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Tour de France: Primoz Roglic Retains Tour Lead, Soren Kragh Andersen Wins Stage 19 | Cycling News
Primoz Roglic retained a 57-second lead over his Slovenian compatriot Tadej Pogacar.© AFP Primoz Roglic kept his lead in the Tour de France on Friday with just two stages remaining as Denmark’s Soren Kragh Andersen soloed to victory on stage 19. Sam Bennett inched further ahead in the struggle forContinue Reading
Will a new US TV series on the ‘Macedonian teens who helped elect Trump’ perpetuate a tired cliché? · Global Voices
The idea that Macedonian hub of fake news sites were run by kids was grossly exaggerated by Western media The book “How we elected an American president” was sold at Skopje Book Fair in September 2020. Photo by Filip Stojanovski, CC BY. The so-called “Macedonian teenagers” who set up networksContinue Reading
Jimmy Neesham Shuts Down Troll With Sarcastic Comment | Cricket News
Jimmy Neesham rules the Twitter-verse with humour and sarcasm.© AFP Jimmy Neesham’s wit and sarcastic humour have been the talk of the Twitter town for long. Neesham often comes up with funny replies to tweets and came up with one such gem when a Twitter user asked the cricketer ifContinue Reading
Australian government on collision course with Facebook and Google over news revenue · Global Voices
Tech giants fiercely resist compulsory bargaining code of conduct Facebook News – U.S. website (Author’s photo of computer webpage) In what could be a world first if successful, the Australian government has drafted laws that would force tech giants Facebook and Google to negotiate with media companies over payment forContinue Reading
A new ‘cyber defence’ system in Oman raises human rights concerns · Global Voices
The Cyber Defence Centre system legalises repressive patterns A man holds his mobile phone at a fort in Oman. Photo via Pikist, license-free photos for design. Editors note: This post was written by Khalid Ibrahim, executive director of the Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR), an independent, nonprofit organization that promotes freedom of expression,Continue Reading
Suresh Raina Calls On Jammu and Kashmir DGP, Discusses Promotion Of Sports In Union Territory | Cricket News
Suresh Raina pulled out of IPL 2020 due to personal reasons.© AFP Former India cricketer Suresh Raina on Friday called on Jammu and Kashmir Police chief Dilbag Singh here and discussed plans for encouraging the youth of the union territory in honing their sports skills, a police spokesman said. “FamousContinue Reading
Lebanon protests: Authorities prey on digital spaces to silence criticism · Global Voices
‘Social media played a part in mobilizing the population’ Protestors in Tyre, Southern Lebanon, cheering to a female singer during a demonstration against government corruption and austerity measures on October 22, 2019. Credit: RomanDeckert via Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4.0. Editor’s note: This article is part of UPROAR, a Small Media initiative thatContinue Reading
Coronavirus: why central and eastern European countries seem to be running out of luck
EPA/Janos Philip The number of new COVID-19 cases in the Czech Republic recently surpassed 3,000 in a single day. As infections rise across Europe, the country, which has a population of 10 million, has regularly seen daily case numbers overtake records from March and April. Other central and eastern EuropeanContinue Reading
The EU is on a collision course with Poland over hate crime
In her first state of the union address as president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen called out hatred and pledged to build “a union of equality”. While European institutions have been at the forefront of fighting hate crime and discrimination in and outside of the EU, memberContinue Reading
Prehistoric desert footprints are earliest evidence for Homo sapiens on Arabian Peninsula
© Paul Breeze, Author provided Humanity originated on the African continent at least 300,000 years ago. We know from fossil evidence in southern Greece and the Levant (modern-day Israel) that some early members of our species expanded beyond Africa around 200,000 years ago, and again between 120,000 to 90,000 yearsContinue Reading