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On Thursday morning Bitcoin soared above $16,000. Business Insider reports that Bitcoin is breaking above the support level for the first time since January 2018. The world's largest cryptocurrency has rallied in recent weeks on a wave of market volatility and growing adoption. The latest uptrend kicked off in October after PayPal announced it would allow users to buy, sell, and hold bitcoin.
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.
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