Brutal December for Tesla stock continues

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Iran's President calls on Pope Francis to use influence to stop war in Middle East
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian called on Pope Francis to use his influence with Christian governments to stop war in the Middle East, semi-official Fars news agency reported on Wednesday. "Encourage world leaders, especially Christian governments, to prevent the continuation of aggressions made by the criminal Israeli regime," Pezeshkian said, in what Fars described as a message to the Pope. The message was delivered by an Iranian delegation participating in a religious dialogue event held in the Vatican, Iran's government website said.
Reuters
Indonesia can reach net zero emissions before 2050, president says
Prabowo also said Indonesia planned to retire all coal and fossil-fuel-fired power plants within the next 15 years, versus an earlier target of 2056, according to a statement from his office released on Wednesday. Indonesia will build 75 gigawatts of renewable power plants within the next 15 years, he added, echoing a commitment his envoy told the COP29 climate summit last week. "We are also situated along the equator, therefore we have more than plenty of sunlight to fuel solar-based energy," Prabowo told the forum.
Reuters
Erdogan opposes Ukraine use of U.S. long range missiles, urges restraint
Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan opposes a U.S. decision to allow Ukraine to use long-range missiles to attack inside Russia, saying it would further enflame the conflict, according to a readout shared by his office on Wednesday. Ukraine used U.S. ATACMS missiles to strike Russian territory on Tuesday, taking advantage of newly granted permission from the outgoing administration of U.S. President Joe Biden on the 1,000th day of the war in Ukraine. On the same day, Russian President Vladimir Putin approved a policy document that lowers the threshold for Moscow to use nuclear weapons in response to attacks by an enemy using conventional weapons.
Reuters
Uber launches new rides to capitalize on Thanksgiving travel demand
The Uber XXL service, catered toward airport travel, is available in more than 60 airports globally, including 40 in the United States and Canada, the company said. Uber has been looking to reinvigorate demand, as it grapples with a weakening ride-hailing market due to economic uncertainty and high inflation impacting commuters. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said last month that the company plans to capture suburban markets in the U.S. by focusing on features that allow users to reserve and wait for rides.
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U.S. warns of possible Russian retaliation for Ukrainian missile strike
The U.S. embassy in Ukraine says Russia could launch a "significant air attack" on Kyiv after U.S.-made missiles were fired into Russia's Bryansk region.
AFP
New WHO financing mechanism put to the test
The WHO announced late Tuesday that it had raised nearly $4 billion through a new financing mechanism, aimed at securing predictable funding, as shifting political winds threaten cuts from Washington.Regardless of political shifts in Washington, Thornton stressed that the WHO was intent on seeing the "very important" partnership with the United States continue.
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Pope to make late Italian teenager Carlo Acutis the first millennial and digital saint on April 27
Pope Francis said he will canonize Carlo Acutis next April, setting the eagerly awaited date for the late teenager to become the Catholic Church’s first millennial and digital saint. Francis made the announcement at the end of his weekly general audience on Wednesday, saying he would proclaim the church's youngest contemporary saint during the Jubilee of Adolescents at the Vatican on April 25-27. Francis beatified him in 2020 in Assisi, where his tomb draws a steady stream of pilgrims.
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Cuban agriculture reels as Hurricane Rafael worsens food shortages
Cuban farmer Leonardo Abreu clambered over fallen banana plants in a field beside his home, taking stock of the wreckage two weeks after Category 3 Hurricane Rafael ripped across Cuba. His family's pain will reverberate in Cuba's capital, Havana. Nearly 2 million residents there depend on farms like this one, in neighboring Artemisa province, for food.
AFP
Besigye kidnapping: Uganda president's doctor turned rival
Leading Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye has been arrested multiple times, pepper-sprayed, faced spurious charges of rape and treason, and once fled the country in fear of his life.Besigye ran again against his former patient in 2006 but spent most of the campaign defending himself against rape and treason charges that the High Court later found were trumped up.
Reuters
Once again, polls underestimated Trump. Experts only have a hunch why
Following Republican President-elect Donald Trump's resounding victory in this month's election, some U.S. pollsters are scrambling to understand why their surveys once again underestimated his support among American voters. Polls before the Nov. 5 vote had shown Trump trailing Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris by 1 percentage point, according to an average of dozens of national opinion polls compiled by 538, a website on data analysis for politics and sports. With vote tallies nearly finalized, Trump led Harris nationally by 2 percentage points: 50% to 48%.
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Climate change goosed hurricane wind strength by 18 mph since 2019, study says
Human-caused climate change made Atlantic hurricanes about 18 miles per hour (29 kilometers per hour) stronger in the last six years, a new scientific study found Wednesday. For most of the storms — 40 of them — the extra oomph from warmer oceans made the storms jump an entire hurricane category, according to the study published in the journal, Environmental Research: Climate.
Associated Press
Australia won't force social media users to share their personal details when child ban takes effect
Australia's communications minister said Wednesday the government won't force social media users to hand over their personal information to tech companies, as children younger than 16 are set to be banned from the platforms. Michelle Rowland plans to introduce into Parliament on Thursday world-first legislation that would make X, TikTok, Facebook and Instagram responsible for excluding Australian children younger than 16 from the platforms.
Yahoo Finance
Why Nvidia earnings could be a sink-or-swim moment for this bull market
The market rally has been broadening away from Big Tech and Nvidia, its leader. But at the same time, the chip company is still critical to the health of bull market.
CBS News
How Laken Riley's death sent "a reality shock" through a college town
For many students, Athens, Georgia, no longer feels like the safe haven they once thought it was, after the killing of Laken Riley.
CNN
The disputed region of India that bakes bread to rival France
In Kashmir, local bakeries churn out roughly 10 kinds of bread a day, each with its own peculiar ritual and time of day to be consumed.
Reuters
France's Le Pen threatens to topple government on cost-of-living concerns
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Wednesday threatened to seek to topple Prime Minister Michel Barnier's fragile coalition government if her National Rally (RN) party's cost-of-living concerns were not incorporated into the 2025 budget. Le Pen's warning shot comes as she faces a major potential setback, with prosecutors seeking an obligatory five-year ban from public office for her alleged role in embezzling EU funds. If judges convict Le Pen and uphold the sought sentence, she would be barred from running in the 2027 presidential election which many believe she could win.
USA TODAY
Immigrant advocates fear Trump's policy shifts will hurt one group most: children
Family separation, mass deportation and an end to DACA are among the threats to immigrant children that advocates fear Trump will bring in with him.
USA TODAY
'Ultimate betrayal': Susan Smith killed her sons 30 years ago. She seeks parole today.
Amid racial tensions and in a conservative part of the Deep South, Smith falsely claimed a Black man carjacked her and took her sons.
AFP
Kremlin says US 'doing everything' to prolong 'war' in Ukraine
Russia on Wednesday accused the US of prolonging the "war in Ukraine" by stepping up weapons deliveries to Kyiv ahead of Donald Trump's return to the White House.Ukraine meanwhile has fired long-range US-supplied ATACMS missiles at Russian territory for the first time since the White House authorised such strikes, drawing scorn and promises of retribution in Moscow.
CNN
Funeral for former One Direction member Liam Payne to be held in England
Mourners will gather to remember Liam Payne in England on Wednesday, according to PA Media, after the British singer died last month.

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