By Reuters August 8, 2023 | 09:30 GMT+7 Australian police have arrested 19 men for allegedly sharing child pornography online and rescued 13 children from further harm after receiving tips from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), authorities said on Tuesday. The investigation began in Australia last year after two FBI agents were killed in Florida in 2021 who were investigating child abuse in the United States, police said.The FBI then informed Australian police that members of a peer-to-peer network in the country allegedly shared child pornography material on the dark web, AFP Commander Helen Schneider told a news conference.”The…
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By Duc Hai August 8, 2023 | 07:00 GMT+7 I dare not tell my wife and my in-laws about my father’s debts but I tried to help him secretly. I am 35 years old, married with two children. We all live happily together.My wife comes from a wealthy family, so she never had to ask me anything. My in-laws even let the house we live in be registered in my and my wife’s name, because they don’t expect anything from me except to take good care of their daughter. So I work hard and give my wife part of my…
By Reuters August 8, 2023 | 06:54 GMT+7 Suga, a member of K-pop boy group BTS, attends the Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2023 in Seoul, South Korea July 26, 2023. Photo by Reuters K-pop star Suga, songwriter and rapper of supergroup BTS, has begun the process of enlisting for mandatory military service, the group’s record label announced on Monday, making him the third member of the group to leave for perform military service. “We would like to inform our fans that SUGA has initiated the military enlistment process by requesting the termination of his enlistment deferral,” Big Hit Music said in…
Daniel Sancho Bronchal appeared in court on Monday as police requested his continued detention for investigation, Police General Saranyu Chamnanrat said. Reuters. Sancho traveled with police to seven sites on Sunday, including a beach where he is accused of throwing plastic bags containing body parts of a man police later identified as Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta Arteaga, 44 years old. Sancho, 29, is charged with premeditated murder and concealment and removal of body parts to conceal the victim’s death or cause of death, Saranyu said. Son of famous actor Rodolfo Sancho who starred in “El Ministerio del Tiempo” (“The Ministry…
Blackpink during their concerts in Hanoi at My Dinh National Stadium. Photo from Blackpink’s Twitter Held on July 29-30, marking the global sensation’s first-ever concert in Vietnam and the conclusion of their Born Pink world tour, Blackpink Hanoi’s concerts are considered by many to be more than just an entertainment event.The show helps promote the name of Vietnam to more people around the world.”The show has set many records, including international attention for Vietnam,” said communications expert Nguyen Dinh Thanh. “This group [Blackpink] has tens of millions of fans worldwide who follow and keep up to date with the activities…
Model Dianka Zakhidova and goalkeeper Bui Tien Dung go on a date. Photo from Zakhidova’s Instagram “I didn’t expect to stay long in Vietnam at first,” she said. “But then I realized that my baby face was to Vietnamese taste.”But that’s why she decided to move to Vietnam after living in various countries including Germany, Spain and Singapore.Although meeting her husband was an important factor in her settling down, the development of the fashion and beauty market in Vietnam presented her with so many opportunities that it made her decision to stay almost inevitable.Zakhidova said she always had a lot…
By Reuters August 7, 2023 | 4:49 p.m. GMT+7 General view of the launch pad after liftoff of a Russian Soyuz 2.1a rocket carrying the Lomonosov, Aist-2D and SamSat-218 satellites at the new Vostochny Cosmodrome outside the city of Uglegorsk, some 200 km of the city of Blagoveshchensk in the far eastern Amur region, Russia, April 28, 2016. Photo by Reuters/Kirill Kudryavtsev Russia will evacuate a village in its Far East on August 11 as part of the launch of the first Russian lunar lander mission in nearly half a century, a local official said on Monday. The Luna-25 lunar…
Solar power is particularly suited to dealing with summer heat because solar radiation is strongest around the hottest part of the day, when the demand for electricity for cooling is also highest.“The very significant growth in solar is essentially offsetting the spikes caused by air conditioning,” Kristian Ruby, secretary general of electricity industry group Eurelectric, said of the situation in Spain.Spain and Greece are among countries that have installed significantly more solar panels in the face of record energy prices last year and the quest for increased energy security linked to Russian attacks in Ukraine.Spain added a record 4.5 gigawatts…
By Reuters August 7, 2023 | 10:32 GMT+7 Rescue workers paddle through a flooded street in Beijing on August 1, 2023. Photo by Reuters Fourteen people are believed to have died over the weekend in the Chinese city of Shulan due to flooding caused by Typhoon Doksuri. Northeast China, Beijing and Hebei province have seen heavy rains and flooding since the typhoon made landfall in southern Fujian province two weeks ago.The deaths in Shulan, in northeastern Jilin province, add to more than 20 fatalities last week in Beijing and Hebei. The authorities have not yet provided an overall assessment for…
By AFP August 7, 2023 | 09:45 GMT+7 Hun Manet gestures after voting at a polling station in Phnom Penh on July 23, 2023. Photo AFP Cambodia’s king will appoint Hun Manet as the country’s new leader on Monday. Days after a landslide victory in the July elections, Hun Sen – one of the world’s longest-serving leaders – announced he was stepping down as prime minister and handing power to his eldest son.On Monday, following a request from Hun Sen, King Norodom Sihamoni is expected to issue a royal decree making four-star general Hun Manet prime minister.However, to officially become…