World Bank's Malpass warns against hoarding of food or gasoline

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Romania's radical right leader Simion, a Trump fan, sets eyes on presidency
George Simion, Romania's youngest presidential candidate, admires U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and would stop military aid to Ukraine, while his vocal anti-Brussels rhetoric chimes with that of Hungary's Viktor Orban. Simion, who opposes Holocaust education and gay marriage, and wants to reunite Romania with its pre-World War Two territories, leads the hard-right Alliance for Uniting Romanians party and could make it to the run-off in a presidential election that starts on Sunday.
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U.N. court ICC issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu and a Hamas leader
The leaders are accused of crimes against humanity and war crimes over the war in Gaza and the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel.
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Stop & Shop cyber incident leaves some shelves empty ahead of Thanksgiving
A “cybersecurity issue” has left some Stop & Shop and Hannaford grocery stores in the Northeast with their shelves bare for nearly two weeks, just a week before the Thanksgiving holiday.
CBS News
Actor Jussie Smollett's conviction overturned by Illinois Supreme Court
The state's highest court ruled a special prosecutor's decision to re-indict Smollett violated his constitutional rights after Cook County prosecutors previously dropped charges against him.
NBC News
Passengers duct tape man who allegedly tried to open door during American Airlines flight to Texas
A group of passengers on board an American Airlines flight restrained and tied up a passenger with duct tape after he allegedly tried to open an aircraft door mid-flight.
Reuters
Italy moves to replace courts that ruled against its migrant detentions
Italy's right-wing coalition has passed rules to change the courts responsible for validating the detention of migrants, in what the opposition said was a vendetta against judges who recently blocked a plan to send asylum seekers to Albania. The move comes against a backdrop of tensions between Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's government and the judiciary, after migration judges issued orders to bring to Italy people being held in the Albanian camps. Under a proposal approved by a parliamentary committee late on Wednesday, future rulings on migrant detentions would pass from the migrant judges to Italy's regular appeal courts.
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Africa’s junta-led nations use music to push their latest anti-imperialism drive
Thousands from the junta-led countries in Africa’s Sahel region gathered this week in the Nigerien capital of Niamey, with music and cultural displays, to condemn what they called the West's imperialist agenda and to drive support for their military regimes. Delegates from Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali took part in the three-day conference that ended on Thursday. All three nations are nearing the end of their one-year withdrawal process from the West Africa regional bloc known as ECOWAS, which they accuse of being influenced by France in sanctioning them for the coups and of failing to help address the extremist violence rampant across their shared borders.
AFP
Minister among 12 held over Serbia station collapse
A former Serbian government minister and 11 others were arrested Thursday over the deadly collapse of a train station roof three weeks ago in which 15 people died.Prosecutors said 11 people, including a former construction minister, had been arrested, with a 12th person taken into custody later in the day.
CNN
Iceland volcano erupts for the seventh time in a year
A volcano near Iceland’s capital erupted on Wednesday night, becoming the seventh such event in the area since December.
CNN
Ukraine has accused Russia of launching an intercontinental missile. Here’s what we know
Ukraine’s military has accused Russia of launching an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in an attack on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Thursday. Here’s what we know.
Time
How Elon Musk Became a Kingmaker
The world‘s richest man has a lot to gain from Trump’s return to the Oval Office
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The biggest remaining unsanctioned Russian bank hit with U.S. sanctions, nearly three years into war
Russia's third largest bank, Gazprombank and its six foreign subsidiaries were hit with U.S. sanctions on Thursday — in a move intended to curtail Russia's ability to evade the thousands of sanctions imposed on the nation since the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the sanctions targeting Russia’s largest remaining non-sanctioned bank would further diminish Russia's military effort and “will make it harder for the Kremlin to evade U.S. sanctions and fund and equip its military.”
Associated Press
Pope warns the Vatican pension fund needs urgent reform as employees demand transparency
Pope Francis, who has imposed a series of cost-cutting measures across the cash-strapped Vatican, warned Thursday that the city state’s troubled pension fund needs urgent reform to guarantee future obligations. Vatican employees responded by expressing concern that their compensation might be targeted in any further cost-cutting to shore up the pension system, and asked for the fund's finances to be made public. In a letter to Vatican department heads and cardinals, Francis said he had named a top economic adviser Cardinal Kevin Farrell as a special administrator for the fund, suggesting that decisive, immediate action was necessary.
AFP
South Sudan rejects 'malicious' report on Kiir family businesses
South Sudan on Thursday rejected claims by a US-based watchdog that President Salva Kiir's family had built up a vast corporate empire in one of the world's poorest countries.South Sudan is one of the poorest countries on the planet and ranks 177 out of 180 countries on Transparency International's corruption perceptions index.
AFP
Kyiv claims 'crazy' Russia fired nuke-capable missile
Ukraine on Thursday accused Russia of having deployed a ballistic missile designed to carry nuclear warheads for the first time in history which, if confirmed, would be a major escalation of the war.Ukrainian allies have yet to confirm initial assessments from Kyiv's military that Russia had launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
CNN
International Criminal Court issues arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister
The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Hamas official Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri, also known as Mohammed Deif.
Time
The Last Time the Senate Rejected a President's Cabinet Nominee of the Same Party
It hasn't happened for 100 years.
AFP
Spain holds 1st talks with Palestinian govt since recognising state
The Spanish and Palestinian prime ministers signed four agreements on Thursday at an intergovernmental meeting in Madrid, the first since Spain officially recognised the state of Palestine in May.All four officially recognised the state of Palestine earlier this year.
USA TODAY
International Space Station forced to maneuver out of way of approaching space debris
A Russian cargo ship docked at the space station fired its thrusters for five minutes Tuesday to move the ISS out of the way of an inbound object.
Reuters
US suspends controversial asset forfeiture program targeting airline travelers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Deputy Attorney General has suspended a controversial civil asset forfeiture program by the Drug Enforcement Administration that targeted unsuspecting airline passengers and subjected them to potentially unlawful seizures of cash from their bags. The Justice Department's Inspector General Michael Horowitz announced the suspension of the DEA's program by Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco in a new report released on Thursday that raised grave concerns about the program and questioned whether some of the searches were conducted legally. "The DEA was not complying with its own policy on consensual encounters conducted at mass transportation facilities, resulting in personnel creating potentially significant operational and legal risks," Horowitz wrote in a memo to Monaco and Anne Milgram, the DEA administrator.

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