Apple, Meta, and Google targeted by EU in DMA non-compliance investigations

The European Commission is opening five non-compliance investigations into how Apple, Google, and Meta are complying with its new Digital Markets Act antitrust rules, the regulator announced today. “We suspect that the suggested solutions put forward by the three companies do not fully comply with the DMA,” the EU’s antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said in … Read more

Islamic State group claims responsibility for bombing at Afghan bank and says it targeted Taliban

ISLAMABAD — The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a deadly bombing that targeted people trying to collect their salaries at a bank in southern Afghanistan. The bombing Thursday at a branch of New Kabul Bank in Kandahar city killed three people and wounded 12 others. All of the victims had gathered there to collect … Read more

Russia says it will evacuate 9,000 children from a border region targeted from the Ukrainian side

A Russian border region plans to evacuate some 9,000 children from the area as it is continuously shelled from the Ukrainian side, an official said Tuesday. Kyiv’s forces have increasingly been striking at targets behind the extensive front line that has changed little after more than two years of war. The children are to be … Read more

A suspected attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels has targeted a ship in the Gulf of Aden

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A suspected attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels saw an explosive detonate near a ship early Sunday in the Gulf of Aden, potentially marking their latest assault on shipping through the crucial waterway leading to the Red Sea. The British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center said the vessel’s crew … Read more

Israel acknowledges strike on U.N. facility, says it targeted Hamas commander

The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees said in a statement Wednesday that at least one of its staff members was killed and 22 were injured when Israeli forces struck one of its food distribution centers in southern Gaza. The Israeli military acknowledged the strike, saying it had targeted a Hamas commander. The Israel Defense Forces … Read more

Russian railway targeted deep in the country, likely from Ukraine sabotage

KYIV — Ukraine hinted Monday that its agents were responsible for an explosion on a Russian railway bridge used to transport ammunition, in what appears to be the latest successful operation targeting infrastructure deep behind enemy lines as Ukrainian forces struggle against advancing Russian troops. Ukraine’s military intelligence agency, the GUR, said Monday that the … Read more

How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find its Targets—and Vladimir Putin

Most alarmingly, PlanetRisk began seeing evidence of the US military’s own missions in the Locomotive data. Phones would appear at American military installations such as Fort Bragg in North Carolina and MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida—home of some of the most skilled US special operators with the Joint Special Operations Command and other … Read more

Larsa Pippen, Marcus Jordan Targeted During Comedy Routine

Play video content TMZSports.com Larsa Pippen and Marcus Jordan’s relationship was put in the crosshairs during a stand-up routine over the weekend … with a comedian cracking a savage joke right in their faces!! TMZ Sports obtained video of the uncomfortable moment at 10XLaw.com’s Miami Beach gathering hosted by Russell and Teddy Berman … which … Read more

Ukraine on verge of losing Avdiivka, strategic city long targeted by Russia

AVDIIVKA, Ukraine — The Russians were already so close that the road to the Avdiivka coke and chemical plant was only dared taken at night. Vehicle headlights were shut off and covered, hoping to prevent glare visible to an enemy drone hovering overhead. As fighters from the Ukrainian Security Service’s “Alpha” special forces branch drove … Read more

Strike kills Hezbollah fighter, civilian in Lebanon, amid seeming Israeli shift to targeted killings

SIDON, Lebanon — An Israeli airstrike hit two vehicles near a Lebanese army checkpoint in south Lebanon on Sunday, killing a Hezbollah member in one car and a woman in the other and wounding several other people, Lebanese state media and health officials reported. The strike appeared to be part of a shift in Israeli … Read more