News Headlines - 25 October 2020

▽Spain announces new state of emergency as COVID infections soar | Reuters

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced a new state of emergency on Sunday in an effort to curb soaring coronavirus infections, imposing local nighttime curfews and banning travel between regions in some cases.
The measures go into force from Sunday night and will require all regions except the Canary Islands to impose a nighttime curfew and limit the number of people allowed to meet to six... The state of emergency will need parliamentary approval to last beyond 15 days. Sanchez asked for parliament to approve its extension up to May 9.

▽Paraguay finds seven bodies in container shipment from Serbia - BBC News

The decomposed remains of seven people, believed to be undocumented migrants, have been discovered in a fertiliser container in Paraguay, officials say.
It set off from Serbia on 21 July.
The container had travelled through Croatia - thought to be the migrants' planned destination - before going through Egypt, Spain and Argentina en route to Paraguay.
Three of the seven were from Morocco and one was from Egypt, forensic doctor Pablo Lemir said.

▽Goldman Sachs Malaysia unit pleads guilty in 1MDB bribery case and agrees to pay $2.9 billion - CNN

Goldman Sachs's Malaysian subsidiary has pleaded guilty to charges that it conspired to violate US anti-bribery laws in a massive scheme involving the Southeast Asian country's sovereign wealth fund, known as 1MDB.
Goldman has agreed to pay about $2.9 billion to various authorities. About $1.3 billion of that will go to the US Justice Department, representing the largest ever penalty under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a US law which bars companies from bribing foreign leaders... Goldman Sachs has already settled the case with Malaysian authorities, agreeing this summer to a $3.9 billion deal. As part of that settlement, Malaysia agreed to drop all criminal and regulatory proceedings in the country that involved Goldman, including proceedings against the bank's subsidiaries and certain current and former directors.

▽Lee Kun-hee, chairman who built Samsung powerhouse, dead at 78 - UPI.com

Lee Kun-hee, chairman of Samsung Group, who grew the Korean company into a leader in the global tech industry, died Sunday at age 78 in a Seoul hospital... Lee was South Korea's richest resident, according to a Forbes list of Korean billionaires, with total stock holdings valued at $15.6 billion.
Lee suffered a heart attack in 2014 and had been in a coma since then. His son, Lee Jae-yong, vice chairman of Samsung Electronics, has served as head of the company.

▽Unfur-gettable: Puppy with green fur born in Sardinia | Reuters

Italian farmer Cristian Mallocci could not believe his eyes when Spelacchia, one of his eight dogs, gave birth to a green-furred puppy.
The tiny dog, immediately named Pistachio, was part of a five-dog litter born on Oct. 9, all with white fur, the same colour as their mixed breed mum. Except him... It is extremely rare for a dog to be born with green-coloured fur. It is thought that it happens when pale coloured puppies have contact in their mother’s womb with a green pigment called biliverdin. It is the same pigment that causes the green colour in bruises.
However, Pistachio’s peculiar colour won’t last forever. The bright green his fur had on the day of his birth has faded day by day and it will continue to do so as he gets older.