NHS data breach: trusts shared patient details with Facebook without consent

NHS websites shared data with Facebook via the Meta Pixel tool. Illustration: Guardian Design The Guardian By Shanti Das NHS trusts are sharing intimate details about patients’ medical conditions, appointments and treatments with Facebook without consent and despite promising never to do so. An Observer investigation has uncovered a covert tracking tool in the websites

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Biden sounds hopeful on debt ceiling, Treasury warns of June 5 default

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks to the media before departing the White House for Camp David, in Washington, U.S., May 26, 2023. Reiuters/Evelyn Hockstein By Reuters Democratic President Joe Biden and a Republican negotiator said on Friday they were working on a deal to raise the U.S. government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling after the Treasury

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Somalia: Puntland claims federal government and other member states should adopt a direct democratic system

Somali Times Photographer The Puntland regional administration has issued a press release today praising the elections held yesterday in the administrative areas. The administration were greatly praised in the election, which was a historic one for the people of Puntland, the international community and the KMG Committee for Administrative Elections, who played a significant role

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Russia says they will provide military equipment to Somalia

Somalia Ministers of Foreign Affairs said that Russia has promised to help Somalia’s armed forces in their fight against Al-Shabab. The diplomats, who asked not to be named because they were not allowed to talk to reporters, said that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov made the request during a conversation with his Somali counterpart, Abshir

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Russia has started moving nuclear weapons to Belarus, says President Lukashenko

By Anadolu Agency Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said that Russia has started moving tactical nuclear weapons to his country. “We had to prepare storage areas and stuff. We have done this, so the movement of nuclear weapons has already begun,” Lukashenko told Russia’s Pervy TV. Lukashenko, who was on a trip to Moscow, said some

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South Korean passenger plane flies with open door, lands safely

An Asiana Airlines plane is parked as one of the plane’s doors suddenly opened at Daegu International Airport in Daegu, South Korea, Friday, May 26, 2023. A passenger opened a door on an Asiana Airlines flight that later landed safely at a South Korean airport Friday, airline and government officials said. (Yun Kwan-shick/Yonhap via AP)

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Kenya denies claims of being hacked by China

Kenya’s State Department for Interior and National Administration Principal Secretary Raymond Omollo By The East African Kenya has refuted claims of being hacked by the Chinese following a Reuters expose that claimed the attacks targeted Kenyan government departments for a period of three years. In a statement released on Thursday evening by Interior Permanent Secretary

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Iran unveils latest version of ballistic missile amid wider tensions over nuclear program

In this picture released by the Iranian Defense Ministry on Thursday, May 25, 2023, Khorramshahr-4 missile is launched at an undisclosed location, Iran. Iran unveiled on Thursday what it dubbed the latest iteration of its liquid-fueled Khorramshahr ballistic missile amid wider tensions with the West over its nuclear program. (Iranian Defense Ministry via AP) By

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Exclusive: From Russia with gold – UAE cashes in as sanctions bite

Employees cast ingots of 99.99 percent pure gold during production at Krastsvetmet precious metals plant in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia, January 31, 2023. Reuters/Alexander Manzyuk/File Photo By Reuters The United Arab Emirates has become a key trade hub for Russian gold since Western sanctions over Ukraine cut Russia’s more traditional export routes, Russian

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Somalia: Puntland has started a historic regional election

Somali Times Photographer Puntland regional state today, on May 25 2023, elections were held by one person vote to elect the local councils, which are being contested by political organizations in Puntland. Up to thousands people are holding the elections, which this morning people lined up in long queues to vote. Read: Somalia’s president Hassan

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