TURKEY - A powerful 6.1-magnitude earthquake has rocked Türkiye’s northwestern Duzce province, injuring several people – including one said to be in serious condition – and knocking out electricity across the region. The quake struck early on Wednesday morning and centered on the town of Golkaya, but was felt some 200 kilometers (125 miles) east in Istanbul, the capital city, according to Türkiye’s Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency. The agency said the first quake was followed by at least 35 smaller aftershocks, triggering panic as many people rushed out of buildings in the earthquake-prone region.

USA - Two of America’s largest criminal drug dealers recently reached a $10 billion settlement for their role in America’s opioid crisis that has cost tens of thousands of deaths and countless lives destroyed for the past several years. CVS and Walgreens tentatively agreed to pay a combined $10 billion to resolve lawsuits brought by states and local governments alleging the retailers' mishandled prescriptions of opioid painkillers.

USA - The Walt Disney Co is hoping that returning CEO Bob Iger will wave his magic wand like Cinderella’s fairy godmother and make everything better following Bob Chapek’s calamitous tenure. But analysts are predicting the task won’t be so easy, saying Iger will need to slash spending and restore profitability in two years’ time — a feat of sorcery that the Disney veteran may not be able to pull off.

SOUTH KOREA - South Korea has turned to Russia and China for help in shutting down rival North Korea’s missile testing program, arguing that Pyongyang is threatening peace and stability across Northeast Asia and beyond. Nuclear envoy Kim Gunn held a telephone call on Monday morning with the Russian and Chinese ambassadors to Seoul, Andrey Kulik and Xing Haiming, asking for “active cooperation” in persuading Pyongyang to refrain from “further provocations” and return to dialogue, the South Korean Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Kim argued that North Korea’s launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Friday violated UN Security Council resolutions and marked yet another dangerous saber-rattling incident from President Kim Jong-un’s regime.

USA - Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum, spoke at the G20 summit in Indonesia about a “deep systemic restructuring of our world.” He also said that the world would look different after this transition process. “They are no longer hiding it. It’s The Great Reset,” reported Swedish journalist Peter Imanuelsen on Twitter.

SCOTLAND - There are fears that Scotland will become a nanny state if Nicola Sturgeon’s government rolls out its own digital identity platform next year. According to their website: “Disclosure Scotland helps employers make safer decisions when they’re recruiting people. It also makes sure unsuitable people do not work with vulnerable groups, including children.”

USA - The collapse in male fertility rates around the world is accelerating, according to journal Human Reproduction Update. Sperm counts dropped by 62 percent in under 50 years — a decades-long trend that is picking up pace. A low sperm count can contribute to adverse men’s health outcomes, including “testicular cancer, hormonal disruption and genital birth defects, as well as declines in female reproductive health.” Hagai Levine, lead author of the study, called the issue a “crisis,” warning the steep decline could get to an irreversible point.

SOLOMON ISLANDS - A powerful magnitude 7.0 earthquake has struck near the Solomon Islands, with the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center saying that hazardous waves are possible for several islands in the region, including Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu. The quake struck around 2am GMT on Tuesday, some 56 kilometers (35 miles) southwest of the capital, Honiara. It was followed by a 6.0 aftershock roughly 30 minutes later, as well as several other weaker jolts in the area, according to the United States Geological Survey.

USA - If you had to choose between living under an extremely oppressive world government or living through a nuclear war, which one would be your choice? Personally, I don’t like either of those two options, but in recent days western leaders have been trying to convince us that we will either have one or the other. According to them, either we can submit to a “global order” that is dominated by the values and the agenda of the western elite or we can accept a multipolar world which will eventually lead to widespread chaos and nuclear war. Needless to say, western politicians are going to try very hard to get us to choose the former.

THAILAND - The APEC Summit opened on Friday in Thailand, the last of three world summits hosted in the region this month. Chinese leader Xi Jinping called for stability, peace and the development of a “more just world order.” French President Emmanuel Macron spoke at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Bangkok. This was despite the fact that France is not a member of the APEC nations. Macron is a graduate of the “Young Global Leaders” program of the World Economic Forum. Macron called for a new global order where neither the US nor China side wins.

SWITZERLAND - Last week at the G20 meeting in Indonesia, as US President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping wasted their time talking about global warming, a subject the People’s Republic does not take seriously, instead of the origins of COVID or the status of Taiwan, to my utter astonishment, the face and voice of the “Great Reset” appeared. This is the jargon for the readjustment in the world towards so-called stakeholder capitalism that is the ambition of the conveners of the World Economic Forum (WEF).

USA - Members of the country's largest rail union on Monday rejected a proposed labor contract with freight railroads, resulting in a potential nationwide freight-rail strike amid the holiday season and Congress likely intervening to avert such a shutdown. Congressional lawmakers would have to move quickly to avert a strike, considering they won’t return from Thanksgiving recess until at least November 28.

INDONESIA - President Joe Biden signed a G20 Bali Leaders’ Declaration agreeing to adopt vaccine passports to “facilitate” all international travel. Paragraph 23 of the declaration pertains to “facilitating seamless international travel” by pledging to commit to international dialogue and collaboration to establish “trusted global digital health networks that should capitalize and build on the success of the existing standard and digital COVID-19 certificates.”

UK - Tech giants have axed more than 1,500 UK jobs in a month, as investors claim the sector is facing a reckoning. The brutal cuts from Facebook, Twitter and Amazon come as swathes of firms are also slashing workforces. More than 5,000 staff employed in the UK's tech sector are thought to have been made redundant this year. Smaller companies such as car sales platform Cazoo, trading app Freetrade and buy-now pay-later firm Klarna have also laid off staff. Damien Steel, of the venture capital arm of Canadian pensions titan OMERS, said investors were being more careful about the type of company they funded. 'We are telling founders [of companies we invest in] that it's okay to be conservative. Where before you needed enough cash to last 18 months, we're now saying 36 months at least.'

INDONESIA - The death toll from a devastating earthquake that hit Indonesia's main island has risen to 252 today. The number of people killed in the earthquake may still rise further, as rescuers raced to reach survivors trapped in collapsed buildings on the island of Java. At least 30 people are still missing while 377 are injured after the shallow tremor hit West Java near the city of Cianjur, around 45 miles south of the capital Jakarta on Monday afternoon. Excavators, trucks and other heavy equipment sent overnight reached Cianjur by Tuesday morning but landslides and rough terrain are hampering rescue efforts. The country of more than 270 million people is frequently struck by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis because of its location on the arc of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin known as the 'Ring of Fire.'