How abduction of Somali journalist in Mogadishu led to unearthing of cybercriminals in Wyoming, USA

How abduction of Somali journalist in Mogadishu led to unearthing of cybercriminals in Wyoming, USA

When Qurium investigated, it eventually traced a source of the outage to a surprising place: Wyoming. Although Qurium said it wasn’t able to get to a lock on who pulled the trigger on the cyberattack, it did discover that the sabotage was carried out with the help of a limited liability company (LLC) based out of the vast western state.

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Making of CIA spy III: Learning to steal secrets, exploiting locals and ruthlessly killing anyone

Making of CIA spy III: Learning to steal secrets, exploiting locals and ruthlessly killing anyone

When Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields came up with the idea for The Patient, it was Fields who was initially intrigued by serial killers. Weisberg wasn’t, but they kept talking about it, then figured out that Sam, played by Domhnall Gleeson, was in therapy: he wants to change. Then they had the idea that he kidnaps his therapist, and now it was a show – also a merciless examination of how unfree all us benighted humans are, manacled to our stupid psychologies and impediments, even when not literally manacled in a basement.

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Kenya’s president defends punitive economic plans as the East African nation marks 60th birthday

Kenya’s president defends punitive economic plans as the East African nation marks 60th birthday

Recent attempts at reforms include a mandatory housing levy which courts struck down last month for being “discriminatory, irrational, arbitrary and against the constitution.”

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WHO: Kenya and Uganda among five countries in East, Southern Africa hit by anthrax outbreak

WHO: Kenya and Uganda among five countries in East, Southern Africa hit by anthrax outbreak

In a separate assessment of the Zambia outbreak, which was the most concerning, WHO said that 684 suspected cases had been reported in the southern African nation as of November 20, with four deaths. Human cases of anthrax had been reported in nine out of Zambia’s 10 provinces.

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Fake: Influential ‘Financial Times’ newspaper rubbishes story on US probe into Kenya Eurobond

Fake: Influential ‘Financial Times’ newspaper rubbishes story on US probe into Kenya Eurobond

In a November 30 post to X (archived), Sevastopulo also said the image was “a complete fake”, adding: “I did not write any story about Kenya.”

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In Biden-Trump rematch, new opinion poll shows Democrats will lose to Republicans in 2024

In Biden-Trump rematch, new opinion poll shows Democrats will lose to Republicans in 2024

Kennedy, whose uncle John F. Kennedy served as president and whose father, Robert, was a senator and attorney general, faces a challenge to amass enough signatures to get on the ballot on all 50 states.

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Antisemitism: Backlash to House testimony shines spotlight on new crop of Ivy League presidents

Antisemitism: Backlash to House testimony shines spotlight on new crop of Ivy League presidents

Some observers pointed out the dynamics when three women – one Black and one Jewish – were placed before a group of GOP lawmakers eager for a political fight.

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Conservationists upgrade ‘Large-toothed Robber’ fish in Kenya’s Lake Turkana to ‘vulnerable’ status

Conservationists upgrade ‘Large-toothed Robber’ fish in Kenya’s Lake Turkana to ‘vulnerable’ status

Also at risk is Atlantic Salmon, which swims in both freshwater and saltwater. It slid down a category from ‘Least Concern’ to ‘Near Threatened’ on evidence its global population fell by 23 per cent between 2006 and 2020, IUCN said. It cited mortality due to salmon lice from farms as well as the rise of invasive species as some of the factors.

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Making of CIA spy II: ‘If you’re a case officer, a shockingly high ratio of your informants are lying to you’

Making of CIA spy II: ‘If you’re a case officer, a shockingly high ratio of your informants are lying to you’

Weisberg spent a couple of weeks wandering around and thinking about it, and decided the story should be set in the 1980s and be told from the point of view of the KGB spies. And it should be about a family. Weisberg was by then a father himself and something that had stuck with him from his CIA days was how many people there lied to their kids about what they really did for a living.

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Age of Unreason: How African universities churn out parrots, endorse knowledge ‘incest’ and stymie academic production

Age of Unreason: How African universities churn out parrots, endorse knowledge ‘incest’ and stymie academic production

Hierarchical teaching and learning become a thing of the past and all become teachers and learners when they interact, not in classrooms or lecture theaters, but in teams. That way universities start to produce graduates who are more of independent thinkers who can see alternative views as sources of new ideas rather than opposition.

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