Greece’s Coast Guard says 26 other people have been rescued from Aegean Sea as search-and-rescue operations continue.
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A boat carrying migrants has collided with a Greek Coast Guard vessel in the Aegean Sea near the island of Chios, killing at least 14 people, the Coast Guard says.
The incident occurred around 9pm local time on Tuesday (19:00 GMT) off the coast of Chios’s Mersinidi area, Greece’s Athens-Macedonian News Agency (AMNA) reported.
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The Coast Guard said 26 people were rescued and brought to a hospital in Chios, including 24 migrants and two Coast Guard officers.
It said it was not immediately clear how many others had been on the speedboat.
Seven children and a pregnant woman were among the injured, Greek media reported.
A search-and-rescue operation involving patrol boats, a helicopter and divers was under way in the area, AMNA said.
Footage shared by Greece’s Ta Nea newspaper appeared to show at least one person being brought from a boat docked next to a jetty into a vehicle with blue flashing lights.
An unnamed Coast Guard official told the Reuters news agency that the collision occurred after the migrant boat “manoeuvred toward” a Coast Guard vessel that had instructed it to turn back.
Greece has long been a key transit point for migrants and refugees from the Middle East, Africa and Asia trying to reach Europe.
In 2015 and 2016, Greece was on the frontline of a migration crisis as nearly one million people landed on its islands, including Chios, from nearby Turkiye.
But arrivals have dropped in recent years as Greece has toughened its migration policies, including tighter border controls and sea patrols.
The country has come under scrutiny for its treatment of migrants and refugees approaching by sea, including one shipwreck in 2023 in which hundreds of migrants died after what witnesses said was the Coast Guard’s attempt to tow their trawler.
The European Union’s border agency said last year that it was reviewing 12 cases of potential human rights violations by Greece, including some allegations that people seeking asylum were pushed back from Greece’s frontiers.
Greece has denied carrying out human rights violations or pushing asylum seekers from its shores.
Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse have condemned the US Department of Justice’s release of files about the disgraced financier, with one saying “a five-year-old could have done a better job”.
Jess Michaels claims she was raped by Epsteinin his penthouse after meeting him as a 22-year-old professional dancer in 1991.
Speaking to Sky News’ Jonathan Samuels on The World she said she hoped “that justice would finally happen” but said there are “extreme redactions and then extreme neglect to (not) redact”.
Image:‘There are extreme redactions and then extreme neglect’, Jess Michaels said
Lawyers for the survivors have criticised the US Department of Justice’s redactions of personal information from the Epstein files released on Friday, with the identity of at least one woman who had not previously come forward with allegations having been revealed.
“A five-year-old could have done a better job redacting these files with colour-coded crayons. It is an embarrassment that our Department of Justice put this out as their very best work,” Ms Michaels said.
“It is shocking the damage this department of justice has done with the way that they have released survivors’ personal information out there, when they literally had one job, which was to redact survivors’ names.”
Ms Michaels added: “I was willing to give the benefit of the doubt that it was just sloppy incompetence.
“But now it feels almost like it’s purposeful to intimidate survivors, to punish survivors, to discredit survivors, and then not to hold the perpetrators actually guilty.”
Survivor says files redacts ‘powerful people’
Another survivor, Lisa Phillips, agreed that the US Department of Justice’s latest release of Epstein files “had a lot of redactions of people, powerful people… that were there” with the disgraced financier.
She said “we should be able to see who those people are”.
Image:Lisa Phillips
The US Department of Justice, in a court filing on Monday, said it was in the process of “removing documents that inadvertently were produced and contain victim-identifying information”.
Health officials are warning the public of potential measles exposure after an international traveler visited several high-traffic locations in Southern California, including Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and the Disneyland Resort.
The traveler arrived Jan. 26 on Viva Aerobus Flight 518 at Tom Bradley International Terminal B, Gate 201A, according to a statement from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LADPH).
The department stated that individuals who were in Terminal B between 10:45 p.m. Jan. 26 and 1 a.m. Jan. 27 may have been exposed.
Following the arrival, the individual traveled to Orange County. The Orange County Health Care Agency shared the following exposure windows for Jan. 28.
Goofy’s Kitchen (Disneyland Hotel) between 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
Disneyland Park and Disney California Adventure from 12:30 p.m. until park closure
Goofy’s Kitchen in Disneyland Hotel was one site of potential measles exposure.(Photo by AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)
A subsequent exposure was identified on Jan. 30 at a Dunkin’ Donuts in Woodland Hills, according to the LADPH.
“People who were at these locations during these times may be at risk of developing measles from seven to 21 days after exposure,” the Orange County Health Care Agency said in a statement.
Health officials advise anyone who visited these locations during the specified windows to check their immunization status and monitor for symptoms for 21 days following exposure.
Public health departments in both Los Angeles and Orange County will continue to track potential exposure sites and notify individuals at high risk.
People should contact a healthcare provider by phone before visiting a clinic if symptoms develop to prevent further spread, experts recommend.
The infected passenger was an international traveler at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).(KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images)
Fox News Digital reached out to county officials for a statement.
What to know about measles
Measles is a highly contagious viral disease. If one person is infected, up to 90% of nearby people who are not immune will also become infected, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“Measles doesn’t only affect people who travel internationally — everyone is at risk if they’re not protected,” said Dr. Anissa Davis, deputy county health officer for Long Beach, California. “The best way to protect yourself and your loved ones is to get vaccinated before exposure occurs.”
Visitors at Disneyland on the listed dates and times should exercise caution and limit contact with others, according to experts.(Getty Images)
Symptoms of measles typically include fever, cough, runny nose and red eyes, followed by a characteristic rash that begins on the face and spreads downward, per the CDC. An infected person is contagious for four days before and four days after the rash appears.
As of Jan. 30, there have been 588 confirmed cases of measles in the U.S. so far in 2026, the agency reports. This follows a significant surge in 2025, which saw 2,267 cases — the highest annual count in more than three decades.
Khloe Quill is a lifestyle production assistant with Fox News Digital. She and the lifestyle team cover a range of story topics including food and drink, travel, and health.
A revised government-industry council devoted to critical infrastructure protection could be set up to have broader and more specific discussions on things like cybersecurity and threats to hardware and software that monitor and control industrial processes, known as operational technology (OT).
A top official at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Nick Andersen, said Tuesday he couldn’t share a timeline yet for the replacement of the Critical Infrastructure Partnership Advisory Council, which the Homeland Security Department disbanded to private sector dismay last year.
But he said the replacement, details of which CyberScoop was first to report, was trying to solve a number of problems with the original council (CIPAC).
“Old CIPAC never made any explicit focus on cybersecurity, that just wasn’t part of what was chartered back in the day when it was originally launched,” Andersen, executive assistant director for cybersecurity, told reporters at an event hosted by the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI).
“Additionally, it didn’t give us the opportunities for having focus groups to have conversations [about] like undersea cables, might be a good example. OT systems might be a good example,” he said. “OT had to nest itself under the IT Sector Coordinating Council in the past. There’s real opportunities for us to improve, opportunities for elements of the community that didn’t necessarily have opportunities to engage in a substantive way in the past, to give them a voice in the process.”
Further considerations, sources have told CyberScoop, include things like liability protections and how transparent the panel’s proceedings should be.
Andersen told reporters he couldn’t provide a timeline for development of an artificial intelligence information sharing center (AI-ISAC), first proposed by the Trump administration as part of its AI Action Plan.
But he spoke at the event about pitfalls he hoped an AI-ISAC would avoid. Key, he said, would be to avoid having a government-established entity that ran parallel to, rather than in coordination with, industry efforts.
The administration wants to “take the opportunity to get that relationship right,” Andersen said.
A massive fire has broken out at a bazaar in western Tehran, authorities say, sending thick plumes of black smoke over the Iranian capital.
The cause of the blaze on Tuesday morning was not immediately unclear.
The fire has “so far resulted in no injuries”, Tehran emergency services operations commander Mohammad Behnia said.
The blaze started at a market in the Jannat Abad neighbourhood in the west of the capital, an area packed with stalls and shops, state television quoted the city’s fire department as saying.
“The fire is extensive, to the extent that it is visible from various parts of Tehran,” Fire Department spokesman Jalal Maleki said.
Maleki later said the blaze had been “brought under control” and that “smoke removal and spot-check operations” were under way, according to Iran’s official IRNA news agency.
State television said firefighters were dispatched to the site immediately to contain the blaze.
A National Cancer Plan for England “that will revolutionise the way we treat cancer”. It is a bold and ambitious claim to make, but this strategy cannot afford to be anything else.
Cancerdestroys far too many lives. According to the charity Macmillan, someone in the UK is diagnosed with the disease at least every 75 seconds. That is a grim statistic.
Tomorrow, the government will publish a new 10-year plan to tackle it, pledging that more people will survive a diagnosis in the coming years.
This cancer plan says it puts “patients at the very heart of it”. Eleven thousand people responded to the call for evidence: stories of resilience against the odds, personal battles against a healthcare system buckling under the cancer burden.
The metrics are quantifiable. In around 10 years time, three out of four people diagnosed with cancer will be living well or cured from cancer within five years of their diagnosis.
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According to the Department of Health, this would represent the fastest rate of improvement in cancer outcomes this century, and would translate to 320,000 more lives saved over the lifetime of the plan.
The document will also pledge that the NHS will meet all its cancer waiting time targets by 2029, and is set to be joined with other announcements, including a big expansion in robot-assisted surgery and faster diagnostic tests to cut down delays in cancer diagnosis and treatment.
This is achievable. But it will take commitment and investment.
The Danes have done it. They have had five successive national cancer plans.
Our healthministers have been studying their blueprint very carefully to apply the most successful interventions into our own plan.
Smaller organisations working at a local level will be empowered and financed to support their own communities. This is practical and sensible.
Some £6bn has been earmarked for capital investment to invest in the latest technology, AI and robotic surgery to identify and treat cancer quickly.
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Cancer is indiscriminate. So children and young people will, for the first time, be given a dedicated chapter in this plan to meet their own special needs.
According to the latest data from the World Health Organization, four in 10 cancer cases are preventable.
It has examined 30 preventable causes, including tobacco, alcohol, high body mass index, physical inactivity, air pollution, ultraviolet radiation, and, for the first time, nine cancer-causing infections.
This area will come under renewed focus after the government’s success in introducing the Tobacco and Vapes Bill to ensure an entirely smoke-free generation.
Community Diagnostic Centres easily accessible with a high street presence, and open for days and hours that suit ordinary people, will speed up diagnoses.
And importantly, as science makes great strides in extending life, survivors must not be left alone to face the “cancer cliff edge”, the feeling of abandonment after their cancer treatment has finished.
Survivorship is as important as early diagnosis.
All of this is to be welcomed and applauded, but to move to this level will need a big step change.
Many hospitals still cannot share imaging or pathology results in a timely way due to old technology holding them back.
And some estates are not fit for purpose, let alone to house a specialist cancer ward.
I have stood under gaping ceiling holes where rain pours through into overflowing buckets, feet away from patients undergoing chemotherapy.
Cancer patients have been failed for far too long.
A Minnesota comedy club abruptly canceled six sold-out shows by comedian Ben Bankas after a viral clip of his stand-up routine — in which he mocked a woman who was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent — ignited outrage.
Laugh Camp Comedy Club in St. Paul pulled the plug on Bankas’ scheduled January 30–February 1 performances after backlash erupted over jokes he made about Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old Minneapolis mother of three who was killed during an encounter with federal immigration authorities earlier this month.
Comedian Ben Bankas’ six sold-out Minnesota shows canceled after viral clip mocking the ICE shooting victim, Renee Good, sparked massive outrage and protest threats.(Ben Bankas/Instagram/ODU English Department/Facebook)
Bankas replied bluntly to the cancellations in a recent video posted to Instagram.
He told an audience, “I just found out that my shows were canceled in Minnesota,” prompting loud boos.
“F— ’em,” he added, appearing to refer to the venue.
In the caption, Bankas wrote that he is “working on a new venue and dates for the fine people of Minnesota.”
His response comes after he posted an Instagram video on January 13, filmed during a show in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., just days after Good’s death.
A crashed car at the scene where an ICE agent shot Renee Good.(Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)
In the clip, which has racked up more than 8.9 million views as of February 3, Bankas said, “Her last name was Good. That’s what I said after they shot her,” and also referred to Good’s wife as a “dog.” He also called Good “r—–ded.”
Good was shot and killed on January 7 after authorities said she swerved her vehicle toward an ICE officer. Her death sparked protests in Minneapolis and beyond, intensifying scrutiny of federal agents’ use of force.
Tensions escalated further after another Minneapolis agitator, Alex Pretti, was shot and killed by federal agents on January 24. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and other local leaders have publicly criticized ICE’s actions. LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY) speaks as fellow House Homeland Security Committee members look on during a news conference to discuss the killing of Renee Nicole Good outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 14, 2026, in Washington, D.C.(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
As Bankas’ clip gained traction, St. Paul residents began signaling plans to protest outside his upcoming shows, according to the Minnesota Star Tribune — a development that pushed the comedy venue to cancel.
In a statement shared with PEOPLE, club owner Bill Collins said the decision came after weighing escalating risks.
“After discussions with, and concern from, public authorities, legal counsel and staff, combined with heightened threats, increasing media attention and civil disorder, we have determined the risks and related liabilities cannot be overcome,” Collins said in an email.
A card with images of Renée Good and Alex Pretti lies among flowers and other mementos at a memorial in Minneapolis, Minn., on Jan. 27, 2026.(Octavio Jones/AFP via Getty Images)
“A small club like ours does not have the needed resources to mitigate current risks,” he added. “We are obligated to place the highest priority on the safety of our guests, staff and talent, and we are left with no option but to cancel.”
Fox News Digital has reached out to Bankas and Collins for comment.
Collins, who has operated the club since 2007, told the Tribune the cancellations could cost him roughly $17,000. He also said Creative Artists Agency (CAA), which represents Bankas, is demanding full compensation for the canceled shows because the comedian was prepared to perform.
According to Collins, CAA has also barred its other clients from booking the club until the dispute is resolved.
Bankas was born in Toronto and is now based in Austin, Texas.
He hosts YouTube’s “The Tanakas Show,” which his website says reaches more than 10,000 monthly listeners.
Stephanie Giang-Paunon is an entertainment writer for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to stephanie.giang@fox.com and on Twitter: @SGiangPaunon.
Step Finance announced that it lost $40 million worth of digital assets after hackers compromised devices belonging to the company’s team of executives.
The platform detected the breach on January 31 and engaged cybersecurity researchers who helped it recover some of the stolen assets.
Step Finance is a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform and analytics tool built on the Solana blockchain that allows users to visualize, track, analyze, and manage their crypto assets and positions.
The platform, considered one of the most active and widely used Solana dashboards, also supports executing transactions, swaps, staking, and other DeFi actions through its interface. It also has a native token, $STEP, with relatively modest trading volume.
On January 31, Step announced that several of its treasury wallets were breached and that the threat actor leveraged “a well-known attack vector.”
“Earlier today, several of our treasury wallets were compromised by a sophisticated actor during APAC hours,” Step said in its initial statement.
The platform also notified the authorities and worked closely with cybersecurity professionals to quickly establish remediation measures.
Blockchain analytics firm CertiK reported at the time that the stolen amount equated to 261,854 SOL, which was around $28.9 million, but Step Finance determined during the investigation that the losses were approximately $40 million.
About $3.7 million in Remora assets and $1 million in other positions have been recovered so far, thanks to Token22 protections and partner coordination.
As a result of the incident, some operations have been halted to allow security reinforcement. The platform noted that Remora Markets, which it owns, is isolated from the incident and that all rTokens remain fully backed 1:1.
Users are advised not to engage with the STEP token until the investigation concludes. A snapshot of the pre-exploit state will be taken, as a solution for STEP holders is currently being processed.
Step Finance did not share the details of the attack or the perpetrators, which generated suspicions of a potential “rug pull” or “insider job,” claims that have not been appropriately addressed yet.
The company’s $40 million loss is significant but represents only about a tenth of the funds lost to crypto-theft attacks in January. Statistics from CertiK earlier this week show losses of $398 million in the first month of the year, of which around $4.366 million were recovered.
In 2025, 147 confirmed hacks amounted to losses of nearly $2.87 billion, while the record year remains 2022, with $3.71 billion lost in 179 successful attacks.
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Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the most prominent son of slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has himself been killed in the country’s western city of Zintan.
Saif al-Islam, who was 53 when he was killed, was Gaddafi’s second son, and had been based in Zintan since 2011 – first in prison, and then, after 2017, as a free man plotting a return to politics.
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But figures close to him, including his political adviser Abdullah Othman and his lawyer Khaled el-Zaydi confirmed his death on Tuesday, although the exact circumstances are still unclear.
Saif al-Islam had been seen by many before the 2011 uprising as his father’s heir apparent and the second-most powerful man in Libya.
He remained prominent throughout the violence that gripped Libya in the wake of the Arab Spring. There were numerous allegations against him of torture and extreme violence against opponents of his father’s rule. By February 2011, he was on a United Nations sanctions list and was banned from travelling.
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (L), son of the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, registered to run in presidential elections in 2021 [File: Libyan Electoral Commission Handout via EPA-EFE]
In June 2011, he announced that his father was willing to hold elections and to step down if he did not win them. However, NATO rejected the offer and the bombardment of Libya continued.
As an internationally prominent negotiator and influencer, Saif al-Islam could claim a number of victories and prominent roles.
By the end of June 2011, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant against him, but he remained at large until after the death of his father Muammar and his brother Mutassim in Sirte, on October 20, 2011.
Prison
Following long negotiations with the ICC, which had been calling for his extradition, Libyan officials were granted authority to try Saif al-Islam in Libya for war crimes committed during the 2011 uprising.
At the time, Saif al-Islam’s defence lawyers feared that a trial in Libya would not be motivated by justice, but would be motivated by a desire for revenge. The UN had estimated that up to 15,000 people were killed in the conflict, while Libya’s National Transitional Council placed the figure as high as 30,000.
In 2014, Saif al-Islam appeared via video link in the Tripoli courtroom where his trial was held, as he was incarcerated in Zintan at the time. In July 2015, the Tripoli court sentenced him to death in absentia.
However, in 2017 he was released by the Abu Bakr al-Siddiq Battalion – a militia that controls Zintan – as part of an amnesty issued by Libya’s eastern authorities, which are not recognised internationally.
But he did not reemerge publically for years, and continued to be wanted by the ICC. In July 2021 he gave a rare interview to the New York Times, in which he accused authorities in Libya of being “afraid of … elections”.
Explaining his underground persona at the time, he said that he had “been away from the Libyan people for 10 years.
“You need to come back slowly, slowly. Like a striptease,” he added.
He went on to make his first public appearance in years in November 2021 in the city of Sebha, where he filed to run for the Libyan presidency, in an attempt to resurrect the ambitions of his father’s former supporters.
Initially banned from taking part, he was later reinstated, but the election did not take place as a result of Libya’s tumultuous political situation, with two rival administrations vying for power.
‘Progressive’ face
A Western-educated and well-spoken man, Saif al-Islam presented a progressive face to the oppressive Libyan regime and was extremely visible and active in the drive to repair Libya’s relations with the West between the year 2000 and the start of the 2011 uprising.
He received a PhD from the London School of Economics (LSE) in 2008. His dissertation dealt with the role of civil society in reforming global governance and was prominent in his calls for political reform.
LSE was later condemned for having sought a relationship with the Libyan regime, namely for accepting Saif al-Islam as a student, who had signed an agreement for a $2.4m gift from the Gaddafi International Charity and Development Foundation on the day of his doctorate ceremony.
As an internationally prominent negotiator and influencer, Saif al-Islam could claim a number of victories and prominent roles. He played a pivotal role in the nuclear negotiations with Western powers including the United States and the UK.
He was also prominent when negotiating compensation for families of victims of the Lockerbie bombing, the Berlin nightclub attack, and the UTA Flight 772, which detonated over the Sahara desert.
And he mediated the release of six medics – five of whom were Bulgarian – who were accused of infecting children with HIV in Libya in the late 1990s. The medics were imprisoned for eight years in 1999 and, upon their release, announced that they had been tortured while in detention.
He had a number of other proposals including “Isratine”, a proposal for a permanent resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict through a secular one-state solution. He also hosted peace talks between the Philippines government and leaders of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, which resulted in a peace agreement that was signed in 2001.
A 13-year-old has been arrested over an e-bike crash involving a pregnant woman whose baby was born afterwards in hospital and remains in a serious condition.
It happened on 26 January in Herbert Avenue, Poole, and police said the rider reportedly failed to stop at the scene.
The female pedestrian, in her 30s, went to hospital after the collision – which happened around 3.50pm.
Officers said a 13-year-old boy from Poole had now been arrested on suspicion of a driving offence and remained in custody.
Police Sergeant Dan Yates, from Dorset Police, said: “Our investigation is continuing and we have now made an arrest as part of our enquiries.
“I would like to thank the public who came forward and provided information to help with our investigation.
“We are still appealing for anyone with information in relation to this incident, who has not already spoken to police, to please get in touch.”
Anyone with information is asked to contact Dorset Police or – to stay anonymous – the Crimestoppers charity.
