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Saudi sentences five to death, three to jail over Khashoggi killing (TS)
The killing caused a global uproar, tarnishing the crown prince’s image. The CIA and some Western governments have said they believe Prince Mohammed ordered the killing, but Saudi officials say he had no role. Eleven Saudi suspects were put on trial over his death in secretive proceedings in Riyadh.
In the investigation into the murder, 21 were arrested and 10 were called in for questioning without arrest, Shalaan said.
Muslim nations consider gold, barter trade to beat sanctions (Sparky1)
The summit, which was snubbed by Saudi Arabia, was criticized for undermining the Saudi-based Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which represents 57 Muslim-majority nations. Malaysia said all the OIC members had been invited to the Kuala Lumpur summit but only about 20 showed up.
‘I’m Kidnapped’: A Father’s Nightmare on the Border (Sparky1)
A few hours earlier, the 28-year-old migrant from Honduras, whose name is José, had been walking with his son down a street in Reynosa, Mexico, having been turned back at the border by the United States. Suddenly three men grabbed him, shoved a hood over his head and thrust him and his son into a vehicle.
The abduction on Nov. 25 set off hours of intense negotiations as José’s wife in the United States, forced to listen to the sounds of her husband being tortured, tearfully negotiated a ransom over the phone.
The Out Crowd (jdargis)
Reports from the frontlines of the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” asylum policy. We hear from asylum seekers waiting across the border in Mexico, in a makeshift refugee camp, and from the officers who sent them there to wait in the first place.
Eight steps to help your kids start a business (Phil D.)
Products might be slime, lemonade, crafts, or Craigslist arbitrage (looking for free stuff or deals to resell). Services might be cleaning, handyman, dog walking, pet grooming, snow-shoveling, raking leaves, babysitting, tutoring. This is the obvious stuff. Tell them to bring their 10 best ideas to spitball together.
The OM Particle (newsbuoy)
Meteorologists were of the first to recognize the importance of chaos theory and fractal geometry in nature. In 1961, Edward Lorenz, a meteorologist, discovered something very strange while experimenting with his a computer model he was using to model weather patterns. He discovered that small changes to the input parameters of his experiment resulted in huge changes in the “trajectory” of the simulated weather patterns over time. This is commonly refereed to as “The Butterfly Effect”. Butterfly effect is the “sensitive dependence on initial conditions” in which a small change in one state of a system can result in huge differences in the future states of the system.
Newly identified jet-stream pattern could imperil global food supplies, says study (thc0655)
Kornhuber warned that the heat waves will almost certainly become worse in coming decades, as the world continues to warm. The meanders that cause them could also potentially become more pronounced, though this is less certain. Because food commodities are increasingly traded on a global scale, either effect could lead to food shortages even in regions far from those directly affected by heat waves.
Can You Own a Private Jet If You Care About Climate Change? (thc0655)
The aviation industry as a whole is responsible for about 2% of greenhouse gas emissions, United Nations figures show. Private air travel represents only a sliver of that, but your footprint will be lower if you fly commercial. A private jet emits as much as 20 times more carbon dioxide per passenger mile than a commercial airliner, according to Victor, a private jet charter company. Still, no matter how you fly, you’re contributing to climate change. “The first effort is to reduce emissions as much as possible,” says Sarah Leugers, director of communications at Gold Standard, an independent benchmark for carbon offset projects. “But whatever your footprint is, you should be accountable for that.”
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