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💿Netflix will send the last DVDs to its subscribers today, marking an end to 25 years of mailing discs in trademark red envelopes, media report.
🎁The subscribers will be reportedly allowed to keep the DVDs as a goodbye present.
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💥Explosion hits another mosque in Pakistan, leaving allegedly 30-40 people under the rubble, local media report.
🚑The death toll from the first explosion in Balochistan province has increased to 52, the Dawn newspaper reports, adding that a suicide bomber is responsible for the blast.
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🧳Nearly 89,000 residents of Nagorno-Karabakh have moved to Armenia since September 24, Armenian prime minister's spokeswoman Nazeli Baghdasaryan says.
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🌕China plans to launch its Chang'e 6 lunar exploration mission in 2024 and be the first ever to deliver soil samples from the far side of the moon, China National Space Administration says.
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⚡️Russian air defenses destroyed 11 Ukrainian drones at night: one of them over the Kaluga Region and 10 over the Kursk Region, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.
🔎“Overnight to September 29, an attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack by aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles on facilities on Russian territory was stopped. Air defense systems on duty destroyed eleven Ukrainian UAVs: one of them above the Kaluga Region and 10 above the Kursk Region,” the ministry said.
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❗️The US House Oversight Committee said in a press release that Chairman James Comer issued subpoenas for President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, and his brother James Biden seeking to obtain their personal and business records.
🔎"As part of the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) today issued three subpoenas for Hunter and James Biden’s personal and business bank records," the Committee said.
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❗️The US House of Representatives rejected an amendment to the fiscal year 2024 State Department appropriations bill blocking funds for Ukraine.
US House lawmakers on Thursday evening rejected the amendment in a vote of 90 in favor and 342 opposed.
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❗️Russia has circulated in the UN Security Council a draft statement by the Council's president calling for condemnation of last year's terrorist attack on the Nord Stream gas pipelines, Russia's First Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Dmitry Polyanskiy said on Telegram.
🔎“The Security Council condemns in the strongest terms the act of terrorism against the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines in September 2022.
"The Security Council emphasizes the importance of conducting an efficient, impartial, transparent, inclusive and thorough international investigation into all circumstances of the attack against the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines in order to identify its perpetrators, sponsors, organizers and accomplices," according to the draft statement.
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🐒 Japanese police are searching for a leg-biting monkey that attacked two residents of the Japanese city of Fukuoka, who were hospitalized with leg wounds after the animal attack.
The monkey may have come to the city from the nearby mountains, police add.
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⛽️ Senior Cuban officials have announced more blackouts amid fuel shortages, exacerbating an already complicated situation with Cuba's energy sector that could lead to further economic deterioration, Cuban magazine Havana Times reports.
The officials blame the outages on the small number of refineries and the low quality of oil supplies.
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At the Old Masters auction that will take place on October 25, the Dorotheum auction house in Vienna will present a previously unknown sketch by the Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, Raphael.
The sketch of a horse and a rider is drawn in red chalk and is one of the few known drawings from Raphael's late period, the auction house adds.
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North Korea's Minister of Foreign Economic Affairs Yoon Jong Ho has arrived in Moscow, a diplomatic source told Sputnik.
The source has not clarified the program of the visit.
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📊As many as 56% of Americans oppose impeachment hearings against US President Joe Biden related to his alleged involvement in corruption schemes and abuse of power, while 39% of respondents support the process, a new national NBC News poll reveals.
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❗️French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has passed the 2024 budget bill without a parliamentary vote, invoking Article 49.3 of the country’s constitution for the 12th time, which provoked backlash from the lawmakers.
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⚡️Irish-English actor, Sir Michael Gambon, famous for his role as Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter film series, has died at the age of 82, media report.
🏆Over his six-decade-long career in theatre, television and film, Gambon received three Olivier Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and four BAFTA Awards.
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🗣Canada needs to learn a lesson after the scandal with the honoring of a Nazi veteran in the parliament and start supporting anti-fascist initiatives, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says.
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⚡️Nagorno-Karabakh has announced the cessation of existence of the unrecognized republic effective January 1, 2024.
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❗️One teenager has been killed and 162 people sustained injuries as a result of an explosion and fire at a warehouse in Uzbekistan's capital of Tashkent, the Uzbek Health Ministry says.
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📱Indonesia has banned goods transactions on social media platforms like TikTok and Facebook (banned in Russia as extremist), as well as prohibited social media companies from doubling as e-commerce platforms to prevent misuse of public data, media report, citing trade ministry.
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📌Over 65,000 people have fled Nagorno-Karabakh for Armenia following the recent escalation in the breakaway region, the Armenian government says.
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❗️Police in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania arrested at least 20 people after large crowds looted multiple stores and damaged property across the city.
The looting began after a judge dismissed charges against a former police officer in the fatal shooting of Eddie Irazarry Jr. on August 14.
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💼Meta (banned in Russia as an extremist organization) has paid 149 million pounds ($180.9 million) to break the lease of one of its offices near the Regent's Park in London, the British Land property company says.
🖇The technology company has reportedly never used the office in 2 years since signing the lease agreement.
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⚡️US soldier Travis King is in American custody after being expelled from North Korea, a senior administration official confirms.
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🎞Russian feature film Vozdukh (Air), directed by Aleksey German Jr., has been included in the competition program of the 36th Tokyo International Film Festival.
🗓The festival will take place from October 23-November 1.
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🪧About 5,000 people have participated in a march in memory of 43 Mexican students kidnapped nine years ago, demanding an investigation into the case, Secretary of the Mexico City Government Ricardo Ruiz Suarez says.
🔍In September 2014, 43 students of the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College, known for its left-wing activism, went missing in the city of Iguala. The investigation revealed that the students had been kidnapped by the local police, handed over to criminal groups, and then supposedly killed in different places.
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⚡️The Binance cryptocurrency exchange says it has signed an agreement to sell its entire Russian business to CommEX.
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🖇Hollywood studios will retain the right to train artificial intelligence models based on the work of screenwriters, who, in return, will be guaranteed credit and compensation under the tentative labor agreement between the two sides, The Wall Street Journal reports, citing people familiar with the situation.
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‼️More than 450 people have been killed or injured by a fire at a wedding in Iraq's Ninewa governorate east of the city of Mosul, the Iraqi Red Crescent Society says.
Photo and video courtesy of the Iraqi Red Crescent Society.
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🦠As many as 394 people from 26 Japanese prefectures are believed to be poisoned by staphylococcus aureus and wax bacillus bacteria found in traditional take-out bento box meals, made by the Yoshidaya bento meals company in Aomori Prefecture, Japanese broadcaster NHK reports.
Aomori Prefecture's public health authorities have banned Yoshidaya from operating amid the incident, the report says.
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‼️As many as 28,120 people have fled Nagorno-Karabakh for Armenia after Azerbaijan launched what it called "local-level anti-terrorist activities" in the breakaway region early last week, the Armenian government says.
The authorities provide accommodation to those who have no place to live and have already housed 3,253 people.
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❗️The Costa Rican authorities have declared a national emergency against the background of an influx of migrants arriving via Panama, President Rodrigo Chaves Robles says.
The president says he ordered migration authorities to start deporting people back to Venezuela or another country of origin in the event of unrest.
In September alone, over 60,000 people trying to make it to the United States arrived in Costa Rica through the Panamanian border city of Paso Canoas, Costa Rica's officials say.
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⚡️The Writers Guild of America announces that it will end its nearly five-month strike on Wednesday after its board voted in favor of a three-year deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.
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⚽️❌ England's junior football teams will refuse to play their peers from Russia, The Times reports, citing England’s football association.
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❗️ Hunter Biden in 2019 received two payments wired from China totaling $260,000 with President Joe Biden's Delaware home listed as the beneficiary address, the House Oversight Committee said, citing records it obtained through a subpoena, ahead of impeachment proceedings set to begin on Thursday.
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🪖 UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has privately pressured German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to approve the UK selling the Eurofighter Typhoon combat jets to Saudi Arabia, the Times reports, citing sources.
Germany, as one of the jets manufacturer countries, has veto power over their sales.
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⚡️US Senators have agreed to a stopgap spending plan that includes $4.5 billion in Pentagon funds for Ukraine's military, along with another $1.65 billion in State Department aid for Kiev.
👉 The chamber is expected to begin work later tonight tonight to pass the funding measure, which also includes $6 billion for disaster relief and provides enough money to keep the US federal government open through November 17.
👉 It remains unclear, however, whether the measure can pass through the US House, where lawmakers are divided over aid for Ukraine and are demanding key border security measures.
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💵 Ireland will allocate additional $1.06 billion to fund the accommodation of refugees from Ukraine and people seeking international protection, the government has announced.
The country continues to face challenges here, with several people being housed in tents, the situation that could last well into the winter, the Irish minister for integration, Roderic O’Gorman, says as cited by The Journal newspaper.
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🔍 The British Museum has published a webpage with a rough description of the missing items, most of them being gems and pieces of jewelry, as part of its efforts to recover them.
The museum has also said that it managed to return 60 items that were missing as a result of massive thefts.
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🏆🎥 The Golden Globes has introduced two new categories for the 2024 awards — Cinematic and Box Office Achievement in Motion Pictures and Best Stand-Up Comedian on Television.
💲 The first category will include eight nominees that made more than $150 million during their release, with $100 million of which coming from the US domestic box office.
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⚡️Canadian House Speaker Anthony Rota says he will resign over the scandal surrounding a Ukrainian Nazi veteran honored in the Canadian parliament.
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❗️ Poland might request the extradition of Ukrainian Nazi veteran Yaroslav Hunka, who was honored in the Canadian parliament, if it is found that he is wanted for crimes against Poles and Polish Jews, Polish Education Minister Przemyslaw Czarnek says.
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❗️ Jordan's army says it has shot down two drug-laden drones that flew into the kingdom from Syria.
📌 Since June, the Jordanian armed forces have repeatedly reported the shooting down of drones carrying drugs and weapons that entered Jordan from Syria.
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📌Russian agriculture safety watchdog, Rosselkhoznadzor, says it is considering joining China’s restrictive measures against Japanese fish products, due to the risks of radiation contamination.
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❗️As the US presidential election campaigns pick up steam, President Biden is taking special steps to avoid falling in public, as he did in June at the Air Force Academy, Axios reports.
👟 Since his last fall, Biden has been wearing tennis shoes more often to avoid tripping, and is using the shorter staircase on Air Force One to avoid another viral stumble.
👨🔬Biden has also been working with a physical therapist since November 2021 and doing exercises to improve his balance.
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🚨The Philippines police have rescued up to 123 people from being sold into slavery to Malaysia and Indonesia, media report.
🔍The people have been reportedly discovered on one of the islands in the Philippine province of Sulu under the influence of strong drugs.
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💱The Turkish national currency has fallen to a new historical low of 27.5 liras against the US dollar, trading data shows.
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