The United States and Turkey have announced sanctions against a network that they allege has provided support for the ISIL (ISIS) group. The US Department of the Treasury issued a statement on Thursday that it had imposed the restrictions on four individuals and two firms, […]
Prince Harry has acknowledged killing 25 people in Afghanistan during his time as an Apache helicopter pilot, according to the British media, quoting a soon-to-be-published autobiography. Harry, the duke of Sussex, served in Afghanistan first as a forward air controller in air raids from 2007-2008, […]
Cryptocurrency firm Genesis has cut 30 percent of its workforce in a second round of layoffs in less than six months, Reuters has reported, citing a person familiar with the matter as pressure builds on crypto industry executives to cut costs in the wake of […]
Germany will supply Ukraine with armoured personnel carriers and a Patriot missile battery, the government has said. The announcement on Thursday came in a joint German-US statement after Chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke with US President Joe Biden. “In late December, the United States announced its […]
Hackers stole the email addresses of more than 200 million Twitter users and posted them on an online hacking forum, a security researcher has said. The breach “will unfortunately lead to a lot of hacking, targeted phishing and doxxing,” Alon Gal, co-founder of Israeli cybersecurity-monitoring […]
The world’s glaciers are shrinking and disappearing faster than scientists thought, with two-thirds of them projected to melt out of existence by the end of the century at current climate change trends, according to a new study. But if the world can limit future warming to just […]
Mexican authorities have arrested Ovidio Guzman, son of the imprisoned drug trafficker Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, multiple news agencies reported. Cars were set on fire and residents were carjacked by alleged cartel members in the city of Culiacan in Sinaloa province on Wednesday night and […]
Ukraine has dismissed an offer from Russian President Vladimir Putin for a 36-hour ceasefire over Orthodox Christmas, saying there would be no truce until Russia withdraws its forces from occupied land. The Kremlin said Putin had ordered a 36-hour ceasefire from midday (10:00 GMT) on […]
As heavy rains and strong winds continue to batter the western United States, officials in the state of California have said that they are “preparing for a war” to keep residents safe against the extreme weather. The state is facing the third “atmospheric river” – […]
Hopes for peace, or another false dawn? That’s what people are asking in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where M23 fighters have pledged to leave Rumangabo. That town is in the east and has a large military base. But the Congolese army says a similar […]
