Diarrhea in Every Pot and a Gun in Every Mailbox
Suddenly, the wordenshittification has become literal. Before this month, Americans already had more than enough problems to worry about, fromfood and fuel costs to a…
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Hundreds of Drone-as-First-Responder Programs Could Soon Be Launched Across the Country
Police departments across the country are lining up to launch drone-as-first-responder (DFR) programs, and hundreds have cleared a necessary hurdle toward making deployment a reality,…
EU Prosecutors Raid Two Latvian Hospitals in Fraud Probe
Latvian authorities have raided two hospitals as part of an investigation into the suspected fraud of 657,000 euros ($749,779) in European Union funds, the EU…
Videos of Torture for Millions in Ransom: Ethiopia Smashes Notorious Trafficking Ring
Ethiopian authorities have arrested 17 key operatives behind a brutal human trafficking syndicate that trapped tens of thousands of migrants in Yemen, systematically filming their…
Comfort and Closure at What Cost?
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s new film stars a heroic AI bereavement bot. Where’s ‘Black Mirror’ when you need it?
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Kazakhstan Sentences 27 in $6.4 Million Fake Farm-Loan Scheme
A Kazakh court has sentenced 27 members of an organized crime group to between six and eight years in prison for stealing the equivalent of…
Popular EU Mobile Apps with Security Gaps Lead to Belarus and Russia
Mobile apps that appear to be Lithuanian were developed by a Belarusian company, raising risks that exiled activists could be surveilled by security agents from…
World News in Brief: New ECOSOC chief, Secretary-General candidates’ debate, torture in Mali, drowning prevention
Amar Bendjama, Permanent Representative of Algeria to the UN, was elected on Thursday to serve as the next president of the UN’s Economic and Social Council…
Gaza’s food gains could unravel without sustained aid, UN warns
Food security and child nutrition have improved across the Gaza Strip largely due to a scale-up in humanitarian assistance and commercial traffic, but progress remains…
Iran urged to stop protest-related executions
Independent UN human rights investigators on Thursday called for Iran to immediately halt the execution of 10 men who took part in a protest in…