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SpaceX is set Wednesday to launch the first private -- and Japanese -- lander to the Moon. A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to blast off at 3:39 am (0839 GMT) from Cape Canaveral, Florida, with a backup date on Thursday. Until now, only the United States, Russia and China have managed to put a robot on the lunar surface. — AFP

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The Italian foreign ministry says Tuesday that the Italian man who ran onto the pitch during a World Cup match in Qatar carrying a rainbow flag has been released following a brief detention. The man identified as Mario Ferri also wore a T-shirt with the words "Respect for Iranian Woman" on the back and "Save Ukraine" on the front. Ferri was on the field for about 30 seconds during the second half of the game between Portugal and Uruguay before being tackled and escorted off by security. — AFP

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A Taiwanese couple is facing multiple charges for allegedly bribing voters with Chinese Covid tests ahead of the island's local elections, prosecutors said Tuesday. Chiu Jui-lien and her husband are reportedly the first indicted for violating the "anti-infiltration law" aimed at countering influence from China -- which views self-ruled Taiwan as part of its territory and has vowed to seize the island. The law, pushed by President Tsai Ing-wen's ruling party in 2019, bans "hostile" foreign forces from campaigning, lobbying, making political donations or spreading disinformation related to elections. Chiu, who was running for borough chief in Taipei city, and her husband were indicted on Monday for giving out Chinese Covid tests to solicit votes, the Shihlin district prosecutor's office said in a statement. The free tests were supplied by the Pingtan Comprehensive Experimental Zone in China's Fujian province, established in 2009 with the goal of boosting regional development and its bond with Taiwan.  -- AFP

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China says Tuesday it would speed up a push to vaccinate people aged 60 and older against COVID-19 after the country posted record daily case numbers in recent days. The announcement comes after a weekend of protests demanding an end to the country's strict zero-COVID policy, which responds to even small caseloads with harsh lockdowns and quarantine orders. Beijing's National Health Commission (NHC) pledged to "accelerate the increase in the vaccination rate for people over the age of 80, and continue to increase the vaccination rate for people aged 60-79". — AFP

17 hours ago

Asian equities rise and the dollar weakens Tuesday as China avoided another night of protests after a weekend of unrest, with speculation growing that officials will announce a further easing of the country's strict containment measures. The gains were led by a rally in Hong Kong and Shanghai, with property firms enjoying a much-needed surge on the back of moves to ease funding restrictions on troubled developers. But sentiment was tempered by warnings from top Federal Reserve policymakers that US interest rates would rise further and could go higher than initially thought to fight inflation. — AFP

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Australia's Great Barrier Reef should be added to a list of "in danger" World Heritage sites, according to UN experts who warned the fading wonder has been "significantly impacted" by climate change. A UNESCO-tasked report said on Monday warming seas and agricultural pollution had put the reef at risk and that its resilience had been "substantially compromised". The Great Barrier Reef is one of Australia's premier tourist drawcards and putting it on the in-danger list could substantially tarnish its allure for international visitors.  UNESCO considered listing the reef after a damning report in 2021 but held off following intense lobbying from Australia's previous conservative government. It first raised the alarm about the reef's deterioration in 2010.  -- AFP

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Officials say one of two militiamen wounded in an attack by unidentified gunmen in Buldon, Maguindanao before dawn Monday died in a hospital, bringing the number of fatalities in the attack to four. Officials of the Maguindanao Provincial Police Office and relatives of Arnel Cayanan, a member of the Citizens Armed Forces Geographical Unit, tells reporters Tuesday that he succumbed to bullet wounds late Monday. — The STAR/John Unson

23 hours ago

Twitter owner Elon Musk opens fire against Apple over its tight control of what is allowed on the App Store, saying the iPhone maker has threatened to oust his recently acquired social media platform. Musk also joined the chorus crying foul over a 30-percent fee Apple collects on transactions via its App Store — the sole gateway for applications to get onto its billion plus mobile devices. A series of tweets fired off by Musk included a meme of a car with his first name on it veering onto a highway off-ramp labeled "Go to War," instead of continuing onwards towards "Pay 30%." The billionaire CEO also tweeted that Apple has "threatened to withhold Twitter from its App Store, but won’t tell us why." Apple did not immediately reply to an AFP request for comment.  — AFP

24 hours ago

Russia announces that it was postponing highly anticipated arms control talks with the United States, scheduled to take place in Egypt despite tensions over the Ukraine conflict. "The session of the bilateral coordinating committee on the Russian-American START Treaty, previously scheduled to take place in Cairo between November 29 and December 6, will not take place on the dates indicated," a foreign ministry spokesperson tells state-run news agency TASS. "The event is postponed to a later date," the spokesperson was cited as saying.  No other details were provided. — AFP

24 hours ago

The health ministry says Argentina registered its first death from mpox, the disease formerly known as monkeypox, when a patient died in a hospital in the capital Buenos Aires. The fatality was a 44-year-old man who was diagnosed with untreated HIV-AIDS and suffered septic shock, which caused his death, the health ministry says.  The patient had been hospitalized since mid-September in intensive care with respiratory assistance and his death was registered on November 22, the report adds. — AFP 

24 hours ago

Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche says the US drugs agency has approved a test by Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche that can detect monkeypox.  The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave the green light for emergency use authorisation, Roche says in a statement, which makes it possible to accelerate the sale of drugs or tests for detection. Roche, which was also fast in producing PCR tests for coronavirus, was among the first to develop tests to detect monkeypox. — AFP

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