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Two Minnesota women are charged with organizing thefts of several thousand dollars' worth of merchandise from a Lululemon store in Minneapolis, and then funneling the stolen goods through a nail salon

A nearly century-old Oklahoma company that supplies stock for rodeos had as many as 70 horses die a week ago after receiving what an owner believes is tainted feed

Telegram boss Pavel Durov that has fired a warning shot to global tech titans was started by a small cybercrime unit within the Paris prosecutor's office, led by 38-year-old Johanna Brousse. The arrest of Durov, 39, last Saturday marks a significant shift in how some global authorities may seek to deal with tech chiefs reluctant to police illegal content on their platforms. The arrest signalled the mettle of the J3 cybercrime unit, but the true test of its ambitions will be whether Brousse can secure a conviction based on a largely untested legal argument, lawyers said. In an unprecedented move against a major tech CEO, prosecutors argued Durov bears responsibility for the alleged illegality on his platform, placing him under formal investigation on organized crime charges. He is suspected of complicity in running an online platform that allows the posting of child sex abuse images, drug trafficking and fraud.

Enforcement Directorate has facilitated the restitution of Rs 19.40 crore to the defrauded investors of the Rose Valley Group Ponzi scheme on the orders of a special PMLA court in Kolkata, officials said on Friday. In a statement, the ED said the amount has been transferred to the Rose Valley Asset Disposal Committee (ADC) account according to the court directives on July 24 and August 17. «The ED had requested the Assets Disposal Committee, constituted by the high court, to seek restitution of properties attached or seized by the ED under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). »In compliance, the ADC filed an application under Section 8(8) of the PMLA before the Special Court," the ED statement said.

Financial services professionals who act as fiduciaries for Independent Retirement Accounts could face extra scrutiny if new recommendations are implemented.

Andhra Pradesh late on Thursday night, after students discovered that hidden cameras were installed in the girls hostel on campus. According to TOI, a private engineering college based in Gudivada of the Krishna district in Andhra Pradesh was in uproar as students alleged that a fourth year student was involved in the crime. The accused reportedly sold the footage extracted from these cameras to boys.

Dispatching errors and the failure of two backup systems allowed a Union Pacific train to slam into 74 railcars that had been parked on a side track for nine months in Southern California in 2022

French President Emmanuel Macron is defending his government’s decision to give special fast-track citizenship to Telegram messaging app CEO Pavel Durov

More information has been released about the incident that took the lives of 2 people and injured 1 person on Tuesday morning, FOX 5 Atlanta reports. 

Awami League leader of Bangladesh, Ishaque Ali Khan Panna. His body was recovered from a betel nut plantation in East Jaintia Hills district. The district is in close vicinity of the Indo-Bangladesh border. East Jaintia Hills SP Giri Prasad M said that investigation was on into the matter. “On the evening of 26th August 2024, one unknown male dead body in a semi-decomposed state was found lying at the betel nut plantation located in the Dona Bhoi Area of East Jaintia Hills. One Bangladesh passport bearing the name of Ishaque Ali Khan Panna was recovered from the dead body,” the SP said in a statement. “Later, after observing all the formalities at the PO, the dead body was shifted to Civil Hospital Khliehriat for post-mortem examination.

Telegram could face stricter EU digital rules as Brussels probes whether the popular messaging app — whose founder faces criminal charges in France — has more users in the bloc than claimed. The platform was thrust into the spotlight after its chief Pavel Durov was arrested in France on Saturday. He has since been released on bail but cannot leave the country. Durov is accused of failing to curb extremist and illegal content on the increasingly controversial platform, which has over 900 million followers.

The Federal Trade Commission inked a new rule to combat fake online reviews and sham social-media clout. The new rule, finalized this month and set to go into effect later this year, prohibits a slew of practices including: providing incentives for reviews that convey a particular sentimentreviews and testimonials by company insiders that don’t disclose the authors’ connection to the brandsuppressing unflattering reviewsreviews and testimonials attributed to people who haven’t used the product or aren’t real “The role of reviews is increasingly important in almost all of our purchase decisions," said Sandy Jap, a marketing professor at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School.

The price of Toncoin has jumped by as much as 6% overnight, with its move to $5.62 going some way to correcting the plunge it suffered after French authorities arrested Telegram founder Pavel Durov on Saturday.

Jaguar is telling owners of about 3,000 electric SUVs to park them outdoors and away from structures due to the risk of battery fires

U.S. Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday said SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket has been grounded after failing an attempt to land back on Earth during a routine Starlink mission, forcing the company’s second grounding this year.SpaceX’s Falcon 9 successfully launched a batch of Starlink internet satellites into orbit early Wednesday morning.

An investigation is underway into an E. coli outbreak that has temporarily shut down a central Alberta child-care centre.

Rio de Janeiro police carried out 16 search warrants targeting the claw machines that elicit exhilaration among children and adults alike across the city

Telegram boss Pavel Durov under formal investigation on Wednesday in a probe into organized crime on the messaging app, but granted the entrepreneur bail on condition he pays 5 million euros, reports twice a week to police and does not leave French territory. Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said in a statement the judge found there were grounds to formally investigate Durov on all the charges for which he was initially arrested four days ago. They include suspected complicity in running an online platform that allows illicit transactions, images of child sex abuse, drug trafficking and fraud, as well as the refusal to communicate information to authorities, money laundering and providing cryptographic services to criminals.

The CSX worker who discovered his friend run over by a pair of remote-control locomotives last year sees two-person crews as a simple solution to preventing similar deaths