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2021-10-06 19:53:21 Chicago Woman, Imprisoned in Mother’s ‘Suitcase Murder’ in Bali, to be Released Early

A Chicago woman convicted of assisting her boyfriend in her mother’s murder and stuffing the body in a suitcase on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali in 2014 is being released early from a 10-year sentence, a prison official confirmed Wednesday. Heather Mack, who was 18 when she was arrested, will be freed and deported to the United States on Oct. 29.



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2021-10-06 19:53:19 Zuckerberg Hits back at Facebook Whistleblower Claims

Mark Zuckerberg has hit back at the testimony of the Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, saying her claims the company puts profit over people’s safety are “just not true”. In a blogpost, the Facebook founder and chief executive addressed one of the most damaging statements in Haugen’s opening speech to US senators on Tuesday, that Facebook puts “astronomical profits before people”.



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2021-10-06 19:53:18 Nobel Chemistry Prize Goes to Duo who Developed a Tool for Molecule Building

German Benjamin List and Scottish-born David MacMillan won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for developing new tools for building molecules that have helped make new drugs and are more environmentally friendly. Their work on asymmetric organocatalysis, which the award-giving body described as “a new and ingenious tool for molecule building”, has also helped in the development of plastics, perfumes and flavors.



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2021-10-06 19:53:16 Pope Expresses ‘Shame’ over Church Response Following French Report

Pope Francis on Wednesday called a report detailing decades of abuse in the French Catholic Church “a moment of shame,” and called upon leaders of the Church to ensure “similar tragedies” never happen again. Francis was speaking a day after a landmark report found that members of the Catholic clergy in France sexually abused an estimated 216,000 minors over the past seven decades.



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2021-10-06 19:53:14 Hundreds Gather Outside Passport Office in Kabul to Flee the Country

Chaotic scenes have broken out in Kabul after hundreds of Afghans flocked to the passport office in an effort to arrange documents to allow them to flee the country. Taliban security officials had to beat back some members of the crowd to try to maintain order a day after it was revealed the office would open this week.



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2021-10-05 18:15:13 Climate Science Breakthroughs Win Physics Nobel

Three scientists have been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work to understand complex systems, such as the Earth’s climate. Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi were announced as the winners at an event in Stockholm. Research by Manabe and Hasselmann led to computer models of the Earth’s climate that can predict the impact of global warming.



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2021-10-05 18:15:11 Facebook Says Sorry for Mass Outage

Facebook has apologized for the mass outage that left billions of users unable to access Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger for several hours. The outage, which prevented users from refreshing their feeds or sending messages, was caused by “configuration changes on the backbone routers,” said Santosh Janardhan, Facebook’s vice president of infrastructure, in a blogpost late Monday, without specifying exactly what the changes were.



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2021-10-05 18:15:09 French Clergy Sexually Abused over 200,000 Children since 1950

French clergy sexually abused more than 200,000 children over the past 70 years, a major investigation released on Tuesday found, and its authors said the Catholic Church had turned a blind eye to the ‘scourge’ for too long. The church had shown “deep, total and even cruel indifference for years,” protecting itself rather than the victims of what was systemic abuse, said Jean-Marc Sauve, head of the commission that compiled the report.



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2021-10-05 18:15:07 Taiwan President Warns of ‘Catastrophic Consequences’ if Island Falls to China

Taiwan is committed to defending its democracy against an increasingly aggressive China, the island’s president has vowed, warning of “catastrophic consequences” for the region should it fall. The comments from Tsai Ing-wen, in an essay published on Tuesday, came amid record-breaking incursions by Chinese warplanes into its air defense zone. On Tuesday Taiwan’s premier, Su Tseng-chang, said the “over the top” activity violated regional peace, and Taiwan needed to be on alert.



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2021-10-05 18:15:05 Russian Film Crew Blasts off to Make First Movie in Space

A Russian actor and a film director rocketed to space Tuesday on a mission to make the world’s first movie in orbit, a project the Kremlin said will help burnish the nation’s space glory. Actor Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko blasted off for the International Space Station in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft together with cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, a veteran of three space missions.



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