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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: AP / Turkish Presidency
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 ... .
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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 ... Proxima Centauri is a mere 4.24 light years away, and is orbited by two planets ... Read more ... Then they consulted a registry of broadcasts to be sure it wasn’t in the range of telecommunications or media ... .
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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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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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Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is a 'psychopath' and a 'killer', says former spy
The Daily Telegraph 25 Oct 2021
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is a "psychopath" and a "killer" and the world should be wary of him, according to a former top Saudi spy.� ... He claimed that in a 2014 meeting with Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, who was head of intelligence as interior minister at the time, the much younger Prince Mohammed said ... Save ... .
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Sudan's Al Burhan declares state of emergency, dissolves government
Gulf News 25 Oct 2021
Khartoum ... Al Burhan said infighting between politicians and ambition and incitement to violence forced to him to take action ... "The Chairperson calls for the immediate resumption of consultations between civilians and military within the framework of the political declaration and the constitutional decree," Faki said in a statement posted on Twitter ... .
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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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Cambodia amends charter to bar dual citizens from top office
Hickory Record
25 Oct 2021
By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press. PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Lawmakers in Cambodia on Monday approved an amendment to the constitution barring Cambodians with dual citizenship from holding high government office, a move initiated by Prime Minister Hun Sen and directed at prominent opposition politicians ... Copyright 2021 The Associated Press ... .
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Facebook protected Breitbart as trusted news source to avoid angering Trump, new leaks reveal
The Independent 25 Oct 2021
Facebook executives resisted removing the right-wing Breitbart News site from the social media platform’s “news” tab because of fears that doing so would incur the wrath of Republicans in Congress and Trump administration figures, documents show ... “Minneapolis Mayhem ... “We’re scared of political backlash if we enforce our policies without exemptions.”.
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Outages becoming longer and more frequent as failure to tackle climate change affects US power grid
The Independent 25 Oct 2021
Every time a storm lashes the Carolina coast, the power lines on Tonye Gray’s street go down, cutting her lights and air conditioning. After Hurricane Florence in 2018, Gray went three days with no way to refrigerate medicine for her multiple sclerosis or pump the floodwater out of her basement ... We know we’re going to get hit." ... - - - ... - - - ... - - - ... .
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China’s ying and yang battle as Beijing faces tough economic choices
South China Morning Post 25 Oct 2021photo: AP / Hussein Malla
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 ... ARAB LEAGUE ... “The Chairperson calls for the immediate resumption of consultations between civilians and military ... EGYPT ... .