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Johannesburg — For nine years, in Khar Yalla, authorities have effectively abandoned Senegalese families internally displaced from the Langue de Barbarie peninsula by coastal floods, violating their rights to an adequate standard of living, education, health, and to take part in cultural life. Senegalese authorities failed to include these families in a World Bank-funded planned relocation of others from the same communities who were affected by coastal floods.  Senegal should urgently relocate the families from Khar Yalla to a site where their rights can be upheld, improve their living conditions in the interim, and develop a national policy to safeguard…

In January, the Eaton fire destroyed their elementary school — a series of classrooms surrounded by gardens and orchards, nestled in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in Altadena.The fire consumed the homes of at least seven cast members, and rendered others uninhabitable. Dozens of their classmates left for other schools, other states, and even other countries.

Russian attacks on major Ukrainian cities have killed at least 12 people as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visits Washington, DC, supported by European leaders, for high-stakes peace talks with United States President Donald Trump that could determine Ukraine’s future and its fate in the war, now in its fourth year.An entire family, including a toddler and a 16-year-old, were among seven people killed in an overnight drone strike on a residential neighbourhood in the northeastern city of Kharkiv, authorities said on Monday. The attack also injured 20 people, including six children.Russian forces killed five people and injured four in attacks in…

Kampala — The Embassy of the Republic of Uganda in Washington, in partnership with today launched a six-day training program designed to enhance the skills of 100 Ugandan artisans to explore entry opportunities for their products in the US market. The initiative is funded through the Economic and Commercial Diplomacy (ECD) Fund of the Ugandan Mission to Washington DC, aimed at promoting Uganda’s exports and strengthening international trade ties. Running from 18th – 23rd August in Kampala, the program will equip artisans producing African crafts and souvenir merchandise with practical skills in product development, finishing techniques, and market alignment to…

Andrew had known since childhood that one day he would lose his sight. He donated his skin cells to researchers working on a treatment, hoping for a breakthrough not just for himself, but also for his daughter…

A 47-year-old man from Liverpool who was arrested on suspicion of racially abusing the Bournemouth player Antoine Semenyo has been conditionally bailed and banned from attending matches, Merseyside police said on Monday.The Premier League game between Liverpool and Bournemouth at Anfield on Friday was halted during the first half after Semenyo told the referee he was targeted by a man in the crowd. The Ghana forward scored twice in the second half, but Liverpool won the match 4-2.Police said a man had been ejected from Anfield over the incident and announced they had made an arrest the following day. “He…

Anna Monaco has been building AI agents since before the term “AI agents” was even a thing. After building numerous chatbots, she started looking for other types of interfaces that made sense for AI agents and landed on spreadsheets. “I had this personal pattern, and I noticed that a lot of other people had this pattern, of putting very important CRM data in spreadsheets just because it was the most flexible thing,” Monaco told TechCrunch. “But it was actually a pain to maintain. There’s so much manual work involved. So [I] just went down this rabbit hole of building a…

The Toronto Film Festival released its industry conference lineup on Monday, led by The Hollywood Reporter’s Visionaries series of onstage conversations. Joining in the Visionaries program as featured speakers are Donna Langley, chairman of NBCUniversal Entertainment and Studios; Fremantle’s Andrea Scrosati, group COO and CEO of continental Europe; Yelena Rachitsky, head of emerging formats at Meta; Ballad of a Small Player director Edward Berger; and Sterlin Harjo, who is bringing his FX series The Lowdown to TIFF for a first look. The 2025 Dialogues program will feature conversations with directors Maude Apatow and Raffi Donatich (Poetic License), Jonatan Etzler and indie producers Diana Bustamante, Julia…

On July 27, two brigades from the mostly Shia Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) stormed the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture, clashing with police.While the incident could be seen as a power struggle for position, it also indicates a certain degree of daring on the part of the brigades, which ended up killing a police officer.The brigades were called in by Ayad Kadhim Ali after he was dismissed as the head of the ministry’s office in Baghdad’s Karkh district, according to Mehmet Alaca, an expert on Iraq’s Shia militias. Ali is affiliated with Kataib Hezbollah, as are the brigades that attacked the…

Charlotte EdwardsTechnology reporter, BBC NewsGetty ImagesA US senator is opening an investigation into Meta after a leaked document reportedly showed the tech giant’s artificial intelligence (AI) was permitted to have “sensual” and “romantic” chats with children.The internal document, obtained by Reuters, was reportedly titled “GenAI: Content Risk Standards”.Republican Senator Josh Hawley called the document “reprehensible and outrageous” and has asked to see the document alongside a list of products it relates to.A Meta spokesperson told the BBC: “The examples and notes in question were and are erroneous and inconsistent with our policies, and have been removed.”They said the tech giant…