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Croatian Deputy Prime Minister Josip Dabro resigned on Saturday after a video of him shooting a gun out of a moving car surfaced in local media. Dabro, who also was agriculture minister, on Friday confirmed the authenticity of the recording and apologized for his actions, which he said were “the result of a moment of thoughtlessness.” He claimed that the recording had been made several years prior, before he held any position in the government, and that it was a political attack by a former friend-turned-rival to whom he had sent the video. He also argued that the weapon was…

Hundreds of Swedish troops arrived in Latvia on Saturday to join a Canadian-led multinational brigade along NATO’s eastern flank. A ship carrying parts of a mechanised infantry battalion arrived early on Saturday in the port of Riga, the Latvian capital, escorted by the Swedish air force and units from the Swedish and Latvian navies, the Swedish armed forces said in a statement.They’re joining a Canadian-led multinational brigade along NATO’s eastern flank, a mission Sweden is calling its most significant operation so far as a member of the Western defence alliance.Latvia borders Russia to its east and Russia ally Belarus to…

Arena told the newspaper La Libre Belgique on Saturday that the judge charged her for participating in a criminal organization, but not for corruption or money laundering. Most of the other main defendants have been hit with all three charges. She told the paper that it was a vindication of herself, in light of media reporting that suggested she may have received gifts. “For two years, I’ve seen my name sullied and denounced in the press with accusations suggesting gifts I supposedly received in exchange for favors — since that’s what corruption is — and finally, the judge did not retain any…

Both men were named by activists and exiles as taking part in the execution of thousands of political prisoners in 1988 on the orders of Iran’s Supreme Leader. A man fatally shot two prominent hard-line judges in Iran’s capital on Saturday, officials said, both of whom allegedly took part in the mass execution of political prisoners in 1988. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the shootings of the judges, clerics Mohammad Mogheiseh and Ali Razini. However, Razini’s involvement in the 1988 executions had likely made him a target in the past, including an assassination attempt in 1999. Their killings, a…

The European executive requested further information to the DSA’s X ongoing proceedings regarding its recommendation system. The Commission is examining recent algorithm changes, the prominence given to certain accounts, and how content is moderated. The European Commission has just taken new steps in its investigation into X, formerly Twitter. They requested today internal documentation on X’s recommender systems, issued a retention order to preserve records of algorithm changes throughout 2025, and sought access to the platform’s commercial APIs to analyse content moderation and account virality.This new request for information also looks at recent changes to algorithms, how content is moderated,…

TikTok is facing a ban in the United States on Sunday after the country’s Supreme Court upheld a federal law to shut it down or force its sale. The US Supreme Court on Friday voted to unanimously uphold the federal law banning TikTok beginning Sunday, unless it’s sold by its China-based parent company. The ruling held that the risk to national security posed by its ties to China overcomes concerns about limiting speech by the app or its 170 million users in the United States.A sale does not appear imminent, and experts have said the app will not disappear from…

The deal brokered by the U.S., Qatar and Egypt has three phases, as reported by Israeli newspaper Haaretz. The first stage will see the staggered release of 33 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza and more than 700 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons. More than 1,100 residents of Gaza “who were not involved in the events” of Oct. 7 and are being held in custody will also be freed, according to the Israeli government. Israeli troops will gradually withdraw from Gaza, allowing international aid to flow in, it said. Israel’s Cabinet ratified the agreement in the early hours of Saturday, despite…

In a 1961 report on American broadcaster CBS, TV legend Walter Cronkite visited the military base. His program filmed Camp Century’s massive ice tunnels being dug and showed U.S. army engineers relaxing in their underground, nuclear-powered barracks, reading and listening to records.  All that is now buried under thick layers of ice. Colgan said he and his team of researchers had been unable to find parts of Camp Century, such as its fuel depot, and feared disturbing it too much. “It’s cold, it’s deep, don’t poke it,” he said. There are different ways Camp Century could contaminate the environment. One…

But while Fico’s trip was mainly business, the group of Slovak MPs went around admiring Moscow’s architecture, attending theater plays and browsing Russian supermarkets to prove that stories about missing basic food supplies are (totally and completely!) false. Their positive outlook echoed another controversial recent Russia visit: Conservative pundit Tucker Carlson’s Moscow jolly back in February 2024. The American TV star enjoyed his sit-down with Vladimir Putin so much that he went to Moscow again in December. | Pool photo by Gavriil Grigorov via AFP/Getty Images Tucker Carlson enjoyed his sit-down with Putin so much that he went to Moscow…

Kryvyi Rih has a population of around 660,000 and is the second-largest city in Dnipropetrovsky Oblast. It has been a frequent target of Russian aerial attacks in almost three years of war. At least four people have been killed in a Russian air strike on the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, the governor of Dnipropetrovsk said on his official Telegram account.Three women and one man were killed in the attack which partially destroyed an educational institution and damaged nearby residential buildings.”There are no words to justify it. There is no excuse. This is really genocide. Against peaceful educational establishments,”…