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Police lay 14 charges against man accused of violent Epsom attack The man accused of a violent attack that left three school kids injured and a dog dead has been charged with 14 charges by police. The 49-year-old man allegedly stole a Good Samaritan’s car before ploughing into five high school student cyclists and killing a woman’s dog during a frenzied series of attacks in Auckland’s Epsom that left five people injured, police say. The violent chain of events began about 7.0

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

In Musina, in northeast South Africa, on the border with Zimbabwe, hundreds of undocumented migrants are preparing to return home following a wave of sometimes violent anti-migrant protests across the country. Meanwhile, nearby, some people are still seeking to enter South Africa and they do so, braving crocodiles to cross the Limpopo River via wooden rafts, before slipping away into the thorn scrub. This scene highlights how the protests have not deterred everyone. Some who

Nigeria said on Sunday that two of its nationals were killed in South Africa last month amid xenophobic violence targeting people from elsewhere on the continent. In a statement, it added that they died on 28 June in the build up to an end-of-month unofficial deadline by anti-illegal immigrant groups for foreigners to leave the country. Abuja said one of the men was allegedly killed by police officers in Pretoria and the other by unidentified attackers in Mpumalanga province.

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