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Overnight News Digest: Blizzard in Buffalo causes death and destruction [1]
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Date: 2022-12-26
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The remarks came after Musk tweeted a poll on Dec. 18 asking users if he should step down as the head of Twitter less than two months after buying the social media site for $44 billion. Roughly 58% of 17 million respondents voted yes while 43% voted no. Before Musk closed the deal to purchase Twitter, he was expected to temporarily serve as CEO . He confirmed this in November during a trial , stating that he expected to reduce his time at Twitter and find someone else to run the company.
"I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job!," Musk tweeted on Dec. 20. "After that, I will just run the software & servers teams."
After a tumultuous two and a half months, Twitter CEO and owner Elon Musk is on the hunt for a successor.
BBC
The latest protests were triggered by the death in custody of Iranian-Kurd Mahsa Amini, 22, in September. She had been held for allegedly wearing her headscarf improperly.
No reason was given and the pair are returning to Tehran, Ali Daei added.
But the flight was made to land on an Iranian island in the Gulf and they were removed.
The 53-year-old, who has voiced support for anti-government protests, said his family had tried to fly from Tehran to Dubai to join him on holiday on Monday.
Iranian football legend Ali Daei says an international flight has been rerouted to prevent his wife and daughter from leaving the country.
NPR
The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court have, at least in modern times, been known for their discipline when it comes to talking. But of late, they have been talking and talking ... and talking, sometimes more than doubling the amount of time allotted for oral arguments. On paper, the arguments are not different in length than in decades gone by. In most cases, each side is allotted a half hour, or in some cases five minutes more; in extraordinary cases, where there are multiple major issues, or multiple consolidate cases, the court will, on occasion, allocate more time. The court has a mechanism to keep the lawyers on the straight and narrow. To alert counsel when there are only five minutes left, a white light goes on at the lectern, and a red light when time's up.
NPR
Jesse Delia says it happened in Panama. A few years back, he was finishing up his field work — a research project examining the parental behavior of a type of glassfrog. He brought a handful of these transparent, half dollar-sized frogs to the lab for a photo shoot. It led to an exciting discovery. "I wanted to get some photos of a pretty glassfrog belly," Delia tells NPR. He placed them in a Petri dish and saw each frog's circulatory system through its translucent skin — "red with red blood cells."
Reuters
KYIV, Dec 26 (Reuters) - A drone believed to be Ukrainian penetrated hundreds of kilometers through Russian airspace, causing a deadly explosion at the main base for Moscow's strategic bombers in the latest attack to expose gaps in its air defences. Moscow on Monday said it had shot the drone down causing it to crash at the Engels air base, where three service members were killed. Under its usual policy on incidents inside Russia, Ukraine did not comment. The base, the main airfield for the bombers that Kyiv says Moscow has used in recent months to attack Ukrainian civilian infrastructure, is hundreds of miles from the Ukrainian frontier. The same planes are also designed to launch nuclear-capable missiles as part of Russia's long-term strategic deterrent.
The Guardian, Australia
The home affairs department must hand over a list of all expiring contracts due for renewal after it extended a contract for civil maritime surveillance for six years, just months after a critical report found it had paid for flight time when no planes were in the air. The auditor general in October 2021 found the department’s management of the contract with Surveillance Australia was “not effective” and “as a result, while surveillance services have been provided, the quantum and range of those services has fallen short of the contractual requirements”. That included not having actual planes in the air for billed surveillance flight times, which the audit office estimated cost taxpayers up to $87m.
The Guardian, UK
Rail passengers have been delayed or disrupted on more than half of all train services departing from 15 of Great Britain’s busiest stations in the last year, Guardian analysis shows, exposing what has been described as a “broken” railway system that cannot easily be fixed. Experts said the figures – which show rail services in the north and Midlands as the hardest hit – demonstrated the impact of two decades of privatisation, which had increased costs and public subsidies, combined with labour shortages exacerbated by the pandemic. The analysis came as industrial action paralysed the rail network on Boxing Day. Millions who had to travel instead turned to their cars, as members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) went on strike as part of a long-running dispute over pay, jobs and conditions. The AA estimated that 15.2m vehicles were on the roads on Boxing Day.
The Guardian, US
More than 14,000 people suffered power outages in Washington state on Christmas Day following burglaries and a series of vandalisms at different power stations. The Pierce county sheriff said in two statements that no suspects have yet been identified for the incidents. The Christmas Day outages add to an alarming and increasing list of similar incidents in the US. There were six attacks across power stations in Oregon and Washington earlier this month, following a similar attack on a power grid in North Carolina at the beginning of December. In the attack in North Carolina, assailants shot gunfire into two stations, with some claiming that it was done in order to halt a local drag show. While there are no suspects in the string of attacks, there are concerns that at least some of these assaults are carried out by extremists, motivated by online conspiracy theories and pursuing a far-right agenda.
The Guardian, International
Ukraine is aiming to hold a peace summit by the end of February – preferably at the United Nations with its secretary general, António Guterres, as a possible mediator – according to its foreign minister. But Dmytro Kuleba said that Russia could only be invited if the country faced a war crimes tribunal first. Kuleba also said he was “absolutely satisfied” with the results of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s visit to the US last week, and he revealed that the US government had made a special plan to get the Patriot air defence system , which can shoot down enemy missiles, ready to be operational in the country in less than six months. Usually, the training takes up to a year. Kuleba said during the interview at the foreign ministry that Ukraine will do whatever it can to win the war in 2023, adding that diplomacy always plays an important role.
Al Jazeera
Ramallah, Occupied West Bank and Gaza City – Conflict, raids, and the killing of one of Palestine’s most well-respected journalists – just some of the most important events to happen in Israel and Palestine in 2022. The United Nations declared the year the deadliest for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since 2006, evidence of increased use of force by Israel, amid a further shift to the far right in the country. Here are six major developments that shaped 2022 for Palestinians.
Al Jazeera
Buenaventura, Colombia – In the month following Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s August inauguration, the leaders of two rival gangs in the port city of Buenaventura were meeting to discuss the prospect of peace. On the streets, a war was being waged. Clashes between the two gangs, the Shottas and the Espartanos, often left dozens dead each month. Hapless civilians got caught in the crossfire. Families holed up in their homes. “It’s unfair that Buenaventura, having a people that is so peaceful, has so much violence, and that it’s us that are killing each other,” Geronimo, 37, a delegate of the Shottas who publicly uses a nom de guerre, said in an interview with Al Jazeera. “So our leader decided that this had to end.” The gang’s rivals, the Espartanos, agreed.
Deutsche Welle
Chinese President Xi Jinping urged a "patriotic health campaign" in his first public remarks on the pandemic since the end of Beijing's zero-COVID policy and the subsequent surge in coronavirus casesearlier this month. "At present, COVID-19 prevention and control in China are facing a new situation and new tasks," Xi said in a directive as reported by Chinese state broadcaster CCTV. "We should launch the patriotic health campaign in a more targeted way… fortify a community line of defense for epidemic prevention and control, and effectively protect people's lives, safety and health," Xi said.
New York Times
Representative-elect George Santos admitted on Monday to misleading voters about his professional experience and educational history, confirming some of the key findings of a New York Times investigation that found he likely misrepresented his background to voters. Mr. Santos, a Republican who was elected in November to represent parts of northern Long Island and northeast Queens, ended a week of near silence, giving interviews to two conservative-owned media outlets, The New York Post and WABC-AM radio. Mr. Santos told The Post that even though he now admits to embellishing his résumé, it would not stop him from taking office. “I am not a criminal,” Mr. Santos told The Post, adding he would still be an effective legislator. He told WABC radio that he still intended to be sworn in at the start of the next Congress.
Washington Post
A rapidly growing measles outbreak in Columbus, Ohio — largely involving unvaccinated children — is fueling concerns among health officials that more parent resistance to routine childhood immunizations will intensify a resurgence of vaccine-preventable diseases. this year. Most of the 81 children infected so far are old enough to get the shots, but their parents chose not to do so, officials said, resulting in the country’s largest outbreak of the highly infectious pathogenthis year. “That is what is causing this outbreak to spread like wildfire,” said Mysheika Roberts, director of the Columbus health department.
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