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Rescue teams in northeastern Thailand navigated fast-flowing floods to rescue dozens of people stranded in their homes on Wednesday (29/9), as authorities tried to get more help for the victims.

At least seven people have died and two are missing as floods over the past week have affected nearly 200,000 households in 30 provinces in northern and northeastern Thailand. This is as reported by Channel News Asia, Thursday (30/9/2021).

Rescuers wearing orange helmets and life jackets traveled by boat through waterlogged streets in the northeastern province of Chaiyaphum to reach people trapped on the roofs of their homes.

Video posted on social media by private Hook 31 rescue team showed them wading cautiously against currents of floodwater as high as the windows of abandoned cars, some carrying children on their backs and escorting the elderly along a series of guide ropes.

High Flood
Authorities have issued a warning about rising water levels of the Chaophraya river which could bring flooding to the capital Bangkok and surrounding areas.

The government daftar togel online has assured the public that the situation is under control and that there will be no repeat of the devastating months-long floods in 2011, which killed hundreds of people, damaged vast swaths of agricultural land and crippled Bangkok and its industrial estates.

The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation said on Wednesday (29/9) that 197,795 households in 30 provinces, mostly in the north, northeast and central regions had been affected, a 56 percent increase from the 126,781 reported a day earlier.

The COVID-19 state of emergency in Japan will end on Thursday 30 September 2021. This Japanese-style “PPKM” easing will apply throughout Japan.

Tokyo has been under a state of emergency since July 12, 2021, a week before the Summer Olympics. Meanwhile, several other areas are included in the semi-emergency list (quasi-state of emergency).

Kyodo reported, Tuesday (28/9/2021), this will be the first time that no Japanese territory has entered a state of emergency.

“The number of new cases of the virus and COVID-19 patients with severe symptoms has dropped drastically,” said Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga at the DPR.

The lifting of the emergency period on Thursday is in accordance with the previous plan. This regulation will be relaxed gradually.

PM Suga said he would continue to support vaccinations and health services as well as various other policies so that Japan could return to normal life.

Based on data from Johns Hopkins University, there are a total of 1.69 million cases of the Corona COVID-19 Virus in Japan. There have been 223,000 cases in the last 28 days.

PM Say Thank You
Prime Minister Suga thanked the community for the cooperation so that the emergency period could be lifted.

“Thank you for the cooperation of many people, so I can lift the state of emergency during my reign,” said PM Suga.

Japan rumus menghitung angka togel sgp will hold elections in November 2021. PM Suga only served briefly because he actually continued the position of Shinzo Abe.

However, Japan is now facing the threat of a new wave of COVID-19 in the winter.

The Ministry of Health is currently trying to add temporary facilities for COVID-19 patients, as well as add medical personnel.

The United States is sending another 2.5 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine to hard-hit Bangladesh, a White House official told AFP on Thursday, after the Biden administration announced an increase in global donations.

The latest shipments were 2,508,480 doses of Pfizer, which means the total dose of vaccine from the US to the country has reached more than nine million.

Citing the Channel News Asia page, Friday (9/24/2021), the packaging process is ongoing and the first shipment, made through the World Health Organization’s (WHO) COVAX program.

“We are proud to be able to provide this safe and effective vaccine to the people of Bangladesh,” the official said, adding that there was “no ties” to the donation.

“We are dispensing these doses not to secure aid or extract concessions,” the official said.

Vaccinations in Bangladesh
According to the AFP database, only 9.3 percent of Bangladesh’s population has been fully vaccinated as of this week.

The impoverished nation of about 170 million people, which neighbors India, has struggled to contain the pandemic, imposing some of the world’s longest lockdowns.

Children only returned to school two weeks ago after being suspended for 18 months – an example of the education gap that the United Nations children’s agency, UNICEF recently warned, is exacerbating injustices for millions of children across South Asia.

US Accused of Hoarding Vaccines
Like other wealthy nations, the United States has been accused of stockpiling vaccines and prioritizing booster shots over helping countries in the world that have not received any vaccinations at all.

On Wednesday, the United States authorized the third dose of Pfizer’s vaccine for the elderly and at-risk populations.

However, sekilas tentang togel singapur President Joe Biden has declared the United States to be the world’s vaccine “weapon” in the fight against COVID-19 and the total US contribution is more than the rest of the world combined.

Biden told a summit of world COVID-19 leaders on Wednesday that the United States contributed 500 million extra doses of the “historic” vaccine, bringing the total US commitments worldwide to 1.1 billion.

China has decided not to build new coal-fired power projects overseas. This step is important in tackling global emissions.

Chinese President Xi Jinping made the announcement during a speech at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).

Reporting from the BBC, Wednesday (9/22/2021), China has funded many coal projects in countries such as Indonesia and Vietnam, under the auspices of a massive infrastructure project known as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

However, the project is under pressure to end financing as the world strives to meet the targets of the Paris climate agreement.

“China will increase support for other developing countries in developing green and low-carbon energy, and will not build new coal-fired power projects overseas,” Xi said in the video.

China is known to have funded railways, roads, ports and coal-fired power plants in many countries, mostly in developing countries. However, for the first time in years, no coal project funding was found in the first half of 2021.

Responses from Some of the World’s Climate Leaders
China is the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases and relies heavily on coal for its domestic energy needs.

Xi mentioned a promise he made last year about China achieving its emissions targets by 2030 and shifting to carbon neutrality by 2060.

US Climate Envoy John Kerry welcomed the announcement. “Very happy to hear that President Xi has made this important decision,” he said.

The chairman of the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 to be held in Scotland next month also praised the decision.

“Obviously the dangers of coal power (to the earth). I welcome President Xi’s commitment to stop building new coal projects overseas — the main topic of my discussion during my visit to China,” Alok Sharma wrote on Twitter.

For almost a decade, pentingnya togel data dalam prediksi hasil BRI has focused on building coal-fired power plants for foreign investment. However, in reality the number of such projects has decreased significantly.

This is progress. A good start from China’s efforts to reduce ‘addiction’ to coal. Half of the coal burned in the world is burned in China.

President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party is expected to continue to win big in parliamentary elections, despite a decline in support.

The party claimed victory hours after voting closed on Sunday evening.

Vladimir Putin’s most vocal critic is barred from running in the election, and the candidates allowed to run are strictly curated.

There have been many allegations of ballot-balling violations and forced voting.

But Russia’s election commission rejected the claims of widespread irregularities.

Preliminary results show that with 64% of the vote counted, United Russia has won nearly 48%, followed by the Communist Party with about 21%.

On Sunday evening, a senior United Russia official, Andrei Turchak, congratulated a crowd of supporters in Moscow on what he described as a clean and honest victory.

Partial results show that although Putin’s party easily maintained its majority in parliament, it lost some power. In 2016, the party won 54% of the vote.

The Communists, who widely support Putin’s initiative in parliament, saw their support grow by 8%. But their leader, Gennady Zyuganov, has accused widespread abuses, including filling out the ballots, according to the Associated Press news agency.

Concerns over the standard of living and allegations of corruption from imprisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny may have swayed support for Vladimir Putin’s party.

But he remains popular with many Russians who praise him for defending the West and restoring national pride.

For the first time since 1993, election observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) were absent due to restrictions imposed by Russian authorities.

Thousands of Violation Reports
As of Sunday evening, the independent vote-monitoring group Golos — which Russian authorities have branded a “foreign agent” — said it had tracked more than 4,500 reports of voting violations.

Meanwhile, Russia’s Interior Ministry told reporters it had not recorded “significant violations”.

During the election, long queues were seen outside several polling stations on videos published on social media.

Interfax news agency reported, mainly outside the police station. A Kremlin spokesman dismissed the claims.

But Golos said he had received “many messages” from people saying they were forced by their employers to vote, as well as allegations of electoral fraud.

In eastern Ukraine controlled by Russian-backed separatists, residents with Russian citizenship are allowed to vote, with some crossing the border to visit Russian polling stations.

A Moscow permainan togel zaman digital pensioner who gave his name only as Anatoly told Reuters news agency he chose the ruling party because he appreciated Putin’s efforts to restore Russia’s influence on the world stage.

“Countries like the United States and Britain more or less respect us now as they respected the Soviet Union in the 1960s and 70s,” he said.

Twitter reveals a number of policies and measures to address manipulation attempts that occur on its platform. Platform manipulation is the manipulative use of Twitter’s services and can interfere with people’s experiences on Twitter.

“Often when referring to platform manipulation, the word bot always comes up. But there is a difference between malicious platform manipulation and bot accounts that are designed to auto-upload,” said Yoel Roth, Global Head of Site Integrity Twitter, in a virtual media briefing.

Therefore, Yoel said, Twitter uses a holistic approach before determining an account or action to fall into the category of platform manipulation efforts.

One of them is the behavior to upload spam content. Usually, tweets that are considered spam contain disturbing, harmful or duplicate hashtags, links and other content.

In addition, Twitter also prohibits users of fake accounts. In this case, the fake accounts in question are a large number of inauthentic accounts and their profiles use information stolen from other accounts to deceive other users.

Yoel also said, Twitter prohibits artificial amplification, which is using automation/spam to increase the number of likes, retweets, or followers of an account.

“Twitter is trying to stop this kind of behavior, because we want authentic interactions,” Yoel continued. Then, what Twitter also pays attention to is coordinated manipulation, such as multiple accounts being operated by one person to interrupt conversations.

Finally, it is also prohibited to abuse Twitter products. Some of these actions include using features on Twitter, such as reporting to interrupt conversations or harass certain individuals.

The Twitter Framework for Determining Inauthentic Things
While the framework that Twitter uses to determine something is not authentic, Yoel said, they use an aspect called ABC. The further elaboration of the framework is as follows:

Actor: a person or group that performs manipulation, such as a commercial business, a group of trolls on the internet, activists, the government and the military, including ordinary people.
Behavior: tactics used to amplify content or narratives, such as forcing the number of uploads of certain hashtags, duplicate content, spreading inauthentic tweets, setting up multiple accounts, including fake profiles with fraudulent purposes.
Content: amplified content or narrative, ranging from businesses and products, user characters, policies, to propaganda.
From doing an analysis based on this framework, only Twitter as a whole can determine something, the account or activity is inauthentic.

Twitter’s Steps to Enforcing the Rules
Furthermore, Yoel said, Twitter has a number of things to do to deal with platform manipulation. One of them is to understand and focus on assessing the typical actions, goals, and behaviors of platform manipulation actors.

In addition, tips memilih situs togel online Twitter also takes precautions that can make it difficult for perpetrators of platform manipulation to achieve their goals. Some of them are doing visibility filtering, reducing conversation spread, product changes, including account suspension.

Twitter is also constantly adapting to changes in the behavior of manipulation actors on its platform. Not only that, the company also evaluates and changes actions if necessary.

Pakistan’s national security adviser has called on the world to “engage” with the Taliban’s interim government in Afghanistan or risk a return to the instability that characterized the group’s last era in power three decades ago.

In a speech to foreign media in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, Moeed Yusuf urged the international community not to repeat the mistakes of the past. Similarly, as reported by Al Jazeera, Thursday (16/9/2021).

“We are trying to make sure that the world understands the importance of not making the mistakes of the past again,” he said.

“For us, it is very important to seek peace and stability in Afghanistan. That’s what we focus on.”

Yusuf’s comments come as the world debates whether and under what conditions to recognize the new government in Kabul dominated by the Taliban, which swept Afghanistan in attacks last month. The group took control of the capital, Kabul, on August 15 when former President Ashraf Ghani fled the country.

Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations
Pakistan, Afghanistan’s southeastern neighbor, has repeatedly called on world powers to engage with the new government and to provide immediate humanitarian and other assistance to prevent an imminent economic collapse.

On Monday, several countries pledged more than $1.1 billion in food aid at a United Nations conference to tackle poverty and hunger in Afghanistan. However, about $10 billion in Afghanistan’s central bank reserves, remains frozen in overseas banks, especially with the US Federal Reserve.

Yusuf togel online zaman sekarang called for world powers to engage with the Taliban rather than freeze ties with the government led by the armed group, which waged a bloody 20-year battle against US and NATO occupation forces that killed tens of thousands of Afghan civilians and security forces.

“By getting involved, you’re basically saying we’re going to constructively try and see how to help Afghanistan for the sake of the average Afghan people,” Yusuf said.

Asked whether there were human rights issues under the Taliban’s rule, Pakistan’s national security adviser said international powers could only capitalize on those issues if they got involved with the country.

A former adviser to the Afghan president has spoken about the importance of Afghanistan’s position to China. This also affects the closeness of the Taliban and China, even though the two parties are different.

“Their interests are purely economic and political,” Mohammad Shafiq Hamdan, former deputy security adviser to President Ashraf Ghani, told CNBC.

China and the Taliban are also considered to have no equal footing other than being in opposition to the US presence.

Hamdan also confirmed that China is interested in mineral resources in Afghanistan which are worth trillions of dollars. China is also seen as an alternative to the Taliban who are in dire need of economic assistance.

Previously, ABC Australia also reported the predictions of international relations experts regarding the prospects for Chinese investment in Afghanistan, including those related to the New Silk Road alias Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

China is also considered an alternative because western countries are still reluctant to deal with the Taliban in Afghanistan. There is also China’s interest in mineral resources in Afghanistan, including lithium.

In addition, China has also promised to provide humanitarian funds for Afghanistan.

Ashraf Ghani is the Afghan president who fled abroad after the Taliban began infiltrating Kabul. Ghani said he was facing the death penalty.

China’s Aid for Afghanistan
Earlier reports, China pledged 200 million yuan (Rp 441 billion) in aid to Afghanistan, including food supplies and COVID-19 vaccines.

The aid comes as China says it is ready to maintain communication with the Taliban government.

He added sensasi bermain togel online that the formation of a new interim government was a “necessary step to restore order” in Afghanistan.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi announced relief measures for Afghanistan at a meeting on Wednesday (8/9), with colleagues from some of Afghanistan’s neighbors — Pakistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.

He called on these countries to cooperate in helping Afghanistan, adding that China would also provide 3 million doses of the vaccine to the country.

China has also been vocally critical of the US troop withdrawal, saying its troops have “destroyed” Afghanistan.

A day after tweeting that he was just getting started with crypto and asking for advice, NBA star Stephen Curry then announced a partnership with FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried’s fast-growing crypto platform.

“I’m happy to partner with a company that uncovers the crypto space and doesn’t intimidate novice users,” said Curry as quoted by Fortune, Saturday (9/11/2021), marking his first investment in the crypto industry.

As part of the deal, Curry will receive a stake in the company and become an FTX brand ambassador.

The company will also make an annual contribution to the Eat.Learn.Play foundation, which is run by Curry and his wife.

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Eat.Learn.Play and its community partners have served more than 17 million nutritious meals to affected Oakland children and families.

Charity Consensus
Curry joining FTX further adds to the list of people in the sports industry who are entering the cryptocurrency realm.

Previously, FTX had reached a 19-year, $135 million deal for the Miami Heat arena naming rights in May 2021.

In addition, the stock exchange owned by Sam Bankman Fried has signed a deal with football star Tom Brady who becomes the brand ambassador in June 2021.

The deal also contains a charitable element, as the company pledges to donate 1 percent of the net fees to charity at the FTX Foundation.

The foundation permainan togel online terpercaya has so far made $3.75 million in donations, including $50,000 to Brady’s TB12 Foundation and $12.7 million has reportedly been allocated from user donations.

FTX Boss Comments
“After meeting and speaking with Curry, it was clear that he was a good fit for FTX,” said FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried.

“His tireless commitment to charity alongside his enterprising work ethic to be the greatest in any arena he’s in, be it basketball, investing or business, is perfectly aligned with FTX’s core values.”

Sam looks forward to working with Curry to create a positive impact for those who need him most in the world.

Chinese government agencies report that more than one billion people in the Bamboo Curtain country are already internet users.

Quoted from Nikkei Asia, the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) reported that by June 2021, there were 1.01 billion Chinese people already using the internet.

This figure rose 8 percent from the previous year to penetrate one billion. In addition, internet penetration rose to 71.6 percent.

Launching the Shanghai Daily, Monday (30/8/2021), CNNIC on Friday also said that it made China home to one billion netizens for the first time.

According to a CNNIC report, among 1.01 billion internet users as of June 2021, 28 percent are middle-aged and elderly users over 50 years old.

CNNIC said that this age group was the fastest growing group of all age groups.

5G Effect
There are various reasons for the growth of internet users in China to reach this number.

CNNIC said the rapid development of 5G and the increasing number of elderly internet users also contributed to the increase in the user base in China.

In addition, companies like Alibaba are also attracting more users in the world’s most populous country with services ranging from shopping to paying bills.

Analysts say that the development of 5G allows users to better enjoy the use of smartphones, thereby increasing digital services, especially video services that rely on data traffic.

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said that in July 2021, the country’s 5G users reached 392 million, or nearly double the end of last year.

Most Used Apps
In June, the most popular application was messaging applications, with WeChat users reaching 983 million users.

Other applications include a short video service with 880 million users, online shopping with 812 million users, and a food delivery service with 469 million users.

CNNIC acknowledges that in rural areas, users still face challenges such as lack of online skills, low levels of education, and limited devices and networks.

To that end, game togel online the government is taking steps to build more 5G BTS, increase broadband speeds, expand internet coverage in rural areas and provide training for the elderly.

In times of pandemic, digital services also support everyday life and drive the economy.

380 million users are reported to have used the services of the public platform. Meanwhile, 325 million users took advantage of the online learning platform in June. 239 million users are also reported to use online medical services.