World News: 27 November 2022

Kim Jong Un says North Korea aims to have the world's strongest nuclear force
The announcement comes after Kim inspected a test of the country's new Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Nov 18, and pledged to counter US nuclear threats with nuclear weapons.
Building the nuclear force is for reliably protecting the dignity and sovereignty of the state and the people, and "its ultimate goal is to possess the world's most powerful strategic force, the absolute force unprecedented in the century", Kim said in the order promoting the officers.
He called the Hwasong-17 the "world's strongest strategic weapon" and said it demonstrated North Korea's resolve and ability to eventually build the world's strongest army.

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Jeffrey Epstein accusers sue the banks that did business with him
Two unnamed women who accused Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse are suing two major banks, JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank. The women claim the institutions ignored “blatant red flags” and provided a “necessary legitimate appearance” as they enabled the late disgraced financier’s sex-trafficking enterprise.
At the heart of both lawsuits is the allegation that both JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank allowed Epstein to continue paying dozens of abused young women for sex and, in turn, profit from his conduct. By providing Epstein with access to funds and accounts, they assert, the banks violated human trafficking laws. (Regulations dictate that banks must know how accounts are being used in order to monitor them for possible criminal activity.)

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Protests in Shanghai and Beijing as anger over China's COVID curbs mounts
Angry crowds took to the streets in Shanghai early on Sunday, and videos on social media showed protests in other cities across China, as public opposition to the government's hardline zero-Covid policy mounts.
China is the last major economy wedded to a zero-Covid strategy, with authorities wielding snap lockdowns, lengthy quarantines and mass testing to snuff out new outbreaks as they emerge.

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Italian rescuers continue search for missing in island landslide
The massive landslide before dawn on Saturday was triggered by exceptional rainfall, sending a mass of mud and debris hurtling down a mountainside toward the port of Casamicciola.
Buildings collapsed and vehicles were swept to sea, with 164 left homeless by Sunday. The island received 126 millimetres (nearly five inches) of rain in six hours, which is the heaviest rainfall in 20 years, according to officials. Experts said the disaster was exacerbated by building in areas of high risk on the mountainous island.

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French man wins legal right to be ‘boring’ at work, gets $3K from company
The French court gave the ruling earlier this month but it was revealed this week. The court said that it was not "everyone's cup of tea to forcibly participate in seminars and end-of-week drinks frequently ending up in excessive alcohol intake, encouraged by associates who made very large quantities of alcohol available", said The Telegraph report.
The court further said it was also not possible for everyone to "engage in practices linking promiscuity, bullying and incitement to get involved in various forms of excess and misconduct".
In its stern order, the court called the company's "fun" culture "humiliating and intrusive practices".

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Panama wildlife conference boosts protection for sharks, turtles
An international wildlife conference moved to enact some of the most significant protection for shark species targeted in the fin trade and scores of turtles, lizards and frogs whose numbers are being decimated by the pet trade.
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, known by its initials as CITES, ended Friday in Panama. In a record for the conference, delegates enacted protections for over 500 species. The United Nations wildlife conference also rejected a proposal to reopen the ivory trade. An ivory ban was enacted in 1989.

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