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SYDNEY, May 27 (Reuters) – Australia’s foreign minister Penny Wong warned on a visit to Fiji on Friday that there were regional consequences to the Solomon Islands’ security pact with China, after her Chinese counterpart said interference in the deal would fail. The two countries’ top diplomats are on competing visits to the Pacific islands. …

MADRID — (AP) — Around 1,000 migrants tried unsuccessfully to climb over the barrier separating Morocco from one of Spain’s African enclaves on Tuesday, authorities in Spain said. The representative for Spain’s government in Melilla said that Moroccan border guards repelled the attempt while Spanish border guards remained positioned on the other side of the …

MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somali leaders have failed to end a stalemate over the selection of a new president scheduled for next week, government officials said on Saturday, raising the risk of more political turmoil. Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, President of Somalia. REUTERS/Jack Hill/Pool President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed flew back to the capital Mogadishu without a deal …

Hundreds of thousands of people who smoke cannabis describe themselves as non-smokers, a study has revealed. Experts fear the findings mean cannabis users may not appreciate that smoking the drug carries many of the same health risks as smoking tobacco. The study, published in the journal Addiction, and based on a survey of almost 13,000 …

Days before, Facebook Inc. produced its own document contending that breaking it up would be a “nonstarter” for a number of reasons, including that the company’s constituent parts are already too complicated and interconnected for any of them—Instagram, WhatsApp, its ad business—to be spun off as individual companies or walled off as separate divisions. “After …

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Technology is helpful but can be a burden when it fails, rendering that laptop or internet connection useless when it does. It is a feeling most students and their parents most likely do not want to experience as the school year goes virtual for the first time. To avoid issues, school …

The Riveras waited for that phone call. And waited. And waited. But the call never came. “I was shocked,” said Rivera, a nurse who has since recovered from her bout with the virus. Despite claims that Florida traces every case of Covid-19, a CNN investigation found that health authorities in Florida, now the nation’s No. 1 hotspot for the virus, …

Featured image: Stock Amid the 2020 global socio-economic upheaval, steady movement can be seen in the power and energy markets, where utilities have embraced technology. Originally published in the ESI Africa weekly newsletter on 03/06/2020 Perhaps the decisive way in which countries responded to the COVID-19 pandemic has given impetus to industries examining better operating …

The worst may be yet to come. Downtown Midland, a city of about 41,000 people downstream of the dams, could eventually be “under approximately 9 feet of water” on Wednesday, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said. “If you have a family member or loved one who lives in another part of the state, go there now,” Whitmer …

There are a lot of interesting tidbits in this National Law Journal piece about telephonic oral arguments at the D.C. Circuit. Judges were dropped from the call during presentations, weird noises dominated the line, and they’ve already switched around the technical setup a day in. But really the only thing that matters is the kicker …