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• Nausea on Wall Street.
Previously, high-tech technology stocks have fallen. In addition, the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index fell 3.3%, resulting in a 4.4% decline in the overall benchmark for equities. The rout has continued in Asia, suggesting difficulties for the European markets.
Investors worry above all about the growing trade war between the United States and China. The two powers again sparks Tuesday when Belgium arrested and extradited a Chinese intelligence official in the United States face charges of espionage. The official is accused of having solicited business secrets as part of an undercover operation in the United States.
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• An expert in forensic medicine. A lieutenant of the air force.
Turkish officials said that the men had killed Mr. Khashoggi, pictured above by entering the consulate, dismembered him with the help of a bone saw and carried the whole thing out of the building. , all on the order of the Saudi royal court. The Saudi government vehemently denies it.
Republican and Democratic senators have invoked a sanctions law to launch a US investigation.
The disappearance is a personal calculation for Trump's son-in-law and advisor, Jared Kushner, who has cultivated the crown prince as the supreme ally and friend.
• Hurricane Michael roared on the Florida Panhandle as a Category 4 storm, with winds reaching 155 miles at the hour. It was one of the most powerful storms of all time on the continental United States.
Our journalists in the region provide live updates. Above, Tallahassee, Florida, before the worst. The white sand coast has become a screaming and wet hell. At least one person has died, but the extent of the damage is far from clear.
Downgraded to a tropical storm, the system now travels south of Georgia to the Carolinas, still soggy with Hurricane Florence.
Although it is too early to relate the hurricane to global warming, climate change is a triple threat in the long run: more rain in larger storms during the rising seas.
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• lignite.
Also known as lignite, it is one of the dirtiest fossil fuels. And Germany, while a leader in sustainable energy, also leads the world in the extraction and burning of lignite.
A quarter of Germany's electricity comes from this source of energy and around 22,500 jobs depend on coal. Many of these jobs are in the economically fragile.
In order for Germany to meet the commitments made under the Paris Climate Agreement – reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 80 to 95% by 2050 -, it has to face the consequences on livelihoods of a gradual closure of the coal industry. A government commission will meet on Thursday to try to chart a course forward.
But time is running out. A In its report released this week by the US government, it is stated that solving the problem of global warming will require transforming the global economy at an unprecedented speed and scale.
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• "Last last, we are good."
This is the slang of teenage girls in Nigeria, which translates roughly to "At the end of the day, everything will be fine".
Kochu, G.O.A.T. and Ne Ukalaixis were other slang words that we picked up in a vast multimedia project in which girls from all over the world – from Bushehr in Iran to the Bronx – took us into their lives.
Their mission: show us what it's like to be 18 years old in 2018.
• Rebel forces in Syria have withdrawn the last of their heavy weapons from the frontline positions in Idlib province, respecting the deadline for a truce negotiated by Russia and Turkey.[[[[The New York Times]
• Police in Norway sued for attempted murder 25 years ago from the publisher of the Norwegian edition of "The Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie. [The New York Times]
• Bulgarian authorities announced that a man had been arrested and accused of rape and murder of journalist Viktoria Marinova. They stated that there was no indication that he targeted her for her work, refuting the remarks for a political motive. [The New York Times]
• Belfast bakery The Supreme Court of Great Britain ruled that the right to refuse to make a cake with a message in favor of same-sex marriage was denied. [The New York Times]
• Ten people were killed on the Spanish island of Majorca, torrential rains caused flash floods that washed away vehicles and submerged a city in muddy waters. [The New York Times]
• British minister of loneliness has a new companion: a Minister of Suicide Prevention, a position created as part of a major government campaign to combat mental health problems. [The New York Times]
• German historians condemned An editorial by the leader of the Alternative for Germany party, saying his attacks on a "globalized class" echoed a speech by Hitler. [The Guardian]
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• Head to a disco in Munich and you could meet people in nineteenth-century alpine peasant costume. dirndls, lederhosen and others are now raging among the Bavarian millennials.
• It is difficult for plants to reproduce. They have therefore developed clever advertising strategies to bring specific animals to eat their fruits and spread their seeds.
• Oscar Wilde Temple, an art installation celebrating the playwright and poet will open in a former London chapel, highlighting the rights of homosexuals. And in Overlooked, we return to the life of Annemarie Schwarzenbach, a Swiss heiress and adventurous traveler whose writings, as well as her androgynous glamor and troubled life, made her a figure of gay cult after her death.
How does it sound 19 hours on a plane?
Singapore Airlines brings back The longest flight in the world this week, non-stop between Singapore and Newark, aboard a brand new type of Airbus A350.
(From 2004 to 2013, Singapore took the road with a less efficient A340, and rising fuel prices ultimately made this operation unprofitable.)
Although it may be the longest flight at this time, 19 hours is in no way comparable to some of its predecessors.
In 1936, Pan American Airways set up the first passenger service between San Francisco and Manila – via Honolulu, Midway, Wake Island and Guam. The first leg of this trip alone was more than 21 hours.
Just eight days after the beginning of the mail service on this route a year earlier, the Times published the following headline: "CLIPPER TRIMMED CALEDULED TIME; Has reached Manila from Alameda in 59 hours 47 minutes, instead of 60 minutes, Musick said. "
Even in this case, the airlines wanted to organize a trip as fast as possible. Their passengers would probably have liked the TV sets with video on demand.
The ability of airlines to fly fast and direct was and remains limited by fuel. As an analyst at the Times explained when Singapore ended its previous flights between Newark and Singapore, "ultralong-haul flights like this consist mostly of tanker aircraft.
