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Türkiye
- ConfirmedÖzel elected YENİ Parti chairÖzgür Özel, the only candidate, was elected chair of YENİ Parti at its first congress in Ankara on Saturday with all 1,154 valid votes.
- ConfirmedAnkara raid on “Çobanlar” groupAnkara prosecutors say a group known as the “Çobanlar Group” laundered drug money through companies, a hotel and nightclubs; 10 suspects have been detained.
- ConfirmedNo more exams in primary schoolsA change to the education ministry’s assessment rules, published in the Official Gazette on Saturday, bans exams “under any name” in pre-schools and primary schools.
Tech and AI
- Single sourceTesla opens personal Cybercab ordersTesla is inviting “select customers” to buy its steering-wheel-free Cybercab for personal use, but only in cities where its Robotaxi service runs, The Verge reports.
- Single sourceAI fuels a ransomware surgeClaimed ransomware attacks rose by 20 to 40 percent between spring and summer by some estimates, with nearly 3,000 posted on leak sites over the summer, Wired reports.
Around the World
- ConfirmedHungary digs up $19.5m in cashHungary’s new asset recovery office found $19.5 million in forints, euros and dollars in searches linked to Miklós Seszták, development minister from 2014 to 2018.
- Single sourceBomb found at Illinois plantPeoria police ordered everyone within a mile of the BioUrja Renewables ethanol plant to leave on Friday after a bomb was found there, The Guardian reports.
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