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Al Rasheed Hotel in downtown Baghdad is guarded against looters by the US Military (File photo)
Iraq says some US military personnel will stay due to Islamic State threat in Syria
BAGHDAD — A small contingent of US military advisers will remain in the country to coordinate with US forces in neighboring Syria combating the so-called Islamic State (IS) group, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said on Monday.Washington and Baghdad agreed last year to wind down a US-led coalition fighting IS in Iraq by this September, with US forces departing some bases where they have been stationed.Al-Sudani told journalists in Baghdad that US military advisers and support personnel are now stationed at the Ain al-Asad air base in western Iraq, a base adjacent to Baghdad airport and the al-Harir air base in northern Iraq.The Iraqi PM noted that the agreement originally stipulated a full pullout of US forces from Ain al-Asad by September, but that "developments in Syria"...
October 21, 2025

Iraq says some US military personnel will stay due to Islamic State threat in Syria

The neighbour had tried to burn a cockroach with a makeshift flamethrower
Woman trying to burn cockroach sets South Korea apartment ablaze
SEOUL — South Korean police said they would seek an arrest warrant for a woman who set fire to her apartment building while trying to kill a cockroach with an improvised flamethrower, local media report.One of the woman's neighbours died after falling to the ground in a failed attempt to escape through a window.The woman, who is in her 20s, told police that she tried to torch a cockroach with a lighter and a flammable spray, adding she had used the method before. But on Monday, items in her home caught fire.Police in the northern city of Osan said the woman could be charged with accidentally starting a fire and causing death by negligence.Blasting cockroaches — with blowtorches or homemade flamethrowers — have emerged as a novel way of getting rid of house pests, made popular by...
October 21, 2025

Woman trying to burn cockroach sets South Korea apartment ablaze

From a very young age, Eileen Collins wanted to be an astronaut
Nasa's first female space commander: I didn't want people to say 'the woman made a mistake'
LONDON — She's the astronaut who smashed through the glass ceiling. And kept on going.Eileen Collins made history as the first woman to pilot and command a spacecraft — but despite her remarkable achievements, not everyone will know her name.Now a feature-length documentary called Spacewoman, which chronicles her trailblazing career, looks set to change that.BBC meet Collins at London's Science Museum. She's softly spoken, warm and very down to earth — but you quickly get a sense of her focus and determination. She clearly has inner steel."I was reading a magazine article on the Gemini astronauts. I was probably nine years old, and I thought that's the coolest thing. That's what I want to do," she says."Of course, there were no women astronauts back then. But...
October 21, 2025

Nasa's first female space commander: I didn't want people to say 'the woman made a mistake'

Amazon Web Services Inc. signage at the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California, on March 20, 2025
Amazon services showing 'signs of recovery' after Snapchat and banks among sites hit by major outage
NEW YORK — A huge outage of Amazon Web Services (AWS) has knocked out many of the world's biggest websites and apps on Monday. Snapchat, Duolingo, Zoom and Roblox are among hundreds of sites hit, as well as Lloyds and Halifax banks, the UK's National Rail and HMRC.A leader in the cloud infrastructure market, Amazon Web Services make the infrastructure underpinning millions of large companies' websites and platforms.The issue began shortly after midnight PDT in AWS’ main US-East-1 region hosted in northern Virginia. A notice on AWS’ status page said it was experiencing DNS problems with DynamoDB, its database service that underpins many other AWS applications.DNS, or Domain Name System, translates website names to IP addresses so browsers and other applications can...
October 20, 2025

Amazon services showing 'signs of recovery' after Snapchat and banks among sites hit by major outage

A Su-35 fighter jet - the model Australia says was used by the PLA in Sunday's encounter - seen at the 2024 Zhuhai Air Show in China
Australia accuses China of 'unsafe' military jet maneuvers
SYDNEY — Australia has accused a Chinese military aircraft of releasing flares "in close proximity" to its patrol jet over the South China Sea.The Australian government has raised its concern with Beijing over the "unsafe and unprofessional" maneuver, the defence department said in a statement on Monday.There was no damage to Australia's P-8A aircraft and its personnel were unharmed after Sunday's encounter.A Chinese military spokesperson said the Australian jet "illegally intruded" into China's airspace and had to be expelled.The Australian aircraft's actions "seriously infringed upon China's sovereignty", Senior Colonel Li Jianjian, spokesperson for China's Southern Theater Command Air Force said, urging Canberra to "immediately cease its infringing and...
October 20, 2025

Australia accuses China of 'unsafe' military jet maneuvers

KK Park is one of several scam compounds along the Thai-Myanmar border
Notorious cyber scam hub linked to Chinese mafia raided
BANGKOK — The Myanmar military says it has captured one of the most notorious scam compounds on the border with Thailand, as it reclaims key territory it lost in the ongoing civil war.KK Park, south of the border town of Myawaddy, has been synonymous with online fraud, money laundering and human trafficking for the past five years.Thousands of people were lured to the compound with the promise of well-paid jobs, and then forced to run elaborate scams, stealing billions of dollars from victims all over the world.The military, long tainted by its links to the scam business, now says it has taken the complex as it expands control around Myawaddy, the main trade link to Thailand.In recent weeks the military, or junta, has pushed back insurgents in several parts of Myanmar, aiming to maximise...
October 20, 2025

Notorious cyber scam hub linked to Chinese mafia raided

Trump announced he and Putin had arranged face-to-face talks in Hungary the night before he welcomed Zelensky to the White House last week
Zelensky ready to join Trump-Putin talks after 'frank' White House meeting
KYIV — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he would be ready to join Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin at a proposed summit in Hungary if he were invited.The US and Russian presidents announced on Thursday they planned to hold talks on the war in Ukraine in Budapest, possibly in the coming weeks.In comments released on Monday, Zelensky told reporters: "If it is an invitation in a format where we meet as three or, as it's called, shuttle diplomacy… then in one format or another, we will agree."Meanwhile, media reports have suggested his White House meeting with Trump on Friday descended into a "shouting match" — with the US side urging Ukraine to accept Russia's terms to end the war.Zelensky was guarded during his first press briefing since the talks, but still his...
October 20, 2025

Zelensky ready to join Trump-Putin talks after 'frank' White House meeting

The centre where the fire broke out stored fabrics, pharmaceuticals, chemicals and other goods
Airport inferno could cost Bangladesh $1bn in damages, say experts
DHAKA — Business leaders in Bangladesh fear losses of more than $1bn (£750m) after a devastating fire broke out in the logistics section of the country's main airport on Saturday.Clothes and raw materials were among the goods destroyed, which could put some businesses at risk, according to the country's export associations.The cause of the fire — which took 27 hours to extinguish — is still being investigated. The blaze had forced the temporary suspension of flights and airport operations.Bangladesh is the word's second-largest exporter of clothes after China, supplying global retailers like H&M and Walmart.Bangladesh's garment sector generates around $40bn a year, accounting for over a tenth of its gross domestic product.Local media reports say around 35 people...
October 20, 2025

Airport inferno could cost Bangladesh $1bn in damages, say experts

A police car patrols in the courtyard of the closed Louvre museum after a robbery Sunday, Oct. 19, 2025 in Paris
Louvre museum to remain shut after spectacular heist as hunt for thieves continues
PARIS — The Louvre Museum in Paris will remain closed on Monday following a daring robbery in which eight priceless royal jewels were stolen in just seven minutes.Police are still on the hunt for the four-person commando unit responsible for one of the boldest art heists the world has seen in years.The robbery took place on Sunday morning around 9:30 am, half an hour after the museum had opened its doors.The thieves used a truck equipped with a lift to break into the Galerie d’Apollon, home to some of France’s most historic treasures.Armed with disk cutters, they smashed two display cases — one containing Napoleon’s jewels and the other the crown jewels of French monarchs — before fleeing on two scooters.Investigators later recovered tools, gloves, and two of the stolen pieces,...
October 20, 2025

Louvre museum to remain shut after spectacular heist as hunt for thieves continues

The aftermath of an Israeli strike in the Bureij camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday
Gaza ceasefire appears to survive first major test as Israel and Hamas affirm commitment to deal
GAZA — A US-brokered ceasefire in Gaza appears to have survived its first major test as Israel and Hamas affirmed their commitment to the deal after two Israeli soldiers were killed in the enclave on Sunday, prompting waves of airstrikes.The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement that it would begin a “renewed enforcement” of the ceasefire at the direction of the political echelon.Hamas and its military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades (AQB), said on Sunday morning that they remain committed to the ceasefire and rejected involvement in the attack on Israeli forces.The stated commitment to the ceasefire comes as the deal’s key architects, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, are set to arrive in the region, according to sources familiar with the planning, as the Trump...
October 20, 2025

Gaza ceasefire appears to survive first major test as Israel and Hamas affirm commitment to deal

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