World News: 24 December 2022

US winter storm: Icy blast hits 200 million Americans
More than 1.5 million people lost power and thousands of flights were cancelled on Friday.
The vast storm extends more than 2,000 miles (3,200km) from Texas to Quebec.
A bomb cyclone, when atmospheric pressure plummets, has brought blizzard conditions to the Great Lakes on the US-Canada border.

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Tunisia’s political experiment threatens economic collapse
Tunisia’s increasingly authoritarian president appears determined to upend the country’s political system. The strategy is not only threatening a democracy once seen as a model for the Arab world, experts say it is also sending the economy toward a tailspin.
The International Monetary Fund has frozen an agreement meant to help the government get loans to pay public sector salaries and fill budget gaps aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the fallout from Russia’s war in Ukraine.

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Akon’s Wakanda, grazing goats and a crumbling crypto dream
Akon City was initially compared in the press with Wakanda, the amazing African metropolis featured in the Black Panther movies and comic books. Phase one of the city containing roads, a campus, a mall, residences, hotels, a police station, a school, a waste facility and a solar power plant was supposed to be complete by the end of 2023. But after multiple delays, little on the ground appears to have changed since the launch ceremony.

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Kurds, antiracism groups gather after deadly Paris shooting
Kurdish activists said they had recently been warned by police of threats to Kurdish targets.
In 2013, three women Kurdish activists, including Sakine Cansiz, a founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, were found shot dead at a Kurdish center in Paris.

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Woman tied to hook and abused - jailed Iran activist
Narges Mohammadi said such assaults had become more common in recent protests.
She is serving a lengthy sentence in Tehran's notorious Evin prison.

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Tory Lanez found guilty of shooting Megan Thee Stallion
The charges stem from a dispute that took place on July 12, 2020, after the rappers left a pool party at Kylie Jenner's house in Los Angeles. Lanez, real name Daystar Peterson, stood trial for three felony charges; assault with a semi-automatic firearm, possession of a concealed, unregistered firearm, negligent discharge of a firearm. Peterson, 30, was accused of assaulting Megan Thee Stallion, real name Megan Pete, by shooting her in both feet after an argument in a vehicle leaving the party spilled out onto the street around 4 a.m.

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