VLGC rates hit record levels amid Middle East war disruption
Surge in US exports and Panama Canal delays are pushing up spot earnings into Asia
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UK’s Keir Starmer faces likely challenge following Labour’s election defeat
The UK prime minister is set to give a speech on Monday in a bid to convince the public of his leadership.
Packed passenger plane catches fire after landing sparking evacuation of 288 on board and runway shutdown
A PACKED passenger plane caught fire as it landed – forcing a mass evacuation of nearly 300 people on board and an airport shutdown. The Turkish Airlines flight, heading from Istanbul to Kathmandu, was set ablaze after a spark went off in the jet’s lan…
News24 | US ‘shouldn’t be panicking’ as Americans from hantavirus ship return home, says official
American passengers evacuated from a cruise ship struck by a deadly hantavirus outbreak will not necessarily be quarantined, a top US health official said.
Covid flashbacks haunt Spain’s Canary Islands as hantavirus ship docks
Six years after registering Spain’s first Covid case, locals in the Canary Islands are both worried and angry about the arrival of a cruise ship struck by a deadly hantavirus outbreak, reviving painful memories.
Fake OpenAI Privacy Filter Repo Hits #1 on Hugging Face, Draws 244K Downloads
A malicious Hugging Face repository managed to take a spot in the platform’s trending list by impersonating OpenAI’s Privacy Filter open-weight model to deliver a Rust-based information stealer to Windows users.
The project, named Open-OSS/privacy-filt…
Instagram removed end-to-end encryption for DMs. What should users do?
Instagram removes direct messages (DM) end-to-end encryption May 8, 2026, letting Meta access chats. Users should download backups amid privacy concerns and U.S. law pressure. Starting May 8, 2026, Instagram users who previously enabled end-to-end encryption in direct messages will lose that protection, marking a significant shift in how private conversations are handled on the […]
Netanyahu concedes he bears some responsibility for Oct. 7, but says ‘everyone’ shares it – The Times of Israel
Netanyahu concedes he bears some responsibility for Oct. 7, but says ‘everyone’ shares it The Times of IsraelEU’s top diplomat ‘hopeful’ that bloc will sanction violent West Bank settlers today The Times of IsraelEU moving toward …
‘It was either this or the pool’: hantavirus ship becomes latest Tenerife tourist attraction
The MV Hondius, the cruise ship hit by an outbreak of a virus that has left three dead, reached the Canary Islands on SundayOn a dusty hill overlooking the Atlantic Ocean in the south of Tenerife, groups of tourists and locals are gathered to witness o…
Get back: Beatles’ Apple Corps to turn former London base into seven-storey visitor attraction
Paul McCartney hails plans for 3 Savile Row, which include access to rooftop where the band played their final gig The address may not sound familiar, and the street name is best known as the heart of British tailoring. But 3 Savile Row is one of the m…