By Pavel Polityuk and Alexei Kalmykov | KIEV KIEV Ukraine accused Russia of “state terrorism” after a former Russian lawmaker and key witness in a treason case against former leader Viktor Yanukovich was shot dead in broad daylight outside a hotel in central Kiev on Thursday. Russia called the allegation “absurd”. Former MP Denis Voronenkov was killed by an assailant who was armed with a pistol and […]
The man who killed three people and injured at least 40 in the terror attack on Westminster was British born and has previously been investigated by MI5, Theresa May said on Thursday. Although the attacker, who was fatally shot by police, was known to the domestic security service, it is believed he acted alone and was “not part of the current intelligence picture”, the prime minister said. […]
Twitter reflects the good, the bad and just plain ugly reality of social media these days. For academics, journalists and voters, there’s never been a more crucial time to talk about the impact these social media platforms have on factual journalism and being watchdogs of the powerful. It’s in vogue to attack the messenger for the message. We are called liars. We are called “nasty people.” We […]
In the wake of the terror attacks in England, France, Germany and elsewhere, can we finally admit that the war on terror is an utter and complete failure? 10 Ways to Reduce Terrorism So if the war on terror has failed, what should we do to stop terrorists? I. Stop Overthrowing the Moderates and Arming Crazies We know it’s a difficult concept to grasp, but if we […]
By Chine Labbé and Adrian Croft | PARIS PARIS Militants are increasingly turning to vehicle-ramming attacks, like the one staged near Britain’s parliament on Wednesday, because they are cheap, easy to organise and hard to prevent. Experts say the tactic of mowing people down avoids the need to obtain any explosives or weapons and can be carried out by a “lone-wolf” attacker without using a network of […]
Huawei announced back at CES 2017 that it planned to bring Amazon Alexa to its Mate 9 smartphone and it’s now making good on its word. Amazon’s digital assistant is now rolling out to Huawei Mate 9 handsets in the United States, but don’t expect to have a mini Amazon Echo in your pocket. While the Huawei Mate 9 gets credit for being the first Alexa-enabled smartphone, […]
If you have some cash to spare, then Mass Effect: Andromeda can offer you some nice perks. When the space shooter releases, people will find out that they can buy in-game items using real-world money. Very much like in other AAA multiplayer games like Overwatch and For Honor, microtransactions will appear in Andromeda to give players some quick boosts in multiplayer mode. Mass Effect: Andromeda is coming out March 21 on Xbox […]
Stock markets suffered their worst falls since the election of Donald Trump as Wall Street worries about the prospects for the US president’s pro-business agenda triggered a rush for financial havens. US markets led the declines, with the benchmark S&P 500 index tumbling 1.2 per cent and breaking a run of 109 trading days without a drop of 1 per cent or more. The Dow Jones Industrial […]
22 March 2017 EastNets, (eastnets.com), a leading provider of innovative global compliance and payments solutions, successfully held its 14th Annual Conference 2017 from 7th-9th March at The Grand Millennium Hotel, Amman Jordan. The event was described as one of the company’s most inspiring annual conferences, which has been a company tradition that has been in effect for the last 14 years. This year’s rallying call was ’Growth: […]
Authored by Robert Parry via The Strategic Culture Foundation, The Kagan family, America’s neoconservative aristocracy, has reemerged having recovered from the letdown over not gaining its expected influence from the election of Hillary Clinton and from its loss of official power at the start of the Trump presidency. Former Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland, who pushed for the Ukraine coup and helped pick […]
Center for Public Integrity investigations involving the opioid crisis, state insurance commissioners, South Sudan, broadband access and offshore corporations have been honored in recent days by prestigious journalism competitions. The Center was a winner in three categories of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers “Best in Business” competition, while taking a first place and a second place prize in the Association of Health Care Journalists’ […]
BEIRUT: The head of the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia said a US-backed assault to drive Daesh from its de facto capital Raqqa would begin at the start of April and the YPG would be taking part, despite fierce opposition from neighboring Turkey.A spokesman for the US Pentagon said no decision had been made yet on the Raqqa offensive.US-backed forces, including the YPG, are closing in on the […]
ABU DHABI // An aviation expert has said the ban on large electronic devices in the cabin could be a move of caution in response to a real-time event or threat. Saj Ahmad, chief analyst for StrategicAero Research in London, said it seems to contradict a US Federal Aviation Administration directive that banned lithium batteries in airplane cargo holds. That had been put in place after the […]
Stock markets suffered their worst falls since the election of Donald Trump as Wall Street worries about the prospects for the US president’s pro-business agenda triggered a rush for financial havens. US markets led the declines, with the benchmark S&P 500 index tumbling 1.2 per cent — and breaking a run of 109 trading days without a drop of 1 per cent or more. The Dow Jones […]
US banks recorded their steepest slide since the wake of the June Brexit vote as the Treasury yield curve flattened and investors remained concerned that Donald Trump’s policy initiatives might take longer to pass than previously thought. The S&P 500 banks index dropped 3.9 per cent, marking its steepest fall since June 27, according to Bloomberg data. America’s largest lenders were under pressure as Bank of America […]
Let’s look at what’s happening in the area of Internet infrastructure resilience in the IETF and at the upcoming IETF 98 meeting. My focus here is primarily on the routing and forwarding planes and specifically routing security and unwanted traffic of Distributed Denial of Service Attacks (DDoS) attacks. There is interesting and important work underway at the IETF that can help address problems in both areas. DDoS […]
The Samsung Galaxy J7 (2017) is expected to launch soon and the AT&T version recently received certification from the Federal Communications Commission. Samsung has yet to offer any official information regarding the smartphone and it remains unclear just when exactly the new Galaxy J7 will hit the scene, but the FCC is typically among the last stops a device has to make before it’s ready for primetime. […]
Feeling energetic? Ready for a change? From Barry’s Bootcamp to Curvalicious, Afshan Ahmed rounds up the newest workout options in Dubai – a city that is already teeming with the best and newest ways to get and stay fit. newslide Warehouse Gym Jumeirah Beach Residence Price: From Dh400/month 04 368 4080 / www.whgym.com After opening up a gritty warehouse space for CrossFit, circuit training and boxing a […]
(Image: file photo) NEW YORK — A lot of people woke up confused by the news this morning that the US government is banning electronics on some inbound flights from several Muslim-majority countries. They’re right. It doesn’t make sense. The simple rundown is that passengers on all airlines with direct flights from ten Middle Eastern and African airports — including in Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan — […]
MANILA The Philippines plans to file a strong protest against China after it announced preparatory work for an environmental monitoring station on a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, a Cabinet minister said on Tuesday. China five years ago started blockading the Scarborough Shoal, a rocky outcrop within the Philippines’ 200 mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ), and the United States has warned Beijing against carrying out […]
Nobel Prize-winning writers would almost certainly baulk at the faintest idea that they might work to a “mission statement”. But when St Lucian poet Derek Walcott wrote, “I seek/ As climate seeks its style, to write/ Verse crisp as sand, clear as sunlight/ Cold as the curled wave, ordinary/ As a tumbler of island water,” in his breakthrough 1962 collection In A Green Night, it served as […]
TOKYOJapan’s cabinet on Tuesday approved legislation that would penalise criminal conspiracies, a move critics say threatens civil liberties, but officials say is needed to prevent terrorist targeting events like the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Proponents say the steps are vital in a security climate where terrorism risks have grown and in order to ratify a U.N. Treaty aimed at battling international organised crime. “Considering the current situation regarding […]
The release of the Panama Papers exposed an elaborate kickback scheme whose tentacles spread from the Caribbean island of Aruba to warehouses in Doral to the offshore banking haven of Panama City, according to a lawsuit filed in Miami federal court. The scam was allegedly hatched by Egbert Koolman, an employee of Aruba’s state-owned telecommunications provider, Setar. Koolman’s job was to buy phones from suppliers around the […]
DUBAI // If the humanitarian and refugee crises affecting the region today are not properly addressed they will return as major issues for tomorrow’s generation, according to the Minister of Education. On Monday at the Youth Engagement and Global Refugee Crisis at the American University in Dubai, Hussain Al Hammadi said that the UAE was working on instilling a culture of volunteering in school curriculums to ensure […]
Airline passengers travelling from eight Middle Eastern nations, including Jordan and Egypt, will be barred from carrying large electronic devices into the main cabin under new regulations from the Trump administration. The rules, which come into effect on Tuesday, also apply to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, according to a US official. Passengers from the eight countries will have to check laptop computers and other […]
Photo The bodies of migrants killed in an aerial attack on a boat off Yemen were brought to the port city of Al Hudaydah. Credit Abdel-Karim Muhammed/Associated Press The United Nations on Monday called for an inquiry into an aerial assault on a boat of migrants last week off Yemen’s Red Sea coast that left at least 42 people dead. The attack on the boat, believed to […]
When Tim Armour graduated from Middlebury College, a liberal arts institution in Vermont, he faced a conundrum. He could either accept a graduate programme slot at a West Coast investment group, or go and run a windsurf shop in Florida. Because he loved to windsurf but did not want to turn down a more sensible job, he asked the asset manager whether he could put off the […]
NEW YORK Billionaire philanthropist David Rockefeller, former head of Chase Manhattan Corp and patriarch of one of the most famous and influential American families, died on Monday, a family spokesman said. He was 101. Rockefeller, who reportedly gave away nearly $2 billion in his lifetime, died in his sleep of congestive heart failure at his home in Pocantico Hills, New York, spokesman Fraser Seitel said in a […]
20 March 2017Research Nester has recently announced its latest Industry research on “Medical Robotics Market: Global Demand Analysis & Opportunity Outlook 2023”. Medical robots allows surgeons to carry out operations in more precise and less invasive way, medical robots increases accuracy of the operation along with wide range of advantages such as decreases risk of infection, decreases post-operative pain and reduces risk of patients life. Along with […]
By Colin Packham and Aaron Bunch | CANBERRA/PERTH CANBERRA/PERTH U.S. officials began taking fingerprints of asylum seekers in an Australian-run camp on the Pacific island of Nauru on Monday, signalling that vetting of applicants for resettlement in what U.S. President Donald Trump called a “dumb deal” has restarted. Australia agreed with former U.S. President Barack Obama late last year for the United States to resettle up to […]
