CNN — Salwan Momika, an Iraqi man who sparked outrage by staging Quran-burning protests in Sweden in 2023, has been shot dead, according to Swedish authorities. A spokesperson for Sweden’s prosecutor’s office confirmed to CNN that Momika was shot dead in capital city Stockholm on Wednesday. Stockholm police told CNN that five people had been
The senators who’ll make Trump sweat over RFK Jr. and Gabbard votes Axios Trump’s Cabinet nominees face sharpest bipartisan grilling to date and other takeaways from Thursday’s confirmation hearings CNN Five Takeaways from Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel hearings BBC.com Conspiracies, espionage, an enemies list: Takeaways from a wild day of confirmation hearings The Associated Press
Ian Wafula Africa security correspondent, BBC News EPA It has been a humiliating week for nearly 300 Romanian mercenaries recruited to fight on the side of the army in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Their surrender following a rebel assault on the eastern city of Goma has also shattered the dreams of those who signed
Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] BANGKOK (AP) — Five Thai nationals held hostage by Hamas since its Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel were released Thursday . They were among 31 Thais taken by the militant group, of whom 23 have already been released. Another two have been confirmed dead, and the
Freed hostage Gadi Moses is an embodiment of Israel’s enduring national strength. By BEN SALES/JTA JANUARY 31, 2025 00:33 A photo of Gadi Mozes, who was released from Israeli captivity on Thursday, Jan. 30, has gone viral in Israel. (photo credit: X/Twitter) Thursday’s chaotic hostage release, which saw a crush of fighters push two captives
Kickboxer – Training Montage (HD) – YouTube Watch On Maybe you’re too young to remember Kickboxer, the 1989 martial arts movie where Jean-Claude Van Damme learns Muay Thai in a training montage, kicks down a banana tree, and dances in a way that suggests his ballet training was all for naught. Even as someone who
If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIRED The Barbie movie might feel like a distant memory at this point, but the collaborations somehow keep coming. The latest? There’s an official Barbie-branded G-Shock on the way.
The recent installation of Elon Musk ally Thomas Shedd atop the federal IT structure has thrown an agency in charge of servicing much of the US government’s technical infrastructure into disarray. Over the last few days, workers at the Technology Transformation Services (TTS), which is housed within the General Services Administration (GSA), have been summoned
Semiconductor giant Intel Corporation has already received $2.2 billion in federal grants from the U.S. Department of Commerce through the U.S. CHIPS and Science Act, the company shared during its Thursday earnings call. Dave Zinsner, Intel’s co-interim CEO, executive vice president, and CFO, said the Silicon Valley-based company received the first tranche of $1.1 billion
DeepSeek’s terms of service explicitly states it stores user data on Chinese servers and that it governs that data under Chinese law — which mandates cooperation with the country’s intelligence agencies. But that didn’t stop U.S. Department of Defense workers from getting caught up in the DeepSeek hype this week and connecting their work computers