Nairobi, Kenya – With anti-government figures harassing and arresting, a heavy ban on news and a mysterious slowdown on social media, many have two predictions about Tanzania’s election on Wednesday: the president will win. And the country will lose. “This is an election where Tanzania ends equality with democracy,” said …
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In Georgia, Democrats target true silent majority: those who do not vote
ATLANTA – John Osoff may not have known it, but the potential key to his Georgia Senate race victory was pulled into a tangled black van right next to him. Mr. Osof, a 33-year-old former journalist who is seen as the brightest hope of Democrats in a year when the …
Read More »Despite increasing coronavirus cases in the UK, social cutters and nurses face abuse but the social gap is narrowing
It was arranged so that one of its critically ill Covid-19 patients could see their loved ones. But instead of the usual smiling face at the other end of the line, or the couple waving to the children, this time there were 45 relatives, all sneaking into one room. “On …
Read More »NASA has discovered a “very strange” atom in Titan’s atmosphere
These infrared images of Saturn’s moon Titan represent some of the clearest global views of the icy moon’s surface. These scenarios were created using 13 years of data acquired by the on-zoom and infrared mapping spectrometer instrument in NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / University of Nantes / …
Read More »Wearable fitness company Hoop raises 100m during epidemic
Patrick Mahoms is an investor in Hoop’s recent fundraising round. Source: Hoff Some of the big names in sports are investing in Hobo, a rebel company amid a global epidemic. The fitness tracking company announced Wednesday that it has closed a રા 100 billion round of financing, valued at 1. …
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