[UPDATE: Fico won] Slovakia elections: Liberals win against pro-Moscow party - exit polls (www.bbc.com)
Liberals have a slender lead in Slovakia’s elections over a pro-Moscow party led by populist former PM Robert Fico, exit polls suggest....
Pollution fines begin in UP after AQI level increased by 135 points in the last 10 days. (www.amarujala.com)
Hapur News: GRAP implemented from today, fine will be imposed for spreading pollution Hapur. With the change in weather, the level of pollution in the environment has started increasing. The effect of fog has started becoming visible along with pink cold in the morning and night. The AQI level has increased by 135 points in the...
Sorry, Philip: Young Canadians' unhappiness is older generations' fault (www.stoppopulationdecline.org)
Russian-owned cars gather dust at Helsinki Airport (yle.fi)
Twin suicide attacks underline the depth of Pakistan’s crisis (www.theguardian.com)
The scenes of horror pictured on Friday have become all too familiar in Pakistan. This time it was a twin attack. A procession to mark the birthday of the prophet Muhammad and a police station were both targeted by suicide bombers, killing almost 60 people and injuring hundreds more....
With Kremlin apologist leading the polls, Slovakia vote threatens country’s support for Ukraine (www.cnn.com)
Slovaks are voting in a parliamentary election on Saturday, a knife-edge vote that could radically reshape Slovakia’s approach to Ukraine and create deep rifts within NATO and the European Union....
Inflation falls below 10% in Poland for first time since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (notesfrompoland.com)
Ireland: Wind generation exceeds demand for electricity for the first time ever (www.euronews.com)
BYD overtakes Ford, securing 4th spot in global car sales (www.arenaev.com)
Afghan embassy says it is stopping operations in Indian capital (apnews.com)
South Korea has jailed a man for using AI to create sexual images of children in a first for country's courts (edition.cnn.com)
Bill To Legalize Marijuana In Germany Advances After State Representatives Fail To Block It (www.marijuanamoment.net)
The Great Wall of China Has Suffered 'Irreversible' Damage After Two Workers Excavated a Shortcut Through the Cultural Relic (news.artnet.com)
Man linked to Tupac Shakur's killing in 1996 drive-by shooting indicted for murder, AP sources say (www.cbsnews.com)
How should Australia respond to India’s ‘complicated, problematic’ democracy? (www.smh.com.au)
Labor MP Andrew Charlton, whose electorate has the nation’s biggest Indian diaspora community, says Australians should not be hung up on the superpower’s flaws.
Evergrande's chairman has been detained. The company will struggle to survive (www.cnn.com)
After defaulting on its debt two years ago, Chinese real estate developer Evergrande was meant to be restructured and allowed to get back on its feet. But that plan now looks to be in peril, after police detained its chairman as well as staff at a financing subsidiary....
Swedish PM summons army, police chiefs as gang violence rocks nation (www.reuters.com)
Russia pardoned a murderer who put his girlfriend through a meat grinder because he agreed to fight in Ukraine, his mom says (www.businessinsider.com)
A Russian convicted murderer who was sentenced to 11 years in prison after he killed his girlfriend and put her body through a meat grinder has been pardoned after fighting against Ukraine, his mother said....
Beijing wants more openness and less China bashing from Europe: envoy (www.reuters.com)
China’s ambassador to Germany called for Europe to be more open to Chinese investment, urging deeper cooperation in areas such as electric cars and 5G technology after a series of clashes....
Birmingham PhD student guilty of using 3D printer to build ‘kamikaze’ drone (www.theguardian.com)
Mohamad al-Bared used technology at Coventry home to make drone designed to deliver a warhead or chemical weapon for IS...
Thousands of women march in Latin American cities calling for abortion rights (apnews.com)
The streets of cities across Latin America were bathed in green Thursday as tens of thousands of women marched to commemorate International Safe Abortion Day....
Trade between Russia and China is booming so much that shipping containers are ‘piling up’ (www.cnn.com)
Shipping containers from China are “piling up” in Russia amid a surge of Chinese goods flowing into the country as trade soars, a new analysis has found....
Canadian police won't investigate doctor for sterilizing Indigenous woman (abcnews.go.com)
The Canadian government says it is urgently trying to end the forced sterilization of Indigenous women, describing the practice as a human rights violation and a prosecutable offense. Yet police say they will not pursue a criminal investigation into a recent case in which a doctor apologized for his “unprofessional conduct”...
Philippines defending territory, not seeking trouble in South China Sea, president says (www.reuters.com)
Boy, 16, arrested after felling of famous Sycamore Gap tree at Hadrian’s Wall (www.theguardian.com)
A 16-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage in connection with the felling of the 300-year-old Sycamore Gap tree in the north of England....
