‘Disorganised and intoxicated by alcohol and drugs’ insurgents shot dead in Chad’s presidential palace
In an interview with state TV, Foreign Minister Abderaman Koulamallah praised the vigilance of the palace guards, describing the attackers as disorganised and intoxicated by alcohol and drugs.
Fear Trump, his ‘testosterone-heavy’ rhetoric has all the makings of imperialism that’s scaring allies
Donald Trump’s swaggering rhetoric also marks a continuation of the kind of testosterone-heavy energy that was a signature of his campaign, particularly as he worked to win over younger male voters with appearances on popular podcasts.
Painful truths: Florida grand jury finds ‘profound and serious’ issues with vaccine manufacture and safety in US
The investigation revealed that departing FDA staff who take industry jobs are allowed to influence the FDA “behind the scenes.”
Merchants of death: How Modern and other Covid vaccine manufacturers raked in billions patients died during trials
Moderna’s European filing also revealed that the company withheld trial results demonstrating that children under 12 who received the vaccine were ten times more likely than those who received the placebo to suffer “serious side effects.”
Trump’s bare-knuckled election campaign speeches give Facebook chief reason to roll back hate speech
Arturo Béjar, a former engineering director at Meta known for his expertise on curbing online harassment, said while most of the attention has gone to the company’s fact-checking announcement on Tuesday, he is more worried about the changes to Meta’s harmful content policies.
Extinction threats mapped as species in Lake Victoria may be wiped out by pollution, overfishing, agriculture and invasive species
The researchers identified four places globally with the largest number of threatened freshwater species: Lake Victoria in Africa, Lake Titicaca in South America and regions in western India and Sri Lanka.
Kenya’s marathon queen Obiri seeks Boston Marathon third win, Ethiopia’s Lemma to defend men’s title
The 35-year-old Hellen Obiri has been dominant in the distance event since making her marathon debut in 2022, winning New York in 2023 in addition to her pair of Boston titles, picking up the bronze in Paris Olympics last year.
Ethiopia’s Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas 13 days after Catholics and Protestants’
The patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Abune Mathias, in his televised Christmas Eve message called for reconciliation and peace in a nation where conflict has been often fuelled by ethnic strife.
CNN defamation trial comes at a rough time for legacy media and for the struggling network
CNN said in court papers that Young’s case amounts to “defamation by implication” and that he hadn’t actually been accused of nefarious acts. The initial story he complained about didn’t even mention Young until three minutes in, CNN lawyer David Axelrod argued on Tuesday.
Zuckerberg dumps fact-checkers after CHD asks Supreme Court to hear censorship case against Facebook
ather than turning to third parties to fact-check posts, Meta will use a “Community Notes model” in which social (media) users themselves decide when posts are potentially misleading and need more context, said Meta’s Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan in a statement.
