US raises red flag over Venezuelan poll as President Maduro warns results will be defended by army and police
Maduro – whose 2018 re-election is considered fraudulent by the United States, among others – had warned last week of a “bloodbath” if he were to lose.
South African police arrest Libyan nationals at secret military training camp in Mpumalanga province
The province borders neighbouring countries Mozambique and Swaziland and is an area of concern for South African authorities with regards to illegal immigration. Police and authorities have not said whether the camps are suspected of being connected to a particular group or conflict.
Kenya and Uganda currencies steady after marginally ceding ground to US dollar, Ghana’s to weaken
Kenyan and Ugandan shilling are expected to be stable against the dollar in the next week to Thursday, while Ghana’s cedi and Zambia’s kwacha are seen weakening and Nigeria’s naira could strengthen, traders said. Kenya Kenya’s shilling is expected to hold steady, with dollar sales from the central bank helping...
The Legion of Christ scandal: Vatican’s Pius XII archives bring to the fore how the Catholic Holy See has long been corrupt
Now the new documents from the Vatican’s central governing office are fleshing out that history, providing more details about who in the Vatican helped Maciel evade sanction, believing the claims against him to be slander, and who sought to take a tougher line.
Student protests kill over 100 people as 220 million in India apply for ‘reserved’ government jobs
Sunil Kumar, a 30-year-old, has spent the past nine years of his life chasing a job in the Indian government. Packed with scores of others in makeshift classrooms under tin roofs with barely enough light and air, Kumar has spent years cramming for a variety of tests, including the prestigious...
Report: Failure by US, NATO to prepare for war against Russia is down to military leaders, Pentagon officials, defence contractors and politicians
In the years between Russia’s 2014 seizure of Crimea and its 2022 invasion, for example, repeated warnings from top NATO commanders and from officials who operated or supervised US munitions plants went largely unheeded. They advised their governments, both publicly and privately, that the alliance’s munitions industry was ill-equipped to surge production should war demand it. Because of the failure to respond to those warnings, many artillery production lines at already-ancient factories in the United States and Europe slowed to a crawl or closed altogether.
How one bad CrowdStrike update crashed the world’s computers in airports, train systems, banks, hospitals …and more
The widespread Windows outages have been linked to a software update from cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike. It is believed the issues are not linked to a malicious cyberattack, cybersecurity officials say, but rather stem from a misconfigured/corrupted update that CrowdStrike pushed out to its customers.
Worldwide cyber outage linked to third-party software upgrade grounds flights, disrupts businesses
Microsoft’s cloud unit Azure said it was aware of the issue that impacted virtual machines running Windows OS and the CrowdStrike Falcon agent getting stuck in a “restarting state” amid an ongoing global outage.
Catholic women in France accuse former beloved priest Abbe Pierre who was regarded as conscience of the nation of assault
The Vatican doesn’t usually comment on individual cases of alleged abuse and didn’t immediately respond when asked about Abbé Pierre. In 2021, an independent commission on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church estimated that some 330,000 children were sexually abused over 70 years by priests or other church-related figures in France.
Interpol nabs 300 fraudsters, blocks 720 bank accounts in sting operation on West African cyber-criminals
One of the targeted groups was Black Axe, one of the most prominent criminal networks in West Africa. Black Axe operates in cyber fraud, human trafficking, drug smuggling, and is responsible for violent crimes both within Africa and globally, the agency added.
