The deaths from a fire in a mall in Pakistan's Karachi have risen to at least 50 as firefighters recovered more bodies from the debris of the charred building. "We have found 20 to 25 dead bodies, or you call them remains," Deputy Commissioner Javed Nabi Khoso told the media on Wednesday. The Gul Plaza mall in Karachi the country's biggest city caught fire late on Saturday. The blaze raged on for more than 24 hours before it could be doused.
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I worry about the safety of all our judges," she said. "As you work to peacefully resolve more than 1 million cases a year, you must not only feel safe, you must also be safe. Any violence against a judge or a judge's family is completely unacceptable. As public servants, you are dedicated to the rule of law.
The death toll from a fire at a shopping mall in Karachi over the weekend has risen to at least 14, according to Pakistani authorities, as the search for more than 50 missing people continues. South deputy inspector general of police, Syed Asad Raza, told the Dawn newspaper on Monday that eight more bodies had been recovered since Sunday evening by rescue personnel, taking the death toll from six to 14.
Spanish singer-songwriter Julio Iglesias has been accused of sexual and physical assault by two women who previously worked for him. The results of a joint investigation by elDiario.es and Univision Noticias were published on Tuesday, detailing the allegations from both anonymous women. After three years of reporting, the outlets gathered that the women experienced sexual assault, workplace harassment and verbal and physical abuse while working for Iglesias at his homes in 2021.
"xAI appears to be facilitating the large-scale production of deepfake nonconsensual intimate images that are being used to harass women and girls across the internet, including via the social media platform X," California Attorney General Rob Bonta's office said in a statement. The statement cited a report that "more than half of the 20,000 images generated by xAI between Christmas and New Years depicted people in minimal clothing," including some that appeared to be children.
The idea that this president and this administration is going to do whatever it takes regardless, Faber said about the lesson for the next Fed chair. So, even if they get their person in there, so to speak, their person obviously they're going to be choosing that personthere is this idea that they are not expected then to perhaps show that real independence that they all claim they will have, because of course, there's the shadow of being indicted.
Actor and director Timothy Busfield is accused of sexually abusing two child actors on the set of the Fox crime drama The Cleaning Lady, where he served as an executive producer and directed multiple episodes. Busfield best known for his roles in The West Wing and Thirtysomething, for which he won a 1991 Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series faces two counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor and one count of child abuse, authorities in Albuquerque, N.M., said Friday.
A guard at a construction site near a 2026 Winter Olympic venue in the mountain resort of Cortina d'Ampezzo died during a freezing overnight shift, authorities have confirmed. Italy's infrastructure minister, Matteo Salvini, called for a full investigation into the circumstances of the 55-year-old worker's death. Italian media reported that the death occurred on Thursday while the worker was on duty at a construction site near Cortina's ice arena. Temperatures that night plunged to -12C (10.4F).
An NYPD officer shot and injured a man armed with a sharp object inside NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital Thursday evening, according to police officials. Authorities said officers responded to a 911 call about gunfire near the hospital around 5:30 p.m. and encountered the man before opening fire. Officials said the man was in critical condition and that the investigation is ongoing.
We extend our deepest condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues, and ask the media to respect their privacy at this time," Worcester County District Attorney Joseph Early, Jr. said in a press release.
The European Commission has condemned the reported spread of explicit, child-like content on social media platform X, calling the material appalling and disgusting. European Union digital affairs spokesman Thomas Regnier made the comments to reporters on Monday following weeks of complaints over a new feature on X's integrated AI chatbot Grok used to generate pornographic content, including depicting children.
Authorities have detained a suspect who allegedly smashed the windows of Vice President JD Vance's home, the U.S. Secret Service revealed on Monday. The suspect was taken into custody by Secret Service personnel just after midnight on suspicion of property damage to Vance's Cincinnati residence. Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said the suspect was detained after causing property damage, including breaking windows on the exterior of a personal residence associated with Vance on Sunday.
After a shark attack injured one of their own nearly three years ago, members of the Kelp Krawlers who swim weekly around Lovers Point in Monterey County began searching for something that might make the open ocean feel safer. They turned to wearable shark deterrents, including magnetic ankle bands designed to overwhelm a shark's electroreceptors the sensitive sixth sense pores the predators use to detect the faint electrical heartbeats of nearby prey.
Investigators said Friday that they believe sparkling candles atop Champagne bottles ignited a fatal fire at a Swiss ski resort when they came too close to the ceiling of a bar crowded with New Year's Eve revelers. Authorities planned to look into whether sound-dampening material on the ceiling conformed with regulations and whether the candles, which give off a stream of upward-shooting sparks, were permitted for use in the bar.
A senior Russian general has been "assassinated" in car bomb in Moscow on Monday morning. Lt General Fanil Sarvarov, the head of the operational training directorate of Russia 's armed forces was one of Vladimir Putin's senior officials died from injuries sustained in the successful car bomb attack. An explosive device exploded from underneath his car as he was travelling to work, Russia's Investigative Committee said.