28 m. ago Thousands detained as Myanmar military raids notorious KK park scam compound

Myanmar's military moved in to tackle a major online scam operation near the Thailand border, state media reportedMyanmar’s military has raided a major online scam operation near the border with Thailand, detaining more than 2,000 people and seizing dozens of Starlink satellite internet terminals, state media has reported.According to a report in Monday’s Myanma Alinn newspaper, Myanmar’s army raided KK Park, a well-documented cybercrime centre, as part of operations starting in early September to suppress online fraud, illegal gambling, and cross-border cybercrime. Continue reading...

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92 m. ago Maccabi Tel Aviv says its fans will not attend Aston Villa match in the UK

Israeli football club to turn down tickets over safety concerns even if the UK reverses a ban on team’s supporters

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92 m. ago Maccabi Tel Aviv says fans will not attend Aston Villa match in UK

Israeli football club to turn down tickets over safety concerns even if ban on team’s supporters is reversed

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3 h. ago Warning issued after sleeping ‘hack’ goes viral on social media

Sleep medicine experts have weighed in on the mouth taping trend

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3 h. ago One Tech Tip: How to prepare for outages that impact our online lives, from banking to chatting apps

An Amazon Web Services outage on Monday disrupted many online platforms, affecting banking services, chat apps, and more

Economics

3 h. ago Maccabi Tel Aviv will decline any tickets offered to fans for Aston Villa match

The Israeli club said in a statement that a ‘toxic atmosphere’ had put the safety of fans wanting to attend ‘very much in doubt’

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4 h. ago Israeli fans won’t be able to buy tickets for crunch Aston Villa game over safety fears

ISRAELI fans will not be able to buy tickets for a major game against Aston Villa next month amid safety concerns. This comes after the government said it was exploring what "additional resources and support are required" to allow "all fans" to attend. Birmingham safety chiefs have rejected pleas to U-turn on their decision to...

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4 h. ago Maccabi Tel Aviv confirm Aston Villa ticket decision despite UK Government stance

Aston Villa announced last week that Birmingham's safety advisory group had made the decision to ban fans of Israeli side Maccabi Tel Aviv from attending their team's Europa League match at Villa Park

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5 h. ago Comey asks judge to dismiss criminal charges claiming selective prosecution

Ex-FBI director claims he is victim of selective prosecution and charges were filed by unlawfully appointed attorneyFormer FBI director James Comey formally asked a federal judge to dismiss criminal charges against him, arguing he was the victim of a selective prosecution and that the US attorney who filed the charges was unlawfully appointed.“The record as it currently exists shows a clear causal link between President Trump’s animus and the prosecution of Mr Comey,” Comey’s lawyers wrote in their request to dismiss the case, calling a 20 September Truth Social post in which he disparaged Comey and called for his prosecution “smoking gun evidence”. “President Trump’s repeated public statements and action leave no doubt as to the government’s genuine animus toward Mr Comey.” Comey’s lawyers attached an exhibit to their filing on Monday, which contains dozens of public statements from Trump criticizing Comey. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Welsh Water fine for 800 sewage breaches significantly reduced after appeal

The company was fined £1.35m earlier this year after it admitted breaches of its environmental permits to discharge sewage

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5 h. ago Amazon says Web Services are recovering after outage hits millions of users – business live

Fortnite, Roblox, SnapChat, Lloyds Bank, Ring doorbells and Amazon’s own shopping site among services hit by online outageFull story: Amazon Web Services outage hits dozens of websites and appsHeads-up: UBS have upgraded their view on global equities to ‘attractive’, a sign that they think investors should be putting more money into shares.Despite the angst in parts of the market that valuations have risen too high, UBS reckon share prices have further to climb.“We think investors should review current allocations to equities and ensure they are at least consistent with, or modestly higher than, their long-term strategic asset allocation targets. If investors are currently under allocated to equities, we believe they should reallocate excess cash, bond, or high yield credit holdings toward stocks.”“We prefer areas that are exposed to secu­lar growth, like the US, China, (particularly China’s tech sector, which we rate among the Most Attractive sectors globally), as well as global te...

Economics

6 h. ago Supreme Court to review law used to convict Hunter Biden after Trump administration request

Justices will consider an appeal by the Justice Department against a lower court's decision in a Texas case involving Ali Hemani

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6 h. ago US investigates Waymo robotaxis over safety around school buses

Top transport safety regulator to determine if self-driving vehicles failed to follow traffic laws for stopped busesThe US’s main transportation safety regulator said on Monday it had opened a preliminary investigation into about 2,000 Waymo self-driving vehicles after reports that the company’s robotaxis may have failed to follow traffic safety laws around stopped school buses.The investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is the latest federal review of self-driving systems as regulators scrutinize how driverless technologies interact with pedestrians, cyclists and other road users. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Where to shop Helen Skelton’s exact Pride of Britain velvet maxi dress that’s got 50% off

Helen Skelton looked effortlessly elegant on the red carpet at the Pride of Britain Awards in a velvet maxi dress, which is now available to shop online with 50% off

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7 h. ago Jewish GP who angrily told colleague 'Typical of you Muslims to gaslight' during online row sparked by October 7 attacks fights for her career

Dr Cindy Cohen, who practises in North London , was enraged after Dr Roghieh Dehghan Zaklaki invited members of their medical WhatsApp group to a pro-Palestinian rally.

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7 h. ago Prince Andrew's 'team' tried to hire 'online trolls to hassle' Giuffre, memoir claims

Virginia Giuffre has made a number of claims in her posthumous memoirs, titled Nobody's Girl, which is being published on Tuesday

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8 h. ago MP for Hillsborough families warns of 'slippery slope' after Maccabi Tel Aviv football row

An MP raised the Hillsborough tragedy after the Government said it was doing 'everything in our power' to reverse a ban on Israeli fans attending a match over safety concerns

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8 h. ago Lisa Nandy says Maccabi Tel Aviv fan ban at Villa Park ‘chooses exclusion’

The local Safety Advisory Group opted last week to block visiting fans from attending the Europa League tie against Aston Villa on November 6.

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8 h. ago Amazon battles to fix Web Services outage after millions of users report disruption to websites and apps – business live

Fortnite, Roblox, SnapChat, Lloyds Bank and Ring doorbells among services hit by online outageFull story: Amazon Web Services outage hits dozens of websites and appsHeads-up: UBS have upgraded their view on global equities to ‘attractive’, a sign that they think investors should be putting more money into shares.Despite the angst in parts of the market that valuations have risen too high, UBS reckon share prices have further to climb.“We think investors should review current allocations to equities and ensure they are at least consistent with, or modestly higher than, their long-term strategic asset allocation targets. If investors are currently under allocated to equities, we believe they should reallocate excess cash, bond, or high yield credit holdings toward stocks.”“We prefer areas that are exposed to secu­lar growth, like the US, China, (particularly China’s tech sector, which we rate among the Most Attractive sectors globally), as well as global technology, transformational i...

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9 h. ago See Naomi Campbell, Janet Jackson and More at the Inaugural Pink Ball, a.k.a London's Met Gala

See Naomi Campbell, Janet Jackson and More at the Inaugural Pink Ball, a.k.a London's Met Gala  E! Online

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