I am being used as scapegoat - academic who mined Facebook data
Cambridge University researcher Aleksandr Kogan says he is being unfairly blamed by Facebook and Cambridge Analytica
The academic at the centre of Facebook’s data breach claims he has been made a scapegoat by the social network and Cambridge Analytica, the firm that acquired the information.
Aleksandr Kogan, a Moldovan-born researcher from Cambridge University, harvested the personal details of 50 million Facebook users via a personality app he developed.
Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie told the Observer that the data Kogan obtained was used to influence the outcome of the US presidential election, a charge the firm denies.
Flight MH17: Ukrainian pilot falsely accused by Russia of shooting down passenger plane 'kills himself'
Two-year investigation concluded passenger plane had been destroyed by a Russian Buk missile
A Ukrainian pilot falsely accused by Russia of shooting down Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 in 2014 has reportedly killed himself.
Captain Vladyslav Voloshyn, who piloted a low-flying Su-25 attack jet, shot himself at home in Mykolaiv, his hometown in southern Ukraine, local media said.
Russian officials and media had accused Mr Voloshyn of flying the jet which shot down the Boeing 777 passenger plane, killing all 298 people on board.
However, a two-year Dutch investigation concluded the plane had been destroyed by a Russian Buk missile.
Nigeria: Kidnapped schoolgirls 'freed' by Boko Haram
Some of the 110 schoolgirls abducted by Islamist militants in Nigeria last month have returned home, according to reports. The girls were taken by Boko Haram from the town of Dapchi.
An unknown number of the 110 girls who were kidnapped by Boko Haram Islamist militants on February 19 have been taken back to their home town of Dapchi, witnesses said.
"The girls have been brought back. They were brought in nine vehicles and dropped outside the school at about 8:00 am (0700 GMT)," said Bashir Manzo, who heads a group set up to support parents whose children were abducted, according to French press agency AFP.
South Korean President Moon hints at three-way US, North Korea talks
Updated 0648 GMT (1448 HKT) March 21, 2018
South Korean President Moon Jae-in has teased the possibility of a three-way meeting between the United States, North Korea and South Korea, if a series of upcoming summits is successful.
Speaking after a meeting of the Inter-Korean Summit Preparatory Committee on Wednesday, Moon said negotiations were continuing ahead of the "historic talks" planned for next month with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.
Moon is expected to meet with Kim in April, the first time the North Korean leader has publicly met with a foreign head of state.
Israel confirms bombing 'Syria nuclear reactor' in 2007
After more than a decade of secrecy, Israel has confirmed it has conducted a 2007 military raid on what was believed to be a Syrian nuclear reactor.
The Israeli army said a total of eight F-16 and F-15 fighter jets bombed a Syrian nuclear facility in Deir Az Zor, 450km north of Damascus, in a stealth operation that lasted four hours overnight on September 5 to 6, 2007.
The attack, dubbed "Out of the Box" by Israel's military command, was long known to have occurred but was kept under an 11-year gag order forbidding Israeli media to publish details on the operation.
THE BATTLE FOR PARADISE
Puerto Ricans and Ultrarich “Puertopians” Are Locked in a Pitched Struggle Over How to Remake the Island
Naomi Klein
A Solar Oasis
Just off the main square, a large, pink colonial-style house had light shining through every window. It glowed like a beacon in the terrifying darkness.
The pink house was Casa Pueblo, a community and ecology center with deep roots in this part of the island. Twenty years ago, its founders, a family of scientists and engineers, installed solar panels on the center’s roof, a move that seemed rather hippy-dippy at the time. Somehow, those panels (upgraded over the years) managed to survive Maria’s hurricane-force winds and falling debris. Which meant that in a sea of post-storm darkness, Casa Pueblo had the only sustained power for miles around.
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