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https://www.gadgets360.com/mobiles/news/xiaomi-14-ultra-launch-expected-timeline-camera-details-mwc-2024-4960351 Xiaomi 14 Ultra is expected to be unveiled soon. The model is likely to join the Xiaomi 14 and Xiaomi 14 Pro that were unveiled in October 2023. These handsets are expected to be introduced globally at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2024 which will be held in Barcelona from February 26 to February 29. The top-of-the-line Ultra model may be launched alongside the other Xiaomi 14 models at the same event. Several leaks and reports over the past few months have suggested several key features of the purported flagship phone. The latest leak also hints at the launch timeline as well as some camera specifications of the handset. Tipster Fixed Focus Digital (translated from Chinese) claimed in a Weibo post that the Xiaomi 14 Ultra is expected to launch in February. The timeline coincides with the MWC 2024 event, which has historically seen big launches from various smartphone makers. It is, therefore, likely that the Xiaomi 14 Ultra, expected to succeed the Xiaomi 13 Ultra, may be unveiled at a Xiaomi event during MWC 2024. The Xiaomi 14 and Xiaomi 14 Pro models, which have only been launched in China so far, are also likely to be introduced globally at the same time. The tipster added that the main rear camera of the Xiaomi 14 Ultra may support a variable aperture ranging between f/1.63 and f/4.0. Earlier leaks have suggested that the phone may feature a 50-megapixel Sony LYT-900 sensor with a f/1.6 lens as part of its primary camera. The rumoured quad rear camera system of the handset has also been tipped to include a 120mm periscope telephoto shooter and a Vario-Summilux 1:1.63-2.5/12-120 aspherical (ASPH) lens. The Xiaomi 14 Ultra has also been tipped to come with Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC, a 6.7-inch 2K AMOLED screen with 120Hz refresh rate, and a 5,180mAh battery with 90W wired and 50W wireless charging support. For security, the phone may also carry an ultrasonic in-display fingerprint sensor. Like other Xiaomi 14 handsets, the Ultra model will likely also ship with the company's new HyperOS skin on top of Android 14. Notably, the Xiaomi 13 Ultra is equipped with a Leica-tuned quad rear camera system which includes a 50-megapixel 1-inch IMX989 primary sensor, alongside three 50-megapixel IMX858 sensors. The front camera of the handset uses a 32-megapixel sensor.

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-01-app-indigenous-brazilians-languages.html For Indigenous communities in the Brazilian Amazon, getting online is a challenge. Now, a smartphone app is making it easier to connect by allowing them to use their own native languages. Hyper-connected Brazil has more cell phones than people—over 250 million, for a po[CENSORED]tion of 203 million, according to communications consultancy Teleco. But even when they have smartphones and internet connections, the sprawling country's 1.7 million Indigenous inhabitants have often been excluded from the connectivity revolution, since devices typically have keyboards in Brazilian Portuguese and not Indigenous languages. "Linklado," an app developed by two young friends from the Amazon region, offers a fix: It is a digital keyboard enabling native communities to write with the mix of Latin letters, bars, swoops, accents and other marks used in many Indigenous alphabets in Brazil. Launched in 2022, it is helping Indigenous users communicate with each other and the world, whether from far-flung villages deep in the Amazon or the cities and towns that dot the region. "Linklado has done so much good for Indigenous peoples, including me," says Cristina Quirino Mariano, 30, a member of the Ticuna people. "Before, we couldn't write on our phones. Now we can," she told AFP, speaking Portuguese, Brazil's official language. The original inhabitants of the land now known as Brazil had oral traditions before Portuguese colonizers arrived in the 16th century. When Europeans began writing down these languages, they denoted the different sounds by adapting the Latin alphabet with symbols known as "diacritics." Witoto Indigenous leader and teacher Vanda Witoto hopes the Linklado app will help 'save the Bure language,' which is spoken by her people. But these alphabets were unavailable on cell phones—until now. The situation "left Indigenous people sending audio messages on their phones, because they couldn't write exactly what they wanted to say," says Noemia Ishikawa, Linklado's project coordinator. The 51-year-old biologist had trouble getting her own research translated. "I spent 14 years complaining we needed a keyboard to fix this problem," she says. Four-day challenge Today, "the app works for every Indigenous language in the Amazon," around 40 in all, says Juliano Portela, who developed it with a friend, Samuel Benzecry, when he was just 17. Both natives of the Amazon region in northern Brazil, the pair are now studying in the United States. Benzecry, who knew about the difficulties some of their Indigenous neighbors had writing on their phones, enlisted Portela, a programming whiz, to find a solution. "At first, I was going to make a physical keyboard. But then I realized it wouldn't be practical, because some Indigenous people don't have computers," Portela told AFP. The Parque das Tribos neighborhood, where Indigenous people from 35 ethnic groups are currently living in Manaus, Brazil. "It took us four days to make the app. We had no idea it would be so fast." They began testing their creation in May 2022, then launched the official version that August. It has been downloaded more than 3,000 times since. But the number of users is higher. "A lot of Indigenous people are still using the test version we sent out on WhatsApp, which people forwarded to each other," Portela says. Getting paid to translate Linklado is free. But it offers an option for non-speakers to pay to have texts translated into Indigenous languages. The revenue-generating project is helping Indigenous women—who are often left out of Latin America's biggest economy—earn income with their knowledge of local languages. Rosilda Cordeiro da Silva, a 61-year-old Indigenous languages teacher, is part of the app's pool of translators. The Linklado app is enabling Brazil's native communities to write with the mix of Latin letters, bars, swoops, accents and other marks used in many Indigenous alphabets. "It's been very positive for me," she says. Having the digital keyboard, she adds, "has made me surer of myself when I translate." The app is also helping the effort to save Indigenous languages at risk of dying out. Vanda Witoto, a 35-year-old Indigenous activist, hopes it will help "save the Bure language, which is spoken by the Witoto people." "This keyboard means we don't have to use characters that don't belong to our language," she says. Beyond the Amazon, saving endangered languages is a global challenge. Fully half the world's languages—mostly Indigenous ones—are at risk of disappearing by the turn of this century, according to a 2018 report by the United Nations.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cryptocurrency/german-police-claim-largest-bitcoin-seizure-ever-more-than-dollar2-billion-recovered-in-ongoing-video-piracy-investigation German police confiscated over $2 billion worth of Bitcoins (BTC) during investigations into the movie2k.to pirate movie streaming site, according to a report from Der Speigel. This is the largest-ever currency seizure by German law enforcement according to Germany’s State Criminal Police Office (LKA). According to the Der Speigel report, 50,000 Bitcoins were secured by police in Saxony during the investigation of two men (aged 40 and 37) suspected of running a German portal for movie2k.to through May 2013 and squirreling away their profits as cryptocurrency. Remember — at that time, 50,000 BTC wasn’t worth anywhere near the $2 billion+ it is now. In 2013 BTC started the year valued at $13 and ended at about $750. If we say the funds were converted to BTC at a value of around $500, the 50,000 Bitcoins would have represented about $25 million in hidden loot. The two men currently under investigation seem to have been quizzed about “commercially unauthorized exploitation of copyrighted works under the copyright law and subsequent commercial money laundering,” reports Der Speigel. That’s legalese for 'making money from stolen movies and then hiding it.' Since the accused individuals seem to have ended their movie2k.to work in May 2013, it's possible they thought they'd gotten away with it. Pirate movie streaming portal movie2k.to is said to have hosted more than 880,000 illegally copied movies and TV shows between the fall of 2008 and May 2013. According to the source report, this isn’t the first large sum of money discovered as a result of investigations into the site. A programmer who worked on movie2k.to hand over $27 million in BTC to police while in pre-trial detention in 2020. Those funds were classified by police as “damage compensation.” But $2 billion is nearly 75 times that amount. A surprisingly broad range of governmental and legal organizations have worked together to progress the movie2k.to investigations and prosecutions. According to Der Speigel, the General Prosecutor's Office in Dresden, the state criminal office of Saxony, and the tax investigators from the tax office in Leipzig were supported by the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), as well as the FBI — yes, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Also probably playing an important role has been an “IT expert” company based in Munich. Investigation into movie2k.to is ongoing, and the prosecutor’s office says it is still looking for additional suspects.

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-01-bull-eye-bar-code.html Few objects in the world are more immediately recognizable than the bar code. After all, bar codes are all around us. They're on the books we buy and the packages that land on our doorsteps. More than 6 billion bar codes are scanned every single day. They've become such an accepted part of our daily lives that it's hard to imagine how they could look any different. I've researched various technologies throughout my career as a media studies professor, but it wasn't until I began writing my book about the cultural history of the bar code that I realized how even the most mundane objects in our lives look the way they do because of decisions that are mostly lost to history. When I began combing through the archive of bar code history at Stony Brook University, I realized just how close we came to a world where we scan bull's-eye or Sun symbols to buy our groceries. Our story begins in 1949, when Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver submitted a patent for the first bar code. That patent described the basic structure of using pairs of lines to represent numbers that is still used in bar code technology more than 70 years later. What their patent didn't include, however, was anything most people today would recognize as a bar code. In fact, the first bar code didn't include vertical lines at all. Instead, the world's first bar code used a series of concentric circles in the shape of a bull's-eye. Woodland and Silver initially struggled to get companies interested in their invention. But the bar code's fortunes began to change in 1960, when the engineer and physicist Theodore H. Maiman built the first working laser, which made it possible to quickly decode a bar code's line patterning. Not long afterward, in 1967, the railroad industry implemented Kartrak, which was the world's first official bar code system. Kartrak bar codes were developed to automatically identify rail cars as they moved past scanners, but they used a design of lines of varying colors that looks more like a piece of modern art than the bar codes we use today. But Kartrak struggled from the start—the system wasn't as accurate as people had hoped—and it stopped being used in the 1970s. Despite being the first bar code to be officially adopted by an industry, the multicolored design of the Kartrak symbol is now just a footnote in history. Around the same time Kartrak was launched, the grocery industry set in motion a chain of events that eventually resulted in the bar code we know today. In the late 1960s, various stores began bar code pilot projects that used vastly different types of bar code symbols. One of the symbols was the original bull's-eye bar code, which by that point was owned by RCA because it had purchased the patent rights. But other stores used symbols developed by other companies. For example, a company named Carecogn had developed a Sun symbol and the Litton company created a fan symbol that were part of pilot projects. The grocery industry soon realized that this Wild West period of experimentation couldn't last. Bar codes could work as a way to automate inventory and checkout only if everyone in the grocery industry agreed to use the same symbol. Otherwise, the system would be overly complex and expensive. So in 1971, the grocery industry formed a committee tasked with developing an industrywide data standard and choosing a symbol that stores would agree to adopt. The seven bar code symbol finalists displayed in the official internal reports of the symbol selection committee. The data standard the committee developed—the Universal Product Code—was designed to work with different types of bar code symbols. It's still in use 50 years later. The committee then had to choose the symbol. They solicited applications from various companies and narrowed the pool down to seven finalists. That was when the drama really began. The RCA submission was the early leader among the seven finalists. The bull's-eye bar code, after all, was the original bar code symbol, and RCA was a powerful company that had invested significant resources in developing the technology. RCA's main competitor was a latecomer to the battle for bar code dominance: the IBM symbol invented in the early 1970s by George Laurier. Between March 1971 and March 1973, the committee extensively tested the seven finalists, listened to pitches from each company and met multiple times to discuss the path forward. Throughout the process, RCA and IBM remained the front-runners, and in a somewhat ironic twist, Joseph Woodland—the "father of the bar code" and inventor of the bull's-eye symbol—advocated for the IBM symbol over his own invention. Realizing their symbol might not be selected, RCA began to pressure the committee and threatened to pull out of the bar code industry altogether if their bull's-eye bar code was not chosen as the industry standard. The committee's deadline to select a symbol was March 1973, and the decision went down to the wire. In its final meeting, the committee chose the IBM symbol despite concerns that, to quote the historian Stephen Brown, "by opting for the oversquare symbol instead of the bulls-eye, the Committee may have dramatically slowed the pace of implementation" because of RCA's pressure. The IBM symbol became the industry standard, and the very first Universal Product Code bar code was scanned at a grocery store in Troy, Ohio, on June 26, 1974. Rather remarkably, the IBM symbol the committee chose is still going strong almost 50 years later. The bar codes you scan at a grocery store are essentially the same bar codes someone would have scanned in the 1970s. Based on meeting notes from the symbol selection meetings, the committee members felt they were doing important work. But even in their wildest dreams, they could not have imagined how consequential their decision ended up being. The bar code design they selected became one of the most iconic images of capitalism and has inspired architects' building designs, symbolized dystopian conformity in science fiction, become a po[CENSORED]r tattoo and even inspired online fan communities. But the design that changed the world came remarkably close to being a forgotten piece of history. If a few grocery executives had voted a different way, we might be moving through a world filled with bull's-eyes.

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/handheld-gaming/onexplayer-x1-is-a-nintendo-switch-inspired-3-in-1-handheld-gaming-pc-with-meteor-lake-and-a-120hz-1600p-display One month after its original teaser, OneXPlayer unveiled a new handheld gaming PC dubbed the OneXPlayer X1. The device features three distinct modes of operation, setting it apart from more traditional 2-in-1 gaming devices. OneXPlayer is advertising the X1 as the world's first "large screen 3-in-1 handheld" gaming PC that features a laptop, tablet, and handheld mode inspired by the Nintendo Switch. The new handheld isn't available yet, but OneXPlayer offers a launch discount on its Indiegogo page for those interested in purchasing the new 3-in-1 device. Specs-wise, the handheld comes with Intel's brand-new Core Ultra 7 155H or Ultra 5 125H CPUs. These chips come with Intel's new bleeding-edge Meteor Lake CPU architecture that is more efficient than its previous Raptor Lake architecture. These new CPUs also come with Intel's most potent integrated graphics solutions, featuring the same Xe graphics architecture as Intel's higher-end A-series desktop GPUs. The Ultra 7 155H gets eight Xe cores, while the Ultra 5 125H gets seven. The OneXPlayer X1 also has high-speed memory and storage solutions, including LPDDR5x memory clocked at 7467MHz, and a M.2 2280 slot featuring PCIe Gen 4 speeds. Memory capacity can be configured as high as 64GB, while SSD capacity can be as high as the PCIe Gen 4 NVMe protocol allows for. The Best SSDs on the M.2 form factor top out at 8TB. OneXPlayer has opted for a large, high-resolution display compared to other handheld competitors like the Steam Deck. It measures just shy of 11 inches, and the screen resolution is 2560 x 1600 to keep pixel density as high as possible. Unsurprisingly, the screen refreshes at 120Hz, making it perfect for fast-paced games. Other specs include a Harmon AudioEFX system, detachable controllers (similar to the Switch), Thunderbolt 4, Oculink, USB 4, and a 65.02-watt-hour battery featuring 100W rapid charging. As previously stated, the bread and butter of this new handheld is its "3-in-1" functionality, featuring dedicated laptop, tablet, and handheld gaming modes. In laptop mode, the device functions like a Surface clone, featuring a Surface-like stand and keyboard for playing regular PC games (with a mouse) or getting work done. The stand folds in in Tablet mode, and the keyboard can be detached for tablet use. For handheld use, the X1 features a pair of controller grips that attach to the right and left of the screen, mimicking consoles like the Nintendo Switch. Alternatively, you can also plug the two grips into a centerpiece, turning the grips into a standalone gaming controller. Availability has not been announced at this time, but based on the manufacturer's launch discount, it appears the OneXPlayer X1 could arrive at any time.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-67929003 Lord David Cameron has said he is "worried" Israel may have broken international law in Gaza. The foreign secretary said he regularly consulted government lawyers over incidents in the war, but refused to say whether the legal advice suggested Israel had acted illegally. Lord Cameron stressed the government had not changed its support for Israel. Since the outbreak of war following Hamas' attack on 7 October, over 23,000 Palestinians have been killed. The Hamas-run health ministry says more than 59,000 Palestinians have been injured. Why are Israel and Hamas fighting in Gaza? Israel says war expected to continue throughout 2024 Israel declared war on Hamas after the group led a massive attack on communities inside Israel, killing about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking some 240 others back to Gaza as hostages. Israel is also fighting a claim from South Africa that it is committing "genocidal" acts in Gaza at the International Court of Justice. Lord Cameron said he did not agree with South Africa's claim. Speaking during his first grilling by MPs since joining the House of Lords, the former prime minister said: "I don't think that is helpful, I don't agree with it, I don't think it's right". During a tense exchange with SNP MP Brendan O'Hara, Lord Cameron said he has seen things "deeply concerning" during the crisis but did not directly criticise the country's actions. He called on Israel to allow in more humanitarian aid and restore water supplies to northern Gaza. The Israeli military have conducted air strikes on Gaza, and launched a ground offensive But Lord Cameron repeatedly side-stepped questions on whether he had seen legal advice suggesting Israel had breached international law, telling the foreign affairs committee "I don't want to answer that question". He said: "If you're asking me am I worried that Israel has taken action that might be in breach of international law because this particular premises has been bombed or whatever? "Yes, of course I'm worried about that, and that's why I consult the Foreign Office lawyers when giving this advice on arms exports." But he hinted that government lawyers had not suggested international law had been broken. He told MPs the legal advice he had seen was "consistent with the fact we have not changed" rules on exporting weapons to Israel. Tory MP Bob Seely put it to Lord Cameron that he had seen legal advice suggesting the Israeli government is "vulnerable to a challenge from the Hague court and from elsewhere that in some of the things they are doing in, potentially, in relation to proportionality, there is a vulnerability." "It's close to that," Lord Cameron replied. Action in Israel Downing Street later said Israel needs to "act carefully" and avoid risking further escalation in its war with Hamas. Asked if Rishi Sunak shares Lord Cameron's concerns about whether Israel has been acting within international law, the prime minister's official spokesman said: "It is an issue we continue to keep under review and obviously we have made our views clear to the Israeli government at a number of levels on this." The spokesman added: "Fundamentally, though, we recognise that it is Israel that is responding to a terror attack, first and foremost." Two British nationals are still being held hostage by Hamas as heavy bombardment and fighting continues to shake the region, Lord Cameron told the committee. Asked if he knew if the hostages are alive, Lord Cameron said: "I just don't want to say any more. We don't have any information to share with you." During a ceasefire in November, 105 hostages were released by Hamas. Lord Cameron's comments come as US secretary of state Antony Blinken held talks in Israel seeking to set a plan for Gaza's post-war future. Mr Blinken has called for winding down of the Israeli military campaign in Gaza to reduce regional tensions. US officials have called for the Palestinian Authority, which governs parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, to take over in Gaza and for negotiations to resume on the creation of a Palestinian state.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c03y22p0712o An animal welfare charity said it had seen a huge increase in the number of pets being abandoned as owners struggled to care for them because of the cost of living crisis. Last year Raystede, in Ringmer, East Sussex, had 4,500 requests to take in pets - a record for the centre. It is now full with a growing waiting list and the charity is urging people to come forward to provide homes for the animals in their care. A manager at the centre described the situation as "really tricky" and a "perfect storm". In 2023 the centre was asked to take in more than 900 cats - up 30% on the previous year. It has just 40 spaces at the cattery. Amber Tipler, cattery manager, said: "We're seeing surrender requests coming in every day for cats and kittens and unfortunately we can't help everybody. "We do have to prioritise the most urgent cases. Quite often that will be if owners are being made homeless or they simply can't afford the veterinary care for their cats anymore. "It's a really tricky situation. I think in the pandemic a lot of people got cats and now it's created the perfect storm with the cost of living crisis." Raystede is promoting a fostering scheme for animals as its centre is full Stephanie Smith, the charity's chief executive, said: "The cost of living crisis and the increase in energy costs have made things really difficult. "People are finding it more and more difficult to care for their animals." The centre is appealing for people to come forward who think they can rehome an animal, either permanently or temporarily, through their fostering scheme. As part of the scheme the centre provides an enclosure, bedding, food and veterinary costs.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/67922633 Nottingham Forest's Harry Toffolo says he feared his career had been ended by his history of betting and that it "inspired" him to help others with gambling and mental health problems. The 28-year-old defender was given a suspended five-month ban in September for 375 breaches of betting rules. The independent commission that heard the case found bets were made when his "mental health was at a very low ebb". "I felt like I lost everything", said Toffolo when reflecting on the charges. "It was 100% the most difficult part of not just my career, but of my life. "It scares me because I was in the last year of my contract and I thought the dream I worked so hard to get was over. "I was thinking my career is going to be over because of what happened six to nine years ago, which came back to sting me." Listen to Harry Toffolo on BBC Radio Nottingham's Shut Up And Show More Football podcast Toffolo said the decision of the Football Association's independent regulatory commission to hand him a fine of almost £21,000 and a suspended ban was "the light at the end of the tunnel" after five months of uncertainty. "When I got that email sent through from the FA [outlining breaches], I dropped on the floor and had a full-on panic attack," Toffolo told BBC Radio Nottingham. "I recognised the user names, but I didn't recognise those bets. I can't remember placing them, but they are me. I don't identify myself with the person on that Excel spreadsheet. "I was mortified and ashamed of them. "My kids will never forget the day they saw their daddy cry." It was last April that the former Millwall, Lincoln and Huddersfield full-back first learned of the investigation into his betting breaches, which related to his time at Norwich City and took in loan spells at Swindon, Rotherham, Peterborough and Scunthorpe between 2014 and 2017. Toffolo placed 15 bets against his own team at the time, the majority of which were accumulators. He also placed two 25p bets on himself to score in the League One play-off final in 2015, which his Swindon team lost 4-0 against Preston. 'I boxed it away' It was not until he joined Lincoln in 2018 that Toffolo said he became aware that players were prohibited from betting on football. He told the commission that before moving to the Imps, he felt betting would help him "fit in" with senior players. In an interview with BBC East Midlands Today, Toffolo said "it was how football was back then" and many lacked the same awareness at the time. The "considerable time" between the breaches and his charges, Toffolo's show of "genuine remorse", openness about his betting, details of his mental health battles at the time of the bets and offer to help the FA educate players about gambling were all factors taken into consideration by the commission. Toffolo told BBC East Midlands Today he grew up with feelings of anxiety, and in his defence he explained that he dealt with periods of "loneliness" and grappled with depression during spells out on loan. "I have a lot of respect for the independent panel for listening to my story and taking everything into account," Toffolo said. "But I don't hold any grudges because I put myself in this position. "It's a part of my life I boxed away because I hated that person - I hated everything about that person and I didn't want anything associated with that person." Toffolo's suspended ban came in the same year that Brentford striker Ivan Toney and Newcastle midfielder Sandro Tonali were banned for eight and 10 months respectively for also breaching betting rules. It was also a year in which top-flight English clubs reached an agreement to withdraw gambling sponsorships from the front of match shirts by the end of the 2025-26 season. Then in December, an influential group of MPs said the Premier League and other sports governing bodies "should commit to cutting the volume" of gambling adverts in stadiums. 'I now feel more complete than ever' Since his case was settled, Toffolo has gone on to start regularly for Forest in the Premier League, and was last week appointed an ambassador of Tricky to Talk - a Forest community trust programme aimed at getting people to speak openly about their mental health. Earlier in January, Toffolo had his Forest contract extended beyond this season. "Some people might get down by it [the disciplinary process], but I feel like I have more energy from it," Toffolo said. "I feel strong, but I also feel a sense of responsibility now to try help and hope it never happens again to anybody else. "It's now down to me as a person to say 'what can I do to help, how can I protect my children from putting them in this position?', I feel inspired by it. "Every day for five months it was just about getting through them one by one. "I got through it and my career has never been at such a high than it has been in the past two or three months. "I feel the most complete I have ever felt in my life at this moment in time, on the basis that I feel I have almost nothing to lose because I thought I had lost everything. "I feel extremely humbled that I have the opportunity to keep playing. "I just go out there and I fight for the fans and fight for my family because I'm sitting here now and I'm extremely grateful to even have this opportunity to talk about it."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-67934609 The Somali armed Islamist group al-Shabab has seized a United Nations helicopter, along with about eight passengers and its crew, a senior official has told the BBC. The helicopter landed in territory controlled by the group in part of central Somalia. Some reports said it had been forced to make an emergency landing, while others said the landing was a mistake. Al-Shabab controls much territory in southern and central Somalia. The group is affiliated to al-Qaeda and has waged a brutal insurgency since 2006. The Somali armed Islamist group al-Shabab has seized a United Nations helicopter, along with about eight people, both passengers and crew, local sources have told the BBC. The helicopter landed in territory controlled by the group in central Somalia. Some reports said it had been forced to make an emergency landing, while others said the landing was a mistake. Al-Shabab controls large parts of southern and central Somalia. The group is affiliated to al-Qaeda and has waged a brutal insurgency for nearly 20 years. Africa Live: Updates on this and other stories from the continent The seizure of the helicopter was confirmed to the BBC by Galmudug region Security Minister Mohamed Abdi Adan. Several foreigners and two locals were on the helicopter, Somali military official Major Hassan Ali told Reuters news agency. "It was also carrying medical supplies and it was supposed to transport injured soldiers from Galgudud region," he was quoted as saying. The helicopter was heading to Wisil town near the frontlines of an offensive against al-Shabab by government forces when it landed. The UN has not yet commented. The Somali government has in recent months intensified its fight against the al-Qaeda-linked group.

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