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Influencer Andrew Tate indicted on charges of trafficking minors, money laundering by Romanian prosecutors

Romanian prosecutors on Friday indicted social media influencer Andrew Tate on charges of trafficking minors, sex with a minor, and money laundering. Tate, 39, and his brother Tristan Tate, 38, were first arrested in Romania’s capital, Bucharest, in late 2022. Tristan is indicted with complicity in the case, according to DIICOT, Romania’s anti-organized crime agency….

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House censures Rep. Chuck Edwards over “inappropriate conduct” toward aides

Washington — The House censured Rep. Chuck Edwards on Tuesday after a House Ethics Committee investigation found the North Carolina Republican engaged in “persistent unprofessional and inappropriate conduct” toward two young women who worked for him.  The House approved Edwards’ punishment — standing in the chamber as the resolution condemning his conduct was read aloud…

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The tipping point of change – Newspaper

DISCUSSIONS are happening about how so many of the young protesters that rocked the Modi government recently came from families that have been faithfully voting for the right-wing prime minister. A crucial fact that seems to elude the discussants is that liberal or communist or fascist ideologues are not hatched in hatcheries. Unlike Narendra Modi,…

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Exhumation of Mir Raza Ali’s body postponed after family objects to abrupt reconstitution of medico-legal board – Pakistan

KARACHI: The exhumation of 25-year-old businessman and Institute of Business Administration graduate Mir Raza Ali’s body was postponed on Friday after his family objected to the abrupt reconstitution of the medico-legal board formed for the purpose. Ali’s body was found in bushes in Karachi’s Gulistan-i-Jauhar last month, a day after he went missing on July…

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AI models are behaving unexpectedly. Experts warn of “a really bumpy road” ahead.

A cybersecurity report from the U.K. government has exposed new examples of popular AI models taking autonomous action on the live internet in ways that raise experts’ concerns. The AI Security Institute’s report, released Tuesday, said Anthropic’s Mythos 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6-Sol were found to have created fake identities and attempted to persuade real people to…

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Politics is upon us

IT wasn’t an ordinary day by any stretch of the imagination, even though it began rather ordinarily. There was little news to interest anyone (and Kashmir was a no-no for television channels). Initially, there came fleeting news about a press conference by the head of ISPR but it wasn’t meant to be. Those who had…

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Israel conveys ‘comments, concerns’ to US on Gaza plan, says version made public does not reflect its position – World

Israel has conveyed concerns to the United States on a Gaza plan hailed by President Donald Trump after Hamas said it had agreed on disarmament, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Monday. “Israel has conveyed its comments and concerns on the proposed framework to our American counterparts. The version that has been made public…

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Tree of Life rabbi Jeffrey Myers bids farewell 8 years after deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history

After surviving the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history and presiding over multiple funerals for his slain congregants, Rabbi Jeffrey Myers struggled to pray. “There was this emptiness to it,” recalls Myers, of Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh. He turned to the biblical Book of Psalms — its hymns, poetry and prayers covering “the entire…

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Shipping insider says “nothing is going through” the Strait of Hormuz, despite U.S. insisting it’s open

London — The U.S. military’s Central Command repeated an assertion on Tuesday evening that has been made by the Trump administration many times over the last two weeks, insisting that “despite Iranian aggression, the Strait of Hormuz remains open for commercial vessel traffic.”  CENTCOM acknowledged in the same statement that Iran had launched more than 30…

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