Big tech platforms will once again be allowed to voluntarily scan private messages on social media platforms for child sexual abuse material (CSAM), after the European Parliament last week revived a derogation to e-Privacy rules that it had previously struck down in March. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING In what critics have described as a political maneuver using […]
Continue ReadingJuly 18, 2026, 7:30 a.mJuly 18, 2026, 7:30 a.m The conflict between the USA and Iran over the Strait of Hormuz threatens to spiral out of control. On what is now the seventh night of attacks in a row, the US armed forces said they bombed Iranian surveillance systems, underground weapons depots and other military […]
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Continue ReadingJuly 18, 2026, 07:14July 18, 2026, 7:15 a.m At the invitation of US President Donald Trump, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is making a surprise trip to the World Cup final in the USA. The head of state of the co-host country explained that she decided to be there because it was a direct invitation from […]
Continue ReadingIn the week after the sex-criminal financier Jeffrey Epstein died, Anya (not her real name) opened the door of her New York apartment. Outside was Epstein’s brother, Mark, telling her she had to leave, she says. Anya had lived for years in one of several flats on East 66th Street in Manhattan used by Jeffrey […]
Continue Reading07/18/2026, 07:0707/18/2026, 07:07 More than three weeks after the double earthquake in Venezuela, the death toll has exceeded 5,000. According to the latest balance sheet from the authorities in the South American country, the number of confirmed deaths is now 5,069. More than 16,700 people were also injured, as Jorge Rodríguez, President of the National […]
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