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Overnight News Digest: Puerto Rico experiences another devastating hurricane [1]
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Date: 2022-09-19
x Folks, I respect the Queen as much as the next person. I offer my condolences to the Brits and all who loved her. But can I please get some news and footage of the effects of Fiona in Puerto Rico? For those who need reminding, they are American citizens in distress. 🇵🇷 — Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) September 19, 2022
C/NET (9/17/22)
Headlights on new US cars may soon leap forward thanks to a little-noticed regulation that took effect in February, allowing cars on American roads to use lights that intelligently adapt their beam brightness and shape in ways that will utterly change our expectations of headlights. It's a change the insurance companies, safety advocatesand I have been eagerly awaiting. No, really, they're smart Until these new regulations were opened up, cars sold in the US had to be on either low beam or high, never both or a mix of the two. Nothing smart about that. And while the term "smart" is thrown around much too loosely in tech circles (like "smart home" technology that is really just connected home technology), the coming smart headlights will warrant the label.
BBC
A powerful earthquake has rocked Mexico's western coast on the same day the country marks the anniversaries of two devastating quakes which killed thousands of people. The 7.6 magnitude quake hit the coastal states of Michoacan and Colima shortly after 13:00 local time (18:00 GMT). So far, one person is known to have been killed, officials said. But the US officials issued a tsunami warning for parts of Mexico's western coastline on Monday night. The US Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said that waves reaching one to three metres (three to nine feet) above the tide level could hit coastal areas overnight. The tremors originated at a depth of 15km (9.32 miles), near the town of La Placita de Morelos. A mandatory evacuation order was issued in Mexico City after Monday's quake, but Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said that so far there had been no reports of damage.
BBC
Tehran's police chief says the death of a woman in custody was an "unfortunate" incident he does not want repeated. Mahsa Amini, 22, fell into a coma last week, hours after morality police held her for allegedly breaking hijab rules. Witnesses accused officers of beating her, but Police Brig-Gen Hossein Rahimi denied such "cowardly accusations". Her death sparked protests in the capital and western Iran, where two people were reportedly killed in clashes with riot police on Monday. Videos posted on social media appeared to show a crowd throwing stones in the town of Divandarreh and later running after coming under fire. Other footage showed protests in the capital, where women removed their headscarves and shouted "death to the dictator" - a chant often used in reference to the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Deutsche Welle
Russian missiles struck the Pivdennoukrainsk Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine's southern Mykolaiv province overnight, Ukraine's state energy company Energoatom said on Monday. A blast took place 300 meters (1,000 feet) away from the reactors just after midnight, Energoatom said. The company posted photos of a impact crater on social media, including one in which a man stood inside the crater to give a sense of its size. "Currently, all three power units of the PNPP (Pivdennoukrainsk Nuclear Power Plant) are operating normally," Energoatom said. "Fortunately, there were no casualties among the station staff." However, the attack did damage power buildings at the power plant complex as well as transmission lines for a nearby hydroelectric plant.
Deutsche Welle
Outside London's world-famous Savoy Hotel, a parked motorcade of black vehicles attracts glances from passersby. The cars with darkened windows have French license plates. Is this where French President Emmanuel Macron is staying while attending Queen Elizabeth II's funeral? Did he bring his own cars? The hotel's concierge isn't forthcoming with an answer, no matter how nicely you ask. But the presence of more security personnel than hotel guests in the lobby is one example of the unprecedented precautions being taken across London for Queen Elizabeth's funeral today. Biggest VIP meeting in history The queen's funeral is the biggest single police operation in the history of the British capital. From US President Joe Biden to Commonwealth leaders to members of other royal families, dozens of heads of state and VIPs are gathered in London in a way they probably never will again.
Al Jazeera
UN experts on Monday said that there are reasonable grounds to believe that “war crimes and crimes against humanity” have been committed by the Ethiopian government in the Tigray region, warning that renewed conflict there increased the risk of “further atrocity crimes”. In its first report, the International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia said it found that violations, such as extrajudicial killings and rape, have been committed by warring sides in Ethiopia since fighting erupted in the northern Tigray region in November 2020.
Al Jazeera
Rome, Italy – Italy is set to vote on September 25 in a national election that will likely see its most far-right government in power since World War II, led by the country’s first female prime minister ever. Giorgia Meloni’s Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy), a party with a post-fascist origin, is witnessing a meteoric rise – from 4 percent voter support in 2018 to a projected 25 percent this year – after political infighting led to the downfall of Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s national unity government. Campaigning along the “God, family and homeland” motto, Meloni put on alert opponents who say her rise to power will endanger democracy, roll back civil rights and push the country closer to nationalist and far-right parties such as Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban’s Fidesz and Spain’s Vox party.
The Guardian
A Baltimore judge on Monday ordered the release of Adnan Syed after overturning Syed’s conviction for the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee – a case that was chronicled in the hit podcast Serial. Circuit court judge Melissa Phinn ordered that Syed’s conviction be vacated and approved the release of the now 41-year-old who has spent more than two decades behind bars. Syed, who has always maintained his innocence, received widespread attention in 2014 when the debut season of Serial focused on Lee’s killing and raised doubts about some of the evidence prosecutors had used, inspiring countless dinner table debates about Syed’s innocence or guilt. Last week, prosecutors filed a motion saying that a lengthy investigation conducted with the defense had uncovered new evidence that could undermine the 2000 conviction of Syed, Lee’s ex-boyfriend.
The Guardian
States are continuing to allow sewage sludge to be spread on cropland as fertilizer and in some cases increasing the amount spread, even as the PFAS-tainted substance has ruined farmers’ livelihoods, poisoned water supplies, contaminated food and put the public’s health at risk. Michigan and Maine are the only two states in the US to widely test sludge, and regulators in each say contamination was found in all tested samples. Still, in recent months, officials in Virginia increased the amount of sludge permitted to be spread on farmland without testing for PFAS, while Alabama regulators have rejected residents’ and environmental groups’ pleas to test sludge for the chemicals. Similar fights are playing out in other states, including Georgia and Oklahoma, and public health advocates fear regulators are ignoring the dangers to appease the waste management industry.
The Guardian
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