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Cash, gold, mercury and firearms seized in operations in Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana and SurinamePolice and prosecutors from Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana and Suriname have arrested nearly 200 people in their first joint cross-border operation targeting illegal gold mining in the Amazon region, authorities said.The operation was backed by Interpol, the EU and Dutch police specialising in environmental crime. It involved more than 24,500 checks on vehicles and people across remote border areas and led to the seizure of cash, unprocessed gold, mercury, firearms, drugs and mining equipment, Interpol said. Continue reading...

From food stalls to revitalised downtowns, Venezuelans have shaped midwestern towns, but new US policy threatens their futureAt a former Coca-Cola bottling plant in downtown Indianapolis, Venezuelans Juan Paredes Angulo and his mother, Andreina, five years ago delivered on a decades-long dream to open a food stall, sharing regional Venezuelan food with a part of America better used to Tex-Mex and Chinese takeout for international cuisine.Hearing of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro’s capture by US forces in an overnight military raid earlier this month came as a complete shock. Continue reading...

Researchers find with high confidence that security officials used Cellebrite to extract data from activists’ phonesAuthorities in Jordan appear to be using an Israeli digital tool to extract information from the mobile phones of activists and protesters who have been critical of Israel and spoken out in support of Gaza, according to a new report by the Citizen Lab.A multiyear investigation found with high confidence that Jordanian security authorities have been using forensic extraction tools made by Cellebrite against members of civil society, including two political activists, a student organizer, and a human rights defender, the researchers said. Continue reading...

The actor is the latest to testify in court over a claim that the newspaper misused their private informationThe claim over the tapping of lines and bugging comes from a now “disavowed” witness statement from the private investigator Gavin Burrows.Breaking down again, she says she feels bad that her son will learn about some of the things reported today because of the trial. Continue reading...

The follow-up to 2022’s Harry’s House boasts an esoteric title – but experts say ambiguity might be the goalWe don’t know much about Harry Styles’s first album in four years beyond its title – and it’s already causing some grammatical consternation.The follow-up to 2022’s Grammy-winning Harry’s House is a bit more esoterically named: Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. In an era when fans clinically investigate every aspect of pop stars’ lives, it was perhaps inevitable that Styles’s choice of punctuation would draw scrutiny. Continue reading...