#whistleblower

#whistleblower

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New Zealand has joined the growing list of countries and jurisdictions that have banned from certain government devices.Unlike elsewhere, the restriction doesn't apply to all government employees.It's limited to devices that have access to New Zealand's parliamentary network, though the country's defense force and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said they've banned TikTok on work devices too.

Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission officials helped themselves to some of the rarest whiskeys and spirits in the state, according to an internal investigation first covered by the Oregonian.The paper obtained the investigation via a public records request and found that for years commission employees have set aside bottles of Pappy Van Winkle - a famously expensive whiskey, often sold for a few hundred dollars legally, depending on the bottle, and in the thousands per bottle illegally - for themselves.

The Ontario government says Kiska, the last captive killer whale in Canada, has died.A spokesperson for the solicitor general says Marineland the Niagara Falls, Ont., theme park where Kiska lived told the province she died on Thursday.Brent Ross says the province's Animal Welfare Services officers were on-site as Marineland performed a necropsy.

In a major development for high school football in the suburbs, football powerhouse Maine South High School's robust 2022 football season results were invalidated by the Illinois High School Association, which announced the sanctions Wednesday saying the Park Ridge school had used players who were ineligible because they lived outside the attendance boundaries.

Asylum-seeking children have gone missing from Home Office hotels more than 400 times since July 2021, a minister has admitted.Robert Jenrick, minister for immigration, told the Commons on Tuesday that cases were being treated in exactly the same way as any young person who goes missing, but MPs raised concerns that nothing is happening to find those being kidnapped by gangs.

Usernames and email addresses belonging to more than 200 million Twitter users have been posted online by hackers.According to reports from security researchers and media outlets including BleepingComputer, the credentials were compiled from a number of earlier Twitter breaches dating back to 2021.Although the database does not include users' passwords, it nevertheless represents a security threat to those affected.

The Weekly by Bitcoin.comInvestment management firm Ark Invest has offered three bitcoin price predictions in a new report, including a bull scenario where bitcoin could reach $1.48 million per coin.In other news, a 7zip file possibly linked to activist Julian Assange was reportedly discovered in the Bitcoin blockchain, and billionaire investor Tim Draper has encouraged the government of Sri Lanka to adopt bitcoin.

On Nov. 25, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in terms of daily trade volume, Binance, published its bitcoin proof-of-reserves (POR) system using The Merkle approach.At the time of writing, the snapshot provided by Binance shows the firm's onchain reserves equate to 582,485 bitcoin, while the company's customer net balance is roughly 575,742 bitcoin.

The Home Office is investigating reports that dozens of asylum-seeking children have been kidnapped by gangs from a hotel run by the department, a minister has said.Conservative frontbencher Lord Murray of Blidworth said the Home Office doesn't know of any cases of kidnap and he understood nothing like that has been reported to it.

Dozens of asylum-seeking children have been kidnapped by gangs from a Brighton hotel run by the Home Office in a pattern apparently being repeated across the south coast, an Observer investigation can reveal.A whistleblower, who works for Home Office contractor Mitie, and child protection sources describe children being abducted off the street outside the hotel and bundled into cars.

Children seeking asylum are being abducted in their dozens from Home Office hotels, an investigation has claimed.The vulnerable children - who are in the UK without parents or carers- are allegedly being kidnapped from the streets outside of the Brighton hotel, a whistleblower who works for Home Office contractor Mitie told The Observer.

Three teachers at a nursery school in central Japan have been arrested on suspicion of routinely abusing toddlers, including hitting their heads, holding them upside down and locking them up in a bathroom, in a case that has triggered outrage and allegations of a cover-up.he Shizuoka prefectural police said they arrested three women on Sunday on suspicion of assaulting at least three toddlers in June at a nursery school in the city of Susono at the foot of Mount Fuji.

Police have arrested three teachers at a nursery school in central Japan on suspicion they routinely abused toddlers, including hitting their heads, holding them upside down and locking them up in a bathroom, in a case that has triggered outrage and allegations of a cover-up.Shizuoka prefectural police said they arrested three women on Sunday on suspicion of assaulting at least three children in June at a nursery school in the city of Susono, at the foot of Mount Fuji.

Susono Mayor Harukaze Murata, left, and vice mayor, right, bow during a press conference at the city hall in Susono, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, Monday, Dec. 5, 2022.Japanese police said Monday that they have arrested three teachers at a nursery school in central Japan on suspicion they routinely abused toddlers, such as hitting their heads, holding them upside down and locking them up in a bathroom, a case that triggered outrage across the nation.

Mother-of-two Rebecca Ikumelo, 33, and security guard Gaby Hutchinson, 23, died in hospital after a crush at the venue in December.They were at the Academy for a gig by Afro pop star Asake where witnesses described hundreds of people trying to get into the show despite the venue already being packed.

Some security guards working at the venue where a deadly crowd crush took place accepted bribes from concertgoers without tickets, it has been alleged.Security guard Gaby Hutchinson, 23, and mother-of-two Rebecca Ikumelo, 33, were fatally injured when fans without tickets tried to enter an Asake concert at the O2 Academy in Brixton last month.