Hundreds are feared dead after the storm razed entire neighborhoods in Mayotte, a series of islands off the eastern coast of Africa, before unleashing its destructive force on Mozambique.
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Gemini Code Assist tools target developer productivity from within IDEs
The Code Assist tools launched Tuesday are designed to help developers retrieve information from — or act on any part of their — engineering system, which is helpful for services outside their IDE, the company said. “For instance, the tools could be used by developers to summarize recent comments from a Jira issue, find the last person who merged changes …
Read More »Suspect in US serial killings charged over death of seventh woman
A New York architect facing murder charges after a string of deaths known as the Gilgo Beach killings has been charged over the death of a seventh woman. Rex Heuermann was charged with killing Valerie Mack, whose remains were found on Long Island in 2000. Ms Mack, 24, had been working as an escort in Philadelphia and was last seen …
Read More »News24 | Ireland fines Meta almost R5bn over Facebook hacks
An Irish regulator helping police European Union data privacy on Tuesday said it had fined Facebook-owner Meta €251 million euros ($263 million) for a data protection failure that saw users’ accounts hacked.
Read More »Explosion Kills Head of Russia’s Nuclear Defense Forces
A senior Russian general was killed Tuesday by a bomb hidden in a scooter outside his apartment building in Moscow, a day after Ukraine’s security service leveled criminal charges against him. A Ukrainian official said the service carried out the attack. Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, the chief of the military’s nuclear, biological and chemical protection forces, was killed as he …
Read More »Demand for bulletproof homes surging in US – Bloomberg — RT World News
The ultra-rich have boosted spending on private security, especially after the assassination of the UnitedHealthcare executive US billionaires have been increasingly ramping up personal and residential security over the past few years, installing bulletproof fittings and panic rooms, Bloomberg has reported. Private security firms had been in high demand even before the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson earlier …
Read More »New Geopolitics Worse for Global South — Global Issues
Opinion by Jomo Kwame Sundaram (kuala lumpur, malaysia) Tuesday, December 17, 2024 Inter Press Service KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Dec 17 (IPS) – The new geopolitics after the first Cold War undermines peace, sustainability, and human development. Hegemonic priorities continue to threaten humanity’s well-being and prospects for progress. Jomo Kwame SundaramEnd of first Cold War The end of the first Cold War …
Read More »Guns are silent, but war lingers for Ogaden’s former women rebel fighters | Women
Mogadishu, Somalia – Hinda Aden and her fellow rebel fighters were trekking through the grasslands of Ethiopia’s Ogaden region under the cover of night, to avoid the enemy’s gaze, when they saw headlights approaching in the distance. “We knew who it was – that’s when we started running,” Hinda says about that fateful August 2006 night – the first time she …
Read More »Russia’s chemical weapons chief and mouthpiece killed in Moscow
As head of Russia’s Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection troops, Igor Kirillov – who has died in an explosion in Moscow – was accused by the West of overseeing the use of chemical weapons on the battlefield in Ukraine. In Russia, he was viewed as a tireless patriot, fighting for the truth and exposing Western “crimes”. Sources from Ukraine’s SBU …
Read More »Bomb Kills Russia’s Head of Nuclear Defense Forces, Igor Kirillov, in Moscow
The general, Igor Kirillov, died after a bomb in a scooter exploded, officials said. He was the chief of Russia’s radioactive, chemical and biological defense forces.
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