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Brazil election runoff: Polls open, far-right Jair Bolsonaro favorite to win Voters are widely expected to pick the outspoken Bolsonaro whoʼs promised a strong hand to tackle endemic corruption. During the campaign, the exmilitary man made sexist, racist and homophobic comments. Brazilʼs most polarized presidential election runoff in decades got underway on Sunday morning, and was predicted to see the worldʼs fourth largest democracy swing to the far-right. Polls opened at 8 a.m. local time (1100 UTC) for the countryʼs 143 million voters to choose betweenpopulist ex-army captain Jair Bolsonaroand his leftist challenger Fernando Haddad, a former mayor of Sao Paolo. Strong lead for far-right contender Bolsonaro was predicted to secure 55 percent of the vote, against 45 percent support for Haddad, an opinion poll by Datafolha revealed on Saturday. A separate poll put Bolsonaroʼs support at 54 percent.
Germany accused of ʼmeddlingʼ over Eritreaʼs absent civil liberties Berlin has been accused of being "cynical" about progress made in Eritrea following its peace agreement with Ethiopia. Earlier this month, Germany criticized a lack of human rights reforms in the Horn of Africa country. Eritrea has told the Berlin government to "refrain from meddling" in regional affairs after the African countryʼs human rights record drew criticism in Germanyʼs parliament, the Bundestag. A statement posted on the Eritrean Ministry of Information website on Saturday described a speech earlier this month by German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas as "appalling." Maasʼ comments centered onthe signing of a peace agreement in July between Ethiopia and Eritreato formally end the two neighboursʼ 1998-2000 war.
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Polish president seeks WWII reparations from Germany ahead of German-Polish summit Both governments are set to meet in Warsaw, where reparations could take center stage
A Polish parliamentary inquiry found Germany liable for additional WWII reparations, according to President Andrzej Duda.
Turbulent times ahead as stock markets shudder As global stock markets hit a rocky patch, many are asking if such volatility is a harbinger of worse to come or if this is just a natural market correction. DW looks at some of the key issues shaping the turbulence. Global stocks are set for their worst week in over five years, with important US benchmarks — the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Index — having erased all of their gains for the year on Wednesday. The leading indices in the eurozone are also down significantly. German stocks have slumped more than 13 percent in 2018, while French stocks hit a new low for the year,
bringing losses to 6.77 percent. Italy is down 15.4 percent, UK equities down 9.43 percent and Chinese stocks are lower by 20 percent this year. Group psychology is everything in such situations and as Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at OANDA in London, said, "the mentality of the markets right now means that any reasons to sell are being leaped on." But how far it will go is anyoneʼs guess. Some on the left have been waiting for the market to fold under the weight of its own contradictions for over 150 years, after all. One thing for sure is that predictions will remain free and thus commensurate with their underlying market value.
Who decides the morals of a driverless car? What are the moral decisions that driverless cars should make when an accident is inevitable? And who decides on those programmed answers? A new study opened that question to the public and found some surprising results. While technical aspects of driverless cars have been widely reported and discussed, the debate has now reached the morality of autonomous vehicles. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) published a new survey this week detailing prefer-
ences for the ethical decisions that autonomous vehicles may need to make when faced with unavoidable accidents. Such information could be used to inform the software within driverless cars, as well as the policy and laws in countries where they operate. The results showed a preference for human lives being spared over those of animals. More value was placed on a group of people as opposed to one or a few, and there was an expressed desire to save children before older people.
Georgia votes for president Polls opened in the country of Georgia on Sunday morning to elect the countryʼs next president, widely being considered a referendum on the unpopular ruling party. The hotly contested race has pitted former foreign minister Salome Zurabishvili, supported by the ruling Georgian Dream party, against opposition leader Grigol Vashadze, also an ex-foreign minister. Zurabishvili and Vashadze are among 25 candidates vying to win the largely ceremonial role. Incumbent Giorgi Margvelashvili is not running. The two leading candidates have an almost equal chance of being elected, but neither is expected to get the necessary 50 percent plus one vote to win in the first round, according to opinion polls published ahead of the vote. A runoff between the top two candidates is to be held by December 1.
Helicopter crashes near Leicester Cityʼs King Power Stadium A helicopter belonging to Leicester Cityʼs owner has crashed in the stadium grounds of the British football club. Fans lay flowers outside the clubʼs stadium, but there has been no official statement on who was on board. Fans and members of the public laid bouquets outside Leicester Cityʼs stadium, the morning after a helicopter belonging to the football clubʼs Thai owner, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, crashed in the stadium grounds. The central England club, which won the 2015-16 Premier League championship, said it was assisting authorities with a "major incident" at the stadium and that it would provide more information when it became available.
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Germany: Thousands evacuated over theme park bomb threat Police say a bomb threat that forced the evacuation of a theme park in western Germany was a false alarm. A Halloween-themed event attended by thousands of people was disrupted. An amusement park near the German city of Bottrop was evacuated on Friday evening due to an alleged bomb threat. Some 11,000 people had to leave the Movie Park Germany premises, located in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia, following what turned out to be a false alarm. Movie Park is a seasonal amusement park that centers on famous films. On Friday, the park was celebrating a multi-day Halloween special, which included horror movie screenings, haunted houses, musical entertainment, rides and a childrenʼs Halloween section. Read more: German police face off with environmentalists on way to Hambacher Forest protest At 5:15 p.m. local time (1515 UTC), the park received a call from an unknown individual warning about a bomb.
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Google: 48 employees fired for sexual misconduct Googleʼs CEO has said the company is taking a "hard line approach" in response. Sexual misconduct has become a major issue in Silicon Valley, with 65 percent of women saying they have reported unwanted advances. Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Thursday said the company fired 48 employees over the past two years due to allegations of sexual misconduct. The employees included 13 senior executives, Pichai said in a statement. "In recent years, weʼve made a number of changes, including taking an increasingly hard line on inappropriate conduct by people in positions of authority," Pichai said. Googleʼs announcement comes on the heels of a report by The New York Times that Android cre-
ator Andy Rubin had received a severance package of $90 million (€79 million) after a Google employee accused him of sexual misconduct. But Pichai said that none of the 48 employees fired over the allegations had received "an exit package." "We are dead serious about making we provide a safe and inclusive workplace. We want to assure you that we review every single complaint about sexual harassment or inappropriate conduct, we investigate and we take action," he added.
Taking on plastic pollution with molecular recycling Plastic waste is a big problem. Turning it into new plastic sounds like the obvious solution, but thatʼs trickier than you think. A lot of plastic lives a short life as packaging before ending up in landfills, incinerators or somewherein the environment. But why doesnʼt more of it get recycled? Itʼs largely a problem of economics. "The root of the problem is that plastic packaging today just doesnʼt have any value at the end of its singleuse life," says Miranda Wang, the CEO ofBioCellection, a California-based
startup that wants to help solve the plastic pollution problem. According to Wang, no technology exists that can turn those plastics into something that "is valuable enough to justify the process of retrieving them and doing something with them. This value problem is particularly bad when it comes to polyethylene (PE), which is used to make items like plastic bags, shrink wrap and other disposable packaging. According to a recent study, polyethylene accounts for about 36 percent of the 380 million tons of plastic produced annually worldwide.
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Supermarket price wars leave UK food suppliers close to bankruptcy If one of the worldʼs biggest suppliers of packaged food struggles to win a meaningful price increase from Britainʼs largest supermarket chain, what chance has the rest of the food industry? Two years ago, BritishDutch conglomerate Unilever, which counts numerous brands from Knorr soups to Walls ice-cream in its portfolio, told Tesco it was putting up its prices by 10 percent, partly as a result of the falling British pound following the June 2016 vote to leave the European Union. Despite a so-called Marmite war, which saw the worldʼs third-largest retailer withdraw new orders of a popular Unilever spread made of yeast extract, and a public backlash against the price increases, the two sides quickly settled their dispute. The agreed price hike was never made public; however, Unileverʼs 2016 financial results showed it had achieved just a 3.6 percent price hike from its UK suppliers that year, leading analysts to question whether it had achieved much of a meaningful increase from Tesco.
Man carrying large snake walks through Germanyʼs Dusseldorf train station A man in his mid-30s has become somewhat of an attraction at Dusseldorfʼs central train station as he walked around with a boa constrictor on his shoulders. Police have confiscated the reptile. On Saturday, a 36-year-old man strolled through Dusseldorfʼs central train station with a 1.8-meter-long (5.9foot-long) boa constrictor around his neck. The sight of the man with a large snake on his shoulders caused excitement among people at the station. Police later confiscated the reptile with the help of a fire department animal expert. News Man carrying large snake walks through Germanyʼs Dusseldorf train station Police said the man could not prove he was the owner of the snake. Also, carrying a snake in public is not considered appropriate. Authorities will hand the boa constrictor over to a zoo on Sunday. Until then, it will stay with the fire department. The boa constrictor, also known as the red-tailed boa or the common boa, is a large, nonvenomous snake that is usually kept and bred in captivity. It is often found in tropical North, Central and South America, as well as some islands in the Caribbean.