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euronews.com | 35 min. ago NEW

Switzerland: Giant banner targets Big Tech outside data centre site

Greenpeace activists unfurled a giant 26-by-26-metre banner outside a data centre construction site in Beringen, northeastern Switzerland, on Friday 6 November, protesting against the growing environmental impact of major technology companies.

dw.com | 1 hrs. 20 min. ago

New bomb threats target Irish media, more European flights

Newsrooms have been evacuated across Ireland after another wave of bomb threats. Dublin is hosting a high-level EU meeting in several days.

nypost.com | 1 hrs. 21 min. ago

3 charged in AI scheme used to impersonate CEOs, attorneys to steal $129 million

Over more than a year and a half, Jacob Soall, 41, Sharon Hazan, 54, and Guy Sheetrit, 42, targeted thousands of companies across the world in their AI scheme, according to the indictment filed in a US District Court in New York.

npr.org | 1 hrs. 23 min. ago

European air traffic is targeted by new threats after a week of hoaxes

Officials across Europe reported a fresh slew of bomb threats against multiple flights on Friday, following a string of hoaxes that have caused flight diversions this week. Two broadcasters also received security threats.

theguardian.com | 2 hrs. 22 min. ago

Police chief condemns ‘terrifying’ Bonfire Night violence across Scotland

Multiple arrests, emergency services targeted and police van set alight while disorder also erupts in north-east EnglandA police chief has condemned the “unacceptable and terrifying” Bonfire Night disorder that resulted in seven arrests, a police van being torched and an officer and a paramedic being injured in Scotland.Ch Supt David Robertson of Police Scotland said there had been significant reduction in problems overall, compared with 2025, after the force deployed its largest number of officers since Donald Trump’s visit last year.

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foxnews.com | 2 hrs. 38 min. ago

Travelers warned of costly new scam targeting Americans planning vacations to popular spot

Over 150 scam websites are reportedly charging travelers for ETIAS travel authorizations that don't yet exist, mimicking government websites. A travel advisor shared warnings and advice.

scmp.com | 3 hrs. 3 min. ago

US adds 165,000 jobs in October as labour market beats expectations

Employment in the United States grew by 165,000 jobs in October, far exceeding analysts’ expectations, with the unemployment rate dipping to 4.1 per cent, government data showed on Friday. The relatively stable labour market has allowed the US Federal Reserve – which has a dual mandate to maintain inflation at a long-term 2 per cent target while ensuring maximum employment – to make fighting stubbornly high prices its priority.

The strong October data could add to pressure for further rate...

foxnews.com | 3 hrs. 19 min. ago

Progressive group's 182-page blueprint maps out potential Dem investigations into Trump, corporate allies

Former President Joe Biden aides mapped Tesla, Apple, Amazon and OpenAI as targets for sweeping Democratic congressional investigations into Trump allies.

euronews.com | 3 hrs. 52 min. ago

Uzbekistan announces record cotton harvest as President Mirziyoyev sets higher 2027 yield target

Officials say Uzbekistan harvested more than five million tonnes of raw cotton, about 25% more than in 2025, with machines picking around 85% of the crop.

marketwatch.com | 5 hrs. 22 min. ago

Goldman’s new gold target: Why the Wall Street bank is saying it’s early to buy the yellow metal

Strategists at the investment bank said the change in expectations is down to the Federal Reserve’s hawkish shift.

smh.com.au | 5 hrs. 42 min. ago

New wave of bomb threats hits European flights, Irish media outlets

Irish media outlets have become the latest target of a highly unusual spate of bomb threats affecting flights in Europe.

euronews.com | 5 hrs. 52 min. ago

Irish media outlets evacuate staff in Dublin following bomb threats

It comes amid a flurry of bomb hoaxes targeting European airlines and around a week before Dublin is due to host a meeting of the European Political Community.

thehindu.com | 6 hrs. 18 min. ago

Robbery gang targets cars parked on NH-65 during night; Telangana’s Sangareddy police arrest three

The gang allegedly used a fake air pistol and knives to rob people in cars parked along highways, sold stolen gold ornaments through a contact in Latur and planned more robberies in Telangana

iol.co.za | 6 hrs. 27 min. ago

Fake IDs, credit purchases and R432,000 haul: Police bust alleged fraud syndicate

Kensington police arrested a 37-year-old suspect and recovered goods worth R432,745 during an operation targeting an alleged multi-province fraud syndicate.

scmp.com | 6 hrs. 58 min. ago

Signs of Prabowo-Widodo rift grow as Indonesian lawmakers target VP Gibran’s credentials

A growing push among Indonesian lawmakers to investigate Vice-President Gibran Rakabuming Raka’s academic credentials is raising questions about the influence of his father, former leader Joko Widodo, as signs of a rift within the country’s ruling elite grow. The challenge comes from within President Prabowo Subianto’s own coalition, underscoring how the political alliance that helped propel him to power in 2024 may be unravelling, analysts have said.

It also follows the arrest of a prominent...

thehindu.com | 7 hrs. 26 min. ago

Amit Shah calls for hat-trick in Uttarakhand, sets target of winning 65 seats in assembly polls

Addressing a public rally in Dehradun, Amit Shah asserted that the BJP is set to form the Government in Uttarakhand once again and said the “voice of Uttarakhand” should reach Rahul Gandhi

euronews.com | 7 hrs. 39 min. ago

Bomb threat targets Ryanair flight to Lisbon as scares continue across Europe

The Ryanair flight, which was travelling from Rome to Lisbon, landed at around 8 am this morning, prompting the authorities to take action.

mirror.co.uk | 8 hrs. 10 min. ago

Former teacher posed as teen boy online to groom and sexually assault girls

Syed Shahreear Ahmed, 37, posed as a teenage boy to target girls as young as 13 on social media, grooming some online and arranging to meet others in person before raping or sexually abusing them

kyivpost.com | 8 hrs. 53 min. ago

Russia’s Major Oil Refinery Reportedly Targeted as 142 Drones Downed

The Afipsky Oil Refinery in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai was reportedly targeted by drones on Friday, with explosions and smoke reported nearby. Russia said it downed 142 Ukrainian UAVs overnight, but Kyiv Post could not independently verify the refinery attack.

iol.co.za | 10 hrs. 5 min. ago

Bomb hoaxes target 20 flights across Europe: What happened and who is behind them?

Fighter jets escorted passenger planes after bomb hoaxes targeted around 20 commercial flights across Europe for a third day.

smh.com.au | 10 hrs. 33 min. ago

‘We will get you’: Adelaide MP targeted with powder-filled balloons

Police are investigating after powder-filled balloons carrying death threats were left at Labor MP Jayne Stinson’s electorate office.

thehindu.com | 11 hrs. 2 min. ago

Donors flag online fraud targeting patients in need of blood in Keralam’s Kozhikode

Fraudsters reportedly contact people responding to urgent requirements for blood, offer to donate and then seek advance online payments towards travel expenses and other costs. They allegedly disappear after receiving the money without turning up for blood donation

scmp.com | 11 hrs. 10 min. ago

New anti-corruption law arms Beijing with expansive global enforcement powers

China’s top legislature passed on Friday a landmark law targeting cross-border corruption, equipping Beijing with expansive new tools to pursue illicit offshore assets while countering foreign attempts to investigate wrongdoing in China. The Anti-Cross-Border Corruption Law was approved at the close of the 25th session of the 14th National People’s Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) and took effect immediately, according to the state news agency Xinhua.

The statute establishes formal mechanisms...

euronews.com | 12 hrs. 21 min. ago

COP31 host Türkiye is home to one of Europe's largest solar farms. Why can’t it kick coal?

As Türkiye prepares to host the UN climate summit, one critic describes the country's climate targets and policies as “critically insufficient”.

scmp.com | 12 hrs. 47 min. ago

Malaysia’s Najib closer to house arrest as Umno pays US$12.3 million fine

Malaysia’s Umno said on Friday it had settled the court payment needed to move disgraced former prime minister Najib Razak to house arrest, after a public fundraising campaign reached its target to cover his 50 million ringgit (US$12.3 million) fine. The penalty was a condition of a royal pardon granted in September allowing Najib to serve the remainder of his sentence in a corruption case linked to sovereign wealth fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) at home until August 2028, after more...

news.sky.com | 12 hrs. 59 min. ago

What can Andy Burnham learn from Donald Trump?

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kyivindependent.com | 13 hrs. 25 min. ago

Ukrainian forces target oil refinery as explosions reported across southern Russia

A Russian oil refinery was set ablaze as a Ukrainian drone attack set off fires and explosions across southern Russia overnight on Nov. 6, monitoring channels reported.

cbsnews.com | 14 hrs. 18 min. ago

Dozens of planes targeted by bomb threats in Europe in apparent hoax

A wave of bomb threats has diverted and grounded dozens of flights in Europe in recent days, prompting some countries to scramble their fighter jets in response to what, so far, has all been a hoax. Imtiaz Tyab reports from London.

nypost.com | 15 hrs. 29 min. ago

Citibank office shooter targeted company over $2,500 debt: says Florida sheriff

Jacob Pearson, 35, who was enraged over a $2,500 credit card debt, killed a Citibank employee in Tampa, Florida, before a security guard fatally shot him.

businessinsider.com | 17 hrs. 19 min. ago

IREN blames Microsoft-requested networking changes for delays to its $9.7 billion AI project

Nvidia-backed IREN said Microsoft-requested networking changes delayed its $9.7 billion AI project in Texas, pushing back a key revenue target.

koreatimes.co.kr | 18 hrs. 3 min. ago

US warns of 'ongoing cyber threat' to industrial refrigeration systems

WASHINGTON — The United States is warning of an "ongoing cyber threat" to industrial refrigeration systems, saying in a statement issued Thursday that every organization that depends on cold storage should assume it could fall into the hackers' crosshairs. The statement said that unidentified "malicious cyber actors" were targeting vulnerabilities in internet-accessible electronic temperature and commercial refrigeration controllers in retail grocery and cold storage facilities.

"If successfully exploited, the actors could change the temperature and possibly cause physical impacts such as fire hazards, loss of inventory and changes to the service life of the system," said the statement, which was issued by the FBI, the cyber defense agency CISA, and other government departments.

"Every organization that depends on refrigeration and monitoring systems should assume it could be a target," said Chris Butera, CISA's acting executive assistant director for cybersecurity.

abcnews.com | 18 hrs. 42 min. ago

More than a dozen flights in Europe receive bomb threats that an official calls 'malicious' hoaxes

Authorities say that bomb threats have targeted more than a dozen flights in Europe, leading to a slew of emergency landings and military escorts in some cases

abc.net.au | 20 hrs. 35 min. ago

Police expand operation targeting Melbourne arsons and extortion

Night-time patrols as part of Operation Phoenix will be expanded across Melbourne as police try to stem a wave of arson attacks and extortion linked to crime gangs.

theguardian.com | 21 hrs. 31 min. ago

Cancer diagnoses in England hit record high of more than 1,000 people a day

While NHS is identifying more cases, it is failing to meet timescale targets on diagnosis and treatment, experts sayCancer diagnoses in England have hit record highs, with more than 1,000 people a day diagnosed, NHS figures show.But experts warned that although the health service was identifying more cases, it was still failing to meet timescale targets on diagnosis and treatment.

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scmp.com | 22 hrs. 6 min. ago

US sanctions Chinese firms over alleged military supplies to Cuba

The United States has imposed sanctions on two Chinese companies it accuses of supplying equipment and components to Cuba’s military, as Washington intensifies pressure on Havana’s foreign suppliers and expands its authority to target businesses operating on the island. The US State Department said on Thursday that China National Electronic Import and Export Company, or CEIEC, and Beijing H&C Technologies had worked with Cuban arms procurement company Sociedad Mercantil Duna to supply...

mirror.co.uk | 22 hrs. 7 min. ago

Donald Trump licks his wounds as Republicans seek to distance themselves from his failures

Senior Democrats, who will take control of both houses of Congress in January, are already hatching plots to target senior members of Trump's administration with impeachment - and potential Republican 2028 candidates are offering competing theories of what went wrong

bbc.co.uk | 22 hrs. 54 min. ago

Bomb hoaxes: Messages reveal how threat was passed on by air traffic control

BBC Verify has been analysing messages after flights across Europe were targeted by fake bomb threats - the second such incident this week.

scmp.com | 23 hrs. 48 min. ago

‘J.D., habibi’: Arabs celebrate as Michigan’s El-Sayed mocks foes with term of affection

From Michigan to the Middle East, Arabs are celebrating Abdul El-Sayed’s Senate win and delighting in his introduction of Arabic terms like “habibi” and “inshallah” to the American political lexicon. After being the target of Islamophobic rhetoric on the campaign trail, the rising political star who will be the first Muslim-American US senator has mocked his critics on the right while championing the Palestinian cause and leaning into his faith and Egyptian heritage.

“J.D., habibi,” El-Sayed...

iol.co.za | 23 hrs. 51 min. ago

IEC targets Friday declaration as Khayelitsha station delays Cape Town election results

IEC Western Cape electoral officer Michael Hendricks.

thehindu.com | 1 days ago

Karnataka targets 30 GW renewable energy capacity addition in five years

Additional Chief Secretary of the Energy Department Gaurav Gupta says Karnataka is planning to add 41.5 GW of new wind and solar capacity and approximately 11,000 MWh of battery energy storage by 2034–35