German policemen suspended after raids over far-right chat group
State interior minister calls far-right content shared by officers on WhatsApp group ‘highly xenophobic and inhuman’. Ten German police officers have been suspended following the discovery of a neo-Nazi online chat group used for sharing far-right content in North Rhine-Westphalia, only the latest such case to emerge among the police forces in Germany’s most populous […]
German policemen suspended after raids over far-right chat group
State interior minister calls far-right content shared by officers on WhatsApp group ‘highly xenophobic and inhuman’. Ten German police officers have been suspended following the discovery of a neo-Nazi online chat group used for sharing far-right content in North Rhine-Westphalia, only the latest such case to emerge among the police forces in Germany’s most populous […]
Elon Musk soars past Bill Gates to become second richest person
Tesla’s founder added $100.3bn to his net worth this year, the most of anyone on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index ranking of the world’s 500 richest people. Elon Musk’s year of dizzying ascents hit a new apex Monday as the Tesla Inc. co-founder passed Bill Gates to become the world’s second-richest person. The 49-year-old entrepreneur’s net […]
Elon Musk soars past Bill Gates to become second richest person
Tesla’s founder added $100.3bn to his net worth this year, the most of anyone on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index ranking of the world’s 500 richest people. Elon Musk’s year of dizzying ascents hit a new apex Monday as the Tesla Inc. co-founder passed Bill Gates to become the world’s second-richest person. The 49-year-old entrepreneur’s net […]
US election: What you need to know right now in 500 words
Trump continues to refuse to concede to Biden, even as his loss becomes more official by the day. . Source link
US election: What you need to know right now in 500 words
Trump continues to refuse to concede to Biden, even as his loss becomes more official by the day. . Source link
At least 600 killed in Mai Kadra massacre: Ethiopian rights body
Government-affiliated commission says local youth group with help from police and militia responsible for mass killings on November 9. At least 600 civilians were killed in an ethnically-driven massacre earlier this month in the town of Mai Kadra in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, the country’s human rights body has said following an investigation. Tigray has witnessed […]
At least 600 killed in Mai Kadra massacre: Ethiopian rights body
Government-affiliated commission says local youth group with help from police and militia responsible for mass killings on November 9. At least 600 civilians were killed in an ethnically-driven massacre earlier this month in the town of Mai Kadra in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, the country’s human rights body has said following an investigation. Tigray has witnessed […]
Germany rejects Ankara’s protest against search of Turkish vessel
German forces, tasked with enforcing UN arms embargo against Libya, searched the Libya-bound cargo ship. Germany’s defence minister has said Turkey’s protest against German soldiers boarding a Turkish vessel on behalf of a European Union military mission in the Mediterranean is “unjustified”. “The soldiers behaved correctly and acted absolutely in line with the mandate of […]
NYC’s first Black mayor, David Dinkins, has died
David Dinkins, who broke barriers as New York City’s first Black mayor, but was doomed to a single term by a soaring murder rate, stubborn unemployment and his mishandling of a riot in Brooklyn, has died. He was 93. Dinkins died Monday, the New York City Police Department confirmed. The department said officers were called […]
COVID anxiety set to shake up how Americans shop on Black Friday
Black Friday is the day after the Thanksgiving holiday and the traditional start of the holiday shopping blitz in the United States. In past years it was something of a national sport, characterised by “doorbuster deals” that saw consumers fresh from turkey feasts line up for hours to get a head start on grabbing the […]
Two bomb blasts kill at least 14 in Afghanistan’s Bamiyan #duzline #duzlinenews #follow4follow
Victims included 12 civilians and two traffic police officers, with 45 others suffering wounds. At least 14 people have been killed when two explosions ripped through the city of Bamiyan in central Afghanistan, according to officials. Zabardast Safai, the police chief of the eponymous province said, said on Tuesday the explosives were hidden at the […]
Lockerbie bomber appeal begins at Scotland’s High Court #duzline #duzlinenews #follow4follow
Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, who died in 2012, was found guilty but his family have made a posthumous appeal against his conviction. Scotland’s High Court began hearing an appeal on Tuesday against the conviction of a Libyan man found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie aircraft bombing, the deadliest attack in British history. Pan Am Flight 103 […]
COVID-19 vaccines explained in maps and charts
What are the different kinds of COVID-19 vaccines? As the world gears up for the fastest-ever developed vaccine, several drug companies have taken different routes to manufacture the antidote to the pandemic that has held the world hostage since March of this year. According to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, at least 1.3 million […]
Dow jumps 300 points as Trump admin begins transition to Biden #duzline #duzlinenews #follow4follow
Wall Street’s main stock indexes vaulted out of the gate on Tuesday after President Donald Trump okayed the formal transition of power to the incoming President-elect Joe Biden’s administration, ending months of political uncertainty that took markets on a wild ride. The Dow Jones Industrial Average opened up more than 305 points or points or […]
Meet GPT-3. It Has Learned to Code (and Blog and Argue). #duzline #duzlinenews #follow4follow
Before asking GPT-3 to generate new text, you can focus it on particular patterns it may have learned during its training, priming the system for certain tasks. You can feed it descriptions of smartphone apps and the matching Figma code. Or you can show it reams of human dialogue. Then, when you start typing, it […]
Airlines mull mandatory COVID-19 vaccines for int’l passengers #duzline #duzlinenews #follow4follow
International air travel could come booming back next year but with a new rule: Travellers to certain countries must be vaccinated against the coronavirus before they can fly. Encouraging news about vaccine development has given airlines and nations hope they may soon be able to revive suspended flight routes and dust off lucrative tourism plans. […]
Europe taxis towards clearing Boeing 737 Max for flight #duzline #duzlinenews #follow4follow
European regulators could clear Boeing’s troubled 737 Max for flight after a nearly two-year grounding following two deadly crashes. European regulators on Tuesday took a step closer to letting the Boeing 737 Max fly again, publishing a proposed airworthiness directive that could see the aircraft cleared within weeks after being grounded for nearly two years […]
Armenian economy minister tenders resignation amid protests #duzline #duzlinenews #follow4follow
Tigran Khachatryan’s move comes as the government is under pressure to quit, after agreeing to end the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Armenian economy minister Tigran Khachatryan has tendered his resignation, his spokeswoman said on Tuesday, following criticism of the government over a peace agreement that secured advances for Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh after six weeks of fighting. The […]
Four years after FARC peace deal, Colombia grapples with violence #duzline #duzlinenews #follow4follow
Bogota, Colombia – Hector Mariano Carabali has been unable to keep count of the number of death threats he has received in recent years. The Afro-Colombian human rights defender from the southwestern Cauca region, which continues to be mired in insecurity, has been left disillusioned by the peace deal struck between the previous government of […]
France has banned the ‘Grey Wolves’ – but who are they? #duzline #duzlinenews #follow4follow
Istanbul, Turkey – In Turkic mythology, a grey wolf led ancient Turks out of the wilderness of the Central Asian Ergenekon valley, where they had been trapped for centuries following military defeat, and into salvation. In the 1960s, the “Grey Wolves” became a nickname for the Ulku Ocaklari (Idealist Hearths), the Turkish ultranationalist youth and […]
Iran’s supreme leader: Tehran will resist until sanctions lifted #duzline #duzlinenews #follow4follow
Ayatollah Khamenei says getting sanctions lifted has failed, so Iran must resist them using its local capacities. Tehran, Iran – Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says his country will resist until a time when countries that sanction Iran come to the realisation that the moves are useless. In a speech to top officials on Tuesday […]
COVID vaccination is the government’s ‘national commitment’: Modi #duzline #duzlinenews #follow4follow
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says providing the coronavirus vaccine is his government’s “national commitment”, and that the safety of all citizens will be assured. “Each State and stakeholder has to work as a team to ensure that this mission is systematic, smooth and a sustained effort,” Modi said during a meeting with state chief […]
Turkish court adds new Saudi defendants in Khashoggi trial #duzline #duzlinenews #follow4follow
At the hearing in Istanbul, a court accepted a second indictment adding six defendants to the list of 20 Saudi officials being tried in absentia. A Turkish court on Tuesday added new defendants to the case against Saudi officials charged over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, in a trial Ankara says is needed to […]