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Cases involving child sexual abuse material made using deepfakes, or manipulated digital representations, more than doubled in number in Japan in the first half of 2026, the National Police Agency has said. Police handled 123 such cases in the six months, exceeding both the 60 recorded a year earlier and the 114 logged in all of 2025, the agency said Monday. The surge highlights the rapid spread of generative artificial intelligence and its increasingly sophisticated image-ed

Unmanned operations and smart technologies are reshaping the modern battlefield. No longer mere reconnaissance platforms, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operate in deep coordination with the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Rocket Force, Navy and Army. They connect the dots between spotting a target and hitting it, collecting and making sense of large volumes of sensor data to support joint operations across the services, turning intelligence into a battlefield edge.

The Economic Community of West African States is expected to donate $250,000 to the to Ghana in the wake of its devastating floods; t’s intended to provide relief for flood victims. The announcement was made on social media by Ghana’s minister for foreign affairs. He insisted that the full amount will be transferred to the appropriate authorities as soon as the funds are received. The floods on June 29th impacted people in several regions of Ghana, and left thousands of famil

Nationals from 50 countries, including 30 in Africa, will face security deposits of up to 20,000 U.S. dollars when applying for certain business and tourist visas under a permanent visa bond program announced by the United States. Officials say the measure aims to curb visa overstays, but critics warn it could deter legitimate travelers. The U.S. Department of State has made permanent a visa bond program requiring certain applicants from 50 countries to post security deposits

OSAKA – Twenty-three people, mainly students, were injured after an unknown substance was sprayed at a municipal junior high school in the city of Kaizuka, Osaka Prefecture, on Friday morning. According to the city’s board of education, 15 students and eight school staff members that include teachers said they were experiencing sore throats and skin irritation after the incident. None of them were said to be seriously injured. Around 10:40 a.m., an emergency call to police wa

Police have arrested a 53-year-old man in Toyama Prefecture for allegedly planning indiscriminate killing in Tokyo and preparing a knife for the potential rampage. The suspect, Katsumi Mori, who is unemployed and from the prefecture’s city of Namerikawa, broadly admitted the allegations against him, according to the Toyama Prefectural Police. He told the police, “I wanted to die as I’m struggling to make a living amid inflation, and I thought I would be shot to death or get a

Eastern China is bracing for impact as Typhoon Bavi, the ninth storm of the season, is forecast to make landfall earlier than expected on Saturday night or early Sunday along the coast from Wenling to Rui'an in Zhejiang Province. Revised track and intensity The National Meteorological Center kept its orange typhoon warning in place at 6 p.m. on Saturday. Bavi weakened from a severe typhoon to a typhoon at noon, with maximum sustained winds of 40 m/s (Force 13) near its center

The family of a 17-year-old who died in a crash in Fife on Sunday have paid tribute to him, saying he had a "bright future ahead of him". A 20-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the incident and inquiries are continuing. Kerr Paterson, from Saline, was driving a blue Toyota Aygo that was in collision with a yellow Volkswagen Golf on the B914 near Kelty. A 20-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the incident and inquiries are continuing. Police have

As record-breaking heat waves sweep across parts of the world, another challenge is confronting the artificial intelligence boom: keeping the high-performance chips inside data centers cool enough to keep running. The challenge extends far beyond seasonal heat. As AI models become larger and more computationally intensive, demand for computing power is rising at a pace that is testing the physical limits of conventional data centers. According to the International Energy Agen

China will take the World Artificial Intelligence (AI) Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance as an opportunity to strengthen exchanges and cooperation with all parties to build a global AI governance system based on broad consensus, Chinese Vice President Han Zheng said on Friday. Han made the remarks when addressing the opening ceremony of the 14th World Peace Forum in Beijing, calling for strengthening governance in emerging fields like AI. China has put