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 Far-right extremists flee from Telegram to SimpleX over privacy features
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App that doesn’t require users’ emails or phone numbers secured over $1m in funding with help from Jack DorseySome far-right extremists have fled Telegram for a new haven: SimpleX, a messaging service that just secured over $1m in funding with the help of Jack Dorsey, once the CEO of Twitter, now known as X.The migration from Telegram began after the app’s founder and chief executive, Pavel Durov, announced a crackdown on illegal content and cooperation with law enforcement requests. Just weeks ago, Durov was arrested in France on a litany of charges that allege Telegram helped spread child sexual abuse material and fuelled criminal activities among its users. Continue reading...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/04/telegram-simplex-far-right 
 Stage B of the war began - and again without strategy
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After a year of a campaign focused on Gaza, the main effort shifted to the north, with growing friction with Iran. The current stage requires Israel to deeply study the lessons of the Gaza war: it also began with promises to dismantle Hamas, and a year later it was stuck without a decision. It's important not to get stuck in a similar reality in Lebanon.

https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/bjhm2t2ac 
 Parents turn in their kids after LAPD shares nearly 200 surveillance images of 7-Eleven mob robberies by 'youthful males'
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A handful of parents turned in their kids after Los Angeles police shared nearly 200 surveillance images of recent 7-Eleven mob robberies by "youthful males."Blaze News has been reporting about the 7-Eleven heists on bikes. In August, a mob of about 20 individuals pulled off three nighttime smash-and-grab robberies in a span of 20 minutes. Last month, 50 juveniles on bicycles easily ransacked and robbed a 7-Eleven in Los Angeles and escaped police.Police said 13 of the 14 incidents have occurred on Friday evenings.Police said the suspects enter the stores in the evening, remove merchandise, damage property, and flee on their bicycles without paying. Police said the incidents have been captured on security surveillance video, and the suspects have been described as youthful males, possibly teens, varying in ethnicity and physicality. Here's cell phone video of one incident.Police said the suspects on several occasions physically pushed witnesses during the criminal takeovers with "no regard" for others' safety. Police added that although no injuries have been reported, several witnesses "continue to fear for their safety after such aggressive and callous criminal behavior."Last week police unveiled a more extensive rundown of the "flash robberies" at 7-Elevens, saying they involve 20 to 40 suspects on bicycles who began targeting the stores on July 12. Police said all of the 7-Elevens are within a short distance of each other in the Rampart, Hollywood, Wilshire, and West LA Divisions. Police said 13 of the 14 incidents have occurred on Friday evenings.What's more, police in their news release last week included nearly 200 images of suspects captured on surveillance cameras from various robberies.Catching a breakKTLA-TV reported that Assistant LAPD Chief Blake Chow on Tuesday told the L.A. Board of Police Commissioners that the new release generated numerous tips from the public that led to arrests.KTLA said the day after the news release was published, a parent brought in a juvenile who was involved in one of the robberies, according to Chow. He added that two other parents also turned in their kids on Saturday and Sunday, the station noted, adding that in each instance the child was booked for robbery.Investigators learned through interviews that many of the juveniles involved in the 7-Eleven flash robberies were not from the neighborhoods where the crimes took place, Chow told KTLA.More arrests are anticipated as anonymous tips continue to come in and school resource officers work to identify other juveniles involved, he added to the station.You can view a video report here about the incidents.Those with information are urged to contact 1-877-LAPD-24-7 (1-877-527-3247), KTLA said. Those wishing to remain anonymous can call the L.A. Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (800-222-8477) or go to www.lacrimestoppers.org, the station added. Tipsters may also download the “P-3 Tips” mobile application and select the L.A. Regional Crime Stoppers as their local program, KTLA reported.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

https://www.theblaze.com/news/parents-turn-in-their-kids-after-lapd-shares-nearly-200-surveillance-images-of-7-eleven-mob-robberies-by-youthful-males 
 iPhone 17 Air could force Pro users to give up these five things
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Next year’s iPhone 17 Air has a better chance than ever to draw users away from the Pro models. The strong iPhone 16 base model has done that for some this year. But the ultra-thin, futuristic 17 Air could spark a fresh wave of users abandoning the Pro line. Here are the five things Pro users may have to give up to switch to the iPhone 17 Air.  more…

https://9to5mac.com/2024/10/02/iphone-17-air-could-force-pro-users-to-give-up-these-five-things/ 
 SEC Enforcement Director Gurbir Grewal Is Leaving the Agency
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Gurbir Grewal, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) director of enforcement, is stepping down and departing the agency, according to a Wednesday press release.

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/10/02/sec-enforcement-director-gurbir-grewal-is-leaving-the-agency/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines 
 Vance oozed confidence compared to jittery Walz, body language expert says: ‘Captain of the ship’
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Sen. JD Vance of Ohio and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's body language sharply contrasted with one another at Tuesday's debate, a body language expert says.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/vance-oozed-confidence-compared-jittery-walz-body-language-expert-says-captain-ship 
 Congo plans to come to terms with Lukoil on projects in six months — minister
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This refers to offshore projects and Lukoil is interested in becoming their operator, Bruno Jean-Richard Itoua said

https://tass.com/economy/1848831 
 67 killed, injured in Israeli strike on Beirut (+VIDEO)
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TEHRAN, Sep. 20 (MNA) – At least 67 people, including several children, were killed and injured in an Israeli attack on Beirut's Dahieh on Friday.

https://en.mehrnews.com/news/221585/67-killed-injured-in-Israeli-strike-on-Beirut-VIDEO 
 Pezeshkian visits wounded victims of Lebanon terrorist attack
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TEHRAN, Sep. 20 (MNA) – Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian visited several wounded victims of the recent Israeli terrorist attack in Lebanon, who have been transferred to the Iranian hospitals.

https://en.mehrnews.com/news/221578/Pezeshkian-visits-wounded-victims-of-Lebanon-terrorist-attack 
 Mexican President Blames America for Violence After U.S. Arrests Two Cartel Leaders
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Last July, the U.S. arrested two high-ranking members of the Sinaloa cartel. The resulting bloodbath in the Sinaloa capital of Culiacan has seen 30 bodies drop in just the last week as two rival factions struggle for control.

https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2024/09/20/mexican-president-blames-america-for-violence-after-us-arrests-two-cartel-leaders-n4932693 
 Parents urged to get young children flu vaccine
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The flu vaccine is given to most children as a quick, painless spray up the nose, with no injection.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g5dlndd5do 
 Nicaraguan congress gives legal footing to practice of prosecuting exiles and seizing their property
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Nicaragua’s Sandinista-controlled National Assembly has approved criminal code changes that allow the government to try opponents in absentia and seize the assets of the condemned

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/nicaraguan-congress-legal-footing-practice-prosecuting-exiles-seizing-113365466 
 Suspect in Gymnast’s Killing Identified as Former Wrestler
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University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and Whitewater PoliceA 23-year-old Loves Park, Illinois man was arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of University of Wisconsin-Whitewater national title-winning gymnast Kara Welsh, 21, on Saturday, according to police. Police wrote in a statement that on Friday, they responded to a report of an “individual who had suffered a gunshot wound,” adding “upon arrival, officers found a deceased 21-year-old female who had sustained multiple gunshot wounds.” Investigators “determined that leading up to the shooting, an altercation had occurred between the two” and “the male was detained.”The man was identified as Chad T. Richards by Whitewater police in a Facebook post on Tuesday, a former wrester at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, reported 620WTMJ. Police said that they have “forwarded the following charges to the Walworth County District Attorney’s Office: first-degree intentional homicide, endangering safety by the use of a dangerous weapon and disorderly conduct while armed.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/suspect-in-gymnast-kara-welshs-killing-identified-as-former-university-of-wisconsin-whitewater-wrestler 
 Young Palestinian whose coverage of Gaza's destruction went viral arrives in Lebanon to pursue master's degree
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A young Palestinian journalist whose coverage of the widespread destruction and humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip went viral now watches the war from afar in Lebanon.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/young-palestinian-whose-coverage-of-gazas-destruction-went-viral-arrives-in-lebanon-to-pursue-masters-degree 
 Monday in Gun-Controlled NYC: Five Shot During West Indian Day Parade
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Five people were shot, one fatally, during New York City's West Indian Day Parade on Monday around 1:45 p.m. The post Monday in Gun-Controlled NYC: Five Shot During West Indian Day Parade appeared first on Breitbart.

https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2024/09/03/monday-gun-controlled-nyc-five-shot-west-indian-day-parade/ 
 Wildfires in Brazil leave at least 2 dead in Sao Paulo sate. Dozens of cities are on high alert
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Local authorities in Brazil say that wildfires in Brazil’s southern Sao Paulo state have killed at least two people

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/wildfires-brazil-leave-2-dead-sao-paulo-sate-113126582 
 Kamala Harris' joy to the world schtick is done. Now, it's time for legacy media to do serious journalism
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The public should be cynical about all this 'joyful warrior' coverage, which underlines how the news networks have used the 'news' to sound more like positive advertising.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/kamala-harris-joy-world-schtick-done-now-its-time-legacy-media-do-serious-journalism 
 Germany plans $3.7 billion program to help decarbonize industry, including carbon storage
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The German government has announced plans to provide about 3.3 billion euros ($3.7 billion) in funding for projects to make industry more climate-friendly, including by storing carbon dioxide underground at offshore sites

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/germany-plans-37-billion-program-decarbonize-industry-including-113097637