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Museveni may struggle to contain rising popular anger

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UGANDA

The demonstrations reflect rising anti-government sentiment, given impetus by a contested by-election that descended into violence and led to the arrest, prosecution and alleged…

Calls to audit social media algorithms will rise

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INT

The problem of misinformation, polarisation and harmful content on social media has in recent years exposed the ineffectiveness of self-regulation by platform operators. Yet…

Millennials give US unions hope but need new focus

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UNITED STATES

Unions remain well-entrenched in the public sector, but their influence has fallen in much of the private sector. One exception is workers in knowledge-based industries, often…

Human-like AI raises deception risks for users

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INT

The perception of AI sentience as real by an individual such as Lemoine -- with full awareness of the synthetic nature of LaMDA and technical knowledge of its workings -…

Swiss sovereign money vote points up bank reform

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INTERNATIONAL

The Vollgeld (sovereign money) proposal, which claimed to make the banking system safer by preventing commercial banks creating money through requiring thems to keep 100% of their…

Iran may prioritise cyber espionage, not attack

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IRAN

Before the US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear agreement, many observers expected Tehran to increase its use of asymmetric capabilities, especially cyber tools, in retaliation…

Panama Papers leak will shift Iceland's politics

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ICELAND

President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson has said neither he nor his UK-Israeli wife Dorrit Moussaieff have any knowledge of such transactions, which have been publicised in the Icelandic…

Russia will deny cyberattacks despite more US evidence

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RUSSIA

The US indictment accuses the St Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency, its backers and staff of interfering in the election by running false social media accounts. This…

International intervention will aid Venezuela's Maduro

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VENEZUELA

Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic has enabled President Nicolas Maduro to stabilise his domestic position. The government is leveraging humanitarian needs to bypass US…

US opium raids unlikely to weaken Afghan Taliban

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AFGHANISTAN

Mixed successes in the US air war on Afghan drugs.