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George Clooney to direct and star in ‘Good Morning, Midnight’ for Netflix

•George Clooney has signed on to direct and star in “Good Morning, Midnight” for Netflix. It will be his first
project with the streaming service.

•Clooney and Smokehouse Pictures’ Grant Heslov will produce the adaptation of Lily Brooks-Dalton’s novel,
“which according to a description from Netflix. “Grant and I couldn’t be more excited to be involved with this
incredible project,” Clooney told Variety. “Mark is a writer we’ve long admired and his script is haunting. We’re
thrilled to be working with our friends at Netflix as well.”

•The story is a sci-fi thriller, and was named one of the best books of 2017 by the Chicago Review of Books.
Clooney will play the lead scientist.

2•WASHINGTON (AP) — The president is meeting with senior advisers and representatives of organizations that
deal with trafficking at the White House. His daughter is among those in attendance.

•Biden calls “human trafficking” a problem that is “not talked about enough.” He said that he would order the
departments of Justice and Homeland Security to take a hard look at the resources they were devoting to
addressing the issue

•Human trafficking tends to occur around international travel-hubs with large immigrant populations such as
California and Texas. The U.S. Justice Department estimates that 14,500–17,500 people, including young
children and teenagers, are trafficked into the country every year. They can be domestic citizens or foreign
nationals. According to the Department of State’s statistics from 2000, there are approximately 244,000
American children and youth that are at risk for sex trafficking each year.

3.Nepalese rescuers on Friday found three bodies near the wreckage of a U.S. Marine helicopter that
disappeared earlier this week while on a relief mission in the earthquake-hit Himalayan nation, officials said.
Nepal’s Defense Secretary Iswori Poudyal gave no details about the nationalities of the victims. The helicopter
was carrying six Marines and two Nepalese army soldiers. The wreckage was found near Gothali village in the
district of Dolakha. The U.S. Embassy in Nepal had no immediate comment Friday.

The discovery of the wreckage, first spotted by a Nepalese army helicopter Friday, followed days of intense
search involving U.S. and Nepalese aircraft and even U.S. satellites.Nepal TV reported today.

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4.Fuel price hike? Surprise!

Many motorists would have been pleasantly surprised to wake up yesterday to an unexpected
change in gasoline prices.
For weeks, the country had been fretting about a looming increase in the price of Pertalite, the
subsidized RON-90 gasoline sold by Pertamina at prices so low it makes people green with envy in the
rest of the world. Widely reported political statements had gently prepared the people to accept that
they would need to fork out more for gasoline, and many assumed prices would be adjusted at the turn
of the month. Nobody would have been shocked.

5.Jokowi visits Freeport, hails Southeast Asia's first 5G mining technology.

President Joko Widodo visited the gold and copper mines of PT Freeport Indonesia in Mimika, Papua,
on Thursday, where he inaugurated the company’s first 5G mining technology.
Jokowi is the second Indonesian president to visit Freeport – the local arm of United States mining
giant Freeport-McMoran Inc. – which has been majority-owned by state-owned mining holding
company MIND ID since 2018. Speaking at the event, Jokowi hailed what he called Southeast Asia’s
first 5G smart mining system, a technology run by Freeport in collaboration with state-owned
telecommunications firm Telkomsel.