Monday, 20 April 2026

Category: World

Disinformation aims to destabilise

MADRID: The rare anti-migrant violence that recently rocked a Spanish town demonstrated how online disinformation feeds xenophobic hate speech, which leapt from screens to real life

Over 7,000 seek temporary shelters

SEOUL: Heavy rain continued to pound South Korea for the fourth straight day Saturday, leaving at least four people dead and forcing more than 7,000

Critical infrastructure breached in ongoing hack

SINGAPORE: A “serious” and ongoing cyberattack has breached Singapore’s critical infrastructure, with authorities naming UNC3886 as the attacker. Coordinating Minister for National Security K. Shanmugam

Generative AI supercharges email frauds

TOKYO: Over 80 per cent of email scams with identifiable senders targeted Japanese recipients in May, as advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI) allow the

S. Korea to end private adoptions

SEOUL: South Korea will launch a major reform of its adoption system, ending decades of private agency control following revelations of widespread abuse and fraud

Trump diagnosed with vein issue

WASHINGTON, United States (US): US President Donald Trump has been diagnosed with a common, benign vein condition, the White House said Thursday, following speculation about

Misbehaving monks

BANGKOK, Thailand: Thailand’s revered monkhood is facing a deepening crisis of public trust following a shocking sex extortion scandal that has sparked national outrage and