Author: Justin M. Larson

Two Russian warships were intercepted in the English Channel by the Royal Navy, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said.In the latest incident involving Russia’s ships entering waters around the UK, HMS Severn headed off the RFN Stoikiy, a corvette and Yelnya, a tanker, as they sailed west through the Dover Strait into the English Channel in the past fortnight.Last week, it emerged that the Russian spy ship Yantar was spotted off the coast of Scotland and it used lasers to disrupt RAF pilots tracking its movements.Defence Secretary John Healey branded the Yantar’s move “deeply dangerous” and warned Russia and…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Apple now lets you add your passport to your phone’s Wallet, giving you a new way to move through TSA lines with less stress this holiday season. Instead of digging through your bag for your ID, you can use a secure Digital ID on your iPhone at more than 250 airports across the United States. With more digital ID options appearing across the country, here is what you need to know before you start using it.Sign up for my FREE CyberGuy Report Get my best tech tips, urgent security alerts and exclusive…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Google is sounding the alarm for Android users after uncovering a wave of fake VPN apps that sneak malware onto phones and tablets. These dangerous apps pose as privacy tools but hide info stealers, banking trojans and remote access malware designed to loot personal data.More people are relying on VPNs to protect their privacy, secure home networks and shield personal information while using public Wi-Fi. Attackers know this demand is growing. They use it to lure users into downloading convincing VPN lookalikes that contain hidden malware.Sign up for my FREE CyberGuy Report…

Escalating its attacks on the armed group in Lebanon, Israel said it killed Hezbollah’s chief of staff in an airstrike on an apartment building. Source link

Shortly before he was expected to start serving a 27-year sentence, Brazil’s former president took a soldering iron to his tracking device. Source link

Organic and inorganic foods differ in how they’re produced or grown. If something is organic, it’s made without pesticides, chemical or synthetic fertilizer, or from genetically modified seeds or feed sources. Whether a food is organic or inorganic may influence how nutritious it is.   Though more research is needed to confirm the potential health benefits of organic foods, some studies suggest these benefits may include:  More of some nutrients: Some organic foods are richer in nutrients like vitamin C, magnesium, calcium, and iron than their inorganic counterparts. Researchers found this with organic corn, wheat, leafy greens, broccoli, tomatoes, and…

The watch belonged to Isidor Straus, a co-owner of Macy’s who was traveling first class on the Titanic with his wife when it sank in April 1912. Source link

The national team’s success in landing a World Cup slot gave Haitians around the world a momentary reprieve from their country’s deep crises. Source link

Serbia’s president, Aleksandar Vucic, has described an allegation that he was involved in “sniper tourism” during the siege of Sarajevo as a “lie”.It follows a complaint submitted to Italian prosecutors by a Croatian journalist, who claimed that video from the 1990s and subsequent testimony by Bosnian officials showed that Vucic was a “war volunteer” with Bosnian-Serb forces at positions overlooking Sarajevo.Speaking at a UK-Western Balkans business conference in Belgrade, Vucic said he had “never killed anyone, wounded anyone, or done anything similar”. He added that he had “never held a sniper rifle in my life”.Pictures purporting to show him with…

Sofia Bettiza,BBC Global Health Reporter and Woody Morris,BBC World Service, DenmarkBBCKeira says she sobbed uncontrollably when her baby was taken away from herWhen Keira’s daughter was born last November, she was given two hours with her before the baby was taken into care.”Right when she came out, I started counting the minutes,” Keira, 39, recalls. “I kept looking at the clock to see how long we had.”When the moment came for Zammi to be taken from her arms, Keira says she sobbed uncontrollably, whispering “sorry” to her baby.”It felt like a part of my soul died.”Now Keira is one of…

Olga Prosvirova & Zlata OnufrievaBBC News RussianAishat Baimuradova/Getty/BBCAishat told her friends she had been raised in a strictly religious familyWhen 23-year-old Aishat Baimuradova fled her home earlier this year, she believed she finally had a chance to live the way she wanted.Coming from Chechnya, a conservative Muslim republic in Russia, she cut her hair short, stopped covering her head, shaved off part of her eyebrow and posted quirky selfies on Instagram.She told her new friends she could finally breathe.In October, Aishat was found dead in a rented flat in neighbouring Armenia. Police say she was murdered.Two people were seen leaving…

Abdujalil AbdurasulovIn eastern UkraineA robot being sent on a mission by Ukraine’s fifth brigade to deliver supplies to troops on the frontline”The toy is delivered,” a Ukrainian soldier whispers into the radio.In the dead of night, he and his partner move quickly to roll out their cargo from a van. Speed is crucial as they are within the range of deadly Russian drones.The fifth brigade’s new “toy” is an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV), a robot that provides a lifeline for Ukrainian troops at the front in Pokrovsk and Myrnograd, a strategic hub in eastern Ukraine.Russian forces are relentlessly trying to…

Residents and visitors from all over give the city a diverse visual flavor. Source link

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has insisted that a proposed 28-point plan to end the Ukraine war, which has been widely viewed as favourable to Russia, was “authored by the US”.It comes after a group of senators said they had been told by Rubio that the draft – which one said he described as a Russian “wish list” – did not reflect Washington’s position.Rubio later distanced himself from those claims and said the plan came from the US, and was “based on input” from both Russia and Ukraine.His intervention came as he flew to Geneva in Switzerland for talks…

There’s a lot going on at TikTok right now. As well as online safety updates and new features, the company is introducing sweeping changes to how it moderates the platform’s content. At the same time, there’s an intense focus on online safety, particularly here in the UK.With all that going on, Sky News got a rare, exclusive sit-down with one of TikTok’s senior safety executives, Ali Law.The increasing role of artificial intelligence One of the biggest changes happening at TikTok is around artificial intelligence.Like most social media companies, TikTok has used AI to help moderate its platform for years – it…

The men, who planned to recruit homeless people for the invasion, took Haitian Creole classes and one enrolled in the U.S. Air Force to prepare for an attack by sailboat, prosecutors said. Source link

Thousands of the endangered primates end up on the dinner plates of people in the upper rung of the country’s society who have money to spare. Source link

Well, it could have been worse.This was the first COP to happen after being hollowed out by the absence of a climate-denying United States. Also, in the shadow of cost-of-living, trade and conflict crises, few governments brought their A-game. There were fears, too, that the tropical heat and crumbling infrastructure of the Amazon’s seaport, Belem, would result in chaos. But despite deafening Amazonian downpours drumming on the canvas of the temporary venue and even a fire, the summit concluded its business.The failure to agree, or even to agree to disagree, on a “roadmap”, a discussion paper, about how best to…

Getty ImagesPaul Costelloe during London Fashion Week September 2025Irish fashion designer Paul Costelloe has died in London aged 80.Costelloe became one of the best-known names in British and Irish fashion and was personal designer to the late Diana, the Princess of Wales.His family issued a statement on Saturday saying they were “deeply saddened to announce the passing of Paul Costelloe following a short illness”.They added: “He was surrounded by his wife and seven children and passed peacefully in London.”Getty ImagesPaul Costelloe at London Fashion Week in 2022He was born in Dublin where his father ran a successful company making raincoats.…

She knows what it’s like to be silenced.Born into a family that didn’t believe in educating girls, she had to stay home while her brothers went to school. Only when she moved to Khartoum with her uncle did she get a chance to study, though not for long.“I was forced into marriage at 14,” Awrelia said. “Even before then, some relatives scolded me just for going to school. I fought to finish primary school, but I couldn’t go any further.” Even so, she never gave up on the value of education – especially for her daughters. “I hope they grow up to be responsible and successful women leaders. Something has to change…

Ukraine’s allies from Europe, Canada and Japan have voiced concerns over a US plan to end the Russia-Ukraine war, saying it “will require additional work”.They said in a statement the plan had elements “essential for a just and lasting peace”, but cited concerns over border changes and caps on Ukraine’s army.Later on Saturday, US President Donald Trump said the draft plan was not his “final offer” for Ukraine. On Sunday, security officials from Britain, France, Germany, the US and Ukraine will meet in Geneva, Switzerland.President Volodymyr Zelensky earlier warned Ukraine faced “one of the most difficult moments in our history”…

t was originally reported that 215 pupils had been kidnapped from St.  Mary’s School in Papiri, Niger state, early on Friday morning – but the figure was revised upwards to 303 students and 12 teachers, according to The Christian Association of Nigeria.The association’s chair who reportedly visited the school on Friday said that more than 80 students had been captured after trying to escape during the abduction by armed assailants. The students were both male and female, aged 10 to 18. Second mass abduction this weekThe number snatched from the Catholic school in the centre of the country exceeds the…

Violence has repeatedly flared up in the weeks since a cease-fire was reached, killing hundreds of Palestinians and at least three Israeli soldiers. Source link

Unidentified drones have been observed hovering over a military base used by Nato in the Netherlands, the Dutch defence ministry has said. It said military personnel deployed weapons to try to take down the drones spotted near Volkel Air Base, north of Eindhoven, between 19:00 and 21:00 local time (18:00-20:00 GMT) on Friday.The defence ministry said the devices “departed and were never recovered”.The Netherlands is among a number of northern European nations to be blighted by drone sightings around military installations and airfields in recent months. Russia has denied accusations it was involved in previous incidents.Dutch police are investigating Friday’s…