A 19-year-old man is expected to face murder charges in the shooting deaths of an Orlando TV journalist, a 9-year-old girl, and a woman in a series of shootings Wednesday in Pine Hills, Florida that also injured a second journalist, and the girl’s mother.
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Energy-starved South Africa offers tax breaks to boost power production
South Africa unveiled Wednesday new tax incentives to encourage investment in the production of clean power to help the country battle an energy crisis that has sparked worsening blackouts. Starting March 1, “businesses will be able to reduce their tax…
Jill Biden makes 6th visit to Africa, her 1st as first lady
US first lady Jill Biden opened a five-day, two-country visit to Africa on Wednesday during which she will focus on empowering women and youth and highlight food insecurity in the Horn of Africa region. FRANCE 24’s Vivianne Wandera reports.
GOP Calls for ‘Cognitive Competency’ Tests for President and Vice President
Rep. Scott DesJarlais has called for an amendment to the Constitution that would require presidential nominees to show proof of “cognitive competence”.
South Africa army defends controversial naval drills with Russia
South Africa’s military on Wednesday defended its decision to host controversial naval exercises jointly staged with Russia and China and coinciding with the one-year anniversary of the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine. Originally slated to start last wee…
Tel Aviv-based chip startup Chain Reaction, which plans to begin mass producing its blockchain chip Electrum, raised $70M led by Morgan Creek Digital (Jane Lanhee Lee/Reuters)
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Tel Aviv-based chip startup Chain Reaction, which plans to begin mass producing its blockchain chip Electrum, raised $70M led by Morgan Creek Digital — Tel Aviv-based blockchain chip startup Chain Reaction …
EU Commission to ban TikTok on staff phones, citing security
The European Commission is suspending Chinese short video-sharing app TikTok from its employees’ corporate phones, EU industry chief Thierry Breton said on Thursday, citing a focus on cybersecurity.
‘All-out efforts’ in northern China to rescue dozens of missing miners
Rescuers with backhoes and bulldozers dug through tons of earth and rubble Thursday looking for 48 people missing after a landslide buried an open-pit mine in northern China. State broadcaster CCTV repo…
Samsung announces a standardized 5G Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) modem that will enable two-way communication between smartphones and satellites (Steve Dent/Engadget)
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Samsung announces a standardized 5G Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) modem that will enable two-way communication between smartphones and satellites — There was speculation that Samsung could use smartphone-to-sa…