(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Overnight News Digest [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-10-27 Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to) Interceptor 7, Man Oh Man, wader, Neon Vincent, palantir, Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse (RIP), ek hornbeck (RIP), rfall, ScottyUrb, Doctor RJ, BentLiberal, Oke (RIP) and jlms qkw. OND is a regular community feature on Daily Kos, consisting of news stories from around the world, sometimes09OP0az coupled with a daily theme, original research or commentary. Editors of OND impart their own presentation styles and content choices, typically publishing each day near 12:00 AM Eastern Time. Please feel free to share your articles and stories in the comments. I have only one Israel/Hamas story, at the top below the fold. Quirkier stories above the fold and more serious ones below. We begin with a story from The Guardian: No ‘nibblies’: three rules for surviving Australia’s party-snack culture Happy Feraren Being invited for nibblies was Happy Feraren’s first real culture shock in Australia. To ensure she leaves parties unscathed and un-hungry, she now follows a simple checklist I moved from Manila to Sydney six years ago, and although Australia is a noticeably wealthy country, sharing food is not as common as it is in the Philippines. Food is not the centrepiece of social life here – alcohol is. The proof? “Nibblies.” Another Australian story, from the Sydney Morning Herald: What are Australia’s chances of hosting the 2034 FIFA World Cup? By Emma Kemp This is how the timeline went. In the early hours of October 5, FIFA announced – out of the blue and a year before the deadline – that the 2030 men’s World Cup would be jointly hosted by six countries across three continents. At the same time, president Gianni Infantino – also out of the blue and ahead of schedule – invited countries from the Asia and Oceania regions to submit bids for the 2034 tournament and gave them 25 days to decide. From Penn Today: Coca-Cola in Africa A new book by Sara Byala of the School of Arts & Sciences examines the century-long history of the soft drink manufacturer and its local impact in Africa. Born in Johannesburg and raised in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Sara Byala took a course on South African history during her first semester as an undergraduate at Tufts University, and that set the course of her career. Byala went on to earn a Ph.D. at Harvard. Throughout her life she has travelled to Africa, to visit relatives after her family moved to the United States in the 1970s and for academic research, including her dissertation on 20th century South Africa. She noticed that no matter where she went, even in the most remote corners of the continent, Coca-Cola was there, often ice-cold. The brand, with its iconic red sign, is ubiquitous. And from The Smithsonian Magazine: Drought Exposes Ancient Rock Carvings in Brazil Revealed by receding Amazon waters, the carvings of human faces are up to 2,000 years old Teresa Nowakowski As an extreme drought hits parts of the Amazon, receding rivers have uncovered remarkable ancient rock carvings in Brazil. Engravings of human faces can be seen on the newly exposed riverbanks at Ponto das Lajes, an archaeological site near the spot where the Rio Negro and Solimões rivers meet. “The engravings are prehistoric, or pre-colonial,” Jaime de Santana Oliveira, an archaeologist with Brazil’s National Historic and Artistic Heritage Institute (IPHAN), tells Reuters’ Suamy Beydoun. “We cannot date them exactly, but based on evidence of human occupation of the area, we believe they are about 1,000 to 2,000 years old.” The one story about the Israel/Hamas war makes it in because there is something here you probably have not known about. It comes from Deutsche Welle: 54 Thai nationals being held hostage by Hamas Some 54 of the more than 200 hostages held captive by Hamas are from Thailand. Thailand provides almost all the foreign farm labor in Israel as part of a 2012 agreement with the Israeli government. The Thai hostages taken by Hamas were working in farms near the Gaza Strip. x YouTube Video From the New York Times: [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/10/27/2199523/-Overnight-News-Digest?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=latest_community&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/