BBC: An ICE agent has fatally shot a Colombian national during an immigration enforcement operation in the US state of Maine, a week after the agency used deadly force against another migrant in a Texas traffic stop. In the latest incident, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said agents were watching an address for a person […]
BBC: A Sydney childcare worker who was charged with 329 offences over his alleged abuse of 136 children at multiple daycare centres across a 16-year period can now be named. Hamish Tait was first arrested in July last year but his identity was only revealed on Monday, when a court order sought by police while […]
BBC: The battle by firefighters in France to bring under control a large wildfire raging in forests south of the country’s capital is entering its second day. The Fontainebleau forest blaze, described by officials as “virulent” and of “exceptional scale”, partially closed the country’s main north-south highway. Interior minister Laurent Nunez has indicated the blaze […]
(Reuters) LONDON, July 13 – Britain on Monday announced a new package of sanctions targeting Russian cyber networks, which it blamed for trying to sow chaos and division across Europe. “Today’s action targets 24 individuals and entities behind the destructive cyber and hybrid operations including cybercriminals involved in proxy networks linked to the Russian Intelligence Services,” […]
(Reuters) MOSCOW, July 13 – Russia’s Federal Security Service said on Monday that it had seized Western-made, AI-powered FPV drones that had been dropped onto Russian territory by larger Ukrainian fixed-wing drones and balloons, and were intended to be used for attacks deep inside Russia. The FSB said they landed in Bryansk region close to […]
(Reuters) NICOSIA, July 13 – An Indian crew member is still missing after a Cyprus-flagged container ship was hit in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday and a search operation is underway to find him, Cyprus’s Deputy Ministry of Shipping said on Monday. Cypriot authorities said the vessel, the GFS Galaxy, was struck by an […]
BBC: At least 51 people have died and more than a million affected by heavy rainfall in Bangladesh in recent days. Thousands have lost their homes as flash floods and landslides hit large parts of the country, including the capital Dhaka. More than half the deaths so far have occurred in Cox’s Bazar, home to […]
Al Jazeera: Oil prices have jumped amid the latest outbreak of hostilities between the United States and Iran over the Strait of Hormuz. Brent crude, the main international benchmark, rose more than 4 percent on Monday as Washington and Tehran traded attacks amid their escalating standoff over control of the critical waterway. Brent futures for September […]
BBC: The US insists the Strait of Hormuz is open, despite Iran saying it has closed the waterway amid renewed strikes. Hostilities, which flared up again this week, continued on Saturday after the US said it had struck more than 140 targets across Iran. The attacks were a response to Iranian forces hitting a ship […]
BBC: For more than a century, neuroscientists have studied the human brain much as early cartographers mapped unknown lands: piecing together a vast landscape from scattered observations. Even today, pathologists diagnosing disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease typically inspect a handful of tissue samples from an organ containing some 86 billion neurons. Much of the landscape […]
