Costa Rica’s $6 million National Bank heist was an inside job, authorities say

Little by little an employee of Costa Rica’s National Bank took advantage of a surveillance blindspot to slip more than $6 million worth of currency into envelopes and casually walk out of the country’s largest bank ByThe Associated Press November 8, 2023, 7:24 PM SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Little by little an employee of … Read more

Canada removes 41 diplomats from India after New Delhi threatens to revoke their immunity

TORONTO — Canada has recalled 41 of its diplomats from India after the Indian government said it would revoke their diplomatic immunity, the foreign minister said Thursday, in an escalation of their dispute over the slaying of a Sikh separatist in Canada. The moves come after Canada’s allegations that India may have been involved in … Read more

Hamas’ attack on Israel prompts South Korea to consider pausing military agreement with North Korea

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s defense minister said Tuesday he would push to suspend a 2018 inter-Korean military agreement in order to resume frontline surveillance on rival North Korea, as the surprise attack on Israel by Hamas militants raised concerns in South Korea about similar assaults by the North. The agreement, reached during a … Read more

5 Bulgarians charged with spying for Russia appear by video in UK court

LONDON — Five Bulgarians living in the U.K. who were charged with spying for Russia appeared Tuesday in court for an initial hearing. The three men and two women were accused of “conspiring to collect information intended to be directly or indirectly useful to an enemy,” namely Russia, between August 2020 and February this year. … Read more

US diplomat says intelligence from ‘Five Eyes’ nations helped Canada to link India to Sikh’s killing

The U.S. ambassador to Canada has said that information shared from members of an intelligence-sharing alliance was part of what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used to make public allegations of the Indian government’s possible involvement in the assass… ByThe Associated Press September 23, 2023, 2:44 PM Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes part in a bilateral … Read more

High US and Chinese language commerce officers specific help for simpler commerce, however deep variations stay

BEIJING — Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and her Chinese language counterpart expressed a want to enhance commerce circumstances on Monday, as Raimondo started a go to to Beijing aimed toward warming chilly relations, however neither facet appeared prepared to make concessions on the opposite’s predominant calls for. Raimondo joined American officers together with Treasury Secretary … Read more

In Lula’s first six months, Brazil Amazon deforestation dropped 34%, reversing pattern beneath Bolsonaro

RIO DE JANEIRO — After 4 years of rising destruction in Brazil’s Amazon, deforestation dropped by 33.6% throughout the first six months of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s time period, in keeping with authorities satellite tv for pc information launched Thursday. From January to June the rainforest had alerts for doable deforestation overlaying 2,650 … Read more

Blinken set for high-stakes China go to with tensions rising and breakthrough prospects low

BEIJING — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has launched into a high-stakes diplomatic journey to China to attempt to settle down escalating tensions between the 2 powers which have set many world wide on edge. Blinken would be the highest-level American official to go to China since President Joe Biden took workplace, and the … Read more