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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Helen Livingstone |Joe Coughlan |Cecilia Nowell |Tom Ambrose |Manisha Ganguly |Peter Walker | +6 more
An Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) photograph shows rescuers working at the site of an airstrike on a residential area in Tehran, Iran on Tuesday Photograph: Iranian Red Crescent Society Handout/EPA An Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) photograph shows rescuers working at the site of an airstrike on a residential area in Tehran, Iran on Tuesday Photograph: Iranian Red Crescent Society Handout/EPA Cecilia Nowell (now); Tom Ambrose, Joe Coughlan and Helen Livingstone (earlier) Tue 17 Jun...
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1 month ago | 
aol.co.uk | Lorenzo Tondo |Manisha Ganguly
Four people have died as hundreds of Palestinians stormed a United Nations warehouse in Gaza, tearing away sections of the building’s metal walls in a desperate attempt to find food. Two people were fatally crushed, and two others died of gunshot wounds after the crowd burst into the World Food Programme warehouse in central Gaza on Wednesday afternoon, health officials said. It was not immediately clear if Israeli forces, private contractors or others had opened fire.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Lorenzo Tondo |Manisha Ganguly |Lucy Swan |Laure Boulinier |Elena Morresi
Four people have died as thousands of Palestinians burst into a United Nations warehouse in Gaza, tearing away sections of the building’s metal walls in a desperate attempt to find food. Two people were fatally crushed and two others died of gunshot wounds after the crowd forced its way into the World Food Programme warehouse in Deir al-Balah on Wednesday afternoon, health officials said. It was not immediately clear if Israeli forces, private contractors or others had opened fire.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Manisha Ganguly |Michael Safi
Viktoriia Roshchyna, a Ukrainian journalist known as Vika, was determined to report on Russia’s “black sites”. “These ‘black sites’, they’re not prisons; there’s no control on behaviour there,” Juliette Garside, an editor at the Guardian, tells Michael Safi. “So it’s where we know that some of the worst war crimes, the worst human rights abuses, take place. “These are sites where largely civilians, anyone captured by the Russians, are held, often tortured.
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1 month ago | 
rsn.org | Manisha Ganguly |Shaun Walker |Pjotr Sauer |Tetyana Nikolayenko
ALSO SEE: Ukraine, US Sign Minerals Deal Sought by Trump
Russia is holding an estimated 16,000 civilians in arbitrary detention at 180 separate facilities. Taganrog was the most notorious. Some weeks after being detained as she attempted to leave a Russian-occupied part of Ukraine in January 2023, Yelyzaveta Shylyk was given a polygraph test.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Shaun Walker |Manisha Ganguly |Artem Mazhulin |Pjotr Sauer |Lucy Swan
Some weeks after being detained as she attempted to leave a Russian-occupied part of Ukraine in January 2023, Yelyzaveta Shylykwas given a polygraph test. As her interrogators attached the lie detector’s wires to her, they calmly issued a threat about what would happen if she failed the test: “You’ll go to a place where you’ll regret being born.”That place, she would later find out, had a name: Sizo number 2, a pre-trial detention centre in the southern Russian city of Taganrog.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
biorxiv.org | Shakilur Rahman |Ayush Bhattacharya |Manisha Ganguly |Prerona Jana
AbstractMelioidosis, also known as Whitmore's disease, is caused by the deadly pathogen Burkholderia pseudomallei and remains a significant global health concern, particularly in South Asia. The disease is contracted through exposure to contaminated soil, water, air, and food. Infected individuals often present with abscesses in internal organs such as the lungs, spleen, and liver, and in soft tissues, with severe cases leading to septic shock and acute pneumonia.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Manisha Ganguly
The well-groomed young man dressed in a crisp, blue shirt speaking with a soft American accent seems an unlikely supporter of the junta leader of the west African state of Burkina Faso. “We must support … President Ibrahim Traoré … Homeland or death we shall overcome!” he says in a video that began circulating in early 2023 on Telegram. It was just a few months after the dictator had come to power via a military coup.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Manisha Ganguly |Christopher Cherry |David Levene |Laurence Topham
Dictatorships around the world have used AI technology and fake newsreaders to create disinformation videos. In an exclusive interview for the Guardian, investigations correspondent Manisha Ganguly speaks to actor and model Dan Dewhirst who explains how he became the unwitting participant in a deepfake video for an authoritarian regime
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Matteo Fagotto |Manisha Ganguly |Philip McMahon |Andrew Roth |Oliver Laughland | +3 more
This week we are revisiting the Black Box series. This episode was first broadcast on 7 March 2024. For the past six months, the Guardian journalist Michael Safi has been trying to find out who is behind an AI company that creates deepfakes. These deepfakes are causing havoc around the world, with police and lawmakers baffled about how to deal with them. And in trying to answer one question, he has been left with a bigger one: is AI going to make it impossible to sort fact from fiction?
