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A new Covid-19 wave appears to be brewing in Europe as cooler weather arrives, with public health experts warning that vaccine fatigue and confusion over types of shots available will likely limit booster uptake. Omicron subvariants BA.4/5 that dominated this summer are still behind the majority of infections, but newer Omicron subvariants are gaining ground. Hundreds of new forms of Omicron are being tracked by scientists, World Health Organization (WHO) officials said this week. WHO data released late on Wednesday showed that cases in the European Union reached 1.5 million last week, up 8% from the prior week, despite a…

Kyiv, Ukraine CNN  —  Russia’s legislature on Monday began the process of approving President Vladimir Putin’s decision to annex four parts of Ukraine, despite the fact that the Kremlin is not in full control of those regions and has not settled upon the exact boundaries of the territories it is attempting to absorb. Legislative approval of the annexation, which is illegal under international law, is expected to be a formality, although it will take a couple of days. Putin and his allies effectively control both branches of the Russian legislature, and the space for political dissent in Russia has shrunk…

Jacob Foster, 29, was convicted of killing a 25-year-old charity worker after shoving her off a pier last year for “a bit of fun”, but still hasn’t discovered his sentence due to a delay in social work reportsA man found guilty of killing a stranger after pushing her from a pier for a “bit of fun” is still walking free after a judge said he needed more information. Jacob Foster, 29, shoved 25-year-old Charmaine O’Donnell into the water last year as she enjoyed a day out with friends. The charity worker plunged to her death at Helensburgh Pier in Scotland,…

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The water slipped in through the walls first, before there was a loud boom and it came spilling into the bedrooms of Jennifer Rosa Rivera’s apartment around 3 a.m. on Sept. 29 as Hurricane Ian ravaged Florida. Rosa Rivera, 31, and her partner, Guillermo Cuero, faced a difficult choice to protect their 8-month-old baby, 9-year-old daughter and 8-year-old son. Should they stay or risk fleeing into the black waters surrounding their apartment complex in Kissimmee, in Osceola County?By the time the water reached their knees and kept coming, the children began to panic. Cuero swaddled their infant close to his…

CNN  —  During the past seven days, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has basked in celebrations tied to her historic investiture and, in the newly reopened courtroom, become a dynamic presence at oral arguments. Now, on Friday, in a small, oak-paneled room off the chambers of Chief Justice John Roberts, she will be the ninth and last justice to have her say on how the cases heard should be decided. And she will confront the reality that today’s court is dominated by a 6-3 conservative-liberal majority, and she is one of the three. In the public arguments leading up…

The logo of cryptocurrency exchange Binance displayed on a phone screen.Jakub Porzycki | NurPhoto via Getty ImagesCryptocurrency exchange Binance suspended its blockchain network Friday after hackers made off with more than $100 million worth of its BNB token.Binance said a cross-chain bridge linking with its Binance Smart Chain (BSC) was targeted, enabling hackers to move BNB tokens off the network. So-called cross-chain bridges are tools that allow the transfer of tokens from one blockchain to another.The company said it had worked with transaction validators to pause creation of new blocks on BSC, suspending all transaction processing while a team of…

The U.S. Federal Reserve has been raising rates too quickly, and recession risks will be “extremely” high if it continues to do so, said Jeremy Siegel, professor emeritus of finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.”They should have started tightening much, much much earlier,” he told CNBC’s “Street Signs Asia” on Friday. “But now I fear that they’re slamming on the brakes way too hard.”Siegel said he was one of the first to warn of the Fed’s “inflationary policies” in 2020 and 2021, but “the pendulum has swung too far in the other direction.””If they stay as…