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Belgian Court Rules ‘Factually Correct’ Remarks Can Be Hate Speech– www.cbn.com

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Truth is now criminal hate speech if used to “incite hatred,” according to a Belgian court.

The ruling came in the case of anti-migration activist Dries Van Langenhove, who said in a post on X that, “it is only due to a technicality that I could not immediately be sent to jail —to the judge’s frustration.”

Van Langenhove’s conviction was based on a lecture given in 2024 at Catholic University Leuven, in which he linked mass migration to “crime and a deterioration of our quality of life.”

He said, “Every single point I made was 100% the truth and based on scientific evidence.”

‘Ebola case’ in European country as ‘catastrophe’ warning issued for deadly disease | World | News– www.express.co.uk

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A suspected Ebola case has sparked concern in Austria amid fears the deadly disease may have already spread to Europe. Health officials in Austria said the patient became ill shortly after returning from Uganda, where they are believed to have contracted the newly identified Bundibugyo strain.

It comes as the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo is hampering the Ebola outbreak response. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Ituri province in the east of the country was at the centre of a “catastrophic collision of disease and conflict”. In a statement posted on X, Tedros said the WHO could not “build community trust or isolate the sick while bombs are falling”.

Iran says draft deal with US would reopen Strait of Hormuz shipping, end naval blockade– www.channelnewsasia.com

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DUBAI: Iran’s state TV said Tehran had obtained a draft of an initial, unofficial framework for a memorandum of understanding with the United States on ending their conflict.

Under the framework, Iran would restore commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz to pre-war levels within a month, while the US would withdraw military forces from Iran’s vicinity and lift a naval blockade.

State TV said on Wednesday (May 27) the framework, which excludes military vessels and envisages Iran managing ship traffic through the strait in cooperation with Oman, was not yet finalised and that Tehran would take no steps without “tangible verification”.

Chinese AI experts in private firms now required to secure approval before international travel — Beijing enforces policy to secure top-tier talent, expands measures beyond government – Tom's Hardware

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China now requires people working in AI at private firms to secure travel approval before leaving the country. According to Bloomberg, the restrictions apply to individuals working in state-owned firms, startup founders, and those employed by private companies, as the central government considers them important strategic assets. China has already been limiting international travel for key individuals such as senior researchers at public educational institutions, nuclear scientists, and even top executives of government-owned companies, but extending the restriction to private firms and individuals is an uncommon move, even for Beijing.

There’s no official guidance yet on which roles, expertise, or seniority will be included in the travel ban. However, Bloomberg sources say that the individuals added to the list were assessed based on their impact on China’s AI ambitions, not just where they work or their position within their company. This move is an expansion of a former government directive wherein some AI engineers had mandatory reporting of any overseas travel plan, although they were still free to go abroad as needed.

This shows that Beijing considers AI as a strategic advantage and that the people leading the industry are considered crucial for the country’s advancement. This news comes months after Meta’s surprise purchase of Manus AI, which China wants to unwind to prevent the U.S. from acquiring Chinese AI talent and intellectual property. Although the two aren’t directly related, the report says that the new policy is designed to protect against the leaking of key technologies, such as the one being developed by the Chinese startup that moved to Singapore.

 

Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package– arstechnica.com

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Millions of AI agents and tools around the world have been imperiled by a critical vulnerability that can allow hackers to breach the servers running them and make off with sensitive data and credentials to third-party accounts, a security researcher is warning.

The vulnerability is present in Starlette, an open source framework that its developer says receives 325 million downloads per week. Thousands of other open source projects are also vulnerable because they require Starlette to work. The framework is an implementation of the ASGI (asynchronous server gateway interface), which allows large numbers of requests to be efficiently processed simultaneously. Starlette is the base of FastAPI and other widely used frameworks for building services in Python apps, as well as many others.

Trivial to exploit, millions of servers exposed

ASGI, and by extension Starlette, have access to servers running the MCP (model context protocol), which allows AI agents from major providers to access external sources, including user data bases, email and calendar accounts, and all manner of other resources. To connect with these external systems, MCP servers store credentials for each one, making them especially valuable storehouses for attackers to breach.

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-48710 and under the name BadHost, is trivial to exploit and works against most systems that aren’t behind a properly configured firewall. Besides FastAPI, other widely used packages—including vLLM, and LiteLLM—are also affected. BadHost affects Starlette versions prior to 1.0.1, which was released Friday.

“A single character injected into the HTTP Host header bypasses path-based authorization in Starlette, the routing core of FastAPI,” researchers from Secwest wrote. “Through FastAPI, this primitive (now tracked as CVE-2026-48710 and branded BadHost by the discoverers) reaches a large segment of the Python AI tooling ecosystem: vLLM (where the bug was discovered), LiteLLM, Text Generation Inference, most OpenAI-shim proxies, MCP servers, agent harnesses, eval dashboards, and model-management UIs.”

BadHost carries a severity rating of 7 out of 10. Secwest said the classification “materially understates” the threat it poses to people using other apps that depend on Starlette. X41 D-Sec, the security firm that discovered it, described it as having “critical severity.” X41 D-Sec partnered with fellow security firm Nemesis to create an online scanner that can check if a given server is vulnerable.

 

Iran media says negotiators seek $24 billion asset release in US deal– www.news24.com

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Members of the Iranian security forces stand guard under a large portrait of Iran’s new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, during a memorial to mark the 40th day since his father, Ali Ayatollah Khamenei, was killed in US-Israeli joint strikes.

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  • Iranian negotiators are reportedly seeking the release of about $24 billion in frozen assets as part of talks aimed at ending the war with the United States.
  • Tehran is finalising a 14-point framework for a possible agreement following months of conflict sparked by US-Israeli strikes on Iran in February.
  • Senior Iranian officials, including Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Abbas Araghchi, are in Qatar for negotiations focused on accessing an initial $12 billion tranche of funds.

Iranian media said on Tuesday that Tehran’s negotiators were seeking the release of around $24 billion in frozen assets abroad as part of a process aimed at ending the war with the United States.

The report by Tasnim news agency came as a top Iranian delegation was in Qatar, and after Tehran said it was finalising a 14-point framework for a deal on ending the war, which began with US-Israeli airstrikes against Iran on 28 February.

“Iran’s frozen assets are to be released during the course of the negotiations, and this amount is estimated at $24 billion in accordance with the 14-point memorandum of understanding,” Tasnim quoted an unnamed source close to the negotiating team as saying.

Around half of that sum “should be made available at the start of the announcement of the memorandum,” it added.

Israel says strike killed new chief of Hamas armed wing in Gaza– www.cbsnews.com

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Israel said on Wednesday it had killed the new head of Hamas’s armed wing in Gaza, Mohammed Odeh, in a strike the day before, after killing his predecessor in a similar attack earlier this month.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a joint statement with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the “commander of the armed wing of the Hamas terrorist organization in Gaza was eliminated yesterday and sent to meet his associates in the depths of hell.”

Hamas hasn’t commented yet.

“In the Prime Minister’s name and in my own, congratulations to the IDF and the Shin Bet on the brilliant execution,” Katz said.

Castros Will Leave Cuba Before U.S. Picks Up Raul– www.breitbart.com

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On Tuesday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) said that picking up Raul Castro in Cuba wouldn’t be difficult, but he thinks that, due to a desire by Castro to avoid dying in prison, “Raul Castro is going to leave the country, along with his family” “before we pick him up.”

Scott said, “Well, let’s remember, the Cubans were supporting — were defending Maduro, and that took, what, seven minutes to take out Maduro? So, it won’t take much to pick up Raul Castro. And the people of Cuba are already –.”

Co-host Kailey Leinz then cut in to ask, “You expect that to happen?”

US Says Iran War Disagreements Down To “A Word, A Sentence”– www.ndtv.com

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Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Esmail Baghaei on Tuesday accused the US of committing a “despicable war crime” following a missile strike on a sports hall in Lamerd, Fars Province, that Tehran says killed 24 civilians, including teenage volleyball players and a two-year-old child, while injuring more than 130 people.

In a post on X, Baghaei said he was briefed by the Iranian member of Parliament for Mehr, Mousa Mousavi, about a ” devastating American missile strike” on a residential area and sports hall in the city of Lamerd.

“On the afternoon of Saturday, 9 Esfand 1404 (28 February 2026) the same day students at the Shajareh_Tayyibeh_School in Minab were massacred by Tomahawk missiles–a residential area in Lamerd, including a sports hall, was struck by U.S. Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM),” Baghaei said.

According to the Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, the strike “slaughtered 24 persons, including a 2-year-old girl, several teenage volleyball players”, while “more than 130 persons were injured, many of whom now face permanent disabilities.”

Beaver Scout Refuses To Bow To Allah During Prayer Demonstration On Field Trip– www.louderwithcrowder.com

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Beaver Scouts in Scotland took a trip to the Central Scotland Islamic Centre for reasons that will never advance the West. Nonetheless, on that trip, the scouts, boys aged 6-8, bowed to Allah. This should be controversial because there is absolutely zero reason as to why these kids are being religiously indoctrinated. Nonetheless, one boy refused to participate in the Muslim prayer, and that puts him on the right side of history.

According to 5Pillars, “the largest English language Muslim news site in Europe, Australia and the Americas,” the clip “was taken during a Beavers Scouts educational visit to various houses of worship, including a mosque, as part of the ‘Faith Activity Badge.’ The visit took place at Stirling Islamic Centre in Scotland a few days ago.”

In other words, according to local media, this is not indoctrination; it is education. And to call that a bunch of gobbledygook would be an understatement. And LOL to the fact that they just had to throw in the “Islamophobia” slander. In case it was not clear, no one buys that crap anymore.

In order to achieve this badge, Scouts can visit a place of worship and tell other Scouts about what they learned. This can include visiting a mosque to learn about Islam. That explains why they did what they did, but the fact that this is encouraged is proof that Europe has fallen.

In the pursuit of being so incredibly tolerant and inclusive, the left has favored whatever this is; the fact that this is not controversial for many people is a scandal in itself.

Viral video shows Vancouver man arrest after psychiatrist ‘certified’ him from a café– www.lifesitenews.com

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A video of a man being detained in Vancouver by police and a CAR 87 mental health unit team has gone viral, acquiring millions of views on social media.

The detention took place on May 23, 2026. In the video, Nicholas Jordan Wagter could be seen looking to his passenger window while a man identified as Dr. Emory (some posts say “Emery”) is introduced, a resident psychiatrist on rotation with CAR 87, who is “part of a program that includes Vancouver Coastal Health and the Vancouver Police.”

“Every case is a little different,” Emory says. “In your case, I think you were certified under the Mental Health Act just … maybe three weeks ago or four. Where you aware of that?” Emory explains that he had been “certified” by Dr. Christine Taylor – who also works with the mental health response team.

Fed’s Logan Warns US Oil Production Won’t Fill Global Supply Gap– financialpost.com

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“With supplies highly constrained, if shipping through the strait does not soon return to prewar levels, world oil and natural gas consumption could need to fall more meaningfully than it has so far,” Logan said. “The economic consequences would depend on the degree to which end users can switch to other energy sources or use energy more efficiently, versus curtailing economic activity.”

 

Dog SHOOTS woman as labrador fires loaded shotgun from truck & hits nearby driver– www.thesun.co.uk

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A WOMAN was rushed to hospital after accidentally being shot by a dog playing with a loaded firearm.

The bizarre incident happened in the town of Scottsbluff, Nebraska state, earlier this week.

Police were called to a convenience store after receiving a report that a person had been shot – with the culprit being a black labrador.

Upon arrival they found a parked truck with major blast damage in one of its doors.

In the back seat, the animal had been left to its own devices – next to the loaded shotgun, KNOP reported.

As the pup bounced from one side of its back seat to another, it somehow managed to pull the trigger.

Ukraine-Russia war latest: Kyiv warns Belarus it has list of 500 targets ready if Lukashenko joins Putin’s war– www.independent.co.uk

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Ukraine has a list of 500 targets in Belarus ready if Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko joins the war with Vladimir Putin, a senior Ukrainian military commander has warned.

Robert “Magyar” Brovdi, commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces, advised Belarus against interfering in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war.

“To the Minsk Gauleiter Lukashesku: a barking dog does not bite. A bird of prey is different. The first 500 targets are already on the list. Free and very practical advice: don’t get in Ukraine’s way,” Brovdi said in a Facebook post, as reported by Ukrinform.

Mother allegedly abandoned blindfolded children in remote Europe forest– www.foxnews.com

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A French mother who allegedly abandoned her two young children in a forest in Portugal while blindfolded was arrested with her former law enforcement boyfriend while eating at a café near Libson.

Marine Rousseau, 41, was taken into custody Thursday with Marc Ballabriga, 55, two days after the couple allegedly dumped her helpless 3- and 5-year-old children in a remote forest and left, according to Portuguese and French media.

“They stayed sitting and didn’t seem nervous,” café owner Jorge Lopes told the news outlet. “They were searched and handcuffed without any stress at all. When I saw them so at ease in front of the authorities, I was astonished. It was as if they didn’t have blood running through their veins.”

Anthropic asks religious thinkers to help shape Claude as pope warns about AI– www.scientificamerican.com

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In late March around 15 religious thinkers met with the artificial intelligence company Anthropic to discuss one of the strangest and most consequential questions now facing the AI industry: How do you teach a chatbot to be good?

The invitations to these meetings had arrived in different ways. Greg Cootsona’s came via e-mail. Brian Patrick Green’s came via a friend of a friend after Anthropic asked for suggested names. Both ended up in a series of conversations with the company about Claude, Anthropic’s chatbot, and the moral framework meant to guide how it behaves.

The aim wasn’t to make the chatbot Bible-thumping or pious. But it was an acknowledgment that centuries-old traditions of moral reasoning might offer insights to a five-year-old frontier AI lab whose systems are becoming more capable, more persuasive and harder to govern by simple rules.

China just launched a bunch of fake human embryos into space on a new research mission– www.scientificamerican.com

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China just launched fake human embryos to its space station for a new research mission

China’s artificial embryos are part of an experiment to learn more about how human pregnancies could develop under microgravity conditions

By Adam Kovac edited by Claire Cameron

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A clutch of artificial human embryos on China’s Tiangong space station could help researchers better understand whether human pregnancies in space are possible and safe.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences says the experiment marks the first study on human artificial embryos in space. The artificial embryos are actually structures derived from stem cells, and they mimic how embryos form during the early days of pregnancy. These structures wouldn’t be able to develop into humans even if they were implanted into a uterus. Researchers originally conceived these artificial embryolike structures as a model to study the earliest moments of development because of widespread international rules aimed at restricting research on real human embryos that are older than two weeks after fertilization.

US and Armenia pledge to move forward on economic corridor during Rubio visit– www.euronews.com

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in Yerevan on Tuesday in a show of support for Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and his government, in the run-up to the June elections in the South Caucasus country and amid widespread allegations of Russian interference, as Pashinyan is pushing forward on a western course amid a historic peace agreement with Azerbaijan.

Irish councilor proposes tiny statue of mosquito blamed for killing invader Oliver Cromwell– boingboing.net

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A Green Party councillor in Cork wants the Irish city to honor the mosquito blamed for killing Oliver Cromwell, the English Lord Protector whose conquest of Ireland made him a reviled figure there. Oliver Moran tabled the motion at a Cork City Council meeting on May 12, proposing what he describes as the world’s smallest public statue, to be mounted on an empty plinth outside City Hall.

The motion reads:

STATUE TO THE MOSQUITO OR MIDGE THAT BIT OLIVER CROMWELL

‘That Cork City Council will erect a statue to the mosquito or midge that bit Oliver Cromwell during his siege of the city, later causing his death through ‘Cork fever’ (malaria); and that this statue shall be the ‘world’s smallest public statue’.’

Syria Refuses To Take Back 700,000 Syrians From Germany: “They Are A Strategic Resource”– gellerreport.com

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Syria has rejected Germany’s plan to return over 700,000 Syrian refugees to their home country.

“We categorically reject any attempts at forced deportation,” said Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani.

He added that Syrians in Germany are a “strategic resource” rather than a burden.
Huge rise in violent crime in Germany — nearly half committed by non-German: Syrians show a crime rate approximately 16 times higher than that of German citizens, with Afghan nationals at around 14 times higher.

Syria rejects German deportation calls, says diaspora ‘strategic asset’

Israel attacks Hamas leader in Gaza airstrike after one week on the job– www.washingtonexaminer.com

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Israel targeted the new leader of Hamas’s military wing in a Gaza airstrike late Tuesday after he filled his late predecessor’s shoes about one week ago.

Mohammed Odeh was attacked, but Israeli officials did not say if he was killed. A statement from the prime minister’s office said he was “struck.” Typically, the Israeli military says a target was “eliminated” if they died from a strike.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz ordered the operation.

Odeh replaced Ezzedine al Haddad, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza less than two weeks ago. Odeh led Hamas’s intelligence staff during the massacre and abduction of Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, 2023, according to Israel.

Major University Faces Trump Admin Lawsuit: ‘Hostile Educational Environment’– townhall.com

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The Department of Justice is suing the University of California system over alleged antisemitism against students following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel.

The UCLA-focused lawsuit is serving as a follow-up legal action to a complaint over the treatment of Israeli and Jewish staff at the university.

“Earlier this year, we sued UCLA for subjecting its Jewish and Israeli employees to an antisemitic hostile work environment,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon for the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division said in a statement on Tuesday.

“Now, the Department of Justice calls UCLA to account for its toleration of the equally appalling hostile educational environment against its Jewish and Israeli students,” Dhillon added.

Veterans group to raise money for Freedom Convoy leader’s lawsuit against Canadian government– www.lifesitenews.com

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Canadian veterans’ group opposed to government overreach, Veterans4Freedom, will be putting its support behind and helping to raise funds for Freedom Convoy leader Tamara Lich’s legal battle against federal authorities who had her jailed for months. 

In a recent announcement on X, Lich said she was “humbled and honoured to announce that our good friends at @Vets4FreeCanada have offered to help raise funds for my malicious prosecution and negligent investigation case.”

Lich noted that all profits from “V4F-specific merchandise will be given to Tamara Lich for her malicious prosecution lawsuit.”

“V4F will collect funds through their merch sales and forward whatever they raise directly to my legal team.Thank you Veterans4Freedom!”

Trump Convenes Rare Camp David Cabinet Meeting as Iran Negotiations Reach Critical Juncture– slaynews.com

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President Donald Trump will convene a rare Cabinet meeting at Camp David on Wednesday as negotiations with Iran enter what could be a decisive phase, with diplomacy continuing alongside renewed military tensions in the Middle East.

All Cabinet members are expected to attend the gathering, including Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, according to reports first published by the New York Post.

The meeting comes as the administration weighs its next steps in negotiations aimed at securing a broader agreement with Tehran while preserving a fragile ceasefire that has faced increasing strain in recent days.