CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — For the primary time in 30 years, South African lawmakers will elect a president on Friday with the end result not a mere formality. Cyril Ramaphosa is looking for a second time period as chief of Africa’s most industrialized economy however his African Nationwide Congress occasion has been weakened after shedding its long-held majority …

By David Kirton and Laurie Chen GUANGZHOU/BEIJING (Reuters) -Main Chinese language #MeToo activist Huang Xueqin was sentenced to 5 years in jail after being discovered responsible on Friday of subverting state energy at a court docket in southern China, in line with a bunch campaigning for her launch and a replica of the decision. Huang, a 35-year-old unbiased journalist, plans …

A former intensive care unit nurse has been arrested for allegedly swapping sufferers’ ache medicine with faucet water, police in Medford, Oregon, introduced Thursday. Dani Mari Schofield faces 44 counts of assault within the second diploma, fees that “mirror the overall quantity of sufferers that this investigation revealed to have been affected by Schofield’s prison actions,” the Medford Police Division …

It is a fowl… it is a airplane… it is a tremendous star cluster! NASA’s Chandra X-ray telescope has imaged a star cluster that’s “tremendous” in each manner. Westerlund 1 is super-large, super-massive, super-young, super-close — and it’s creating stars at a super-fast price. Westerlund 1 is situated round 13,000 light-years away from Earth — that means it is very …

The crypto market braces for volatility as roughly $2.06 billion in Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) choices will expire at this time. How will the expiring choices influence the market dynamics, with notable knowledge factors highlighting the numerous stakes concerned? Key Insights on Immediately’s Bitcoin and Ethereum Choices Expiration Roughly 20,276 Bitcoin choices contracts are set to run out at …

Buried throughout the record of 100 out there jobs for President Biden’s 2024 marketing campaign is a task devoted to working “content and meme pages.” The wage vary caps at $85,000 and the appliance requires solely getting into a full identify and importing a resume. (The opposite widespread job software options that embrace questions on id, cowl letter and social …

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‘Chaotic’ is maybe essentially the most becoming phrase Austin Prock may have used to explain his profession at John Power Racing. The recap goes like this: Prock earns NHRA Rookie of the 12 months honors in 2019 and scores his first profession win in Prime Gas competitors. The pandemic forces the group to take a step from operating the complete …

By Zaheer Kachwala (Reuters) -Photoshop maker Adobe raised its income forecast for fiscal 2024 on Thursday as extra companies and customers take to its synthetic intelligence-powered enhancing instruments amid indicators of an easing financial system. Shares of the San Jose, California-based firm jumped greater than 16% in prolonged buying and selling. The corporate now expects income of between $21.40 billion …

With Palm Desert officers anticipating prices to maintain rising to fund police and fireplace companies, and with a number of new tasks within the works, the town’s voters will resolve later this 12 months whether or not to extend the native gross sales tax by one cent per greenback — a transfer that may generate tens of hundreds of thousands …