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Maltese Chief of Staff Schembri quit his post amid investigations into the murder of journalist Caruana Galizia, which picked up steam last week with the arrest of prominent businessman Yorgen Fenech, which has been followed by protests calling for the resignation of Maltese PM Joseph Muscat. Galizia had reported on the PM's involvement in shell companies in the Panama papers leak.

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Singapore has always been ranked as one of the top nations for creativity and usage of technology. The island nation is now turning trash into roads and footpaths. In a concept called NEWSand, the Singaporean authorities are turning waste into construction material to construct roads, footpaths, and even benches. A field trial to assess the real-life performance of possible NEWSand materials will start in the middle of 2020.

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Shares of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba surged on Tuesday as the company made its debut on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Alibaba listed its shares at 176 Hong Kong Dollars per share, which makes it the biggest listing so far this year. Shares price jumped from 176 to intraday high of 189.50, a more than 6% jump on the first day of trading. Analysts consider this listing a successful one

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Godzilla vs Kong, a movie that was going to be released on March 13, 2020, has been pushed back and will now come out Nov. 20. It is currently unknown why the release has been delayed but many feel it is to make changes to the film in reaction to the lukewarm reception of the last Godzilla movie.

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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is going to be the second-longest Star Wars movie to date, clocking in at two hours and 21 minutes. The director, JJ Abrams has announced that he has finished the film, after doing some reshoots. He went on to clarify that the reshoots were routine and no major changes were being made to the film.

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According to a leaked report, the Philippines' National Power system is under full control of the Chinese Government and could be shut off in the time of political issues. China's State Grid Corporation has a 40% stake in the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP). The report also claimed that only Chinese Engineers had access to sensitive elements of the grid station which makes it more Beijing controlled grid.

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Google has fired four workers after accusing them of serious breaches of data. The workers looked for and shared the personal data of other employees, including medical appointments. Google clarified that it warned the employees months ago but their behavior did not change. Other employees complained about this behavior, claiming they felt unsafe.

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Mcdonalds has agreed to settle a lawsuit for $26 million. The suit was filed by Mcdonald's employees in California who were complaining about the poor working conditions and low wages. The workers were not paid overtime and had shifts that lasted entire nights. Mcdonalds will now also provide employees with new uniforms without cost in case their old ones get work out or damaged.

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The Indian government has declared that internet access will be returned to Kashmir, but it can only be used for business purposes. All companies who gain access also have to sign a form that guarantees that all internet usage data will be made available to security agencies when requested. The companies will not be allowed to upload any encrypted files either.

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Elon Musk's legal team has announced that the tech billionaire will be testifying in his defense during the defamation lawsuit that has been brought against him. The suit was filed by a cave explorer who Elon called a 'Pedo Guy' on Twitter. Musk later apologized and deleted the tweet.

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The US Supreme Court has allowed a climate-change scientist to continue with his defamation lawsuit against a conservative magazine that compared him to a convicted child molester. The scientist, Michael Mann, is seeking unspecified monetary damages and originally filed the suit in 2012. The magazine has refused to take down their post several times.

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The World Anti-Doping Agency has suggested that Russia be banned from all international sports for the next four years. Their investigators found that a number of positive drug tests had been deleted from the database they extracted from a Moscow laboratory. If this ban is followed through, Russia will not be able to compete in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

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Bill Cosby, a TV star who has now been convicted of sexual assault, has maintained his stance that he did not commit the crimes and that he feels no remorse. He announced that he will likely serve his full ten-year sentence and will not be released early. In order to get an early release, most sex offenders have to at least show remorse for their crimes.

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Netflix has announced that it has signed an extended lease for New York's Paris theater in order to have screenings and premieres for all of its original content. The cinema was originally opened in 1948 and only showed French films but closed down in August 2019, until Netflix reopened it to show Noah Baumbach’s “Marriage Story".

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An American Professor Tom Nichols called Indian food terrible in his tweet and Indian food lovers were in no mood to spare him. The whole situation became so serious that Indian good delivery giant Zomato jumped in and asked twitter for a dislike button for such tweets. He quoted in his tweet that Indian food is terrible and we pretend it isn’t.

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Further information continues to be leaked about Uighur Muslim detention camps in the province of Xinjiang in western China, amid intensifying global outrage. Activists and experts estimate about 1 million Uighur Muslims and other Muslim minority members have been put in detention camps in the province under terrible conditions. The Chinese government has rejected the information as slander.

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An open letter endorsed by 60 doctors has been released alerting the UK to their opinion that Wikileaks creator Julian Assange might be in such bad health that he could pass away while in prison. The doctor says Assange had several mental and physical health problems and urged the UK government to transfer him to a hospital for treatment.

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Only weeks after the aquatic city suffered record-breaking floods due to high tides, Venice floods again amidst heavy rains. While a manageable level of the tide is considered to be 80-90 cm, in the past month alone, the city has been hit by four tides of above 140 cm, the highest since official statistics started being kept in 1872.

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Michael Bloomberg, 8th richest American with a net worth of 53 billion USD, media magnate and former mayor of New York, has announced his campaign to run for the presidential nomination for the Democratic part. Bloomberg focused on criticizing current president Donald Trump's policies and declared his intentions to defeat him in 2020 and 'rebuild America'.

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Digital payments firm Paytm, planning to diversify into insurance, lending, stockbroking and investment, managed to acquire 1 billion USD in additional funding from investors at a 16 billion USD company valuation. Investors include Japanese company Softbank, which backed the failed WeWork office-sharing venture and recently reported its first quarterly loss in 14 years.

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Transport for London, the city's transport authority, has decided not to renew Uber's license to hire private drivers in the city after discovering that more than 140,000 of the company's drivers were lacked insurance. The decision comes at the end of a probationary period during which Uber was asked to address various issues highlighted by the transport authority, which it failed to address completely.

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Singapore's recently passed Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA) saw its first use for a Facebook post made by Brad Bowyer, a British-born Singaporean, claiming that investing companies Temasek Holdings and GIC were under government influence, His post was tagged by a politician from the ruling party, with Bowyer subsequently being asked to amend his post with the government's reply to his statement.

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In what is being called the most serious art heist since World War II, burglars broke into the Grune Gwelbe (Green Vault) in Dresden, Germany and took hundreds of precious objects, which could be worth up to a billion euros. The Green Vault houses 10 rooms with over 3000 artifacts, including the priceless Dresden Green Diamond, which is currently on loan with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

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The United Nation's World Meteorology Organization has revealed that increases in greenhouse gas levels, such as methane and nitrous oxide, for 2018 surpass the average levels for the previous decade, casting into doubt the efficacy of current climate change measures. The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere also rose from 405.5 parts per million to 407.8 ppm.

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First elections held in Hong Kong after months of protests and Anti-Beijing wave in the country. Pro-Democracy candidates achieved a landslide victory over Pro-Beijing candidates. Pro-democracy candidates won 347 district council seats out of 452. About 2.94 million voters voted in this election as compared to 1.4 million in 2015.

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