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🔮 Le Pen, Melenchon head for run-off as France's political divide deepens, poll shows
PARIS, Oct 12 - French far-right leader Marine Le Pen and hard-left rival Jean-Luc Melenchon widened their lead over other candidates and would face each other in a run-off in all tested scenarios, a poll showed on Monday, stressing growing polarisation as President Emmanuel Macron's era ends.
🔮 BERLIN, Oct 12 - Baerbel Bas, Germany's labour minister and co-head of the centre-left SPD party, will step down from both roles, she said in a statement on Monday.
🔮 Senegal will host the first-ever Olympic sporting event on African soil when it welcomes some 2,700 young athletes for the fourth edition of the Youth Olympic Games from Oct 31 to Nov 13.
🔮 The European Union will use next month's COP31 climate summit to push for agreement on a "package" of efforts to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions heating the planet, an internal EU document seen by Reuters showed.
🔮 Global forecasters have been warning for months that the El Nino in 2026 would likely become the strongest ever observed and the latest record has tumbled even before the episode’s expected peak later in the year.
The warming phase of a natural climate cycle, El Nino raises sea temperatures in the tropical Pacific, triggering changes in weather that can increase the risk of drought and flooding, and exacerbate man-made global warming.
🔮 New York’s notorious Rikers Island jail, long criticised for unsanitary and violent conditions, will miss a deadline for the vast complex to close down, prompting disappointment from activists.
🔮 "Additional weakening is forecast but Simon is still expected to be a strong hurricane as it passes near the coast of west-central Mexico tonight," the forecaster's advisory said.
🔮 The so-called COP17 summit in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, will be a reckoning for the nearly 200 nations that joined the landmark Paris Agreement for Nature in 2022 but have been slow to act on its objectives.
🔮 Start-ups are betting on AI to predict the future
AI generated
NEW YORK – Several start-ups are betting that they can leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to make better forecasts than even the most specialised experts when it comes to topics as varied as stock market movements, the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, or how a Shakira song will perform on music charts.
🔮 Trump on Oct 12 said he considered the ads to be a “positive promotion for our great USA” but that they would no longer be funded by taxpayers, and the White House said this week that the president’s political action committee, MAGA PAC, would fund the ads going forward.
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