According to Delhi's Power Minister Satyendra Jain, more than half of India's 135 coal-fired power plants, which supply around 70% of the country's electricity, have seen their stocks depleted to such low levels that they only have enough to guarantee power for three days before the capital city is hit with blackouts. Typically, they're supposed to keep a buffer supply of at least one month. But these aren't normal times.

"If coal supply doesn't improve, there will be a blackout in Delhi in two days," the national capital's Power Minister Satyendra Jain said today. "The coal-fired power plants that supply electricity to Delhi have to keep a minimum coal stock of one month, but now it has come down to one day," Mr Jain said.

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party is pleading with the government to send emergency supplies of coal by rail: "our request to the center is that railway wagons should be arranged and coal should be transported to the plants soonest. All the plants are already running in only 55 per cent capacity," according to NDTV.

On Saturday the entirety of Lebanon was plunged into darkness, with the electricity grid shut down completely after the small Mediterranean country's two main power stations reportedly ran out of fuel. "The al Zahrani and the Deir Ammar power stations stopped working after supplies of diesel were apparently exhausted, and energy production dropped to below 200 megawatts," Sky News reports.

A Lebanese official has confirmed to Reuters that the blackout is expected to last multiple days. "The Lebanese power network completely stopped working at noon today, and it is unlikely that it will work until next Monday, or for several days," the official said.

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Lebanon's state electricity company, Electricite du Liban (EDL), warned in September that the country could plunge into a total blackout in October, amid dwindling fuel reserves, as the company is unable to generate the minimum 600 megawatts needed daily for the network to function properly.

On 3 October, EDL once again raised the alarm as the electrical grid shut down across the country - meaning residents of Lebanon are now entirely dependent on costly private generators for power, if they can even afford it.

The rising cost of fertilizers and a shortage of these products in global markets could lead to a food crisis and food shortages in Brazil in 2022. This forecast was made on Thursday by President Jair Bolsonaro, saying that his government is taking the necessary measures. The speech of the head of state was broadcast on the channel of his administration on YouTube.

"Due to the energy crisis, China has reduced the production of fertilizers. The price has increased and will continue to grow, and there will be a shortage. We will have problems with food shortages next year," he said, recalling that the largest Latin American state produces about 20% of the world's food ... "We have been working on this since March and will present an emergency fertilizer plan next month," he added.

Bolsonaro also pointed out that the rise in the cost of food is observed everywhere around the world, and a number of countries have already faced food shortages.

According to the statistics of the National Association of Fertilizer Distributors, Brazil imports about 85% of the fertilizers needed for agriculture.

In the states of Northern India, electricity was cut and there were new outages due to a shortage of coal. Analysis of government data and interviews with residents showed that this contradicted government assurances that electricity was sufficient.

The shortage in India - the world's largest consumer of coal after China - followed massive blackouts in neighboring China, which closed factories and schools to cope with the crisis.

More than half of India's 135 coal-fired power plants, which together generate about 70% of India's electricity, have fuel reserves of less than three days, according to the federal grid operator.

India's Ministry of Energy did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

On Wednesday, the Indian Express newspaper quoted Energy Minister R.K. Singha: "Nowhere would we be able to provide the required amount of electricity."

Reuters analysis of daily load sharing data from federal grid regulator POSOCO found that India's power shortages in the first seven days of October accounted for 11.2% of the country's total power shortages for the year.

Mozilla now displays ads directly in the Firefox address bar as contextual suggestions. This innovation has already been noticed by US users. Mozilla says the feature was introduced in Firefox 92 in September and is allowing the company to raise funds for browser development.

According to Mozilla, “Starting with Firefox 92, users will receive new, relevant offers from trusted partners based on what they are looking for. No user data will be collected, stored or passed on to third parties to make new recommendations. "

Although the company's blog posts introducing a new feature called Firefox Suggest were published in September, it was first mentioned in the Firefox 93 changelog two days ago and presented as "a faster way to navigate the web." Mozilla says it will only work with partners that comply with Firefox's privacy standards, with adMarketplace being the company's preferred partner for the time being.

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