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A Google employee was arrested for allegedly using his access to company information to successfully place lucrative bets on the prediction platform Polymarket. The US Attorney for the Southern District of New York said it had charged…
The live-in personal assistant to Friends star Matthew Perry has been sentenced to 41 months in prison, capping a multi-year legal saga surrounding the actor’s death. Kenneth Iwamasa, 60, who injected Perry with ketamine, worked with two…
Ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo is hampering the Ebola outbreak response, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the east of the country was at the centre of a…
Almost 500,000 Russian soldiers have been killed since it launched its fullscale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, according to the UK’s largest spy agency. The numbers were revealed by GCHQ director Anne Keast-Butler in her inaugural public…
Former US President Joe Biden has sued the federal government to block the release of interviews with his memoir’s ghostwriter, which he has described as “private information” but could contain embarrassing details about his memory.…
Police in Spain have raided the Madrid headquarters of the governing Socialist Party and seized a number of documents as part of an investigation into alleged corruption. The inquiry comes amid a series of scandals that have hit the party…
Former US Attorney General Pam Bondi, who was removed from her role last month, has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer. Her diagnosis came shortly after President Donald Trump ousted her from the post of America’s top law enforcement…
Uganda Orders Immediate Border Closure On the morning of Wednesday, May 27, 2026, the Ugandan government announced the closure of its border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and any person returning from the DRC into Uganda…
A Chinese dissident who fled his country on a rubber boat has been detained in South Korea after spending hours at sea. Dong Guangping, a former police officer and human rights activist, was found in Korean waters on Monday night. South…
Congress in Bolivia passed a bill which will make it easier for the president to declare a state of emergency and deploy soldiers to quell protests. The move comes after almost a month of road blocks and demonstrations by miners, farmers…
The Trump administration is proposing non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) for US government workers in an attempt to curb leaks to the press. The federal personnel office published a draft of the proposed agreement for new and current federal…
At least one person has been killed and nine others are still missing after a major chemical explosion at a paper mill in Washington, authorities said. The explosion occurred at 07:15 PDT (15:15 GMT) at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging…
Republicans in South Carolina defied US President Donald Trump ahead of the November midterm elections by blocking a measure to redraw voting maps in their favour. They allowed the state’s only Democrat in the US House of Representatives,…
The White House has begun construction on a UFC fighting cage on its South Lawn ahead of next month’s event to celebrate 250 years of American independence. Workers were seen assembling domed arches and a staging area, which based on…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton easily defeated Senator John Cornyn in a Republican run-off primary on Tuesday night. While the outcome had been expected for weeks, it marks a stunning defeat for an incumbent who served in Congress for…
US President Donald Trump is set to hold a rare cabinet meeting at the Camp David presidential retreat on Wednesday as Iran talks near a critical point, a White House official told AFP. The choice of the secluded retreat in the Maryland…
Almost 50 countries condemned what they said were threats by Russia against embassies in Ukraine in a joint statement at the United Nations on Tuesday. Russia called on Washington to evacuate its Kyiv embassy on Monday, threatening…
Nasa released details of robotic landers, hopping drones and vehicles it aims to send to the Moon as part of US plans to build a lunar base. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s space company Blue Origin is one of several companies picked to build…
The UK record for the hottest May day has been broken for a second day in a row, as parts of London surpassed 35C on Tuesday. Kew Gardens in south-west London recorded a provisional temperature of 35.1C, beating Monday’s 34.8C record-high…
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has started a legal challenge against a report commissioned by parliament that has paved the way for MPs to once again consider impeachment proceedings against him. In 2022, an independent panel said…
Colombian mercenaries were recruited by a United Arab Emirates-based company and transited through Emirati military bases to support paramilitary troops who committed atrocities in Sudan, a leading rights organisation alleges. According to…
Iran says the US has committed a “gross violation” of the ceasefire with new air strikes it launched on the country in the past 48 hours. The US Central Command (Centcom) said Iranian missile sites and boats attempting to place mines had…
Oil giant BP removed its chairman Albert Manifold over “serious concerns” related to “important governance standards, oversight, and conduct”. Senior independent director Amanda Blanc said the board had been “surprised and disappointed to…
Chinese authorities have executed a man for murdering his associate, billionaire gaming tycoon Lin Qi. In 2020, a disgruntled Xu Yao poisoned Lin for sidelining him shortly after he helped him land a Netflix deal, local media reported.…
