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Teenage girl treated in hospital after Friday’s school shooting has died, police say
The death toll from a school shooting in Thailand rose to nine on Saturday, after police said a 12-year-old girl caught up in Friday’s incident had died.
Police at the Plai Bang Police Station in Nonthaburi Province said the girl, who had been treated at hospital with critical wounds, had died, a day after a 14-year-old boy allegedly shot his grandparents and then killed more people at his school before turning the gun on himself.
Continue reading...Commercial ships under attack as Russia-Ukraine conflict spreads across Black Sea, says Turkey’s foreign minister. What we know on day 1,626
Turkey’s foreign minister on Saturday called for a “moratorium” on attacks by Russia and Ukraine in the Black Sea after a series of strikes on civilian ships there. “The conflict has spread across the whole Black Sea,” Hakan Fidan said in an interview with Turkey’s state news agency Anadolu. “To begin with, they targeted the ports and the military ships. Now, they are attacking all commercial shipping without distinction,” he added. Ships belonging to Turkey or flying the Turkish flag were among those targeted, he said.
Russia has continued striking Ukrainian port infrastructure and vessels supporting the Ukrainian military, Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Saturday. The ministry said Russian forces hit military warehouses containing communications and electronic warfare equipment in the Black Sea port of Odesa. In the port of Mykolaiv, Russian forces struck a cargo vessel carrying military equipment and a warehouse storing weapons and military supplies, the ministry said. It added that another dry cargo vessel transporting military supplies for Ukraine’s armed forces was hit in the Black Sea.
Ukraine on Saturday denied targeting Bulgaria after a drone exploded close to the strategic Trans-Balkan gas pipeline linking Turkey to Ukraine near the Romanian border. There were no casualties or damage. Bulgaria’s defence ministry said the drone was of a type “widely used by the Ukrainian military”, and the foreign minister summoned the Ukrainian ambassador for a meeting on Monday in response, her office told AFP. Kyiv said it was “in close contact with the Bulgarian side to clarify the circumstances” of the incident, the latest case of a drone straying into Nato airspace as Ukraine fights off Russia’s invasion. “We can say with certainty that the Ukrainian Armed Forces did not intentionally direct any assets toward Bulgaria,” Ukraine’s foreign ministry spokesperson Georgiy Tykhyi said, blaming Russia’s invasion for the incident.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned Ukraine is facing a winter with no working thermal power plants as overnight Russian strikes left four dead, including a child, in the Kyiv region. Speaking Saturday in Belgrade, alongside his Serbian counterpart, Aleksandar Vucic, the Ukrainian leader said Moscow’s latest overnight attacks and shelling of frontline communities combined had killed 13 people in the last 24 hours. “Russian missiles are aimed precisely at making the lives of Ukrainians unbearable,” Zelensky told reporters during his first official visit to Belgrade.
Zelenskyy is in Serbia for talks on economic ties and security issues. The visit, which included talks with President Vucic on Saturday, is the first by a Ukrainian president in eight years. Vucic described Ukraine as a “friendly nation” and said he was honoured to welcome the Ukrainian leader. The two men discussed their countries’ efforts to join the European Union, bilateral ties and ways to expand cooperation.
Drones have been detected above an army installation in western Germany known to house components for US-made Patriot air-defence systems, which Ukraine has frequently requested to help fight off Russia’s aerial bombardments. An investigation has been opened into the sighting at the installation, which has a large underground depot, a military operational command spokesperson said on Saturday. Mechernich is a special army site for storing equipment at a depth of 130 metres (425 feet) across about 30,000 square metres, or the equivalent of four football pitches. The latest incident comes days after an explosives-laden drone was found near a Ukrainian cargo plane at Leipzig-Halle airport, which plays a key role in the transport of military goods by the German military and Nato allies.
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Long-time Slashdot reader BrianFagioli is announcing that he's released a new iPhone app that creates a cryptographic witness for photos without uploading the original image.
The app hashes the file, signs the hash using a dedicated identity stored in Apple Keychain, and publishes the witness to Nostr relays while keeping the photo inside the app unless the user chooses to export it.
Rather than trying to determine whether a scene was genuine, the app — named Veridenz — answers a narrower question, by verifying whether a photo file matches the one that was originally witnessed.
Users do not need a Nostr account because the app creates its own signing identity, keeping private documentation separate from a public Nostr profile.
"The developer does not collect any data from this app," says its page in Apple's iPhone store. The free app's tagline is "Capture. Prove. Verify."
The app hashes the file, signs the hash using a dedicated identity stored in Apple Keychain, and publishes the witness to Nostr relays while keeping the photo inside the app unless the user chooses to export it.
Rather than trying to determine whether a scene was genuine, the app — named Veridenz — answers a narrower question, by verifying whether a photo file matches the one that was originally witnessed.
Users do not need a Nostr account because the app creates its own signing identity, keeping private documentation separate from a public Nostr profile.
"The developer does not collect any data from this app," says its page in Apple's iPhone store. The free app's tagline is "Capture. Prove. Verify."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
CALI (ANP) - Op de eerste dag na de inauguratie van de Colombiaanse president Abelardo de la Espriella is een politieagent om het leven gekomen bij een aanval op een politiebureau. Daarnaast vielen in de buurt van Cali, waar De la Espriella werd ingezworen, gewonden bij een aanslag met een autobom op een tolstation.
Volgens het leger zaten dissidenten van de ontbonden guerrillagroep FARC achter de aanslag in Cali. Zij hebben het historische vredesakkoord tussen de Colombiaanse regering en FARC uit 2016 verworpen.
Het is nog onduidelijk wie de aanval heeft gepleegd op het politiebureau in het noordelijke Cesar, waarbij drones met explosieven werden ingezet. Op sociale media schreef De la Espriella dat hij de dood van de politiemedewerker diep betreurt en de aanslag niet onbestraft zal blijven.
Tijdens zijn verkiezingscampagne beloofde De la Espriella om hard op te treden tegen drugskartels en gewapende groepen. Hij wil niet alleen de vredesgesprekken met gewapende rebellen beëindigen, maar ook door de Verenigde Staten gesteunde luchtaanvallen op de groeperingen uitvoeren.
