Table Mountain wildfire threatens University of Cape Town
PARIS, Jan 9 (Reuters) – By naming young political prodigy Gabriel Attal as prime minister, French President Emmanuel Macron is showing what he hopes is a winning hand to beat the far right, which is leading in opinion polls ahead of June’s European parliamentary elections. Like elsewhere in Europe, France’s far right has benefited from…
A multi-year investigation by U.S. officials revealed an alleged alliance between one of the world’s most pervasive drug cartels and an underground Chinese banking group in Southern California that laundered money from drug trafficking proceeds, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Associates of Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel conspired with a money-transmitting group linked to an underground banking system…
Turkey blames Kurdish groups for the November 2022 bombing in Istanbul Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday stressed that he will oppose the NATO bids of hopefuls Sweden and Finland unless they deport some 130 “terrorists.” “We said look, so if you don’t hand over your terrorists to us, we can’t pass it [approval…
Unidentified foreign governments are surveilling mobile phone users through push notifications, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) said. Wyden, a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence member, sent a letter to the Department of Justice on Wednesday inquiring about how foreign officials sought data from Google and Apple for surveillance purposes. He also briefly mentioned that phone notifications,…
Two serving members of the US Navy have been arrested on suspicion of spying for China, the Department of Justice said Thursday. The men are suspecting of selling secret information to Beijing that included manuals for warships and their weapons systems, as well as blueprints for a radar system and plans for a huge US…
BERLIN (AP) – The German government has approved the export of air-defense missiles to Saudi Arabia, underlining a softening of its hard line of recent years toward arms exports to the kingdom. Government spokesperson Steffen Hebestreit on Wednesday confirmed a report by news magazine Der Spiegel that Germany’s Security Council, made up of Chancellor Olaf…