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The country has been in turmoil since the military ousted Aung San Suu Kyi’s government in 2021, with fighting continuing across many regions and the economy in tatters. To mark Thadingyut last year the junta announced an amnesty for hundreds of protesters detained since the coup, sending families rushing to prison gates and sparking joyful reunions across the country. The junta has so far not announced any amnesty to mark this year’s three-day festival, which ends on Monday. “I pray for people who are displaced,” one woman told AFP amid the slowly-moving crowds, asking not to use her name. “I…

Liberal Senator Hollie Hughes says Labor is “yet again” playing its “class warfare game” with the stage three tax cuts.“The rhetoric around these tax cuts for people earning $200,000 is significantly misleading,” she told Sky News host Chris Smith. “It’s all Australians (earning) over $45,000 who are set to benefit from these stage three tax cuts.” Source: Sky News

The alternative food sector has produced “ecovados” made from broad beans, plant-based beef, chickpea water eggs and California start-up Wildtype’s lab-grown salmon. Algae may beat them all. Its versatility means this aquatic slime can be turned into both food and fuel. Most start-ups focus on microalgae rather than seaweed, aka macroalgae. Microalgae are single-cell organisms. They can be cultivated in freshwater or seawater, in both the light and the dark. The protein content of dried microalgae is higher than that of soyabean — a crop that requires more water to farm and has led to deforestation. Microalgae is already being…

A 17-year-old wanted for murder was arrested when authorities caught him trying to get through a Brooklyn subway turnstile without paying, sources said. Bronx resident Xavier Lowe was wanted in connection with a Sept. 24 gunpoint robbery in the Bronx that turned deadly, according to sources. The teenager, who has a lengthy rap sheet with 13 prior arrests, was allegedly one of several people involved in that incident. Lowe was caught trying to illegally enter the Grant Avenue subway station on Friday at around 6:11 p.m. and cops slapped him with charges including murder, manslaughter and robbery. Source: New York…

CNN  —  On a dark autumn evening almost four years ago, Janie Yoshida was driving her daughter home from high school play rehearsal when she noticed a teenager walking by himself next to a busy road. Tre Burrows, it turned out, was also in the play at Somerset Academy Canyons High School in Boynton Beach, Florida. “I pulled over to the side of the sidewalk and rolled the window down and said, ‘Hey, where do you live? I’ll take you home,’” Janie recalled. The 17-year-old kept insisting he was fine, until Janie put on “my mom’s voice” and demanded: ‘“Get…

UTHAI SAWAN, Thailand: Thai police are investigating a report that a CNN crew inappropriately entered the daycare centre where more than 20 pre-schoolers were slain as they were reporting on the attack, authorities said Sunday (Oct 9). Danaichok Boonsom, head of the local township administration, told reporters as he left the Na Klang district police station that he had submitted his report on the incident alleging unauthorised entry onto the government property, and that police were investigating. “Let the legal process run its course, I don’t want to disclose all the details,” he said. “Let the police do their work…

Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel says the new COVID-19 booster shot is going to help people live “a normal life’. Mr Bancel said he was “not worried” about the slower uptake of booster doses. “I think people are going to get comfortable with the fact that we’ve updated the vaccine,” he said. Source: Sky News

Japan’s latest mental agility puzzle involves looking around this most glittering and delicious of consumer societies, fumbling with the anaemic yen in your pocket and calculating how ludicrously cheap the whole place will feel to a foreign visitor.Morning television show hosts, seasoned economists, TikTok influencers; limited-edition Puma trainers, Samurai Mac burgers, iPhone 14s. Anyone can play, and everything looks (to a holder of dollars buying yen at a 24-year low) like an absolute bargain. Everything, it seems, but the ever-cheap Japanese stock market.Later this week, after two-and-a-half years with almost no tourists, the game will switch from theory to practice.…

A host of F1 stars have slammed the FIA for allowing a tractor on track at the Japanese Grand Prix, prompting a near-miss with Pierre Gasly. Sunday’s race started in extremely wet conditions and Carlos Sainz quickly spun out.A tractor was on the track shortly after as Sainz’s Ferrari needed to be removed from the circuit, with double yellow flags soon upgraded to a red flag.Japanese Grand Prix’It was quite clear’ Verstappen tried to block me says NorrisA DAY AGOOn-board footage suggested AlphaTauri’s Gasly had little time to react to the red flag before he encountered the tractor, fortunately swinging…

Oh, what fun it is to … win! And that’s exactly what three lucky people did as they won $1 million of Terry Bradshaw’s money in last week’s FOX Bet Super 6 NFL Sunday Challenge.A million dollars is a pretty nice chunk of change. As a matter of fact, it’s the amount of money people often fantasize about having. “If only I had a million dollars …”Well, three very lucky football fans got to split a seven-figure jackpot worth a cool mil after winning the Week 4 contest.Terry’s money has officially left the building.Out of almost 800,000 NFL Sunday Challenge…