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China is flooding Taiwan with disinformation: With elections looming, China wants Taiwanese voters to think America is their greatest threat ( www.economist.com )

New Covid vaccines are on the way as 'Eris' variant rises ( www.reuters.com )

Some public health experts hope that Americans will welcome the new shot as they would a flu jab. But demand for the vaccine has dropped sharply since 2021 when it first became available and more than 240 million people in the U.S., or 73% of the population, received at least one shot....

Lush paid managers £5m in bonuses after taking £5m in state support ( www.theguardian.com )

5 things to know about the latest charges against Donald Trump ( www.npr.org )

Former President Donald Trump was indicted Tuesday on charges he participated in a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election results — an effort that reached a bloody crescendo as his supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021....

Video of Palestinians stripped, forced to sit outside by IDF soldiers raises ire ( abcnews.go.com )

China is slowly erasing Tibet's name ( feddit.de )

Cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/5651275...

Top UN official in New York steps down citing ‘genocide’ of Palestinian civilians ( www.theguardian.com )

Craig Mokhiber, director of human rights body, accuses the US, UK and much of Europe as ‘wholly complicit in the horrific assault’

Anti-corruption presidential candidate assassinated at campaign event in Ecuador's capital ( apnews.com )

Divers willing to go ‘Whenever, Wherever’ save dog named Shakira from bat-infested cave ( ca.sports.yahoo.com )

Sunak's family firm signed a billion-dollar deal with BP before PM opened new North Sea licences ( www.thelondoneconomic.com )

A firm founded by Rishi Sunak’s father-in-law signed a billion-dollar deal with BP two months before the prime minister opened hundreds of new licences for oil and gas extraction in the North Sea....

The African Union is joining the G20, a powerful acknowledgement of a continent of 1 billion people ( abcnews.go.com )

Spotify spotted prepping a $19.99/mo 'Superpremium' service with lossless audio, AI playlists and more | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )

US proposes January start for Trump election trial ( www.reuters.com )

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday asked a federal judge to begin former President Donald Trump’s trial on charges of trying to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden on Jan. 2, 2024....

Spotify to phase out service in Uruguay following new copyright bill requiring ‘fair and equitable remuneration’ ( www.theguardian.com )

Thousands stranded at burning man ( www.npr.org )

Unions are the strongest in decades. Nearly a million Americans got double-digit raises as a result ( www.cnn.com )

Nearly 900,000 Americans sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner this week will have unions – and the double-digit pay increases they won – to thank....

Matthew Perry dead ( www.tmz.com )

France bans all pro-Palestinian demonstrations ( www.bbc.com )

Five former Ubisoft executives arrested after sexual harassment investigation ( www.gamesindustry.biz )

"The West turned its gaze away from Iran, but the cruelties continued" - rights activist reminds the world on a regime still torturing its citizens ( www.euronews.com )

“Prisoners have been tortured into confessing, and if physical torture didn’t work, interrogators would threaten their families. Many women have reported being raped whilst in prison,” writes civil rights activist Nasrin Parvaz.

Nepal bans TikTok and says it disrupts social harmony ( apnews.com )

Israel intensifies ground and air strikes on nearly cut-off Gaza while UN denounces 'war crimes' in conflict for first time and warns many will soon starve to death ( english.elpais.com )

“In the beginning, people could go to the market or to the stores. Now, no more. Stores have empty shelves. People are struggling to get food, but there are already people starving in Gaza,” warns Nebal Farsakh, spokesman for the Palestinian Red Crescent, speaking over the phone....

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