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Bitrefill said attackers accessed 18,500 purchase records, potentially revealing “limited customer information."
PARIS, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Restrictions on women pursuing higher education in Afghanistan are expected to exacerbate a shortage of female teachers, further diluting education quality in a country where millions of children arealready unable to attend school, UNESCO said on Wednesday. • Five years after the Taliban returned to power, about 2.4 million girls in Afghanistan are unable to attend secondary school, while more than 2million primary school children are out of school, the UN education agency said
AI helped design a working virus that kills bacteria. Researchers explain what it could mean for the fight against antibiotic resistance
By Kanishka Singh and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON, Aug 11 (Reuters) - U.S. military operations in 2025 killed 153 civilians and wounded 243, a U.S. official said on Tuesday, citing Pentagon assessments. This compares with a Pentagon assessment that two civilians were killed and two were injured by U.S. military operations in 2024. Here are details: • A Pentagon report submitted to the U.S. Congress and published by U.S. media said that all the death and injury tolls against civilians recorded in 2025 were due to three U.S. strikes in Yemen
Former Chinese premier Zhu Rongji, who helped engineer one of the greatest economic reforms in human history, has died. He was 97. Zhu, who served as China’s premier from 1998 to 2003, is remembered for tackling corruption, shaking up the centrally planned economy and overhauling the state-owned enterprise (SOE) sector. He was the mastermind behind negotiations for China’s World Trade Organization (WTO) entry in 2001, which opened China up to the international market and ushered in major changes
Reforms comply with wishlist of intelligence services which say Germany lags behind allies and enemies
China’s regulatory ban forced Manus to cancel its acquisition by Meta and resume independent operations
The Trump administration is finalizing rules to end Medicaid funding for sex change procedures, including cross-sex surgeries and hormones, for minors. The Department of Health and Human Services is finalizing a controversial rule that would block Medicaid reimbursement for healthcare providers who give gender transition procedures to minors, the Washington Examiner confirmed. HHS spokeswoman Emily […]
Baka replaces Orban appointee Tamas Sulyok, ousted weeks ago during Tisza’s campaign against Orban-era power structures
Blanche needed Cassidy’s support for his pending Senate confirmation after two prominent Republican Senators publicly declared they were unwilling to back him
The country votes again this weekend after three years of political turmoil
The US and Saudi Arabia jointly struck Iran-backed militias on July 29 in a move that widens the conflict in the Middle East. This comes a day after the US president met with the Israeli prime minister for the first time since they started their military campaign on Iran. As the midterm elections comes closer, Donald Trump is looking to take decisive action in the conflict. FRANCE 24's Angela Diffley tells us more