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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