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UNESCO will consider 25 new candidates for inclusion on the World Heritage list, including the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia, sites linked to the life of Nelson Mandela in South Africa and Brazil's Lencois Maranhenses national park.

Most famously, in 2014, CrowdStrike discovered evidence linking North Korean actors to the hacking of servers at Sony Pictures. The hackers stole large amounts of data and threatened terrorist acts against movie theaters to prevent the release of "The Interview," a comedy about North Korea's leader.

Israel's decades-long occupation of the Palestinian territories is illegal and needs to end "as rapidly as possible."

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday received a standing ovation from senior British ministers on Friday.

A mass IT outage has hit companies around the world on Friday, including here in South Africa. International media reports say the problem's affecting Windows PCs. Issues have reported in the US and UK, with banks and broadcasters among those affected and taken offline. Here in South Africa, Capitec Bank is also having problems.

The most complete fossil was found in the same part of Brazil in 2014, leading to the identification of a new species with hooked claws, dubbed gnathovorax cabreirai.

US President Joe Biden tested positive for Covid with mild symptoms Wednesday, shortly after conceding he would consider dropping his reelection bid if doctors diagnosed him with a serious medical condition.

More than 200 Disneyland Resort employees protested outside the world-famous California theme park on Wednesday, calling for better wages and denouncing alleged anti-union practices by the company ahead of a looming strike vote. The protesters wearing costumes and a union pin featuring an image of Mickey Mouse's glove clenched in the shape of a fist, represent 14 000 Disney employees.

The government, which apologised in 2019, acknowledges that around 16,500 people including those with mental and physical disabilities were forcibly sterilised under the law that aimed to "prevent the generation of poor quality descendants".