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The White House said on Thursday that it will ban the sale of Russia’s Kaspersky Lab antivirus software in the United States. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said the company’s ties with Moscow posed a risk to its large US customer base. “Russia has shown it has the capacity and… the intent to exploit Russian companies like Kaspersky to collect and weaponize the personal information of Americans and that is why we are compelled to take the action that we are taking today,” Raimondo told reporters. The block is set to come in on September 29, giving companies that may rely…

One person was killed and at least 200 were injured in protests across Kenya, a police watchdog and rights groups said on Friday. The East African country saw nationwide protests on Thursday against government plans to raise $2.7 billion (€2.5 billion) in taxes. What do we know about the protests? Five rights groups said in a joint statement that police fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse protesters in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. Among the groups were the London-based Amnesty International and the Kenya Medical Association. The statement said that the presence of spent cartridges implied the use of live…

A British tourist has been stabbed to death outside a nightclub near Barcelona, according to local media.The incident happened at about 4am this morning in Calella, about 30 miles away from the city. Police have confirmed that there was a fatality, and another person was injured and taken to hospital.According to El Caso, there was a fight outside the Oxygen nightclub and the tourist died at the scene.In a statement, Catalan police said it is “investigating the violent death of a 31-year-old man”.The British consulate is reportedly being notified – and footage from security cameras in the area is being…

Skip next section ‘Mass’ drone attack kills one, Russian officials say06/21/2024June 21, 2024’Mass’ drone attack kills one, Russian officials sayRussian officials said Ukraine launched a “mass” drone attack on the annexed Crimean Peninsula and several parts of southern Russia, including the Krasnodar region, where authorities had earlier reported a fire in an oil refinery. The volley of drones, of which the Defense Ministry said it shot down 114, left one person killed.  “Russian anti-aerial defense systems intercepted and destroyed 70 drones over Crimea and the Black Sea, 43 drones over the Krasnodar region and one drone over Volgograd,” the ministry…

The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced Thursday that a company drilling for natural gas off the coast of northern Israel has discovered a 3,300-year-old ship and its cargo, one of the oldest known examples of a vessel sailing far from land. Hundreds of intact ancient amphorae were found on board the ship, the authority said, describing it as a “groundbreaking discovery.” The wreck and its artifacts were discovered 1,800 meters (5,906 feet) deep at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea by Energean, a London-listed energy company. The great depth at which the ship was found means it has been undisturbed by…

Retired Italian football star Roberto Baggio has been robbed at gunpoint while watching the national team play Spain at Euro 2024.At least five armed robbers burst into Baggio’s villa near the northern city of Vicenza around 10pm local time (9pm BST) on Thursday, according to Italian media reports. One intruder hit the 57-year-old on the head with the butt of a gun when the former player confronted them.The robbers locked him and his family in a room while they stole jewellery, watches and cash during the raid, which reportedly lasted 40 minutes.Baggio was taken to hospital and received stitches for…

Anna Magdalena Wilcke (1701-1760) was a well-known soprano who in 1721 married the legendary classical composer, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). However, Anna Magdalena went down in music history not as a musician — but as Bach’s wife. That could be about to change. How women fell into musical oblivion It was not until the 1970s that music researchers in Europe began to focus more on women who composed and played music themselves. “Women who were associated with men, such as Anna Magdalena Bach, were the first to come into focus,” says Kerstin Wiese, director of the Bach Museum, which is part of the Bach Archive and Research…

Wildfires in southeastern Turkey have claimed the lives of at least five people and injured dozens of others, according to the country’s health minister. “Five people died and 44 were injured, 10 seriously,” when the blaze swept through two areas between the cities of Diyarbakir and Mardin, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca posted on X, formerly Twitter. Deaths in Diyarbakir and Mardin Koca offered his condolences to the victims of the fires. “Unfortunately three citizens of the Diyarbakir area and two in the Mardin area lost their lives,” he said, adding that emergency teams along with 35 ambulances had been dispatched…

South Korea’s military said on Friday that it had fired warning shots after North Korean soldiers briefly crossed the demilitarized border, the third such breach announced this month. It comes days after North Korea and Russia said they had signed a comprehensive security agreement in a move condemned by Seoul. Also on Friday, German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck visited the heavily fortified border that cuts through the Korean Peninsula during the first leg of his days-long trip to East Asia. Habeck is also stopping in China. “It is a very different border to the one we know from the German…

On the coastline of southern Italy, a small group gathered at the water’s edge.They could not go any further into the Ionian Sea although they clearly wished they could. “Is Europe worth all this trouble, I swear to God it’s not,” says a man called Setar.”Why put your wife and children through this?” Image: Setar Sheke asked ‘is Europe worth all this trouble?’ Image: Coastguard footage of the boat after it had capsized Image: Two men mourn at the water’s edge after the tragedy The shock is real, the feelings raw after the deaths of 60 or more migrants in…