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    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50373852



    Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi compares the Saudi killing of Jamal Khashoggi to Uber's own failings with self-driving cars.

    Pressed on Saudi links with Uber in a TV interview, Dara Khosrowshahi said: "People make mistakes, it doesn't mean they can never be forgiven."

    Mr Khosrowshahi made the remarks during a discussion about Saudi Arabia's involvement in Khashoggi's murder as part of the series Axios on HBO. When pressed on whether a representative from Saudi Arabia should remain on Uber's board, he said: "I think that government said that they made a mistake."

    He went on: "It's a serious mistake, we've made mistakes too, right, with self-driving and we stopped driving and we're recovering from that mistake."

    He was referring to Uber's self-driving cars, one of which struck and killed a woman in 2018 when it "failed" to identify her as a pedestrian.

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    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50370715



    An Hong Kong officer shot a protester as it was being live streamed. Another officer intentionally drove his motorcycle into a group of protesters. The motorcycle cop will be suspended. The police shooting is the third incident since October first.



    Protesters dowsed a man with lighter fluid and set him ablaze for confronting them. Protesters and plain clothes officers also got into a brawl at a local university.

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    shit is getting lit

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    Bolivian Leader Evo Morales Steps Down

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    President Evo Morales of Bolivia, who came to power more than a decade ago as part of a leftist wave sweeping Latin America, resigned on Sunday after unrelenting protests by an infuriated population that accused him of undermining democracy to extend his rule.

    Mr. Morales and his vice president, Álvaro García Linera, who also resigned, said in a national address that they were stepping down in an effort to stop the bloodshed that has spread across the country in recent weeks. But they admitted no wrongdoing and instead insisted that they were victims of a coup.

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    They were simply "asked to leave by the military," I don't know how people are getting this coup idea

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    Note that he won the election by over 10% over his closest competitor. The allegations of voter fraud are looking pretty weak.

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    https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonNYC/s...697949697?s=19

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    In case there was doubt about her being a racist monster:

    https://twitter.com/IdalinBobe/statu...428990464?s=19

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    https://www.npr.org/2019/11/19/78087...undering-money

    University of Miami professor Bruce Bagley has been arrested for laundering money from Venezuela. He is considered the leading expert on organized crime by the FBI, DEA, DoJ, & Congress and has been regularly cited by the NYT & WaPo.

    Federal prosecutors in Manhattan also accused Bagley of pocketing about 10% of the money — about $300,000 — acquired over 14 transactions between November 2017 and April 2019.

    The 73-year-old is a longtime international relations professor at the university, writing and editing several books on graft, drug cartels and corruption, including Drug Trafficking, Organized Crime, and Violence in the Americas Today.

    But the professor is now being charged with two counts of money laundering and one count of conspiracy.

    U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman said Bagley "opened bank accounts for the express purpose of laundering money for corrupt foreign nationals."

    "The funds Bagley was allegedly laundering were the proceeds of bribery and corruption, stolen from the citizens of Venezuela," Berman added.

    According to the indictment, unsealed in Manhattan federal court on Monday, Bagley began receiving monthly deposits of hundreds of thousands of dollars from bank accounts in Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates, which have both been tied to an unnamed Colombian national. Upon receipt, he would withdraw about 90% of the funds in the form of a cashier's check and hand it over to a second unnamed Colombian national. Bagley would then send the remaining funds to his own personal account.

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    https://www.npr.org/2019/11/19/78090...-arrest-vapers

    The Philippines' President Rodrigo Duterte has announced his intent to ban eCigs & Vaping products. He has called upon the nation's police force to arrest anyone seen using the products.

    The Philippines' Department of Health announced Friday a 16-year-old girl was hospitalized in late October, requiring intensive care. The teenager was later diagnosed with e-cigarette-associated lung injury or EVALI.

    In response, Duterte said he would immediately order a ban on e-cigarettes and ordered authorities to arrest people caught using them.

    Duterte likened vaping to the use of cigarettes and tobacco. Earlier this year, Duterte — a former smoker himself — said that cigarette users "should be exterminated."

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    Fuck YES, Netanyahu has been indicted for corruption and bribery.

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    id like to see ol benny wriggle his way out of this jam

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    Hong Kong Election Results Give Democracy Backers Big Win

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    https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50582101

    The Chinese-owned app TikTok bans a user from the US after she speaks out against China's mistreatment of Uighur Muslims. TikTok claims she was banned for posting a satirical video about Osama Bin Laden.

    The firm said it had now lifted the ban, maintaining it was due to 17-year-old Feroza Aziz's prior conduct on the app - and unrelated to Chinese politics.

    Additionally, the firm said "human moderation error" was to blame for the video being taken down on Thursday for almost an hour.

    Ms Aziz posted on Twitter that she did not accept the firm's explanation.

    "Do I believe they took it away because of a unrelated satirical video that was deleted on a previous deleted account of mine? Right after I finished posting a three-part video about the Uighurs? No.”

    Eric Han, TikTok's head of safety for the US, said Ms Aziz had been banned earlier this month after she posted a video containing an image of Osama Bin Laden.

    "While we recognise that this video may have been intended as satire," Mr Han said, "our policies on this front are currently strict.”

    Mr Han wrote: "Because the user's banned account (@getmefamousplzsir) was associated with the same device as her second account (@getmefamouspartthree), this had the effect of locking her out of being able to access her second, active account from that device.

    "However, the account itself remained active and accessible, with its videos continuing to receive views.”

    But on Thursday morning, the viral video - which has been viewed more than nine million times, across multiple networks - was also removed from TikTok.

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    https://variety.com/2019/film/news/d...an-1203419190/

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    DC pulls poster for a new Batman comic after China complained that it showed support of the HK protesters.

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    Iraq can you be cool for like five minutes man come on

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/...072320596.html

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    Amnesty International released a human rights violations report and looks like the Iranian protests were more serious than was being reported, estimate 200+ protesters were murdered by Iranian security forces.

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    https://www.bbc.com/news/live/business-50631830

    China says that it will waive imports tariffs for some US soybeans and pork, according to the country's finance ministry.

    It said the waivers will be based on applications by individual US soybeans and pork companies.

    The ministry did not specify the exact quantities of the imported products on which the relevant waivers will be applied.

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    Sounds weird.

    Maybe there are Chinese held Soybean/Pork concerns in the US and those are the only ones that will be approved?

    Otherwise it seems silly to leave the tariff in place but waive it for anyone.

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    Knowing the chinese they probably bought some soybean farms in the US at the start of these tariffs and are now working to bring their crops home.

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    https://apnews.com/c586d0f73fe249718ec06f6867b0244e

    629 women & girls have been trafficked from Pakistan to China to be sold as wives to wealthy businessmen. But to maintain business deals between the countries, their governments have been suppressing the investigations.

    Page after page, the names stack up: 629 girls and women from across Pakistan who were sold as brides to Chinese men and taken to China. The list, obtained by The Associated Press, was compiled by Pakistani investigators.

    But since the time it was put together in June, investigators’ aggressive drive against the networks has largely ground to a halt. Officials with knowledge of the investigations say that is because of pressure from government officials fearful of hurting Pakistan’s lucrative ties to Beijing.

    The biggest case against traffickers has fallen apart. In October, a court in Faisalabad acquitted 31 Chinese nationals charged in connection with trafficking. Several of the women who had initially been interviewed by police refused to testify because they were either threatened or bribed into silence.

    At the same time, the government has sought to curtail investigations, putting “immense pressure” on officials from the Federal Investigation Agency pursuing trafficking networks, said Saleem Iqbal, a Christian activist who has helped parents rescue several young girls from China and prevented others from being sent there.

    An AP investigation earlier this year revealed how Pakistan’s Christian minority has become a new target of brokers who pay impoverished parents to marry off their daughters, some of them teenagers, to Chinese husbands who return with them to their homeland. Many of the brides are then isolated and abused or forced into prostitution in China.

    Christians are targeted because they are one of the poorest communities in Muslim-majority Pakistan. The trafficking rings are made up of Chinese and Pakistani middlemen and include Christian ministers, mostly from small evangelical churches, who get bribes to urge their flock to sell their daughters.

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