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By Federico Maccioni DUBAI, April 28 (Reuters) – Iran warned last week that submarine cables in the Strait of Hormuz were a vulnerable point for the region’s digital economy, raising concerns about potential attacks on critical infrastructure. The narrow waterway, already a chokepoint for global oil shipments, is equally vital for the digital world. Several fibre-optic cables snake across the seabed of the strait, connecting countries from India and Southeast […]

(Corrects spelling in headline) SEOUL, April 28 (Reuters) – South Korea’s former First Lady Kim Keon Hee was sentenced on Tuesday to four years in prison for stock manipulation and bribery, after an appeals court increased her sentence. (Reporting by Heejin Kim) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

April 28 (Reuters) – The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has closed a probe into 120,089 2023 Tesla Model Y vehicles without action from the carmaker, the regulator said on Tuesday. The agency had opened the preliminary evaluation in early 2023 after two reports that the steering wheel of the car could detach from the steering column due to a missing retaining bolt. Tesla had confirmed both vehicles were […]

CHUIL, South Sudan (AP) — Displaced people who took refuge from conflict in an isolated South Sudan village were denied lifesaving aid by the government even as deaths there mounted, eyewitnesses and aid groups said. The Associated Press spoke with people who fled to the swamp-encircled community of Nyatim in recent weeks. They described having little food and no clean water in a place so desolate that a Starlink connection […]

A series of deadly attacks in Colombia’s southwest raised security concerns ahead of the country’s presidential election in May. Rebel groups have staged over two dozen attacks against civilians and military bases since Friday. ____ This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors. Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

BEKASI, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers recovered the last victims from a train crash in Bekasi, outside Indonesia’s capital Tuesday. The crash occurred Monday when a long-distance train crashed into the rear car of a stopped commuter train at the station outside Jakarta. ____ This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors. Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

BEIJING (AP) — Heavy flooding from torrential rain left cars submerged and forced the evacuation of more than 200 residents in a southern Chinese city, state media reported Tuesday. Rescue crews deployed inflatable boats to help relocate some residents trapped in their homes in Qinzhou city in Guangxi region, official news agency Xinhua reported. Video footage from Xinhua showed rescuers wading through chest-high water and firefighters carrying elderly residents in […]

The Trump administration seemed unlikely Tuesday to accept Iran’s offer to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz if the U.S. lifts its blockade on the country. The proposal would postpone discussions on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, something that U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio appeared to rule out in a Fox News interview Monday. “We have to ensure that any deal that is made, any agreement […]

FRANKFURT, April 28 (Reuters) – Germany’s armed forces do not plan to award contracts to U.S. data analytics and defence software company Palantir for now, a leading military officer told the Handelsblatt newspaper. “I don’t see that happening at all at the moment,”  Thomas Daum, in charge of the German military’s cyber defence, was quoted as saying in the paper’s Tuesday edition. “As much as we are interested in the […]