Hundreds of people besieged supermarkets in and around Paris Thursday, with scuffles and shouting matches breaking out as residents scrambled to get their hands on bargain air-cooling units before the next heatwave hits the French capital. FRANCE 24’s…
Nine Buddhist monks killed by child driving truck in Thailand
Nine Buddhist monks were killed after a truck driven by an 11-year-old boy struck a pilgrimage procession in Thailand.
Israelis join protests and memorials to mark 1,000 days since October 7 Hamas attack
Israelis on Thursday held memorials and joined protests to mark 1,000 days since the deadly October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, which triggered the war in Gaza. Many Israelis are calling for an official enquiry into why the government failed to prevent …
Russia massive attack: ‘West simply doesn’t have enough interceptors’, military expert says
Speaking with FRANCE 24’s Mark Owen, Frank Ledwidge, Senior Lecturer in Strategy at Portsmouth University, says that “Ukraine’s allies are doing as much as they realistically can” adding that “they all suffer from the same problem: the density, the fr…
Wildfires rage in southern France, 3,000 people evacuated
Nearly 3,000 people have been evacuated in southwestern France, as Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu sounded the alarm over an early outbreak of wildfires in the wake of a record-breaking heatwave. FRANCE 24’s Juliette Brown reports.
Latin proverb of the day: ‘Let the experiment be made on a low-value body’
A historical Latin phrase, “fiat experimentum in corpore vili,” meaning “let the experiment be made on a low-value body,” reveals a troubling past where scientific discovery prioritized knowledge over human dignity. Though explicitly rejected today, it…
Kentucky church sparks backlash after bizarre skit showing the devil being executed by firing squad at youth event
The pastor of the church defended the filmed skit, saying, ‘The clip you saw was simply killing the devil’
FBI Seizes NetNut Proxy Platform, Popa Botnet
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today it worked with industry partners to seize hundreds of domains associated with NetNut, a sprawling residential proxy service operated by the publicly-traded Israeli company Alarum Technologies [NASDAQ: ALAR]. The action comes roughly two weeks after KrebsOnSecurity published findings from multiple security firms connecting NetNut to the Popa botnet, a collection of at least two million devices that have been compromised by malicious software with little or no consent from victims.
US Olympian indicted after Trump alleged ‘vandalism’ at DC reflecting pool
Canoeist David Hearn was arrested in June after touching a peeling piece of liner in the pool from renovation projectDavid Hearn, a three-time US Olympian and canoeist, has been indicted by a grand jury in Washington DC after Donald Trump blamed vandal…
USAF Point Defense Battle Lab Wants Performance Data On C-sUAS
The U.S. Air Force’s Point Defense Battle Lab (PDBL) at Grand Forks AFB, N.D., wants companies to submit their ideas on counter small unmanned aircraft systems (C-sUAS) by July 31, […]