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At least one person has been arrested and more are wanted after a company scammed people out of tens of millions of dollars, promising cheap iPhones after a ban on them in Iran.

Given an ultimatum by a key Kuki outfit to leave Manipur’s Churachandpur within 24 hours, the district’s Deputy Commissioner has told The Indian Express he “cannot abandon people and disappear”. The Kuki-dominated district saw violence on Thursday night after a Kuki head constable was suspended over a video showing him alongside armed men from the community.

Israel's war on Gaza — now in its 133rd day — has killed at least 28,775 Palestinians and wounded 68,552 others, as US President Joe Biden tells Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu Israel's attack on Rafah shouldn't proceed without "plans for civilians."

A woman’s motive for opening fire in celebrity pastor Joel Osteen’s megachurch was unclear Monday, a day after the shooting sent worshippers rushing for safety in between busy services.

French prosecutors said on Wednesday, February 7, they had opened an inquiry after actor Judith Godrèche filed a complaint against film director Benoît Jacquot, accusing him of raping her in a relationship that began when she was 14 and he was 25 years her senior.

Taylor Swift has proven herself capable of many things, including toppling monopolies and making mass transit cool again, but her latest endeavor—taking on artificial intelligence—is perhaps her most ambitious yet. 

As witnesses including five news reporters watched through a window, Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was convicted and sentenced to die in the 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of Elizabeth Sennett, convulsed on a gurney as Alabama carried out the nation’s first execution using nitrogen gas.

European court has condemned Lithuania's complicity in CIA torture at a secret prison, while Vilnius said it is prepared to award the Guantanamo detainee over $108,000 in compensation.

A weeklong telecommunications blackout in the Gaza Strip has become a “matter of life and death” and should end immediately, digital civil rights group Access Now says during the longest continuous outage since Israel’s war began.

Preliminary investigations by the security agencies revealed that "illegal miners occupying one of the houses in Bodija had stored explosive devices there which caused the blast," a local official says.