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On Friday, Bitcoin hit a new record high of $24,661. Business Insider reports that investors on social media platform declared a "Merry Bitmas." Bitcoin continues to be one of the market's coronavirus winners. Investors are optimistic it will continue to soar and even pose a threat to safe havens like gold. Blockchain.com observed a 40.46% growth in wallet creation year-to-date on its crypto exchange.
Security in Haiti, where violent gangs control large swathes of the country, has deteriorated even further, with the number of major crimes hitting "record highs," the UN representative to the impoverished nation warns. "The security situation on the ground continues to deteriorate as growing gang violence plunge(s) the lives of the people of Haiti into disarray and major crimes are rising sharply to new record highs," Maria Isabel Salvador tells the UN Security Council. SOUNDBITE
A representative from the UN's World Meteorological Organization announces during a UN briefing that a new record-high temperature in the Arctic has been recognised, confirming a reading in Siberia last year of 38 degrees Celsius (100.4 degrees Fahrenheit). SOUNDBITE
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Secretary-General Professor Petteri Taalas says greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere reached new record levels last year, in a stark warning to the COP26 summit about worsening global warming. COP26, the UN Climate Change Conference, is being held in Glasgow from October 31 to November 12. SOUNDBITE
Santiago de Compostela (Spain), Oct 3 (EFE) .- Fifty people gathered on Sunday morning in Santiago de Compostela to burn bills, as a symbolic protest against the increase in electricity prices in recent months in Spain.FOOTAGE OF THE PROTEST.