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1 Charged with stealing music: A teenager was arrested in England on charges of stealing unreleased songs from international music artists and selling them for cryptocurrency, authorities in New York and London said. The 19-year-old man was arrested in Ipswich, England. His name was withheld by authorities in both countries because of the United Kingdom’s privacy laws.

2 Protests continue: Thousands of Hong Kong people carried lanterns with pro-democracy messages and formed human chains on two of the city’s peaks during mid-autumn festival celebrations Friday night, sustaining monthslong protests for democratic reforms in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.

3 Gym official dies: Bruno Grandi, the longtime president of the International Gymnastics Federation who oversaw changing the “perfect 10” scoring system, has died. He was 85. The FIG said Grandi, the federation leader from 1997-2016, died Friday in Italy after an unspecified illness.

4 Lawsuit filed over blast: A federal lawsuit accuses a pipeline company of failing to tell work crews where a major U.S. pipeline was underground before they ruptured the line, touching off a deadly explosion. The workers were trying to make repairs after the pipeline leaked gasoline in Alabama and was shut down in 2016, threatening U.S. gasoline supplies. The estate of Anthony Willingham, an Alabama worker who died in the blast, this week filed a federal lawsuit against Georgia-based Colonial Pipeline Co. and a partner company.

5 Taliban in Russia: A negotiating team from the Taliban arrived Friday in Russia, a representative said. Russian state news agency Tass cited the Taliban’s Qatarbased spokesman Suhail Shaheen as saying the delegation had held consultations with Zamir Kabulov, President Vladimir Putin’s envoy for Afghanistan.