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Omar Artan, who would have been the first Somali referee at the World Cup finals, has been removed from the officials’ list after being denied entry to the United States. The 2025 CAF men's referee of the year was barred at Miami International Airport and is now in Turkey. U.S. immigration authorities have not given a reason for his repatriation; Somalia is among countries listed under a travel ban introduced by President Donald Trump’s administration.

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The Trump administration is establishing a quarantine facility in Kenya to house Americans exposed to Ebola during the current outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. An administration official confirmed the plan on Wednesday, noting that the move represents a significant change in protocol. In previous outbreaks, Americans exposed to the virus were typically flown back to the United States for quarantine and medical treatment.

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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has secured a place in November's runoff election, setting the stage for a crucial battle over the future leadership of America's second largest city. With votes still being counted following California's primary elections, Bass emerged as the leading candidate, although her eventual opponent remains uncertain.

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South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa has condemned recent violent protests and criminal acts targeting foreign nationals in parts of South Africa, warning that no individual or group has the right to take the law into their own hands.

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A Google software engineer has been arrested and charged with federal commodities fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering after allegedly using confidential, pre-publication company data to rig lucrative wagers on the blockchain-based prediction platform Polymarket. Federal prosecutors for the Southern District of New York unsealed a criminal complaint on Wednesday detailing how Michele Spagnuolo, a 36-year-old staff information security engineer, weaponized internal Google data to pocket $1.2 million in illicit profits.  

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Tesla's claim that its Full Self-Driving software is up to ten times safer than human drivers rests on deeply flawed statistical methodology, and the workers who train the technology say they wouldn't trust it to drive them, according to a major investigation published Wednesday by Reuters.