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☆ South Korea declares war on bedbugs after surge in reported cases
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Yoonjung Seo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Seoul, South Korea CNN —South Korea has become the latest country to declare war on bedbugs following a wave of outbreaks, with bathhouses, university dorms, and train stations across the country on high alert. Previously, the country had been practically free of bedbugs following past extermination campaigns, with just nine infestations being reported to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention (KDCA) since 2014. Meanwhile, pest control companies say they have become inundated with phone calls asking for help. “Bedbugs are developing resistance to the insecticides that we commonly use, so the most effective solution these days is heating. “Early and proactive responses are crucial.”In its “Bedbug Prevention and Response Guidelines,” the Seoul City Government advises people against bringing items with a risk of infestation into their homes.

Persons: “, ”, Eom Hae, Eom, Yoo, Lee, hasn’t, Lee Hee, ” Lee, It’s, Yang Nam, kyung Organizations: South Korea CNN, Korea Disease Control, South, bedbugs, Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University, Seoul City Government Locations: Seoul, South Korea, Korea, France, United Kingdom, United States, Pest, Incheon, City

[1/2] India's Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal takes part at the panel discussion "Trade: Now what?" during the World Economic Forum 2022 (WEF) in the Alpine resort of Davos, Switzerland May 25, 2022. This meeting is to ensure that talks between India and Tesla "are moving in the right direction," the person added. Prime Minister Modi's office held a meeting with various ministries on Monday to expedite the new EV policy, said a third source. Reporting by Aditya Kalra, Aditi Shah and Shivangi Acharya; Editing by Chizu NomiyamaOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Piyush Goyal, Arnd, Elon Musk, Narendra Modi, Tesla, Aditya Kalra, Aditi Shah, Shivangi, Chizu Organizations: India's, REUTERS, Tesla, Indian, Reuters, U.S, EV, Thomson Locations: Davos, Switzerland, DELHI, United States, U.S, India

[1/4] Portugal's Prime Minister Antonio Costa attends the informal meeting of European heads of state or government, in Granada, Spain October 6, 2023. REUTERS/Juan Medina/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsLISBON, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa resigned on Tuesday, just hours after prosecutors detained his chief of staff in a probe into alleged corruption in his administration's handling of lithium mining and hydrogen projects. Costa, who prosecutors said was the target of a separate investigation, announced the decision in a televised statement after meeting President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa. Over 40 searches were carried out on Tuesday at several government buildings, including Escaria's office and the infrastructure and environment ministries, the prosecutor's office said. "At stake may be ... facts capable of constituting crimes of malfeasance, active and passive corruption of politicians and influence peddling," the prosecutor's office said.

Persons: Antonio Costa, Juan Medina, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, Costa, Rebelo de Sousa, Vitor Escaria, Joao Galamba, Nuno Lacasta, Catarina Demony, Patricia Rua, Sergio Goncalves, Andrei Khalip, Emelia Organizations: Portugal's, REUTERS, Rights, Costa's Socialists, of State, TAP, APA, Prosecutors, Thomson Locations: Granada, Spain, Rights LISBON, Portuguese, Costa, Portugal, Sines

☆ British fiscal headroom an 'illusion' that will not leave room for tax cuts, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Hannah McKay/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsLONDON, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Extra fiscal headroom as a result of higher inflation is illusory and will not give any space for tax cuts when British Finance Minister Jeremy Hunt gives a fiscal update later this month, a think tank report said on Monday. The Resolution Foundation's analysis said that higher tax receipts and lower borrowing - both a result of sticky inflation - would increase Britain's fiscal headroom by 13 billion pounds ($16.09 billion), but added this was based on "implausible" public spending plans. That higher inflation is affecting public spending. Public spending will also have to increase more than is currently forecast to protect the budgets of some ministries in real terms in the coming years, the think-tank said. "It's increasingly clear that spending plans pencilled in for after the next election cannot be delivered," Smith said.

Persons: Jeremy Hunt, James, Suella Braverman, Hannah McKay, Hunt, James Smith, Smith, Alistair Smout, Sharon Singleton Organizations: Conservative, REUTERS, British, The Bank of England, Foundation, Thomson Locations: Manchester, Britain

☆ A Chance Encounter and a Fugitive Linked to a President’s Killing Is Caught
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-05 | by ( David C. Adams | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

A senior Haitian police official was shopping at his local supermarket on a recent weekday when someone caught his eye: the country’s most wanted man. The official, Ernst Dorfeuille, recognized Joseph Félix Badio, a former military officer who had focused on drug and corruption cases at the interior and justice ministries, immediately because he had once worked with him. Now Mr. Badio was a fugitive, the target of a warrant seeking to question him about the key role the police say he played in an infamous crime: the assassination of Haiti’s president, Jovenel Moïse, in July 2021. Mr. Dorfeuille summoned help, and within minutes, four police officers armed with assault rifles arrived and detained Mr. Badio as he was about to drive away from the supermarket outside Haiti’s capital.

Persons: Ernst Dorfeuille, Joseph Félix Badio, Badio, Jovenel Moïse, Dorfeuille Organizations: Haitian Locations: Haiti’s

Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Lawrence Wong delivers the Singapore Energy Lecture during the 15th Singapore International Energy Week, in Singapore October 25, 2022. REUTERS/Isabel Kua/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsSINGAPORE, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Sunday said he will hand leadership of the ruling People's Action Party to Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong as soon as the party's 70th anniversary in November 2024, a year before an election is due. He has served as party secretary-general and prime minister since 2004 and last year chose Wong, who is also finance minister, as his successor. Therefore, I intend to hand over to DPM Lawrence before the next general election," Lee said at an annual party conference. He served as Lee's principal private secretary from 2005 to 2008 and led the education and national development ministries before becoming finance minister in 2021 and deputy prime minister last year.

Persons: Finance Lawrence Wong, Isabel Kua, Lee Hsien Loong, Lawrence Wong, Wong, Lee, Lee Kuan Yew, DPM Lawrence, Walid Jumblatt Abdullah, Chong Ja Ian, Chen Lin, Michael Perry, Christopher Cushing Organizations: Finance, Singapore Energy, Singapore International Energy, REUTERS, Rights, Singapore Prime, Party, Monetary Authority of, Nanyang Technological University, Still, National University of Singapore, Thomson Locations: Singapore, Rights SINGAPORE, Lawrence, Monetary Authority of Singapore

Nov 2 (Reuters) - Air pollution, a global scourge that kills millions of people a year, is shielding us from the full force of the sun. "It's this Catch-22," said Patricia Quinn, an atmospheric chemist at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), speaking about cleaning up sulphur pollution globally. "If you implement technologies to reduce air pollution, this will accelerate – very significantly – global warming in the short term." The Chinese and Indian environment ministries didn't immediately respond to requests for comment on the effects of pollution unmasking. As the implications of the pollution unmasking become more apparent, experts are casting around for methods to counter the associated warming.

Persons: poring, Patricia Quinn, Paulo Artaxo, Xi Jinping, Xi, El, Yangyang Xu, Xu, unmasking, Laura Wilcox, COVID, Sergey Osipov, Michael Diamond, Jake Spring, David Stanway, Sakshi Dayal, Katy Daigle Organizations: U.S . National Oceanic, Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, Reuters, World Health Organization, U.S . Clean, National People's, China Meteorological Administration, El Nino, M University, Britain's University of Reading, India Meteorological Department, India, Clean, Programme, King Abdullah University of Science, Technology, Florida State University, Thomson Locations: India, China, Beijing, 10.34C, Texas, Chongqing, Wuhan, SO2, heatwaves, Xinjiang, INDIA, Europe, Northern China, U.S, Saudi Arabia, Sao Paulo, Singapore, New Delhi

It won five cabinet positions in the three-party coalition, including the powerful economy and foreign ministries. And a host of missteps that some even within the party concede has stalled the Greens’ momentum. Today the Greens are widely viewed as a drag on the government of the Social Democratic chancellor, Olaf Scholz, which one poll gave a mere 19 percent approval rating. The Greens have drawn withering attacks from even their own coalition partners. To their opponents, the Greens have overreached on their agenda and become the face of an out-of-touch environmental elitism that has alienated many voters, sending droves to the far right.

Persons: Olaf Scholz Organizations: Germany’s Green Party, Greens, Social Democratic Locations: Ukraine

☆ Indonesia, Vietnam energy transition financing under G7-funded plans
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

South Africa was the first country to reach a deal under the JETP, securing a $8.5 billion financing pledge in 2021. Indonesia secured a pledge of $20 billion and Vietnam $15.5 billion in deals struck in late 2022. Without the plan, Indonesia's greenhouse gas emissions are expected to reach more than 350 million tons in 2030. How would the JETP financing be arranged? G7 donors as well as Norway and Denmark have pledged a total $10 billion public financing for Indonesia while the remaining $10 billion will come from public financing.

Persons: they'll, Quoc Khanh, Fransiska Nangoy, Khanh Vu, Francesco Guarascio, Robert Birsel Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Climate, Asian Development Bank, Natural Resources, Reuters, European Union, Thomson Locations: Hanoi, Rights JAKARTA, HANOI, Indonesia, Vietnam, Africa, Senegal, INDONESIA Indonesia, Norway, Denmark, VIETNAM, EU

☆ House Speaker Mike Johnson partnered with anti-gay conversion therapy group before he became a politician
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Andrew Kaczynski | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Speaker of the House Mike Johnson closely collaborated with a group in the mid-to-late 2000s that promoted “conversion therapy,” a discredited practice that asserted it could change the sexual orientation of gay and lesbian individuals. Founded in 1976, Exodus International was a leader in the so-called “ex-gay” movement, which aimed to make gay individuals straight through conversion therapy programs using religious and counseling methods. Exodus International connected ministries across the world using these controversial approaches. At the time, Johnson worked as an attorney for the socially conservative legal advocacy group, Alliance Defense Fund (ADF). The Day of Truth sought to counter that silence by distributing information about what Johnson described as the “dangerous” gay lifestyle.

Persons: Mike Johnson, Johnson, ”, Exodus, Truth, ” Johnson, “, God, ” Wayne Besen, ” Randy Scobey, Scobey, ” Scobey Organizations: CNN, International, Alliance Defense Fund, ADF, Lesbian Straight Education Network, Louisiana Republican, ADF’s, Exodus, Alliance Defense, Alliance Defending Locations: Louisiana, Roman, Rome

☆ Montenegro votes in new government with Milojko Spajic prime minister
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/5] Members of 44th Montenegrin government pose for a family photo in front of the parliament in Podgorica, Montenegro, October 31, 2023. The new government, led by economist Milojko Spajic of the Europe Now Movement, will have 18 ministries and five deputy-prime ministers. It will include the centre-right pro-European Democrats, the pro-Serbian Socialist People's Party and five parties of the Albanian minority. Montenegro joined NATO in 2017, a year after a botched coup attempt that the then government blamed on Russian agents and Serbian nationalists. After Russia's invasion of Ukraine last year, Montenegro, unlike Serbia, joined EU sanctions against Moscow, sent aid to Ukraine and expelled a number of Russian diplomats.

Persons: Stevo, Milojko Spajic, Spajic, Andrija Mandic, Aleksandar Vasovic, Robert Birsel Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, European Union, European Democrats, Serbian Socialist People's Party, NATO, World Bank, EU, Moscow, Thomson Locations: Montenegrin, Podgorica, Montenegro, Rights PODGORICA, Europe, Serbian, Russia, Serbia, Ukraine

☆ Opinion | The Memories That Feed Distrust in the Middle East
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Zeynep Tufekci | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +10 min

His pained voice turned to anger when he recounted encountering disbelief that Hamas committed terrible atrocities when it attacked Israel. Indeed, since Hamas did murder children and take others as hostages, should it get credit if it didn’t also behead them? But if the U.S. response after Sept. 11 is a model, it is as a model of what not to do. After the attacks, the United States received deep global sympathy. In the Middle East, the devastating aftermath of that war — justified by false claims — has never ended.

Persons: Moshe Lavi, Lavi, there’s, Biden, didn’t, that’s, ”, Bush, —, Peter Lerner, Saddam Hussein, Saddam, Benjamin Netanyahu Organizations: Hamas, New York Times, United Nations, Britain’s Sky, United, Iraqi Army, The New York Times, Guardian, Israeli Defense Forces, Hamas’s Naval Police, Naval Force, Amnesty International, Kuwaiti, American, Rights, Amnesty, West Bank Locations: Israel, Gaza, Iraq, U.S, United States, Abu Ghraib, People, Israeli, Kuwait, Vietnam, Kuwaiti

☆ China kickstarts Xiangshan Forum in absence of defence minister
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-29 | by ( Yew Lun Tian | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

BEIJING, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Beijing Xiangshan Forum, China's biggest annual show of military diplomacy, started on Sunday although the Asian power is still missing a defence minister, who typically hosts this event. Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu is listed in the forum's agenda as the first guest speaker at Monday's opening ceremony. This year's forum takes place at an awkward time for China when it is without a defence minister, whose main role is to engage with foreign militaries. On Tuesday, Beijing sacked its defence minister Li Shangfu but did not name a replacement. Chinese military leaders more senior than the defence minister have filled in for Li.

Persons: Xi, Sergei Shoigu, Li Shangfu, Li, Zhang Youxia, Weidong, Zhao Yufei, Wendin Smith, Yew Lun Tian, Laurie Chen, Philip Blenkinsop Organizations: Beijing Xiangshan, Russian, Xanthi, China, Defense, Reuters, Xinhua, NATO, Thomson Locations: BEIJING, Beijing, China, United States, Russia, Ukraine, U.S, Xanthi Carras, Li, State, Laos, Mongolia, Vietnam, Singapore, France, Brussels

For many of the university chaplains and faith leaders caring for students angered and shaken by the Israel-Hamas war, the needs are acute, the days intense. “Muslim students are walking around scared, just like the Jewish students are walking around scared,” Reed said. Chaplains say some students have been feeling alienated, marginalized, hurt or intimidated by the rhetoric and positions of some administrators, faculty members or other students. Levine and his wife hosted local Jewish alumni and graduate students to provide community and a space to grieve. “There’s not enough time in the day to give all the students the support that they need,” he said.

Persons: Kaiser Aslam, Israel, Rabbi Esther Reed, Rutgers Hillel, ” Reed, They’ve, Tahera Ahmad, ”, Ahmad, “, Daniel Levine, ” He’s, Levine, “ There’s, “ We’re, “ Don’t, Don’t, Aslam, He’s, it’s, Rabbi Reed, ” Hillel, “ It’s, Reed, she’s, “ it’s Organizations: Center for Islamic Life, Rutgers University, Rutgers, Northwestern University, Orange County Hillel, University of California, Jewish, Lilly Endowment Inc, AP Locations: Israel, United States, Gaza, Palestine, Orange, California, Irvine, Gaza —

☆ China Kickstarts Xiangshan Forum in Absence of Defence Minister
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-28 | by ( Oct. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +3 min

By Yew Lun TianBEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing Xiangshan Forum, China's biggest annual show of military diplomacy, started on Sunday although the Asian power is still missing a defence minister, who typically hosts this event. Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu is listed in the forum's agenda as the first guest speaker at Monday's opening ceremony. This year's forum takes place at an awkward time for China when it is without a defence minister, whose main role is to engage with foreign militaries. On Tuesday, Beijing sacked its defence minister Li Shangfu but did not name a replacement. Chinese military leaders more senior than the defence minister have filled in for Li.

Persons: Lun Tian, Xi, Sergei Shoigu, Li Shangfu, Li, Zhang Youxia, Weidong, Zhao Yufei, Wendin Smith, Yew Lun Tian, Laurie Chen, Philip Blenkinsop Organizations: Beijing Xiangshan, Russian, Xanthi, China, Defense, Reuters, Xinhua, NATO Locations: Lun Tian BEIJING, Beijing, China, United States, Russia, Ukraine, U.S, Xanthi Carras, Li, State, Laos, Mongolia, Vietnam, Singapore, France, Brussels

☆ House Speaker Mike Johnson did work for a 'crisis pregnancy' center that used a van to find pregnant women
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Katie Hawkinson | Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Newly elected Speaker Mike Johnson was the bookkeeper for a crisis pregnancy center, IRS forms show. Crisis pregnancy centers have a history of spreading medical misinformation. Crisis pregnancy centers, or pregnancy resource centers, aim to stop people who are pregnant from seeking abortions by promoting adoption and parenting skills. Imagine Life Ministries noted on its website that many women "have never heard of pregnancy centers or the resources offered there." Imagine Life Ministries did not designate itself under that category in any filings since its founding.

Persons: Mike Johnson, Johnson, —, van, they're, who's, Kevin McCarthy's, he's Organizations: Service, Internal Revenue, Inc, Liberty University, Human Locations: Louisiana, Virginia

☆ Kids are attending pro-Palestine protests on Roblox
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Kids are attending pro-Palestine protests on Roblox in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war, and so far, a pro-Palestine virtual protest has been visited more than 275,000 times. Malaysia has been the site of pro-Palestine protests, and the country's prime minister, Anwar Ibrahim, recently criticized Israel's air strikes in the Gaza Strip. About 45% of Roblox users are 12 years old or younger, according to Roblox data from December 2022, and 60% of users were 16 or younger. Social media comments viewed by CNBC seemed to show parents saying that their daughters and sons had joined, or planned on joining, the experience on Roblox. A Roblox spokesperson confirmed to CNBC that the experience "did appear on our platform," adding that the protest showcased in viral videos was one of multiple pro-Palestine protests on Roblox that the company is aware of.

Persons: Anwar Ibrahim, Roblox Organizations: Palestine, Solidarity, Google Translate, CNBC, Palestinian, Israeli Defense Forces, West Bank Locations: Israel, Palestine, Malaysia, Gaza, Malaysian, Palestinian

☆ Kids are attending pro-Palestinian protests on Roblox
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Kids are attending pro-Palestinian protests on Roblox in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war, and so far, a pro-Palestinian virtual protest has been visited more than 275,000 times. Malaysia has been the site of pro-Palestinian protests, and the country's prime minister, Anwar Ibrahim, recently criticized Israel's air strikes in the Gaza Strip. About 45% of Roblox users are 12 years old or younger, according to Roblox data from December 2022, and 60% of users were 16 or younger. A Roblox spokesperson confirmed to CNBC that the experience "did appear on our platform," adding that the protest showcased in viral videos was one of multiple pro-Palestinian protests on Roblox that the company is aware of. Clarification: Pro-Palestinian supporters have taken to Roblox to protest the Israel-Hamas war.

Persons: Anwar Ibrahim, Roblox Organizations: Solidarity, Google Translate, CNBC, Palestinian, Israeli Defense Forces, West Bank Locations: Israel, Palestine, Malaysia, Gaza, Malaysian, Palestinian, Roblox

☆ Israel's Netanyahu, Fending off Critics, Says There's 'Clear Unity of Purpose' With Defence Chiefs
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Oct. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +4 min

Netanyahu, Israel's longest serving prime minister, has seen his already falling approval ratings plunge following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, which killed some 1,400 people in the deadliest day for Israel in its 75-year history. "It has deeply impeded the need to focus on the war and on making decisions, including painful decisions. "Between Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Minister of Defense and the Chief of Staff there is complete and mutual trust and a clear unity of purpose," the statement said. In the wake of the Oct. 7 attack, Netanyahu invited former Defence Minister Benny Gantz, who leads one of the centrist opposition parties, to join his war cabinet as part of an emergency unity government. But his own personal standing, already clouded by a corruption trial on charges which he denies, has been badly damaged and a recent poll showed Gantz was now a far more popular choice as prime minister.

Persons: James Mackenzie JERUSALEM, Benjamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu, Israel's, Yedioth, Israel, Haim Bibas, Benny Gantz, Gantz, James Mackenzie, Nick Macfie Organizations: of Defense, Gaza, Channel Locations: Hamas, Gaza, Israel, Egypt, Syria, United States, Modiin

☆ Israel's Netanyahu, fending off critics, says there's 'clear unity of purpose' with defence chiefs
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( James Mackenzie | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu, Israel's, Yedioth, Israel, Haim Bibas, Benny Gantz, Gantz, James Mackenzie, Nick Macfie Organizations: of Defense, Gaza, Channel, Thomson Locations: Hamas, Gaza, Israel, Egypt, Syria, United States, Modiin

☆ China has stolen more personal and corporate information than every other country in the world combined, FBI director says
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

He told 60 Minutes that China has stolen more US data "than every nation, big or small, combined." Stolen more of our personal and corporate data than every nation, big or small, combined," Wray told 60 Minutes' Scott Pelley in an interview that aired on Sunday. Wray told Pelley China's intelligence work poses a significant threat to the US. "You seem to be saying that the Chinese government is running a criminal enterprise," Pelley told Wray during the interview. In a statement to 60 Minutes, China said it "firmly oppose the groundless allegations and smears" by the news program's interviewees.

Persons: Christopher Wray, Wray, —, Scott Pelley, Pelley, that's, Wang Wenbin, Wang, Richard Moore, Moore, Politico's Anne McElvoy . Organizations: Service, Street Journal, China's, Journal, Embassy, Foreign Ministry, China's Foreign Locations: China, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Cuba, Washington

☆ Argentines Vote to Choose President in Country Hard Hit by Economic Crisis
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-22 | by ( Ryan Dubé | Silvina Frydlewsky | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Election workers prepared for Sunday’s elections at a school on the outskirts of Buenos Aires to be used as a polling station. Photo: Mariana Nedelcu/ReutersBUENOS AIRES—Argentines began voting Sunday for a new president amid a grueling economic crisis marked by triple-digit inflation and growing poverty that is fueling political upheaval in the agricultural powerhouse. Leading the polls is Javier Milei, a libertarian economist and outsider who has tapped into voter anger at the political establishment with pledges to dismantle what he derides as Argentina’s “political caste.” He has promised to close ministries as part of his plan to slash public spending and replace the peso currency with the dollar to bring 138% inflation to heel in Latin America’s third-biggest economy.

Persons: Mariana Nedelcu, Javier Milei Organizations: Reuters, Reuters BUENOS AIRES — Locations: Buenos Aires, Reuters BUENOS AIRES

CNN —Polls have closed in Argentina’s presidential elections, with the leading candidates highlighting sharp contrasts between the country’s political center and its margins amid a severe economic crisis. Inflation in Argentina has soared to 138%, Reuters reports, piling pressure on ordinary people trying to manage the cost of living. Bullrich holds up her marked ballot before putting it into the ballot box during primary elections in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023. Massa speaks to the press after voting at the polling station in Tigre, Buenos Aires, during the presidential election on October 22, 2023. Milei greets supporters before voting during general elections in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023.

Persons: Javier Milei, Patricia Bullrich, Sergio Massa, “, ” Laura Celiz, Alberto Fernández, ”, Bullrich, Gustavo Garello, Fabiana Cantilo, Massa, Emiliano Lasalvia, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Milei, Rodrigo Abd, Milei’s Organizations: CNN, YouTube, Getty, International Monetary Fund, Milei Locations: Argentina, Buenos Aires, Tigre, AFP

☆ Israel did not bomb that hospital, according to the latest intelligence. It's a reminder that in war, all sides engage in propaganda.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-22 | by ( Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Israel was blamed for bombing a hospital in Gaza. The incident serves as a reminder that, in war, all sides engage in propaganda. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . First, the fog of war, paired with social media, is a recipe for inaccuracy.

Persons: Israel, —, Shireen Abu Akleh, Putin, Vlad, Hananya Naftali Organizations: Service, Ahli Arab Hospital, Watch, Israel Defense Forces, West Bank, UN, Bellingcat, Associated Press, Hamas, IDF Locations: Gaza, Ahli, American, Jenin, Israel, Kharkiv, Russia, Ukraine, Syria, Palestinian

☆ Mired in economic crisis, Argentines weigh whether to hand reins to anti-establishment populist
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-22 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Argentines were going to the polls Sunday, as frustrated voters weigh handing the presidency to an anti-establishment, right-wing populist who has shaken up the political system and pledges to drastically overhaul the state. "Argentina is in for a wild ride," Benjamin Gedan, director of the Latin America program at the Washington-based Wilson Center, said. Whatever the results, Milei has already inserted himself and his libertarian party into a political structure dominated by a center-left and a center-right coalition for almost two decades. Argentines were also buying dollars and removing hard currency deposits from banks as the peso accelerated its already steady depreciation. That message resonated among many Argentines who watched their economic prospects wither under successive administrations in which both Massa and Bullrich served.

Persons: Javier Milei, Donald Trump, Benjamin Gedan, Milei, Patricia Bullrich, Sergio Massa, Massa, Bullrich, Ignacio Cardozo, Cristian Ariel Jacobsen, Jair, Eduardo, Tucker Carlson admiringly, Daniel Noboa Organizations: U.S ., America, Wilson Center, Former, Economy, Massa, Vox, Fox News, Trump Locations: Argentina, Washington, South, Buenos Aires, Ecuador

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