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Two more US ships said to join amphibious squadron due to arrive off coast of Venezuela in anti-drug cartel operation.Venezuela has announced the deployment of 15,000 troops to its border with Colombia to fight drug trafficking, as the United States was reported to have sent two additional navy ships to the southern Caribbean as part of an operation against Latin American drug cartels.Venezuelan Minister of the Popular Power for Interior Diosdado Cabello announced on Monday that Caracas would deploy 15,000 troops to bolster security in Zulia and Tachira states, which border Colombia.“Here, we do fight drug trafficking; here, we do…

KYIV, UKRAINE, AUGUST 24, Ukraine’s independence day. Photo by Arsen Dzodzaiev/Anadolu via Getty ImagesAnadolu via Getty Images Dispatches from Ukraine. Day 1,279. Russian Attacks on Ukraine Between August 22–25, pervasive Russian attacks killed at least 15 people and maimed more than 90 others across Ukraine. Eastern Kharkiv and Donetsk regions recorded the heaviest toll, with four civilians killed in each province and a total of 26 residents injured. In the central Dnipropetrovsk region, Russian attacks left three residents dead and wounded 15 others. Both southern Kherson and northern Sumy provinces saw at least two civilian deaths and 52 injuries. Germany…

Millions of child predators are forming sprawling online communities on the dark web using the Tor network, where criminal behavior escalates through the sharing of child sexual abuse material, grooming strategies and normalization of exploitation, experts say. Despite repeated warnings of a growing number of predators taking advantage of it, Tor’s developers have taken no action to curb the spread of this content, critics say.The Tor (“the onion router”) network is an anonymity-focused internet system that routes traffic through a global web of volunteer-run servers to obscure users’ identities and locations. By encrypting data in multiple layers – like that…

Getty ImagesPosture is all about regular movement, exercise and positive mindsets”Sit up straight!” – we’ve all heard that command barked at us many times. For years we’ve been told that good posture means standing tall, shoulders back and your spine straight as a rod.But that might not actually be true. According to Dr Xand van Tulleken, a doctor and BBC presenter, much of what we think we know about posture is outdated.In fact, trying to hold yourself bolt upright all day could do more harm than good, he told Morning Live.As the end of summer looms and many people return…

Erik and Lyle Menendez‘s legal team will be making its next moves to see the brothers freed after a parole board last week swiftly decided they’d remain in prison. The push comes in the wake of newly leaked audio from Erik’s parole board hearing last week that gives fresh insight into his mindset during the 1989 killings of Jose and Kitty Menendez. On Friday evening, Lyle Menendez’s parole request was denied, following the board’s earlier rejection of Erik’s bid. Both hearings were held remotely, with the brothers appearing via video link from the San Diego prison where they have been…

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. A previously unidentified species of invasive parasitic wasps is now stalking their prey on both coasts of the United States coasts, according to some long-term entomological data. Unlike the maligned murder hornets of 2020, the millimeter-sized Bootanomyia dorsalis isn’t likely to threaten humans. But the effects on North America’s roughly 800 species of oak gall wasps—and their ecosystems—remains to be seen. The discoveries are detailed in a study published in the Journal of Hymenoptera Research. Meet Bootanomyia dorsalis Native to Europe, B. dorsalis is one of…

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Former Pentagon official urges Australia not to abandon Aukus pactBen DohertyA former senior Pentagon official has urged the US not to abandon the Aukus pact, saying that would make the US “less capable” across the Pacific, but said Australia should give Washington more “concrete” commitments on how it would deploy its nuclear submarines in the event of war in the region.US thinktank the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), has published the report, written by Abraham Denmark (an Aukus adviser to former US defence secretary Lloyd Austin) and Charles Edel (CSIS’s Australia chair) as Australian defence minister Richard Marles…

US aviation giant Boeing and Korean Air announced a deal worth about $36bn (£24bn) on Monday for 103 planes as President Donald Trump presses trading partners to do more business with American firms.The deal includes 787, 777 and 737 passenger jets, according to a joint statement from the two companies.The new jets will come at a “pivotal moment” and modernise the South Korean flag carrier’s fleet, ensuring it stays competitive as it merges with Asiana Airlines, said Korean Air boss Walter Cho.The agreement was announced just hours after South Korean President Lee Jae Myung met Trump in Washington to discuss…

Angus Crawford and Tony SmithBBC News InvestigationsBBCA victim of child sexual abuse has begged Elon Musk to stop links offering images of her abuse being posted on his social media platform X.”Hearing that my abuse – and the abuse of so many others – is still being circulated and commodified here is infuriating,” says “Zora” (not her real name) who lives in the United States and was first abused more than 20 years ago.”Every time someone sells or shares child abuse material, they directly fuel the original, horrific abuse.”X says it has “zero tolerance for child sexual abuse material” and…