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Trump said last week his new social media venture TRUTH Social would be created through a new company formed by a merger of Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG) and blank-check firm Digital World Acquisition Corp.

The National Weather Service called the situation dangerous and warned of hurricane-type gusts of wind and many uprooted trees.

The televised event saw Mohammad Yaqoob, Afghanistan's new defence minister, appealing to local businessmen to invest in hospitals and clinics, signalling the Taliban are emerging from the shadows.

The UK now has the second-highest death count in Europe, behind Russia

Tensions between Taiwan and China, which claims the democratically-governed island as its own territory, have spiked over the past year as Beijing ups its military and political pressure to force Taipei to accept Chinese sovereignty.

Julian Assange is wanted in the United States on 18 criminal charges, including breaking a spying law, after his group published thousands of secret classified files and diplomatic cables in 2010.

A journalist can face a fine of up to 2,500 rubles ($36) for failing to properly mark a story or a social media post. The same offence could cost a company up to 50,000 rubles.

Researchers at the Finnish technical research institute VTT believe their coffee would avoid many of the environmental pitfalls associated with the mass production.

Walmart's aromatherapy spray was linked to a cluster of cases in the US this year of melioidosis.

Three of the children were found Sunday in a Houston apartment, where they had been living alongside the skeletal remains of their brother.

Coronavirus In Thailand: The coronavirus pandemic sent Thailand visitor numbers plummeting from 40 million in 2019 to just 73,000 in the first eight months of 2021.

The response came after Blinken -- in a statement marking 50 years since the UN General Assembly voted to seat Beijing and boot out Taipei -- regretted that Taiwan had increasingly been excluded on the world stage.

Taliban Takeover: Since the Taliban seized Kabul in mid-August, many women have disappeared from public spaces, driven into private areas out of fear and threats.

WHO said after a meeting on Tuesday that its independent experts had sought "additional clarifications" from Covaxin maker Bharat Biotech.

Afghanistan: Since seizing power in August, the Taliban have excluded women from their new caretaker government and put restrictions on work and education, drawing condemnation from the outside world.

Iran's oil ministry said only sales with smart cards used for cheaper rationed gasoline were disrupted and clients could still buy fuel at higher rates.

Joe Biden's reaction comes after four years under Donald Trump in which the United States offered a green light to Israel's activity on occupied Palestinian land.

Australia Covid Vaccine: Australia has so far double-dosed 74 percent of its population aged over 16, with 87 percent having received a single jab.

Trump is set to launch his own social media app, TRUTH Social, that he said would "stand up to Big Tech" companies such as Twitter and Facebook that have barred him from their platforms.

The independent experts concluded the known benefits -- both directly to kids' health but also in ending school and other disruptions -- outweighed the known risks.

The attack on Al-Rashad in Diyala province left "11 dead and 13 wounded", a local security source said,

David Henderson is standing trial at Cardiff Crown Court, accused of endangering the safety of the plane. He has pleaded not guilty.

Joe Biden leaves for Rome on Thursday, and will follow the G20 meeting on the weekend with the UN climate summit in Glasgow on Monday and Tuesday.

The 19-member committee meets every three months to discuss the pandemic and make recommendations.

Pfizer and BioNTech are seeking clearance for a lower, 10 microgram dose version of the vaccine in children, versus 30 micrograms for everyone over the age of 12.

Joe Biden-Pope Meet: It is not known if Biden and Pope Francis will discuss the abortion disputes at their private meeting, their first since Biden took office.

Climate Change: The UN Environment Programme said that the latest national commitments would shave 7.5 percent off 2030 emissions levels.

There have been reports of rare neurological complications associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection and Oxford-AstraZeneca or Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines.

Xi Jinping, who is also chair of China's Central Military Commission (CMC), made the comments at a conference in Beijing, according to the report.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to promote CPEC's green development as a high-quality demonstration of China's Belt and Road Initiative.

Frequent testing, and sometimes mass testing, is standard practice in China's containment of outbreaks in the past year, but health authorities say COVID-19 testing services remain unsatisfactory in parts of China amid flare-ups.

Residents have been told not to leave homes except in emergencies, as China pushes Lanzhou into lockdown due to six new cases reported in the city and 29 new cases reported overall across the nation.

Japanese Princess Mako's marriage to her college boyfriend, Kei Komuro, stripped the Princess of her royal status and required her to exit the family, leaving behind just 12 women and five men in the imperial household.

Japan's Princess Mako has left the royal family after a years-long engagement to fiance Kei Komuro that has been beset by media scrutiny, and left the princess with post-traumatic stress disorder.

The de-facto leader of Samsung group Lee Jae-yong was fined 70 million won ($60,000) by the Seoul Central District Court, despite usage normally being seen as a minor offence in South Korea.

Sitting on the front line between Taiwan and China, the island of Kinmen is the last place where the two engaged in major fighting, in 1958 at the height of the Cold War, and where memories of war are burned into minds decades later.

Police in Boise were called to the mall with reports "that at least one person was shot and down," the city's police chief Ryan Lee told reporters.

Britain's GCHQ spy agency championed the procurement of a high-security cloud system and it will be used by sister services MI5 and MI6, the report said.

Emperor Naruhito's niece Mako, who turned 30 over the weekend, will lose her royal title when she and Komuro register their marriage.

Spikevax is the second booster to be given the green light after Pfizer/Biontech's Comirnaty jab earlier this month.

"Today we are initiating a green era for the area, believing that these changes are not only for the environment but also for the economy and security," Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said at the Middle East Green Initiative Summit in Riyadh.

Frances Haugen, a former product manager on Facebook's civic misinformation team who has turned whistleblower, appeared before a parliamentary select committee in Britain that is examining plans to regulate social media companies.

Frances Haugen, a product manager on Facebook's civic misinformation team, was appearing before a parliamentary select committee in Britain that is examining plans to regulate social media companies.

The UK government's COP26 president, Alok Sharma, had tasked the environment ministers of Canada and Germany to review pledges so far, and they pointed to a "positive trend" in a new report.

"I'm very worried because it might go wrong and we might not get the agreements that we need and it's touch and go," British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.

Director Joel Souza, who was standing behind cinematographer Halyna Hutchins when the gun fired, said he heard what "sounded like a whip and then loud pop," according to the affidavit released to US media on Sunday.

Microsoft, in its post dated Octber 24, said Nobelium's latest wave targeted "resellers and other technology service providers" of cloud services.

The US' International Development Finance Corp (DFC) will finance Biological E.'s efforts to produce at least 1 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses for India and developing countries by the end of 2022.

Shaikat Mandal confessed before a magistrate that it was his Facebook post that led to the violence in Rangpur, Pirganj sub-district on October 17 during Durga Puja festivities in Bangladesh.

Jennifer Wenisch, 30, is one of the first conviction anywhere in the world related to the Islamic State group's persecution of the Yazidi community.