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General view of the MI6 building overlooking the River Thames in south London
MI6 launches dark web portal to attract spies in Russia
LONDON – MI6 is launching its own dedicated portal on the dark web in the hope of attracting new spies online, notably from Russia.Secure messaging platform Silent Courier aims to strengthen national security by making it easier for the intelligence agency to recruit, the Foreign Office said.Potential agents in Russia and around the world will be targeted by the UK, it adds.Outgoing MI6 Chief Sir Richard Moore On Friday appealed to potential spies globally to anonymously access the dark web by following instructions on MI6's own YouTube video.In his final public speech as MI6 Chief, Sir Richard launched the worldwide recruiting drive targeting potential spies in Russia, China, Iran, North Korea and elsewhere.In the same speech delivered from Istanbul on Friday morning, he expressed...
September 19, 2025

MI6 launches dark web portal to attract spies in Russia

Gautam Adani is one of Asia's richest men
India regulator rejects US firm's fraud claims against Adani Group
MUMBAI – India's stock market regular has dismissed some allegations of stock manipulation and financial fraud against billionaire Gautam Adani and his group of companies, made by US short-seller Hindenburg Research.The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) began investigating the conglomerate in 2023, after Hindenburg Research published explosive reports, causing the group a loss of more than $100bn in market value in days.On Thursday, Sebi dismissed the allegations against Adani's companies, saying the inquiry did not reveal any violation of regulatory norms."Sebi has reaffirmed what we have always maintained, that the Hindenburg claims were baseless," Adani posted on X.On 24 January 2023, Hindenburg Research, which specialises in "short-selling" –...
September 19, 2025

India regulator rejects US firm's fraud claims against Adani Group

Israeli strikes hit the southern Lebanese village of Debbin
Israeli air strikes hit southern Lebanon
BEIRUT – Israel has carried out a large wave of air strikes in southern Lebanon, saying it was targeting positions of the Iranian-backed armed group Hezbollah.The attacks came after evacuation warnings were issued for several locations. There has been no immediate report of casualties.Israel has carried out air strikes on people and places it says are linked to Hezbollah almost every day despite a deal that ended the war with the group in November.The Lebanese prime minister called on the international community to urge Israel to stop what he described as intimidation and attacks, and to fulfil its ceasefire obligations.Footage posted online showed huge plumes of smoke in Mais al-Jabal, one of the locations hit.An Israeli military spokesman said the targets were infrastructure belonging...
September 19, 2025

Israeli air strikes hit southern Lebanon

Police officers detain a protester during a demonstration called by major trade unions to oppose budget cuts in Paris, 18 September, 2025
French budget cut strikes turn violent as protesters and police clash in Paris
PARIS — Large-scale protests in the French capital Paris turned ugly on Thursday afternoon, after a few dozen individuals clad in black attacked the police officers on site, who responded with teargas.Small pockets of demonstrators out of a crowd of tens of thousands in Paris' 11th arrondissement around Boulevard Voltaire — a major Parisian thoroughfare — lobbed projectiles at law enforcement securing the gathering, accidentally striking other protesters and journalists, as witnessed by Euronews.The police pushed back and charged the assailants several times, deploying teargas in an attempt to contain the unfolding situation.The clashes further escalated by the time the line of protesters reached Place de la Nation, the landmark circle in the eastern part of Paris, where a group...
September 19, 2025

French budget cut strikes turn violent as protesters and police clash in Paris

Windows have been broken in a glass high-rise surrounded by other buildings
At least 10 dead in Lagos high-rise office building fire
LAGOS – At least 10 people have died and 25 others injured after a fire broke out in a high-rise building in Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital.Videos on social media on Tuesday showed occupants of the seven-storey Afriland Towers jumping out of the third and fourth floors when the fire started.The victims were commercial workers who were trapped inside the building, which is host to most commercial companies and organisations in the city.Most of the survivors suffered burns and fracture injuries while trying to escape, while others had respiratory distress from smoke inhalation.Authorities say the occupants became disoriented due to rapid smoke spread and lack of clear evacuation guidance, and desperate occupants broke windows to jump, leading to severe trauma.Chukwuemeka Eze, a...
September 19, 2025

At least 10 dead in Lagos high-rise office building fire

Family members of suspected Islamic State group fighters walk at al-Hol camp in Syria, 8 May, 2024
Suspected French IS members sent to Iraq for trial, Syrian officials say
DAMASCUS — Forty-seven French citizens who had been held in detention in northeast Syria on suspicion of being members of the so-called Islamic State (IS) group have been handed over to Iraq for prosecution, Iraqi security officials said.Three Iraqi security officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to comment publicly said on Thursday that the French prisoners will be tried on terrorism charges.They had been held in one of a network of detention centres in northeast Syria housing some 9,000 accused IS members guarded by the US-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), before they were handed over to Iraq a month and a half ago, the officials said.Their transfer had not been previously reported. French officials could not be immediately...
September 19, 2025

Suspected French IS members sent to Iraq for trial, Syrian officials say

Afghan universities have been told to remove books from the curriculum
Taliban ban books written by women from Afghan universities
KABUL — The Taliban government has removed books written by women from the university teaching system in Afghanistan as part of a new ban.Some 140 books by women — including titles like "Safety in the Chemical Laboratory" — were among 680 books found to be of "concern" due to "anti-Sharia and Taliban policies".The universities were further told they were no longer allowed to teach 18 subjects, with a Taliban official saying they were "in conflict with the principles of Sharia and the system's policy".The decree is the latest in a series of restrictions which the Taliban have brought in since returning to power four years ago.Just this week, fibre-optic internet was banned in at least 10 provinces on the orders of the Taliban's supreme...
September 19, 2025

Taliban ban books written by women from Afghan universities

Dr Webster was a key witness at Patterson's murder trial
Doctor penalized for calling mushroom murderer 'disturbed sociopath'
SYDNEY — An Australian doctor who raised the alarm about Erin Patterson has been sanctioned by the medical regulator over disparaging comments made about the triple murderer.Chris Webster was a key witness in Patterson's trial, at which a jury found her guilty of killing three relatives and attempting to kill another with a deadly mushroom lunch in 2023.After the verdicts, Dr Webster told BBC that Patterson — now serving a life sentence — was a "heinous individual" and called her a "disturbed sociopathic nut-bag" in an interview with the Herald Sun.The Medical Board of Australia found his actions were inappropriate and ordered that the general practitioner undergo ethics, privacy and social media training.An investigation was launched when the Australian...
September 19, 2025

Doctor penalized for calling mushroom murderer 'disturbed sociopath'

Donald Trump, Melania Trump, Keir Starmer and Victoria Starmer standing outside Chequers
Trump suggests Starmer could use military to control UK borders
LONDON — Donald Trump suggested Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer could use the military to stop illegal migration at a news conference marking the end of the US president's second state visit to the UK.Trump said he discussed migration issues with Sir Keir during a meeting at his country residence Chequers.The US president talked about his policies to secure borders in the US and said the UK faced a similar challenge with migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats."You have people coming in and I told the prime minister I would stop it, and it doesn't matter if you call out the military, it doesn't matter what means you use," Trump said.In a later interview with Fox News, he urged Sir Keir to take a "strong stand" against immigration, saying it...
September 19, 2025

Trump suggests Starmer could use military to control UK borders

Demonstrators picket in response to the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show outside of The Walt Disney Studios Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025,
Trump backs suspension of ABC host Kimmel, says TV networks against him should lose licence
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump has suggested some TV networks should have their licences "taken away", as he backed America's broadcast regulator in a row over the suspension of ABC host Jimmy Kimmel.The Disney-owned network announced on Wednesday evening it was pulling the comedian off air "indefinitely" amid a backlash over his remarks about the murder of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk last week.On Monday, Kimmel appeared to suggest the suspect was a Maga Republican, although authorities in Utah had said the alleged gunman was "indoctrinated with leftist ideology".ABC took Jimmy Kimmel Live! off air after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) threatened action over his remarks.Trump spoke about the issue to reporters on Thursday...
September 19, 2025

Trump backs suspension of ABC host Kimmel, says TV networks against him should lose licence

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