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Africa's tech boom starts at home, By Sally Wentworth

Nigeria, Aug. 12 -- 21 years' ago, if someone in Lagos wanted to send an email to someone in Abuja - a distance of about seven hundred and sixty kilometres - that email would first travel thousands of... Read More


Lebanon Becomes First Arab Nation to Abolish Death Penalty, Sparing 85 from Death Row

BEIRUT, Aug. 12 -- For twenty-two years, eighty-five people waited in Lebanon's prisons with death sentences over their heads and no execution date in sight. The Lebanese state had stopped carrying ou... Read More


Zoom 'Zoomsday' Bug Let Attackers Take Over Any Device - AI Found It in 20 Prompts

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 12 -- For roughly three months, anyone sharing their screen in a Zoom meeting was participating in something they had not agreed to: a quiet security experiment in which their devi... Read More


NYT Connections Answers Today - August 12, 2026 (#1158)

New Delhi, Aug. 12 -- The NYT Connections answers for Wednesday, August 12, 2026, are below. Puzzle #1158 has a deceptively simple Yellow group and a Purple category that will catch most players off g... Read More


Wordle Answer Today - August 12, 2026 (#1880)

New Delhi, Aug. 12 -- The Wordle answer today, August 12, 2026, is WIMPY. Puzzle #1880 presents a five-letter adjective that most players will struggle to pin down before the fourth or fifth guess - t... Read More


Freedom, Not Just a Flag

Srinagar, Aug. 12 -- August 15 is more than a date on the calendar. It is the day India broke the chains of colonial rule and began its journey as a free nation. But every Independence Day also asks a... Read More


33 Provinces: Pakistan's Power Map Faces a Rewrite

Srinagar, Aug. 12 -- Pakistan may be heading towards one of the most consequential debates over its administrative and political future since independence: whether its traditional four-province struct... Read More


What did Lindsay Clancy do for work? Inside her nursing career as her murder trial continues

India, Aug. 12 -- Lindsay Clancy's finances have drawn fresh attention as her murder trial over the deaths of her three children continues in Massachusetts. Clancy, a former labor-and-delivery nurse, ... Read More


China, Russia, North Korea Condemn Japan's Defense Paper as 'Reinvasion-Minded'

New Delhi, Aug. 12 -- TOKYO - North Korea's state news agency declared Japan's newly released annual defense paper "reinvasion-minded" on Monday, completing a rare trifecta of condemnation from all th... Read More


FBI Confirms North Korean IT Worker Infiltrated a US Federal Agency

New Delhi, Aug. 12 -- WASHINGTON - The person who got inside was not a hacker. There was no zero-day exploit, no phishing chain, no spoofed credential that penetrated a layer of government security fr... Read More