World News: 28 October 2022

Iran also barred from Nobel ceremony, after Russia, Belarus
The ambassador of Iran also been excluded from this year's Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm because of “the serious and escalating situation” in the country, the private foundation that administers the prestigious awards said Friday.
Earlier this week, the envoys of Russia and Belarus were barred from attending the glittery event because of the war in Ukraine.

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Elon Musk completes $44bn takeover of Twitter
Mr Musk tweeted "the bird is freed" and later said "let the good times roll".
A number of top executives, including the boss, Parag Agrawal, have reportedly been fired.
Mr Agrawal and two other executives were escorted out of Twitter's San Francisco headquarters on Thursday evening, said Reuters.
The completion of the deal brings to an end months of legal wrangling but it has prompted questions over the platform's future direction.

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Taiwan invites Chinese vets to treat beloved panda
Relations between China and Taiwan have been on ice since 2016 with Beijing severing official communications and government visits between the two sides scrapped.
But Taiwan has made an exception after Tuan Tuan, a male panda that was gifted to the island by Beijing in 2008, fell ill in recent weeks and looks to be entering his twilight days.
Taipei Zoo said the Chinese vets will stay for seven days and observe, rather than conduct, health checks.

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NASA space probes document big impacts on Mars
A van-sized object dug out a 150m-wide bowl on the Red Planet, hurling debris up to 35km (19 miles) away.
Scientists detected the event using the seismometer on the US space agency's InSight lander. The probe picked up the ground vibrations.
The post-impact observation shows huge chunks of buried water-ice have been excavated and thrown around the edges of the crater. Buried water-ice has never before been seen so close to Mars' equator.
Such deposits would be an important resource for future human missions to the planet.

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Alaska-Australia flight could place bird in record books
A young bar-tailed godwit appears to have set a non-stop distance record for migratory birds by flying at least 13,560 kilometers (8,435 miles) from Alaska to the Australian state of Tasmania, a bird expert said Friday.
Aged about five months, it left southwest Alaska at the Yuko-Kuskokwim Delta on Oct. 13 and touched down 11 days later at Ansons Bay on the island of Tasmania's northeastern tip on Oct. 24, according to data from Germany's Max Plank Institute for Ornithology. The research has yet to be published or peer reviewed.

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Nicaragua’s Ortega says US sanctions will make more migrants
Speaking at an anniversary ceremony for the country Interior Ministry, Ortega said the United States has imposed more sanctions around the globe than any other country, “causing the greatest harm” and “then complaining about immigrants.”
They were the first comments by the Nicaraguan leader since the Biden administration announced new sanctions Monday.
Together with the Treasury Department’s simultaneous sanctioning of Nicaragua’s General Directorate of Mines, the executive order signed by President Joe Biden all but makes it illegal for Americans to do business with Nicaragua’s gold industry.

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