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Zelensky vows energy sector overhaul after 100m corruption scandal

BBC News

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has vowed to overhaul state-owned energy companies, after a major corruption scandal engulfed the country's energy sector. Around $100 million (£76m) has been embezzled, anti-graft investigators said, causing outrage in a country where Russian attacks have resulted in crippling power outages. Alongside a full audit of their financial activities, the management of these companies is to be renewed, Zelensky wrote in a post on X on Saturday. Energoatom, the state nuclear company at the heart of the scandal, will have a new supervisory board within a week, he added. Several of those implicated in the scandal have close links to the Ukrainian president.


Nine killed in blast at police station in Indian-administered Kashmir

Al Jazeera

An explosion at a police station in Indian-administered Kashmir has killed at least nine people and injured 32 others, mainly police personnel. Officials said the blast was an accident. It happened as officers were inspecting confiscated explosives. Football's Pep Guardiola calls on fans to attend Palestine charity match Ukraine's Kyiv pounded by hundreds of Russian drones Italian prosecutors investigate Bosnian war'sniper safaris'



Decentralized Learning in Online Queuing Systems

Neural Information Processing Systems

Inefficient decisions in repeated games can stem from both strategic and learning considerations. First, strategic agents selfishly maximize their own individual reward at others' expense.


Decentralized Learning in Online Queuing Systems

Neural Information Processing Systems

Inefficient decisions in repeated games can stem from both strategic and learning considerations. First, strategic agents selfishly maximize their own individual reward at others' expense.



Hollywood's SAG Awards announces it will change its name

BBC News

Hollywood's SAG Awards announces it will change its name The Screen Actors Guild Awards, the marquee awards ceremony honouring actors, is getting a new name. Known colloquially as the SAG Awards, the awards show will now be dubbed the Actor Awards presented by Sag-Aftra, the labour union representing US film, television and radio actors. Since the beginning, our statue has been called'The Actor' and we're a show that's entirely about actors, so this new name is a perfect next step in the show's evolution, the show's executive producer said on Friday. The rebrand comes ahead of the 32nd edition of the star-studded ceremony, which is set for 1 March 2026. The award show's executive producer Jon Brockett told the BBC that the name change - which was announced at a board meeting on Friday - gives viewers in more than 190 countries an immediate understanding of who we are and what we're about - a show about actors honouring actors.


What's behind a surge in bear attacks in Japan?

Al Jazeera

A deadly conflict between bears and humans is playing out across Japan, where authorities have deployed the military to protect locals who are using drone-based alert and surveillance systems to track the bears. Since April this year, at least 13 people have been killed and more than 100 have been injured in bear attacks in the country, according to an October report by the Ministry of Environment. The ministry added that the death toll is the highest since Japan began keeping records of bear attacks in 2006. It is also home to Asiatic black bears - also known as Moon bears - which are smaller in size, weighing between 80-200kg (176-440 pounds), and are found on the mainland, which is more densely populated. Both types of bear have been involved in incidents this year, and both are dangerous to humans to varying degrees.


'Astonishingly lethal': BBC reports from site of Russian strike in Kyiv

BBC News

At least six people have been killed in a wave of Russia strikes on Kyiv, which the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has condemned as a heinous attack. The BBC's James Landale visited the scene of one attack in eastern Kyiv where a drone rammed through a block of flats and left six people dead. Several other regions were also targeted. A drone attack on a market at Chornomorsk in the south of the country killed two people. Catherine Connolly has'never believed more' in the spirit of Ireland New Irish President Catherine Connolly says she has been given a powerful mandate to articulate a vision for a new republic.


The app that lets you speak with your deceased loved ones: Creepy AI creates interactive avatars of the dead - but sceptics call it 'demonic, dishonest, and dehumanizing'

Daily Mail - Science & tech

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