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Criminals used drones to disrupt the monitoring of a hostage situation, says the FBI. A top FBI official told a drone conference in Denver that criminals deliberately flew several small drones to block the rescue team’s view of an unfolding situation. The drones caused the FBI to lose sight of the attacker. “We were then blind,” Joseph Mazel, the FBI’s ...

Twitter’s 330 million users are being urged to change their passwords after some were exposed in plain text on its internal network. An error in the way the passwords were handled meant some were stored in easily readable form, said Twitter. The passwords should have been put through a procedure called “hashing” making them very difficult to read. Security experts ...

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has confirmed Yaya Toure will leave the club over the summer. The Ivory Coast international came to the Premier League from Barcelona in July 2010 and has been one of the key players in the clubs rise to the summit of English football. He has found first-team opportunities limited this campaign, however, making just 16 ...

The Kenyan Red Cross on Friday said at least 112 people have died since the early March floods caused by heavy rainfall in its long rainy season. Addressed a press conference in Nairobi, General Secretary of the Kenyan Red Cross, Abbas Gullet said the floods have displaced 1000’s. “About 48,477 households have been displaced so far and this represents 260,200 ...

Mine operator Sibanye-Stillwater said on Friday that 10 of 13 miners trapped underground at its South African gold mine were rescued but four of the 10 have died from their injuries. The miners were trapped by at the company’s Masakhane mine west of Johannesburg on Thursday after an earthquake caused a cave-in. Five of 13 miners were rescued on Thursday ...

Mozambique’s veteran rebel leader Afonso Dhlakama, who mixed guerilla warfare with opposition politics, has died aged 65, party sources said Thursday. Several sources in Dhlakama’s Renamo party told AFP that Dhlakama passed away after an unconfirmed heart attack, with local television stations also reporting the death. Afonso Dhlakama perdeu a vida (01 de Janeiro de 1953 – 03 de Maio de 2018). ...

The Cameroon government has reportedly banned the Catholic Church from extending humanitarian aid to persons fleeing the security crisis in the restive Anglophone regions. According to a journalists with Equinoxe TV, a renown priest had bee questioned for distributing foodstuff to people stranded by the ongoing crisis. “I am reliably informed that church leaders have been banned from assisting displaced ...

On the eve of the UEFA Champions League final hosted by Kyiv on May 26, all hotels intending to cash in on tourists have inflated prices to an unprecedented level, raising prices dramatically. On Booking.com, 98% of the apartments for May 26 have already been booked, while fans or ordinary tourists are offered to pay for the remaining accommodation nearly UAH ...

Reported Juventus target Angel Di Maria has hinted that he could leave Paris Saint-Germain this summer. Tuttosport claimed earlier on Friday that Juve were pursuing him and PSG teammate Thomas Meunier, and the Argentine midfielder admitted he could make way for fresh blood at Parc des Princes. “Football is a strange game,” the 30-year-old told France Football, in quotes carried ...

MANCHESTER UNITED chiefs are reportedly worried at the Red Devils’ season under Jose Mourinho. Manchester United are on course to finish second – a significant improvement on their sixth-placed finish under Mourinho last season. They will also compete in a third cup final in two season when they take on Chelsea with FA Cup glory at stake later this month. ...