World News: 17 August 2022

Musk tweet joking about buying Manchester United causes stir
The US billionaire took to Twitter on Tuesday evening to claim that he was buying the Old Trafford outfit. However, Musk, 51, clarified the meaning behind the tweet just a few hours later.

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Scientists warn of dire effects as Mediterranean heats up
From Barcelona to Tel Aviv, scientists say they are witnessing exceptional temperature hikes ranging from 3°C to 5°C above the norm for this time of year. Water temperatures have regularly exceeded 30°C on some days.

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TikTok to clamp down on paid political posts by influencers ahead of U.S. midterms
Critics and assembly adduce TikTok and battling amusing media organizations including Meta Platforms and Twitter of accomplishing too little to stop political misinformation and alienated agreeable from overextension on their apps.

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China cuts power to factories, homes as reservoirs fall
In Sichuan, which has 94 million people, water levels at hydropower reservoirs are down by as much as half this month, according to the Sichuan Provincial Department of Economics and Information Technology.

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Nepal's holy Bagmati River choked with black sewage, trash
Tainted by garbage and raw sewage that is dumped directly into the waterway, Nepal's holiest river has deteriorated so greatly that today it is also the country's most polluted, dramatically altering how the city of about 3 million interacts with the Bagmati on daily, cultural and spiritual levels.

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Traffic builds up along Rhine after vessel's engine failure
The authorities stressed that the build-up on Wednesday was not caused by reduced water levels, which have hit record lows at some points due to a lack of rain.

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