Near-blind Rohingya refugee found dead after border patrol release
Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a nearly-blind Rohingya refugee, was found dead days after US Border Patrol agents released him.
Day: February 27, 2026
Search for Brazil flood survivors continues as death toll rises to 64
Landslides and flooding in Brazil’s Minas Gerais state triggered by days of heavy rain have claimed the lives of 64 people, authorities say.
Trump advisers scramble to justify US military intervention in Iran
Tehran’s ICBMs cannot currently reach the US, experts say, and White House has claimed its nuclear programme has been destroyedDonald Trump’s likely casus belli for an attack on Iran – which would be the largest US intervention since the Iraq war – is …
CMA CGM to launch standalone Japan-Europe express service in April
The new service comes as cargo owners are facing a drop in direct connections between Japan and the main markets of Europe and North America.
UK police arrest man after Churchill statue sprayed with graffiti
A man has been arrested after defacing a Winston Churchill statue in central London that labelled the former British prime minister as a “zionist war criminal”.
NASA aims for 2 moon landings in 2028 with new Artemis schedule
NASA is overhauling and accelerating Artemis, its program to send astronauts back to the moon, the head of the space agency announced Friday.
Oman’s foreign minister meets with US’s Vance as Iran tensions rise
Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi, the key mediator in US-Iran nuclear talks, meets with JD Vance in Washington, DC.
Aeternum botnet hides commands in Polygon smart contracts
Aeternum botnet uses Polygon blockchain smart contracts for C&C, making its infrastructure harder to detect and disrupt. Qrator Labs researchers uncovered Aeternum, a botnet that runs its command-and-control infrastructure through smart contracts on the Polygon blockchain. By decentralizing its C2, the malware avoids traditional server-based takedowns and becomes far harder to disrupt or shut down, […]
Shia LaBeouf converts to Catholicism after being confirmed at New Year’s Eve Mass
Actor Shia LaBeouf has converted to Catholicism.
Ukraine, The Clintons, El Mencho and Iran
It’s been a week that began in silence in Independence Square, where European leaders laid flowers for Ukraine’s war dead — even as the fighting grinds on in the east, across vast drone-dominated front lines in territory Russia now claims as its own.
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