Month November 2023

‘Dead’ woman found to be still alive in body bag at morgue: reports

A crematorium worker in Brazil got a shocking surprise after finding a 90-year-old woman still alive inside a body bag after she was pronounced dead, according to reports. According to the Estadão, a Brazilian news source, the whole ordeal began… Continue Reading →

Argentina won’t join BRICS as scheduled, says member of Milei’s transition team

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina will not be joining the BRICS bloc of developing economies next year as scheduled, a senior official in President-elect Javier Milei’s team said Thursday. “We will not join the BRICS,” Diana Mondino, who Milei… Continue Reading →

Pakistani province looks to deport 10,000 Afghans per day

A Pakistani province is setting targets for police to arrest and deport hundreds of thousands of Afghans it says are in the country illegally, officials said Thursday. The measure is part of a nationwide crackdown following a sharp decline in… Continue Reading →

Cristiano Ronaldo faces $1B class-action lawsuit after promoting for Binance NFTs

Portuguese soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo has been hit with class-action lawsuit seeking at least $1 billion in damages for his role in promoting cryptocurrency-related “non-fungible tokens,” or NFTs, issued by the beleaguered cryptocurrency exchange Binance.

Rising labor costs drive up Christmas tree prices by 10%

Shopping for a Christmas tree? Count on spending $8 to $10 more than last year for a compact Fraser fir from the Carolinas or a gleaming “Made in China” plastic pine.

Musk says if Tesla unionizes, ‘we failed’

Tesla CEO Elon Musk reaffirmed his resistance to unionization at Tesla facilities, saying it would mean the company failed.

A new study says about half of Nicaragua’s population wants to emigrate

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Lawyer Isabel Lazo’s jobs are being systematically canceled by Nicaragua’s increasingly repressive government. Lazo worked at a university before the government of President Daniel Ortega closed it. She now is employed at a nongovernmental organization that… Continue Reading →

Brazilian city enacts ordinance written completely by ChatGPT

City lawmakers in Brazil have enacted what appears to be the nation’s first legislation written entirely by artificial intelligence — even if they didn’t know it at the time. The experimental ordinance was passed in October in the southern city… Continue Reading →

‘Z’ author Vassilis Vassilikos dies at 89 in Athens

Greek novelist Vassilis Vassilikos, whose political book “Z” inspired the Academy Award-winning film of the same name, died Thursday in Athens at age 89. The best-known among the scores of books he wrote, “Z” was based on the murder of… Continue Reading →

Former British finance minister Alistair Darling dead at 70

Former British finance minister Alistair Darling, a central figure in the U.K.’s response to the 2008 financial crisis who later helped organize the campaign against Scottish independence, has died. He was 70. Darling had been treated for cancer and died… Continue Reading →

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