Sicily by Car Founder Under Police Protection After Arson Attacks

ROME, June 12 (Reuters) – The founder and ⁠chairman ⁠of Italian car rental company ⁠Sicily by Car, Tommaso Dragotto, said in an ​interview on Friday he had been given a police escort after a string ‌of attacks on his company. In ‌the latest incident, which triggered the decision to place the 88-year-old ⁠under ⁠protection, a …

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Elon Musk becomes the world’s first trillionaire with SpaceX’s IPO

Elon Musk has become the first person to cross the trillionaire threshold, at least on paper, after SpaceX priced its blockbuster initial public offering at $135 a share. Before the IPO, Musk was worth an estimated $813 billion, a fortune more than twice as large as the planet’s second-richest person, Google co-founder Larry Page, who …

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China says “spy turtles” and “spy fish” deployed by foreign intelligence agencies snooping in its waters

Foreign intelligence services are using “spy turtles” and “spy fish” to snoop on China, the country’s Ministry of State Security said Friday. “An unseen covert war of espionage is currently unfolding” in the seas around China’s coast, the ministry wrote in a post on the WeChat social media platform. In recent years, overseas spy agencies have been …

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Stop, Repent or Face God’s Wrath

SAN CRISTOBAL DE LA LAGUNA, Spain (AP) — Pope Leo XIV warned people smugglers on Friday that they will face God’s wrath for exploiting the desperation of migrants, demanding they stop and repent during his final day in this epicenter of the African migration route to Europe. “Break those chains and free those you hold …

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Prosecutor Khan’s Suspension Prolongs International Criminal Court’s Woes

By Stephanie van den Berg and Anthony Deutsch THE HAGUE, June 12 (Reuters) – This week’s suspension of International ⁠Criminal ⁠Court lead prosecutor Karim Khan for alleged sexual misconduct ⁠sets the court up for months of potentially damaging wrangling while U.S. antagonism and divisions between member states grow. The outspoken Briton ​attracted approval and hostility …

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Officials Search Tornado-Damaged Areas After Strong Storms Hit Illinois and Indiana

Authorities and residents searched tornado-ravaged areas and assessed damage Friday after a strong line of storms barreled through communities south of Chicago, leaving around 380,000 customers without power in Illinois and Indiana and disrupting air travel in the region. There were no immediate reports of deaths or life-threatening injuries from Thursday’s storms. Officials in Merrillville, …

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Iran-linked group claims hack of FBI drones, threatens World Cup, monitor says

An Iran-linked hacker group claims to have breached FBI drones and has threatened to target the World Cup that kicked off on Thursdaya monitoring group said Friday. The SITE Intelligence Group, an organization that monitors jihadist groups, published a statement from Handala saying they’ve had access “for months” to “every image and every suspect” captured …

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