A dismissed town mayor who fled the Philippines after being accused of helping establish an illegal online gaming and scam center catering mostly to clients in China has been arrested near Indonesia’s capital, officials said Wednesday. Indonesian authorities arrested Alice Guo at a house in Jakarta’s satellite city of Tangerang just before midnight on Tuesday, according to Khrisna Murti, chief …
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Officials from the FBI and two other agencies nonetheless claim Russia, China and Iran are trying to stoke discord among voters US authorities have not detected any attempts by foreign actors to directly interfere in the upcoming presidential election, representatives of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Federal …
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Paran Women Group’s executive director, Naiyan Kiplagat, is working in the forest. The group are passionate guardians of the environment and promoters of gender equality. Credit: Joyce Chimbi/IPS by Joyce Chimbi (great rift valley, kenya) Friday, September 06, 2024 Inter Press Service GREAT RIFT VALLEY, Kenya, Sep 06 (IPS) – Between 2001 and 2022, the Mau Forest’s deforestation resulted in the …
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It has been a year since the first outbreak of a new more deadly variant of the mpox virus was first reported in central Africa. Since the start of the year, more than 20,000 cases and well over 500 deaths, most of them children, have been officially reported, but the actual numbers are likely higher. The epicentre of the outbreak …
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The United Nations has called for a “full investigation” into the killing of a US-Turkish woman in the occupied West Bank during a protest on Friday. Local media reported that Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, was shot dead by Israeli forces as she took part in a weekly protest against Jewish settlement expansion in the town of Beita near Nablus. Israel’s …
Read More »Ontario’s financial regulator has issued warnings about three websites illegally claiming to be credit unions, but it is powerless to close them.
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GitHub vs. Bitbucket GitHub isn’t the only hosted enhanced Git service, and GitHub Enterprise isn’t the only on-premises product for companies. Atlassian Bitbucket competes with both of them, with slightly lower pricing and with a free five-member team level that includes unlimited private repos and the use of Bitbucket Pipelines for continuous integration. GitHub is a more popular site for …
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Pope Francis has called for an end to tribal conflicts that have wracked Papua New Guinea for decades and appealed for equitable development of its natural resources during a visit that also highlighted the country’s problem of violence against women. Dancers in swishing grass skirts performed for the Pope on Saturday as he opened his first full day in the …
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Republican presidential nominee, former US President Donald Trump addresses the Economic Club of New York on 5 September 2024, in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP ) Donald Trump, if elected, plans to revoke accreditation and federal support for US universities that he claims promote “antisemitic propaganda. He also intends to ban refugee resettlement from areas like Gaza and …
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MUNICH — Police in Munich exchanged fire with a gunman near the Israeli Consulate in Munich on Thursday, fatally wounding him. Authorities said they believe he was planning to attack the consulate on the anniversary of the attack on the 1972 Munich Olympics. No one else was hurt in the shootout shortly after 9 a.m. in an area near the …
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