Month: April 2026

From the point of view of the law enforcement agency at cybercrime frontline, requiring social media firms to implement stricter regulations to shield their platform from fake news and disinformation is a welcome development.

Between 280 and 200 million years ago, a group of animals evolved which would eventually give rise to mammals, including humans: the therapsids. They were first described more than 150 years ago, based on fossils from South Africa. Since then, many more fossils have been discovered.

Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary, a lodestar for MAGA culture warriors and right-wing populists in Europe, conceded defeat on Sunday in a general election, breaking the momentum of a global nationalist revival promoted by President Trump.

President Donald Trump said the US Navy will begin a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz Monday morning after US-Iran ceasefire talks in Pakistan collapsed without agreement. This announcement fuelled fears of further disruption to global energy supplies and shipping routes.

It has been said that Persian Gulf countries are both blessed and cursed by their vast oil and gas reserves. Geologic forces over millions of years have meant the region is an energy-rich global flash point, as it is now with a war underway that’s causing a global energy crisis.

More than 500 people were arrested during a demonstration against the ban on Palestine Action in central London, the Metropolitan Police have said.

MANILA, Philippines — The Armed Forces of the Philippines welcomed the United States military’s reported plan to establish a new refueling depot in Mindanao by 2028.

House Committee on Public Accounts Chair Terry Ridon said on Saturday that the House has no expectations regarding Vice President Sara Duterte’s attendance at the upcoming impeachment proceedings on April 14.

THE Supreme Court en banc has dismissed a petition for certiorari filed by alleged flood control scam contractor Cezarah Rowena Discaya, challenging the Office of the Ombudsman’s finding of probable cause against her for graft and malversation through falsification of public documents.

Iran’s deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi says Tehran has entered negotiations from a position of strength, arguing that the war on Iran had failed to deliver decisive strategic gains for the US.