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A recent series of bank holdups in Lebanon has gone viral on social media. Desperate depositors storm banks, sometimes with guns, and demand tellers hand over their own money. There are limits on withdrawals from 2019 and frustration is growing as the financial crisis there deepens. Sally Hafez, a woman who held up a bank with a toy gun to raise money for her sister’s cancer treatment, has been in hiding since videos of her robbery went viral last week....

Stockholm/Kopenhagen. Die vorgezogenen Parlamentswahlen in Dänemark waren am Dienstag von großer Unsicherheit geprägt. Auch den neusten Umfragen traute niemand. Von den mehr als vier Millionen Wahlberechtigten überlegten noch eine Million, wen sie wählen sollten. Die Wahllokale schlossen um 20 Uhr, die Exit Polls ergaben dann zumindest ein etwas verlässlicheres Bild. Die Sozialdemokratin Mette Frederiksen, die seit drei Jahren eine Minderheitsregierung führt, dürfte laut Exit-Umfragen als erste das Mandat zur Regierungsbildung von Königin Margrethe II....

Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily update on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email Liz Truss had accepted she would have to stand down even before she was told how many Tory MPs had submitted letters of censure against her, the chair of the supporters’ group has revealed. Sir Graham Brady suggested to the then prime minister he knew her time at No 10 was doomed and that she had decided not to play before explaining to him how unhappy the fans were – all of which made his job easier....

The weather service has issued three snowfall warnings for these areas. Read more: The windstorm BC wipes out power for over 100,000 “A low pressure system will approach the South Coast of BC (Saturday night) bringing rain and snow to the region,” Environment Canada said in a warning. Wet snow is expected to fall around sea level, but snow accumulation will likely be around 100 meters in elevation. In Metro Vancouver, 5 to 10 cm of snow is expected, with Howe Sound expecting about 15 cm and the Chilcotin about 10 to 20 cm....

Empire, which owns Sobeys, Lawtons, IGA, Safeway, Farm Boy, Foodland and FreshCo, among other brands, announced Monday that an IT problem is preventing some of its pharmacies from filling prescriptions. The issue has also caused some services to lag or run only intermittently. A press release from the company said it was working to fix the problem, but could not estimate when all services would be restored. “At Sobeys, exceeding the needs of our customers is always our top priority,” CEO Pierre St-Laurent said in the press release....

The death toll from the crash at a packed Halloween party on Saturday has risen to 156 with 151 injured, 29 of them seriously. At least 26 citizens from 14 countries were among the dead. Tens of thousands of revelers – many in their teens and twenties and dressed in costumes – crowded the narrow streets and alleys of the popular Itaewon district for the first nearly unlimited Halloween celebrations in three years....

Why it matters: Isgur’s comments on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday are the latest among GOP members, as well as some Trump allies, to voice opposition to some of the president’s claims about materials discovered during the Mar-a. -Search for Lago. The latest opposition came after Trump claimed last week that the president has the power to declassify documents “on the thought of it.” What they’re saying: Isgur called it “exciting” that the Trump team has chosen US District Judge Raymond Dearie, who served on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and has dealt so much with classified material, as one of its special candidates gentlemen....

Kendra AndrewsESPN BOSTON – Stephen Curry is not one to express emotions during a game. But in the Golden State Warriors’ 107-97 victory over the Boston Celtics in Game 4 of the NBA Finals, Curry wore his heart up his sleeve all night. At the end of the first ten minutes, after scoring three points with two points, Carrie ran to the opposite end of the field and started shouting at the Boston fans – something he does maybe once or twice after a big game....

On Wall Street, the S&P 500 index closed down 0.85%, extending losses from the previous session. The Nasdaq Composite, which is loaded with technology companies that are more sensitive to changes in borrowing costs, lost 1.37 percent on Thursday. The European Stoxx 600 closed down 1.8%. Those moves in equity markets came after the Fed raised interest rates by 0.75 percentage points on Wednesday, marking the third consecutive hike of such size and lifting the central bank’s target range to 3 to 3....

So much for Shocktober. Wall Street’s often scary month for stocks suddenly turned into Rocktober. The Dow rose nearly 600 points, or 2%, shortly after opening Tuesday before giving up some of its gains. However, it ended the day up more than 340 points, or 1.1%. Strong earnings from blue chip companies lifted market sentiment. Goldman Sachs ( GS ), Dow Johnson & Johnson ( JNJ ) and Lockheed Martin ( LMT ) all reported earnings that beat Wall Street expectations....

The S&P 500 (^GSPC) was down about 0.23% in afternoon trade, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) was down nearly 0.2%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite ( ^IXIC ) fell 0.5%. All three indexes were up to start the session. Investors digested economic data on Tuesday, including the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS), which found that jobs unexpectedly rose in September to 10.7 million from 10.28 million the previous month....

A week on, and questions are still being asked about why the prime minister returned her after the breach, and whether her own performance on the job had contributed to squalid conditions at an immigration center in Kent. Here’s what we know: Why did he quit in the first place? Ms Braverman was appointed by Liz Truss in September to take over the Home Office after securing some significant support in the summer leadership contest....

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our journalists around the world Sign up for our free Morning Headlines email Home Secretary Suella Braverman arrived at the Manston immigration center in a Chinook helicopter amid mounting pressure to control overcrowding at the site. A Chinook helicopter costs £3,500 an hour to fly, according to the UK Defense Journal, and has a top speed of around 188mph according to its manufacturer, Boeing....

Brazil is expected to join the initiative, under incoming president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and new public and private funding will boost spending on forest conservation to more than $20 billion over the next five years. The moves are part of efforts to tackle emissions from land use, the second biggest driver of global warming, of which tropical deforestation is a major component. The Forests and Climate Leaders Partnership, launched by the UK prime minister on Monday, builds on an initiative created at the Cop26 summit in Glasgow last year....

From the initial information we’ve been given, Quavo has been hooking up with some of his friends on Houston’s Northside in the larger Fifth Ward. Hours later, the couple and their friends headed into town in South Houston for a private gathering to celebrate the birthday of Jas Prince, son of Mr. J. Prince. However, after he left the party, a brawl ensued, resulting in Takeoff’s death. From the original tweets and information gathered below, you can see some of the stories of what people there said happened....

Planet mods are a type of mod that allows players to change the appearance, behavior, and even the game mechanics of their favorite games. There are many different planet mods out there, so it can be hard to decide which one is the best for your game. Here are 10 of the best planet mods for Stellaris. The Planetary Annihilation Mod – This planet mod allows players to create and manage their own planets in an all-new way....

Reverend Dr. But he said there needs to be a discussion about how the church deals with the issue going forward. “Any settlement must be based on love and respect: love and respect for LGBTQ+ people and their families inside and outside the church, love and respect for those who hold different views,” he added. In a 52-page essay, Croft apologized for the church’s stance on gay relationships, especially its slowness to “come to better decisions and practice on these matters....

But before panic ensued, city officials alerted the public to an “extensive” facelift scheduled for the city’s de facto mascot. Next week, a team of experts from Dinosaur Valley Studios in Drumheller will arrive from Alberta to begin work on the 12-meter-high sculpture. “We’ve done similar projects all over Canada… so our reputation has been built over the years to do this kind of work,” said Frank Hadfield, the company’s president....