After nearly a year of fighting in Gaza, Israel is ramping up hostilities with Hezbollah in Lebanon, with covert operations targeting communications devices and a ferocious bombing campaign that has left hundreds dead. The fight against Hamas has strained the Israeli military, with soldiers receiving little respite, officials citing army shortages, the economy facing its steepest decline in years, and ...
Money is often tight for university students, but for Chinazom Arinze, a limited income was an opportunity that sparked a business venture. While studying law at Babcock University, in Nigeria, and working part-time at a car dealership, she set up a side hustle, informally launching AutoGirl in 2019. Initially also a car dealership, it evolved into a platform that connects ...
India has confirmed its first case of a deadlier strain of mpox, which has raised alarm among health officials around the world over the rapid pace of its spread. The clade Ib strain of the virus was confirmed by health authorities in the southern state of Kerala after being detected last week in a 38-year-old man who had recently traveled ...
A senior executive at CrowdStrike has apologised for a faulty software update that caused a global IT outage in July. The incident led to worldwide flight cancellations and impacted industries around the globe including banks, health care, media companies and hotel chains. The outage disrupted internet services, affecting 8.5 million Microsoft Windows devices. Adam Meyers, senior vice president for counter ...
Heart conditions are the “number one killer for women”, experts have said, but cases are being “ignored” and more must be done to stop “preventable” deaths. A group of leading heart specialists have warned the “misconception” that cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a “man’s disease”, has contributed to cases among women going “under-recognised and undertreated”. Writing in the journal Heart, the ...
Bird flu could be “evolving under the radar” because of failures to monitor and control the spread of the virus, a leading pandemic scientist has warned. Dr Thomas Peacock, a specialist in animal-to-human spread of viruses at The Pirbright Institute, said H5N1 could be transmitting undetected in the US because of “months of missing data” that leaves researchers, vets and ...
For someone who has so strongly objected in recent weeks to the idea that he’s an authoritarian or a threat to democracy, Donald Trump has a funny way of showing it. At a rally Monday in Pennsylvania, the former president said for at least the fourth time that criticizing judges and justices either is or should be illegal. And for ...
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen (R) announced Tuesday that he does not plan to a call a special legislative session before the November election to overhaul the way his state awards its electoral votes, a change sought by former president Donald Trump and his allies. Pillen’s announcement came a day after a key holdout vote, Republican state Sen. Mike McDonnell, announced ...
For those who’ve tracked Donald Trump’s speeches over the past decade, the patter that unfolded in Pennsylvania on Monday evening was very familiar. An attack on a Democrat that shifted into a discussion of television ratings that ended at praise for an icon of the 1980s. We could create a slot-machine-style Trump Speech Generator with various names filling those slots ...
In the wake of an apparent second attempt on his life earlier this month, former president Donald Trump began once again amplifying the idea that the twin threats were a function of Democratic rhetoric. He and his allies had done the same thing in the wake of his being grazed by a bullet in Butler, Pa., earlier this year, but ...