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Thousands of people have protested in cities across Spain over the government’s handling of the influx of migrants to the Spanish exclave of Ceuta on the north African coast.Spanish opposition parties accuse Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of abandoning the residents of Ceuta, while the government says right-wing parties are exploiting the crisis.On Wednesday a police report said Moroccan security forces showed “total permissiveness” during the unprecedented influx, days after Sánchez insisted Morocco was not responsible. He has blamed trafficking gangs and online misinformation for encouraging people to cross the border. Morocco has denied orchestrating or being involved in the mass…

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at the Microsoft AI Tour in Sydney on April 23, 2026.George Chan | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesMicrosoft will start disclosing quarterly revenue for its Azure cloud business for the first time, providing investors with a clearer picture of its business that competes with Amazon Web Services and Google’s cloud platform. The change, announced in a presentation on Wednesday, is part of a broader shift in Microsoft’s reporting structure, as the company trims its operating segments from three to two. The prior structure had been in place since 2015. Microsoft’s Azure unit has been…

The Trump administration is supporting OpenAI in ⁠a lawsuit against the New York Times, arguing in favor of the use of copyrighted writing to train artificial intelligence.The Times accuses OpenAI and its largest financial backer, Microsoft, of using millions of newspaper articles without permission to train OpenAI’s popular chatbot. Other newspapers have joined in the suit, first filed in 2023.In a brief filed in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, the US government weighed in for the first time on lawsuits over the tense battle over AI and copyright. A brief has advisory rather than legal weight but could bolster tech…

Multiple new cases have been filed against OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT played a role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting.Published On 2 Sep 20262 Sep 2026OpenAI is facing another wave of lawsuits in the wake of the February mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge in Canada’s province of British Columbia, which left eight people dead.On Wednesday, 30 new complaints were reportedly filed in a United States federal court in California, including teachers and students who were witnesses and survivors at the school where most of the shooting took place, joining seven initial lawsuits filed in April.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of…

The traditional rulers are Obi of Onitsha, Alfred Achebe; the Traditional Ruler of Nnewi, Kenneth Orizu, both in Anambra, and Samuel Asadu, the Enugu State Chairman, Traditional Rulers Council. They made the call when the producer, directors and crew of the new Nollywood movie, “Properties of the Gods”, visited their palaces separately on Wednesday. They described the practice as discriminatory and inconsistent with the equality of human beings. They said the visit was to seek their blessings ahead of the movie’s nationwide cinema premiere. The movie – ‘Properties of the Gods’ The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the movie,…

Scotland international Scott McTominay said he was feeling fine a day after his club Napoli revealed that he needed surgery on a minor heart issue. McTominay, who was voted Serie A’s best player during Napoli’s 2024/25 title-winning campaign, spoke to reporters at the professional footballers gala in Milan on Wednesday. He said that the issue had been known about for some time. On Tuesday, Napoli revealed that he would be out for a few weeks due to the problem. “Due to the onset of a mild benign arrhythmia, Scott McTominay will undergo PFA (pulsed field ablation) surgery in the next…

Closure is fleeting, particularly in the realm of murder and death. The hip-hop community was reminded of that reality when Duane “Keffe D” Davis was found guilty for his role in the Sept. 13, 1996, drive-by shooting of rap icon Tupac Shakur. Davis was initially arrested in Las Vegas and charged with Shakur’s murder in 2023 after repeatedly detailing his involvement in Shakur’s death in interviews with law enforcement, media, and journalists across more than a dozen years. The reputed South Side Compton Crips gang leader even admitted to passing the murder weapon to fellow South Side member Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, the alleged…

There are not many public intellectuals who can say they’ve been cited by Capt James T Kirk of the Starship Enterprise, but Francis Fukuyama is one of them. In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, William Shatner’s character is in a reflective mood, and speaks to the Klingon chancellor. “Some people think the future means the end of history,” Kirk muses. “Well, we haven’t run out of history quite yet.”When the film came out in 1991 and in the years that followed, you’d often hear comments like that. They were nods to a thesis so famous it hardly needed spelling…

By Omeiza Ajayi Few months to the 2027 general election, the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC on Wednesday said it was still awaiting the full release of a substantial budget proposed for the polls, even as it moves ahead with plans for a mock presidential election designed to test the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) and the INEC Result Viewing Portal (IReV) under conditions similar to election day. INEC, in its daily bulletin of Wednesday, said its chairman, Prof. Joash Amupitan, SAN, stated this at the 13th Annual International Conference of the Association of Communication Scholars & Professionals of Nigeria…

Sylvester Idowu in Warri The newly deployed Commissioner of Police in Delta State, Samuel Etaifo Erale, has unveiled an intelligence-driven policing strategy aimed at tackling kidnapping, cultism, armed robbery, cybercrime, oil-related crimes and other emerging security threats in the state. Eralée, who assumed office as the 25th Commissioner of Police in the state, made this known yesterday during his inaugural press briefing in Asaba. He said the safety of lives and property would remain the Command’s priority, assuring residents and visitors that the police would deploy every lawful means to make them feel safe in their homes, workplaces, communities, and…