Archive du mois : mars 2018

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Eastern Ghouta relief convoy postponed amid heavy shelling

The delivery of aid to Syria’s rebel-held Eastern Ghouta has been « postponed », the Red Cross has said, as Syrian government forces stepped up their offensive against rebels in the enclave. An aid convoy was scheduled to reach the besieged area on Thursday, and aimed to deliver much needed medical supplies that were prevented from being…

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Household of MH370 crash victims hang on to hope

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – « It’s still so painful, it’s like it happened yesterday, » said Grace Nathan, whose mother Anne Daisy was on Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 that disappeared on March 8, 2014. The plane, carrying 239 people, was on its way to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur. Air crash investigators said the plane crashed in the Indian…

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Sri Lanka ‘on the brink’ amid unique anti-Muslim violence

Ambatenna, Sri Lanka – The Sinhalese Buddhist mob came by the hundreds, screaming at the top of their lungs and carrying sticks, stones and petrol bombs, as they descended on the hill town of Ambatenna in central Sri Lanka on Wednesday. Some two dozen policemen and soldiers watched helplessly, according to residents, as the mob…

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‘Request me within the leer’ – Warner on stairwell feud

Australia’s vice-captain David Warner is as repentant about his wild reaction to « vile and disgusting » comments about his wife from Quinton de Kock as he is unrepentant about the way he behaved on the field in Durban, and insists spending the next two years only a single disciplinary infraction from an ICC suspension will not…

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All of Oculus’s Rift headsets comprise stopped working as a consequence of an expired certificates

Someone at Oculus screwed up pretty badly today: An expired certificate appears to have soft-bricked all of the company’s Rift VR headsets, with users still unable to fire up software on the devices and no word of an incoming fix from the company yet. Issues were first reported several hours ago on Reddit, where a post on…

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Gary Cohn’s exit prompts awe among industry leaders

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Security services hunting community of ‘insist-subsidized actors’ over nerve agent attack

Britain’s security services are hunting a network of highly-trained assassins suspected of launching a nerve agent attack on a Russian spy and his daughter, sources say. The brutal and sophisticated method used to target Sergei Skripal and his daughter – which also left a police officer seriously ill – point towards “either present or past…

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Confirmed: Veteran Russian peek Sergei Skripal was targeted with nerve agent — and a police officer was poisoned

Sky News obtained footage of Sergei Skripal being arrested by Russian security in 2004. Sky News Former Russian double spy Sergei Skripal was poisoned by nerve agent, police confirm. Skripal and his daughter collapsed on Sunday and are in critical condition in a British hospital. A responding police officer is also seriously injured. Many experts…