kslmadmin

(SRN NEWS)-The number of incidents soared in May including the highest number of arson attacks on churches in any month this year so far.  According to the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe, 37 hate crimes were documented during targeting churches, Christian institutions, religious symbols and individual believers — a rate of more than one per day.  Thirteen of those incidents were arson.  Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese technology giant SoftBank Group Corp. is launching a service using OpenAI technology to protect against the looming threat of cyberattacks, both companies said Tuesday. Chief Executive Masayoshi Son called Japan’ s vulnerability to cyberattacks “a crisis,” comparing it to a potential assault by machine guns instead of the rifle shots of the past. SoftBank will offer “a patching service,” targeting the nation’s top 3,000 companies behind […]

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The Catholic school tour ended, and Maria Contreras felt an overwhelming desire to enroll her 7-year-old. But first, a difficult question for the principal. The second grader has trouble focusing. He doesn’t listen to teachers and runs around the classroom, she explained. Could he be expelled? More families across the country are experimenting with private school as states — and soon the federal government — […]

LONDON (AP) — The Russian-speaking handler, a shadowy figure known as “El Money,” was not happy. A string of arson attacks targeting a car and two London homes linked to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer had attracted little attention, possibly because the then 21-year-old attacker, a Ukrainian recruited online, was not very good at documenting them. One video that was supposed to show Starmer’s former car on fire lasted only […]

BANGKOK (AP) — The war in Iran has exposed major risks for Southeast Asia that could cost the region many billions of dollars if it does not diversify sources of energy more quickly, according to an International Energy Agency report released Tuesday. An overreliance on oil and gas transported through the Strait of Hormuz left the region particularly vulnerable to shocks from the Iran war, a “stark wake-up call” for […]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s top diplomat was quoted as saying Tuesday that the end of the Iran war included the end of Israel’s occupation of Lebanon. Iranian state television quoted Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi making the comment to foreign diplomats in a briefing. It did not air the remarks, but put them in an onscreen graphic. “The end of the war in Lebanon is an inseparable part […]

ATHENS, June 16 (Reuters) – The mastermind of Greece’s defunct and most lethal guerrilla group November 17, who was freed from jail last month, will return to prison after the country’s top court overturned his release, police sources and the Athens News Agency said. Alexandros Giotopoulos, 82, was arrested in 2002 when the Marxist group, which carried out a 27-year campaign of assassinations, was dismantled by the police. Giotopoulos and […]

MILAN, June 16 (Reuters) – Italian police have arrested seven people accused of belonging to an anarchist militant network and carrying out sabotage on a high-speed railway line during the Winter Olympics in February. In a statement on Tuesday, police said a judge had ordered five suspects to be held in prison and two placed under house arrest. The charges include terrorist association and subversion of the democratic order. Police […]

By Sam Tabahriti and Alistair Smout LONDON, June 16 (Reuters) – Britain on Tuesday imposed sanctions on the banking arm of Russian firm Yandex, two other lenders and dozens of vessels accused of exporting Russian oil and gas, and a covert military procurement network. The package aims to step up pressure on financial and logistics networks helping the Kremlin in its war in Ukraine. One of Russia’s largest insurers, Rosgosstrakh, […]