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The annual food fight festival ”Els Enfarinats” has left the Spanish town of Ibi covered in flour and egg shells.

Every year participants wear military-style costumes and stage a fake coup using eggs, flour and firecrackers.

The eggers go around asking for “taxes” – donations to charity – from local people and if you don’t pay you could end up getting splatted.

The festival, held in the province of Alicante, is more than 200 years old and takes place on the 28 December each year to coincide with the Day of the Innocents – Spain’s equivalent of April Fools’ Day.

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Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro has received a medical procedure to treat his chronic hiccups, his medical team has said.

Saturday’s treatment “went well”, according to one of his doctors. Another, Claudio Birolini, added that the procedure – which he stressed was not a surgery – lasted for “about an hour”.

The far-right former leader is currently serving a 27-year sentence for plotting a coup after he lost the Latin American nation’s 2022 presidential election to left-wing opponent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

This latest procedure comes after the 70-year-old successfully underwent surgery for a double hernia earlier this week, after being granted permission to be transferred to hospital.

Ahead of the surgery, Bolsonaro also endorsed his son Flávio to run against Lula in Brazil’s 2026 presidential election. His statement – a handwritten letter – was read out by the younger Bolsonaro outside the hospital.

Following the successful surgery, his medical team deemed it necessary to treat his recurrent hiccups, which he had been suffering from for months.

“It’s been nine months of struggle and anguish with daily hiccups,” Bolsonaro’s wife, Michelle, said on Saturday.

She explained in a social media post that her husband’s procedure had “blocked” one of his phrenic nerves.

The phrenic nerves contract and expand the diaphragm, which allows the lungs to inhale and exhale. Hiccups are caused by the involuntary spasming of the diaphragm, typically as a result of an irritated phrenic nerve.

His doctors later confirmed they had treated the right phrenic nerve and had scheduled to work on the left nerve on Monday.

Once discharged from hospital, the former president will return to a cell in the federal police headquarters to continue serving his sentence.

Bolsonaro was found guilty of the coup plot in September. He was placed under house arrest pending appeals, but was taken into police custody last month after being deemed a “concrete flight risk”.

Court officials said he had attempted to break his ankle monitor and planned to use a rally outside his house as cover for an escape attempt. Bolsonaro insisted he had no intention of fleeing.

Also on Saturday, Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered the house arrest of 10 officials for participating in his coup attempt. All of them had served in his government.

Dec 23, 2025Ravie LakshmananFinancial Crime / Law Enforcement

The U.S. Justice Department (DoJ) on Monday announced the seizure of a web domain and database that it said was used to further a criminal scheme designed to target and defraud Americans by means of a bank account takeover scheme.

The domain in question, web3adspanels[.]org, was used as a backend web panel to host and manipulate illegally harvested bank login credentials. Users to the website are now greeted by a seizure banner that says the domain was taken down in an international law enforcement operation led by authorities from the U.S. and Estonia.

“The criminal group perpetrating the bank account takeover fraud delivered fraudulent advertisements through search engines, including Google and Bing,” the DoJ said. “These fraudulent advertisements imitate the sponsored search engine advertisements used by legitimate banking entities.”

The ads served as a conduit to redirect unsuspecting users to fake bank websites operated by the threat actors, who harvested login credentials entered by victims through an unspecified malicious software program built into the sites. The stolen credentials were then used by the criminals to sign into legitimate bank websites to take over victims’ accounts and drain their funds.

The scheme is estimated to have claimed 19 victims across the U.S. to date, including two companies in the Northern District of Georgia, leading to attempted losses of approximately $28 million and actual losses of approximately $14.6 million.

The DoJ said the confiscated domain stored the stolen login credentials of thousands of victims, in addition to hosting a backend server to facilitate takeover fraud as recently as last month.

According to information shared by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has received more than 5,100 complaints related to bank account takeover fraud since January 2025, with reported losses upwards of $262 million.

Users are advised to exercise caution when sharing about themselves online or on social media; regularly monitor accounts for any financial irregularities; use unique, complex passwords; ensure the correctness of banking website URLs before signing in; and stay vigilant against phishing attacks or suspicious callers.