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SRINAGAR, India: Soldiers in Indian-administered Kashmir on Friday (Apr 25) blew up the family homes of two men who the police alleged were among a gang that carried out the region’s deadliest attack against civilians in decades. Indian security forces have launched a giant manhunt for those responsible for killing 26 men in Pahalgam on Tuesday. The police said that they were members of the Pakistani-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), designated a terrorist organisation by the United Nations. They have issued wanted posters with sketches of three men: Indian national Adil Hussain Thoker, as well as Pakistani citizens Ali Bhai and Hashim…

Magicians never reveal their secrets. But sometimes, they admit they were wrong.On Thursday night in London, members of a top British magic society came together to right a three-decade-old blunder: The rejection of what they now consider one of the greatest deception acts their members ever fell for.“It was an amazing ruse — fooling a room full of magicians,” said Maddie Spencer, 48, who is in the group, known as the Magic Circle.In March 1991, when the club was restricted to men, a woman named Sophie Lloyd disguised herself as a man and earned full membership. (Her alias: “Raymond Lloyd.”)…

While all 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories are all currently in compliance ahead of the federal deadline of May 7, REAL ID was once roundly opposed by several state governments.As soon as two years after the law’s 2005 passage by President George W. Bush, several state leaders had already expressed objections to complying with the nationwide standard.Then-Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer, a Democrat, called REAL ID a “harebrained scheme” in a 2008 NPR interview.”[W]e are putting up with the federal government on so many fronts, and nearly every month they come out with another… unfunded mandate to…

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A new short documentary released by the Ontario Provincial Police is shedding light on what it says is one of the most disturbing and fast-growing threats facing children: online sexual exploitation. Titled ”Protecting Innocence,” the film opens with the story of a mother and daughter who bravely speak out about their experience dealing with online abuse.The video, which can be found on YouTube, is part of a wider effort under Ontario’s Provincial Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) program, which is raising awareness about a crisis law enforcement says is escalating rapidly.According to Det. Staff Sgt. Tim Brown, who leads the ICE…

Anthony Albanese will pledge $25m to help more than 90,000 students learn a second language through community programs delivered after school hours.The funding will support about 600 community schools across Australia, which help students learn or maintain a second language.About $5m of the funding will go toward specialist Asian languages to help students become fluent in languages like Mandarin, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Korean.The Prime Minister is set to make the announcement in Melbourne, where he will continue campaigning on Saturday.Mr Albanese said the funding boost to help native and non-native speakers develop a second languageAsian languages in particular would help…

BANGKOK: Six Thai police officers were killed when a small plane crashed into the sea during a parachute training drill near a resort town on Friday (Apr 25), police said. The crash occurred around 8am (9am, Singapore time) off the coast of Prachuap Khiri Khan province south of Bangkok. Police spokesperson Archayon Kraithong said five of the six officers on board were killed at the scene. The sixth died later in a hospital, according to a Royal Thai Police statement on Facebook. Authorities are examining the aircraft’s black box data recorder to determine the cause of the crash.

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the ESG investing myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.Investors pulled a record amount from “sustainable” funds in the first quarter of the year, in an early sign that the US backlash against environmental, social and governance-based investing is going global.While US investors cut their exposure to sustainable mutual and exchange traded funds for a 10th straight quarter, Europeans were net sellers for the first time on record in data going back to 2018, pulling out $1.2bn, according to data from Morningstar.With Asian investors also cutting exposure, the $8.6bn of net…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.In a break during a tense 2009 Citigroup board meeting, one of Wall Street’s more influential figures Robert Rubin approached the firm’s outside investment banking adviser, Scott Bok.Former US Treasury secretary Rubin, at that time a Citi executive, told Bok he knew his father, mistakenly presuming he was the son of Derek Bok, the esteemed scholar and former president of Harvard University. The origins of the banker’s father were far more humble — a Midwestern high school dropout, he supported his family…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Shedeur Sanders suffered one of the most dramatic NFL Draft slides of any top quarterback prospect in recent history on Thursday night. Sanders, who was projected by some to be the No. 1 overall pick in this year’s draft after the college football season, fell completely out of the first round and remains undrafted going into day two. The former University of Colorado star admitted that he and his family “did not expect” what occurred on Thursday night, in footage posted by his brother Deion Sanders Jr. Still, the quarterback appears to be keeping…