Prosecutors said Natland had been recruited by the Foxtrot Network, a Swedish organised crime group used by the Iranian state
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A Norwegian teenager was convicted on Wednesday of conspiracy to commit murder in Britain after being recruited by a Swedish organised crime group that prosecutors said was being used by the Iranian government.
Johannes Natland, now 19, was arrested in a hotel room in Huddersfield, northern England
Firefighters in southwest France battled an uncontained wildfire four times the size of Paris on Wednesday as temperatures were forecast to reach 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit), threatening to turn a calm night into only a brief reprieve.
Authorities in the Gironde region said the blaze had not spread overnight, but rising heat and afternoon winds could revive smouldering hotspots, carry embers across firebreaks and open new fronts beyond crews’ reach.
At the command centre in Lège, firefighters bent over maps spread across a car
Leading Chinese robot makers have ambitious overseas expansion plans, but Washington’s ban may force them to recalibrate
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) added foreign-produced “advanced robotic devices” to its Covered List on Tuesday, blocking new models from obtaining the authorisation required to be imported and sold in the US.
The ban will cover all new humanoids, quadrupeds and a broad range of connected mobile machines,
Albert Bakhtizin is director of the Central Institute of Economics and Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a member of the academy and a professor at Lomonosov Moscow State University.
Researchers identify damage patterns that reveal vulnerabilities in fixed overseas military installations and operational shortcomings
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Chinese scientists have used detailed satellite imagery analysis to examine damage to US military bases in the Middle East, uncovering discrepancies in both Washington and Tehran’s claims over the scale of the conflict.
Google on Wednesday launched its artificial intelligence agent Gemini Spark in the Hong Kong market, giving local users direct access to a smart assistant to manage complex digital workflows.
The launch came months after the American tech giant’s decision in March to lift regional geofences for generative AI services, starting with the Gemini chatbot. Hong Kong users can now access Gemini without using a virtual private network or third-party platform.
The roll-out of the Spark agent echoes an industry-wide push into agentic AI: the ability to
Malaysia is tightening controls on high-risk hiking routes after officials linked a growing rescue burden to poor preparation, unauthorised trails and social media-driven summit attempts.
The push is aimed partly at curbing gruelling “compressed hikes”, in which climbers try to complete long or technically demanding routes within a single day, often combining an ascent and descent that would usually be spread over a longer period.
The Fire and Rescue Department recorded 52 cases involving 114 people reported lost in forests and hiking areas during the first
More than 90 per cent of mainland Chinese enterprises plan to expand overseas within the next two years, with over 80 per cent aiming to use Hong Kong as their launch pad into Southeast Asia, a survey has found.
The research findings, published by the Trade Development Council on Wednesday, indicate that mainland firms are actively pursuing diversified footprints across Asean markets.
The survey, conducted from January to February 2026, polled more than 2,000 mainland Chinese companies across various sectors, including manufacturing
Analysts say the push serves American strategic and commercial interests – from opening markets for US liquefied natural gas to countering China’s dominance in big-ticket infrastructure – but also offers the region opportunity.
Washington announced US$