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Saudi crown prince suggested killing King Abdullah, ex-official says
BBC News 25 Oct 2021
Saudi Arabia's crown prince suggested using a "poison ring" to kill the late King Abdullah, a former top Saudi intelligence official has alleged. In an interview with CBS, Saad al-Jabri said Mohammed bin Salman told his cousin in 2014 that he wanted to do so to clear the throne for his father ... "He told him ... They denied the charges.
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Bomb cyclone, tornadoes and possible nor’easter all likely to hit US over the next week
The Independent 25 Oct 2021photo: Creative Commons / Gage Skidmore
Donald Trump Jr. Is Hawking Shockingly Tacky ‘Alex Baldwin Kills People’ T-Shirts
The Daily Beast 25 Oct 2021
It’s only been three days since Alec Baldwin accidentally shot and killed 42-year-old cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, but the Trump family has never been known to hang around when there’s a tawdry buck to make. The oldest Trump son, Donald Jr., is hawking $27.99 T-shirts on his official site with the mocking slogan ... J.D ... Donald Trump Jr ... Fuck him!” ... .
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Alien false alarm: ‘Extraterrestrial’ radio signals turn out to be human
The Observer 25 Oct 2021
Astronomers searching for alien life thought they’d spotted signs of intelligence beyond the solar system – but the signals turned out to be human ... Read more ... It wasn’t in vain, though, Price said, because now they have developed a new framework to study future signals, a checklist that will be used around the world in the search for life outside it.
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Egypt's Sisi calls for 'abiding deal' with Ethiopia on GERD
The New Arab 25 Oct 2021
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi expressed on Sunday Egypt's keenness to reach a "biding, balanced agreement without further delay" with Ethiopia, possibly ending a long-lasting dispute on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) ... Ethiopia has frequently refused to enter into an agreement with Egypt and Sudan ... ....
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Leaving British Isis members in Syrian camps is a ‘coward’s Guantanamo’, says former chief prosecutor
The Independent 25 Oct 2021
Syrian camps where British Isis members and their children are being held indefinitely have been labelled “a coward’s Guantanamo” by the former director of public prosecutions ... .
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Japan's Princess Mako marries commoner, loses royal status
The Times of India 26 Oct 2021
TOKYO ... There will be no wedding banquet and there have been no other marriage rituals for the couple ... She is the first imperial family member since World War II to not receive the payment while marrying a commoner and chose to do so because of the criticism over her marrying a man some consider unfit for the princess ... Start a Conversation. .
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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Unveils Plans For Business Park In Space
NDTV 26 Oct 2021
Billionaire Jeff Bezos-owned Blue Origin on Monday unveiled plans to develop a commercial space station called "Orbital Reef" with Boeing, aiming to launch the spacecraft in the second half of this... .
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Erdogan, Azerbaijani counterpart to open Fuzuli International Airport Tuesday
Anadolu Agency 25 Oct 2021
An international airport in Fuzuli city of Azerbaijan, which was completed in eight months, will be inaugurated on Tuesday by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev ... On Jan ... 22 ... Thus, the airport will be Karabakh's gateway to the world ... Perhaps no airport in the world has been built at this speed ... .
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Hong Kong to tighten COVID-19 rules, seeks to open to China
Citizen Tribune
26 Oct 2021
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong will tighten COVID-19 restrictions despite a lack of local outbreaks to better align with China’s policies and increase chances of quarantine-free travel between the territory and mainland, leader Carrie Lam said Tuesday ... must serve a 21-day quarantine ... Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved ... ....
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International reaction to Sudan’s military coup
Metro USA 25 Oct 2021
(Reuters) – Following are international reactions to the military coup in Sudan, where soldiers on Monday arrested members of a transitional government meant to guide the country to democracy. UNITED STATES. The U.S ... U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL ANTONIO GUTERRES. “I condemn the ongoing military coup in Sudan ... ARAB LEAGUE ... AFRICAN UNION ... EGYPT ... .
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Sudan's Al Burhan declares state of emergency, dissolves government
Gulf News 25 Oct 2021
Khartoum. Sudan's ruling council head Abdul Fattah Al Burhan announced on Monday a state of emergency across the country and the dissolution of the transitional sovereign council and the government. Al Burhan said infighting between politicians and ambition and incitement to violence forced to him to take action ... Image Credit. AFP ... Popular Technocrat ... .
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Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is a 'psychopath' and a 'killer', says former spy
The Daily Telegraph 25 Oct 2021
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is a "psychopath" and a "killer" and the world should be wary of him, according to a former top Saudi spy.� ... He claimed that in a 2014 meeting with Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, who was head of intelligence as interior minister at the time, the much younger Prince Mohammed said ... Save ... .