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South Africa and Nigeria stepped security on Wednesday after deadly attacks on foreign-owned stores in Johannesburg triggered reprisal assaults on South African businesses in Nigerian cities. The centre of Johannesburg and the impoverished suburb of Alexandra were calm as police stepped up patrols following two days of looting, AFP reporters saw. Amid mounting concern for relations between South Africa and its neighbours and Nigeria -- the continent's most populous market -- President Cyril Ramaphosa reiterated his condemnation of the violence. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2HJPBp4 via Latest News

Android's latest zero-day flaw is still lacking a patch    The INQUIRER Huge Android Security Flaw Revealed: What to Do Now    Tom's Guide Zero-day privilege escalation disclosed for Android    Ars Technica Google's Shocking Decision To Ignore A Critical Android Vulnerability In Latest Security Update    Forbes Semi‑annual balance of mobile security 2019    We Live Security View full coverage on Google News from Technology - Latest - Google News https://ift.tt/2LlGNrz via Technology

Google Assistant Gets a New Ambient Mode, WhatsApp Video Call Support    Thurrott.com Google Assistant Gets a New Ambient Mode    Droid Life Google Assistant gets new 'Ambient Mode' for phones and tablets    Android Central Google’s Ambient Mode turns phone screens into Assistant-powered smart displays    Digital Trends View full coverage on Google News from Technology - Latest - Google News https://ift.tt/34vgSp1 via Technology

Google Assistant expands to new devices, debuts Ambient Mode on phones and tablets    Android Police Google Assistant’s Ambient Mode turns Android devices into smart displays    The Verge New Google Assistant Ambient Mode revealed    Android Authority View full coverage on Google News from Technology - Latest - Google News https://ift.tt/32BbVZF via Technology

A lawsuit was filed by two victims claiming that Walmart failed to have proper security in place to prevent the Aug. 3 mass shooting in El Paso. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Ljz0dz via Latest News

We are starting to learn more about some of the victims from Northern California from the dive boat fire in Southern California near Santa Cruz Island. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2NQZk0s via Latest News

Donald Trump presented an altered National Hurricane Centre map that expanded Hurricane Dorian’s official forecast so it would include Alabama, a state he incorrectly and repeatedly said would be hit by the storm.Speaking to media in the Oval Office on Wednesday, the president asked acting department of homeland security secretary Kevin McAleenan to retrieve a large map from behind him showing the hurricane’s potential path over the US after it pummelled the Bahamas throughout the week. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2zR8ORb via Latest News

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was first called "Moscow Mitch" in July by MSNBC host Joe Scarborough on on his "Morning Joe" show from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2ZJ4X7o via Latest News

U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Thursday he currently had no plan on his desk to seize the Iranian oil tanker Adrian Darya 1, which is at the center of a dispute between Tehran and Western powers. The vessel, formerly named Grace 1, was detained by British Royal Marine commandos off Gibraltar on July 4 as it was suspected to be en route to Syria in violation of European Union sanctions. "We do not talk about plans, but currently I have no plan right now sitting on my desk to do such a thing," Esper told reporters in London when asked if there was any plan to seize the ship. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2UG7SZH via Latest News

Donald Trump has directly contradicted Mike Pence by claiming he never suggested to his vice-president that he stay at one of his private golf resorts during an official trip to Ireland.Mr Pence drew criticism earlier this week when it emerged he was staying at the Trump International Golf Club in Doonbeg, despite the majority of his duties taking place nearly 180 miles away in Dublin. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2ZMvOzk via Latest News

Guatemala's government on Wednesday declared a state of siege in five northeastern provinces in an effort to regain control after three soldiers were killed by suspected drug traffickers, authorities said. Authorities will send more military and police personnel to Alta Verapaz, El Progreso, Izabal, Peten and Zacapa provinces, a drug-trafficking corridor that runs from the Honduran to Mexican borders. "These criminal groups operate throughout the region," Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales told a news conference. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2HPcrve via Latest News

Earlier today Samsung officially re-announced the Galaxy Fold, after having spent months fixing the issues that the original batch of reviews uncovered. Also today, Samsung decided to cancel all Galaxy Fold pre-orders in the US. You're not reading that wrong, the company hasn't started pre-orders, it canceled them. We're talking about the pre-orders that used to be available earlier this year, following the Fold's initial announcement, before all the problems came to light. The company has sent people who had pre-orders an email about the move, in which it explains that it is taking... from GSMArena.com - Latest articles https://ift.tt/30YlwJJ via IFTTT

Stocks soar after China commits to trade talks, easing recession fears    Yahoo Finance Stocks soared on Thursday amid reports that China will sit down for trade talks next month. Have fears of a recession now totally receded from the markets? from Technology - Latest - Google News https://ift.tt/2LnSz4D via Technology

Sony's 40th anniversary edition NW-A100TPS Walkman is peak nostalgia    Stuff Sony's 40th anniversary Walkman is a cassette-free nostalgia fail    Engadget Sony releases 40th anniversary Walkman at IFA    CNET Sony’s 40th-anniversary walkman is a digital music player with (expensive) analog style    Liliputing Sony’s colorful retro headphones are a match for its funky new Walkman    Digital Trends View full coverage on Google News from Technology - Latest - Google News https://ift.tt/2PNVPue via Technology

Google Assistant's Ambient Mode turns Android devices into smart displays    Engadget Here’s what’s happening to Google’s driving apps for Android 10, all three of them    The Verge Google Assistant Gets a New Ambient Mode    Droid Life Google Assistant expands to new devices, debuts Ambient Mode on phones and tablets    Android Police Lenovo has two new Android tablets w/ Google Assistant ‘Ambient Mode’ from $119    9to5Google View full coverage on Google News from Technology - Latest - Google News https://ift.tt/2ZP6k08 via Technology

Android Auto for Phone Screens app will be a ‘stopgap’ as Assistant Driving Mode delayed    9to5Google Yesterday, it emerged that Android Auto would be gaining a "Phone Screens" app even after Assistant Driving Mode. The Android Auto phone stopgap... View full coverage on Google News from Technology - Latest - Google News https://ift.tt/32zQJDF via Technology

Google unveils Assistant Ambient Mode for Android phones and tablets    9to5Google For the past several weeks, we've been tracking an “Ambient Mode” in the Google app. At IFA 2019, Google officially introduced the new Assistant Ambient ... View full coverage on Google News from Technology - Latest - Google News https://ift.tt/2PNoOyt via Technology

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Democracy, Winston Churchill once famously said, was the worst way to run a country “apart from all the others that have ever been tried.” Unfortunately, he did not make clear what kind of democracy he favored.Britain’s dreadful Brexit impasse has divided the country into roughly equal camps, both convinced democracy has been traduced. And they both have a point. What started as an argument over the European Union’s democratic deficit, and the way in which it encroached on Britain’s unwritten constitution, has degenerated into something more fundamental: an argument about the nature of democracy itself in the U.K.This crisis is in turn the bequest of generations of making minor tweaks to an unwritten constitution while avoiding the extremely difficult decisions needed to write a new one.  In the void, two forms of democracy are attempting to co-exist in Parliament -- representative democracy and direct democracy.On the one hand, ...

The vice-president’s comments on Brexit while visiting Ireland and his stay at his boss’s golf course did not go down wellVice-President Mike Pence arrives in Doonbeg to dine with relatives at a seafood restaurant. Photograph: Jacob King/PAMissteps during Mike Pence’s visit to Ireland that included controversial praise of the British prime minister, Boris Johnson, have led to accusations of betrayal and “humiliation”.One Irish Times columnist concluded that the vice-president, a “much-anticipated visitor”, turned out to have “shat on the … carpet”.Pence’s problems started with his decision to stay for two nights at Donald Trump’s golf resort in Doonbeg, County Clare, more than 140 miles from Dublin, necessitating costly and logistically complex travel. The move quickly drew fire from ethics experts and political rivals.The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, called Trump’s properties a “cesspool of corruption” and accused the president of “prioritizing his profits over the interests of the Am...

A satellite image taken Monday shows the floodwaters that engulfed Grand Bahama Island after Hurricane Dorian struck the Bahamas. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2PGJyrK via Latest News

ABUJA/JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African companies MTN and Shoprite closed stores in Nigeria on Wednesday in the face of attacks targeting their premises in retaliation to similar violence in their home country. Nigeria's vice president is also boycotting an economic forum in Cape Town on boosting intra-African trade, the country's foreign minister said, after days of rioting in South Africa aimed at foreign-owned businesses. At a Shoprite supermarket on the outskirts of the Nigerian capital Abuja, hundreds of protesters tried to break into the premises, throwing stones, setting fire to tires and nearly overwhelming police protecting the site. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2PHdyni via Latest News

Putin said he gave Trump the opportunity to buy new Russian weapons, including hypersonic missiles, supposedly to stop an arms race. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2NY2I9I via Latest News

Three sisters who were helping celebrate their father's birthday are thought to be among the 34 people killed when a diving boat caught fire off the coast of Southern California.Susana Rosas of Stockton, California, posted on social media that her three daughters, their father and stepmother were on board. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2LmcTDi via Latest News