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Inside TikTok’s prostitution recruitment networks – The 51%

Inside TikTok’s prostitution recruitment networks – The 51%

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To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. Accept Manage my choices One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Try again THE 51 PERCENT © FRANCE 24 Issued on: 08/05/2026 – 12:58 12:06 min From the show Reading time 1 min How the social media platform, TikTok, is becoming a key tool for criminals to recruit women and girls into prostitution networks. Also, Myanmar’s military government has expanded its ban on menstrual products, claiming resistance groups use them as first aid for injured fighters. Annette Young talks to women’s health consultant, Henriette Ceyrac, as to why this is fast becoming a health issue for the nation’s women and girls. By: Source link

Luxembourgish MEP leads recruitment drive for trip to Russia – POLITICO

Luxembourgish MEP leads recruitment drive for trip to Russia – POLITICO

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“Assistance with finding suitable accommodation can be provided, and personalized invitations to the St. Petersburg Economic Forum will follow in due course,” reads the letter, which was sent to a broad list of EU lawmakers. Kartheiser’s outreach is controversial due to restrictions on cooperation between the European Parliament and its Russian counterpart. The European Parliament officially suspended official dialogue with Russian parliamentary bodies in 2014, while Russian and Belarusian officials have been barred from accessing the European Parliament since shortly after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. There have been 20 rounds of EU sanctions against Russia. None of this has deterred Kartheiser, who traveled to Moscow last June despite facing expulsion from the ECR group. In response to questions from POLITICO, Kartheiser defended his St Petersburg trip — which he said was privately funded — saying its relevance was “undisputable.” Petras Auštrevičius, a Lithuanian lawmaker with the centrist Renew Europe group, called the recruitment push “an open attempt to recruit” MEPs “for working for Russia as informants, influencers and more.” | Martin Bertrand/Hans …

Trainee teacher need to drop by 23% next year, DfE forecasts

Trainee teacher need to drop by 23% next year, DfE forecasts

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The number of new trainee teachers needed to ensure a sufficient supply is expected to drop by almost a quarter next year, according to a new DfE forecast. The teacher workforce model (TWM) estimates how many teachers are required for primary and secondary schools. By considering how many teachers will leave or join the workforce, it also estimates the number of postgraduate initial teacher training (PGITT) trainees needed to ensure sufficient teacher numbers in future years. New data published today shows the DfE predicts 20,800 trainees will need to be recruited for state schools this September, a drop of 23 per cent (6,120) compared to 2025-26. The Department predicts 15,280 trainees will need to be recruited for secondary schools, down 21 per cent on last year, and 5,520 for primaries, down 28 per cent. The DfE said falling pupil rolls and better teacher retention rates were among reasons for the drop. Primary pupil numbers are “projected to fall more rapidly by 2027-28″, with secondary numbers also beginning to fall, said the DfE in notes published …

‘Russian army losses have exceeded its recruitment level’

‘Russian army losses have exceeded its recruitment level’

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General Oleksandr Syrsky, commander in chief of the Ukrainian army, at an undisclosed location in Ukraine, on February 7, 2026. VIRGINIE NGUYEN HOANG/HL/HUMA FOR LE MONDE At a politically sensitive moment in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, as difficult negotiations are underway, General Oleksandr Syrsky remains true to his approach: not a word about politics or diplomacy. His domain is the battlefield, every inch of which he knows intimately. The commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, 60 years old, described by President Volodymyr Zelensky as the “most experienced general in Ukraine” when he entrusted him with command, can speak for hours about military planning and combat, village by village, kilometer by kilometer. During an interview with Le Monde in Kyiv in February, as he assessed the state of the battlefield, General Syrsky acknowledged “an extremely difficult period for my country, for my people,” also insisting on “an incredible period of struggle [for the Ukrainian] armed forces.” Facing “the largest, most powerful army in Europe” and “a war that exceeds all imaginable and unimaginable scales,” he said he aimed …

New CIA recruitment video targets Chinese military personnel | Espionage News

New CIA recruitment video targets Chinese military personnel | Espionage News

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The CIA’s latest YouTube video offers instructions on how to contact the agency on the encrypted Tor Browser. Listen to this article | 3 mins info Published On 13 Feb 202613 Feb 2026 Click here to share on social media share2 Share The CIA has released a new Chinese-language recruitment video on its YouTube channel, encouraging members of China’s military to spy for the United States. Released on Thursday, the video is the latest addition to a YouTube series targeting Chinese and Russian citizens with information about how to securely contact the US spy agency using the encrypted Tor Browser. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list The videos typically focus on a fictional character who is having doubts about their government before deciding to spy for Washington. The latest video by the CIA, which runs just under two minutes, focuses on a Chinese military officer going through the motions of his job while sharing his growing alarm with his country’s leadership, who are said to be “protecting only their own selfish interests” in the clip. …

How recruitment fraud turned cloud IAM into a billion attack surface

How recruitment fraud turned cloud IAM into a $2 billion attack surface

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A developer gets a LinkedIn message from a recruiter. The role looks legitimate. The coding assessment requires installing a package. That package exfiltrates all cloud credentials from the developer’s machine — GitHub personal access tokens, AWS API keys, Azure service principals and more — are exfiltrated, and the adversary is inside the cloud environment within minutes. Your email security never saw it. Your dependency scanner might have flagged the package. Nobody was watching what happened next. The attack chain is quickly becoming known as the identity and access management (IAM) pivot, and it represents a fundamental gap in how enterprises monitor identity-based attacks. CrowdStrike Intelligence research published on January 29 documents how adversary groups operationalized this attack chain at an industrial scale. Threat actors are cloaking the delivery of trojanized Python and npm packages through recruitment fraud, then pivoting from stolen developer credentials to full cloud IAM compromise. In one late-2024 case, attackers delivered malicious Python packages to a European FinTech company through recruitment-themed lures, pivoted to cloud IAM configurations and diverted cryptocurrency to adversary-controlled …

‘Dereliction of duty’: Met Police relaxed vetting to meet recruitment targets | UK News

‘Dereliction of duty’: Met Police relaxed vetting to meet recruitment targets | UK News

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Serial rapists David Carrick and Cliff Mitchell were among more than 130 Metropolitan Police officers and staff wrongly hired or allowed to keep working as vetting was relaxed in a recruitment drive, a review has found. Thousands of recruits joined the force without undergoing proper checks as bosses abandoned national guidelines amid efforts to meet the Tory government’s policy to recruit 20,000 officers in England and Wales. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood called the failings “a dereliction of the Met’s duty to keep London safe” as she ordered the police inspectorate to carry out an urgent independent probe. Mitchell, 26, who was given a life sentence in 2024 for attacks on two victims over nine years, was initially rejected from the force because of a previous allegation of child rape. Image: Pic: PA But a vetting panel, aimed at reducing disproportionality towards ethnic minority groups, overturned the decision and he joined the force in August 2020. Carrick, 51, who is one of the UK’s worst ever sex offenders, had joined the Met in 2001 but a …

Recruitment drive launched for new magistrates | Politics News

Recruitment drive launched for new magistrates | Politics News

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The government is launching a drive to recruit thousands of new volunteers to serve as magistrates in England and Wales, as it seeks to get a grip of the courts backlog. More than 2,000 magistrates have been trained since 2022, and ministers want to recruit the same number again over the next financial year, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) says. The recruitment effort is part of the government’s bid to reduce the backlog and speed up justice for victims, and comes on the heels of the announcement of a series of reforms – including controversial plans to limit jury trials. Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary David Lammy said: “Magistrates play a vital role in our court system – hearing thousands of cases across every jurisdiction and delivering justice. “They are everyday heroes – and we need more people of every age and background to volunteer not just to deliver justice but to serve and represent their local communities. “Volunteering to become a magistrate can make a real difference to your life and the lives …

Afghan veterans should be allowed to plug recruitment gaps in British Army, campaigners say | UK News

Afghan veterans should be allowed to plug recruitment gaps in British Army, campaigners say | UK News

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An Afghan special forces veteran trained in the UK who was left homeless after resettling here following the Taliban takeover is pleading with the government to allow him and his former colleagues to join the British Army. Major Noor Aziz Ahmadzai is one of more than 1,400 Afghans and their families to have faced homelessness since being given sanctuary in the UK after the fall of Kabul in August 2021. Conservative former security minister Tom Tugendhat has told Sky News the Ministry of Defence has “really let itself down” in not relaxing strict citizenship rules to take advantage of the training and expertise of Afghan exiles during a recruitment crisis in the British military. Noor joined the special police at the age of 16 and worked as a translator for the British before joining the Afghan special forces. Image: Major Noor Aziz Ahmadzai He was picked to spend two-and-a-half years on the officer training programme at Sandhurst, the UK military academy. In June 2015, he even gave a reading at a service of thanksgiving in …

Teacher recruitment and retention are separate issues – they need tackling in different ways

Teacher recruitment and retention are separate issues – they need tackling in different ways

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It is well known that more teachers are needed in England. A shortage of teachers affects young people’s attainment at school and puts pressure on the existing education workforce. There are two key reasons for this teacher shortage. Not enough people are signing up to become teachers, and too many teachers are leaving the profession each year. Politicians often refer to the need to improve teacher recruitment and retention, putting both factors together. Underpinning this approach is an assumption that policies aimed at motivating people to stay in teaching – early-career bursaries, for instance – might simultaneously attract new teachers into the profession. But my research with aspirant teachers indicates that the reasons teachers leave teaching are not the same as the reasons people choose not to become teachers. It makes sense, then, that these issues should be considered separately – and that they require different approaches to counter them. My recent research used data from a research project that surveyed more than 47,000 young people over ten years. With colleagues, I used this data …