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Facebook to shut down face-recognition system, delete data

JUSTIN MARK November 3, 2021 No Comments

**NOV 3, 2021 @ 1430 GMT | FILE** – The thumbs up Like logo is shown on a sign at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., on April 14, 2020. Lawmakers are getting creative as they introduce a slew of bills intended to take Big Tech down a peg and the proposed legislation targeting personal data collected from young people could hit the bottom line of the social media companies. **(AP File Photo)**

RHODE ISLAND, United States (AP) — Facebook said it will shut down its face-recognition system and delete the faceprints of more than 1 billion people amid growing concerns about the technology and its misuse by governments, police and others.

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Youngkin wins Virginia governor’s race, jolting Democrats

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**NOV 3, 2021 @ 1830 GMT** | Supporters of Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin gather for an election night party in Chantilly, Va., Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021. (AP Photo)

RICHMOND, United States (AP) — Glenn Youngkin won the Virginia governor’s race early Wednesday, tapping into culture war fights over schools and race to unite former President Donald Trump’s most fervent supporters with enough suburban voters to become the first Republican to win statewide office here in 12 years.

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Leaders dial up doomsday warning to kick-start climate talks

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**NOV 2, 2021 @ 1945 GMT** | Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II makes a video message to attendees of an evening reception to mark the opening day of the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit, in Glasgow, Scotland, Monday, Nov. 1, 2021. The U.N. climate summit in Glasgow gathers leaders from around the world, in Scotland’s biggest city, to lay out their vision for addressing the common challenge of global warming. **(AP Photo)**

GLASGOW, United Kingdom (AP) — World leaders turned up the heat and resorted to end-of-the-world rhetoric Monday in an attempt to bring new urgency to sputtering international climate negotiations.

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Indonesia first to greenlight Novavax COVID-19 vaccine

JUSTIN MARK November 1, 2021 No Comments

**NOV 1, 2021 @ 1630 GMT** | An elderly man receives a shot of the COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination campaign at a community health center in Tangerang on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021. Biotechnology company Novavax said Monday that Indonesia has given the world’s first emergency use authorization for its COVID-19 vaccine, which uses a different technology than currently used shots. (AP Photo)

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Biotechnology company Novavax said Monday that Indonesia has given the world’s first emergency use authorization for its COVID-19 vaccine, which uses a different technology than current shots.

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‘Last, best hope:’ Leaders launch crucial UN climate summit

JUSTIN MARK October 31, 2021 No Comments

**OCT 31, 2021 @ 1730 GMT** | The flags of Britain and the U.N. stand next to each other in the conference room before the Procedural Opening of the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021. The U.N. climate summit in Glasgow formally opens Sunday, a day before leaders from around the world gather in Scotland’s biggest city to lay out their vision for addressing the common challenge of global warming. (AP Photo)

GLASGOW, United Kingdom (AP) — A crucial U.N. climate summit opened Sunday amid papal appeals for prayers and activists’ demands for action, kicking off two weeks of intense diplomatic negotiations by almost 200 countries aimed at slowing intensifying global warming and adapting to the climate damage already underway.

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G-20 make mild pledges on climate neutrality, coal financing

JUSTIN MARK October 31, 2021 No Comments

ROME, Italy (AP) — Leaders of the world’s biggest economies agreed Sunday to stop funding coal-fired power plants in poor countries and made a vague commitment to seek carbon neutrality “by or around mid-century” as they wrapped up a Rome summit before the much larger United Nations climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland.

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In the middle of a crisis, Facebook Inc. renames itself Meta

JUSTIN MARK October 29, 2021 No Comments

**OCT 29, 2021 @ 1545 GMT** | Facebook employees take a photo with the company’s new name and logo outside its headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021, after the company announced that it is changing its name to Meta Platforms Inc. (AP Photo)

CALIFORNIA, United States (AP) — Like many companies in trouble before it, Facebook is changing its name and logo.

Facebook Inc. is now called Meta Platforms Inc., or Meta for short, to reflect what CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday is its commitment to developing the new surround-yourself technology known as the “ metaverse.” But the social network itself will still be called Facebook.

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Venezuela sought to swap Americans for Maduro ally

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**OCT 28, 2021 @ 1440 GMT | FILE** – In this Sept. 9, 2021 file photo, pedestrians walk near a poster asking for the freedom of Colombian businessman and Venezuelan special envoy Alex Saab, and that reads in Spanish “They haven’t been able to bend him,” in Caracas, Venezuela. Venezuela’s government quietly offered in 2020 to release imprisoned Americans, the so-called Citgo 6 along with two former Green Berets tied to a failed cross border raid, in exchange for the U.S. letting go Saab, a key financier of President Nicolás Maduro, who was extradited to Miami in Oct. 2021. (AP File Photo)

MIAMI, United States (AP) — Venezuela’s government quietly offered last year to release imprisoned Americans in exchange for the U.S. letting go a key financier of President Nicolás Maduro, according to people with knowledge of the proposal and message exchanges seen by The Associated Press.

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WHO: Europe had most COVID-19 cases, deaths over last week

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**OCT 27, 2021 @ 1800 GMT | FILE** – In this April 15, 2020 file photo, the logo and building of the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The U.N. health agency says Europe stood out as the only major region worldwide to report an increase in both coronavirus cases and deaths over the last week, with double-digit percentage increases in each. The World Health Organization said Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021 that cases in its 53-country European region, which includes former Soviet republics in Central Asia, recorded an 18% increase in COVID-19 cases over the last week. (Keystone via AP, file)

GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) — Europe stood out as the only major region worldwide to report an increase in both coronavirus cases and deaths over the last week, with double-digit percentage increases in each, the U.N. health agency said Wednesday.

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US, China sparring over Taiwan heats up anew

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**OCT 27, 2021 @ 1800 GMT | FILE** – In this Aug. 27, 2021, file photo provided by U.S. Coast Guard, Legend-class U.S. Coast Guard National Security Cutter Munro (WMSL 755) transits the Taiwan Strait during a routine transit with Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyer USS Kidd (DDG 100). The United States and China are stepping up their war of words over Taiwan in a long-simmering dispute that has significant implications for the power dynamic in the Indo-Pacific and beyond. (U.S. Coast Guard via AP, File)

WASHINGTON, United States (AP) — The United States and China are stepping up their war of words over Taiwan in a long-simmering dispute that has significant implications for the power dynamic in the Indo-Pacific and beyond.

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