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The story behind the hack that targeted US agencies
Governments and major corporations worldwide are scrambling to see if they, too, were victims of a global cyberespionage campaign that penetrated multiple U.S. government agencies and involved a common software product used by thousands of organizations. Russia, the prime suspect, denies involvement. Cybersecurity investigators said the...
ICC prosecutor slams American sanctions
THE HAGUE (AP): The outgoing prosecutor of the International Criminal Court hit out Monday at sanctions slapped on her by the Trump Administration in her final speech to an annual gathering of the court’s member states before she leaves office next year. Fatou Bensouda noted at the start of her speech to the Assembly of States Parties that...
Ukraine seeks World Heritage status for Chernobyl zone
(AFP) — A soft snow fell as a clutch of visitors equipped with a Geiger counter wandered through the ghostly Ukrainian town of Pripyat, frozen in time since the world’s worst nuclear accident in 1986.© GENYA SAVILOV Efforts to secure special status were stepped up after a giant protective dome was installed in 2016 More than three decades...
Russia in retreat as the Soviet collapse continues
Peter Dickinson Three decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the process is still far from over. Officially, of course, the USSR ceased to exist in 1991. In reality, Moscow has never come to terms with the loss of empire and has spent the past thirty years fighting to reverse the verdict of history. This struggle between Russian...
An impending revolution
Moore is at stake than the fate of ‘Europe’s last dictator’ By: Syed Zain Abbas Rizvi Even on the end note, the year has contained surprises enough for anyone to deem it a year of instability and chaos, given that every nook and cranny around the globe is riddled with a new crisis every day. Latest down in the tally is the country of...
Hunter Biden tax probe examining Chinese business dealings
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is investigating the finances of President-elect Joe Biden’s son, including scrutinizing some of his Chinese business dealings and other transactions, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The revelations put a renewed spotlight on questions about Hunter...
Nine out of Ten in poor nations will miss out COVID vaccines
Monitoring Desk Billions unlikely to get jabs as rich countries secure 53% of most promising vaccines Nine out of 10 people in 70 low-income countries are unlikely to be vaccinated against Covid-19 next year because the majority of the most promising vaccines coming on-stream have been bought up by the west, campaigners have said. As the first...
Donald Trump: The Wizard of Wuz
Spengler “I think you are a very bad man,” said Dor-othy. “Oh, no, my dear; I’m really a very good man, but I’m a very bad Wizard, I must ad-mit.” Most phenomena in American politics are cla-rified by L. Frank Baum’s century-old children’s classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, including the Trump presidency. The trouble is...
Trumps lawyer tests positive for COVID-19
(Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani has tested positive for COVID-19, Trump said on Sunday, prompting one state legislature to close for a week after Giuliani visited to try to persuade lawmakers to help reverse Trump’s election defeat. The 76-year-old former New York mayor is the latest in a long string of...
Behold, a world in distress through the lens – Part 1
(AP Photos) — A 64-year-old woman weeps, hugging her husband as he lay dying in the COVID-19 unit of a California hospital. A crowded refugee camp in Lesbos, Greece, engulfed in flames, disgorges a string of migrants fleeing this hell on Earth. Rain-swept protesters, enraged by the death of George Floyd in police custody, rail against the system...
