agency has said ... Start a Conversation. .
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Hong Kong to tighten COVID-19 rules, seeks to open to China
Citizen Tribune
26 Oct 2021
It will step up contact tracing, such as requiring the use of its LeaveHomeSafe app in government premises to record the coming and going of visitors ... Hong Kong has not had a major local outbreak since the beginning of the year, with virtually no local transmission in recent months ... must serve a 21-day quarantine ... Copyright 2021 The Associated Press.
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Shopping mall shooting in Idaho leaves 2 dead, 4 injured
Metro USA 26 Oct 2021
local time ... “We believe there was only a single shooter involved, and there is no ongoing threat to the community at large,” Lee said. No information about the suspect was given, nor were any of the victims identified ... People walk in a parking lot near the scene of a shooting at the Boise Towne Square shopping mall in Boise, Idaho ... .
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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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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
Waves lash Mumbai coast on May 17, 2021, as Cyclone Tauktae bears down on India [File. Sujit Jaiswal/AFP] ... More than 70 percent of households in the study said droughts were happening significantly more often in the last five to 10 years, leading to an increase in so-called distress migration when people feel they have no other option to survive ... .
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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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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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Israel envoy to brief US over ban on Palestinian groups
Wtop 26 Oct 2021
Israel last week designated the prominent Palestinian human rights groups as terrorist organizations, sparking international criticism and repeated assertions by Israel’s top strategic partner, the United States, that there had been no advance warning of the move ... The U.S ... Zarka said he personally updated U.S ... But with 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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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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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) ... However, Ethiopia had already filled the dam for the second time and no war has so far erupted ....
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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 ... On Jan ... The first test flight to the airport was carried out on Aug. 22 ... Perhaps no airport in the world has been built at this speed ... .