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France’s navy seized another tanker it said was linked to Russia’s “shadow fleet” on Thursday, underscoring the escalation this year in European efforts to enforce sanctions and squeeze one of Moscow’s main revenue streams. Nine suspected shadow fleet tankers, vessels shipping oil and gas to skirt Western sanctions, have now been seized across Europe since the start of 2026, including four by France. Britain seized an oil tanker in the English Channel on June 14. Another three suspected shadow fleet tankers have been inspected as part of a European naval mission in the Mediterranean, a Western military source said. “We…

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration proposed on June 25 to end a government requirement for manual brake pedals in self-driving vehicles, a move that would make it easier to deploy such vehicles on U.S. roads. The proposal would not apply to vehicles with human driver controls and NHTSA said it would not drop braking performance requirements, including strict stopping distance standards for self-driving vehicles. It is one of a number of changes proposed by the agency to facilitate the roll-out of self-driving vehicles. NHTSA is in the process of developing safety performance tests for self-driving vehicles as part of…

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) now says the data taken from its information technology systems by hackers earlier this month has been published online by those responsible. In a short note on it’s website, NAIC said it is “actively working with an external cybersecurity partner to compare the scope and type of data the group posted with our own analysis.” Updates will be posted when available, the NAIC said. According to multiple online resources, the ShinyHunters ransomware group claimed responsibility for the NAIC breach, and allegedly stole 3.1 terabytes of data. The group said it had technology provided…

A ship was hit by an unknown projectile in the Strait of Hormuz, just hours after several freighters turned around while attempting to cross the vital waterway, developments that may undermine what had been a rapid reopening of the energy chokepoint. The unidentified cargo ship was hit on its side and sustained damage to the bridge while it was sailing to the southeast of Oman, UK Maritime Trade Operations said. UKMTO, which liaises between merchant shipping and the military, advised vessels to “transit with caution.” If Iran is found to be behind the incident, which UKMTO classified as an attack,…

London’s efforts to deal with rising temperatures come at a considerable financial cost that will require the city to turn to private investors for help, the mayor of the UK capital said. Instead of being a “future threat,” extreme heat is now “a growing reality for Londoners,” the office of London Mayor Sadiq Khan said in a statement on Thursday. It’s already clear that even short bursts of high temperatures can leave a major dent in the city’s finances. Heat waves in 2022 — the year Londoners first experienced 40C — cost £1.5 billion ($2 billion), the mayor’s office said…

The U.S. Supreme Court reined in thousands of lawsuits pursued in state courts accusing Bayer of failing to warn users that the active ingredient in its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, handing a major legal victory on Thursday to the German company. The justices in a 7-2 decision overturned a jury verdict in Missouri awarding $1.25 million to a man named John Durnell who said he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after years of exposure to glyphosate in Roundup. The Supreme Court agreed with Bayer that a U.S. law that governs pesticides precludes failure-to-warn claims that are brought under state law…

O’Reilly Auto Enterprises, LLC, doing business as O’Reilly Auto Parts, a national auto parts retailer operating more than 6,500 stores throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, Mexico and Canada, violated federal law by failing to reasonably accommodate a disabled employee at its Belleville, Michigan distribution center and fired him instead, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit. According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, O’Reilly hired an employee as a commercial truck driver in 2015. In the summer of 2022, he had a stroke and multiple seizures and was hospitalized in an intensive care unit. The employee was…

Corpus Christi, the leading crude-export hub in the US, is no longer facing an imminent emergency after heavy rain and tropical storms replenished reservoirs that had been depleted by years of drought. The South Texas coastal city had projected it could be forced to implement emergency water-saving measures by December as water supplies dwindled. But recent rainfall has helped delay the emergency date into the latter half of 2027, according to City Manager Peter Zanoni. “The rains have been extremely beneficial,” said Zanoni, who will present the new data to the City Council on Tuesday. “A Level One water emergency…

Orlando Bravo was quick to see the disruptive potential of software, making a series of lucrative bets on the sector that turned him into a billionaire and transformed the buyout shop he leads, Thoma Bravo, into an industry powerhouse. Now, the disruption is coming for his own firm. The Miami-based financier is confronting it head-on, seeking to ensure his empire is ready for the era of artificial intelligence — and reassure investors that a debt-laden bet on online customer surveys, which lost more than $5 billion, is a one-off. The fund that held the investment is lagging behind rivals, and…

Specialist insurer CFC said it is responding to customer demand with updates to embed affirmative AI coverage within its portfolio. The rollout introduces clear, explicit AI-related language to eliminate ambiguity across seven key policies to ensure customers have certainty around how AI-related exposures are treated rather than relying on implied or silent coverage. The program includes updates across a range of CFC’s core products, including technology errors & omissions (Tech E&O), professional liability (E&O), eHealth, intellectual property (IP), management liability, media, and cyber proactive response (CPR). CFC said it will be addressing novel AI exposures like model hallucination, AI generated…