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Supported by intelligence experts and based on content available in open source, the specialized media Numerama was able to analyze an ingenious practice of the Ukrainian army: transforming commercial drones from the Chinese brand DJI into kamikaze devices. On January 16, Ukrainian Digital Minister Mykhailo Fedorov again called for drone …

A 29-year-old woman has been arrested in New Jersey for using a fake identification document to enroll in New Brunswick High School. “The suspect had taken some classes and spent time with guidance counselors, who tried to find out more information about her,” according to the School District Superintendent Aubrey …

US President Joe Biden, who plans to run for a second term, will meet wealthy Democratic Party supporters at two fundraising events next week. The octogenarian leader will be in New York next Tuesday, then in Philadelphia on Friday, meeting wealthy supporters to fill his party’s coffers. Joe Biden has …

Six police officers died in the north of Haiti during the attack on a police station by gang members, authorities said, a new act of violence at the origin of demonstrations this Thursday in Port-au-Prince . “Bandits attacked three times a police sub-station in Liancourt, a locality in the north …

A Chinese engineer, Ji Chaoqun, was sentenced on Wednesday to eight years in prison in the United States for having provided Beijing with information on the profiles of American experts with the aim of recruiting them. He was arrested in September 2018 for having provided services with information on the …

A dog stepped on a loaded rifle, fatally shooting a passenger in his owner’s car during a hunting trip in Geuda Springs, Kan, sheriff’s deputies said. The deceased, aged 30, was shot in the back while sitting in front of a pickup truck, the Sumner County Sheriff’s Office said in …

Former American boxing champion Mike Tyson is accused by a woman, who filed a civil complaint, of having raped her in a limousine in the early 1990s near New York, a court document indicates. The alleged victim, who insisted on remaining anonymous in the proceedings because she fears being “attacked …

North Korea has ordered a five-day confinement in its capital Pyongyang due to a “respiratory illness”, reported a South Korean specialized site. The move appears to be the first citywide measure taken since the country declared victory over Covid-19 in August 2022. Residents of Pyongyang have been ordered to stay …

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday approved emergency aid of $105 million for Haiti, which is plunged into a humanitarian crisis aggravated by inflation. The funds should enable the Caribbean country to “support those most affected by rising food prices through food distributions and payments to the most vulnerable …

A 61-year-old butcher was killed by a pig while attempting to slaughter it at the Sheung Shui slaughterhouse in Hong Kong, according to reports. “The butcher was about to kill the pig which he had already shot with an electric stun gun when it regained consciousness and knocked him over,” …