Indonesia bans coal exports in January on domestic power worries

Indonesia has banned coal exports in January due to concerns that low supplies at domestic power plants could lead to widespread blackouts, a senior official at the energy ministry said on Saturday.
#indonesia #coal #energy

Sudanese forces kill four, raid media house in Khartoum

CCTV footage of the raid shows security personnel attacking employees. The Dubai-based satellite television station announced that several of its journalists were injured in the attack.
#sudaneseforces #raid #journalists

Elon Musk reveals who bitcoin's mysterious creator Satoshi Nakamoto might be

Elon Musk seems to agree with many that hyper-secretive cryptocurrency expert Nick Szabo might be Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious creator of digital currency bitcoin.
#elonmusk #satoshinakamoto #bitcoin

Americans invested a record R80bn in African tech start-ups in 2021

Africa’s technology startups raised a record $5 billion this year as US investors piled into companies that are helping the continent’s tech-savvy and young population conduct financial transactions.
#america #tech #africantech #techstartup

Over 71 000 die of coronavirus in Russia in November

Russia's state statistics agency Rosstat said on Thursday that more than 71 000 people died of coronavirus in the country in November, setting a new fatality record since the start of the pandemic.
#russia #rosstat #coronavirus

UK records warmest ever New Year's Eve

The UK on Friday experienced its warmest New Year's Eve on record with temperatures hovering around 15 degrees Celsius (59 degrees Fahrenheit), the Met Office said. The village of Ryehill in Yorkshire in northern England recorded a temperature of 14.9C at 110 on Friday, breaking a previous record of 14.8C set in Wales in 2011, Met Office spokesperson Stephen Dixon said.
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US shooter had written about plans in books: police

A Colorado man who allegedly killed five people this week had self-published novels in which the main character shoots people very similar to his real victims.
#colorado #usshooter

Truck driver's 110-year sentence reduced after US outcry

A truck driver whose 110-year sentence over a deadly crash sparked outrage had his jail term reduced to 10 years on Thursday. More than 4.5 million people, including reality TV star Kim Kardashian, called for a reduction in Rogel Aguilera-Mederos' punishment, which the judge handing it down noted was the result of mandatory sentencing rules in the US state of Colorado.
#truckdriver #jailsentence

US man shoots dead daughter after mistaking her for intruder

A man in Ohio shot dead his own 16-year-old daughter after mistaking her for an intruder breaking into the family home, local police said Thursday.
#us #ohio

Elon Musk on govt on Mars: offers chance to recreate politics that benefit citizens

Elon Musk says human settlement on Mars could be a second chance to build a better government. The billionaire Tesla and SpaceX CEO told podcaster Lex Fridman in a wide-ranging, 2.5-hour interview that putting humans on Mars is an opportunity to "rethink the whole nature of government, as was done in the creation of the United States" in the 18th century.
#elonmusk #mars #us