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Congress to quick discover Muslim self-rule in Mindanao

The Philippine Congress has vowed to fast track a long-delayed bill establishing self-rule for Muslims in the southern island of Mindanao, in response to President Rodrigo Duterte’s warning that another war could break out if the legislation collapses. Three House of Representatives sub-committees are consolidating their reports on Muslim autonomy, and public consultations in seven…

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Here’s What Trump’s Tariffs on U.S. Imports Are Doing to Markets

President Donald Trump’s move to crack down on what he sees as unfair competition to U.S. firms reverberated around the world as investors assessed the relative impacts on companies hit by tariffs on solar panels and washing machines. American beneficiaries such as First Solar Inc. climbed more than 6 percent in after-hours trading Monday in…

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Amazon’s comfort retailer of the lengthy bustle makes me anxious

If it works — and we’ll learn for sure in the next couple of months — it will utterly revolutionize the way we buy groceries. Scan your phone on the entry turnstile and the store’s army of cameras will begin tracking your every move. Facial, body and object-recognition algorithms will enable the system to spot…

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Here’s why the epidemic of malicious ads grew so great worse remaining year

Enlarge / A tech support scam pushed by Zirconium displays the authenticated URL of Microsoft, making it easy for some people to trust. Last year brought a surge of sketchy online ads to the Internet that tried to trick viewers into installing malicious software. Even credit reporting service Equifax was caught redirecting its website visitors…

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Alaska earthquake prompts tsunami warning

A powerful earthquake off Alaska’s Kodiak Island has prompted a tsunami warning for a large swath of coastal Alaska and Canada’s British Columbia while the remainder of the US West Coast was under watch. The quake was recorded about 250km southeast of Kodiak Island early on Tuesday morning. Warnings from the National Weather Service sent…

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Police arrest suspected rapist, killer of Zainab Ansari

Police have arrested the main suspect involved in the rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl in the central Punjab province of Pakistan, a police official told Al Jazeera.  Zainab Ansari was found dead in a rubbish dump on January 9 in Kasur, several days after her disappearance. An autopsy revealed she had been raped and…

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Facebook originate sources Detectron

Today, Facebook AI Research (FAIR) open sourced Detectron — our state-of-the-art platform for object detection research. The Detectron project was started in July 2016 with the goal of creating a fast and flexible object detection system built on Caffe2, which was then in early alpha development. Over the last year and a half, the codebase…

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Assam forces accused of waterboarding detainees

Guwahati, India – On the night of January 9, a police team headed by officer Ranjit Hazarika raided the home of one Hasen Ali of No. 2 Atakata village in Mangaldoi district of the State of Assam in India’s northeast. Suspecting him of possessing illegal arms, the police barged into his home at midnight and…

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Turkey battles Syrian Kurds ‘on two fronts’ in Afrin

Turkish troops have taken control of 11 Kurdish positions and created « safe zones » in neighbouring Syria’s northwestern region of Afrin, according to Turkish media. Reports on Tuesday said the army, aided by Free Syria Army rebels, is pushing towards the southern part of the Syrian region with fronts on the west and the east. The…