Chinese hackers stole 60,000 US government emailsfrom 10 State Dept accounts: Senate staffer
Tens of thousands of emails were stolen from US State Department accounts by Chinese hackers who exploited Microsoft’s email system earlier this year, a Senate staffer told Reuters on Wednesday. The staff member, who was present at an earlier Wednesday briefing of State Department IT personnel, claimed the officials informed senators that 60,000 emails had […]
Israeli minister makes first public visit to Saudi Arabia amid talks to secure bilateral ties
Israel’s Tourism Minister Haim Katz arrived in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for the first such high-level public visit to the kingdom amid talks to secure bilateral ties. “Katz is the first Israeli minister to head an official delegation in Saudi Arabia,” his ministry said in a statement, adding he would attend a United Nations World […]
General Milley regrets being ‘lightning rod for politicisation of US military’
WASHINGTON: General Mark Milley faced repeated crises at home and abroad during a tumultuous term as America’s top military officer, becoming one of the most well-known and controversial people to hold the position in years. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, Donald Trump’s refusal to accept his presidential election loss and nationwide […]
Texas border town ‘at a breaking point’ amid jump in migration
El Paso (Texas): The dramatic increase in migrants crossing the US border from Mexico has pushed the city of El Paso, Texas, to “a breaking point,” with more than 2,000 people per day seeking asylum, exceeding shelter capacity and straining resources, its mayor said on Saturday. “The city of El Paso only has so many […]
West’s ‘plundering’ of Africa blamed for migrant crisis
UNITED NATIONS: The head of the Central African Republic on Thursday accused the West of triggering the migration crisis on his continent by pillaging its natural resources through slavery and colonisation. Taking the podium at the UNGA, Faustin Archange Touadera addressed the migrant crisis on the Italian island of Lampedusa, where thousands of African migrants […]
Sunak waters down Britain’s climate goals
LONDON: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak watered down his country’s commitments to tackle climate change on Wednesday, delaying targets for changing cars and domestic heating to maintain the consent of the British people in the switch to net zero. Sunak said his government remained committed to its legally-binding target of reaching net zero emissions by […]
Italy toughens laws to deter migrant arrivals
ROME: The Italian government, struggling with a surge in arriving migrants, on Monday passed measures to lengthen the time they can be detained and ensure more people who have no legal right to stay are repatriated, government officials said. The move came after almost 10,000 migrants reached the southern Italian island of Lampedusa last week, […]
Central Khartoum in flames as war rages across Sudan
Flames gripped the Sudanese capital on Sunday and paramilitary forces attacked the army headquarters for the second day in a row, witnesses reported, as fighting raged into its sixth month. “Clashes are now happening around the army headquarters with various types of weapons,” witnesses told AFP on Sunday from Khartoum, while others reported fighting in […]
Injured Pakistan quicks Haris, Naseem still in World Cup contention
Pakistan captain Babar Azam said on Friday that injured quicks Haris Rauf and Naseem Shah remained central to his team’s World Cup plans, after their absence saw the team crash out of the Asia Cup. Azam’s men went down to fellow co-hosts Sri Lanka by two wickets on Thursday in a last-ball thriller of a […]
Beijing sanctions two US defence companies over Taiwan arms sales
BEIJING: Beijing sanctioned on Friday two US defence companies, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, over their roles in supplying arms to Taiwan. The United States Congress, under the Taiwan Relations Act, requires the supply of weapons to the self-governing democracy for its defence. President Joe Biden’s administration has recently announced a slew of arms sales […]
