Philippine senator says China should do more to help fight cybercrime gangs

China should do more to battle the illegal online gambling and scam call centers run by Chinese criminal syndicates in Southeast Asian countries often using forced labor, a Philippine senator who led an investigation into the centers said Friday.

MIA/POW ceremony recognizes the Vietnam War lost who have been found

During the annual National POW/MIA Recognition Day at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, the first of nearly 1,000 formerly unaccounted for troops from the Vietnam War received long-overdue rosettes next to their names on the walls of the Courts of the Missing to signify they have been identified.

Greek Coast Guard chases boat close to Turkish coast in potential diplomatic incident

A Greek Coast Guard boat’s pursuit of an inflatable dinghy to within a few dozen yards of the Turkish coast threatens a diplomatic incident between the neighbors.

Hezbollah commander killed in Israeli airstrike was top military official on US wanted list

Ibrahim Akil, the Hezbollah commander killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut’s southern suburbs was one of the Lebanese militant group’s top military officials, in charge of its elite forces, and had been on Washington’s wanted list for years.

How Google allegedly monopolized the ad technology market

Google has monopolized the technology used to buy and sell online display ads by restricting or eliminating the choices of its customers — both website publishers and advertisers — the U.S. Justice Department alleged at a federal antitrust trial.

Vietnam War “Dustoff” helicopter crews to receive Congressional Gold Medal

The Dustoffs extracted 900,000 wounded U.S., Vietnamese, and allied soldiers from May 1962 to March 1973. The Army said the medevac crews had a one-in-three chance of becoming casualties themselves.

Microsoft deal would reopen Three Mile Island nuclear plant to power AI

The restart of the site of the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history would mark the first time a U.S. nuclear plant has come back into service after being decommissioned, and the first time a single commercial nuclear power plant’s output been allocated to a single customer.

Georgia election board votes to require hand counts of ballots

The Georgia State Election Board approved a rule Friday requiring counties in the critical presidential battleground to hand-count the total number of ballots this year, potentially upending the November election by delaying the reporting of results.

Haiti’s insecurity is worsening as gangs seize more territory, UN rights expert says

A U.N. human rights expert warned on Friday that gang violence is spreading across Haiti as a U.N.-backed mission targeting criminals in the troubled Caribbean country remains underfunded and understaffed.

Did Middle East device attack violate international law? Advocates want an investigation

Human rights advocates are calling for an independent investigation into the deadly explosions of pagers and walkie-talkies in Lebanon and Syria, suggesting the blasts may have violated international law if the devices were fashioned as booby traps.