Interpol says 260 suspects in online romance scams have been arrested in Africa

DAKAR, Senegal: A crackdown on cybercrime coordinated by Interpol has led to the arrests across 14 African countries of 260 people suspected in online romance and extortion scams, the organisation announced on Sept 26. The operation took place in July and August and focused on scams in which perpetrators build online romantic relationships to extract money from...

Trump Autism Announcement With RFK Jr.: Updates About Tylenol Findings & More

The president said he and his Health and Human Services Secretary, RFK Jr., will share new findings about autism. Donald Trump said his administration came across new findings about a possible connection between autism and Tylenol, the popular acetaminophen drug that treats aches and pains. The 79-year-old Republican president told Americans that he, Health and Human Services...

Asean should take lead in building resilience amid challenging global landscape, says Anwar

KUALA LUMPUR: Asean cannot be a passive observer in the face of global economic and geopolitical challenges, but should take the lead in building resilience within the grouping, which has over 600 million people, says Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. In stressing that, the Malaysian Prime Minister said the bloc must not only respond to events but...

MACC opens investigation following Albert Tei revelations on mining scandal

SHAH ALAM: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has opened an investigation oover businessman Albert Tei's latest revelations on the mining scandal in Sabah. MACC chief commissioner Tan Sri Azam Baki said he had instructed Sabah MACC to continue the investigation based on the latest information revealed. "An investigation into the issue is underway. I have also ordered...

Zelenskiy tells UN: Stop Russia or face most destructive arms race ever

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged world powers to help stop Russia's war in his country in a speech to the United Nations on Wednesday, warning of a dangerous arms race that he said the fighting was helping unleash. He called for global rules to curb the use of artificial intelligence in weapons while...

Iran’s president tells UN: Tehran will never seek to build nuclear bomb

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -Iran has no intention to build nuclear weapons, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, just days before international sanctions could be reimposed on his country over Tehran's nuclear ambitions. "I hereby declare once more before this assembly that Iran has never sought and will never seek to build...

Ukrainian civilians suffer systematic torture in Russian facilities, UN says

GENEVA (Reuters) -Russia has systematically tortured Ukrainian civilians in over 100 detention centres in Russia and occupied Ukraine since the start of the war, the U.N. human rights office said on Tuesday. Its report detailed cases of mock executions, electric shocks and the use of prolonged stress positions on Ukrainian citizens for non-criminal acts, such as...

Lithuania authorises army to shoot down drones violating its airspace

VILNIUS (Reuters) -Lithuania's parliament granted the Baltic country's armed forces powers on Tuesday to shoot down any unmanned drone violating its airspace following incidents in which it said two Russian drones crashed on its territory. Lithuania's army is currently able to target drones only if they are determined to be armed or pose an imminent danger...

UK loses appeal over block on removal of asylum seeker under UK-France deal

LONDON (Reuters) -The British government on Tuesday lost its attempt to overturn a temporary block on the removal of an asylum seeker under Britain's "one in, one out" deal with France. A 25-year-old Eritrean man, who arrived in Britain on a small boat on August 12, last week won an interim injunction preventing his removal to...

Trump warns drug traffickers: ‘We will blow you out of existence’

NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said recent U.S. strikes on boats carrying alleged Venezuelan drug traffickers delivered a powerful warning to anyone seeking to bring drugs into the United States. "To every terrorist thug smuggling poisonous drugs into the United States of America, please be warned that we will blow you out...