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More than 80 people, including a baby, are feared to have died in a boat which was adrift in the Atlantic Ocean for 27 days.Spanish Maritime Rescue teams located the vessel some 65 nautical miles southwest of Gran Canaria’s coastal town of Arguineguín on Wednesday and found 44 survivors, with five dead bodies also on board.The boat is believed to have departed The Gambia in West Africa in early August with 127 occupants on board. Human rights activist Helena Maleno Garzón, founder of Spanish charity Caminando Fronteras, said 83 people had lost their lives.Rescuers were forced to leave the five…

Green Party leader Zack Polanski has confirmed he wants to stand in the by-election brought about by Sir Keir Starmer’s resignation as an MP. Polanski, who is currently a London Assembly member but not a member of Parliament, said he was “so excited by the prospect” of being the first Green MP for Holborn and St Pancras. The Greens are targeting the seat, until now a Labour stronghold, after coming second to Labour in the area in local elections earlier this year.Sir Keir announced on Tuesday that he was quitting as MP for the London constituency, two months after he…

At the end of last year, two men fled Iran. Aso and Baran* were strangers at the time. The way their stories would cross, then diverge, reveals the cruel arbitrariness of the UK asylum system in general, and the government’s controversial one in, one out scheme in particular.Before he left Iran, Aso, 28, had converted from Islam to Christianity, putting his life in imminent danger. “I had to keep my conversion to Christianity a secret,” he says. “I knew if I was caught, I risked being executed by the Iranian regime … one of my relatives, who I trusted, paid…

Microsoft is changing how it reports its finances to investors by splitting its businesses into two segments and disclosing quarterly revenue for its Azure cloud business for the first time. The changes are meant to reflect the ongoing impact of AI on Microsoft and how the company now operates.The software giant has previously reported revenue from three segments: Productivity and Business Processes, Intelligent Cloud, and More Personal Computing. This is now simplifying to two: Agents and Infra, and Devices and Consumer.Devices and Consumer will include search and advertising revenues from LinkedIn and search advertising, as well as revenue from the…

Ravie LakshmananSep 03, 2026Spyware / Mobile Security The iPhone belonging to a member of Serbia’s student protest movement was infected with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, according to new findings from the Citizen Lab in collaboration with the SHARE Foundation. “Our analysis confirmed that an iMessage zero-click exploit was used to infect the device with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware,” the Citizen Lab said. “We found high-confidence indicators of infection from a period across December 2025 – January 2026; however, this does not preclude the possibility of additional infections.” It’s assessed that the zero-click exploit used in the attack targeted Apple iMessage,…

Top bitcoiner Adam Back has invested €7.6 million ($8.8 million) in Capital B, the Euronext Growth-listed company that bills itself as Europe’s first bitcoin treasury company.  The company said Wednesday that the investment will be used to buy more bitcoin. Adam Back is the CEO of bitcoin infrastructure company Blockstream, and one of the biggest and well-known figures in the space  Capital B’s announcement comes after the company last week said it had raised €21 million ($24 million) in a private placement backed by Blockstream’s Adam Back and asset manager TOBAM. 🟠Capital B announces a €21.0 million capital raise with…

When the Trump administration last fall unveiled its cornerstone policy for carrying out the Clean Water Act—new language spelling out the reach of the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority—it said one of its goals was to return power to states and tribes. “This proposal recognizes that states and tribes know their local land and water resources best,” the EPA said in a news release announcing its revised definition for “waters of the United States.” That plan is still in the works and may be opened for public comment again as the administration weighs potential revisions. But the EPA is moving forward…

Reporting Highlights Delayed Decisions: Amid a national surge in habeas petitions, federal courts in Mississippi and Louisiana have typically taken three months or more to rule on detainees’ freedom. How Others Adjusted: Federal courts with more cases, such as in California and Florida, have closed cases at a faster rate, usually within weeks, according to a ProPublica analysis. Waiting in Detention: Advocates say the delays leave people waiting in prisonlike detention facilities. Some are asking to be deported rather than wait. These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story. When President Donald Trump returned…

France, as the French travel writer Sylvain Tesson once noted, “is a paradise inhabited by people who think they live in hell”. As the campaign for next year’s presidential election hits its stride with ever more wannabes declaring their candidacies, the country is in a particularly sullen mood.If the vote were held now, the anti-immigration populist Marine Le Pen would have a strong chance of romping into the Élysée palace, riding a wave of voter disillusionment with the entire political class and a sense that “we’ve tried everything else”. But a lot can happen between now and 18 April 2027,…

Claim: Former White House chef Andre Rush said Trump is a “worker” who is always friendly to the staff. Rating: What’s True In one interview published by a credible source, Rush said about Trump, “He’s a worker. He’s up all night.” In another interview Rush said Trump “does try to eat healthy, but people don’t get to see that part of it. They just see the part that we want to show on social media.” What’s Undetermined Tabloid news outlet TMZ paraphrased a comment it ascribed to Rush as, “Trump was always friendly and complimentary to the staff,” but didn’t…