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A spokesman for the Taliban claimed Thursday they controlled 90 percent of Afghanistan’s borders, following offensives carried out by the hardline Islamist group as foreign forces withdraw. “Afghanistan’s borders with Tajikistan,…
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MOSCOW – The Gamma variant of the novel coronavirus, first found in Brazil, has been detected in small quantities in Russia, the Interfax news agency cited the developer behind Russia’s EpiVacCorona vaccine as saying on Thursday (July 22).…
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HERZLIYA, ISRAEL – An official at Israeli cyber security company NSO Group said Wednesday (July 22) that the firm’s controversial Pegasus spyware tool was not used to target French President Emmanuel Macron. The comments came as Reporters…
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WASHINGTON – The United States government on Wednesday (July 21) extended the closure of land borders with Canada and Mexico to non-essential travel such as tourism through Aug 21 even as officials debate whether to require visitors to…
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JERUSALEM – Israel has set up a senior inter-ministerial team to assess growing allegations that spyware sold by an Israeli cyber firm has been abused on a global scale, Israeli sources said on Wednesday (July 21). One source said…
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BERLIN – German authorities faced pressure on on Tuesday (July 20) to set aside longstanding privacy concerns and send mobile phone alerts directly to people in potential disaster zones following the devastation wrought by last week’s…
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WASHINGTON – A federal judge on Monday (July 19) handed down an eight-month prison sentence to Floridian Paul Hodgkins for his role in the Jan 6 attack on the US Capitol, making him the first among hundreds of accused rioters facing…
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BRUSSELS/LONDON – Britain will threaten this week to deviate from the Brexit deal unless the European Union shows more flexibility over Northern Ireland, one UK and three EU sources told Reuters, a move that could thrust the five-year…
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LONDON – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday (July 19) that he would make proof of double vaccination a condition of entry to nightclubs and other venues where large crowds gathered from the end of September. “I can serve…
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CAIRO – Egypt on Sunday freed six activists including journalist Esraa Abdel-Fattah, a symbol of the 2011 revolution, just days after Washington warned Cairo over a crackdown on rights activists. Since President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi took…
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