Israeli security services warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for months that his domestic policies were fueling dangerous political turmoil, the New York Times reported on Sunday. The officials reportedly stressed that internal discord was weakening the country’s security and strengthening Israel’s enemies. The report was part of an examination of …
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Read More »China’s factory and services activity loses steam
Widespread lockdowns introduced by the Chinese authorities to tackle the latest surge in Covid-19 cases have dragged down China’s April manufacturing and services activity. The official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) fell to 47.4 this month from 49.5 in March, according to data published by the National Bureau of Statistics …
Read More »US exempts telecoms services from Russia sanctions
The US Treasury Department has exempted Russian telecommunications and internet companies from some of the strictest sanctions imposed in response to the invasion of Ukraine in February. The move follows pleas from NGOs and internet freedom groups which had argued that cutting Russians off from communication with the west would …
Read More »All four oilfield services majors suspend new investments in Russia
Global oilfield servicing giants have revealed plans to halt new investments in Russia as they respond to US sanctions over the country’s military operation in Ukraine. American-Irish Weatherford International has become the latest such company to bow to the quitting trend. “Following the implementation of sanctions on February 24, 2022, …
Read More »‘Lockdowns are over, in the name of Jesus’: Australian police fine church & ban services for openly defying Covid restrictions
The seven-day operations ban was handed to the Christ Embassy church in Blacktown, a suburb of Sydney, the New South Wales (NSW) police said on Wednesday. The officers were alerted on Sunday night that the church was open in violation of public health orders. They said around 60 adults and …
Read More »Mental health services in Australia at ‘unprecedented’ levels of demand, officials say, revealing toll of lockdowns
The number of Australians seeking psychological help through emergency helplines during the coronavirus pandemic and the harsh lockdowns has grown sharply, health officials say. Mental health support organizations such as Lifeline and Beyond Blue have reported a 30% increase in calls since the virus started to spread, and authorities have …
Read More »Notorious ‘joker virus’ that subscribes you to paid services back on Android devices, Belgian police warn
Belgium’s Police Fédérale released a statement on Friday morning warning people that the joker virus is back for Android. The announcement reported the malware has been spotted on eight different apps on Google Play Store. The police say Google has since deleted the infectious apps from the Play Store but warned …
Read More »Web down: Thousands of sites worldwide go dark after cloud services provider Akamai reports DNS ‘issue’
Google, AT&T, Amazon Web Services, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and GoDaddy domain services were among the companies that started reporting outages on Thursday morning. Gaming platforms Steam and PlayStation Network, travel services Expedia and Airbnb, shipping giants UPS and FedEx, and banking and financial institutions such as Chase, Discover, Capital One, …
Read More »‘Intelligence services drawing scientific conclusions’: China slams US plans to publish new report on Covid-19 origins
The US decision to task its intelligence services with digging into the origins of coronavirus shows that the country is fixated more on blaming China rather than establishing the truth, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told a regular press briefing in Beijing on Friday. “This only suggests that the …
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