World News: 02 March 2023

Whiskey fungus lawsuit forces Jack Daniels to halt building project
A Jack Daniels building project is to be halted after a neighbour argued she was facing a plague of whiskey fungus caused by escaping alcohol vapours.
Christi Long, of Lincoln County, Tennessee, claimed her property was coated in the fungus, which appears as a black crust on surfaces.
It is a growing issue for people in the area, her lawyer told BBC News.

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Iranian schoolgirls ‘forced to watch porn’ to dissuade protests
In recent weeks, members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and the Basij, the IRGC’s paramilitary arm, have reportedly visited girls’ schools in Tehran’s 4th and 5th districts, and shown videos of a sexual nature to discourage them from participating in protests.
Parents from at least three girls’ high schools in Tehran have reported male agents in plainclothes visiting the schools and showing pornographic content, according to journalist and educational expert Nejat Bahrami, cited in the report.

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India G20: US, allies in war of words with Russia
Russia’s war in Ukraine, now into its second year, remained in the spotlight, as expected, as the foreign ministers of G20 countries came together for a day-long meeting in New Delhi. Russia describes its action in Ukraine as a special military operation to eliminate security threats.

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More than half of Argentina left without power after fire affects national grid
Buenos Aires and other major cities in Argentina were left in the dark Wednesday afternoon.
A large power outage, affecting more than half of the country was set off when a fire struck the its national electricity grid, BBC News reported.

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Vietnam's parliament elects Thuong as new president
Thuong's election follows the sudden resignation in January of his predecessor Nguyen Xuan Phuc, whom the party blamed for "violations and wrongdoing" by officials under his control, in what was seen as a major escalation of the country's "blazing furnace" anti-corruption crackdown.

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Bogus copyright complaints seek to remove negative reports on minister and lawyer
Bogus copyright infringement complaints, made under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and sent to the host web servers of news outlets, have resulted in articles being taken offline for weeks at a time.
At least five articles about Gabriel Mbaga Obiang Lima, the son of Equatorial Guinea’s president and its new minister of planning and economic diversification, and the attorney NJ Ayuk, have been targeted by such complaints.

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