Prosecutors said that the group worked on behalf of Russian intelligence services to carry out attacks and murders around the world.

Five people have been charged over alleged Russian intelligence-linked plots involving surveillance, recruitment and planned killings, according to an indictment unsealed by the United States Department of Justice.

The 31st Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) has finalized jury members across four award categories: the BIFF Mecenat Award, the Sonje Award, the Netpac Award and the Fipresci Award.

The BIFF Mecenat Award, which goes to a standout Korean or Asian documentary in Wide Angle Competition and carries a prize of KRW10 million ($7,300), will be judged by Rintu Thomas, Kim Taeil and Zhou Hao. Thomas co-directed “Writing With Fire” (2021), which picked up a Peabody Award, an Oscar nomination and two Sundance prizes. Kim, who has spent years on his ongoing People’s World History project, running from “No Name Stars” (2010) through “Again the Wind Blows” (2022), previously won the Woonpa Award and the BIFF Mecenat Award itself for “Annyong, Sayonara” (2005) and “Raining Dust” (2025). Zhou, a former journalist, has built a body of observational work tracking ordinary lives and urban change, including “Cotton” (2014) and “The Chinese Mayor” (2015), the latter a prizewinner at the Golden Horse Film Festival, Sundance and the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.

A shop owner has described how she locks her door during opening hours and customers have to ring the bell to get in after her store was targeted by thieves last year.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg attends the annual Allen and Co. Sun Valley Media and Technology Conference at the Sun Valley Resort in Sun Valley, Idaho, U.S., July 9, 2026.

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Demonstrations held across country against president’s proposed constitutional changes seeking third term.

Protests in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have spurned violent clashes as police cracked down.

Police fired tear gas as hundreds of people protested in the capital Kinshasa on Tuesday against proposed constitutional changes that critics worry could allow President Felix Tshisekedi to seek a ‌third term in power. The political unrest adds to DRC’s struggles as it faces a rapidly spreading Ebola outbreak and ongoing conflict in the east of the country.

Thousands making risky maritime journey to Djibouti as conflict between Yemen gov’t and Houthis intensifies.

More than 100,000 people have been forced to flee the conflict in Yemen between the Houthi rebels and forces loyal to the internationally recognised government, according to the United Nations.

Joseph A. Jordan Jr. was only two years out of high school when he enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1943 during the height of World War II. Two years later, while stationed in France, Jordan’s jeep rolled while traversing a minefield in northern France. The crash left him permanently paralyzed from a spinal cord injury and he was sent back to the United States to recover. In many ways, his battle was only beginning.

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