Life-threatening hurricane bears down on Florida
Anxiety builds as Tampa Bay braces for Ian
Alexandra Ostasiewicz
BBC News, Florida
In the Tampa Bay area, locals are no strangers to hurricane warnings, but even the most seasoned are taking this storm seriously.
The energy in the city changed overnight as residents woke to pounding rain and choppy water in the normally tranquil bay.
As the day wears on and the wind gusts intensify, the anxiety is increasing.
Roads are empty of vehicles, but starting to fill up with water and debris blown from palm trees.
Shops are all shuttered except for some petrol stations, but even those are all out of fuel.
Iran footballers show solidarity with protests over Mahsa Amini’s death
Iran’s players covered up their national symbols by wearing jackets before the friendly with Senegal on Tuesday evening, showing solidarity with protests against the repression of women in their home country.
The past 11 days have seen significant unrest in Iran after the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, who had been arrested on 13 September for refusing to wear a hijab. There have been widespread protests and before their match in Maria Enzersdorf, a town just outside Vienna, the national team made their anger visible.
French Senate report denounces sexual abuse in porn industry
A French Senate delegation says sexual and physical abuse in France’s porn industry is “systemic” and lawmakers should better regulate the production of violent videos
Sexual and physical abuse in France's porn industry is “systemic” and lawmakers should better regulate the production of videos and protect children who are “heavily exposed” to the content, according to a French Senate report released Wednesday.
The report, titled “Hell Behind the Scenes,” was the first prepared for the French parliament to focus on the porn industry, which the authors described as “predatory.”
During six months of research, the Senate’s delegation for women’s rights and gender equality heard from over 50 people, including some involved in the industry, women’s rights activists and victims.
German prosecutors raid far-right AfD's headquarters
The national AfD headquarters in Berlin has been searched by investigators, according to the far-right party. Prosecutors are probing former AfD head Jörg Meuthen for false accountability statements, media report.
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) says public prosecutors "copied complete hard disks, mailboxes and file folders'' during a raid on the party's national headquarters in Berlin on Wednesday.
"Since this morning, the Berlin public prosecutor's office has been conducting a house search in the premises of the federal headquarters of Alternative for Germany, without any prior inquiry having been directed to the AfD regarding the facts to be clarified,'' the party said in a statement.
The AfD, which has 79 of 736 seats in the Bundestag, began life as a party critical of eurozone policies but has since moved further right and is now known for its vehement anti-immigration and nationalist stance.
Iran conducts deadly strikes in Iraq’s Kurdish region as anti-veil protests mount
Iranian strikes on Wednesday targeting the bases of a Kurdish opposition group in northern Iraq that had condemned the crackdown on Iranian protesters killed at least nine people and wounded 32 others, according to Iraqi Kurdistan officials.
The strikes came as demonstrations continued to engulf Iran after the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman who was detained by the Iranian morality police.
Iran’s attacks targeted Koya, some 65 kilometers (35 miles) east of Irbil, said Soran Nuri, a member of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan. The group, known by the acronym KDPI, is a leftist armed opposition force banned in Iran.
Taliban sign deal for Russian oil products, gas and wheat
By Mohammad Yunus Yawar and Charlotte Greenfield
The Taliban have signed a provisional deal with Russia to supply gasoline, diesel, gas and wheat to Afghanistan, Acting Afghan Commerce and Industry Minister Haji Nooruddin Azizi told Reuters.
Azizi said his ministry was working to diversify its trading partners and that Russia had offered the Taliban administration a discount to average global commodity prices.
The move, the first known major international economic deal struck by the Taliban since they returned to power more than a year ago, could help to ease the Islamist movement's isolation that has effectively cut it off from the global banking system.
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