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Overnight News Digest: Brazil reviving Santos fraud case [1]
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Date: 2023-01-02
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It's going to be tough for NASA to top 2022, a year marked by the first James Webb Space Telescope images, the successful completion of the Artemis I moon mission and by smacking an asteroid. So what's next? A pumped-up NASA video released on Sunday gives a preview of all the space action to come in 2023. The video features commentary from NASA administrator Bill Nelson, who kicks it off saying, "We're never going to stop exploring the unknown in air and space.” NASA has a busy slate of activities for the coming year. NASA will announce the selection of astronauts for the Artemis II mission, the first crewed launch of its new moon exploration era. Expect a lot of fanfare around the reveal of prototype spacesuits for future Artemis missions.
Al Jazeera
For Haiti, 2022 began much like the previous year ended – in the grips of widespread violence and political instability. And over the past 12 months, the situation has largely failed to improve: Haitians have faced a surge in gang attacks and kidnappings, fuel and electricity shortages, a deepening political deadlock and a deadly outbreak of cholera. “We don’t know what will happen tomorrow,” said Judes Jonathas, senior programme manager at the Mercy Corps humanitarian group. Jonathas spoke to Al Jazeera in October, as gang violence gripped the streets of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince where he resides. “It’s as if we’re living minute to minute. We go out, [and] we don’t know if we’ll be coming back,” he said.
Al Jazeera
Weather forecasters predict another round of torrential rain in California, which has struggled to cope with flooding and power outages from an “atmospheric river” that drenched the West Coast of the United States over the weekend. Atmospheric rivers are long columns of moving water vapour that usually release heavy rain and snow when they reach land. The US National Weather Service expects that a second atmospheric river will move in from the Pacific Ocean and bring more rain to California by late Tuesday.
Al Jazeera
The death toll in a stampede at a shopping centre during New Year’s celebrations in Uganda’s capital has risen to 10, according to the vice president, while police said they have arrested the organiser of the event. Vice President Jessica Alupo, who on Monday visited the scene in Kampala, told journalists that one more person died on Sunday night. She said the government would pay $1,350 to each victim’s family to help with burial costs. The partygoers were killed at Freedom City mall as revellers thronged a single exit to watch a midnight fireworks show. Four minors, aged 10 to 17, were among the dead.
The Guardian
Spain and the EU are prepared for all possibilities – including a hard Brexit – when it comes to the bloc’s relationship with Gibraltar, Spain’s foreign minister has said, adding that the ball was now in London’s court after 11 rounds of negotiations. “Spain doesn’t want a ‘no deal’ scenario,” the Spanish foreign minister, José Manuel Albares, told Europa Press. “The government of Spain and the EU, which is ultimately the signatory on the agreement with the UK, are ready for any scenario.” The Brexit withdrawal agreement, announced on Christmas Eve 2020 , did not cover Gibraltar. Days later – as the overseas territory was hours away from becoming the only land border marked by a hard Brexit – Madrid and London signed off on an agreement in principle that championed the idea of incorporating the British territory into the EU’s Schengen area.
The Guardian, Australia
Sydney, Melbourne and Hobart posted record annual falls in property prices in 2022 as higher interest rates sapped demand and amounted to the largest national decline since the global financial crisis, industry analysts say. However, rent increases were “virtually off the charts” rising an average of 10.2% nationally. Sydney prices for dwellings – houses and apartments – shrank 12.1% last year, or more than double the 5.3% average national drop, according to data firm CoreLogic. But prices remained more than 8% higher than pre-Covid levels, with the median price holding just above the $1m mark. Melbourne’s 8.1% slide in average prices was the largest fall in a single calendar year in the data used by CoreLogic, which goes back to the 1980s. Prices remain above 2020 levels but those gains are “looking precarious”, CoreLogic said, with median prices about 1.5% above pre-Covid levels at over $750,000.
The Guardian, Australia
New data on Australia’s ageing population and shrinking workforce should push the government to review the stage-three tax cuts, independent senator David Pocock has said. Pocock said economic circumstances have “changed significantly” since the Morrison government legislated the tax cuts, with Labor’s support, in 2019. He said the tax cuts were the “single biggest issue” raised at his first community town hall after the May election and would make Australia’s wealth gap worse. The Greens have said they will use their balance of power in the Senate to push the government to dump the cuts. Pocock, who can make or break government legislation, said the flat tax rate legislated to come into effect mid-next year was not something the nation could afford.
The Guardian UK
The Guardian UK
Weather records have been falling across Europe at a disconcerting rate in the last few days, say meteorologists. The warmest January day ever was recorded in at least eight European countries including Poland, Denmark, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Belarus, Lithuania and Latvia, according to data collated by Maximiliano Herrera, a climatologist who tracks extreme temperatures. In Korbielów, Poland , the mercury hit 19C (66F) – a temperature the Silesian village is more used to in May, and 18C above the 1C annual average for January. In Javorník in the Czech Republic it was 19.6C, compared with an average of 3C for this time of year. Temperatures in Vysokaje, Belarus, would normally hover around zero at this time of year. On Sunday they reached 16.4C, beating the country’s previous record January high by 4.5C. Elsewhere on the continent, local records were broken at thousands of individual measuring stations, with nearly 950 toppled in Germany alone from 31 December to 2 January, Herrera said
The Guardian US
The White House has made a federal disaster declaration for the Havasupai Native American tribe that mainly lives deep inside the Grand Canyon in Arizona, as the community prepares to reopen tourist access to its famous turquoise waterfalls next month. Last October, the village experienced drastic flooding which damaged extensive parts of the reservation. The floods “destroyed several bridges and trails that are needed not only for our tourists, but for the everyday movement of goods and services into the Supai Village”, the tribe said. The Havasupai is now readying itself to receive tourists again from 1 February on its reservation, which sits nine miles down narrow trails between spectacular red rock cliffs deep within the Grand Canyon in northern Arizona. Tourists must apply for permits to enter the reservation.
CNN
A text exchange between Ivanka Trump’s chief of staff Julie Radford and White House aide Hope Hicks reveals their anger over then-President Donald Trump’s actions on January 6, 2021, hurting them professionally, according to newly released documents collected by the House select committee investigating the Capitol Hill insurrection. “In one day he ended every future opportunity that doesn’t include speaking engagements at the local Proud Boys chapter,” Hicks wrote to Radford on January 6, 2021. “And all of us that didn’t have jobs lined up will be perpetually unemployed. I’m so mad and upset. We all look like domestic terrorists now.” Hicks added: “This made us all unemployable. Like untouchable. God I’m so f***ing mad.” Radford responded by texting, “I know, like there isn’t a chance of finding a job,” and indicating she already lost a job opportunity from Visa, which sent her a “blow off email.”
Reuters
KYIV, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Russia has acknowledged that dozens of its troops were killed in one of the Ukraine war's deadliest strikes, drawing demands from Russian nationalist bloggers for commanders to be punished for housing soldiers alongside an ammunition dump. In a rare disclosure, Russia's defence ministry said 63 soldiers had died on New Year's Eve in the fiery blast which destroyed a temporary barracks in a former vocational college in Makiivka, twin city of the Russian-occupied regional capital of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.
Washington Post
House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and his allies have spent the past 72 hours working the phones, trying to salvage his career goal of becoming speaker of the House on Tuesday as Republicans continue to argue over whether he deserves the top spot. While an overwhelming majority of Republicans want to elect McCarthy as speaker, roughly 15 have put the outcome in serious doubt. McCarthy can only afford to lose four Republicans in Tuesday’s floor vote, and the razor-thin margin has emboldened staunch conservatives within the House Freedom Caucus, who have made specific demands in exchange for their votes.
NPR
Forget flying cars. When scientists and sociologists in 1923 offered predictions for what life might look like in a hundred years, their visions were more along the lines of curly-haired men, four-hour workdays, 300-year-old people and "watch-size radio telephones."
That's according to Paul Fairie, a researcher and instructor at the University of Calgary who compiled newspaper clippings of various experts' 2023 forecasts in a now-viral Twitter thread.
x A List of Predictions Made in 1923 About 2023
🧵 — Paul Fairie (@paulisci) January 1, 2023
USA Today
WASHINGTON – House Republicans plan to open a new front in the culture wars: attacking the Pentagon for its "woke" social policies. GOP leaders have won an early skirmish. Congress passed a defense bill that will no longer require service members to receive the COVID-19 vaccine – one of many military policies the new Republican-led House may spotlight in the next Congress.
Deutsche Welle
The doors to St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican opened on Monday to allow the thousands of people queued up outside the chance to pay their respects to the late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who died on New Year's Eve at the age of 95. The body of the German former pope, who stepped down from the role in 2013, will lie in state for three days before his funeral on Thursday morning. People began gathering outside the basilica at dawn before the doors opened. The public were allowed to view the body for 10 hours on Monday, while 12 hours are scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday each.
Deutsche Welle
"I recognize the significant decision of the majority of this full court to break what seemed to be an inaccessible glass ceiling," she said. Her appointment, after a 6-5 majority vote, was a setback for President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who had backed another woman for the top post. Pina pledged to maintain the independence of the country's highest court. "Judicial independence is indispensable in resolving conflicts between the branches of government,'' Pina said after taking charge of the 11-member court. She would also head the entire judicial branch.
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