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Sep
02
2020
By The African Mirror
Pakistan blocks five dating apps including Tinder and Grindr

Pakistan blocks five dating apps including Tinder and Grindr

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GIBRAN NAIYYAR PESHIMAM  PAKISTAN has blocked Tinder, Grindr and three other dating apps for not adhering to local laws, its latest move to curb online platforms deemed to be disseminating "immoral content". Pakistan, the second largest Muslim-majority country in the world after Indonesia, is an Islamic nation where extra-marital relationships and homosexuality are illegal. The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority said it has sent notices to the management of the five apps, "keeping in view the negative effects of immoral/indecent content streaming." PTA said the notices issued to Tinder, Grindr, Tagged, Skout and SayHi sought the removal of "dating services" and moderation…
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Sep
03
2020
By The African Mirror
Chinese university slammed for telling female students to spurn ‘overly revealing’ dress

Chinese university slammed for telling female students to spurn ‘overly revealing’ dress

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A Chinese university sparked widespread outrage at the start of the academic year this week as female students discovered that they were not supposed to wear anything deemed overly revealing on grounds that it could arouse "temptation." On August 1, Guangxi University in southwestern China published a 50-point safety guide for incoming first-year female students, including a dress code that suggested that women were responsible for sexual harassment or even assault. "Don't wear overly revealing tops or skirts. Don't wear low-cut dresses or expose your waist or back, to avoid creating temptation," the guide said. Reuters confirmed on Wednesday that…
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Sep
03
2020
By The African Mirror
Charlie Hebdo attackers killed to avenge Prophet Mohammad, French court hears

Charlie Hebdo attackers killed to avenge Prophet Mohammad, French court hears

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TANGI SALAUN THE Islamist gunmen who attacked the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo five years ago, killing 12 people, sought to avenge the Prophet Mohammad, a French court heard on Wednesday on the first day of the trial of more than a dozen alleged accomplices. Homegrown militants Said and Cherif Kouachi stormed Charlie Hebdo's offices in Paris, spraying gunfire, on January 7, 2015, nearly a decade after the weekly published cartoons mocking the Prophet. They paused to ensure then-editor Stephane Charbonnier was among the dead, the presiding judge said in a precis of the prosecution's case. In court, the magazine's editor,…
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Sep
02
2020
By The African Mirror
Trump alleges plane of ‘thugs’ being probed, but other officials cannot confirm it

Trump alleges plane of ‘thugs’ being probed, but other officials cannot confirm it

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MARK HOSENBALL, HOSEBALL, JEFF MASON and SARAH N LYNCH U.S. President Donald Trump said an investigation was underway into alleged "thugs" who boarded a plane seeking to cause damage last week during his Republican Party convention, but U.S. security officials said they could not confirm such an incident. Officials familiar with law enforcement investigations also expressed puzzlement at assertions by acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf about political movements playing a role. They stressed that law enforcement agencies had not charged any political groups or operatives with fomenting violent protests. In a Fox News interview late on Monday, Trump made…
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Sep
30
2020
By The African Mirror
Insults and interruptions mar first Trump-Biden debate

Insults and interruptions mar first Trump-Biden debate

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JARRETT RENSHAW and STEVE HOLLAND US PRESIDENT Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden battled fiercely over Trump's record on the coronavirus pandemic, healthcare and the economy in a chaotic and bad-tempered first debate marked by personal insults and Trump's repeated interruptions. Trump bulldozed his way through the 90-minute debate, trying to goad Biden nearly every time he spoke, claiming that Democrats were trying to steal the November presidential election with mail-in ballots and declining to condemn white supremacist groups when asked to do so. Moderator Chris Wallace of Fox News never established control of the debate, with Trump repeatedly…
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Sep
29
2020
By The African Mirror
“Or gas them”: Germany’s far-right AfD fires official over migrant comment

“Or gas them”: Germany’s far-right AfD fires official over migrant comment

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GERMANY’S hard-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party fired an official on Monday who had been caught on a hidden camera discussing gassing refugees. In footage, recorded secretly by ProSieben television in February, Christian Lueth, then a party spokesman, was filmed in a Berlin cafe talking to someone he believed to be a sympathiser about the challenges the AfD faced. Asked if the AfD wanted to see more immigrants, he replied: "Yes." "Because then things go better for the AfD. We can still shoot them all afterwards," he said. "Or gas them, whichever you like. I don't care either way!" Die…
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Sep
29
2020
By The African Mirror
Singapore’s use of facial verification in ID scheme stirs privacy fears

Singapore’s use of facial verification in ID scheme stirs privacy fears

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RINA CHANDRAN SINGAPORE’S more than four million residents will have to use facial verification technology to access government services through the national identity scheme, a move criticised as intrusive and heavy-handed by privacy advocates. Facial verification, which works by scanning someone's face and matching it with a database image, is already used widely to unlock smartphones and access bank accounts, but Singapore is the first state to use it in a national ID scheme. "Unlike the use of biometrics for surveillance, it ensures that the user is aware and that their explicit consent is sought before proceeding with the verification…
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Sep
28
2020
By The African Mirror
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Barrett would have final say on recusal calls

U.S. Supreme Court nominee Barrett would have final say on recusal calls

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LAWRENCE HURLEY  DEMOCRATS are urging U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett to recuse herself from any election-related cases because of President Donald Trump's comments that he expects the justices to potentially decide the outcome, but there is no way to force her to do so. Although U.S. law requires justices to step aside when there is a conflict of interest or genuine question of bias, it leaves the individual justice to decide whether such a conflict exists. Aside from direct financial and personal conflicts, they rarely do so. Trump on Saturday nominated Barrett to the vacancy created by the…
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Sep
28
2020
By The African Mirror
At least 16 dead in clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan

At least 16 dead in clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan

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NVARD HOVHANNISYAN and NAILIA BAGIROVA AT least 16 military and several civilians have been killed in the heaviest clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan since 2016, reigniting concern about stability in the South Caucasus, a corridor for pipelines carrying oil and gas to world markets. The clashes between the two former Soviet republics, which fought a war in the 1990s, were the latest flare-up of a long-running conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, a breakaway region that is inside Azerbaijan but is run by ethnic Armenians. Nagorno-Karabakh said 16 of its serviceman had been killed and more than 100 wounded after Azerbaijan launched an…
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Sep
28
2020
By The African Mirror
In Brazil’s Amazon a COVID-19 resurgence dashes herd immunity hopes

In Brazil’s Amazon a COVID-19 resurgence dashes herd immunity hopes

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ANTHONY BOADLE  THE largest city in Brazil's Amazon has closed bars and river beaches to contain a fresh surge of coronavirus cases, a trend that may dash theories that Manaus was one of the world's first places to reach collective, or herd, immunity. When a large portion of a community becomes immune to a disease, its spread becomes unlikely. University of Sao Paulo researchers suggested that a drastic fall in COVID-19 deaths in Manaus pointed to collective immunity at work, but they also believe that antibodies to the disease after infection may not last more than a few months. Local…
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