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GERMANY THROUGH DAVIS CUP SEMI WITH NETHERLANDS – They Easily Overpower Canada  Germany beat Canada 2-0 to reach the Davis Cup semi-finals where they will face the Netherlands who advanced with a stunning upset of hosts Spain. Without world number two Alexander Zverev, Germany went ahead when Daniel Altmaier beat Gabriel Diallo 7-6(5) 6-4 and Jan-Lennard Struff fought back to overcome Denis Shapovalov 4-6 7-5 7-6(5) and seal victory in the tie. Germany avenged their 2022 quarter-final loss to Canada who went on to claim their first Davis Cup title with victory over Australia. Defending champions Italy will be led…

KING CHARLES’ WINDSOR CASTLE GETS SET FOR CHRISTMAS – Deck The Halls! It’s that time of year again. Fairy lights, baubles and tinsel met suits of armour and medieval halls at Britain’s Windsor Castle as the royal residence unveiled this year’s Christmas decorations. The castle, just outside London, put on a glimmering display with the main Christmas tree decked in some 3,000 lights and hundreds of decorations.  The vast tree, taken from the nearby Home Park, is living and will be replanted after the holiday season, according to Royal Collection Trust curator Kathryn Jones. This year also saw a miniature…

AUSTRALIA LAUNCHES BILL TO BAN SOCIAL MEDIA FOR UNDER 16’s -There are no exemptions for parental consent or for pre-existing accounts Australia’s government introduced a bill in parliament that aims to ban social media for children under 16 and proposed fines of up to A$49.5 million ($32 million) for social media platforms for systemic breaches. Australia plans to trial an age-verification system that may include biometrics or government identification to enforce a social media age cut-off, some of the toughest controls imposed by any country to date. The proposals are the highest age limit set by any country, and would…

SINN FEIN FIGHTS DEAL BLOW TO UNITED IRELAND DREAM – A Sinn Fein Government would change the dynamics around Irish unification Sinn Fein’s polling collapse from government-in-waiting to likely also-rans at Irish elections next week looks set to disappoint Irish nationalists of a potentially transformative moment in their pursuit of a united Ireland.  Earlier this year, the party appeared on the brink of power in Dublin for the first time and set to totally change the united Ireland dynamic, placing it in government on both sides of the Irish border and ramping up preparations as it sought to force London…

US ENVOY TO TRAVEL TO ISRAEL IN BID TO SEAL HEZBOLLAH CEASEFIRE U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein said he will travel to Israel to try to secure a ceasefire ending the war with Lebanon’s Hezbollah group after declaring additional progress in talks in Beirut. Hochstein, who arrived a day earlier in Beirut, said he saw a “real opportunity” to end the conflict after the Lebanese government and Hezbollah agreed to a U.S. ceasefire proposal, although with some comments. “The meeting today built on the meeting yesterday, and made additional progress,” Hochstein said after his second meeting with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri,…

NADAL’S CAREER AS A TENNIS GREAT COMES TO AN END – His career ended on Tuesday, November 19th in the Davis Cup Rafael Nadal will call time on his illustrious but injury-plagued career after this week’s Davis Cup Finals in Malaga, as the 22-time Grand Slam champion prepares for an emotional farewell. His career ended on Tuesday, November 19th as Spain lost to the Netherlands in the Davis Cup quarter-finals.  Nadal lost his singles match to Botic van de Zandschulp before Carlos Alcaraz levelled the tie with a victory over Tallon Griekspoor.  However, Alcaraz and Marcel Granollers could not win…

RECORD-BREAKING BITCOIN SURGES TOWARDS $94,000 ON TRUMP BOOST – Riding a wave of euphoria Bitcoin rises with Tesla  Bitcoin rose to a record high above $94,000 as a report that Donald Trump’s social media company was in talks to buy crypto trading firm Bakkt added to hopes of a cryptocurrency-friendly regime under the incoming Trump administration. Bitcoin, the world’s biggest and best-known cryptocurrency, has more than doubled this year. It was last at $92,104 in Asian hours on Wednesday, having touched a record high $94,078 just toward the end of the previous session. The Financial Times, citing two people with…

ANGRY FRENCH FARMERS BURN HAY, DUMP MANURE – Local Government Building burs the smelly brunt of the farmers’ frustrations Angry farmers in the western French city of Limoges on Tuesday (November 19) burned bags of hay and poured liquid manure in front of the local prefecture in protest of a trade deal between the European Union and South America’s Mercosur bloc, which will further intensify competition for the French agriculture sector. Farmers in their tractors protested in many parts of France on Tuesday as the EU and four Mercosur members – Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay – are pushing to…

UN RIGHTS OFFICE ‘GRAVELY CONCERNED’ OVER HONK KONG – But will do nothing. The U.N. human rights office also voiced concern about the use of the security law in Hong Kong to jail 45 pro-democracy activists but said it had no plans to cut off its ongoing dialogue with China.  Whilst the UN is gravely concerned that people have been arrested, charged and now imprisoned in Hong Kong, for protesting their loss of freedoms, the UN will continue business as usual with the Chinese Communist Party.  On December 19, 1984, after years of negotiations, British and Chinese leaders signed a…

UKRAINE ENVOY WARNS AGAINST ‘APPEASEMENT’ TOWARDS PUTIN – Ukraine has asked allies for further help to counter Russia   A Ukrainian diplomat warned against any attempt to appease Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying that the latest strikes on Ukraine showed he had no desire for peace and asked allies for further help to counter Russia. Russia pounded Ukraine’s power grid in the largest air strike in almost three months on Sunday, in a move that Ukraine’s ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva said showed Putin’s determination to continue the war 1,000 days after Russia’s invasion. “They demonstrate that Putin doesn’t…