Your daily round-up of today's news:
- The death toll from severe tropical storm Paeng has jumped to 121.
- Elon Musk says Twitter is charging verified accounts $8 per month.
- Court filings revealed that the suspect who attacked Nancy Pelosi's husband was on a "suicide mission".
- Pope Francis's first visit to Bahrain will bring hopes to cement ties with Islam but is also marked by accusations of human rights abuses in the Gulf state.
- Monkeypox is still a global health emergency, according to the World Health Organization.
- A new potentially hazardous asteroid was discovered. Codenamed 2022 AP7, this 1.5km wide asteroid was found along with two other near-Earth asteroids and it's the largest PHA to be discovered in the last eight years. It takes five years to circle the sun under its current orbit, which at its closest point to Earth remains several million kilometers away.
- Tokyo recognizes same-sex relationships.
- Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro authorized the transition to a new government without acknowledging his defeat to President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
- The European Union is banning petrol and diesel vehicles for 2035.
- Mazda's CX-8 crossover was updated for the 2023 model year.
- Penguin Random House's acquisition of Simon & Schuster was blocked by the federal court.
- Seiyuu Tomori Kusunoki will leave the Love Live franchise at the end of March 2023 due to health concerns. Kusunoki is famed for voicing the character Setsuna Yuki from the Nijigasaki High School Idol Club.
- Jackson State football coach Deion Sanders bands his team from leaving the hotel this weekend when they face Texas Southern in Houston, where rapper Takeoff was killed at a bowling alley.
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