- Brussels wants industry to ditch Chinese suppliers. Businesses are pushing back South China Morning Post
- EU's push to reduce reliance on China could come at a price Euronews.com
- EU diversification tool targets strategic dependencies ahead of leaders' summit - News and Statistics IndexBox
- DiversifyEU: 15 member states back the proposed instrument Table.Briefings
- EU business opposes plan to diversify supplies away from China — South China Morning Post UA.NEWS
A popemobile exhibition is unveiled at the Vatican, featuring the vehicle popes have used since 1930 – CNN
Activists accuse Israeli settlers of assault in occupied West Bank – Al Jazeera
- Activists accuse Israeli settlers of assault in occupied West Bank Al Jazeera
- Washington Post journalist says attack by Israeli West Bank settlers has only ‘strengthened’ her resolve CNN
- Journalists attacked by settlers, detained by police after incident Committee to Protect Journalists
- Israeli extremists attack peaceful Palestinians The Ramapo News
- Armed Israeli settlers threaten West Bank families, attack journalists The New Arab
‘Like cutting up a Picasso’: AI microdrama edit of Neighbours worries actors and crew
A micro-drama will use AI-assisted technology to edit old episodes of the Australian TV soap to focus on Margot Robbie's character.
Activists accuse Israeli settlers of assault in occupied West Bank
Footage shows men, some armed, beating a US journalist and an Israeli-Russian activist in Umm al-Khair.
Ukraine’s 25th Brigade Targets russian Drone Mothership Carrying FPVs (Video) – Defense Express
- Ukraine's 25th Brigade Targets russian Drone Mothership Carrying FPVs (Video) Defense Express
- Fighters of the Freedom of Russia Legion Started Shooting Down Shaheds with Interceptor Drones Мілітарний
- Ukraine’s Drone Hunters Take Down Russia’s Rare $100,000 “Knyaz Veshchiy Oleg” UAV Over Sumy Region UNITED24 Media
- Flash: Ukraine has developed five effective interceptors for jet-powered drones Ukrinform
- "Making a model that flies fast is only part of it": Serhiy "Flash" spoke about the problems of scaling interceptor drones АНТИКОР
30-year sentence in Minnesota fraud that drew Trump backlash
Government says Salim Said hit the jackpot in a scheme claiming to feed needy children during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Strikes on Darfur market in Sudan killed more than 100, rights group says
Women and children killed as witnesses say attack struck civilian shopkeepers, RSF fighters.
Israeli settlers savagely attack journalists in occupied West Bank
Videos circulating on social media show Israeli settlers assaulting three foreign journalists in the West Bank
Al Jazeera speaks to El-Sayed as religion becomes flashpoint in Senate race
Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed is pushing back against attacks over his Muslim faith.
Kalshi, co-founders hit with criminal charges in US state of Utah
The charges come after a federal judge ruled that Utah could enforce its anti-gambling laws against prediction markets.
‘They mobilized a whole government response to that joke’: Obama laughs off Trump attacks in rally for Ossoff
Former US president comes to Georgia to support Jon Ossoff for US Senate and Keisha Lance Bottoms for governor
Barack Obama, speaking at a Wednesday campaign rally in suburban Atlanta, offered a closing argument for Democrats in the final week of the midterm election campaign.
“These are not serious people,” he said of Donald Trump and the Republican party. “And we’re all paying the price for their lack of seriousness.”
Continue reading...Trump administration sanctions North Korean network accused of infiltrating US companies – Fox Business
- Trump administration sanctions North Korean network accused of infiltrating US companies Fox Business
- US defense contractor admits role in North Korean IT plot USA Today
- North Korea targeting cash-strapped Americans in expanding job scam: FBI KTLA
- Gainesville man with top security clearance pleads guilty in North Korean remote-employment scheme InsideNoVa
- U.S., UK, Canada and EU turn up pressure on North Korea to surrender nuclear arms; 2 African nations have also condemned Pyongyang Business Insider Africa
Trump administration sanctions North Korean network accused of infiltrating US companies – Fox Business
- Trump administration sanctions North Korean network accused of infiltrating US companies Fox Business
- North Korea targeting cash-strapped Americans in expanding job scam: FBI KTLA
- U.S., UK, Canada and EU turn up pressure on North Korea to surrender nuclear arms; 2 African nations have also condemned Pyongyang Business Insider Africa
- US sanctions North Korean network accused of defrauding businesses Reuters
- Joint Statement on Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Sanctions U.S. Department of State (.gov)
Serbians storm TV studio as pro-Vucic media faces reckoning
Serbians stormed a TV studio and confronted its editor-in-chief after a student-led protest movement swept into power.
Bolsonaro in Miami: I am the ‘true president-elect’
Flavio Bolsonaro claimed to be the ‘true president-elect’ of Brazil in his first statement since fleeing to the US.
Utah files criminal charges against prediction market Kalshi and company co-founders
Firm calls charges, which include violating state gambling ban and profiting from illegal activity, ‘crazy overreach’
Utah on Wednesday filed criminal charges against prediction market operator Kalshi and two of its executives, months after a federal judge rejected Kalshi’s effort to prevent Utah from enforcing its strict anti-gambling laws against the activity.
The felony charges could represent a new tactic in how states try to assert regulatory authority over the fast-expanding activity, a clash that appears headed to a showdown at the US supreme court.
Continue reading...Judge rebuffs Trump DoJ’s bid to force California to set aside 20,000 ballots
Justice department had demanded state segregate and not count ballots from people it claimed were non-citizens
A federal judge declined to order California election officials to segregate and not count ballots from people the Trump administration claimed were non-citizens, rebuffing a legally thin request from the justice department that appeared designed to cast doubt over the results of the midterms.
The ruling from US district judge David Carter, nominated to the federal bench by Bill Clinton, comes about two weeks after the justice department delivered a USB drive to election officials in Los Angeles and Sacramento that it said contained the names of 20,000 non-citizens on the state’s voter rolls. There are more than 23 million registered voters in California and non-citizen voting is extremely rare.
Continue reading...Details of thousands of US immigration agents leaked in major hack
A group called the Department of Peace released information on more than 41,000 DHS staff.
Non-profit group leaks data of more than 40,000 homeland security workers
Information released by Distributed Denial of Secrets is the third such government data disclosure in the last month
Data identifying more than 41,000 employees and contractors for the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was released on Wednesday in an unprecedented leak that reveals how the agency is organized. The records, which were made public by the transpaency nonprofit Distributed Denial of Secrets reference operation names, surveillance programs and information on undercover initiatives.
DHS did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
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