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Sri Lanka: Tamil rebels accuse army of killing 2,000 civilians
The Tamil Tigers today accused the army of killing more than 2,000 civilians in bombings in the “last 24 hours”. Government forces quickly denied and labeled the accusations propaganda. The army also said today that it had discovered a device that could have served as an underwater cache for the leader of the Tamil Tigers….
Sri Lanka: ex-strongman Rajapakse tries to return to legislative elections
In Sri Lanka, polling stations closed on Monday at 4 p.m. local time, after legislative elections placed under enhanced protection. 74,000 police and gendarmes monitored the ballot. With these elections, the country’s former strongman, Mahinda Rajapakse, president for nearly ten years until his failure in the January presidential election, is trying to return to center…
Sri Lanka bans full face veil
Sri Lanka is now banning veils that hide the face, and therefore, without naming them, the niqab or the burqa, eight days after the attacks claimed by the Islamic State group which have plagued the country. Measures taken to strengthen national security, according to the presidency, but which do not fail to react. According to…
TikTok, new ‘anti-fake’ functions are coming: here are what
A banner will identify videos that contain unverified information TikTok also launches new functions in Italy for the identification of misleading or untruthful contents, “in order to limit their sharing within the community”. The announcement comes in a post by Gina Hernandez, Product Manager, and Trust & Safety. Today against fake news “we take a…
FAANG: The most important tech companies on today’s trading day
What does SAP have in common with Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google? As far as the company value is concerned, it is on the low side, but at least SAP is the only German company that plays a role in the world market with software. That’s why we’re not only looking at the stock…
Sri Lanka: ammunition shipment explodes, 27 dead
In Sri Lanka, the death toll has been revised downwards. At least 27 people were killed in the accidental explosion of several shipments of ammunition. For security reasons, the explosives were stored in a police station. They jumped out as the police handed them over to Chinese contractors. The builders wanted to use the charges…
Sri Lanka: victory of outgoing Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in the legislative elections
Tams tams and applause fed to the proclamation of the results of the legislative elections in Sri Lanka. The United National Party, in power since January, won the legislative ballot with 106 seats, only seven seats away from the absolute majority. Outgoing Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is therefore almost guaranteed to stay in his post….
Colombo exhibits the remains of the Tamil chief
The Sri Lankan army confirms the death of the leader of the Tamil separatists. Public television continuously broadcasts the video of a body presented as that of Velupillai Prabhakaran, the leader of the Tigers of Tamil Eelam. The army has been claiming this feat of arms since yesterday, but the rebellion’s official website maintains that…
Sri Lanka: law enforcement assault on targets linked to Easter attack
Sri Lankan police and soldiers are still present on the scene, the assault is still fresh. We are in Sainthamaruthu, 45 km south of the site of the attack on Easter, which marked Sri Lanka. 15 dead On the night of Friday to Saturday, Sri Lankan authorities clashed with jihadists suspected of being linked to…
Explosion of anti-Muslim violence
In Sri Lanka, calm returned on Thursday after a new wave of violence against the Muslim minority. Violence perpetrated by radicalized Buddhists. Despite the curfew decreed since Monday, three people were killed and a dozen residents were injured in Kandy, a city in the center of the island. In a few days a hundred businesses…
Secret emails revealed: Facebook wants to play down data leaks rather than fix them
According to an internal e-mail, Facebook does not want to actively tackle the problem of data leaks and thus better protect users, but instead declare it to be a problem that is common in the industry. The mail was accidentally opened on a Belgian magazine. After a data leak with 533 million people affected, Facebook…
Microsoft Teams: Competition for Whatsapp with a new function for private messages
Probably the best-known communication platform, “Teams” from Microsoft, is to get a new feature in July. And users are already familiar with this from messengers such as WhatsApp. Germany – Microsoft Teams is undoubtedly one of the big winners of the corona pandemic. Whether through the obligation to work from home, the restriction of private…
“Boost with Facebook”, an event for training in digital tools
On October 30 and 31, the Jacobins convent in Rennes will host “Boost with Facebook”. Free, this event is intended for VSEs, SMEs, start-ups or project leaders who wish to deepen their digital skills in order to develop better. Interested in the digital and digital world? Don’t miss the Boost with Facebook event, which will…
Pope begins two-day visit to Sri Lanka
Pope Francis has started a two-day visit to Sri Lanka, a country which remains deeply marked by three decades of war between the government, dominated by the Sinhala majority, and the Tamil rebels, the ethnic minority. Welcomed at Colombo airport by the new president Maithripala Sirisena, the Holy Father launched an appeal for reconciliation and…
Agency with Russia connection – Youtubers and Influencer paid for vaccine criticism?
Youtubers and influencers have announced in several countries that a British agency has offered them money to criticize the Biotech vaccine. Traces lead to Russia. Mistrust of vaccines is a global problem in the fight against the corona pandemic. In several EU countries, including Germany, it has now been announced that a London PR agency…
Great market power – Cartel Office investigates Apple
The iOS platform alone supports more than 250,000 workstations in Germany – says Apple. But is the group abusing its market power? The Federal Cartel Office is now examining this. The Bundeskartellamt is now using its new options for proceeding against large digital platforms for investigations against Apple. “We will now check whether Apple has…
Sri Lankan teenager wants to address president: he hacks his website
He wanted the GCE , an exam held at the end of high school in Sri Lanka, and determining for university entry, to be postponed. So he addressed President Maithripala Sirisena. How? ‘Or’ What? By hacking his website.At least he is suspected of having done so by the police, who tracked him down and arrested…
WhatsApp is inspired by Snapchat and offers a new option
WhatsApp executives announced the upcoming arrival of new features on their messaging application during an update. Inspired by Snapchat, an option will allow you to delete messages for all the recipients of the same conversation. The WhatsApp messaging platform will soon add a new feature to its mobile application, offering to delete messages for all…
Microsoft invests $ 1 billion in new climate technologies
By summer it will cut 1.3 million tons of Co2, here are the first results of its ‘carbon negative’ strategy New investments in technologies for the removal and capture of carbon nio, including the funding of 26 projects for the removal of more than 1.3 million tons of carbonic dioxide in the atmosphere by this…
Sri Lanka: the toll is growing
Sunday’s attacks in Sri Lanka left 290 dead and 500 injured, according to a new report. The authorities also indicate that they had defused a homemade bomb found near Colombo airport on Sunday evening and arrested thirteen suspects. A curfew has been declared and social networks are temporarily blocked. Ranil Wicramasinghe, Prime Minister of Sri…