European law enforcement agencies have once again dealt a major blow to cybercriminals by taking down the malware infrastructure of StealC and Amadey. During the international operation, part of Operation Endgame, hundreds of servers and domain names were seized or taken offline.
Louis, a 17-year-old boy from Narbonne, France, has died after an extremely violent attack that, according to the prosecutor’s office, was premeditated. He was lured into an ambush on Friday evening at a remote construction site in Narbonne and severely beaten. Five days later, he succumbed to his injuries in hospital.
Paris is temporarily imposing a ban on alcohol consumption in public spaces and on takeout sales, as the heat wave plaguing large parts of Western Europe slowly shifts eastward. The measure is intended to ease the strain on hospitals in the French capital.
South Korea is turning to drones as part of its military response to North Korea. The Ministry of Defense announced on Friday that it plans to train 500,000 military personnel as drone operators, while tens of thousands of unmanned systems will be deployed to frontline units.
A 23-year-old British TikTok influencer from Kent faces the death penalty in Dubai after being charged with the murder of her boyfriend. According to the human rights organization Detained in Dubai, Brooke George was arrested on June 22 and charged with premeditated murder after the man she was in a relationship with was fatally stabbed to death.
Tucker Carlson sees the war with Iran as a dividing line that could determine the political fate of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. In an interview with Sky News, he said that this decision—which runs counter to the “America First” principle—marks, in his view, the beginning of the end for Trump as a political figure.
This heat wave would have been virtually unthinkable fifty years ago. A new international study by World Weather Attribution concludes that the current heat in Western Europe would have been “virtually impossible” without climate change and that the likelihood of such extreme heat has increased significantly in just a few decades.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte defended European allies at the White House following harsh criticism from Donald Trump regarding their role in the war against Iran. At the same time, he tried to appease the U.S. president by praising his actions against Iran and highlighting the significant increase in European defense spending.
WhatsApp is getting a new CEO with a clear mission: to make more money from an app that already has over three billion users, without driving them away. To that end, Meta is promoting Indian fintech entrepreneur Kunal Shah, while also investing $900 million in his company, CRED.
The European Union is transferred the first tranche of a new 90 billion euro loan to Ukraine (Thursday, June 25). This consists of 3.2 billion euros in macro-financial assistance, which, according to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, is intended to help Kyiv weather the years of war while simultaneously kickstarting reconstruction.