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OPINION — Elected officials are both the bullseye and the bait for AI-driven influence campaigns launched by foreign adversaries. They are targeted with disinformation meant to sway their opinions and votes, while also serving as the raw material for deepfakes used to deceive others. It’s a problem so widespread that it threatens our faith in democratic institutions. Even seemingly trivial …

The report follows a series of American attacks on boats claimed to have been carrying narcotics off the Venezuelan coast The administration of US President Donald Trump has produced a top-secret legal opinion authorizing the use of force against a list of drug cartels, going beyond those officially designated by Washington as terrorist groups, CNN has reported, citing multiple informed …

Israel has hit back at allegations of mistreatment towards Greta Thunberg and the flotilla activities, accusing one of the Gaza sailors of biting a medic. Israel’s foreign ministry said on Monday: “The only violent incident came from a Hamas-Sumud provocateur who bit a female medical staff member of Ketziot prison.” The campaigners aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla claimed the Israeli …

A firefighter told reporters at the scene that the van company’s equipment, which is used to detect short circuits, caught fire before flames spread through the vehicle. The Paris fire department said the fire was quickly extinguished, adding that the explosions heard by witnesses were the sound of small aerosol canisters detonating.  The fire did not spread to other buildings, …

Hong Kong customs has launched a three-month pilot scheme to test using laser labels on duty-paid tobacco products to help tackle the sale of untaxed cigarettes in the city. Commissioner of Customs and Excise Chan Tsz-tat said on Tuesday that he was confident the labels would be difficult to counterfeit, adding that local tobacco companies were equipped to produce the …

Two women who died in a car crash in Hong Kong’s Tai Po on Monday were a domestic helper and her boss, the Post learned. A source told the Post that a 37-year-old victim was an Indonesian domestic helper employed by an 88-year-old local woman, who also died in the incident. The crash also injured a 71-year-old pedestrian who sustained …

An air ambulance crashed onto a busy highway on Monday night, sparking chaos and leaving at least three people seriously injured – including one woman who was trapped under the wreckage of the aircraft. The helicopter had taken a patient to a hospital and was on the way back to the place it had been dispatched from when it experienced …

The move could pave the way for an attempt to force President Nicolas Maduro out of power, the report says US President Donald Trump has ordered his diplomats to stop making overtures to Caracas, paving the way for a “potential military escalation” or an attempt to remove Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from power, the New York Times reported Monday, citing …

The Bali heat proved too much for Zhang Min, a 30-year-old tourist from Chengdu, one afternoon last month. She had made it to a cliff above one of the Indonesian holiday destination’s most sought-after scenic spots, but was exhausted by the journey. “The roads are really poor,” Zhang said as her group stopped above the T. Rex-shaped headland – a …

A presidential pardon could be used to free Jeffrey Epstein’s fixer and former girlfriend, convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, Donald Trump hinted in a jaw-dropping admission while speaking in the Oval Office. Despite questions about President Trump’s lengthy association with Maxwell and the notorious convicted paedophile dogging the first year of his second term, he told CNN he would …