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Authorities are investigating what led to the tragic case of a family who was found fatally shot in their San Diego area home on Wednesday morning.The San Diego police department identified the family as Amy Voight, 54, and David Voight, 56, and the couple’s 13-year-old daughter. The family died of gunshot wounds, police said, and investigators found a weapon in the residence.Gerald Austin, Amy Voight’s father, told the San Diego Union-Tribune that his son-in-law had served in the navy as a officer in Iraq and Afghanistan, while his daughter worked with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service as a digital forensic…

Jessica Erobomhan Access Bank has launched the Spot the Scam Initiative, a nationwide fraud awareness campaign designed to equip young teenagers and students aged 12 to 19 with the knowledge to recognise and resist financial scams.  Speaking at the event, Chief Conduct and Compliance Officer of Access Bank, Solomon Abiakalam, said the main target for fraud are young people  “Frauds they all target young people, all of them they target young people to either make them victims or to make them perpetrator, they have a special interest in young people, and that’s why they rebuilding their armies over the years,”…

Key eventsThat’s all, folks!Thanks everyone for the great questions. This is a difficult subject to negotiate and interacting with you always helps shape our thinking – and hopefully yours. Aisha, Blake and DanShareHow can individuals make a difference?Alberichthenibelung asks: What, if anything, can individuals like me do about it? double quotation markBlake: There is, unfortunately, not much that comes to mind. Everyday people confronted with declarations of a coming AI apocalypse find themselves in a position similar to the cold war, with doom hovering over their heads and little say in it. We may all have to accept the faint…

Hundreds of thousands of Iranians have marched in a government-organised show of defiance in Tehran, pledging their readiness to take up arms.The Iranian government showcased a newly formed volunteer force at the rally on Friday. It will receive limited military and emergency response training to serve as an additional layer of security for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Basij militia.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listVolunteers rallied through downtown Tehran in combat uniforms, some carrying flags and weapons, while the government displayed drones, anti-aircraft batteries and other weaponry.Iranian authorities said 313,000 people joined the event in…

The Nigerian police force has repatriated a Chinese national, Zhang Shijie, who is wanted in China for allegedly smuggling about 1,400 tonnes of endangered African rosewood. Mr Zhang was arrested in Ogun State and handed over to Chinese authorities after the police established that the Yangpu Sub-Bureau of the Anti-Smuggling Bureau of Haikou Customs District, China, wanted him. The Force Public Relations Officer, Ani Iniedu, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday, saying Mr Zhang was arrested on 10 September in the Ogere area of Ogun State and repatriated to Guangzhou on 16 September. According to Mr Iniedu, the Chinese…

United Nations says 22 million people need humanitarian aid as conflict intensifies.Published On 18 Sep 202618 Sep 2026More than 112,000 people have been displaced in Yemen and close to 3,000 have fled the conflict to Djibouti, according to the United Nations, as fighting intensifies between the Iran-allied Houthis and Saudi-backed forces loyal to the internationally recognised government.“Our resources are very, very, very limited and our stocks will be depleted very soon,” Abdusattor Esoev, mission chief in Yemen for the International Organization for Migration, told reporters on Friday.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listMost of the more than 112,000 internally…

Hybrid warfare or hybrid attacks are loose terms which tend to describe non-military methods, for example cyberattacks, sabotage or misinformation, designed to exert pressure and destabilise an adversary.These are quite often employed using proxies, but Russia always denies involvement in such attacks despite growing evidence to the contrary.The French president was speaking to journalists after meeting party leaders to discuss the security impact of the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine.Macron mentioned last month’s drone attack on Leipzig airport in Germany, blamed on Russia, and remarks by Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk suggesting Russia was planning drone and missile…

An outside review of the Federal Reserve’s oversight of the failure of Silicon Valley Bank in 2023 has found the Fed’s staff “knew, or should have known,” that the bank was vulnerable prior to the crisis, Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman said Friday.Bowman announced the initial results of the review, by the consulting firm Starling Advisory Group, in a speech in London. Silicon Valley Bank experienced a run in March 2023 after the bank announced it had sold securities at a $1.8 billion loss and needed to raise more capital. The bank’s large holdings of U.S. Treasurys had…

A summer that started early across the US has no intention of quitting, even as the calendar turns to autumn.The culprits? El Niño and climate change, which contributed to this summer’s record-breaking warmth and are delaying pumpkin spice season.Forecasters with the US Climate Prediction Center continue to see increased odds for hotter-than-normal temperatures across much of the country through at least the end of September.Computer models show a pronounced ridge pattern, an atmospheric arrangement that can lock in sustained spells of warmer-than-normal conditions. This setup will feature widespread unseasonable warmth throughout the country, a pattern consistent with a strong El…

Reform UK’s new mega-donor Ben Delo gave a £350,000 loan to a conservative writer fighting a legal case in which a judge later found she had engaged in online bullying and regrettable conduct with a “whiff of threat and antisemitism”.Nina Power and her friend, the writer Daniel DC Miller, brought the legal action for defamation against the performance artist Luke Turner, who they had accused of falsely calling them antisemitic. At the same time, Turner brought a counter-claim against the pair accusing them of harassment.Their libel action failed on the grounds that Turner’s online reach was not big enough to…