France deploys armored vehicles as police fail to contain demonstrators

By Anadolu Agency France sent armored vehicles into the streets Friday as authorities failed to contain demonstrations which entered a fourth straight night that was sparked by the killing of a teen by police. Armored vehicles were deployed to squares in regions and cities, including in the second city, Marseille, in the Woippy commune less

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10-year-old David Balogun makes history as Southern New Hampshire University’s youngest student

David Balogun. Photo: WGAL-TV By Face2Face Africa At nine years old, David Balogun from Pennsylvania became one of the youngest to graduate high school. He received a diploma from Reach Cyber Charter School in his state’s capital of Harrisburg after taking classes remotely from his family home in Bensalem, local television station WGAL reported early

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Email attacks top cyber risks Kenyan firms face

By Business Daily Africa Email attacks, which come in the form of phishing and spamming, are now the top cybersecurity threat Kenyan businesses are grappling with, a new report shows. The pan-African cybersecurity report dubbed ‘The Evolving Cyber Security Landscape in Africa 2022’ published by technology firm Liquid C2 indicates that 68 percent of the

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Police in France arrest 176 people amid protests over killing of teenager

By Anadolu Agency Law enforcement authorities in France arrested 176 people on Thursday amid protests over the police shooting death earlier this week of a 17-year-old delivery driver in a Paris suburb. It came as local authorities in France imposed a nighttime curfew in four regions. Clamart commune, located 8.7 kilometers (5.4 miles) from the

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UK PM Sunak dealt blow as court rules Rwanda deportation plan unlawful

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaking during a press conference as he gives an update on the progress made in the six months since he introduced the Illegal Migration Bill under his plans to “stop the boats”, at Western Jet Foil in Dover, Britain. Picture date: Monday June 5, 2023. Yui Mok/Pool via Reuters By Reuters

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Somalia president agreed to participate in the Negev Forum meeting in Israel

File Photo/Somali Times Somalia and Comoros have agreed to send senior monitoring officials to the ministerial-level meeting of the Negev Forum, a group that includes the United States, Israel, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco, two US officials told Axios newspaper. Somalia and Comoros, two Islamic countries, do not have official diplomatic relations

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Somali president Hassan Sheikh is plotting against Hiran president Ali Jeyte

File Photo/Somali Times According to sources say that the president of Hiran state administration, Ali Jeyte Osman, has rejected an invitation from the president of the federal government of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud. Ali Jeyte Osman refused the invitation of President Hassan Sheikh to go to Mogadishu to hold talks. Read: Somalia Ali Jeyte has

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US says burning of religious texts ‘disrespectful and hurtful’

By Anadolu Agency The US said Wednesday it is “disrespectful’ to burn religious texts after the Quran was burned in Sweden on the first day of a major Muslim festival, Eid al-Adha. “We’ve said consistently that the burning of religious texts is disrespectful and hurtful, and what might be legal is certainly not necessarily appropriate,”

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New migrant tragedy at sea changes little as EU leaders forge ahead with tougher borders plans

File – This undated handout image provided by Greece’s coast guard on June 14, 2023, shows scores of people on a battered fishing boat that later capsized and sank off southern Greece. The border and coast guard agency Frontex estimated that more than 50,300 attempts were made to enter the EU without authorization from January

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Uganda expects to start oil production from Tilenga project in 2025

By Reuters Uganda National Oil Co expects to start oil production from the Tilenga project in the first half of 2025, the company’s CEO said on Wednesday. “The drill kits have been put up and the drilling has started,” Uganda National Oil Co CEO Proscovia Nabbanja told Reuters on the sidelines of an Energy Asia

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