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new video loaded: How We Know Iran Crushed Protests with Lethal ForceThe New York Times collected and analyzed hundreds of videos of a crackdown on anti-government protests that Iranians shared despite an internet blackout. Sanjana Varghese explains how the Visual Investigations team at The Times verified them.By Sanjana Varghese, Christina Thornell, James Surdam, Jon Hazell and Zach CaldwellFebruary 5, 2026 Source link
The United States has threatened to impose tariffs on any country providing oil to Cuba, increasing pressure on the island nation following a decades-long trade embargo and the US seizure of Venezuela’s leader Nicolás Maduro last month.Venezuela had been the main supplier of oil to Havana but Washington has been ratcheting up pressure on Cuba in recent weeks, including an executive order last Thursday threatening to impose additional tariffs on countries that sell oil to Cuba, including Mexico.“I can tell you that the Secretary-General is extremely concerned about the humanitarian situation in Cuba, which will worsen, and if not collapse, if…
Prime Minister Mark Carney announced several measures Thursday aimed at making Canada a global leader in electric vehicles and rescuing an industry ravaged by U.S. trade policy. Source link
Few Labour MPs are publicly calling for Sir Keir Starmer to go but this is very serious moment for the PM. Source link
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! For years, we’ve been told that encryption is the gold standard for digital privacy. If data is encrypted, it is supposed to be locked away from hackers, companies and governments alike. That assumption just took a hit. In a federal investigation tied to alleged COVID-19 unemployment fraud in Guam, a U.S. territory where federal law applies, Microsoft confirmed it provided law enforcement with BitLocker recovery keys. Those keys allowed investigators to unlock encrypted data on multiple laptops.This is one of the clearest public examples to date of Microsoft providing BitLocker recovery keys to…
Russian, Ukrainian and US teams took part in the talks in the capital of the United Arab Emirates, with the main sticking points believed to be territorial concessions Ukraine is under pressure to make and security guarantees for it to prevent further Russian attacks if a deal is agreed to end the four-year war. Source link
Channels of communication were suspended in 2021 shortly before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Source link
Tom Félix, 34, was arrested in 2023 as he was preparing to open a restaurant in the country. Source link
The U.K. is set to reach its target level of 2% inflation earlier than expected, Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey has told CNBC.The central bank left interest rates unchanged at 3.75% on Thursday, in a widely anticipated move, though its nine-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) was split 5-4 over the decision.Speaking with CNBC’s Ritika Gupta following the announcement, Bailey said the MPC expected inflation to reach 2% — the BoE’s target level — by the spring, sooner than anticipated.”The critical thing now, though, is, of course, that it stays there,” Bailey said. While key factors such as falling energy…
Experts at Christie’s say it is a foot sketch of the Libyan Sibyl which was later painted on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Source link
During a dive off Argentina, scientists documented a rare jellyfish discovered a little over a century ago and seldom seen since, as well as the fish that keep it company. Source link
The rights activist Narges Mohammadi is protesting her continued detention, her family said. She was arrested again in December after being given leave from prison for medical treatment. Source link
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A popular mobile app called Chat & Ask AI has more than 50 million users across the Google Play Store and Apple App Store. Now, an independent security researcher says the app exposed hundreds of millions of private chatbot conversations online. The exposed messages reportedly included deeply personal and disturbing requests. Users asked questions like how to painlessly kill themselves, how to write suicide notes, how to make meth and how to hack other apps. These were not harmless prompts. They were full chat histories tied to real users.Sign up for my FREE CyberGuy…
Airport organisation says queues could last up to six hours over the summer holidays. Source link
Italy has foiled “Russian origin” cyber-attacks targeting the Winter Olympics, says Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani.He said websites linked to the Games, hotels in host town Cortina d’Ampezzo and foreign ministry facilities, including an embassy in Washington, were targeted.Cortina d’Ampezzo, one of five host clusters for the Olympics, will stage alpine skiing, biathlon, curling, and sliding events.”We prevented a series of cyber-attacks against foreign ministry sites. These are actions of Russian origin,” said Tajani.The Games officially begin on Friday, although the first action got under way on Wednesday. Source link
Special US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, held talks with Russian and Ukrainian negotiators in the capital of the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi, for a second day on Thursday in an effort to try and thrash out the details of the US-proposed peace deal. Source link
Autism rates are ‘more or less equal for men and women’, according to a study which challenges previous assumptions about its prevalence.While the neurological and developmental condition is known to be more common in young boys, Swedish researchers found there was a big rise in diagnoses among adolescent girls. And by the age of 20, the male-to-female ratio had evened out at nearly one-to-one, experts at the Karolinska Institutet reported.Researchers said the study, published in the BMJ, highlights a need to investigate why girls and women receive diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) later than boys and men.Previous work on…
Alphabet’s shares were down in premarket trading on Tuesday after the company beat Wall Street’s expectations on earnings and revenue, with AI spending projected to increase hugely this year. The Google parent shed 2.6% in premarket as of 6:09 a.m. ET, after closing nearly 2% lower on Wednesday. After the bell, Alphabet reported $113.83 billion in revenue in the fourth quarter, above the estimated $111.43 billion from analysts polled by LSEG. Its Google Cloud division earned $17.66 billion in revenue versus a forecast of $16.18 billion, according to Street Account. YouTube Advertising earned $11.38 billion in revenue versus the estimated…
Vance says it is not true Europeans have not made any concessions to the US over its designs to control Greenland. Source link
The authorities are making mass arrests, seizing assets and hunting down doctors who treated protesters. Some Iranians keep showing defiance anyway. Source link
More than half the exhibited artists were from the Middle East, North Africa or South Asia, giving visitors an opportunity to discover fresh voices. Source link
Mikael Sjoberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesShares of Sweden’s Volvo Cars tumbled 19.5% on Thursday morning, putting the company on track for its worst trading day ever.The automaker, which is owned by China’s Geely Holding, posted a substantial drop in fourth-quarter profit, citing tariffs, currency effects and weak demand.This is breaking news. Please refresh for updates. Source link
Later in the day, the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement that “in the current circumstances, we assume that the parties to the New START are no longer bound by any obligations or symmetrical declarations in the context of the Treaty, including its core provisions, and are in principle free to choose their next steps. Source link
Alpine skiing: Women’s downhill (10:30-12:50)This race marks the return of legendary American skier Lindsey Vonn, six years after her retirement from the sport. Downhill is the 41-year-old’s speciality and she’s won a record 45 World Cup races in this event, plus her only Olympic gold medal in 2010.We will have to see how much of an affect crashing in the final World Cup downhill before the Winter Olympics hinders Vonn’s bid. Keep an eye out for her superbly-named compatriot Breezy Johnson, who is the 2025 world champion. The host nation will be hopeful of at least one podium place, although…
