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Pascal Siakam scored a playoff career-high 39 points as the Indiana Pacers beat the New York Knicks to get a 2-0 lead in the NBA Eastern Conference Finals.The Indiana Pacers are in their midst of a chance to win an elusive NBA title when they return home in the Eastern Conference Finals, but they may prefer to stay where they are. Pascal Siakam scored a playoff career-high 39 points on Friday night. They scored 39 points as the Pacers defeated the New York Knicks 114-109. As a result, Pacer has a 2-0 lead in the playoffs after the first two…
A fake story of the West African Court Zin coup has emerged this week amid growing tensions in the October general elections. Several accounts on social media sites, including Facebook and X, have posted videos of large crowds on the streets with burning buildings. However, no violence has been reported this week by security forces or other government authorities. Abidjan residents also denied the claims on social media. On Thursday, the national agency of Information Systems Security (ANSSI) in Coast denied the rumor. In a statement released on a local media site, the agency said: [Ivory Coast] …This claim is…
UNHCR says the two shipwrecks, May 9th and 10th, could become “the most deadly tragedy at sea” involving Rohingya so far this year.At least 427 Rohingya, a Muslim minority in Myanmar, may have died at sea on two shipwrecks on May 9 and 10, the UN said it would be another fatal incident for the persecuted group. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in a statement Friday that the two incidents will become “the most fatal tragedy at sea” involving Rohingya refugees so far this year. “The UN Refugee Agency is seriously concerned about reporting the tragedy of…
Cormac Fire, Cyprus (AP) – Ashes hang unsteadily from the cigarettes of iosif scordis as they recall a fellow villager in the end of extinction language, which reaches a language that traces its roots in part to the language that Jesus Christ once spoke.Skodis, 97, is one of only 900 people in the world who speak Cyprus’ Maronite Arabic or Sanna. Today, his village of Colmac Flame is the last fortress of the language spoken by tens of thousands of people in the village once.The tongue, a derivative of Syrian Arabic that absorbed Greek, was passed from generation to generation…
Malibaikkal, Sri Lanka – On a beach in northeastern Sri Lanka, Krishnan Anjan Jeevarani laid out some of the family’s favorite groceries on banana leaves. She placed a large bottle of samosa, lollipop and Pepsi next to the flowers and incense sticks in front of the framed photo. Jeevarani was one of the thousands of Tamils who gathered on May 18th to mark the 16th year since the end of Sri Lanka’s brutal civil war in Malivikkar. This was the site of the final battle between the government and the Liberation Tiger of Tamil Eelam, a separatist group that fought…
Science and Technology Ministry accused the messaging app of not fighting crimes that Vietnamese users have suspected of committing.In a move that Telegram said was surprising, Vietnam ordered the country’s telecom service providers to block messaging app Telegram to avoid fighting crimes suspected by users of the platform. According to a report on the government’s news portal on Friday, the Vietnamese telecommunications division of the Ministry of Science and Technology has sent a letter to an internet service provider warning that Telegram has “signs of violation of law.” The ministry said Internet service providers should “implement solutions and measures to…
Naukri.com, a popular Indian employment website, has fixed a bug that publishes recruiter email addresses to use the platform to search and hire talent online. The issue, discovered by security researcher Lohith Gowda, affected the APIs Naukri used in Android and iOS apps. The API has released the email addresses of recruiters who will visit the profiles of potential candidates on Naukri’s platform. This issue does not appear to affect the company’s website. “The email ID of an exposed recruiter can be used for targeted phishing attacks, and recruiters can receive excessive unsolicited emails and spam,” Gowda told TechCrunch. He…
Police say four victims face life-threatening injuries, suggesting that the suspect may have suffered a “psychological emergency.”German authorities arrested the woman after at least 17 people were injured in a knife attack at a major railway station in a city in northern Hamburg. At least four victims were injured with life-threatening injuries in the mass stab wound incident Friday evening, according to emergency services. A spokesman for the Hamburg police said the suspect, a 39-year-old German woman, was arrested at the scene by law enforcement. The officer “goed closer to her and allowed the woman to be arrested without any…
These are important events on the 1,185th day of the Russian Ukrainian War.It’s where things stand on Saturday, May 24th. Fineting Mayor Vitaly Klitschko said at least eight people were injured after the Ukrainian capital Kyiv combined a drone and missile attack, and witnesses reported a series of explosions and waves of Russian drones flying through the city. Attacked at dawn, anti-aircraft units were revitalized throughout the Ukrainian capital. Timur Tukachenko, the capital’s military junta chief, said two fires had struck in the city’s Svyatsinsky district. Drone fragments also hit the ground in four districts. Authorities say at least two…
Bangkok, Thailand – Over several years in the mid-1960s, the crumbling ruins of an ancient temple in northeast Thailand were picked clean by local looters. Possibly hundreds of centuries-old statues that were long buried beneath the soft, verdant grounds around the temple were stolen. To this day, all the known artefacts from the pillaging spree, collectively known as the Prakhon Chai hoard, sit scattered thousands of miles away in museums and collections across the United States, Europe and Australia. In a matter of weeks, though, the first of those statues will begin their journey home to Thailand. The acquisitions committee…