Section: Independent Online (South Africa)
Time names Merkel Person of the Year
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been named “Person of the Year 2015” by Time magazine. ||| Time magazine on Wednesday named German Chancellor Angela Merkel as its “Person of the Year 2015,” hailing her leadership for navigating debt and refugee crises that threatened to tear the European Union apart. “For asking more of her country than most...
Times names Merkel Person of the Year
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been named “Person of the Year 2015” by Times magazine. ||| Time magazine on Wednesday named German Chancellor Angela Merkel as its “Person of the Year 2015,” hailing her leadership for navigating debt and refugee crises that threatened to tear the European Union apart.“For asking more of her country than most...
Putin-Erdogan: from friends to foes?
Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin have suffered a ferocious falling-out that will harm relations for years to come. ||| Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin, leaders with remarkable similarities who built a new era of cooperation between Turkey and Russia, have suffered a ferocious falling-out that will harm relations for years to...
UN chief responds to NK visit reports
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said he was discussing with North Korea the dates for his visit to the isolated state. ||| Seoul – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said he was discussing with North Korea the dates for his visit to the isolated state but no decision has been made in his first public comments on the trip since news...
App blocks IS propaganda channels
Encrypted messaging app Telegram says it has blocked 78 accounts associated with the jihadist Islamic State group. ||| The instant messenger app Telegram, created by Russian Internet guru Pavel Durov, says it has blocked 78 accounts associated with the jihadist Islamic State group following the attacks in Paris.“We were disturbed to learn that...
Surrogates feel hurt by India’s ban
It’s said to be intended to protect the women from exploitation, though some who have worked as surrogates say the ban actually hurts them. ||| New Delhi – For thousands of childless couples the world over, India has been the go-to destination to fulfil their dreams of becoming parents, thanks to its well-trained doctors,...
Paris siege: woman blows herself up
Two suspected jihadists were killed, including a woman who blew herself up, in a shootout with police in Paris. ||| Paris – Two suspected jihadists were killed, including a woman who blew herself up, in a shootout on Wednesday in north Paris with police hunting the mastermind of last week’s attacks on the French capital, sources said....
Paris siege: woman blows self up
Two suspected were killed, including a woman who blew herself up, in a shootout with police hunting Paris attacks mastermind. ||| Two suspected jihadists were killed, including a woman who blew herself up, in a shootout on Wednesday in north Paris with police hunting the mastermind of last week’s attacks on the French capital, sources...
UN chief ‘will not visit North Korea’
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will not visit North Korea, a UN spokesman said denying reports by China’s news agency. ||| United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will not visit North Korea next week, a UN spokesman said in a statement on Wednesday after China’s Xinhua news agency reported that he will visit the North on Monday...
The mafia of the digital age
Through the dark world of cybercrime, its tentacles spread everywhere: stock manipulation, money laundering, gambling and more. ||| New York – Through the dark world of cybercrime, its tentacles spread everywhere: stock manipulation, money laundering, gambling and more.Nothing in the annals of corporate hacking compares to the portrait US...
