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A bus has crashed into pedestrians in Stockholm, Sweden, with local media reporting that multiple people have been killed. The force have not specified the number of people dead or their identities. The bus driver has been arrested, according to Swedish daily newspaper Aftonbladet. In a statement, police said the incident had been classified as aggravated manslaughter. FOLLOW OUR LIVE …

US President Donald Trump on Friday said he was asking the Department of Justice to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged ties with JPMorgan and several prominent Democratic figures, including former US president Bill Clinton. The request comes after a congressional committee released thousands of documents that raised new questions about Trump’s relationship with the convicted sex offender. Along with Clinton, who …

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW — Anthropic’s announcement that Chinese state-sponsored hackers used its Claude AI technology for a largely automated cyberattack underscores how cybercriminals are becoming faster, stronger and more organized, driven by advances in technology like artificial intelligence. Criminal networks are now blending phishing, fraud and ransomware with other enterprises like trafficking and money laundering, making this borderless threat even more …

Financial Lifelines and Sanctions The November 5 announcement from the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) targeted key elements of Hezbollah’s financial network. Two operatives — Ossama Jaber, a Hezbollah financier who personally collected tens of millions via Lebanese exchange houses from September 2024 to February 2025, and Ja’far Muhammad Qasir, a sanctioned terrorist collaborating with Syrian oil …

The lender will dispatch a team to discuss the terms of a potential new lending program following reports of embezzlement The International Monetary Fund (IMF) plans to engage with Kiev on corruption, the global lender said on Thursday, as a $100 million graft scandal has rocked Vladimir Zelensky’s government. On Monday, Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) charged seven people including …

A man was shot by police at a major train station in Paris while attempting to cut the throats of his wife and child, reports from local media suggest. Journalist Jean-Baptise Marty said Montparnasse station was placed under lockdown while police carried out their operation. He wrote on X: “Completely locked-down sector at station #montparnasse: a man who threatened to …

Hong Kong police have recorded more than 40 cases of online romance scams in the past two weeks, including one of a 52-year-old woman who lost over HK$2.6 million (US$334,500) to a swindler posing as a “Singaporean businessman”. The force on Friday said the cases involved losses totalling over HK$17 million. It added that more than 40 per cent of …

Donald Trump is not, by instinct, a president who seeks war. But he is a president who believes deeply in projecting strength. And in the US, strength is almost always performed on the world stage. Assessing American policy from the outside is notoriously difficult. The country’s political system was built under unusual conditions – a state invented by immigrants, animated …

Vladimir Putin ‘regularly’ cheated on his long-term partner with an underage beauty pageant contestant who posed for a racy calendar marking his birthday. The school-leaver was secretly smuggled into his official residence or a bolthole when gymnast Alina Kabaeva – now 42 – was away. Startling new revelations from Russian investigative journalists cover the despot’s relationship with Alisa Kharcheva, aged …

Hong Kong’s anti-corruption watchdog has arrested three people for allegedly reposting online content inciting others to abstain from voting or to cast invalid ballots in the coming Legislative Council election. The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) said on Friday that the suspects – two men and one woman, aged 55 to 66 – were arrested on the same day. The …