Elon Musk said Saturday his company SpaceX’s Starlink satellite broadband service had been activated in Ukraine, after a Kyiv official urged the tech titan to provide his embattled country with stations.
“Starlink service is now active in Ukraine,” Musk tweeted, adding “more terminals en route.”
The tweet came some 10 hours...
A former head of the European Council says Germany and Italy have “disgraced themselves” after blocking tough sanctions against Russia.
This comes as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused European countries of not doing enough to stop the Russian invasion.
The EU hailed a 2am agreement on a “massive” package of measures in...
Ukraine president, Volodymyr Zelensky has said that he believes that Russian special forces have entered the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv and have earmarked him to be killed by all means possible.
In a video statement late Thursday, February 24, Zelensky, clad in military camouflage said: "According to our information, the enemy marked me...
The US Secretary of Defense has ordered the deployment of 7,000 US service members to Europe, a senior defense official told reporters shortly after US President Joe Biden announced strong sanctions on Russia attack on Ukraine.
Biden said he’d authorized “the deployment of ground and air forces already stationed in...
Ukraine has said its forces have reclaimed control of Antonov International Airport about 25 miles from the country's capital, Kyiv, several hours after it was taken by Russian airborne troops.
CNN's Matthew Chance reports from an airbase outside the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, where Russian airborne troops are engaged in a fire...
On Thursday, thousands of people protested President Vladimir Putin’s attacks on Ukraine in cities across Russia, displaying a show of anger over their country's invasion of Ukraine.
So far, more than 1,700 people were arrested in at least 47 cities across the nation, according to rights group OVD-Info. The group...
79-year-old Mohamed Ziane, a former Moroccan rights minister who became an outspoken government critic, has been sentenced to three years in prison on Wednesday February 23, after being found guilty of some charges levelled against him.
Ziane was tried last year after he accused the kingdom’s security services of faking a video purporting...
The Malaysia Airlines MH370 flight that went missing was lost in a murder-suicide plot, two top air crash investigators have concluded.
During the Sky News documentary MH370: The Final Search which aired on Tuesday night, top aviation safety investigator and retired pilot, John Cox said the loss of MH370 was no accident.
The Malaysia Airlines flight was...
Colombia's constitutional court has decriminalized abortions if it happens within the first 24 weeks of pregnancy.
Under the new rule, no woman will be prosecuted for having an abortion within if it's less than 24 weeks.
Since 2006, abortions are only allowed in Colombia in cases of rape, when the woman's...
The U.S. has "credible information" indicating that Russia is creating lists of specific Ukrainians "to be killed or sent to camps following a military occupation," a top diplomat told the United Nations in a letter obtained by the Washington Post on Monday.
The letter to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human...
Recent leaks have revealed how over 30,000 drug traffickers, money launderers, dictators, corrupt politicians, et al, globally stash billions of loots in Credit Suisse, one of the world’s biggest private banks.
According to a report, the massive leak exposed the hidden wealth of clients involved in torture, drug trafficking, money...
A Black-owned tech firm based in Miami, Florida, has begun manufacturing self-driving vehicles called JéGO Pods. The firm will start releasing the pods in late 2022 and will be used to mobilize healthcare services.
JéGO Technologies Inc is founded by Frederick Akphoghene, a Nigerian immigrant, who started his career in...
Kim Potter, the former Minnesota police officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright after mistaking her gun for a Taser, has been sentenced to two years behind bars.
A jury in December convicted 49-year-old Potter on counts of first- and second-degree manslaughter in connection with the deadly incident, which unfolded during...
Many of the people on the FBI’s cyber most wanted list are Russians. While some allegedly work for the government earning a normal salary, others are being accused of making a fortune from ransomware attacks and online theft. If they leave Russia they would be apprehended- but at home...
Amazon has suspended Black Lives Matter from its charity platform AmazonSmile this week for failing to disclose where it's $60 million in donations has gone.
AmazonSmile, which donates 0.5% from purchases to designated nonprofits, still lists dozens of local Black Lives Matter (BLM) chapters among its thousands of approved charities, but noticeably absent...
The University of California has agreed to pay $250m to over 200 women who allege they were sexually assaulted by a campus gynaecologist.
Multiple women accused the university's Los Angeles campus (UCLA) of deliberately hiding James Heaps' alleged sexual abuse of patients.
Dr Heaps was based at the UCLA student health...
A Catholic priest has resigned from an Arizona church after the Vatican ruled that thousands of his baptisms are invalid because he used the wrong words for 25 years
Father Andres Arango left his post at the St. Gregory Catholic Church in Phoenix this month after disclosing that he used an 'incorrect formula'...
Cybersecurity tycoon, John McAfee died by suicide in a Spanish jail cell, a court has ruled.
McAfee, 75, was found hanging in his prison cell at Centre Penitenciari Brians 2 in Barcelona on June 23, just hours after his extradition to the US was approved.
Last week's court ruling confirmed the...
Meta-owned social media apps, including Facebook and Instagram, could be banned in the UK and in Europe as a whole.
Mark Zuckerberg has threatened to pull "core services" from the region following a dispute over data protection laws with Europe.
Meta has quietly issued a warning saying that it could shut down the services if Europe...
North Korea hackers have stolen more than £37million worth of cryptocurrency to finance and develop its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes, UN experts have said in a new report.
The annual report, by independent sanctions monitors, said there was 'a marked acceleration' of Pyongyang's testing and demonstration of new short-range and...
Children as young as four have been pictured receiving military training at an intensive volunteer boot camp as Ukraine’s military intensifies its defensive efforts in anticipation of a Russian military invasion.
The volunteer boot camp in snow-covered woods outside the capital, Kiev saw young and old people taught the rudiments of...
Peru's President Pedro Castillo has sacked Prime Minister Hector Valer Pinto three days after appointing him, following allegations of domestic violence.
The leftist Castillo announced the change in a brief television address in which he did not mention Valer Pinto by name.
"I have decided to recompose the cabinet," the president said, meaning...
The Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Damondardas has told The United Nations General Assemblies to look into the problem affecting the residents of the old eastern region of Nigeria widely known as BIAFRA which is propelling them to push for the separate independent state away from Nigeria.
He maintained that Nigeria...
An American hacker 'in his pyjamas' has taken down North Korea's internet in revenge for a cyber attack carried out against him by North Korea's hackers.
The hacker named only as P4x, launched repeated 'distributed denial of service' (DDoS) attacks against North Korea, crippling the country's government-operated public-access websites and...
The International Space Station (ISS) will continue working until 2030, before plunging into the Pacific Ocean in early 2031, National Space Agency (NASA) has revealed .
In a new report, the US space agency said the ISS will crash into a part of the ocean known as Point Nemo, which...
South Africa’s tax authority has exposed a $1.8billion gold scam, in which coins and jewelry were illegally smelted into gold bars for sale overseas, a watchdog said on Thursday.
Between 2012 and 2020, the scammers bilked the government for 24.4 billion rand (1.8 billion dollars, 1.4 billion euros) by defrauding...
An anti-vax priest in Italy who said Covid jabs contained the cells of aborted embryos has died from coronavirus.
Rev. Don Paolo Romeo, 51, was a parish priest at Santo Stefano Abbey in Genoa, northern Italy.
He died of complications from the virus after a month in hospital.
Before his death, he...
28-year-old Yasmeena Ali, a top porn star from Afghanistan has opened up about the risks she’s taken to pursue sex work after leaving behind her religion and family.
The former muslim said in an interview with The Post that she feels empowered by her kinky occupation, despite her own father purportedly trying...
The FBI has told Olympic athletes to leave their personal cell phones at home and instead take burner phones to the Beijing Winter Olympics this month, citing the potential for "malicious cyber activities."
"The FBI urges all athletes to keep their personal cell phones at home and use a temporary...
Israel has responded after Amnesty International called it 'an apartheid state'.
In a new report, Human Rights group, Amnesty International said "Israel enforces a system of oppression and domination against Palestinians. Israeli laws, policies and practices against Palestinians in Israel and the occupied territories amount to apartheid"
The report calls Israel's act...
About 200 U.S troops have been pictured in Kiev, Ukraine, after they were sent to train the country's military against an expected Russian invasion.
The troops from the Florida National Guard are training Ukrainian forces to use 'bunker buster' rocket launchers amid fears Russia's President Putin is about to invade...
Free condoms will be handed to athletes at next month’s Winter Olympics in Beijing, but competitors have been discouraged from shaking hands and hugging in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The International Olympics Committee revealed in the events playbook that athletes were required to minimise interaction, and stay within their ‘close loop’ due to...
Mali's military leaders have expelled the French ambassador to the country over what they called "outrageous" comments made by the French foreign minister about the transitional government.
Relations between France and Mali, a landlocked country in West Africa which is one of the world's poorest nations, have deteriorated since the...
North Korea on Sunday tested its most powerful missile since 2017, ramping up the firepower for its record-breaking seventh launch this month as Seoul warned nuclear and long-range tests could be next, Tori Media reports.
Pyongyang has never test-fired this many missiles in a calendar month before and last week...
The Canadian authorities have confirmed the identity of the family of four found frozen to death in a field at Emerson, Manitoba, near the US-Canada border.
Bodies of Jagdishkumar Patel, 39; his wife Vaishaliben Patel, 37 and their children, Vihangi Patel, 11; and Dharmik Patel, 3, were discovered in the field on January...
Ozzie, the world's oldest male Gorilla is dead.
The western lowland silverback was found dead by his "heartbroken" care team at Zoo Atlanta in Georgia, US, on Tuesday morning, January 25.
The gorilla who died at the age of 61, is said to have lost his appetite since last week and was...
More than 100 Catholic church officials in Germany came out as LGBT, queer or non-binary, adding to calls for reform within the crisis-hit church.
Demands for a more liberal attitude to homosexuality within the German church have coincided with uproar over reports of widespread child sex abuse by Catholic clergymen...
The Pentagon has said 8500 US troops are on standby to deploy at short notice to Europe, should Russia invade Ukraine.
Russia continues to deny planning military action against Ukraine, despite massing 100,000 troops at the border saying it sees Nato as a security threat, and is demanding legal guarantees...
The United Arab Emirates intercepted two missiles launched by the Iran-allied Houthi rebels in Yemen, its official news agency said on Monday, one week after a deadly strike by the group killed three people in Abu Dhabi.
Parts of the missiles fell over Abu Dhabi and did not cause any...
Armenian President Armen Sarkissian resigned from office on Sunday January 23, complaining that he did not have enough power under the country's constitution to implement necessary changes.
In a statement posted on the presidential website, he attributed his resignation to “a paradoxical situation when the President has to be a guarantor of...
A stowaway who hid in the front wheel section of a cargo plane miraculously survived an 11-hour flight from South Africa to the Netherlands.
Dutch military police said that man was found after he had squeezed into the wheel section below the fuselage.
He was found "doing well" despite the arduous journey after arriving at...
Investors are counting their losses this weekend as Crypto crash erases more than $1 Trillion in market value.
For Bitcoin, there’s only been one constant recently: decline after decline after decline. And the superlatives have piled up really quickly.
With the Federal Reserve intending to withdraw stimulus from the market, riskier...
Baywatch actress Pamela Anderson, 54, has reportedly filed for divorce from her sixth husband Dan Hayhurst, after one year of marriage.
In January last year, Pamela made news headlines when it was announced that she had married her bodyguard in Dec. 2020 after a whirlwind romance of just a few months of dating...
It marks the second successful transplant of pig kidneys into a human in the United States, following a similar achievement by surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York City last October in a procedure that also involved a brain-dead recipient, the researchers said in an article published Thursday...
A police sergeant in Florida, US has been demoted to office work after he was seen on video grabbing a fellow officer by her throat and shoving her into patrol car.
Police in Sunrise, Florida have shared body camera footage of an incident that took place November 19.
Everyone in the...
Three people have been killed with six wounded in Abu Dhabi following suspected drone attacks carried out by Iran-backed Houthi rebels.
A fire broke out at an extension of Abu Dhabi's main international airport and three fuel tanker trucks exploded in the Musaffah area near the storage facilities of ADNOC, Abu...
North Korean hackers reportedly stole nearly $400 million worth of cryptocurrency in 2021, making it one of the most lucrative years for cybercriminals in the impoverished and severely isolated country.
According to a new report by Chainalysis, a firm that tracks cryptocurrency, hackers launched at least seven different attacks in...
Tennis star, Novak Djokovic has been deported from Australia after he lost his appeal to convince three senior judges of his right to stay in Melbourne to compete in the Australian Open.
The 20-time Grand Slam champion had his appeal heard in the Federal Court on Sunday Jan 16th in a last-ditch attempt to...
Hillsong Church has been accused of exploiting a COVID exemption for Australian religious institutions.
While singing and dancing are currently banned in public venues in New South Wales as a Covid precaution, the megachurch has been reprimanded by regional government department the New South Wales Ministry of Health for allowing young parishioners...
Microsoft announced on Thursday January 13, that it has hired a law firm to review how the company handled sexual harassment allegations against some of its top executives including founder Bill Gates.
According to Mail Online, the review will be conducted by Washington, D.C.-based Arent Fox LLP, which the board of directors...
Rasuili Zubaidullah, an Afghan migrant accused of raping and killing a 13-year-old schoolgirl, Leonie Walner in Vienna, will be extradited back to Austria.
The crime came to light after Walner's corpse was found wrapped in a roll of carpet that was dumped under a tree in the centre of the city in 2020.
Leonie Walner...
Ron and Joyce Bond have just celebrated their 81st wedding anniversary and are thought to be Britain’s "longest married couple."
Ron and Joyce, aged 102 and 100 respectively, got married in 1941 after a "love at first sight" meeting.
On their wedding day
The duo, from Milton Keynes, then went on to...
Tennis star, Novak Djokovic has admitted breaching isolation rules after testing positive for Covid-19 in December 2021 and acknowledged he made errors in his travel form before entering Australia.
In an Instagram post on Wednesday morning, January 12, the Serbian athlete admitted meeting a journalist for an interview two days...
A New York man was charged on Monday, January 10 with threatening to kill, kidnap, and inflict bodily harm on former U.S. President Donald Trump.
The defendant, Thomas Welnicki, 72, of Rockaway Beach, threatened to do "everything I can" to ensure Trump's death, and once inquired about Secret Service protection...
A court in Myanmar sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to four more years in prison on Monday January 10, after finding her guilty of illegally importing and possessing walkie-talkies and violating coronavirus restrictions, a legal official said.
Suu Kyi was convicted last month on two other charges and given a...
The Golden Globes award took place Sunday, Jan. 9 despite being pulled by NBC following a controversy surrounding the voting body, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA).
Last year, the organization’s voting membership faced a Hollywood boycott after it was revealed there were no Black members. Many studios and celebrities openly criticised the HFPA,...
