What Happens If the Houthis Hit an Aircraft Carrier with a Missile? – 19FortyFive
- What Happens If the Houthis Hit an Aircraft Carrier with a Missile? 19FortyFive
- Houthis claim responsibility for strikes against US ships: report Fox News
- Signs U.S. Massing B-2 Spirit Bombers In Diego Garcia The War Zone
- US appears to be significantly increasing its military presence in the Middle East Sky News
- Trump Administration’s Actions Made Houthi Terrorists Pay The White House
Gérard Depardieu tells court he grabbed sexual assault accuser by hips to avoid slipping
Actor denies assault and says he was following advice of his then lawyer when he previously told police there had been no physical contact
The French actor Gérard Depardieu has admitted in court that he grabbed the hips of a woman who has accused him of sexual assault, but said it was to avoid slipping and was not a sexual attack.
“I grabbed her hips,” the actor, 76, told his trial for sexual assault at the Paris criminal court on Tuesday. The head judge noted that this was a change from his testimony during police interrogation when he had denied that any physical contact had taken place with the 54-year-old set decorator.
Continue reading...China remains top military and cyber threat to US, intelligence report says
Annual report says Beijing making ‘steady but uneven’ progress on capabilities to capture Taiwan
China remains the United States’ top military and cyber threat, according to a new report by US intelligence agencies that said Beijing was making “steady but uneven” progress on capabilities it could use to capture Taiwan.
China has the ability to hit the United States with conventional weapons, compromise US infrastructure through cyber-attacks, and target its assets in space, as well as seeking to displace the US as the top AI power by 2030, the Annual Threat Assessment by the intelligence community said.
Continue reading...Australians can now use Apple AirPods Pro as hearing aids – but experts warn they’re not for everyone
Experts hope the use of the headphones for mild to moderate hearing loss will reduce stigma and persuade people to test their hearing
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Apple’s AirPods Pro 2 can for the first time be used as hearing aids for moderate hearing loss in Australia – but despite benefits, such as reducing social stigma and lowering costs, experts warn they are not suitable for everyone.
After approval from the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) in December, Apple on Wednesday pushed out an update to AirPods Pro 2 devices in Australia allowing users to test their hearing and use the Bluetooth headphones as hearing aids for mild to moderate hearing loss. It is only TGA approved for people aged 18 and older.
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Continue reading...BOMBSHELL: Trump texting fiasco’s most shocking revelation drops during Senate hearing – NJ.com
- BOMBSHELL: Trump texting fiasco’s most shocking revelation drops during Senate hearing NJ.com
- As top Trump aides sent texts on Signal, flight data show a member of the group chat was in Russia CBS News
- Top Trump aide in Signal chat was in Russia while the text stream was active—but denies he had personal or government-issued phone with him Fortune
- White House pushes back on WSJ editorial board: Witkoff had ‘secure line of communication’ in Russia The Hill
- Opinion | The White House Protests on Signal The Wall Street Journal
Walmart heiress places New York Times ad: ‘The dignity of our country is not for sale’ – Fortune
- Walmart heiress places New York Times ad: 'The dignity of our country is not for sale' Fortune
- Walmart Heiress’ Veiled Trump Critique Breaks Billionaire Quiet Bloomberg
- Walmart heiress makes shock move against Trump with bombshell message to Americans Daily Mail
- Walmart heiress worth $17.8 billion quietly enters political discourse with New York Times ad declaring ‘the dignity of our country is not for sale’ Yahoo
Palestinian Oscar-Winning Director Hamdan Ballal Released By Israeli Forces—What To Know About ‘No Other Land’ – Forbes
- Palestinian Oscar-Winning Director Hamdan Ballal Released By Israeli Forces—What To Know About ‘No Other Land’ Forbes
- Oscar-winning Palestinian director says Israeli soldiers beat him after attack by settlers The Associated Press
- Israeli Police Release Palestinian Director Hamdan Ballal After West Bank Incident The New York Times
- ‘Like a punishment’: witnesses describe Israeli settler attack on No Other Land director The Guardian
- Oscar-winning director Hamdan Ballal speaks to ABC News from hospital: 'It was a hard, hard attack' ABC News
Eight journalists covering anti-government protests held in Turkey
Arrests condemned as ‘unlawful’ by press freedom groups, highlighting growing repression amid demonstrations against President Erdoğan
A prosecutor in Istanbul has remanded eight journalists in custody, reversing a decision to release them after they were arrested for covering Turkey’s largest anti-government protests in years.
The journalists were among 10 arrested in dawn raids on their homes earlier this week. An Istanbul court initially ruled the journalists should be released before reversing the decision and issuing an official arrest order, according to their lawyers and representatives.
Continue reading...Two Alpha Jets of the Patrouille de France Display Team Collide During Rehearsal Flight – The Aviationist
- Two Alpha Jets of the Patrouille de France Display Team Collide During Rehearsal Flight The Aviationist
- Two French air display jets crash in rehearsal BBC.com
- Two Patrouille de France Jets Collide, No Fatalities AVweb
- Three survive mid-air crash of French air force acrobatics team Yahoo
- Two military jets collide in midair stunt, crash to ground in fiery explosion Fox News
Houthis reaffirm attacks on Israel, ready to assist Hezbollah despite US strikes – The Jerusalem Post
- Houthis reaffirm attacks on Israel, ready to assist Hezbollah despite US strikes The Jerusalem Post
- Israel strikes Lebanon after first rocket attack since ceasefire BBC.com
- Rockets Fired From Lebanon Prompt Israeli Strikes The New York Times
- EU foreign minister says Israel's military actions in the region 'must be proportionate' Haaretz
- Lebanon appeals to US, France to prevent Israeli strikes on Beirut The Times of Israel
US removes bounties on key Taliban leaders
The move comes days after US officials met with the Taliban government to secure the release of an American tourist.
Why Israel’s having some of its biggest protests since the war in Gaza began – NPR
- Why Israel's having some of its biggest protests since the war in Gaza began NPR
- Netanyahu Takes Desperate Measures The Atlantic
- Israel’s Deep State Is Worse Than America’s Tablet Magazine
- Netanyahu dismisses Israeli domestic intelligence chief CBS News
- Netanyahu interviewing Shin Bet chief candidates amid legal freeze on Bar’s ouster The Times of Israel
Trump dismisses Signal security failure as ‘the only glitch in two months’
President says national security adviser Mike Waltz, suspected of adding journalist to chat, ‘has learned a lesson’
Donald Trump defended his embattled national security adviser on Tuesday and said the leak of highly classified military plans was “the only glitch in two months”, as scrutiny intensified into how top US officials shared operational details for bombing Yemen in a group chat.
In an interview with NBC, the president said, “Michael Waltz has learned a lesson, and he’s a good man,” as Democrats called for an investigation into the sharing of the plans for this month’s major airstrikes in Yemen on the Signal app. Later on Tuesday, during a meeting with ambassadors, Trump said his administration would investigate the incident but claimed “there was no classified information” shared on Signal.
Continue reading...Online gangs of teenage boys sharing extreme material are ‘emerging threat’ in UK
National Crime Agency says such groups are fuelling crimes including fraud, violence and child sexual abuse
Teenage boys are joining online gangs where they share sadistic and misogynistic material that fuels crimes including fraud, violence and child sexual abuse, the director general of the National Crime Agency has warned.
Offenders in online communities collaborate and compete to cause harm online and offline through cyber-attacks such as launching malware, ransomware or executing data breaches; fraud; extremism; grooming and blackmailing; serious violence; and child sexual abuse, according to the NCA, which leads the UK’s fight to cut serious and organised crime.
Continue reading...Sudan army accused of killing hundreds in airstrike on Darfur market – BBC.com
- Sudan army accused of killing hundreds in airstrike on Darfur market BBC.com
- Sudan Military Bombing Kills Dozens in Attack on Market in Darfur The New York Times
- Sudan aid groups say 54 killed in an airstrike blamed on the military in Darfur The Associated Press
- Sudanese army airstrike in Darfur kills dozens, activists say Reuters
- Dozens killed in strike on market in Sudan’s North Darfur Al Jazeera English
Sudan army accused of killing hundreds in airstrike on Darfur market
Videos posted on social media show the smoking ruins of market stalls and charred bodies.
Danish PM accuses US of ‘unacceptable pressure’ as JD Vance says he will join Greenland visit
US vice-president says he will join unsolicited visit to Arctic island, which Mette Frederiksen says is ‘not what Greenland needs or wants’
Mette Frederiksen, the Danish prime minister, has accused the US of putting “unacceptable pressure” on Greenland – which she has vowed to resist – before an unsolicited visit to the Arctic island by members of the Trump administration.
Later, just hours after her comments, the White House sprang a fresh surprise, as the US vice-president, JD Vance, announced he would join his wife on a trip to the territory this week.
Continue reading...Samsung Electronics co-CEO Han Jong-hee dies of heart attack at 63
Head of tech giant’s consumer electronics and mobile devices division passed away at a hospital on Tuesday
South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday that its co-chief executive officer Han Jong-hee has died due to cardiac arrest. Han was 63.
Han was in charge of Samsung’s consumer electronics and mobile devices division, while co-CEO Jun Young-hyun oversees the chip business of South Korea’s biggest company.
Continue reading...IDF confirms Al Jazeera journalist killed in Gaza was Hamas terrorist – The Jerusalem Post
- IDF confirms Al Jazeera journalist killed in Gaza was Hamas terrorist The Jerusalem Post
- ‘He knew journalism meant Israel would kill him’: Mourning Hossam Shabat Al Jazeera English
- CPJ denounces Israel’s killing of 2 more Gaza journalists in return to war Committee to Protect Journalists
- Israeli strikes kill two Gaza journalists, including Al Jazeera reporter The Washington Post
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