Category: World

The 39-year-old centrist independent will win, it looks like, by a decisive margin of 65% to 35%. Le Pen’s 35% is seen as still being an important indicator of political feeling in the country. Read more

The French president-elect, the youngest leader of the country since Napoleon and a man who was unknown a year ago, could find himself without much power to act if he doesn’t quickly form a movement to win a majority in the French national assembly. In the run up to the election, two candidates were chosen … Read more

The Liberals and Christy Clark did not receive a majority … yet. They might not get one. They won 43 of B.C.’s 87 electoral districts, one short of a majority. That means that the NDP with 41 and the Greens with 3 may form a coalition or other governing arrangement, and NDP leader John Horgan … Read more

Around 24 hours after being hit by the big malware attack that affected 100 countries, 97% of UK hospitals were back to normal. There is talk that the computers were breached through a vulnerability in older Microsoft systems which was long ago identified by the NSA and which the NSA included it in its list … Read more

Everywhere humans and elephants coexist, they come into conflict, resulting in injuries, deaths, and ruined crops. While governments compensate farmers and others for injuries and ruined crops, people in countries like Tanzania and Kenya have said they believe the government’s real priority is the elephants, which bring in tourist dollars. A few years ago by … Read more

The government, which enforces strict censorship of media, has decided it needs its own online encyclopedia. Wikipedia, like many other popular free information sources on the internet, is blocked in China. China’s encyclopedia will not be like Wikipedia, though. It will not allow public edits, and its editors will be hand-picked by the government. The … Read more

Scientists might know the general whereabouts of up to 40 wolves in the country, but they are keeping the location secret because they fear public attention would have a negative impact on the wolves, which haven’t existed in Denmark for 200 years. It’s thought the current inhabitants are making their way from Germany, about 500 … Read more

No more end-to-end encryption is one of the consequences of a new law proposed in a draft in the UK. The authors of the draft want to force internet providers to monitor all communications in near realtime, as well as install backdoor equipment to break encryption, so providers can be required to turn over communications … Read more

Prime Minister Al-Abadi wants some or all of the 7,000 U.S. troops currently in Iraq to stay, even after ISIS leaves, according U.S. mainstream news reports. Read more

The largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history is taking place in the territory of Puerto Rico. $120b debt and pension obligations need to be restructured. It owes $72m to creditors, many of which will have to eat the losses. The 3 million-strong territory will close 184 schools as part of its cutting down of social … Read more

Most prominent among the victims: The UK’s National Health Service. Dozens of hospitals and medical centers had to be closed. Treatment was postponed, ambulances diverted. Appointments couldn’t be made because it was too dangerous. Medical workers had no access to important information. However, some security firms reported that most of the affected computers were in … Read more

Wikipedia creator Jimmy Wales is creating Wikitribune, a news version of Wikipedia where he hopes news will be more fact-based than what he sees elsewhere. He will be hiring many journalists for the initial phase, and see how things develop from there. Wikitribune will not focus on doing original journalism. It will use the same … Read more