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      6 November

      Iranian security forces target university campuses as anti-hijab protests swell

      As students led the way in protests over Mahsa Amini’s death, the Iranian security forces have launched attacks on university campuses across the country with dozens of students being arrested, according to the Students’ Union of Iran. The movement that flared over the 22-year-old’s death has entered the eighth week. The students’ union has documented more than 40 arrests of university students and is collating reports of detentions and raids on campuses across the country on its Telegram channel. University students in Mashhad also said that they had been attacked by security forces this week, with videos online appearing to show plainclothes officers dragging students into vehicles, according to a report by The Guardian. Mahsa Amini died in custody on September…

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    • 5 November

      ’14-hour days with no break and no bathroom’: Jeff Bezos sued by his former housekeeper

      Aformer housekeeper for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos alleges she and other employees were made to work in unsafe and unsanitary conditions – including having to climb out of a laundry room window to access a bathroom. Mercedes Wedaa is suing Mr Bezos and two companies that allegedly manage his properties in a lawsuit filed in Seattle this week. She was hired in 2019 for a housekeeping role that required her to “work around a family without being seen”, according to the complaint. Some of her shifts were as long as 14 hours without breaks, during which time there was “no reasonably accessible bathroom for the housekeepers”, the lawsuit alleges. When the Bezos family was at home, the housekeepers were only…

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    • 5 November

      Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan says he was shot four times as he reveals extent of injuries

      Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan has revealed details of his attack after he was shot during a rally in an address to the nation. Mr Khan said he was shot four times, with two bullets hitting each of his legs, during a protest march in Pakistan on Thursday. Describing his injuries, a doctor in the room said he was hit “on the right thigh [with] two bullets” and on “the left thigh two bullets” – adding that his “left tibia was fractured”. The doctor said there was a fracture on Mr Khan’s right leg and near the main artery there were some bullet fragments. “If it was hit there, there would have been a lot of bleeding,” he said. “We…

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    • 5 November

      Boris Johnson accepts another £10,000 in accommodation from Tory donor

      Boris Johnson has accepted another £10,000 of accommodation from the Bamford family, taking their contributions to his lifestyle to almost £50,000 since he resigned as Conservative leader. The former prime minister registered the additional gift from Lady Carole Bamford, for “concessionary use of accommodation for me and my family in October”. She had previously contributed £10,000 for the Johnson family’s accommodation in September, plus an additional £3,500 for different accommodation that month. Johnson accepted the gifts despite part-owning three other homes, in Oxfordshire, London and Somerset. The Bamford family also contributed more than £23,800 towards the Johnsons’ wedding celebrations over the summer. In July, Bamford hosted Boris and Carrie Johnson as they celebrated their wedding, which had taken place during lockdown, in…

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    • 5 November

      Twitter back after brief outage for some Indian users

      Twitter suffered a brief outage for some Indian users on Friday morning and came back to life soon, as the new CEO Elon Musk prepared to sack several employees starting Friday. Twitter on mobile was working fine but users on the desktop version had some troubles logging into the platform. The Twitter website also went down for some users, with a message saying “Something went wrong, but don’t fret – let’s give it another shot”. According to downdetector.com, a website that monitors online outages, 94 per cent users had issues with Twitter on Web, while just 6 per cent faced issues with the mobile platform. In July, the micro-blogging platform suffered a mega outage as several users across the world had error messages…

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    • 5 November

      Israel polls: Netanyahu-led alliance wins majority, Lapid concedes defeat

      Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a comeback with a decisive victory in the country’s general elections, poll results showed on Thursday. As the final thousands of votes were being tallied Thursday evening, Prime Minister Yair Lapid called opposition leader Netanyahu to concede the race and congratulate him on his election victory, The Times of Israel reported. “The State of Israel is above any political considerations,” Lapid said in a statement. “I wish Netanyahu good luck for the people of Israel and the State of Israel.” Netanyahu will control not just the largest party in the Knesset (Israeli parliament), but is poised to return to power leading a 64-strong majority bloc of his religious and right-wing allies in the 120-member Knesset. Netanyahu’s right-wing…

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    • 5 November

      US risks losing talented H1-B visa holders to Canada: Study

      The US risks losing talented foreigners, particularly those married to other skilled professionals, to Canada, which grants work authorisation to spouses of all skilled foreign workers, says a new study. But granting employment authorisation to all spouses of H-1B visa holders would encourage more skilled migrants, including Indians, to choose the US over Canada, the study by National Foundation for American Policy revealed. “The US can reap significant economic benefits, ease labour shortages, and attract more workers in the global competition for talent if it expanded current rules on work eligibility for the spouses of H-1B visa holders,” the study, authored by Madeline Zavodny, said. The number of Indians who became permanent residents in Canada increased by over 115 per cent between 2016 and 2020 and…

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    • 5 November

      MEIL to build Mongolia’s first oil refinery

       Megha Engineering & Infrastructures Limited (MEIL) has received the letter of acceptance (LOA) for the Mongol Refinery Project, which entails building Mongolia’s first oil refinery. According to the EPC deal, MEIL will build this new refinery in Mongolia. MEIL will build EPC-2 (open art units, utilities and offsites, plant buildings) and EPC-3 (captive power plants) at a cost of $790 million (about Rs 6,400 crore) using advanced technology in Mongolia. The project is part of the Development Partnership Administration initiative of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) of the Government of India. It will be built using a line of credit from the Government of India. Engineers India Limited (EIL) is the project management consultant (PMC) for this G2G partnership project. In the…

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    • 5 November

      France experiences hottest October since 1945

      October 2022 was the hottest October in France since 1945, with an average temperature of 17.2 degrees Celsius, the national meteorological service Meteo-France said. The average temperature this October was about 3.5 degrees Celsius higher than normal across the country, Xinhua news agency quoted Meteo-France as saying. According to the meteorological service, the second half of October 2022 was marked by an exceptionally long and intensified heat. It added that the average temperature recorded in 30 weather stations across the country has remained above normal since October 2. This unprecedented heat was accompanied by violent thunderstorms over a large part of the country on October 23, causing significant damage, especially in the northern region, Meteo-France added. Source

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    • 5 November

      Italian economy facing downgrades amid inflation, energy concerns

      Ratings agency Moody’s has downgraded its outlook on Italy’s economy, the latest in a series of worrying signs for the country. Moody’s on Wednesday slashed its assessment of the country’s banking system from “stable” to “negative”, and said it expects conditions for the banking sector to deteriorate further over the coming 12 to 18 months, especially with regard to the performance of bank loans and broader earnings, reports Xinhua news agency. The news came in the wake of a series of downgrades in medium-term growth prospects for the economy from the Bank of Italy, the National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), business lobby organisation Confindustria, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the European Commission. In the most recent of…

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