Botched strike is latest incident to raise questions about lack of accountability for civilian deaths from US strikes.The United States Department of Defense has acknowledged that a drone strike in Syria, initially said to have successfully targeted an al-Qaeda leader, actually killed ...
READ MORE +Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says firm will provide education and training to 200,000 people.Microsoft will invest $2.2bn in artificial intelligence and cloud infrastructure in Malaysia to support the country’s digital transformation, the tech giant has said, following similar ...
READ MORE +As the war enters its 798th day, these are the main developments.Here is the situation on Thursday, May 2, 2024. FightingOdesa Regional Governor Oleh Kiper said at least 14 people were injured after Russia struck a postal depot with a ballistic missile triggering a large fire. ...
READ MORE +US secretary of state says a deal is achievable as he makes another diplomatic push to pause the fighting in Gaza.US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says a strong proposal for a truce in Israel’s war on Gaza is on the table as he makes his seventh visit to the Middle East since fighting ...
READ MORE +On April 13, the naval forces of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps seized a Portuguese-flagged container ship, the MSC Aries, in the Strait of Hormuz and detained its crew. The vessel is operated by Swiss-based Mediterranean Shipping Company, which is leasing it from ...
READ MORE +Some 30 people are being treated in hospital after they were trapped in their vehicles when the road caved in early on Wednesday morning.At least 19 people have been killed after part of a highway collapsed in southern China’s Guangdong province.State broadcaster CCTV reported a ...
READ MORE +The founder of cryptocurrency firm, Binance, was sentenced to four months in US prison on Tuesday after pleading guilty to money laundering charges, in the most high-profile crypto case since Sam Bankman-Fried was jailed. Changpeng Zhao, a Canadian, resigned from his post at the world’s largest ...
READ MORE +The crackdown in Tbilisi comes after lawmakers debated a controversial bill on foreign funding.Police in Georgia have used tear gas and rubber bullets against protesters as thousands rallied outside parliament in Tbilisi for a third week to oppose a controversial “foreign influence” ...
READ MORE +As the war enters its 797th day, these are the main developments.Here is the situation on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. FightingAt least three people were killed and three injured after a Russian missile struck the Ukrainian port city of Odesa early on Wednesday. At least one man ...
READ MORE +The move comes after the UK said it would bring forward legislation to block such state-backed takeover deals in media.An Abu Dhabi-backed group planning to take over Britain’s Telegraph Media Group (TMG) has said it will withdraw after the UK government moved to block the deal. ...
READ MORE +Meta defends risk mitigation process after EU says the companies efforts at moderating content was ‘insufficient’.The European Commission has launched a disinformation probe against social media giant Meta.The EU announced the investigation into the operator of Facebook and ...
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Patna, Bihar – Sanjeev Kumar is 27 and jobless – a desperate situation compounded by his car salesman father’s imminent retirement in a few years.The business studies graduate from Patna, the capital of the eastern Indian state of Bihar, voted for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya ...
READ MORE +The Government will begin the process to change Ireland's "triple lock" neutrality system today.Tánaiste Micheál Martin will seek approval to draft a bill that would change how Defence Forces are sent on peacekeeping missions overseas.Currently, the triple-lock mechanism only allows ...
READ MORE +(CHARLOTTE, N.C.) — Three officers on a U.S. Marshals Task Force serving a warrant for a felon wanted for possessing a firearm were killed and five other officers were wounded in a shootout Monday at a North Carolina home, police said.The officers were first shot at by the wanted suspect as ...
READ MORE +On April 4, the state legislature in Virginia voted to amend state law, raising the marriage age to 18. A couple of days later, Governor Glenn Youngkin signed this measure into law.Coming amid Sexual Assault Awareness Month in the US, this vote was an important victory for child rights. ...
READ MORE +Israeli media reports say the International Criminal Court might soon issue arrest warrants for senior Israeli government and military officials.Israeli officials are growing wary that they could face prosecution by the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the war in Gaza.After ...
READ MORE +By Ogaga Ariemu The Chinese Premier Li Qiang told Elon Musk, Tesla CEO, that the Chinese market is always open to foreign-funded firms. China’s number Two official disclosed this on Sunday after an unannounced meeting in Beijing with Musk, who doubled as the Executive Chairman of X. “China’s ...
READ MORE +What just happened? Ring, the smart home security company owned by Amazon, found itself in the crosshairs of the Federal Trade Commission back in 2023 over some serious privacy missteps. Now, over twelve months later, the commission is sending $5.6 million in refunds to customers as part of the ...
READ MORE +NEW YORK — Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer said Saturday that the onetime movie mogul has been hospitalized for a battery of tests after his return to New York City following an appeals court ruling nullifying his 2020 rape conviction. Attorney Arthur Aidala said Weinstein was moved to ...
READ MORE +The influencer, who had hundreds of thousands of followers, had been sentenced to six months in prison last year.An Iraqi TikTok star, known to hundreds of thousands of online followers as Om Fahad, has been shot dead in a late-night attack outside her home in eastern Baghdad’s ...
READ MORE +By Seun Opejobi The British monarch, King Charles III, will resume his public duties next week following a three-month break to focus on his treatment and recuperation. A few months ago, the British monarch was diagnosed with an undisclosed type of cancer and has been receiving treatment. ...
READ MORE +Doctors wrote the words “the baby of the martyr Sabreen al-Sakani”, on a piece of tape and attached it to the infant before placing her in an incubator.The little girl, also called Sabreen, was in severe respiratory distress and weighed just 1.4kg when medics delivered her through a ...
READ MORE +The first woman slated to launch to the moon has delivered one of the first trees grown from seeds recently flown there.NASA astronaut Christina Koch presented a loblolly pine "Moon Tree" sapling to her home state of North Carolina on Wednesday (April 24). The tree began as one of more ...
READ MORE +SNP leader says ‘confident’ to win vote as pressure builds following decision to end coalition deal with the Greens.Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf has said he intends to fight a vote of no confidence following his decision to withdraw from a coalition agreement and try to run ...
READ MORE +By Sunny Green Itodo A rapper, Toomaj Salehi, has been sentenced to death by an Iranian court for supporting anti-hijab protests. The rapper has been jailed for more than a year and half over his backing of the wave of demonstrations sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, who died days after she ...
READ MORE +Former United States President Donald Trump saw two of the four criminal cases against him move forward on Thursday.In New York, Trump was again in court in a case connected to hush money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, in ...
READ MORE +By Abby Sewell | Associated PressISTANBUL — A top Hamas political official told The Associated Press the Islamic militant group is willing to agree to a truce of five years or more with Israel and that it would lay down its weapons and convert into a political party if an independent ...
READ MORE +Defence and prosecution prepare for retrial of the once-powerful movie producer in a case that was a landmark for the #MeToo movement.New York’s highest court has overturned disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 conviction for rape and sexual assault, highlighting the ...
READ MORE +By Sunny Green Itodo The President of the United States, Joe Biden, has signed into law a bill seeking to ban social media app, TikTok. The bill which was earlier passed by the U.S. Congress requires TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app within nine months, or face a ban ...
READ MORE +Website announces bankruptcy amid multiple defamation lawsuits related to 2020 presidential election.Gateway Pundit, a far-right outlet known for promoting the conspiracy theory that the 2020 US presidential election was rigged, has declared bankruptcy as it battles a string of ...
READ MORE +Sanchez says he will make an announcement on his political future next week.Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has said he will halt his public duties after a judicial investigation was launched into corruption allegations against his wife.The Socialist leader said on Wednesday ...
READ MORE +Food insecurity worsened around the world in 2023, with about 282 million people suffering from acute hunger due to conflicts, particularly in Gaza and Sudan, according to United Nations agencies and development groups.Extreme weather events and economic shocks added to the number of ...
READ MORE +Kyiv, Ukraine – Natalya Brovko doesn’t believe that Ukraine will be whole again.In recent months, Ukrainian forces have been slowly retreating in the eastern Donbas region amid excruciating losses, and top brass warn that the front line may burst open because of dire shortages of ...
READ MORE +As the war enters its 790th day, these are the main developments.Here is the situation on Wednesday, April 24, 2024. FightingOleksandr Pivnenko, the commander of Ukraine’s National Guard, said Russia was preparing “unpleasant surprises” and could try to advance on the ...
READ MORE +(WASHINGTON, D.C.) — The Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to move ahead with $95 billion in war aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, bringing the bill to the brink of passage after months of delays and contentious internal debate over how involved the United States should be abroad.The vote to ...
READ MORE +Leading artificial intelligence companies including OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Meta and others have jointly pledged to prevent their AI tools from being used to exploit children and generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The initiative was led by child-safety group Thorn and All Tech Is ...
READ MORE +Major General Aharon Haliva acknowledged failure to warn of the October 7 attack.More than six months after Hamas carried out an assault on southern Israel, the Israeli military intelligence chief has resigned.In his resignation letter, Major General Aharon Haliva noted that authority ...
READ MORE +Child among the dead hours after the British government approves a bill to deport some asylum seekers to Rwanda.Five asylum seekers, including a child, have died while crossing the English Channel from France to Britain in an overcrowded small boat, just hours after the British ...
READ MORE +Worries over efforts to sway upcoming EU elections rise, with MEP Krah also probed over Russian influence operation.German police have arrested an aide to a far-right Member of the European Parliament on suspicion of spying for China.Prosecutors announced on Tuesday that Jian G is ...
READ MORE +By Ochogwu Sunday No fewer than ten people have been confirmed dead after two navy helicopters collided in mid-air during a military training and rehearsal for a Royal Malaysian Navy parade. According to BBC, one of the choppers clipped the rotor of the other before the two crashed down, leading ...
READ MORE +Apple is close to inking a deal with FIFA, soccer’s governing body, for the exclusive streaming rights to a revamped version of the Club World Cup, the New York Times reported on Monday.As its name suggests, the Club World Cup brings together the best world’s best club teams, and while a ...
READ MORE +Elon Musk and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese clash over order to remove X posts on church stabbing.Australia and Elon Musk have escalated their war of words over censorship after an Australian court ordered social media platform X to remove footage of a church stabbing. ...
READ MORE +(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — California will open its first new state park in a decade this summer, Gov. Gavin Newsom and state officials announced Monday, as the state sets targets for cutting planet-warming emissions on natural lands. The 1,600-acre (648-hectare) Dos Rios tract in the ...
READ MORE +Pro-Palestinian students and their allies set up about 15 tents on the steps of UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza Monday afternoon, vowing to stay put until the university system officially calls for an end to the deadly Israel-Hamas war, cuts its study abroad program with Israel and divests from ...
READ MORE +Several of Israel’s allies say they are opposed to Israeli forces launching an assault on the southern Gaza city.More than one million Palestinians have sought shelter in Rafah in southern Gaza, but there are growing fears that Israeli forces could launch an offensive on the city. ...
READ MORE +New York’s Columbia University is on edge amid mounting tensions between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel protesters over the war in Gaza and growing criticism of the Ivy League school’s leadership from members of Congress and both sides that are facing off on campus.On Sunday, a prominent ...
READ MORE +Aharon Haliva is first Israeli official to take responsibility for failing to prevent Hamas attack or recent Iranian counterstrike.The head of Israeli military intelligence has resigned for failing to prevent the October 7 Hamas attack.The Israeli army announced the departure of ...
READ MORE +President Joe Biden is known for putting his foot in his mouth, but his latest gaffe has left a sour taste 9,000 miles away. During a visit last week to a war memorial in Pennsylvania, the President recounted the story of his aviator uncle, Ambrose Finnegan, who died during World War II in a plane ...
READ MORE +Anthony Albanese says decision to challenge takedown order for content related to church stabbing ‘extraordinary’.Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has criticised social media platform X for its “extraordinary” decision to fight an order by the country’s internet watchdog to ...
READ MORE +As the war enters its 788th day, these are the main developments.Here is the situation on Monday, April 22, 2024. FightingOne person was killed and four others were injured in Russian shelling in the town of Ukrainsk, according to the prosecutor’s office in the ...
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