An alarming phenomenon has taken hold in Johannesburg over the past several months: Dozens of our readers have reported being extorted and intimidated by City Power and Eskom employees, contractors and subcontractors, who have turned up at their homes and cut or threatened to switch off their electricity if they don’t shell out sometimes exorbitant amounts of money for power that they, as...
The Ekurhuleni coalition government appears to be facing its biggest crisis after its budget failed to secure council approval in a fourth attempt last week.
June 23 (Reuters) – Six people were wounded in Russian air strikes on Ukraine overnight, local authorities said, and the capital of Kyiv issued an air raid alert asking people to seek shelter in the early hours of Tuesday.
WASHINGTON, June 22 (Reuters) – The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Washington’s National Mall is set to be drained again for repairs after algae and peeling paint appeared just weeks after a $14.7 million renovation, while President Donald Trump threatened prison time for anyone caught damaging the pool.
WASHINGTON, June 22 (Reuters) – Cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology is poised to supercharge offensive hacking capabilities and urgent action is needed to face up to the threat, US, British, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand officials said on Monday.
WASHINGTON, June 22 (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump on Monday ordered a push to build a powerful quantum computer for scientific research and speed efforts to protect government systems from related cyber threats, bolstering US efforts in its race with China for a technology that could upend science and cybersecurity.
