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Cuba Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage in New Family Code
Voa News 27 Sep 2022
Cubans have voted in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage in a groundbreaking national referendum, the country's National Electoral Council announced Monday. Voters in Sunday’s referendum approved a new 100-page family code ... On Monday, President Miguel Díaz-Canel celebrated the measure's passage, tweeting, "Love is now the law." ... .
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TikTok could face £27m fine for failing to protect children’s privacy
The Observer 26 Sep 2022
TikTok is facing the prospect of a £27m fine for failing to protect the privacy of children, the UK’s data watchdog has said. An investigation conducted by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found the video-sharing app may have breached data protection law between May 2018 and July 2020 ... He said the ICO had several ongoing investigations ... .
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Arizona woman smuggled hundreds of illegal immigrants across border for 15K each: police
New York Post 26 Sep 2022photo: White House / Erin Scott
Psaki : If midterms are a ‘referendum’ on Biden, Democrats are doomed
New York Post 26 Sep 2022
Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki bluntly admitted that if the November midterm elections are a “referendum” on President Biden, the Democrats will lose. Psaki, who left the White House in May to take a job at MSNBC, said if the midterms focus on the “most extreme” party, mentioning Republican Georgia Rep ... Gov ... ....
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UN meeting produces sense that a 'new epoch' is arriving
Times Union 27 Sep 2022
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The war in Ukraine and its global fallout transfixed the meeting of world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly this year. When it wasn’t out front, it lurked in the background of virtually every speech ... And U.N ... He warned of starvation, destabilization of nations, riots, and mass migration if help doesn't arrive quickly ... U.S ... ___.
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Denmark reports leak in Russian Nord Stream 2 offshore gas pipeline
Anadolu Agency 27 Sep 2022
Danish authorities reported a gas leak Monday from the defunct Nord Stream 2 pipeline close to the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea, according to Interfax news agency ... The coast services have set up a 5-nautical-mile security zone as a security measure," Interfax reported ... .
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Japan honours assassinated Abe at controversial funeral
Manila Bulletin 27 Sep 2022
TOKYO, Japan – Thousands of Japanese and foreign dignitaries gather in Tokyo on Tuesday to honour assassinated former prime minister Shinzo Abe, at a rare state funeral that has sparked controversy and protest ... The ceremony for Abe, held at the Nippon Budokan in central Tokyo, is expected to cost at least 1.7 billion yen (12 million USD) ... .
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Erdogan vows to protect Turkey’s rights against Greece
TeluguStop 27 Sep 2022
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to "use all means" to protect Ankara's rights and interests against Greece. “We will not fail to use all the means to defend our country’s rights and interests against Greece, when necessary,” Erdogan said at a press conference after a cabinet meeting on Monday ... .
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Bam! NASA spacecraft crashes into asteroid in defense test
Moosejaw Today 27 Sep 2022
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft rammed an asteroid at blistering speed Monday in an unprecedented dress rehearsal for the day a killer rock menaces Earth ... Scientists expected the impact to carve out a crater, hurl streams of rocks and dirt into space and, most importantly, alter the asteroid’s orbit ... Monday’s target ... ___ ... .
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Rights group says Iran protest death toll tops 75 as crackdown intensifies
The Times of India 27 Sep 2022
PARIS. More than 75 people have been killed in the Iranian authorities' crackdown against unrest sparked by the death of Kurdish woman following her arrest by morality police, a rights group said Monday. The Iranian authorities' official death toll, meanwhile, remained at 41, including several members of the security forces ... .
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Why Shanghai Cooperation Organisation is the next big thing
Gulf News 26 Sep 2022
What began as a small regional political, economic and security bloc back in 1996 with five members — the Shanghai Five — is now the world’s largest organisation with more than 30 per cent of the globe’s GDP. And yet the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is rarely in the news unlike ASEAN, the GCC, the EU and Opec ... 16, 2022 ... AP ... Read more ... .
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Russia's Prigozhin Admits Link to Wagner Mercenaries for First Time - Beijing News
WorldNews.com 27 Sep 2022
London - Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Monday that he had founded the Wagner Group private military company in 2014, the first public confirmation of a link he has previously denied and sued journalists for reporting. The Wagner Group, staffed by veterans of the Russian armed forces, has fought in Libya,..read full story. .
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Russia gives citizenship to ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden
Star Tribune 26 Sep 2022
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Amid Russia-Ukraine war escalation, US warns Putin of ‘catastrophic’ consequences over nuclear weapons
DNA India 26 Sep 2022
The United States would respond decisively to any Russian use of nuclear weapons against Ukraine and has spelled out to Moscow the "catastrophic consequences" it would face, U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday ... "If Russia crosses this line, there will be catastrophic consequences for Russia ... U.S ... .