Senior US official says that dozens of telecoms providers around the world have been targeted as China slams cybersecurity ‘slander’. Chinese hackers have stolen the metadata of a large number of Americans in a wide-ranging cyber-espionage campaign that has targeted at least eight United States telecom firms, as well as dozens of other countries, officials say. Deputy national security adviser Anne Neuberger said on Wednesday that the hacking...

On his way home from the market, Birhane noticed a group of younger kids kicking a piece of scrap metal. He recognised them from when they had gone to school together before COVID-19. That was also before the devastating armed conflict between the Ethiopian defence forces and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front shattered his hopes of getting a complete education. Overcoming the disappointment of quitting school early, the...