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A pair of American veterans, taken prisoner while fighting for Ukraine, said Russian captors relentlessly tortured them to the point where they “prayed for death,” according to a broadcast interview aired Thursday.Andy Tai Ngoc Huynh and Alexander John-Robert Drueke were released last month after spending three months in brutal Russian custody, they told ABC’s “Good Morning America” in their first TV interview since being released. Even after their release had been secured through back channel Saudi Arabian negotiators, their most harrowing moments came at the end of captivity, the former prisoners said. Captors tied them up, blindfolded with packing tape,…

CNN  —  Ukraine has asked its allies to supply it with more air defense systems and ammunition after Russia stepped up its use of “kamikaze drones” in its brutal assault against the country. Kyiv said Moscow has used Iranian-supplied kamikaze drones in strikes against Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Odesa, Zaporizhzhia and other cities across Ukraine in recent weeks, and pleaded with Western countries to step up their assistance in the face of the new challenge. Drones have played a significant role in the conflict since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in late February, but their use has increased since Moscow…

Kroger could announce a deal to buy rival grocery company Albertsons this week, sources told CNBC’s David Faber.Shares of Albertsons jumped and were briefly halted Thursday morning after news that two companies are deep in talks. The stock was up more than 11% in afternoon trading. Kroger rose modestly. The all-cash acquisition may be announced as soon as Friday morning, sources told Faber.Kroger is the largest supermarket operator in the country with about two dozen banners, including Fred Meyer, Ralphs, King Soopers, Harris Teeter and its namesake brand. It has nearly 2,800 stores in 35 states and about 420,000 employees.…

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Is true tech set to become the new true crime? The Playlist, a new “fictionalised” series about the creation of music streaming service Spotify, becomes the fourth drama this year to tell the story of an upstart start-up, following The Dropout (about Theranos), WeCrashed (WeWork) and Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber (about former Uber boss Travis Kalanick). These trace a well-established rise-and-fall arc, but Swedish-language Netflix show The Playlist has no spectacular collapse to document. Nor can it rely on the gravitational pull of a central subject’s outsized ego. Despite courting criticism about royalty payments and the problematic $200mn…

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A jury reached its decision Thursday in the penalty trial of Nikolas Cruz, who gunned down 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in 2018.The trial was to decide whether to sentence him to life in prison or the death penalty. The decision by the 12-person jury was determined about three months after opening statements began July 18 and after the jury received deliberation instructions Wednesday. It will be announced at 10:30 a.m.Prosecutors want the death penalty, while the defense has asked for life in prison. The jury has to reach a unanimous decision for the death…

JOHOR BAHRU: A driver was taken to Johor Bahru’s Sultanah Aminah Hospital after a multi-vehicle accident at the Woodlands Causeway on Thursday morning (Oct 13).  The collision involving four vehicles occurred at about 9.10am. A 30-year-old Malaysian man lost control of the tipper truck he was driving and hit a Toyota car in the middle lane, said the Johor Bahru South Traffic Police division. The Toyota car then hit a trailer truck, which collided with a Perodua car.  “Following this chain collision, a victim who was inside the Perodua Bezza car was stuck inside the vehicle and was later successfully…

How do sovereign debt crises happen? Not gradually, then suddenly. That’s the upshot of new research from Barclays, which has been trying to build a better measure of sovereign bond market stress. Barclays’ gauge is framed on eurozone government bond yield spreads relative to Germany. The default benchmark, the ECB’s Composite Indicator of Systemic Stress, uses euro interest rate swaps. And, according to Barclays, it’s distorted by collateral scarcity in a way that bunds are not. Both the Barclays and ECB graphs show spikes at all the obvious places (the euro area crisis, Italy’s political meltdown, Covid). Where they diverge…

More than 7 million U.K. citizens are on a waitlist for routine care procedures under the country’s state-run health care program, a new record for the country.Of the 7 million people waitlisted at the end of August, 387,257 had been waiting for more than a year to begin health care treatments, according to Sky News. The August waitlist numbers are up from 6.8 million people in July, which was the previous highest record since the U.K. started recording the statistic in 2007.Stephen Powis, the national medical director of the U.K.’s National Health Service (NHS), argued his organization is doing “incredible”…