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Meanwhile, an anti-graft crusader, Mr Xi also took to the task of rooting out corruption with a fierce fervour. He famously vowed to crack down on both “tigers” and “flies”, referring to corrupt high-level and low-ranking officers alike.  The fall of Bo Xilai, the former party chief in Chongqing, was a notable example. He was jailed for life for his bribery, corruption and power abuse conviction.  “The anti-corruption campaign has many undesirable effects but it has cleaned up Chinese officialdom and society significantly,” said UM’s Dr Ngeow.  Last year alone, China punished 627,000 officials, from provincial cadres to workers in…

Crisis nightclub’s poster promoting a serial killer themed Halloween night for students was criticised for being “tone deaf” and “absurd”. The event is still going ahead but will now have a general theme The organisers of a weekly university night faced a huge backlash from students after promoting a serial killer themed Halloween event with photos of Jeffrey Dahmer and other convicted murderers. Crisis – which runs a student night every Wednesday at Rock City nightclub in Nottingham – have been forced to apologise, after announcing the Halloween event on its Instagram page on Friday. The initial poster advertised the…

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York.Brendan McDermid | ReutersStock futures are rising slightly Wednesday as investors look ahead to inflation data and earnings in the coming days that may provide insight into the future health of the economy.Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average were up 48 points, or 0.16%. Nasdaq 100 futures added 0.15%, while futures tied to the S&P 500 increased 0.18%.The action follows a day of small ups and downs for the market as investors digested minutes from the September Federal Reserve meeting. The minutes showed the central…

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The former president of the Los Angeles City Council at the center of a controversy over leaked audio of racist remarks announced her resignation from the elected board on Wednesday.In a statement, Nury Martinez said she is resigning from her district seat after nine years.“It is with a broken heart that I resign my seat for Council District 6, the community I grew up in and my home,” she said.“When I ran in 2013, I wanted to see a change in my community and fight for my neighbors. That is what it has been about all along. No one expected…

CNN  —  Willie Spence, a singer who as a teen went viral with his rendition of Rihanna’s hit “Diamonds” and was the runner up on Season 19 on “American Idol, has died the show confirmed in a social media posting on Wednesday. He was 23 years old. “We are devastated about the passing of our beloved American Idol family member, Willie Spence,” read the caption on a video of Spence’s “Idol” audition, posted on the show’s verified Instagram account. “He was a true talent who lit up every room he entered and will be deeply missed. We send our condolences…

Green Bay Packers star quarterback Aaron Rodgers did not practice Wednesday with the team due to a thumb injury. However, head coach Matt LaFleur didn’t appear too worried about the situation, saying, “We don’t have much concern as far as game day,” reports ESPN.After the Packers’ loss to the New York Giants in London on Sunday, Rodgers didn’t seem to be in any pain. But there was the final play of the game, a Hail Mary attempt that was thwarted by the Giants, in which defensive end Oshane Ximines hit Rodgers’ hand as he was trying to heave the ball downfield.…

CNN  —  The Treasury Department’s inspector general is examining Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ flights carrying migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, including whether the Sunshine State improperly used Covid relief funds to transfer the migrants, according to a letter provided to Massachusetts Sen. Edward Markey. Last month, DeSantis claimed credit for a pair of flights carrying migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard. Two days after the flights, Markey, along with six other Massachusetts lawmakers, sent a letter to the Treasury Department’s watchdog requesting an investigation into the funds used to transport the migrants. In response to the lawmakers’ request, Richard Delmar, the…

Some of the Starlink internet devices that had suffered outages have come back online in the past few days, restoring lines of communications in territory recently liberated from Russian occupation, say Ukrainian soldiers and officials.The improvement was recorded hours after the Financial Times reported widespread outages during Ukrainian counteroffensives, two Ukrainian government officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The development was most prominent in the southern region of Kherson, where battles are the most intense, said one of the Ukrainian officials and soldiers on the ground.Kyiv’s troops use the portable devices, which are made by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, to…

While hurricane downgraded to a tropical depression, authorities say it could bring dangerous flash flooding and mudslides.Tropical storm Julia has drenched the Central American nations of Guatemala and El Salvador, killing more than a dozen people across the region and forcing authorities to evacuate hundreds of residents and set up emergency shelters. Julia has been downgraded to a tropical depression, bringing wind speeds of 60 kilometres per hour (37 miles per hour) to Guatemala on Monday, down from 140km/h (85mph) when the storm hit the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua as a hurricane a day earlier. While the storm has started…