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.
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.
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.
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.
