Interesting Global News

Norway is the world leader in EV sales, but now it's crossed a new landmark: the first country with more EVs than gas cars in service.

Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20240915025331/https://electrek.co/2024/09/14/there-are-now-more-electric-cars-than-gas-cars-on-norways-roads/

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Admiral Rob Bauer, who serves as the principal advisor to NATO's secretary general, also said that nations supplying weapons to Kyiv have the right to limit their use.

Archived version: https://archive.ph/aZWt4

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Two hospitals sent into lockdown, government buildings shut down and local schools evacuated

Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20240915031417/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/14/more-bomb-threats-hit-springfield-ohio-after-trump-elevates-false-claims-about-haitians

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Environment minister says country has more elephants than it needs while critics of hunt say they are a major tourist drawcard

Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20240915050807/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/14/zimbabwe-orders-cull-of-200-elephants-amid-food-shortages-from-drought

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The UAE-brokered swap is the eighth of its kind since the beginning of 2024, and puts the total number of POWs exchanged at 1,994

Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20240915050505/https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/ukraine-russia-war/artc-russia-and-ukraine-swap-103-pows-in-uae-brokered-prisoner-deal

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As global calls intensify to commemorate the second anniversary of Mahsa Jina Amini’s state-sanctioned killing, her family remains uncertain if security forces will permit a memorial ceremony in her hometown.

Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20240915044541/https://www.iranintl.com/en/202409134316

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State department says allegations of American collusion are ‘categorically false’ as US navy member identified among foreign citizens detained

Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20240915040518/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/15/us-rejects-claims-of-cia-involvement-in-alleged-plot-to-kill-maduro-after-venezuela-arrests-six

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Legislation makes it illegal to advertise fossil fuel products and services with a high carbon footprint

Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20240914011205/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/13/the-hague-becomes-worlds-first-city-to-ban-fossil-fuel-related-ads

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North Korea released images of its uranium enrichment facility on Friday, showing leader Kim Jong Un touring the site. Kim called for an increase in centrifuges to boost the country's nuclear arsenal for "self-defence," state media reported.

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Rapid growth of Temu and Shein threatens US businesses and consumers, Biden says.

Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20240913222431/https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/09/biden-moves-to-crack-down-on-shein-and-temu-slow-shipments-into-us/

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Ukraine should be allowed to strike deep inside Russia, despite Moscow threatening that this would draw Canada and its allies into direct war.

Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20240913234003/https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/trudeau-says-ukraine-can-strike-deep-into-russia-with-nato-arms-putin-hints-at-war-1.7036940

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has expressed regret that the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been hesitant to blame Russia for a strike on humanitarian mission vehicles in Donetsk which resulted in the deaths of three ICRC staff members.

Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20240914011117/https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/09/13/7474931/

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Water shortages in Cuba are increasingly flaring tempers, including in capital Havana, as problems mount for hundreds of thousands of residents already ragged from shortfalls in food, fuel and electricity.

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And any Israeli “investigation” apparently hasn’t even reached out to other eyewitnesses.

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National police agency says it is investigating 513 cases of deepfake pornography as a new scandal grips the country

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The UN World Food Programme is working to assist newly displaced and food insecure people in northeast Nigeria who have been affected by severe floods.

Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20240913224811/https://www.euronews.com/2024/09/13/hundreds-of-thousands-in-need-of-aid-as-floods-wipe-out-homes-in-nigeria

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Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is asking the warring factions of the Sinaloa cartel terrorizing the capital city of Culiacán to act "responsibly” so no one else gets killed.

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused the outlet RT of engaging in "global covert activities".

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Ukraine has repeatedly urged the UK and US to let it fire long-range missiles against targets inside Russia.

Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20240914004212/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnvdyd4nnzro

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When Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko used the full force of his security apparatus to smash mass demonstrations in 2020, Maria Kalesnikava became a symbol of the protesters' defiance.

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The Biden administration’s decision to waive all human rights conditions on military assistance to Egypt disregards the country’s long-running human rights crisis and the ongoing repression that undermines Egyptians’ political and economic rights, Human Rights Watch said today.

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In addition to billions in weapons, the U.S. military is renovating an air base in the south of Israel, according to a new contract.

Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20240913170820/https://theintercept.com/2024/09/13/us-army-israel-boeing-warplanes/

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The ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Jia Cobb in Washington permitted the only legally sanctioned bets on U.S. elections by an American jurisdiction.

Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20240913134059/https://fortune.com/2024/09/12/betting-elections-legal-united-states-2024-congressional-race/

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A campaign is under way to drive the UN relief agency for Palestinians, Unrwa, out of existence, its commissioner general has said, days after 18 people were killed when Israeli jets bombed an Unrwa school in Gaza.

Philippe Lazzarini said in an interview that the Israeli government was seeking to close down the agency, having failed to persuade western donors to stop funding it on the grounds of allegations about links between Unrwa staff and Hamas.

“This deliberate attempt to eliminate Unrwa and prevent it from operating would have devastating consequences for the multilateral system, the UN and the cause of a Palestinian transition to self-determination,” Lazzarini said.

He said: “There is a deliberate attempt to eliminate and dismantle the agency and the reason behind that has nothing to do with neutrality issues, but there is a political purpose behind it. Ultimately there is a desire to strip the Palestinians of refugee status and beyond that to undermine the future Palestinian aspiration for self-determination. That is why Unrwa has become such a target.