The captain of a super yacht that underwent a shipwreck in Sicily last week killing seven people, including the owner of the yacht, British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, is now under investigation. James Cutfield, 51, is being investigated for manslaughter and shipwreck, according to reports by local Italian news outlets. Charges have not officially been filed against him for the …
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The former president has criticized the White House for ignoring a ceremony honoring troops killed during the US withdrawal from Afghanistan The US pullout from Kabul in 2021 was “gross incompetence,” former President Donald Trump said on Monday after attending a commemoration at Arlington National Cemetery for the 13 troops killed during the debacle. He also slammed US president Joe …
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Iná de Cubas next to the biodigester she obtained with the Energy of Women of the Earth project, in the municipality of Orizona, in the Brazilian state of Goiás. Credit: Mario Osava / IPS by Mario Osava (acreuna / orizona, brazil) Monday, August 26, 2024 Inter Press Service ACREUNA / ORIZONA, Brazil, Aug 26 (IPS) – A community bakery, family production …
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Around 200 people have been killed and 140 injured in the Burkinabe town of Barsalogho, the latest in a long line of deadly attacks by an al-Qaeda-linked armed group, Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM). Women and children were among those killed on Saturday. Barsalogho lies near the town of Kaya, a strategic point in north-central Burkina Faso that houses the …
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Reuters Beachgoers in Tyre saw smoke rising from the Lebanon-Israel border during Sunday’s strikes For almost a month, many here in Lebanon have been on tenterhooks, waiting for Hezbollah to retaliate against Israel. The region was waiting also, wondering if this would be the spark for a wider war. Everyone knew the powerful Iranian-backed group would seek revenge for Israel’s …
Read More »A lobbying group is preparing a bid to define hunting with animals as a protected belief. Many experts have questions.
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Every so often, we’re duped into thinking that enterprise technology changes quickly; that if you don’t jump on this or that hype train right now you’re going to get left behind. A decade ago it was cloud computing. Today it’s generative AI. Each promised to change everything. Yet today, despite AWS on a $100 billion revenue run rate and the …
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The Dutch data protection watchdog has slapped a 290 million euro (£245.5 million) fine on ride-hailing service Uber for allegedly transferring personal details of European drivers to the United States without adequate protection. Uber called the decision flawed and unjustified and said it will appeal. The Dutch Data Protection Authority said the data transfers spanning more than two years amounted …
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Medium and large Australian businesses may no longer require employees to respond to messages outside of their working hours. But the employees can not unreasonably ignore messages. The new rules mirror European policy that workers there have overwhelmingly welcomed. Australia gave millions of workers the legal right to “disconnect” on Monday, allowing them to ignore unreasonable out-of-hours calls, emails and …
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August 26, 2024 2:08 AM EDT At least one person has died and two others are still missing after an ice cave partially collapsed as a group of tourists was visiting the Breidamerkurjokull glacier in southern Iceland. In a statement posted on social media, local police say first responders received a call shortly before 3 p.m. on Sunday as a …
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