• 11/14/2024

EDITORIAL: Time ticking on energy plans

Taipei Times https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2024/11/14/2003826863

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EDITORIAL CARTOON

Taipei Times https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2024/11/14/2003826867

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Republican Senators Elect Thune as Next Majority Leader

New York Times Senator John Thune of South Dakota emerged victorious over a right-wing challenge from Senator Rick Scott of Florida. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/us/politics/trump-senate-thune-cornyn-scott.html

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Two civilians killed, eight more injured in Russian attacks on Donetsk Oblast on 13 November

Pravda Ukraine Two civilians were killed and eight more injured in Russian strikes on Donetsk Oblast on Wednesday, 13 November. Source: Donetsk Oblast Prosecutor’s Office on Telegram Details: The investigators have found that Russian troops targeted the village of Shevchenko in the Volnovakha district on 13 November. A 32-year-old woman sustained fatal injuries. In addition,…

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R.F.K. Jr. Scorns Trump’s Fast Food Habit: ‘Really, Like, Bad’

New York Times Intent on changing the U.S. food supply under the incoming Trump administration, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. passed judgment on the president-elect’s culinary choices during a recent podcast interview. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/us/politics/rfk-jr-trumps-fast-food.html

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Thune wins secret ballot to become new Senate GOP leader, succeeding McConnell

Fox News Senate Minority Whip John Thune will be the new Republican Senate leader and the majority leader of the upper chamber in the new Congress.  In January, he will succeed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who is the longest-serving party leader in Senate history.  “I am extremely honored to have earned the support…

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Israel Navy strikes Hezbollah in Beirut, while spying on distant enemies

Jerusalem Post The navy has, numerous times in the past, acknowledged that it carries out surveillance of Israel’s enemies, sometimes at a great distance. https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-828996

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Timothy West, Who Portrayed Kings and Prime Ministers, Dies at 90

New York Times A staple of British television, he played Churchill three times over a long career. Onstage, he was King Lear, Macbeth and Willy Loman. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/theater/timothy-west-dead.html

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Tallinn Film Festival refuses to cancel screening of film Deaf Lovers by Russian director

Pravda Ukraine The Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) has refused to remove the film Deaf Lovers by Russian director Boris Guts, about a romance between a Ukrainian immigrant and a Russian, from its programme despite calls from Ukraine’s State Film Agency and the Foreign Ministry. “The film will be screened at PÖFF because we…

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Annual inflation in Russia slows to 8.54% in October — Federal Statistics Service

Disclaimer: TASS is Russian government propaganda, and not a reliable news source. According to statistics, food products in October rose in price by 1.23% month-on-month and by 9.03% year-on-year https://tass.com/economy/1871947

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