Soldier won $410K in Polymarket bets on timing of Maduro capture, US alleges
It's like "Pete Rose betting on his own team," Trump says of arrested soldier.
It's like "Pete Rose betting on his own team," Trump says of arrested soldier.
In the first 24 hours of the assault on Iran, the US military struck more than 1,000 targets, nearly double the scale of the "shock and awe" attack on Iraq over two decades ago. This acceleration was made possible by AI systems that speed up the...
In Ukraine, a Russian drone attack in the coastal city of Odesa killed a married couple in their seventies when their home was struck early in the morning, with several apartment buildings damaged—one nearly split in two—while separate drone strikes...
The EU's mutual assistance clause and NATO's collective defence are "complementary to each other", High Representative Kaja Kallas told Euronews amid Donald Trump's threats to withdraw from the alliance.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Operation Epic Fury has achieved a decisive result in just weeks, focused on preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons. He noted the mission is entering a new phase, giving Iran the chance to pursue a “good...
An internal Pentagon email reportedly proposes a series of options to punish NATO allies for failing to provide support in the Iran war. Suspending Spain from the alliance was just one possibility it considered.
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The Pentagon has outlined a set of options aimed at penalising NATO countries which rejected calls to assist in the war in Iran. A leaked email suggests suspending Spain’s membership of NATO, as well as undermining US support for UK territorial...
A US Special Forces soldier involved in the operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has been charged with multiple crimes, including unlawful use of classified government information, after allegedly using insider knowledge to place...
Most of the Russian soldiers are "criminals" and should be kept out of the Schengen area for good, Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal told Euronews. "Do you want these guys near your home? No, you don't."
Prosecutors say the soldier used classified information of the Maduro operation to place winning bets on Polymarket. The case comes amid other incidents of prediction market bets tied to US government actions.
We knew someone made over $400,000 on suspicious Polymarket bets around the US operation to capture Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, but now we have a name: Gannon Ken Van Dyke. The US Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced...
Donald Trump's remarks follow a meeting at the White House with senior officials from Israel and Lebanon. The extension comes after Israel bombed southern Lebanon and Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel. Follow DW.
Lebanon's president and prime minister accused Israel on Thursday of a war crime, after an airstrike killed a Lebanese journalist in the country's south, where Israeli forces occupy several areas. Rescuers and the reporter's employer on Wednesday...
Defence minister Israel Katz said on Thursday that Israel was "prepared to resume the war against Iran", adding that his country was awaiting a green light from the United States to return Iran to "the Stone Age". FRANCE 24's Noga Tarnopolsky...
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"They’re putting operational systems up within orbit reach of our high-value satellites."
Lebanon's leaders accused Israel on Thursday of committing a war crime, after an airstrike killed a Lebanese journalist in the country's south, with the Israeli army saying it was reviewing the incident. Rescuers and the reporter's employer on...
The European Union on Thursday approved a massive loan package to help Ukraine meet its economic and military needs for the next two years, the bloc’s Cypriot presidency said, after Hungary lifted its veto. The EU also approved a new raft of...