Posts Tagged ‘largescale’

Watch, for 2nd day, Israeli forces raid Al-Aqsa Mosque

Days of Palestine, Jerusalem -Israeli occupation forces raided Al-Aqsa Mosque on Monday, securing tour of extremist Jewish settlers and assaulting Muslim worshipers. This raid is the second since the start of the last ten days of holy month of Ramadan, when Muslims have to intensify worship and exist in large numbers inside Al-Aqsa Mosque. At […]

How the Internet Works

How the Internet Works June 19th, 2016 Via: Ars Technica: Have you ever thought about how that cat picture actually gets from a server in Oregon to your PC in London? We’re not simply talking about the wonders of TCP/IP or pervasive Wi-Fi hotspots, […]

Google knocks out Taliban app ‘Alemarah’ from Play Store

It comes a few days after the app called Alemarah was launched in Play Store. Its activation was reported by the US-based SITE Intel Group, which keeps track of online jihadist resources. Taliban condemns ‘irresponsible, ignorant’ ISIS for graphic execution of Afghan prisoners A Google spokeswoman confirmed on Sunday that the app was no longer […]

Migrant ‘exchange’: Turkey accepts mass returns but sends Syrians to Europe

From: washingtonpost.com The European Union and Turkey struck a preliminary deal Tuesday to block the vast waves of migrants crossing the Aegean Sea, effectively agreeing to slam shut the back door into Europe still being traversed by tens of thousands of asylum seekers fleeing war in the Middle East. The deal, […]

Mittal signs €1bn iron deal in Iran

Global industrial giant Mittal Steel on Tuesday signed a contract worth €1 billion to produce iron in southern Iran. The contract that has been signed with Mahan Industries and Mines Development Company – a subsidiary of Iran’s Tourism Financial Group – envisages extracting iron and the establishment of a processing plant in the country’s southern […]

Russia Hand Delivers ‘Special Message’ From Putin To Iran

Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent his Defence Minister Sergei Shogu to make an unannounced visit to Iran in order to deliver a very “special message” to President Hassan Rouhani.  The details of the message are confidential, but the ongoing Syrian conflict is likely to feature as part of their conversation. Ibtimes.co.uk reports: Shoigu landed […]

Southern Africa’s retrenched miners face a future without health care

Liesl Page-Shipp (TC) : Two of the world’s mining heavyweights have announced production cuts and staff cutbacks. These moves by BHP Billiton and Anglo American will have a major impact on efforts to contain TB and HIV as mining houses have become integral to the provision of health care in southern Africa. The disease burden is […]

Forex Mortgage Protesters Detained By Moscow Riot Police

Riot police have detained around 10 people protesting outside the central bank in Moscow, who were asking for a better deal on their Forex mortgages after the recent decline of the Russian ruble. The Star reports: Around a hundred protesters gathered outside the bank to demand their loans be converted to rouble mortgages from dollar […]

Mathematician suspicious of election fraud hires lawyer to force Kansas to hand over voting records

A Kansas mathematician said this week that she had retained a lawyer and had scheduled a discovery hearing to force Secretary of State Kris Kobach to hand over voting records after they showed evidence of election fraud. “I don’t understand why those patterns are there, the patterns are very definitely real. But […]

Does Mass Surveillance Change the Way We Behave? “Privacy Data” Collected on a Global Scale

On Sunday, the NSA was forced to shut down its bulk collection of the phone records of Americans. While that program may have ended —  and there is evidence that it may not have — the world now knows the spy agency’s capabilities, and that is changing the behavior of people everywhere. How much, and in […]

Does Mass Surveillance Change the Way We Behave? “Privacy Data” Collected on a Global Scale

On Sunday, the NSA was forced to shut down its bulk collection of the phone records of Americans. While that program may have ended —  and there is evidence that it may not have — the world now knows the spy agency’s capabilities, and that is changing the behavior of people everywhere. How much, and in […]

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