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Month: August 2024

Prosecutors are investigating the captain of superyacht that sank off Sicily

ROME (AP) — Prosecutors in Italy  are investigating the captain of a superyacht that sank during a storm off Sicily last week, killing seven people. Lawyer Aldo Mordiglia said James Cutfield, a 51-year old New Zealand national, is being investigated for possible manslaughter and culpable shipwreck. Mordiglia said Cutfield will be questioned again by prosecutors on Tuesday, without

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What to know about Telegram, the messaging app whose CEO was arrested over the weekend

By Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — The arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov in France over the weekend has thrust the popular messaging service and its enigmatic founderinto the spotlight. Russian-born Durov was detained Saturday at Paris’s Bourget Airport on a warrant related to Telegram’s lack of moderation. Those charges include allegations that

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Wounded water buffalo still on the lam in Iowa

KCCI, MARTIN PONTIER, MADISON POTTEBAUM, CNN By KCCI Staff Click here for updates on this story     PLEASANT HILL, Iowa (KCCI) — A water buffalo — yes, a water buffalo — got loose from its pen in Pleasant Hill and was seen wandering through several properties over the weekend. Madison Pottebaum said a police officer was

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Park’N Fly data breach included personal information of 1 million Canadian customers, company says

By Abby O’Brien Click here for updates on this story     TORONTO (CTV Network) — A popular airport parking service is warning approximately one million Canadian customers that their personal information may have been compromised in a widespread data breach last month. In a statement to CTV News Toronto on Monday, Park’N Fly confirmed that a

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Venezuela’s ‘little commandos’ took on Maduro. Now they may be leading a new wave of migration

By Stefano Pozzebon, CNN (CNN) — They were the self-styled political “commandos” with aspirations of bringing down the authoritarian government of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro. Now, the opposition says, hundreds of its activists and electoral witnesses are fleeing the country amid the fallout from last month’s contested presidential election. CNN spoke to about half a dozen Venezuelans

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