Elon Musk has unveiled long-awaited prototypes of a Tesla robotaxi called the Cybercab, saying that production may start in 2026 and that the vehicle could cost less than $30,000: https://bloom.bg/480dG5P

📸: Tesla

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BREAKING: Ratan Tata, the businessman who inherited one of India’s oldest conglomerates and transformed it into a global empire, has died. He was 86 https://bloom.bg/4h0ovcc

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Presidential impeachment: Kenyan lawmakers voted to impeach Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, raising the risk of renewed political instability after deadly anti-government protests earlier this year. https://bloom.bg/3Y1f1oo

Inequality costs: Uganda’s anti-LGBTQ laws have cost the nation as much as $1.6 billion since being introduced in May 2023, a new study found. https://bloom.bg/3YfLCrH

New leadership: Mozambicans voted Wednesday for a new leader who will need to quell an insurgency that’s stalled massive liquefied natural gas projects. https://bloom.bg/3zIkW9Q

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🎙 Inside the succession drama at a Hong Kong property dynasty. New World’s Adrian Cheng seemed poised to take over his family’s $20 billion empire, until he suddenly resigned as CEO.

Listen to the Big Take Asia Podcast to find out more on the Hong Kong scion’s dramatic ouster and what it could mean for other Asian https://link.podtrac.com/jxfy2rhy

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A new HBO documentary about the origins of Bitcoin suggests that Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of the original cryptocurrency, is likely Canadian software developer Peter Todd https://bloom.bg/3NjasRe

📷: Warner Bros Discovery

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Former Singapore Transport Minister S. Iswaran — who once roamed the Formula 1 paddocks and took a billionaire’s private jet to Qatar — now has to adjust to a more grueling lifestyle: sleeping on a straw mat on the floor of an unairconditioned prison cell.

Read more about what life is like inside the city-state's infamous Changi Prison: https://bloom.bg/3YgyToK

📷: Singapore Prison Service

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The US Justice Department considers recommending to a federal judge that Google sell off parts of its business in what would be a historic breakup. Read more here: https://bloom.bg/4gVf3GV

📷: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

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No water: Zimbabwe’s second biggest city of Bulawayo is planning to extend water cuts to almost 5 1/2 days a week after closing a third of its six supply reservoirs amid the worst drought in 40 years. https://bloom.bg/4gXY9ri

Rate cuts: Kenya’s central bank is set to cut interest rates at a second straight meeting for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic spurred an easing cycle four years ago. https://bloom.bg/4dAsklj

Reelected: Tunisian President Kais Saied won a second term in a low turnout election, as discontent rises over his authoritarian style of governance. https://bloom.bg/3A1v7Gp

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