Archive du mois : février 2018

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Maldives court throws out case against Mohamed Nasheed

A court in the Maldives has thrown out a « terrorism » conviction against the island nation’s former President Mohamed Nasheed, and ordered the release of several other jailed politicians. The Supreme Court ruling on Thursday came after an opposition alliance petitioned the court to temporarily remove President Abdulla Yameen for misrule, rights abuses and « unprecedented corruption ».…

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Qatar ‘ready to comprehend part’ in US-GCC summit

Qatar’s foreign minister has said that his country is willing to participate in a US-GCC summit next spring, provided that the blockading countries’ motivation is based on real will and not coercion.  Speaking at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC, on Thursday, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said that any solution to the…

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Heartbreaking pic presentations the laborious reality of being a mum with most cancers

Completely exhausted from cancer treatment, mum-of-two Laura Corrigan lies fast asleep in a pile of Lego, with a little plastic man still in her hand. This heartbreaking picture was captured by the single mother’s six-year-old son, Max, after she succumbed to sleep « mid-Lego battle » last summer. It shows the gruelling reality of being a parent…

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Uber’s warfare to procure your car to near on time

Maps and routing, therefore, are crucial to Uber. As more drivers and passengers join the service, keeping track of all those cars, pickups and drop-offs, and routes has become a monumental undertaking. With that in mind, the company built its own mapping system. That means it’s built its own navigation into the drivers’ app. With…

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Purple Ineffective Redemption 2 pushed back to October

Newly released screenshots of Red Dead Redemption 2 reconfirm that the game will feature horses and sunsets. « Have gun, will travel » reads the card of a maaaaaaaaan Holy hell, man, stop crawling and get up and run away! Snow! Explore the beautiful, unspoiled wilderness. Then shoot it up. Bang bang, you’re dead That sound you…

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Kenya court docket suspends government’s media shutdown

Kenya’s High Court has suspended the shutdown of three independent television stations, which were blocked earlier this week after they had planned to broadcast a contentious, symbolic « swearing in » ceremony for opposition leader Raila Odinga. The country’s High Court ordered a 14-day suspension of the government’s shutdown – which affected stations NTV, Citizen and KTN…

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Cancer ‘vaccine’ eliminates tumors in mice

Some immunotherapy approaches rely on stimulating the immune system throughout the body. Others target naturally occurring checkpoints that limit the anti-cancer activity of immune cells. Still others, like the CAR T-cell therapy recently approved to treat some types of leukemia and lymphomas, require a patient’s immune cells to be removed from the body and genetically…

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Kylie Minogue stages a shiny hoe-down in ‘Dancing’ song video

Joanne is shook: There’s a new purveyor of twang in town, and her name is Kylie Minogue. The Australian superstar debuted the rollicking visual for her new single “Dancing” Thursday morning, and the clip — which sees the 49-year-old sporting bejeweled cowboy boots and sparkling, Elvis-inspired getups —signals a country-fied image overhaul for the singer-songwriter. Helmed…

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Dow futures descend 150 functions after shares submit their most animated month since March 2016

Brendan McDermid | Reuters Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, January 31, 2018. But stocks kicked off February on a sour note, as a decline DowDuPont pressured the Dow. The company reported better-than-expected quarterly results, but traded about 1 percent lower. Stocks were also under pressure…