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.
Gambian legislators uphold ban on female genital mutilation, ensure women’s rights
The procedure, also called female genital mutilation, includes the partial or full removal of girls’ external genitalia, often by traditional community practitioners with tools such as razor blades or at times by health workers. It can cause serious bleeding, death and childbirth complications but remains a widespread practice in parts of Africa.
How spending long periods watching TV, obesity, diabetes and delinquency lead to early menstruation in girls below 10 years
Early periods may be influenced by socioeconomic backgrounds, high body mass index during childhood, low activity levels and electronic screen time.
Treason in Russia: Scientists, journalist and bakery worker among those convicted of wrongs they didn’t commit
President Vladimir Putin was asked about Sevastidi at his annual news conference in December 2016. He called her sentence “harsh” and promised to look into it, saying that “she wrote what she saw” in her texts and that it didn’t constitute a state secret. In 2017, Putin pardoned Sevastidi and two other women.
For Gambian MPs, repealing female genital mutilation ban guarantees them re-election
Rights advocates also worry Gambia’s bill could inspire similar legislation in other African countries with FGM bans. Kenya’s high court rejected a petition to reverse its ban in 2021. Gambia’s President Adama Barrow, whose election in 2016 ended more than two decades of oppressive rule under Jammeh, said his government would continue enforcing the ban while the bill works its way through parliament.
