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July 16, 2024 4:32 PM

Google deal for ‘hot market’ cyber firm Wiz would bolster cloud security

If Alphabet's Google is successful in its effort to buy cloud security company Wiz, it would bolster its cloud security offerings for large organisations, a hotspot for hackers, and help it take on cloud rivals Amazon and Microsoft, experts said. Al...

July 16, 2024 3:52 PM

Pakistan army says eight soldiers killed in militant attack on base

Islamist militants attacked a military base in northwestern Pakistan, killing eight security personnel, the military said on Tuesday, after a suicide bomber rammed a vehicle loaded with explosives into a perimeter wall. The attack, which occurred on...

July 16, 2024 3:25 PM

Gambia parliament rejects bill to end ban on female genital mutilation

Gambia's parliament on Monday rejected a bill that would have ended a ban on female genital mutilation, after lawmakers voted down all the clauses in the proposed law. "The ban on FGM is still firmly maintained in the Gambia," the Ministry of Inform...

July 16, 2024 3:44 PM

French left fights over PM role, with current government set to resign

France's left-wing parties fought bitterly on Tuesday over who to put forward as prime minister, leading Communist party leader Fabien Roussel to warn they were risking a "shipwreck" despite their election success. President Emmanuel Macron was lik...

July 16, 2024 2:20 PM

Webb telescope reveals wild weather on cosmic brown dwarfs

The weather report is in for the two brown dwarfs - celestial bodies bigger than a planet but smaller than a star - closest to us. It is inclement, to put it mildly: blazingly hot, with a toxic chemical cocktail swirling in the atmosphere and clouds ...

July 16, 2024 1:09 PM

Israel launches new Gaza strikes after weekend attack kills scores in safe zone

Israel struck the southern and central Gaza Strip on Monday to put more pressure on Hamas, following a weekend strike targeting the militant group's leadership, which killed scores of Palestinians who had sought shelter in a makeshift camp. Two days...

July 16, 2024 1:03 PM

More than 60 children detained, beaten, tortured in El Salvador, HRW says

More than 60 children in El Salvador have been arbitrarily detained, tortured and beaten since the government declared a state of emergency over two years ago to combat gangs, a report by the Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday. Police and soldiers h...

July 16, 2024 3:43 PM

Bangladesh deploys police as job protests flare up

Thousands of riot police fanned out at university campuses across Bangladesh on Tuesday, a day after protests against a quota system for government jobs turned violent and more than 100 people were injured in the South Asian nation. In the first sig...

July 16, 2024 2:18 PM

India on track to achieve SDG goals ahead of 2030, says NITI Aayog Vice Chairperson at UN

India is poised to achieve its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ahead of the 2030 deadline, Suman K Bery, Vice Chairperson of NITI Aayog, announced at the United Nations High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development on Monday. Bery highl...

July 16, 2024 12:09 PM

Four killed, several wounded by gunfire near mosque in Oman, police say

Four people were killed and several wounded by gunfire in the vicinity of a mosque in Oman, the Omani police said on Tuesday, a rare breach of security in one of the most stable countries in the Middle East. "All security measures and procedures hav...

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