Photo: In this Wednesday, April 26, 2017 file photo, Entrepreneur Gina Miller answers a journalist’s question at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. London, Jul 14 : An anti-Brexit activist who won a major legal case against the British government says she will go to court again if the country’s next prime minister tries to force the country out ...
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UK police warn publishers not to use leaked documents
British Ambassador Kim Darroch. Photo: Collected London, Jul 13 : A British investigation into the leaking of confidential diplomatic memos is raising press freedom issues with a police warning that U.K. media might face a criminal inquiry if leaked documents are published. The Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command is investigating the leak of private memos written by Britain’s ambassador to ...
Read More »Chevron spills 800,000 gallons of oil, water in California
Officials began to clean up a massive oil spill Friday that dumped nearly 800,000 gallons of oil and water into a California canyon, making it larger — if less devastating — than the state’s last two major oil spills. The newly revealed spill has been flowing off and on since May and has again stopped, Chevron spokeswoman Veronica Flores-Paniagua said. ...
Read More »New election systems use vulnerable software
Washington, Jul 13 : Pennsylvania’s message was clear: The state was taking a big step to keep its elections from being hacked in 2020. Last April, its top election official told counties they had to update their systems. So far, nearly 60 percent have taken action, with $14.15 million of mostly federal funds helping counties buy brand new electoral systems. ...
Read More »Facebook to be fined $5bn for Cambridge Analytica privacy violations
The US Federal Trade Commission has reportedly voted to approve fining Facebook roughly $5bn to settle an investigation into the company’s privacy violations that was launched following the Cambridge Analytica revelations. The Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, both citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter, reported Friday afternoon that the settlement was approved by a 3-2 vote that broke ...
Read More »UK PM May takes swipe at front-runner Boris Johnson
Photo: Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street for her weekly Prime Minister’s Questions at the House of Commons in London, Wednesday, July 10, 2019. London, July 12 : Outgoing British Prime Minster Theresa May has leveled a thinly disguised swipe at Conservative Party front-runner Boris Johnson as she underscored the necessity of character in taking on the ...
Read More »India prepares to land rover on moon in global space race
Photo: An Indian woman takes a photograph of her son as he poses in a cut-out of an astronaut at the Nehru Planetarium in New Delhi, India, Thursday, July 11, 2019. New Delhi, Jul 12 : India is looking to take a giant leap in its space program and solidify its place among the world’s spacefaring nations with its second ...
Read More »Head of Boeing’s 737 MAX program to retire: Company
The head of Boeing’s embattled 737 MAX program plans to retire, the company said, just as it gears up to persuade regulators to return the plane to the skies after two deadly crashes. It was the most high profile departure of a senior executive since the aircraft was grounded in mid-March following two crashes that claimed 346 lives. Eric Lindblad, ...
Read More »Hayabusa-2: Japanese spacecraft lands for final asteroid mission
A Japanese spacecraft has landed on a faraway asteroid, where it will collect space rock that may hold clues to how the universe evolved. The successful touchdown on the Ryugu asteroid was met with relief and cheering in the control room at Japan’s space agency, JAXA. It is the second landing for the unmanned Hayabusa-2, which touched down on the ...
Read More »UK: Iranian vessels tried to block British vessel in Gulf
Photo: The Iranian flag waves outside of the UN building that hosts the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, office inside in Vienna, Austria, Wednesday, July 10, 2019. London, Jul 11 : Britain said Thursday that three Iranian vessels unsuccessfully tried to impede the passage of a British commercial vessel through the Strait of Hormuz, signaling a further escalation of tensions ...
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