Italian officials on Saturday announced the arrests of nine people who are accused of using charities to raise $8.2 million, most of which funded Hamas. File Photo by Mohammed Saber/EPA Dec. 27 (UPI) — Nine people who are accused of raising more than $8 million in Italy to help fund Hamas have been arrested by…
Dec. 26 (UPI) — A federal judge has blocked the deportation of a British man targeted by President Donald Trump. Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, was one of five people placed on a visa ban after the government accused him of censorship. Ahmed filed suit against Secretary of…
Dec. 9 (UPI) — A Texas-based businessman has pleaded guilty and two others have been charged in a scheme to smuggle artificial intelligence technology to China in violation of U.S. export laws, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas said the three men trafficked or attempted to…
Nov. 21 (UPI) — Federal authorities have arrested four people, including two Chinese nationals, on accusations of scheming to illegally export cutting-edge Nvidia technology with artificial intelligence uses to Beijing, which prosecutors said seeks to be the AI world leader by the end of the decade. Federal authorities in Tampa, Fla., on Wednesday arrested 34-year-old…
Oct. 19 (UPI) — China on Sunday accused the United States of espionage against the country’s top time center, which China said could seriously impact the orderly functioning of its society. China’s top counter-espionage agency, the Ministry of State Security, said the U.S. National Security Agency is responsible for a series of cyberattacks on the…
Oct. 16 (UPI) — The Columbia, S.C., field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation has established a digital tip website seeking information about a bar shooting in St. Helena Island on Sunday that killed four people. “Anyone with cellphone video or any other multimedia recordings of the incident is encouraged to upload media to…
1 of 2 | Christopher Berry arrived at the Old Bailey, the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, in London, in May 2024. He and Christpher Cash were charged with spying for China, but their charges have been dropped. File Photo by Andy Rain/EPA Oct. 8 (UPI) — A British spying case against two…
Oct. 7 (UPI) — Britain’s Metropolitan Police said they dismantled an international smuggling gang and seized thousands of stolen cell phones. Police disrupted a major criminal network suspected to have smuggled up to 40,000 stolen phones from the United Kingdom to China in the past year. This is up to 40% of all phones stolen…
A bill backed by lawmakers from President Lee Jae Myung’s Democratic Party would amend the Assembly and Demonstration Act to ban chants and banners deemed hostile toward foreign nationals. Photo by Jim Hong-ji/EPA/Pool SEOUL, Oct. 6 (UPI) — South Korea’s ruling party has introduced legislation to curb anti-China slogans at public rallies, presenting it as…
Hundreds of people displaced by violence from armed gangs in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, try to return to their homes on August 26 after gang leader Jimmy Cherisier, alias Barbecue, announced that residents could come back after his order for his “soldiers” to withdraw from certain areas. Photo by David Lorens/EPA Oct. 2 (UPI) —…