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[HEADING=2]Austria Reimposes Full Lockdown, Plans to Make COVID Vaccines Compulsory[/HEADING]

By [Reuters]('https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-11-19/austria-reimposes-full-lockdown-makes-vaccination-compulsory')
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Nov. 19, 2021, at 4:40 a.m.

By Francois Murphy
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria will become the first country in western Europe to reimpose a full coronavirus lockdown this autumn to tackle a new wave of infections, and will require its whole population to get vaccinated as of February, the government said on Friday.

f Joe Biden was looking for respite from the tricky global challenges he has faced in recent months, he may not find harmony closer to home. The leaders of US, Canada and Mexico met on Thursday in Washington, with plenty differences to resolve.
It was the first such gathering since 2016. Talks were expected to focus on migration, Covid-19, and trade subsidies, among other issues.
At the White House, Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador praised the "new era" in relations with the US, and noted the respectful relationships between past US and Mexican presidents.
Speaking to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau earlier, Mr Biden said: "This is one of the easiest relationships that we have."
Our correspondents in Toronto, New York and Mexico City give their perspectives on this year's so-called Three Amigos summit.

There are many things that America and Canada agree upon - but one area of disagreement seems to be drawing the most focus.
In a White House appearance ahead of their formal talks, Prime Minister Trudeau and President Biden reiterated their close alignment on climate change and the pandemic. But it was a reporter's question about Mr Biden's proposed tax cut on electric vehicles (EVs) that exposed a major fault line in their relationship.

[HEADING=2]Vancouver storm: A state of emergency has been declared in British Columbia[/HEADING]

A state of emergency has been declared in the Canadian western province of British Columbia after a major storm cut road and rail links in the region.
The Canadian Armed Forces have been deployed to help thousands of stranded residents who have been trapped since the storm hit overnight on Sunday.
Local officials warned on Thursday that the price tag to rebuild could exceed C$1bn ($790m, £590m).
One woman was killed in a landslide, and two people are missing.
Officials expect more fatalities to be confirmed in the coming days.
One man caught up in the storm told the BBC the scenes afterwards were like "Armageddon".

[HEADING=1]What is the latest on the ground?[/HEADING]
Thousands of farm animals have died and many more remain trapped by the flood waters after the storm passed through one of Canada's most agriculturally intensive areas.
Some 18,000 people are yet to return to their homes after an "atmospheric river" - a long strip of moisture in the air that transports water from tropical areas towards the poles - dumped the region's monthly rainfall average in 24 hours.

[HEADING=2]UN Peacekeepers Face Greater Threats From Complex Conflicts[/HEADING]
The U.N. peacekeeping chief says the more than 66,000 United Nations peacekeepers are confronting greater threats today because conflicts have become more complex and are driven by an increasing number of factors ranging from ethnic tensions and the impact of organized crime to illegal exploitation of resources and terrorism.

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FILE - This June 14, 2018, file photo shows Nigeriens and third-country migrants head towards Libya from Agadez, Niger. The more than 66,000 United Nations peacekeepers are confronting greater threats today because conflicts have become more complex and are driven by an increasing number of factors ranging from ethnic tensions and the impact of organized crime to illegal exploitation of resources and terrorism, the U.N. peacekeeping chief said Friday, Nov. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

[HEADING=2]HMAS Sydney: DNA reveals identity of Australia's famous 'unknown sailor'[/HEADING]

Australia says it has identified the body of the only sailor recovered from a ship sunk during World War Two.
Thomas Welsby Clark, 20, joined the HMAS Sydney just four months before it was ambushed by a German raider in the Indian Ocean in 1941.
All 645 men on board the ship died - one of Australia's best-known wartime disasters.
Three months after the sinking, a body washed up in a life raft on Australia's Christmas Island.
Dressed in navy overalls that had been bleached white from the sun, he became known as the "unknown sailor".
He was buried first on the island, a territory 1,500km (930 miles) off Western Australia. Decades later, he was reburied on the mainland with military rites.

On Friday, after years of DNA testing, Australia revealed the unknown sailor as Mr Clark

[HEADING=2]NATO Chief: Alliance Watching Russian Troops Near Ukraine[/HEADING]
NATO's chief says the alliance is closely monitoring an unusual concentration of Russian forces on the border with Ukraine.

By [Associated Press]('https://www.usnews.com/topics/author/associated-press')
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Nov. 19, 2021, at 11:16 a.m.

BERLIN (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Friday that the alliance is closely monitoring an unusual concentration of Russian forces on the border with Ukraine, warning that similar troops were used by Moscow in the past to intervene in neighboring countries.
Speaking at a defense seminar in Berlin, Stoltenberg said NATO had seen a significant military buildup by Russia close to the borders of Ukraine lately.

“We are now closely monitoring the developments along the borders,” he said. “This matters for NATO and we have the capacity, we have the capabilities to collect information, to monitor it closely and to understand what is going on there.”
Stoltenberg said that the alliance had made clear to Russia that “we see their significant military buildup.”
“We see an unusual concentration of forces and we know that they have used these type of forces before to actually intervene and invade other countries, Georgia and Ukraine,” he added.

[HEADING=2]Jimmy Hoffa: Deathbed confession sparks long-missing US union boss body hunt[/HEADING]

FBI agents have searched a plot of land in the US state of New Jersey after a deathbed confession renewed hope of solving union boss Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance 50 years ago.
For decades, Hoffa was one of America's most powerful labour organisers.
But in 1975 he suddenly disappeared, and his body has never been recovered.
Investigators recently received a tip that a former worker on a landfill site in Jersey City had said that his father told him he had buried Hoffa's body.
His disappearance had long been linked with the American Mafia, with whom Hoffa had a turbulent relationship.
According to the New York Times, landfill worker Frank Cappola, who died in March 2020, told a friend that his father had confessed to him that he had been ordered by a gang of unidentified men to bury Hoffa's body underground in a steel drum.

Agents bearing search warrants arrived at a former landfill site and conducted a survey on 25 and 26 October. A spokesperson for the FBI told the newspaper that data was currently being analysed.

[HEADING=2]Ukraine Summons Bulgarian Envoy Over President's Crimea Comments[/HEADING]

By [Reuters]('https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-11-19/ukraine-summons-bulgarian-envoy-over-presidents-crimea-comments')
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Nov. 19, 2021, at 8:41 a.m.
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KYIV/SOFIA (Reuters) - Ukraine summoned the Bulgarian ambassador on Friday after Bulgarian President Rumen Radev said the Crimean Peninsula was part of Russia after being annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
In a presidential debate ahead of Bulgaria's run-off presidential vote on Sunday Radev said Western sanctions against Moscow were not delivering the expected results and that the European Union should restore dialogue with Russia, no matter how strained relations were.

[HEADING=2]China: Man banned from all-you-can-eat BBQ for eating too much[/HEADING]

A Chinese food live-streamer says he has been blacklisted from a grill buffet restaurant for eating too much.
The man, known only as Mr Kang, told Hunan TV that he was banned from the Handadi Seafood BBQ Buffet in Changsha city after a series of binges.
He ate 1.5kg of pork trotters during his first visit and 3.5kg to 4kg of prawns on another visit, he said.
Mr Kang said the restaurant is "discriminatory" against people who can eat a lot.
"I can eat a lot - is that a fault?" he said, adding that he didn't waste any of the food.
But the restaurant owner told the same reporter that Mr Kang was putting him out of pocket.

"Every time he comes here, I lose a few hundred yuan," he said.
"Even when he drinks soy milk, he can drink 20 or 30 bottles. When he eats the pork trotters, he consumes the whole tray of them. And for prawns, usually people use tongs to pick them up, he uses a tray to take them all."

He added that he is banning all live-streamers from the restaurant.
The story is trending on Chinese social media and has racked up [more than 250 million views on Weibo]('https://s.weibo.com/weibo?q=%23%E7%94%B7%E5%AD%90%E5%9B%A0%E5%A4%AA%E8%83%BD%E5%90%83%E8%A2%AB%E8%87%AA%E5%8A%A9%E9%A4%90%E5%8E%85%E6%8B%89%E9%BB%91%23&Refer=top'), with a wide-range of opinions.
Some have said that the restaurant should not be an all-you-can-eat restaurant if they can't afford it, while others felt sorry for the restaurant owner.
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Last year the Chinese government started cracking down on eating influencers, and such videos may be banned altogether in the country.

It came after President Xi Jinping called on people to "fight against food waste" amid rising concerns over food shortages.

[HEADING=2]Vietnam: Police summon noodle seller after Salt Bae parody[/HEADING]

Police in Vietnam have summoned a man after he parodied Turkish steak chef Nusret Gökçe, also known as Salt Bae.
Salt Bae made the headlines in Vietnam after footage showed him hand-feeding a top Vietnamese official a gold-encrusted steak in London.
The video had generated massive outrage with many saying that the dish cost more than the minister's monthly wage.
Police in the south-east Asian nation regularly summon people critical of the ruling Communist Party.
The noodle vendor, Bui Tuan Lam, posted a Facebook video of himself sprinkling spring onions on a bowl of beef noodles, in what appears to be an imitation of Mr Gökçe's style.
Mr Bui described himself as "Green Onion Bae" in a post uploaded alongside the video.

Six days later, police issued Mr Bui a summons.
Mr Bui later posted photos of himself being questioned by two uniformed policemen, saying he was issued a second summons.

However, Mr Bui confirmed to the BBC that during that meeting, the police did not mention his Salt Bae inspired video.
"I don't understand why I was summoned," he said, adding that they said it had "to be kept secret".

[HEADING=1]'The gold-encrusted steak'[/HEADING]
Mr Gökçe had earlier hosted Vietnam's Public Security minister General To Lam at his famously pricey London restaurant, Nusr-Et.

On 3 November, Mr Gökçe uploaded a Tiktok video of himself personally preparing steak dishes in front of the Vietnamese delegation and hand-feeding a piece of a Golden Tomahawk steak to Mr To.
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While no prices are listed on the Nusr-Et website, the gold-covered steak is priced between £50 and £1,500 ($67- $2,022), according to reviews. This sum does not include drinks, side dishes or the 15% service charge.
The exorbitant price of the steak raised eyebrows in Vietnam as the minister's monthly wage is between $600 to $800 per month, before any allowances.
Mr To, along with several delegates, was in London as part of a delegation to the UK, with some members visiting United Nations COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland.
He had also laid flowers on the grave of communist leader Karl Marx the previous day.
This is not the first time a public official has been drawn public ire for dining at Mr Gökçe's exorbitantly expensive restaurants.

In 2019, Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro caused outrage after images of him and his wife eating at Nusr-Et restaurant in Istanbul surfaced even as Venezuela faced increasingly severe food shortages.
The average Vietnamese citizen earns a monthly income of around $230 in 2021, according to the country's General Statistics Office.
Vietnam, which used to be one of the world's poorest countries, has experienced significant economic growth over the past 30 years.
But much of the population still lives below the poverty line.
Additional reporting by the BBC's Vietnamese Service

[HEADING=2]Australia Calls for Global Action to Fight Online Misinformation[/HEADING]

By [Reuters]('https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-11-19/australia-calls-for-global-action-to-fight-online-misinformation')
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Nov. 19, 2021, at 12:14 a.m.

By Byron Kaye
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia on Friday called for governments around the world to agree on "rules of the road" to fight the spread of misinformation and state-backed disinformation online.

Foreign Minister Marise Payne said blocs like the Quad group - the United States, India, Japan and Australia - and global bodies like the United Nations were already working to strike a balance between harmful content and free expression online.
But time was running out to agree on rules of what was permissable.
"We should be starting yesterday," Payne told a panel at the Sydney Dialogue virtual event alongside Facebook Inc's global affairs boss.

[HEADING=2]Barbados to launch world's first virtual embassy in the metaverse[/HEADING]
However, the embassy set in a virtual world is unlikely to replace the old ways of diplomacy, former US diplomat tells Sky News
By Martin Kimber
Wednesday 17 November 2021 14:58, UK

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[HEADING=2]Famine-stricken Madagascar donations pour in from 'World News Tonight' viewers[/HEADING]
World Food Programme said more than 25,000 donors contributed.
By[Esther Castillejo]('https://abcnews.go.com/author/Esther_Castillejo')
November 18, 2021, 8:22 AM
• 4 min read

Donations have poured in from thousands of "World News Tonight" viewers in the wake of our report on Southern Madagascar, a country on the verge of the world's first climate change-induced near-famine in modern history.

Unlike other countries, where extreme hunger and near-famine conditions are caused by war, conflict, or isolated weather events, southern Madagascar is facing these conditions because of a years-long drought caused by climate change.

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