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Millions joined a general strike in Spain over rents and wages, with 120,000 marching in Madrid, according to authorities. Rents have risen 87% in a decade while wages rose 28%, and Spain votes on November 29.
Who's to blame for Spain's housing crisis?
100%The government
0%The opposition
0%Tourism and investors
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DEEP DIVE: As COP31 opens in Antalya, @Alice_C_Hill of the Council on Foreign Relations says a decade of climate summits has bent the warming curve from about 4C toward 2C.
Even if every country keeps its promises, she says, the world is still looking at around 1.8C.
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🇮🇳 ON THE GROUND: Nearly two months after IIT Bombay student Sahil Wakode died by suicide, his parents are still on hunger strike in Mumbai, alleging caste discrimination.
Our India correspondent @Bhumikasara reports with activist @deepali_writes. Police are investigating.
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🇮🇩 ON THE GROUND: Indonesia’s Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka, son of former president Joko Widodo, has handed his resignation to parliament amid a dispute over his school credentials.
Our correspondent Leo Galuh explains what happens next, with 60 days to pick a successor.
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🗺️COMMON THREAD: One stretch of ocean could push 49 million more people into acute hunger.
The Super El Niño is forecast to peak in December at record strength, and its droughts, floods and storms are already landing on four continents at the same time.
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🇦🇺ON THE GROUND: Goodman has dropped Project Mars, a A$1.2 billion data centre planned about 20 metres from homes in Sydney’s Lane Cove.
Deputy mayor @rochellemarie23 says the site, near a school and bushland, was the wrong place for a 24-hour facility that size.
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🇵🇾DEEP DIVE: Paraguay’s Congress removed President Santiago Peña over the Ueno Bank collapse, and a judge has sent him to preventive detention at a military regiment.
Lawyer and journalist Raúl Bogarín Cantero explains how a banking crisis brought down a president in days.
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🇫🇲 ON THE GROUND: Five people from Micronesia survived nearly 100 days adrift in a small boat before washing up in Kiribati, while four others died at sea.
Portsmouth professor Mike Tipton explains how a body can last that long, from rainwater to turtle blood.
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🇸🇴ON THE GROUND: Somalia’s Supreme Court has ruled President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s term extension unlawful and ordered elections within 90 days, just as he moved to replace its chief justice.
Journalist Mohamed Kahiye explains the standoff from Mogadishu.
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🇫🇷 ZOOM IN: On the night of October 12, hackers took remote control of the refrigeration systems in about 700 French supermarkets and pushed them to 50°C for six hours, and France now says a cyber unit linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard was behind it.
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🇦🇫 DEEP DIVE: Zan Times documented 231 women killed in Afghanistan since the Taliban returned in 2021, most of them inside their own homes.
Managing editor @haidary_khadija says women have nowhere to turn, with no shelters, no courts and families telling them to endure.
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🇳🇿 ON THE GROUND: New Zealand’s final result won’t be known until November 27, with neither major party above 30% so far.
@oliverhartwich of the New Zealand Initiative says voters are frustrated after three years of high living costs, rising unemployment and little growth.
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