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Bangladesh’s Opposition Protests Election With 48-hour Strike | Vantage with Palki Sharma – Firstpost

  1. Bangladesh’s Opposition Protests Election With 48-hour Strike | Vantage with Palki Sharma Firstpost
  2. Bangladesh’s main opposition party starts a 48-hour general strike ahead of Sunday’s election The Hill
  3. Sheikh Hasina ‘corrupt and undemocratic’: Bangladesh’s main opposition party Hindustan Times
  4. ‘Let the dead not vote’ — Opposition BNP says Bangladesh polls ‘rigged in favour of ruling Awami League’ ThePrint
  5. Bangladesh Elections: In Hasina vs Zia battle tensions rise as opposition parties start 48-hour strike | Mint Mint

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48-hour storm could leave Twin Cities with 6-10 inches of snow

MINNEAPOLIS — After a quiet start to the New Year, we jump into our third big storm of the past four weeks — with this one spanning more than two days.

The National Weather Service has issued an ice storm warning in several south-central Minnesota counties. Much of Minnesota, including the Twin Cities, is under a winter storm warning.

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Light snow started to fall in the southern metro and down south Monday night, and it will continue overnight, but it won’t advance much farther north until the middle of Tuesday morning.

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Tuesday will be a warmer day, with a high of 32 degrees in the metro. But this will be problematic because it will toy with the phases of precipitation, and create some wet, heavy snow.

The heaviest snowfall will occur Tuesday mid-morning through mid-afternoon. We could see rates of 1 to 2 inches per hour before a lull in the action in the evening. Wind speeds will also be between 10-15 mph, which will cause some blowing snow.

Lighter bands take over Tuesday evening, and it will keep on lightly snowing in the metro through early Thursday, with the day’s high temp dropping into the mid-20s

The metro is expected to get between 6-10 inches of accumulation by Thursday, while areas north and west of the metro could see even more. Parts of southwestern Minnesota could get more than a foot of snow.

Friday’s high temp will only be in the high teens in the metro, but we’ll begin a slow warmup through the weekend, with highs in the upper 20s to start out the work week.

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Best Buy’s Flash 48-Hour Sale: 6 Great Tech Deals We Found

This story is part of Amazon Prime Day, CNET’s guide to everything you need to know and how to find the best deals.

Amazon Prime’s Early Access Sale (also known as 2022’s second Prime Day event) is here, running for 48 hours from Oct. 11 to Oct. 12. Don’t have an Amazon Prime membership? There are plenty of anti-Prime Day sales happening concurrently, from Walmart’s Rollbacks and More event to Target’s Deal Days. And Best Buy’s also got an alternative to second Prime Day, a 48-hour flash sale on select tech and home items with some major discounts of its own.  

The Best Buy’s 48-hour flash sale is running Oct. 11 and 12, the same dates as Amazon’s second Prime Day event, and offers some of the best prices of the year.  

Whether you’re in the market for a laptop or TV upgrade, or just want to get in on the air fryer craze, the sale has got something for you. We’ve highlighted several of our favorite deals below but it’s well worth perusing the whole sale to find exactly what you want. 

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The 317, one of our recommendations for best Chromebooks, is essentially a portable all-in-one Chrome OS desktop, otherwise known as a Chromebase. The big display makes multitasking a breeze. You can stream a YouTube video in the corner while you work on a presentation and keep an eye on email or chat — all without overlapping windows. It is big and heavy compared with all the smaller Chromebooks here, so it’s not a great option if mobility is a priority. But it’s certainly small enough to move around the house, and with more than 10 hours of battery life according to my tests, you can work all day and still have time left for a video chat with family, gaming or streaming a movie.

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Apple

The Apple Watch Series 8 was only released last month, but its price is already being marked down as low as $349. The $50 price break applies to all of the GPS-only Series 8 models in both 41mm and 45mm sizes, and offers the best discount we’ve seen since launch.

LG

In the market for an OLED TV this fall? This 2022 LG model is seeing huge discounts in various sizes to suit your space. In our review, we praised its superb picture quality, gaming features and sleek styling.

Read our LG OLED C2 Series 2022 review.

 

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Sony

Sony’s new WH-1000XM5 headphones are the best wireless headphones on the market for noise cancellation and you can score them at a $50 discount in Best Buy’s sale. They’re comfortable, sound amazing, offer a best-in-class call experience and can even pair with two devices at the same time. Both color models are discounted.

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Crux

Weird collab aside, the new Crux x Marshmello digital air fryer is $50 off right now making it a solid choice for a large capacity crisper. Its digital touchscreen and eight preset cooking modes make it easy to use, and it can prepare up to 6.6 pounds of food at a time. This deal is one you’ll only find at Best Buy since the device is exclusive to the retailer. 

Apple

The 2022 MacBook Air model has seen a complete design overhaul. It now has a larger and brighter 13.6-inch Liquid Retina Display and thinner profile. Inside, it’s powered by Apple’s all-new M2 chip which allows for a performance bump of up to 40% and battery life as long as 18 hours, according to Apple. You can save $150 on 256GB and 512GB configurations at Best Buy right now.

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Squirrel from hell injures 18 during 48-hour biting spree

It went completely nuts.

UK residents were left reeling after a crazed gray squirrel went on a wild Christmas rampage in Buckley, Wales, injuring a staggering 18 people in two days. Facebook posts detailing Rocky’s reign of terror are going viral.

“Warning, vicious squirrel that attacks,” wrote Nicola Crowther in the Buckley Residents Facebook Group on Dec. 26 along with a grainy photo of the furry culprit on a fencepost. “Has bitten me, attacked my friend . . . and multiple other people.”

“It’s also attacked my two Bengals, who fear nothing, and my neighbors’ Bengal cats,” she added. “Dare not go out of my house, as it’s lurking.

Another bite recipient, Sheree Davidson, told SWNS that she was taking out the recycling when the “psycho” squirrel jumped out at her from behind the bins and chomped her on the hand.

Buckley resident Corinne Reynolds with the crazed gray squirrel.
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“I’ve got teeth marks on the top and bottom of my finger,” she lamented. “It proper latched on and I had to shake it off. He’s taken the top layer off my knuckle. His teeth are like pins.”

Davidson also uploaded pics of her bloody finger to the Facebook group with the caption “it had me good an proper little s – – t.”

The nutty critter, which has since been dubbed “Stripe” after the evil character from “Gremlins,” reportedly didn’t discriminate in its attacks, lashing out at the elderly, children and pets alike, and biting them everywhere from the heads to legs, SWNS reported.

Nowhere was safe, as the critter would launch at people in the gardens and even chase them down the road.

Corinne Reynolds decided to act after getting chomped on the finger.
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Many victims had to receive tetanus shots after getting savaged.

“After arriving at the hospital, I had to have a tetanus jab because the squirrel broke my skin,” said technician Scott Felton, 34, who was ambushed by the psychotic treehopper while smoking on his patio.

He added, “I know of someone else too who had to have a tetanus jab because theirs didn’t stop bleeding.”

During the course of its two day biting spree, the bloodthirsty squirrel reportedly injured 18 people with a staggering 21 attacked since Dec. 23.

Stripe injured a whopping 18 people in two days.
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Salvation finally came on Monday after 65-year-old Buckley resident, Corinne Reynolds decided to trap the hairy hellion.

Locally known as the “bird lady,” the mom of seven had been feeding the squirrel since the summer, but decided to act after getting bitten on the hand herself, and seeing “all the Facebook posts” regarding the attacks.

“To be honest, he was giving me cause for concern with his unusual behaviour,” said Reynolds, who wondered if Stripe had “something going on inside his head like a tumour.”

Reynolds said she especially worried about the animal’s violent tendencies as she had “an elderly lodger on blood-thinning drugs and a 2-year-old grandson playing in the garden too.”

In order to protect them, Reynolds snared the rogue rodent by putting out a cage in her garden filled with peanuts, Stripe’s favorite snack. The senior then handed him over to the RSPCA, who euthanized the critter as it’s illegal to release them into the wild in the UK.

The injuries inflicted by the squirrel on Jane Harry.
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Reynolds had mixed emotions about Stripe’s death. While reportedly “relieved” that she was able to protect her loved ones from the bloodthirsty critter, the senior was also “sad because I’m an animal lover and because of me this squirrel lost his life,” she told the Evening Standard.

“I know people don’t like gray squirrels but they are all god’s creatures to me,” Reynolds insisted.

According to the British Pest Control Association, gray squirrels are an invasive species that was introduced to the UK from North America in the 1870s to enhance the aesthetics of upper-crust estates, the ES reported.

They continued to be introduced until the 1930s, when the government finally recognized the environmental havoc they caused and banned people from releasing these problem animals into the wild.

Reynolds had mixed emotions about Stripe getting euthanized.
Corrinne Reynolds / SWNS

Stripe’s biting spree isn’t the first instance of a cutesy critter going completely nuts. Earlier this month, a Singapore resident was hospitalized after getting accosted by a gang of otters, who reportedly bit him 26 times and left him thinking he “was gonna die.”

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