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      30 October

      Iranian police busts fraud gang for study abroad scams

      Tehran: Iranian police have announced that they have arrested key members of a gang, who had swindled millions of dollars from people, on the pretense of sending them to study in foreign universities. In an intelligence operation, Iranian police identified and arrested the swindlers who used extensive social media advertising to claim they could send students to Turkey to study medicine, state media outlet quoted police spokesman Mehdi Hajian as saying on Saturday. The scammers deceitfully assured applicants that they would be admitted to Turkish universities by sending them phony student identity cards and admission papers through the internet, according to the state media outlet report. The gang used the same scheme to defraud 200 people out of $6.25 million…

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    • 30 October

      151 killed, 82 injured in Halloween stampede in Seoul’s Itaewon

      Seoul: At least 151 people have been killed while 82 others were injured in a deadly stampede in Seoul‘s Itaewon district as huge crowds of partygoers, many in their late teens and 20s, converged in the entertainment district for late-night Halloween celebrations. The deadliest stampede in South Korea’s history happened on Saturday night in a narrow downhill alley near Hamilton Hotel in the famous nightlife district after tens of thousands of people visited the area for Halloween, Yonhap news agency reported. As of 9 a.m. Sunday, a total of 151 people, including 19 foreigners, have been killed and 82 others injured, 19 of them seriously, according to Choi Seong-beom, head of the fire department in Yongsan, which includes Itaewon. Of the deceased, 97 are…

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    • 30 October

      New Zealand PM Ardern delayed in Antarctica after plane breaks down

      New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern spent an extra night Friday at the country’s research station in Antarctica after the military aircraft she was meant to be travelling back to New Zealand on broke down. Ardern has been in Antarctica meeting with the country’s scientists and visiting sites of historical importance while promoting the need for cooperation in the region. A spokeswoman for the prime minister said on Saturday that Ardern and those travelling with her are due to return Saturday on an Italian C-13 Hercules military aircraft. Ardern flew on a U.S. military plane to Antarctica after her first flight had to turn back mid-flight due to bad weather. New Zealand is one of seven countries, including Australia, France…

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    • 30 October

      ‘Try harder’: UK PM Rishi Sunak confronted by patient over nurses’ pay

      British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was challenged by an elderly patient at a London hospital on Friday who told him it was “a pity” the government did not pay nurses more and he must “try harder”. Earlier this month more than 300,000 members of Britain’s largest nursing union began voting on taking strike action in a dispute over pay which is lagging soaring levels of inflation, the biggest ballot in its 106-year history. The female patient told the prime minister he must “look after” the state-run National Health Service (NHS) and do more to support nurses, during a visit to a hospital in Croydon in south London. Sunak became Britain’s third prime minister in two months this week and his government…

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    • 30 October

      US, UK, Russia, China to France, countries flag use of drones, cryptocurrency

      The threat posed by drones, terror funding through cryptocurrency and the use of internet by terrorist outfits were among the key concerns raised Saturday at the UN Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Committee meeting in New Delhi. Government representatives and experts from multiple countries expressed their views on the use of emerging technologies by terrorists. At the end of the two-day meeting, the Delhi Declaration of the CTC took note of the threats and called on members to take measures to counter them. The declaration expressed “deep concern that terrorism… has become more diffuse… aided by terrorists’ adaptation to, and the use of new and emerging technologies… while recognizing that innovations in technology may offer significant counter-terrorism opportunities.” It noted with “additional…

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    • 30 October

      Russia and Ukraine exchange around 50 prisoners of war

      On Saturday, Russia and Ukraine carried out the most recent in a string of prisoner-of-war swaps, returning roughly 50 prisoners on each side, according to officials in Moscow and Kyiv.  52 captives, including soldiers, sailors, border guards, members of the national guard, and physicians, were claimed to have returned by Ukraine’s military intelligence directorate.  It stated that other exchanges were in the works but provided no further information. According to the Russian defence ministry, after negotiations, Ukraine turned over 50 prisoners of war.  A prisoner swap with Ukraine was also announced earlier on Saturday by Denis Pushilin, the Moscow-backed leader of the Donetsk region, one of the four Ukrainian territories that Russia unilaterally annexed last month.  He said that 50…

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    • 30 October

      ‘Social media turning into toolkit for terror’

      India on Saturday highlighted the potential for misuse of transformative technologies such as encrypted messaging and virtual currencies by non-state actors, with external affairs minister S Jaishankar calling for stronger global efforts to combat their use by terrorists. Internet and social media have turned into “potent instruments in the toolkit of terrorist and militant groups” for spreading radicalisation and conspiracy theories, he said. Jaishankar made the pitch in his keynote address at a special meeting of the UN Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) hosted by India. The meet focused on countering terrorist exploitation of ICT, internet and social media, threats related to new payment technologies and use of unmanned aerial systems (UASs) by terrorists. Jaishankar said terrorist groups, their “ideological…

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    • 30 October

      Frankfurt airport workers found a body in the landing gear of a Lufthansa plane after it arrived from Tehran

      Airport workers found a body in the landing gear of a Lufthansa plane on Thursday, police told CNN.The Airbus jet had arrived from the Iranian capital of Tehran, police said. Airport workers found a dead body in the undercarriage of a Lufthansa jet that had arrived from Iran on Thursday morning, reports say. Employees at Frankfurt airport found the body of a male in the landing gear of a Lufthansa jet that had arrived from Tehran during a routine maintenance check at 5:30 a.m. local time, police told CNN. Bild, which first reported the news, said the workers found a mask and an oxygen tank beside the body, per police information. “We can confirm that during the routine check of a…

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    • 30 October

      Seoul Halloween crush kills 146, injures 150 – Graphic content warning.

      Here’s what we know so far… If you’re just joining us, this is what we know so far: At least 146 people have died in a crush in South Korea’s capital SeoulAnother 150 have been injured – it is possible these numbers will change againThe accident happened in a popular nightlife area in the first Halloween event since the pandemicIt is not clear what triggered the crushAn emergency meeting is being held by the South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol 🔴🇰🇷NUIT D’HORREUR À SÉOUL – Les pompiers sud-coréens affirment intervenir sur une centaine de victimes potentielles dans le quartier d’Itaewon. Des dizaines de massages cardiaques sont effectués simultanément (Yonhap). pic.twitter.com/mQ0Q46xZRl— 🌐Le Globe (@LeGlobe_info) October 29, 2022 My deepest condolences to all…

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    • 29 October

      Canada confirms 1,435 monkeypox cases

      Ottawa:Canada has confirmed 1,435 cases of monkeypox, including 42 hospitalisations, health authoties announced. The Public Health Agency of Canada said on Friday that of the confirmed cases, 684 are from Ontario, 524 from Quebec, 175 from British Columbia, 41 from Alberta, six from Saskatchewan, two from the Yukon and one each from Nova Scotia, Manitoba and New Brunswick, reports Xinhua news agency. Monkeypox cases remain low in Canada and there have been 24 new cases for the past three weeks. Second doses of the monkeypox vaccine are rolling out in the country. The National Advisory Committee on Immunization recommended monkeypox vaccine to be used as a preventative, two-dose vaccine for those at risk of exposure, with the second dose, only for people who…

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