NewsFeed An explosion was reported near the presidential palace in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, minutes after President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s motorcade passed by. An unknown number of casualties are reported. Al-Shabab, an al-Qaeda-linked armed group, claimed responsibility for the attack. Published On 18 Mar 202518 Mar 2025 Source link
The rate of children permanently excluded from school in England rose against last year and is higher than before the pandemic. A recent BBC documentary by actor Idris Elba pointed out that being excluded from school can be a tipping point that pushes a child towards serious violence. This observation is backed up by convincing evidence. Data in a joint report by the Ministry of Justice and Department for Education shows that the risk of being cautioned or charged for a serious violence offence by age 18 is 15 times higher in children who had been excluded from school. Crucially, though, exclusion and violence have many risk factors in common. Children who have special educational needs, have grown up in deprivation or have been in care, for instance, are more at risk both of being excluded from school and of committing a violent offence. This makes the job of teasing out the impact of exclusion on violence challenging. Research needs to account for the contribution of these other factors. We carried out research to isolate …
Only rarely does the West get a glimpse inside the vast hacker-for-hire contractor ecosystem that enables China’s digital intrusion campaigns worldwide. Now a new set of criminal charges against a dozen Chinese men, including two government officials, accuses them of a vast espionage campaign that included breaching the US Treasury, and goes as far as revealing the internal communications of some of those alleged hackers, their tools, and their business relationships. The US Department of Justice on Wednesday announced the indictments of 12 Chinese individuals accused of more than a decade of hacker intrusions around the world, including eight staffers for the contractor i-Soon, two officials at China’s Ministry of Public Security who allegedly worked with them, and two other men who were allegedly part of the Chinese hacker group APT27 or Silk Typhoon, which prosecutors say was involved in the breach late last year of the US Treasury. “Today, we are exposing the Chinese government agents directing and fostering indiscriminate and reckless attacks against computers and networks worldwide, as well as the enabling companies …
Mexico has extradited 29 senior drug cartel members to the US. They include cartel boss Rafael Caro Quintero. Source link
SINGAPORE: An employee who had sole access to documents for staff payrolls edited the spreadsheets so that cryptocurrencies or fiat payments would be paid into her e-wallet and bank accounts. In this manner, Ho Kai Xin managed to cheat a company out of more than S$5.5 million (US$4.1 million) worth of United States Dollar Tether (USDT) – the world’s fourth largest cryptocurrency which is pegged to the US dollar – and fiat currency. The 32-year-old Singaporean then spent the money on upgrading her home, car and the purchase of luxury items, insurance policies and investment plans. Ho was sentenced to nine years and 11 months’ jail on Thursday (Feb 20) after she pleaded guilty to 14 charges, comprising cheating, concealing or transferring benefits from criminal conduct, and for furnishing false information to the police. Another 30 charges of a similar nature were taken into consideration for her sentencing. Ho was employed by Wechain Fintech Singapore to process payroll from Oct 20, 2021 to Oct 6, 2022. Wechain provided payroll services to ByBit Fintech, a company …
Turkish Embassy in London. CC BY-SA 4.0 Moritz 2011 A second man has been charged with a crime after burning a Quran, this time outside the Turkish Embassy in London. Media has reported that the man has been charged with ‘intent to cause against religious institution of Islam, harassment, alarm or distress’, has pleaded not guilty, and is due to appear for trial in May. Humanists UK has expressed shock at the news. England and Wales repealed its blasphemy law in 2008, but it now seems to be returning through other laws. The man in question burned the Quran on Thursday, reportedly as a protest against the Turkish President, before being assaulted by a second man with a knife. That second man has been charged with causing actual bodily harm and possession of an offensive weapon. The Quran-burning incident is similar to another a fortnight ago where a man burned a Quran in Manchester. The Manchester man then pled guilty to a charge of racially or religiously aggravated intentional harassment or alarm against another named …
Elon Musk listens to U.S. President Donald Trump speak in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., Feb. 11, 2025. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters The anti-bribery law whose enforcement President Donald Trump has suspended was previously used by the Department of Justice and financial regulators to win settlements totaling more than $1.5 billion from companies that are major suppliers for Tesla, the electric vehicle giant run by Trump’s ally Elon Musk. And Trump in his executive order Monday pausing the law, which bans bribery of foreign officials, says, “American national security depends in substantial part” on the U.S. and its companies “gaining strategic business advantages whether in critical minerals, deep-water ports, or other key infrastructure or assets.” Tesla and other electric vehicle companies rely on critical minerals, mostly sourced overseas, to make batteries. Critical minerals and deep-water ports were the only two specific advantages mentioned by name in the order, titled “Pausing Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement to Further American Economic and National Security.” CNBC has asked the White House, Tesla …
A man has pleaded guilty to a charge of racially or religiously aggravated intentional harassment or alarm in Manchester yesterday after footage of him burning a copy of the Quran was live-streamed on social media over the weekend. At the time of his being charged, Greater Manchester Police named the defendant on social media. Humanists UK is seriously concerned that this endangers his long-term safety and has questioned whether this was necessary. The defendant told officers he was demonstrating solidarity with Salwan Momika, who was murdered in Sweden on Wednesday ahead of the verdict in his criminal trial for burning four Qurans in separate incidents. The court also heard how the defendant suffered poor mental health following the death of his daughter in the war in Gaza. In a statement to the UN last year, Humanists UK reminded states that blasphemy laws (such as those against damaging religious books) are not compatible with freedom of speech nor the UN Rabat Plan on hate crime. Countries with blasphemy laws typically see much more religious violence of …
Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media amid his trial on charges of covering up hush money payments linked to alleged extramarital affairs, at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City, on May 16, 2024. Angela Weiss | Via Reuters President Donald Trump’s lawyers on Wednesday formally notified a New York state court of Trump’s intent to appeal his criminal conviction on charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star. In the notice, Trump’s lawyers said they would appeal both the jury’s May 30, 2024, guilty verdict and Justice Juan Merchan’s Jan. 10, 2025, sentence of unconditional discharge to a mid-level state appeals court. The sentence, imposed just days before Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration to a second White House term, meant he will face no jail time or other legal punishment, but that a former judgment of guilt would be placed on his record. Trump, the first-ever sitting or former U.S. president to be convicted of a crime, has long said he planned to appeal. After filing the formal …
Four years ago, scores of police officers were attacked only yards away from where Donald Trump will swear to defend the Constitution and faithfully execute the duties of his office. The scene, in the words of one officer, was “a non-stop barrage” with “weapons and things being thrown, and pepper spray, and you name it … You could hear them yelling. You could hear them, screams and moans, and everything else.” One officer later said that he was certain he would die the moment he entered the crowd: “You know, you’re getting pushed, kicked, you know, people are throwing metal bats at you and all that stuff. I was like, yeah, this is fucking it.” All of this happened because Trump, according to Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report, could not accept his loss in the 2020 election, and so he tried on January 6, 2021, to “direct an angry mob to the United States Capitol to obstruct the congressional certification of the presidential election and then leverage rioters’ violence to further delay it.” The crowd …
