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German police report shows increase in cybercrime coming from abroad
The dangers posed by cyberattacks in Germany have continued to increase over the past year, according to a report by Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA). "The police database, but also the findings of individual IT security service providers, show a renewed upward trend in cyberattacks in 2023, both in terms of quantity and quality," the report states. In particular, the number of offences committed from abroad or from an unknown location has been increasing, according to the National
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Netanyahu: Israel in existential struggle against 'Hamas monsters'
As Israel marks Memorial Day on Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the war in Gaza is a battle for Israel's continuing existence. "The war is about: it's either us, Israel, or them, the Hamas monsters," he said during the Memorial Day ceremony on Mount Herzl, where Israel's main military cemetery is located. "Either existence, freedom, security and prosperity or extinction, massacre, rape and subjugation." Seven months on from Hamas' unprecedented attack on Israel and Israel's feroci
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Plane Carrying 3 People Lands Without Wheels After Suffering Mid-Air Mechanical Failure
The pilot, 53, was unable to deploy the aircraft's landing gear after it took off at a runway north of Sydney, Australia
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German official: Gender-neutral language ban is 'step backwards'
Germany's Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency (FADA) is warning against prohibiting inclusive and gender-neutral language, following a recently imposed ban in the conservative southern state of Bavaria. "Banning people from using inclusive language is a step backwards into the last century. The state should promote respect and tolerance, not prohibit it," said Ferda Ataman, Federal Commissioner for Anti-Discrimination, in a statement. Several German states, including Bavaria, Saxony, Saxony-Anhal
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Gaza war to determine lives of Israelis for decades, says Gallant
The outcome of the ongoing Gaza war between Israel and the Palestinian extremist organization Hamas will determine the lives of Israelis in the coming decades, Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said on Monday. "This is a war with no alternative," said Gallant during a speech to mark the country's official memorial day to commemorate its fallen soldiers. "This is a war that will continue until we return our hostages, smash Hamas' rule and its military capabilities, and return the State of Israel to i
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Rescue effort for dozens missing in South Africa building collapse are boosted by 1 more survivor
Rescue teams in South Africa forged ahead Monday with efforts to find any survivors still trapped under rubble a week after an apartment building that was under construction collapsed. Authorities said 24 construction workers who were on the site when the unfinished five-story building came down have been confirmed dead, while another 28 are missing, raising the possibility that the death toll could ultimately be above 50. More than 600 emergency services and other personnel have been involved
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German court upholds 'suspected extremist' label for far-right AfD
Germany's intelligence services may classify the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as a suspected extremist group, a higher regional court ruled on appeal on Monday. Germany's intelligence services had classified both the party and its youth organization, Junge Alternative (JA), as suspected right-wing extremist groups. According to the court, there is a well-founded suspicion that "the political objectives of at least a significant part of the AfD are in line with granting German ci
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Kiev admits 'tactical successes' of Russian troops in Kharkiv
The Ukrainian military conceded on Monday that Russian forces are making progress in their offensive in the north-eastern Kharkiv region. Moscow's troops have been engaged in a concerted push into the region, raising alarm among Ukrainians and their Western allies that a large-scale assault on the major city of Kharkiv is coming. Kharkiv city, the second-largest in Ukraine, is located just 30 kilometres south of the Russian border. "The enemy is currently achieving tactical success," the Ukraini
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Tunisia lawyer arrested during live news broadcast
There has been growing criticism on the restrictions on free speech under President Kais Saied.
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China says to sell initial batch of long-dated bonds this week
China will start selling an initial batch of long-dated bonds this week, the Ministry of Finance announced Monday, as Beijing looks to boost support for the world's second-largest economy.The Ministry of Finance did not specify the number of bonds that will be issued.
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Indonesia's Mount Ibu erupts, spewing thick ash and dark clouds into the sky
Mount Ibu, a volcano in Indonesia's North Maluku province, erupted on Monday, spewing thick grey ash and dark clouds 5,000 meters (16,400 feet) into the sky for five minutes, officials said. “The volcanic earthquakes are still intense so there is a potential for a future eruption,” Hendra Gunawan, chief of the Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation said. Officials advised residents and tourists not to conduct any activities within 5 kilometers (3 miles) of Mount Ibu's crater.
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Internet outage felt across East Africa
A key cable linking the region to South Africa was cut on Sunday morning, an industry expert says.
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Plane makes successful wheels-up emergency landing in Australia after circling airport for hours
Two passengers and a pilot emerged unscathed from a small plane after it was forced to land without landing gear following a mechanical failure at Newcastle Airport in Australia’s New South Wales.
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'Cold lava' sweeps villages near volcano, killing 41
Heavy rains washed volcanic debris and pebbles down Mount Marapi in Indonesia.
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Cooking Up Murder: Who Is Cesar Roman and What Did He Do?
Disclaimer: The article contains mentions of murder. Reader discretion is advised. Netflix’s upcoming documentary Cooking Up Murder: Uncovering the Story of Cesar Roman will explore the rise and fall of popular Spanish chef Cesar Roman. The renowned chef became one of the biggest names in Spain’s culinary world in the late 2010s. In 2016, he opened a restaurant and […] The post Cooking Up Murder: Who Is Cesar Roman and What Did He Do? appeared first on ComingSoon.net - Movie Trailers, TV & Strea
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Putin's latest political move shows Russia's wartime economy is here to stay
Putin's appointment of a civilian economist as defense minister signals Russia's military-industrial complex is now key to its wartime economy.
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Last day with lower humidity
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – After a comfortable start, temperatures climb quickly into the low 90s this afternoon. Humidity remains pleasant into the afternoon, and there will be a breeze off the Gulf of Mexico as well. The showers that develop later in the day will stay well east of I-75. It begins to feel muggier […]
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Germany's Scholz heads to Sweden to talk security with Nordic leaders
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is due to travel to Sweden on Monday to hold talks with the prime ministers of Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Norway. The main topics of discussion are expected to be the security situation in Europe, support for Ukraine in its defence against Russia, but also so-called hybrid threats such as cyberattacks and sabotage. The group of leaders are also scheduled to visit the Swedish technology company Ericsson together. A press conference is planned for the early
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German digital group reports rise in cyber attacks from Russia, China
The German digital association Bitkom says it has recorded an increasing number of cyber attacks from China and Russia over the past 12 months. "We have measured a doubling of attacks from Russia in the last year," said managing director Bernhard Rohleder on Monday morning on German public broadcaster ZDF. There was also a 50% increase in the number of known incidents from China, he said. Of the companies affected, 80% were targeted by Russian attacks, according to the Bitkom director. Germany's
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Old video of Indonesia police training falsely shared as farmers' clash ahead of India elections
As India geared up for national elections, a video of a police training exercise in Indonesia surfaced in social media posts that falsely claimed it showed clashes between security forces and farmers vying to march to Delhi in a dispute over crop prices. The video was in fact filmed months before the protests began and shows police in Indonesia's Sula Islands holding a security drill ahead of the presidential election in February 2024.
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Germany limits cash benefit payments for asylum-seekers. Critics say it's designed to curb migration
When Erdina Laca goes grocery shopping in Eichsfeld these days, she pulls out a special payment card that’s for asylum-seekers only. Laca, 45, came from Albania with her husband and three children and applied for asylum in Germany last September. The family lives in the county of Eichsfeld in the eastern state of Thuringia and has been one of the first in the country to receive half of their government benefits in the form of cashless payments on a plastic card.
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More bodies found in Indonesia after flash floods killed dozens and submerged homes
Rescuers recovered more bodies Monday after monsoon rains triggered flash floods on Indonesia's Sumatra Island, bringing down torrents of cold lava and mud, leaving 43 people dead and another 15 missing. The heavy rains, along with a landslide of mud and cold lava from Mount Marapi, caused a river to breach its banks. The deluge tore through mountainside villages along four districts in West Sumatra province just before midnight Saturday.
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Georgia police push protesters away ahead of 'foreign agent' bill debate, Russia's TASS reports
Georgia's police have begun pushing away demonstrators who staged an all-night rally at parliament in Tbilisi ahead of a lawmakers' debate of a "foreign agents" bill that has sparked a political crisis, Russia's TASS news agency reported on Monday. Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze vowed on Sunday to push ahead with the law, after opponents of the bill rallied in one of the largest protests seen since independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Georgia's opposition called on opponents
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Rivers rise again as rain batters flood-hit south Brazil
River levels rose again Sunday as strong rains lashed waterlogged southern Brazil, where flooding has killed 145 people and forced hundreds of thousands from their homes.A total of 132 people have been reported missing and 619,000 have been forced from their homes, civil defense officials said in an update Sunday evening.
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Fires used as weapon in Sudan conflict destroyed more towns in west than ever in April, study says
Fires being used as a weapon in Sudan destroyed more villages and towns in the country's west in April than in any other month since the conflict began more than a year ago, an analysis by a U.K.-based rights group said Monday. Sudan Witness, an open-source project run by the nonprofit Center for Information Resilience, said 72 villages and settlements were either destroyed or damaged by fires last month, bringing the total number of settlements hit by fire in Sudan to 201 since the conflict be
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Vladimir Putin set to transfer Sergei Shoigu from Russian defence ministry
Sergei Shoigu, a close ally of the president, has played a key role in Russia's hugely costly war in Ukraine.
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Zelensky: Russia turning 'grey zone' areas of war into combat zones
Russia's offensive near the city of Kharkiv is spreading out the front of the war in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said, pointing to a development that means more parts of the country are facing combat. "There are villages that have turned from a 'grey zone' into a combat zone, and the occupiers are trying to gain a foothold in some of them or simply use them to advance further," Zelensky said, describing the situation in his daily video message on Sunday evening. With
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Spain Prime Minister Sánchez hails Socialists' win in Catalonia
Spain Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has hailed the victory of the regional offshoot of his national Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) in the parliamentary elections in the region of Catalonia. According to projections from votes counted, the big winner of Sunday's election was the Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSC), while the separatist parties were projected to have lost their parliamentary majority in the regional parliament. Sánchez congratulated PSC top candidate Salvador Illa "for this
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Putin sacks defence minister Shoigu, shifts to head Security Council
Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed his defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, from his post to head the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Russian state news agency TASS and the Kremlin reported on Sunday evening. More than two years after the full-scale invasion of neighbouring Ukraine, Shoigu replaces Nikolai Patrushev as secretary of the National Security Council, the Kremlin announced. Earlier TASS cited the upper house of parliament, the Federation Council, as saying that Sho
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Microsoft, Amazon to invest billions in French tech
Microsoft on Sunday announced four billion euros in investment for developing data centres in France, joining fellow US giant Amazon in committing to the country's tech infrastructure.As Choose France prepared to get under way, several pharmaceutical groups, including US group Pfizer and Britain's AstraZeneca, announced on Sunday commitments to invest more than a billion euros more in France's health sector.
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Mass shooting causes deaths in crime-ridden township on southern edge of Mexico City, officials say
A mass shooting in a mountain township beset by crime just south of Mexico City resulted in several deaths, authorities said Sunday. Local and state officials did not give a specific death toll, saying only that there were some deaths. The government of the state of Morelos, which borders Mexico City, said the attack occurred late Saturday in Huitzilac.
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Putin shuffles defence minister Shoigu to head Security Council
Russian President Vladimir Putin has moved his defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, out of his post to head the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Russian state news agency TASS and the Kremlin reported on Sunday evening. More than two years after the full-scale invasion of neighbouring Ukraine, Shoigu replaces Nikolai Patrushev as secretary of the National Security Council, the Kremlin announced. Earlier TASS cited the upper house of parliament, the Federation Council, as saying that Shoig
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Lithuania's pro-Kiev president clear favourite to retain post in poll
Overshadowed by Russia's war against Ukraine, Lithuania elected a new head of state by direct vote on Sunday. The 59-year-old incumbent Gitanas Nausėda was the clear favourite in the race for the highest office in the Baltic EU and NATO member state, which borders the Russian Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad and Russia's ally Belarus. Seven candidates ran against the independent politician, among whom there was only one woman, the current Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė. Meaningful results were
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Images show arrests during taxi strike in SA, not black people detained by separatist political party
As elections loom in South Africa, the Cape Independence Party is licking its wounds after failing to make the provincial ballot despite two court challenges. Posts have surfaced claiming to show party members detaining black people for “walking after hours”. But this is false: the photos are from 2023 and show the arrest of suspects during a violent taxi strike in the Western Cape. Furthermore, South Africa is not under curfew.
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Mapping Human Migration Across Australia’s Lost ‘Atlantis’
Given Australia’s gigantic scale and wild nature, archaeological research can be difficult and costly. Where to start digging on such a vast continent, where the archaeological sites can often be remote and difficult to reach? Now a joint team of scientists from The University of Sydney, Southern Cross University, Flinders University, and Université Grenoble-Alpes has […]
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Commuter rail service in northeast Spain has been disrupted by theft of copper cables near Barcelona
Commuter rail service serving Barcelona and northeastern Spain has suffered major disruption because of the theft of copper cables from a train installation, Spanish rail authorities said Sunday. Thousands of commuters were stranded at train stations in and around Barcelona after trains couldn't run on several commuter lines. Spain’s state-owned railway authority ADIF said that the theft of electrical cabling from a station just north of Barcelona in the town of Montcada caused “several fires
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Letter claiming private bank pledged funds to Ethiopian army to fight Amhara rebels is fake
The renewed dispute over land between rival forces from Amhara and Tigray regions in northern Ethiopia has caused the displacement of tens of thousands of people. This has further stoked the crisis in the troubled Amhara region where local militia are fighting against Ethiopian troops. Online users have shared a screenshot of a purported letter from the Ethiopian Lion Bank confirming that it was funding the army's war against rebels in the Amhara region. However, the document is fabricated. The
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Death toll climbs over 140 in Brazilian floods with no end in sight
The death toll has risen to 143 following the devastating floods in southern Brazil. A further 125 were missing and 806 people injured, the Rio Grande do Sul State Civil Defence Department said on Sunday. As it also rained this weekend, the number of people who had to leave their homes has risen to over 618,000. In total, over 2 million people have been affected by the floods. According to the regional government, the largest warship in Latin America arrived in the harbour of the city of Rio Gra
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Ukraine evacuates 4,000 people from besieged Kharkiv border region
Thousands of residents of the eastern Ukrainian border region of Kharkiv are being evacuated to safety amid Russia's current offensive operations there. Around 4,000 people had already left the area in the last two days, regional Governor Oleh Syniehubov wrote on Telegram on Sunday. Many of them were able to stay with friends and relatives, while accommodation was being provided for others, he said. Syniehubov also published photos of people who had gathered at assembly points with luggage and s
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Nigeria's fashion and dancing styles in the spotlight as Harry, Meghan visit its largest city
Nigeria’s fashion and traditional dances were at full display on Sunday as Prince Harry and Meghan arrived in its largest city, Lagos, as part of their three-day visit to the country to promote mental health for soldiers and empower young people. The couple, invited to the West African nation by its military, were treated to different bouts of dancing, starting from the Lagos airport where a troupe's acrobatic moves left both applauding and grinning. Going with Meghan’s white top was the tradi
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Egypt to back genocide case against Israel at world court
Egypt announced on Sunday it would back South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), in a sign of Cairo's frustration over an Israeli military operation in Gaza's southern city of Rafah that borders Egypt. The Egyptian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the move comes "in view of aggravating intensity and scale" of Israeli attacks against civilians in Gaza and the "continued perpetration of systematic practices" against Palestinians, including d
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Canadian police announce arrest of 4th Indian suspect in killing of Sikh activist
The slaying has created tensions between Canada and India.
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Dresden Peace Prize awarded posthumously to Alexei Navalny
The well-known Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny was posthumously awarded the Dresden International Peace Prize on Sunday. His widow Yulia Navalnaya accepted the award on his behalf, which is endowed with €10,000 ($10,774), at the eastern German city's Schauspielhaus theatre. Former German president Joachim Gauck honoured the man who died in prison almost three months ago as a "selfless, almost superhumanly courageous man who shows that there can be another Russia." Navalny's life's work
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BBC: UK government mulls broader ban on 'extreme protest groups'
A range of organizations including Just Stop Oil and Palestine Action could be banned in the UK as "extreme protest groups" under new proposals tabled by a senior government adviser. The approach currently applied to terrorist organizations should be used as a model, according to adviser on political violence John Woodcock, also known as Lord Walney, the BBC reported on Sunday, citing extracts from the report. In recommendations now due to be presented to the Cabinet, Woodcock backs proscribing
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German anti-Semitism commissioner condemns Eurovision protests
The German government's anti-Semitism commissioner, Felix Klein, has condemned the protests against Israel's participation in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest this weekend. "It is a common anti-Semitic trait to hold Israelis collectively liable for the actions of their government or their army, which they themselves often condemn," he told the Funke Mediengruppe newspaper. "The progressive Israeli cultural scene in particular is already suffering considerably from this and is facing incr
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Fierce fighting reported in northern Gaza amid mass evacuations
Israeli troops are engaged in fierce fighting with armed Palestinians in the north of the Gaza Strip, Israeli media reported on Sunday. The military wing of the Palestinian Islamist organization Hamas cited heavy clashes between its fighters and Israeli forces in the area of Jabalia, some 4 kilometres north of Gaza City. Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari said the previous evening that warplanes had attacked targets in Jabalia after the civilian population there had been evacuated. The Times o
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Deadly flash floods, cold lava flows hit Indonesia's Sumatra
Monsoon rain that triggered flash floods and torrents of cold lava have killed at least 28 people in Indonesia's West Sumatra province, with several others missing. Torrential rain pounded parts of the province over the weekend, inundating houses and paddy fields, a spokesperson for the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) said. Local officials have advised residents living along river banks to be on guard for further cold lava mudflows originating from the active volcano Mount Marapi. In
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German men with the strongest fingers compete in Bavaria's 'Fingerhakeln' wrestling champion
Despite the threat of dislocated fingers and strained muscles, over 150 Bavarian men came together Sunday to compete in Germany’s unique national championship of “Fingerhakeln,” or finger wrestling. Around 1,000 visitors cheered on the all-male contestants as they gulped down their national beer and world-famous German sausages while Bavarian live music filled the air. Finger wrestling, a well-known competitive sport in Germany’s Alpine region and neighboring Austria, originated as a way to se
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A Russian drone unit is recruiting members of the Kremlin elite so they can 'sidestep' military service on the front, UK intel says
The unit operates far from the front lines in Ukraine, the UK Ministry of Defence said.
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Apartment building partially collapses in a Russian border city after shelling. At least 13 killed
An apartment building partially collapsed in the Russian border city of Belgorod on Sunday, causing at least 13 deaths and injuring 20 other people, officials said. Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry said 13 bodies had been recovered from the rubble so far. Russia’s Investigative Committee, the country’s top law enforcement agency, said in a statement that the 10-story building had been hit by Ukrainian shelling.
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