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Prisoners of Google Android Development
Aftermath I’ve read multiple articles about something similar happening with mobile apps development where Google (or Apple) prevent fixing problems in production or even worse where apps are taken down from the appropriate app store for no apparent reason. There’s nothing we as developers can do to speed up the reviewal process nor contact Google …
Iran temporarily releases 54,000 prisoners to try and stop coronavirus from spreading in jails
Iran temporarily released more than 54,000 prisoners in an effort to prevent the spread of the coronavirus outbreak in the country’s overcrowded prisons, as the disease has killed dozens in the country and infected 23 members of the Iranian parliament. Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili told reporters certain inmates were allowed out of prison after testing negative …
Ukraine, Russia-backed rebels swap prisoners in latest sign of peace efforts
The Ukrainian government and Russian-backed separatist forces held a prisoner swap in the country’s war-ravaged east Sunday in the latest sign of efforts to ease tensions between the two warring sides. The exchange was agreed upon by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Russian President Vladimir Putin during peace talks in Paris earlier this month. The negotiations …
US seizes only two British Isis prisoners in Syria, leaving others | World news
US forces in north-east Syria were able to seize only two British Islamic State prisoners, leaving behind a cluster of others despite previous briefings that about 40 had been forcibly taken from Kurdish custody. Kurdish military guarding the prisoners – supposedly among the most dangerous of several thousand Isis fighters in the region – refused …
Gang Fight Kills 57 in Brazil, 16 Beheaded
BRASILIA—A gang fight in a prison in Brazil’s Para state left at least 57 dead, many by decapitation or asphyxiation, adding to a string of gruesome clashes in the country’s overloaded prison system as the government struggles to fight rampant crime. The violence started at around 7 a.m. Monday when members of one of the …