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COVID-19 death: Singapore reports first under-12 fatality of 2023, in 13-month-old boy who died in October
- A 13-month-old boy from Singapore died due to COVID-19 on 12 October, marking the country's first COVID-19 death in a child below the age of 12 this year.
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Movie Review: 'Leave the World Behind' is a terrific blend of thriller, disaster and satire
Well-to-do Amanda (a tart Julia Roberts) and her Atlantic magazine-quoting husband Clay (a hangdog Ethan Hawke) must work with the even-more-well-off G.H. (a calmly sophisticated Mahershala Ali) and his savvy daughter Ruth, (a superb Myha’la). It's a story brilliantly adapted and directed by Sam Esmail, showrunner of “Mr. Robot,” who has made “Leave the World Behind” into a homage of Alfred Hitchcock, complete with the image of a man trying to outrun a crashing plane and using the master's disc
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Music Review: Neil Young's 'Before and After' offers one continuous stream of rarities
Leave it to Neil Young to give streaming songs a whole new meaning with a new album, “Before and After," out Friday. Young delivers reinventions of 13 deep tracks as one continuous piece of mostly acoustic music, with no breaks, over 48 minutes. The tracks appear to have been recorded on Young's solo 2019 live tour but are presented here as a single piece of music with no audience applause.
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German man accused of forming armed group to oppose COVID measures arrested in Portugal
A German man accused of forming an armed group to oppose government measures against the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021 has been arrested in Portugal, German prosecutors said Tuesday. The 39-year-old man, whose name wasn't released, most recently lived in Bavaria and was charged in June, prosecutors in Koblenz said.
- BusinessReuters
Sunak faces bleak economic backdrop to expected 2024 UK election
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is facing a bleak economic backdrop to the election he is expected to call next year, adding to the challenge he faces trying to undo the opposition Labour Party's strong lead in opinion polls. Sunak must hold an election by Jan. 28, 2025 but he is expected to call it in October or November 2024.
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Supreme Court signals it will uphold a tax on foreign income and leave a wealth tax for another day
The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed inclined to uphold a tax on foreign income while leaving questions about a broader, never-enacted tax on wealth for another day. On the first issue, conservative and liberal justices voiced concerns that ruling for a Washington state couple challenging a provision of the 2017 tax bill would threaten other provisions of the tax code. After two hours of arguments, there seemed to be a consensus on the court that "there is room for some narrow ground” to decide
- BusinessReuters
Short supply of homes to push global property prices higher at slower pace: Reuters poll
Global property prices in most major markets will rise over the next two years, albeit at a slightly slower pace than predicted three months ago as strong demand and tight supply overshadow higher interest rates, a Reuters poll found. Home prices across the developed world have defied analysts' expectations, as they predicted at the start of the year prices would register double-digit falls from COVID-19-era peaks. While price rises are expected to continue into next year and 2025, higher mort
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Detroit on track to record fewest homicides since 1966, officials say
The city of Detroit is on-track to see its fewest yearly homicides in nearly six decades, officials said Monday. Through Nov. 30, Detroit had recorded 228 homicides — an 18% decrease over the same period last year. In 2018, Detroit had 261 homicides, the fewest number since 1966, when there were 214 homicides.
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Texas prosecutor drops charges against 17 Austin police over tactics used during 2020 protests
A Texas prosecutor whose office oversaw indictments against more than 20 Austin police officers for tactics used during the 2020 protests that followed George Floyd's killing said Monday he was dropping most of the cases and would ask the Justice Department to investigate instead. The announcement is a sharp reversal for Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza, a progressive who was elected months after the protests and ran on promises to hold police accountable in the Texas capital.
- BusinessAssociated Press
Bitcoin has surpassed $41,000 for the first time since April 2022. What's behind the price surge?
On Monday, the world's largest cryptocurrency soared past $41,000 for the first time in over a year and a half — and marking a 150% rise so far this year. Prices fell back to earth during an aggressive series of Federal Reserve rate hikes aimed at taming inflation and then the collapse of FTX, one of the biggest companies in crypto. Industry advocates say this new way of investing in bitcoin at spot prices, instead of futures, could make it easier for anyone to enter the cryptoverse while lowe
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Who's running for president? See a rundown of the 2024 candidates
The 2024 Republican presidential primary field has narrowed, with Doug Burgum dropping out of the race. The North Dakota governor qualified for the first two presidential debates but missed the third debate and appeared on the verge of not making the stage for the fourth debate, set for Wednesday in Alabama. The former president announced his third campaign for the White House on Nov. 15, 2022, at his Mar-a-Lago resort, forcing the party to again decide whether to embrace a candidate whose ref
