Kampala, 4 September 2020:- When the World Health Organization (WHO), declared the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) outbreak a global pandemic, on 11th March 2020, many Ugandans didn’t take it seriously with many saying it was a disease for the affluent, the very high class or for developed countries. As the disease ravaged the entire world, Ugandans…
Fox News contributor and host of "Fox News Primetime" Ben Domenech opened Monday's show exposing what the Left intends with "wokeness" and why Americans must stay "wide awake."BEN DOMENECH: The irony of the term "woke" is that it is designed to keep you asleep—asleep to the reality of what’s going on around you, sedated from having…
Dolly Parton put her profits from "I Will Always Love You" to good use.Parton is known for having written and recorded the song in the 1970s, but it found massive popularity in 1992 when Whitney Houston covered the tune for her film "The Bodyguard."Her version of "I Will Always Love You" became one of Houston’s…
At least three guests were injured Monday night after an iceberg wall collapsed at the Titanic Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.The three guests were taken to the hospital and their injuries are unknown at this time, the museum's owners, Mary Kellogg Joslyn and John Joslyn said. It wasn't immediately clear what caused the collapse. "Needless to…
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken took to Twitter late Monday to criticize Belarus’ political regime for attempting to force an Olympic sprinter to return home after criticizing how officials were managing her team. "The Lukashenka regime sought to commit another act of transnational repression: attempting to force Olympian Krystsyna Tsimanouskaya to leave simply for exercising…
As the White House oversees a crisis of illegal immigration and an overwhelmed system at the southern border, author and historian Victor Davis Hanson noted that the many Democrats who seek to undermine the traditional means of immigration and becoming a citizen are undermining democracy itself.Hanson told "Tucker Carlson Tonight" that as the nation braces…
Yola, 2 August, 2021 - As part of effort to mitigate against the worrisome early signs of the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in the country, the Adamawa State Government in partnership with the World Health Organization has embarked on community sensitization campaigns across five Local Government Areas (LGAs) in the state to increase…
Bauchi, 2 August, 2021 - In a bid to curb the on-going cholera outbreak in Bauchi State and possibly the northeast geopolitical zone of Nigeria, the World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with health authorities in Bauchi state has deployed Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV) in combination with other community control measures to stop the transmission…
Accra - Fast-spreading misinformation online is hard to measure, but the 10 organizations and 10 African fact-checking groups that make up the Africa Infodemic Response Alliance are working to track and debunk dangerous myths on the pandemic and COVID-19 vaccines. Data collected regularly since March 2021 in 20 African countries show that false claims around…
Brazzaville, 29 July 2021 – COVID-19 vaccine shipments to Africa are rapidly ramping up from multiple sources after a near-halt to deliveries in recent months. Nearly 4 million doses from COVAX arrived in Africa last week, compared with around 2.3 million doses from the facility throughout the month of June. COVAX aims to ship 520 million doses to Africa…
Monrovia, 27 July 2021: Liberia on 25th July 2021 received a donation of 302,400 doses of the Johnson and Johnson (J&J) COVID-19 vaccine from the United States Government through the COVAX facility; a partnership of CEPI, GAVI, UNICEF and WHO to expand the COVID-19 vaccination coverage in the country. In March of this year, the…
EnvironmentPlanet or Plastic?The plastic pollution crisis has been widely blamed on a handful of Asian countries, but new research shows just how much the U.S. contributes.ByLaura ParkerPublished October 30, 2020• 9 min readWhen the Environmental Protection Agency released its plan earlier this month for addressing marine litter, it named five Asian nations—China, Indonesia, the Philippines,…
AnimalsWeird & WildA rare tear-feeding moth discovered in Brazil could help explain the bizarre behavior and whether it harms the birds.BySandrine CeurstemontPublished September 27, 2018• 6 min readA moth was spotted drinking a sleeping bird’s tears in the Amazon jungle in Brazil, the first time this behavior was reported in the country and only the…
ScienceNewsThe magnitude 8.2 earthquake did little damage, and it provides an opportunity for scientists to peer deep into the planet's innards.ByMaya Wei-HaasPublished July 29, 2021• 8 min readA slowly oscillating wail cut through the sunlit summer night outside Kasey Aderhold's house in Homer, Alaska. The same siren had sounded just hours before as a test…
ScienceNewsThe mesh-like fossil would push back the oldest known animal on Earth by more than 300 million years. But like many claims of very old life, the study is kicking up lively debate.ByMaya Wei-HaasPublished July 28, 2021• 9 min readRelatives of the humble sea sponge have filtered Earth's waters for hundreds of millions of years…
ScienceLooking inside the red planet will help scientists better understand how Mars formed and became the hostile, rusty desert we see today.ByMichael GreshkoPublished July 22, 2021• 11 min readThe solar system’s god of war has a bigger heart than expected: Using humankind’s first seismometer on another planet, researchers have analyzed the interior structure of Mars for…
Home News Computing (Image credit: Foxy burrow / Shutterstock / Microsoft) Chromebooks are set to feel the pinch, as while these Chrome OS-powered portables are still selling well right now, PC manufacturers are purportedly planning to favor the production of Windows laptops which generate more profit going forward as the global component shortage remains a…
Home News Televisions (Image credit: Roku) Roku is about to benefit from a whole lot more movies and TV shows thanks to a merger between Vudu and FandangoNOW that will see the former become the official entertainment store on the popular streaming platform.Fandango Media, a subsidiary of NBCUniversal, has announced its plans to make Vudu…
Home News Computing (Image credit: Shutterstock) Finding out whether your VPN service is working is really easy: just point your browser at a specialist IP finder like WhatIsMyIP.com or WhatIsMyIPAddress.com and in a second or two they'll display your current IP address and location.Simple. Straightforward. But maybe not the most privacy-friendly of ideas.The big-name location…
Home News Entertainment Peaky Blinders season 6 is highly anticipated, after season 5's cliffhanger ending left viewers screaming for answers. After a long pandemic-induced delay, filming on Peaky Blinders season 6 wrapped up in May 2021, with a release date now predicted for early 2022. This will be the final season of BBC's period drama, but…
Home News Computing (Image credit: Pexels) Researchers from the IoT security firm Armis have discovered nine critical vulnerabilities in the Nexus Control Panel which is used to power all current models of Translogic's pneumatic tube system (PTS) stations by Swisslog Healthcare.The vulnerabilities have been given the name PwnedPiper and are particularly concerning due to the…
Over the last year, Jewish college students took it upon themselves to combat antisemitism at their schools. Now, two major Jewish organizations are working together to play a stronger role in fighting antisemitism on campus.Some of the student activists documented incidences of antisemitism at colleges nationwide, often submitted anonymously, while others have taken a confrontational…
On any given afternoon, hundreds of visitors here patiently line up for selfies next to a brightly painted, 12-foot-high concrete buoy marking the southernmost point in the continental United States.Just behind this landmark, a less obvious monument overlooks the Atlantic Ocean for a few days a year: a menorah erected during Hanukkah by Chabad Jewish…
Kleinbaum has previously served on the commission, which monitors religious freedom abroad By PHILISSA CRAMER/JTA AUGUST 3, 2021 03:18 Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum of Congregation Beth Simchat Torah joined others at a 2016 press conference condemning the appearance of Smith & Wesson's CEO at a conference (photo credit: ERIK MCGREGOR/LIGHTROCKET VIA GETTY IMAGES/JTA) Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum,…
The Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities in late July blasted the Swiss Press Council for ignoring contemporary Jew-hatred by issuing a scandalous decision against a journalist who reported that experts said the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign against Israel is antisemitic.Prime News, an online Swiss online magazine, reported in an October 2020 article that the BDS…
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said that Israel is "in a competition between vaccines and epidemics, between an open country and more restrictions." PALESTINIAN HEALTH WORKERS at a hospital in Nablus, where health workers were vaccinated against the coronavirus disease, after the delivery of vaccine doses from Israel earlier this month. (photo credit: NASSER ISHTAYEH/FLASH90) A…
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Fox News contributor and host of "Fox News Primetime" Ben Domenech opened Monday's show exposing what the Left intends with "wokeness" and why Americans must stay "wide awake."BEN DOMENECH: The irony of the term "woke" is that it is designed to keep you asleep—asleep to the reality of what’s going on around you, sedated from having…
Dolly Parton put her profits from "I Will Always Love You" to good use.Parton is known for having written and recorded the song in the 1970s, but it found massive popularity in 1992 when Whitney Houston covered the tune for her film "The Bodyguard."Her version of "I Will Always Love You" became one of Houston’s…
At least three guests were injured Monday night after an iceberg wall collapsed at the Titanic Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.The three guests were taken to the hospital and their injuries are unknown at this time, the museum's owners, Mary Kellogg Joslyn and John Joslyn said. It wasn't immediately clear what caused the collapse. "Needless to…
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken took to Twitter late Monday to criticize Belarus’ political regime for attempting to force an Olympic sprinter to return home after criticizing how officials were managing her team. "The Lukashenka regime sought to commit another act of transnational repression: attempting to force Olympian Krystsyna Tsimanouskaya to leave simply for exercising…
As the White House oversees a crisis of illegal immigration and an overwhelmed system at the southern border, author and historian Victor Davis Hanson noted that the many Democrats who seek to undermine the traditional means of immigration and becoming a citizen are undermining democracy itself.Hanson told "Tucker Carlson Tonight" that as the nation braces…
Fox News contributor and host of "Fox News Primetime" Ben Domenech opened Monday's show exposing what the Left intends with "wokeness" and why Americans must stay "wide awake."BEN DOMENECH: The irony of the term "woke" is that it is designed to keep you asleep—asleep to the reality of what’s going on around you, sedated from having…
Dolly Parton put her profits from "I Will Always Love You" to good use.Parton is known for having written and recorded the song in the 1970s, but it found massive popularity in 1992 when Whitney Houston covered the tune for her film "The Bodyguard."Her version of "I Will Always Love You" became one of Houston’s…
At least three guests were injured Monday night after an iceberg wall collapsed at the Titanic Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.The three guests were taken to the hospital and their injuries are unknown at this time, the museum's owners, Mary Kellogg Joslyn and John Joslyn said. It wasn't immediately clear what caused the collapse. "Needless to…
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken took to Twitter late Monday to criticize Belarus’ political regime for attempting to force an Olympic sprinter to return home after criticizing how officials were managing her team. "The Lukashenka regime sought to commit another act of transnational repression: attempting to force Olympian Krystsyna Tsimanouskaya to leave simply for exercising…
As the White House oversees a crisis of illegal immigration and an overwhelmed system at the southern border, author and historian Victor Davis Hanson noted that the many Democrats who seek to undermine the traditional means of immigration and becoming a citizen are undermining democracy itself.Hanson told "Tucker Carlson Tonight" that as the nation braces…
Yola, 2 August, 2021 - As part of effort to mitigate against the worrisome early signs of the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in the country, the Adamawa State Government in partnership with the World Health Organization has embarked on community sensitization campaigns across five Local Government Areas (LGAs) in the state to increase…
Bauchi, 2 August, 2021 - In a bid to curb the on-going cholera outbreak in Bauchi State and possibly the northeast geopolitical zone of Nigeria, the World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with health authorities in Bauchi state has deployed Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV) in combination with other community control measures to stop the transmission…
Accra - Fast-spreading misinformation online is hard to measure, but the 10 organizations and 10 African fact-checking groups that make up the Africa Infodemic Response Alliance are working to track and debunk dangerous myths on the pandemic and COVID-19 vaccines. Data collected regularly since March 2021 in 20 African countries show that false claims around…
Brazzaville, 29 July 2021 – COVID-19 vaccine shipments to Africa are rapidly ramping up from multiple sources after a near-halt to deliveries in recent months. Nearly 4 million doses from COVAX arrived in Africa last week, compared with around 2.3 million doses from the facility throughout the month of June. COVAX aims to ship 520 million doses to Africa…
Monrovia, 27 July 2021: Liberia on 25th July 2021 received a donation of 302,400 doses of the Johnson and Johnson (J&J) COVID-19 vaccine from the United States Government through the COVAX facility; a partnership of CEPI, GAVI, UNICEF and WHO to expand the COVID-19 vaccination coverage in the country. In March of this year, the…
EnvironmentPlanet or Plastic?The plastic pollution crisis has been widely blamed on a handful of Asian countries, but new research shows just how much the U.S. contributes.ByLaura ParkerPublished October 30, 2020• 9 min readWhen the Environmental Protection Agency released its plan earlier this month for addressing marine litter, it named five Asian nations—China, Indonesia, the Philippines,…
AnimalsWeird & WildA rare tear-feeding moth discovered in Brazil could help explain the bizarre behavior and whether it harms the birds.BySandrine CeurstemontPublished September 27, 2018• 6 min readA moth was spotted drinking a sleeping bird’s tears in the Amazon jungle in Brazil, the first time this behavior was reported in the country and only the…
ScienceNewsThe magnitude 8.2 earthquake did little damage, and it provides an opportunity for scientists to peer deep into the planet's innards.ByMaya Wei-HaasPublished July 29, 2021• 8 min readA slowly oscillating wail cut through the sunlit summer night outside Kasey Aderhold's house in Homer, Alaska. The same siren had sounded just hours before as a test…
ScienceNewsThe mesh-like fossil would push back the oldest known animal on Earth by more than 300 million years. But like many claims of very old life, the study is kicking up lively debate.ByMaya Wei-HaasPublished July 28, 2021• 9 min readRelatives of the humble sea sponge have filtered Earth's waters for hundreds of millions of years…
ScienceLooking inside the red planet will help scientists better understand how Mars formed and became the hostile, rusty desert we see today.ByMichael GreshkoPublished July 22, 2021• 11 min readThe solar system’s god of war has a bigger heart than expected: Using humankind’s first seismometer on another planet, researchers have analyzed the interior structure of Mars for…
Home News Computing (Image credit: Foxy burrow / Shutterstock / Microsoft) Chromebooks are set to feel the pinch, as while these Chrome OS-powered portables are still selling well right now, PC manufacturers are purportedly planning to favor the production of Windows laptops which generate more profit going forward as the global component shortage remains a…
Home News Televisions (Image credit: Roku) Roku is about to benefit from a whole lot more movies and TV shows thanks to a merger between Vudu and FandangoNOW that will see the former become the official entertainment store on the popular streaming platform.Fandango Media, a subsidiary of NBCUniversal, has announced its plans to make Vudu…
Home News Computing (Image credit: Shutterstock) Finding out whether your VPN service is working is really easy: just point your browser at a specialist IP finder like WhatIsMyIP.com or WhatIsMyIPAddress.com and in a second or two they'll display your current IP address and location.Simple. Straightforward. But maybe not the most privacy-friendly of ideas.The big-name location…
Home News Entertainment Peaky Blinders season 6 is highly anticipated, after season 5's cliffhanger ending left viewers screaming for answers. After a long pandemic-induced delay, filming on Peaky Blinders season 6 wrapped up in May 2021, with a release date now predicted for early 2022. This will be the final season of BBC's period drama, but…
Home News Computing (Image credit: Pexels) Researchers from the IoT security firm Armis have discovered nine critical vulnerabilities in the Nexus Control Panel which is used to power all current models of Translogic's pneumatic tube system (PTS) stations by Swisslog Healthcare.The vulnerabilities have been given the name PwnedPiper and are particularly concerning due to the…
Over the last year, Jewish college students took it upon themselves to combat antisemitism at their schools. Now, two major Jewish organizations are working together to play a stronger role in fighting antisemitism on campus.Some of the student activists documented incidences of antisemitism at colleges nationwide, often submitted anonymously, while others have taken a confrontational…
On any given afternoon, hundreds of visitors here patiently line up for selfies next to a brightly painted, 12-foot-high concrete buoy marking the southernmost point in the continental United States.Just behind this landmark, a less obvious monument overlooks the Atlantic Ocean for a few days a year: a menorah erected during Hanukkah by Chabad Jewish…
Kleinbaum has previously served on the commission, which monitors religious freedom abroad By PHILISSA CRAMER/JTA AUGUST 3, 2021 03:18 Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum of Congregation Beth Simchat Torah joined others at a 2016 press conference condemning the appearance of Smith & Wesson's CEO at a conference (photo credit: ERIK MCGREGOR/LIGHTROCKET VIA GETTY IMAGES/JTA) Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum,…
The Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities in late July blasted the Swiss Press Council for ignoring contemporary Jew-hatred by issuing a scandalous decision against a journalist who reported that experts said the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign against Israel is antisemitic.Prime News, an online Swiss online magazine, reported in an October 2020 article that the BDS…
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said that Israel is "in a competition between vaccines and epidemics, between an open country and more restrictions." PALESTINIAN HEALTH WORKERS at a hospital in Nablus, where health workers were vaccinated against the coronavirus disease, after the delivery of vaccine doses from Israel earlier this month. (photo credit: NASSER ISHTAYEH/FLASH90) A…
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A missing Arkansas mother of three was found dead this week in Oklahoma – where investigators say they believe she was tortured, murdered and left weighted down in a pond.Three men have been arrested in connection with the death of Tara Strozier, a 40-year-old from Fort Smith, Arkansas, who was last seen alive about 20…
PELOSI GETS DRAGGED ‘BY THE HAIR’ FOR HYPOCRISY. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker, U.S. House of Representatives After looking into the camera countless times to preach...
08 November 2020 — NIne (9) new COVID-19 cases were identified out of 1741 samples tested today. This brings the cumulative number of confirmed cases to five thousand, two hundred, and twenty-two (5222). To date, four thousand, nine hundred, and sixty (4960) patients have recovered, including seven (7) in the past 24 hours. The number…
The Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities in late July blasted the Swiss Press Council for ignoring contemporary Jew-hatred by issuing a scandalous decision against a journalist who reported that experts said the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign against Israel is antisemitic.Prime News, an online Swiss online magazine, reported in an October 2020 article that the BDS…
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said that Israel is "in a competition between vaccines and epidemics, between an open country and more restrictions." PALESTINIAN HEALTH WORKERS at a hospital in Nablus, where health workers were vaccinated against the coronavirus disease, after the delivery of vaccine doses from Israel earlier this month. (photo credit: NASSER ISHTAYEH/FLASH90) A…
Kuda Bank, the London-based, Nigerian-operating startup that is taking on incumbents in the country with a mobile-first, personalised and often cheaper set of banking services built on newer, API-based infrastructure, has been on a growth tear in the last several months, and to fuel its expansion, it has now raised another round of funding. TechCrunch…
Indian online insurance aggregator PolicyBazaar has filed for an initial public offering in which it is seeking to raise $809 million, becoming the fourth startup in the past two months from the South Asian market to explore public markets. In papers submitted to the market regulator in India, PolicyBazaar said it is looking to raise…
Indian online learning platform Unacademy has raised $440 million in a new financing round as investors double down on the South Asian market and elsewhere following a widening series of regulatory crackdowns in China that wiped hundreds of billions of dollars last month. Temasek led the Bangalore-based startup’s new financing round — Series H —…
In a blockbuster deal that rocks the fintech world, Square announced today that it is acquiring Australian buy now, pay later giant Afterpay in a $29 billion all-stock deal. The purchase price is based on the closing price of Square common stock on July 30, which was $247.26. The transaction is expected to close in…
The digitization of your haircut may not have been on your 2020 bucket list, but 2021 has an even more surprising line item: Tech-powered barbershops are now a business proposition valued at nearly a billion dollars. Squire is a back-end barbershop management tool for independent businesses. I first covered it in the early months of…
Home News Mobile Phones (Image credit: Asus) The Asus Zenfone 8 is the newest kid on the block and is one of the only truly compact Android flagships currently available. Here’s everything we know about its Indian launch.While the Asus Zenfone 8 was unveiled globally on May 12, the company announced that its Indian launch…
Home News Computing (Image credit: Realme) The Realme Book laptop unveiling might be a few more weeks away, but that hasn’t stopped the brand and its executives from sharing images of the notebook or talking about what it will offer. In the latest episode, we get a glimpse of its side profile and colour variants.In…
Home News Wearables (Image credit: Amazon) Noise Colorfit 3 Pro Assist has been launched in India as the second budget smartwatch in the series. The Noise ColorFit 3 Pro Assist is similar to the Colorfit 3 Pro, but with one additional feature 一 built-in Alexa smart assistant. We have seen budget smartwatches like Amazfit Bip U…
Home News Internet (Image credit: Telegram) Just last month, Telegram rolled out its much-delayed group video call feature. And already it has come up with a raft of updates for video calling and video sharing. The biggest one is the feature to have 1,000 viewers in a group video call, even though the number of…
Home News Entertainment (Image credit: Apple) With so many shows and movies to choose from on Australia's major streaming services, it can often be difficult to find the best new stuff to entertain yourself with each week. In an effort to make things easier, we've hand-picked the best new shows and movies to watch on Aussie…