Tax hack: What we know about the cyberattacks on French government agencies
Cyber hackers have stolen detailed financial information on hundreds of thousands of individuals and companies from tax and land registry computers, French authorities admitted on August 14. France’s Public Finance agency (DGFiP), which oversees…
81-year-old admits German cold-case murder of US tourist in 1994
A man aged 82 is facing a life sentence in prison in Germany, after going on trial and admitting to a murder that mystified the city of Koblenz for almost 32 years. Amy Lopez from Texas was last seen alive in September 1994, heading for Ehrenbreitstein…
‘We won’t go back’: Young Moroccan migrants in Ceuta refuse to abandon their European dream
It’s 2am local time and a heavy silence hangs over the Tarajal industrial zone in Ceuta. The darkness is pierced by the flashing lights of police cars while waves crash against the shores of this Spanish enclave in North Africa, where many have attempted…
Israel opens up bids for highly-sensitive West Bank settlement project
Israel has built about 160 settlements housing 700,000 Jews since it occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem – land Palestinians want, along with Gaza, for a hoped-for future state – during the 1967 Middle East war. An estimated 3.3 million…
No, Italy’s Lake Como didn’t dry up
Did one of Italy’s most celebrated lakes dry up? That’s the claim made by a report that has garnered more than 600,000 views on X and TikTok: that Lake Como, in northern Italy, is now empty: “One of Italy’s most celebrated landscapes has turned into an…
Two detained after French influencer’s scorched body found in vineyard
Two men have been detained after a young woman’s burned body was found in a vineyard in southern France, the local prosecutor has said. In a statement on Wednesday, Nîmes prosecutor Cécile Gensac confirmed the body found in the Saint-Gilles…
Zelensky’s office probed for corruption as fired defence minister demands elections
Ukrainian anti-corruption agencies announced Wednesday that they are investigating senior officials in President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office, a day after the country’s recently fired defence minister called for national elections despite the…
Trump administration to soon begin targeting Ethiopians for deportation
A federal judge has decided the Trump administration can go ahead with cancelling Temporary Protected Status (TPS), which provides humanitarian protections to immigrants, for roughly 5,000 Ethiopians living in the US. «Those with terminated TPS are in…
Israel confirms it opened fire on vehicle carrying five-year-old Hind Rajab in Gaza
The Israeli military has confirmed for the first time that it opened fire on a vehicle carrying five-year-old Hind Rajab and six members of her family in Gaza City during the war in Gaza. The Palestinian child initially survived the attack in January…
Senegal’s first elite girls’ boarding school challenges patriarchal norms
Off the coast of Dakar, Goree Island is home to the Senegal’s first elite boarding school for girls. The Mariama Ba School of Excellence encourages its students to challenge what has traditionally been expected of girls across the predominantly Muslim…