Kenyan among suspects behind ransomware that last week disrupted hospitals and airports worldwide

Kenyan among suspects behind ransomware that last week disrupted hospitals and airports worldwide

The investigation has identified 43 companies as victims, from countries including Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Honduras, India, Canada, Croatia, Peru, Poland, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates and Germany, they said.

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Experts scramble for answers in wake of rapid rise in cancer incidence in younger people

Experts scramble for answers in wake of rapid rise in cancer incidence in younger people

The cancer trend has also caught the attention of health organisations worldwide, including the World Health Organization, which in February predicted a 77 per cent rise in new cancer cases – from 20 million cases in 2022 to over 35 million cases by 2050.

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2024 Olympic Games: It’s au revoir Paris as Tom Cruise turns spotlight on 2028 Los Angeles games

2024 Olympic Games: It’s au revoir Paris as Tom Cruise turns spotlight on 2028 Los Angeles games

The national stadium, France’s largest, was one of the targets of Islamic State gunmen and suicide bombers who killed 130 people in and around Paris on November 13, 2015. The joy and celebrations that swept Paris during the Games as Marchand and other French athletes racked up 64 medals – 16 of them gold – marked a major watershed in the city’s recovery from that night of terror.

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Human are limited: Kenya’s marathon legend Kipchoge drops out of Paris Olympics race with pelvic joint pain

Human are limited: Kenya’s marathon legend Kipchoge drops out of Paris Olympics race with pelvic joint pain

The 39-year-old Kipchoge started among the frontrunners but faded before the 20km mark, clutching his side as challengers streamed ahead of him. After the race he said back pain had overwhelmed him and made him stop.

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Algerian boxing heroine Khelif delights newfound devotees with statement win at Paris Games

Algerian boxing heroine Khelif delights newfound devotees with statement win at Paris Games

Imane Khelif, who won by unanimous decision, is the first Algerian woman to earn an Olympic boxing title and the first boxer from her country to claim gold since Hocine Soltani at Atlanta 1996. Women’s boxing has been in the Olympics since London 2012.

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Fallen veteran football administrator Issa Hayatou leaves behind rich history in African sports

Fallen veteran football administrator Issa Hayatou leaves behind rich history in African sports

In 2002, during a period of deep financial and political turmoil at Fifa, Hayatou challenged then-president Sepp Blatter in an election he would lose heavily despite support for him in Europe. The 139-56 result showed Issa Hayatou had lost votes from his African colleagues.

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Revenue starved Elon Musk’s X goes after advertisers over alleged ‘massive advertiser boycott’

Revenue starved Elon Musk’s X goes after advertisers over alleged ‘massive advertiser boycott’

In November 2023, about a year after Musk bought the company, a number of advertisers began fleeing X over concerns about their ads showing up next to pro-Nazi content and hate speech on the site in general, with Musk inflaming tensions with his own posts endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory.

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Paris Olympics: Labelling Algerian boxer Imane Khelif ‘insufficiently female’ is illogic and fascistic gender ideology

Paris Olympics: Labelling Algerian boxer Imane Khelif ‘insufficiently female’ is illogic and fascistic gender ideology

Khelif is a female athlete who was deemed by the International Olympic Committee to be eligible to compete. She is only the latest woman of colour in sports to be deemed insufficiently female by a right-wing commentariat obsessed with forging the strictest gender binaries, contrary to social, biological and medical realities.

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World financial markets jittery as investors are jolted by US job cut reports as recession looms

World financial markets jittery as investors are jolted by US job cut reports as recession looms

A report on Friday showing hiring by US employers slowed last month by much more than expected followed weak reports on manufacturing and construction and stoked fears the US economy was finally bending under the pressure of high interest rates. Investors worldwide sold stocks and moved to the safety of bonds, pushing bond yields sharply lower.

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US raises red flag over Venezuelan poll as President Maduro warns results will be defended by army and police

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.

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