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HONG KONG: Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai won an appeal on Thursday (Feb 26) over a 2022 fraud conviction, days after a court jailed him on separate national security charges.The ruling was a surprise win for Lai, the 78-year-old founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper, who was sentenced to 20 years behind bars this month on collusion charges under a Beijing-imposed national security law.The fraud case grew out of a contractual dispute and was unrelated to the charges he faced under the security law.Lai did not appear in court and remains behind bars. “(We) allow the appeals,…

US Justice Department accuses former Air Force officer Gerald Brown of training Chinese military pilots.Listen to this article | 4 minsinfoA former United States Air Force officer and “elite fighter pilot” has been arrested and accused of betraying his country for illegally providing training to Chinese military pilots.The US Department of Justice said ex-Air Force Major Gerald Brown, once known by his pilot’s call sign “Runner”, was arrested on Wednesday in Indiana and charged with a criminal complaint for providing and conspiring to provide defence services to Chinese pilots without authorisation.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listBrown, 65, a former F-35…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Trump administration has moved to block the Venezuelan government from covering the legal expenses of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro as he fights federal drug trafficking and weapons charges in New York, according to a court filing from his attorney.Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, pleaded not guilty in federal court in New York on Jan. 5 to drug trafficking and weapons charges, days after American forces captured them at the presidential palace in Venezuela.In a letter to U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein, who is overseeing the case in the Southern…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Sylvester Stallone on Wednesday shared the grueling, body-punishing work it took to make the fight scenes in “Rocky” look like the real thing.”Before Rocky ever stepped into the ring on screen, there were hours like this,” the 79-year-old wrote on his Instagram while sharing a video that showed Stallone and Apollo Creed actor Carl Weathers working out their boxing choreography.”Repetition. Footwork. Timing,” he added. “Getting hit and getting back up. I wrote the script in 3½ days, but the physical work took months. Nothing about it was accidental. If you want it…

Washington — The Pentagon gave Anthropic an ultimatum this week: Give the U.S. military unrestricted use of its AI technology or face a ban from all government contracts. At the center of the issue is a question of who controls how artificial intelligence models are used, the Pentagon or the company’s CEO.The Pentagon’s AI contracts The Pentagon awarded Anthropic a $200 million contract in July to develop AI capabilities that would advance U.S. national security. Anthropic’s rivals, including OpenAI, Google and xAI were also awarded $200 million contracts by the Pentagon last year. Anthropic is currently the only AI company to have its model deployed on the Pentagon’s…

new video loaded: An Inside Look at the State of the UnionOur photojournalist Kenny Holston was the only news photographer on the House floor during President Trump’s State of the Union speech. Here’s how he captured his images.By Kenny Holston, Sutton Raphael, Mac Schneider and Nikolay NikolovFebruary 25, 2026

A Burnaby man who lost his entire family at last year’s Lapu Lapu Festival is calling on organizers to halt plans for this year’s event. Alejandro Samper’s father, Daniel, his mother, Glitza, and his sister, Glitza, were among the victims when an SUV plowed through the festival grounds.“This new Lapu Lapu Festival that’s happening this year, they need to stop that. Give us a break. Give us time to to heal, rather than going back at it to fill their pockets with money,” Samper told Global News.When Filipino BC announced on social media that it is holding the event over…

The giants of private investment risk seeing a tantalising prize slip from their grasp.Three of the biggest — Apollo, Blackstone and KKR — collectively oversee assets that have ballooned to $US3 trillion, from $200 billion in 2008. So far, they have had to raise the lion’s share of this from a select group of financial institutions and the uber-rich.Now they and their competitors have the mass market in their sights. They have launched a wave of funds designed to entice retail savers to invest in unlisted assets such as private equity, property and private debt.The whole endeavour may now be…

HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s Court of Appeal on Thursday (Feb 26) overturned a lower court ruling against jailed pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai’s conviction and sentence for a fraud offence.Judges Jeremy Poon, Anthea Pang, and Derek Pang said in the judgment that they allowed the appeal application from Lai, and another defendant in the case.”The Court of Appeal gave them leave to appeal against their conviction, allowed their appeals, quashed the convictions and set aside the sentences,” the judges wrote in a press summary of their judgement.Lai was sentenced in Dec 2022 to five years and nine months in jail…

The shooting of Franco, an activist, raised questions about political violence and corruption within Brazil’s government.Listen to this article | 4 minsinfoBy Reuters and The Associated PressPublished On 26 Feb 202626 Feb 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2Shareplus2googleAdd Al Jazeera on GoogleinfoA panel on Brazil’s Supreme Court has ruled to convict five men accused of plotting the 2018 assassination of a human rights leader-turned politician Marielle Franco and her driver, Anderson Gomes.The justices on the panel were unanimous in Wednesday’s decision, which marked the climax of a closely watched trial that raised questions about polarisation, corruption and race in Brazilian society.Recommended…