A teenage boy at a south-western Sydney high school has been reported to police after allegations he used artificial intelligence platforms to create pornography featuring other students. The student is alleged to have created explicit deepfake images of female students and circulated them using fake social media accounts. A New South Wales Department of Education…
A member of the Japanese criminal underworld has pleaded guilty to handling nuclear material sourced from Myanmar and seeking to sell it to fund an illicit arms deal, US authorities have said. Yakuza leader Takeshi Ebisawa and a co-defendant had previously been charged in April 2022 with drug trafficking and firearms offences, and both were…
A former Cambodian opposition lawmaker and French national was fatally shot by a gunman in Thailand’s capital of Bangkok on Tuesday, Thai police have confirmed. Lim Kimya, 74, died at the scene, police said, and was attacked just hours after he arrived in Thailand from the Cambodian city of Siem Reap by bus, accompanied by…
The Israeli military has placed new restrictions on media coverage of soldiers on active combat duty because of growing concern about the risk of legal action against reservists travelling abroad over allegations of involvement in war crimes in Gaza. The move came after an Israeli reservist vacationing in Brazil left the country abruptly when a…
An 18-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman was killed in a drive-by shooting outside a north-west London church. Shots were fired in Gifford Road, Brent, at about 9.15pm on 14 December, killing 44-year-old Michelle Sadio, who was standing among mourners outside the church after a wake, the Metropolitan police…
Federal Reserve officials see a rising risk that inflation may remain sticky in the US as policymakers begin wrestling with the impact of policies from the incoming Trump administration, according to the minutes of the US central bank’s latest meeting. While officials believe inflation will continue to move toward 2%, the Fed’s target rate for…
The former Brexit negotiator Oliver Robbins has been appointed as the UK Foreign Office’s most senior civil servant, taking over from Sir Philip Barton. Robbins, who was on the shortlist last year but failed to get the civil service’s top job, was believed to be David Lammy’s favoured candidate for the role of permanent undersecretary….
A rapper has been convicted of posting a “menacing” video on social media directed towards Tommy Robinson, in which he mentioned artillery and made a gun gesture while shouting “pow, pow, pow”. Omar Abdirizak, a 31-year-old Birmingham-based rapper known as Twista Cheese, posted the minute-long TikTok video in August last year. He pleaded not guilty…
Democrats in Virginia preserved their majority in the state legislature late on Tuesday in the first statewide elections since Donald Trump’s presidential victory in November. In special elections for open seats, Kannan Srinivasan, a Democratic state representative, defeated Republican Tumay Harding in a race for an open state senate seat in Loudon county, Virginia, just…
Keir Starmer has accused Kemi Badenoch of “bandwagon jumping” in calling for a new inquiry into sexual abuse gangs, as he condemned the Conservative leader for her plan to try to vote down a bill on children’s wellbeing. In sometimes bitter exchanges at prime minister’s questions, as the topic of grooming gangs continued to dominate…
