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Tesla Shares Drop To Cheapest Level As Car Maker’s Valuation Drops Below $500 Billion – Billionaire Elon Musk has copped a lashing for his obsession with turning around Twitter – being accused of abandoning his electric car company in the process. [newsau]

Elon Musk Sells $3.6bn Of Shares In Electric Car Maker Tesla – Multi-billionaire Elon Musk has sold another 22 million shares, worth $3.58bn (£2.9bn), in the electric car maker Tesla. [bbc]

Twitter Suspends Account Dedicated To Tracking Elon Musk’s Private Jet – Twitter has suspended the account dedicated to tracking the location of billionaire Elon Musk’s private jet. [cnbc]

All over the show..

André De Ruyter Resigns As Eskom Chief Executive – News24 understands that he notified board chairperson Mpho Makwana of his decision earlier in the week. Makwana has also informed Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan. [n24]

Libya Opens Probe Into Lockerbie Suspect’s Extradition To US – Libya’s chief prosecutor on Wednesday said that he had opened an investigation into the extradition of a Libyan national accused of making the bomb that downed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, to the United States. [ap]

Kremlin Says Christmas Ceasefire Not On The Agenda In Ukraine – Russia said on Wednesday it had not received any proposals about a “Christmas ceasefire” in Ukraine, as fighting looks set to drag on through the winter. [reuters]

Paul Pelosi’s Attacker Also Said He Wanted To Target Tom Hanks – David DePape, accused of attacking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul Pelosi, told police that he also planned to target a list of other public figures, including actor Tom Hanks, Hunter Biden and California Governor Gavin Newsom. [dline]

Covid Cases Explode In Beijing Leaving City Streets Empty And Daily Life Disrupted – Empty streets, deserted shopping centers, and residents staying away from one another are the new normal in Beijing – but not because the city, like many Chinese ones before it, is under a “zero-Covid” lockdown. [cnn]

Boy Killed In Montpellier Amid Clashes Between France And Morocco Fans – Video shared on social media showed crowds in the street and a car being driven erratically. Rival fans had also clashed in Paris following the World Cup semi-final. [sky]

South Africa’s Biggest Industry Is In A Downward Spiral – South Africa’s R1 trillion mining industry is in a downward spiral, say economists at Nedbank, with the sector recording its ninth consecutive month of decline in October. [btech]

World Cup 2022 – France beat Morocco to set up final showdown with Argentina. [sky]

Red Bull Issue Max Verstappen Ban – Max Verstappen has expressed his interest in riding a MotoGP bike in the off-season. [f1news]

Bitcoin Has Rallied. What Are Crypto’s True Believers Still Smoking? – As fraud and conspiracy charges were laid against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried in the US on Tuesday, a funny thing happened to the price of bitcoin: it went up. [guardian]

Escaped Chimpanzees Captured, Euthanized After Swedish Zoo Did Not Have Enough Tranquilizer – Four chimpanzees escaped from their enclosure in a Swedish zoo and roamed freely before being captured and euthanized on Wednesday, according to Swedish media. [usat]

Dad Of Missing NY Student Ken DeLand Pushes Back On French Official’s Claims – The New York college student who went missing while studying abroad in France was in a “fragile mood” when he vanished — though his family pushed back on authorities’ claim that he left “voluntarily.” [nyp] This is going to get messy. 

Awe-Inspiring Photos Of The World’s Most Remarkable Football Pitches – British journalist Ryan Herman still remembers the first football ground he ever visited as a kid in 1978 — the sights, the sounds and yes, the score. [cnn] Very cool pics – check it out..

Oh Boy! Traffic Cops Probe ‘8-Year-Old’ Driver Who Could ‘Hardly See Over The Steering Wheel’ – Gauteng traffic police say they are investigating the circumstances behind a viral video which shows a young boy driving an SUV around in Roshnee, Vereeniging. [n24]

I’m Not Sure Why James Cameron Would Make “Avatar: The Way Of Water” So Boring – Beautiful visuals can’t make up for the film’s oversimplified view of colonialism. [bfn]

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