The Latest Push to Extend Key US Spy Powers Is Still a Mess
A US surveillance program that lets the FBI view Americans’ communications without a warrant is up for renewal. A new bill aims to address mounting lawmaker concerns—with smoke and mirrors.
Day: April 24, 2026
India’s central bank cancels Paytm Payments Bank’s banking license, after imposing business curbs over non-compliance with rules in January 2024 (Gopika Gopakumar/Reuters)
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India’s central bank cancels Paytm Payments Bank’s banking license, after imposing business curbs over non-compliance with rules in January 2024 — India’s central bank said on Friday it has cancelled the …
Russia kills elderly couple in their home
In Ukraine, a Russian drone attack in the coastal city of Odesa killed a married couple in their seventies when their home was struck early in the morning, with several apartment buildings damaged—one nearly split in two—while separate drone strikes i…
News24 | G7 drops climate change from agenda to keep US on board at Paris meeting
Canada’s environment minister Julie Dabrusin told AFP on Friday said that G7 nations made progress for nature at a meeting in Paris, even as climate change was absent to keep the United States on board.
Israel threatens to bomb Iran into ‘the Stone Age’
Israel is waiting for a green light from the US to bomb Iran and return it to “the Stone Age,” Defense Minister Israel Katz has claimed
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“We have watched and waited for this moment.” World-first footage shows orangutan using canopy bridge to cross a road in North Sumatra – BBC Wildlife Magazine
“We have watched and waited for this moment.” World-first footage shows orangutan using canopy bridge to cross a road in North Sumatra BBC Wildlife Magazine‘Cries of delight’ as Sumatran orangutan filmed using canopy bridge to cross road for…
‘Baseball bat years’ continue to haunt eastern Germany, 30 years on
In the 1990s, just after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the former East Germany experienced a wave of far-right racist and political violence. In Germany, this period is known as the “baseball bat years” – a dark period that still haunts the country tod…
South Korea’s Ex-President Faces 30 Years Over Drone Plot – Newser
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US considers suspending Spain from NATO – Reuters
The Pentagon is weighing options to punish NATO members that failed to support the US war on Iran, including suspending Spain from the bloc
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Shocking moment woman in giant 3-ton pickup truck runs over £250k Lamborghini – because she was too high up to see it
THIS is the jaw-dropping moment a woman in a three-ton pickup truck accidentally runs over a £250,000 Lamborghini – with the driver still inside. Shocking footage captures the towering Chevrolet Silverado mounting the front bonnet of the supercar. The …