World News: 14 December 2022

New Zealand bans cigarettes for future generations
The legislation will also reduce the amount of nicotine allowed in smoked tobacco products and cut the number of retailers able to sell tobacco by 90 per cent.
"This legislation accelerates progress towards a smokefree future,” Associate Health Minister Ayesha Verrall said in a statement. 

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Meta sued for $2 billion over Ethiopia violence
Meta has a content moderation hub in Kenyan capital Nairobi.
Hundreds of thousands of people have died in the conflict between the Ethiopian government and forces in the northern Tigray region, with 400,000 others living in famine-like conditions.
Last month, a surprise peace deal was agreed - but recently, there has been an upsurge in ethnically motivated killings between Amhara- and Oromo-speaking communities.

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US winter storm brings blizzards, tornadoes and flood threats
A massive storm blowing across the country spawned tornadoes that wrecked homes and injured a handful of people in parts of Oklahoma and Texas, including the Dallas-Fort Worth area, as much of the central United States from the Rocky Mountains to the Midwest braced Tuesday for blizzard-like conditions.

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Scientific 'breakthrough' in nuclear fusion could launch new era of clean energy
The announcement could mark a major step in creating a form of energy that would not release the gases that are warming the planet and contributing to climate change, but is still decades away from being ready for large-scale application.

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Iran protests: 400 people sentenced to prison over Tehran unrest
Since September 16 when the protests broke out, thousands of people have been arrested. Iran's top security body said on December 3 that more than 200 people had been killed in the unrest.

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Megan Thee Stallion testifies Tory Lanez shot her
Lanez, 30, whose real name is Daystar Peterson, faces charges including assault with a semiautomatic firearm and carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle. On Dec. 5, prosecutors filed a third charge for discharging a firearm with gross negligence. If convicted, he could face 22 years in prison. He has pleaded not guilty to all three charges.

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