Global cyber outage grounds flights, hits media, financial, telecoms
Updated: 9:45pm (AEST) Reuters A software update wreaked havoc on computer systems globally on Friday, grounding flights, forcing some broadcasters off air and hitting services from banking to healthcare. An update to a product offered by global cyberscurity firm CrowdStrike appeared to be the trigger, affecting customers using Microsoft’s Windows Operating System. Microsoft said later […]
South Africa leader pledges to revive economy, include the poor
Cape Town, South Africa Reuters President Cyril Ramaphosa pledged on Thursday to revive South Africa’s flagging economy and extend prosperity to the many left out of it, by resuscitating factories and farms, building roads and seizing the opportunities presented by green energy. In his first policy speech to a new parliament since the African National […]
Analysis – Trump tramples on Republican Party effort to give him image makeover
Milwaukee, US Reuters For four nights at Donald Trump’s nominating convention in Milwaukee, a roster of speakers attempted to give one of the most divisive politicians in recent US history a makeover, describing him as a loving and caring family man whose near-assassination at a rally on Saturday had changed him. Early in his speech […]
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US Catholics: Catholics pray for unity as the National Eucharistic Congress underway
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UN food supplies into Sudan’s famine-threatened Darfur stranded
Geneva, Switzerland/Dubai, United Arab Emirates Reuters A key supply route into Sudan’s Darfur region, deemed at risk of famine by experts, has been cut off due to heavy rains, a World Food Programme official said on Thursday while another UN official said refugees had been driven to eating grass. WFP’s Country Director Eddie Rowe told […]
In Hiroshima, the Vatican joined religious leaders to change the narrative on AI
RNS Meeting where one of two atomic bombs that ended World War II landed in Hiroshima, Japan, causing mass death and devastation, representatives from 11 diverse religious traditions gathered on 9th to 10th July for a Vatican-sponsored event to address a latter-day technology also destined, many believe, to upend humanity: artificial intelligence. Rather than focus […]
Trump offers dramatic account of assassination attempt, accepts Republican nomination
Last updated: 5:40pm (AEST) Milwaukee/Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, US Reuters Donald Trump described on Thursday how he narrowly survived an attempt on his life, telling a rapt audience at the Republican National Convention in his first speech since the attack that he was only there “by the grace of Almighty God”. “I heard a loud whizzing […]
Peru’s Boluarte could be criminally responsible for protest deaths, Amnesty says
Santiago, Peru Reuters Peru’s President, Dina Boluarte, could be criminally responsible and topped the chain of command that led to dozens of deaths during protests at the beginning of her presidency, Amnesty International claims in a report released on Thursday. Boluarte is currently being investigated for alleged crimes of “genocide, qualified homicide and serious injuries” […]
Kenya’s government appeals for protests to stop, but court suspends ban
Nairobi, Kenya Reuters Kenya’s government on Thursday ratcheted up its appeal for weeks of protests to stop and police tried to ban demonstrations in the heart of the capital Nairobi only to be overruled in court. Police introduced the ban saying the protests, which have claimed at least 50 lives since erupting nearly a month […]