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Suspect identified in disappearance of four-year-old boy in Australia’s outback

Police in South Australia have declared the disappearance of a four-year-old boy last year a “major crime” and identified a person who lived at the family’s property as a suspect.
Gus Lamont went missing on 27 September last year while playing outside his home in remote Oak Park Station near Yunta in South Australia.
His grandmother had left him unattended for around 30 minutes and found him gone, sparking one of the largest land and air searches in the state’s history. Gus, known for being adventurous yet shy, was last seen wearing a grey hat, light-grey trousers, boots, and a blue long-sleeved T-shirt with a yellow Minion design.
Search for Gus was scaled back on 3 October last year, and by 17 October authorities said they were concluding the latest effort to locate him.
Gus’s disappearance had captured national attention, with images of the boy with blond and curly hair circulating widely in the media. A number of fake images of the boy were also spread online, including several cl..

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Libyan dictator Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam Gaddafi shot dead by armed men at home

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the influential son of late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, was killed by “masked men” on Tuesday at his home in Libya, reports said.
The 53-year-old was shot dead in the northwestern town of Zintan in the northern African country, sources close to the family, his lawyer Khaled al-Zaidi, and Libyan media confirmed.
“Four masked men” stormed his house and killed him in a “cowardly and treacherous assassination”, his political team said in a statement. Mr Al-Zaidi also confirmed the death on Facebook, without providing further details.
open image in gallerySaif al-Islam’s death has been described as a ‘cowardly and treacherous assassination’ (AFP/Getty)Reports suggested that Gaddafi clashed with the assailants who had shut the CCTV camera at the house “in a desperate attempt to conceal traces of their heinous crimes”.
Gaddafi’s cousin, Hamid Kadhafi, said he had “fallen as a martyr”. He said the address of the compound was meant to be a secret.
Gaddafi was widely ..

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Elon Musk’s X offices in France raided by Paris prosecutors

Leer en EspañolParis prosecutors have raided the offices of Elon Musk’s social media platform X, formerly Twitter, as part of a cyber crime investigation, it said on Tuesday.
The tech billionaire has also been summoned to a “voluntary” hearing in April, following a year-long investigation into suspected abuse of algorithms by X and its executives.
Investigators later widened the probe to include complaints over the site’s AI chatbot, Grok. They will look into the creation of child abuse images and sexually explicit deepfakes without people’s consent.
The investigation, which an EU commission spokesperson said is being discussed between Brussels and Paris, will see tensions rise between Europe and the US over Big Tech and free speech.
open image in galleryMusk has been summoned to a French court for a ‘voluntary interview’ as part of an investigation into X (AFP via Getty)“At this stage, the conduct of this investigation is part of a constructive approach, with the aim of ultimately e..