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Compensation Panel Details Sh96.9mn Payout to Protest Victims
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Compensation Panel Details Sh96.9mn Payout to Protest Victims

NAIROBI, Kenya, November 6 – The Panel of Experts on Compensation of Victims of Human Rights Violations has processed 157 verified claims valued at Sh96.95 million under Phase VII of its compensation programme. Chairperson and Principal Coordinator Prof. Makau Mutua reaffirmed the Panel’s commitment to ensuring that all eligible victims receive fair consideration.

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Tech barons cozied up to Trump. What will they do in newly blue America?
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Tech barons cozied up to Trump. What will they do in newly blue America?

Tech barons cozied up to Trump. Democrats’ success was helped by popular anger over tech, AI and the super rich – life for billionaires could become much more difficult The photo of Silicon Valley centi-billionaires at Donald Trump’s inauguration – Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg, front row and side by side – now looks like a hitlist for a blue Congress hellbent on making life difficult for billionaires.

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Winner of the Prix Goncourt literary prize admits to using AI
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Winner of the Prix Goncourt literary prize admits to using AI

Philippe Jaenada told French radio that he used ChatGPT to ‘play with the reader’, after the prize removed a different book from its longlist over allegations of AI use The winner of France’s most prestigious literary prize has admitted using artificial intelligence while writing his novel, barely a day after collecting an award whose jury had thrown out another book over suspected AI use. Philippe Jaenada, who won the Prix Goncourt on Tuesday for L’Inconnue du quai de Javel (The Unknown Woman of the Quai de Javel), told France Inter radio on Wednesday that he had turned to AI “three times” wh

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Letitia James appoints ex-prosecutor to lead Cornell sexual assault investigation
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Letitia James appoints ex-prosecutor to lead Cornell sexual assault investigation

Jacqueline Kelly, who took part in Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs case, will head criminal inquiry into 2024 incident at university The New York attorney general, Letitia James, has tapped a former prosecutor involved in the Sean “Diddy” Combs case to head a criminal investigation into 2024 sexual assault allegations at Cornell University. On Wednesday, James appointed Cornell alum Jacqueline Kelly to serve as outside counsel and lead a “fair and comprehensive criminal investigation”.

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