A new law is to be introduced to exonerate hundreds of Post Office branch managers caught up in the Horizon IT scandal. UK prime minister Rishi Sunak said they were victims of “one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in our nation’s history”. Hundreds of subpostmasters were convicted of swindling money on the basis of […]
The Securities and Exchange Commission said that a post sent from the US agency’s account on the social platform X announcing the approval of a long-awaited bitcoin exchange-traded fund was “unauthorised”, and that the agency’s account was hacked. The price of bitcoin briefly spiked more than 1,000 US dollars after the post on X, formerly […]
Plans in the UK to clear the names of hundreds of Post Office branch managers wrongly convicted in the Horizon IT scandal are to be announced “imminently”. UK prime minister Rishi Sunak will face British MPs for Prime Minister’s Questions and is under pressure to set out how his government will exonerate hundreds of subpostmasters […]
Former UK Post Office boss Paula Vennells is to hand back her CBE following the fallout of the Horizon IT scandal which led to the wrongful prosecution of hundreds of subpostmasters. The former chief executive, who ran the Post Office while it routinely denied there was a problem with its Horizon IT system, was appointed […]
S&P 500 companies are gearing up for fourth-quarter earnings season. And some are seen putting up some massive profit growth. X Ten companies, including some of the Magnificent Seven like Amazon.com (AMZN) and Netflix (NFLX), plus utilities like NRG Energy (NRG), are seen posting 50% or higher profit for the fourth-quarter of 2023, says an […]
One of Britain’s biggest miscarriages of justice, the wrongful conviction of hundreds of Post Office workers due to faulty software, has exploded into the public domain following a TV drama, sparking demands for justice. In a more than 20-year scandal, some postal workers were sent to prison and others lost their livelihoods and homes. An […]
Needham Police: Don’t use mailboxes, bring mail into post office to avoid mailbox phishing scam Police are urging residents not to use outdoor blue Post Office mailboxes to drop off their mail and instead bring their mail into an open post office to avoid an ongoing mailbox phishing scam. “We have once again been targeted […]
On Dec. 10, a group of travelers boarded Royal Caribbean’s Serenade of the Seas for a nine-month,160-destination cruise around the world. Nearly a month into the voyage, millions of people on TikTok are watching what happens on the ship as if it were a reality show. In fact, several TikTokers have begun to piece together […]
Police detectives are looking at “potential fraud offences” in the UK Post Office, as the business faces further scrutiny over the Horizon IT scandal. More than 700 Post Office branch managers were handed criminal convictions after faulty Fujitsu accounting software made it appear as though money was missing from their outlets. It has been described […]
The Defence Forces of Ukraine hit a radar station and a command post with a secure communication channel with the Kremlin, which was responsible for coordinating air defence across the peninsula, in Yevpatoriia on 4 January. Source: Ukraine’s National Resistance Center Details: Atesh, the Crimean underground resistance movement conducted additional reconnaissance of Ukraine’s Defence Forces […]
CAIRO (Reuters) – Lebanese armed group Hezbollah said it hit a key Israeli observation post early on Saturday with 62 rockets as a “preliminary response” to the killing of Hamas’ deputy chief earlier this week. Senior Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri was killed on Tuesday, Jan. 2 in an Israeli drone strike on Beirut’s southern suburb […]
Explosions in the temporarily occupied areas of Yevpatoriia and Sevastopol were part of a special operation carried out by Ukraine’s Air Force. Source: Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk, Air Force Commander, on Telegram; Directorate of Strategic Communications of the Office of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (StratCom) Quote: “On 2 January, the Ministry […]