“It has been decided not to continue using it [surveillance] at this time,” Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz said in a joint statement on Thursday. The move was made in line with government policy which calls for tracking to be “used sparingly and examined on a …
Read More »Biden bill will add tens of billions to US deficit, federal agency says
In a development that may put some moderate Democrats on the fence, the Congressional Budget Office, a non-partisan body in charge of estimating the cost of pending legislation, found that Biden’s Build Back Better plan is likely to come at a heavy price for the US economy. In its much-awaited …
Read More »US spy agency asked hacker to steal foreign diplomats’ data, journalists claim
The alleged perpetrator, dubbed “Andrew,” stole the “details of thousands of hotel reservations” across Middle Eastern countries, according to a report published on Wednesday by Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad. The bombshell article was citing accusations made in a new book by its journalists. An employee at the joint US-Dutch firm’s …
Read More »US anti-terror agency warns new Covid lockdowns may inspire extremists
For the remainder of 2021 and into 2022, “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists and anti-government/anti-authority violent extremists will continue to pose a threat” to the US, said a bulletin from the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday. Foreign or domestic terrorists have historically targeted crowded venues and “at times …
Read More »NASA asked for a new bus to drive astronauts to their Moon rocket… but agency might not like the suggestions
Astronaut transfer van, or Astrovan, was used to drive astronauts to and from the launchpad during the Space Shuttle era, while its predecessor delivered astronaut crews of several Apollo missions. The shiny silver Shuttle-era vehicle became so well-liked by the crews that astronauts reportedly objected to it being replaced, and …
Read More »Sloppy or trolling? Canadian spy agency welcomes release of ‘not spies’ from China in exchange for Huawei exec’s freedom
“Welcome home, #Michaels. CSIS joins all Canadians in welcoming you back to Canada,” the country’s Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) tweeted on Friday in English and French, hours after an exchange of detainees between Ottawa and Beijing was announced. The two individuals in question are Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, who …
Read More »Iran allows International Atomic Energy Agency to use monitoring equipment at its nuclear sites after meeting in Tehran
After IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi met with AEOI vice president and head Mohammad Eslami, it was announced that IAEA inspectors would now be able to service “identified equipment” in Iran and “replace their storage media which will be kept under the joint IAEA and AEOI seals” in the country. …
Read More »Sen. Rand Paul & top Republicans demand Fauci’s firing after new docs indicate his agency funded risky Covid studies in China
Demands for the health adviser’s firing come after the Intercept obtained more than 900 pages of material related to coronavirus research funded by Fauci’s agency – the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) – including previously unpublished grant requests from a US-based org that passed federal funds to …
Read More »Russia’s space agency postpones rocket testing after donating ‘almost all’ its liquid oxygen to Covid-19 patients in hospitals
That’s according to Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin, who wrote on Twitter on Sunday that the state-owned space agency is “helping in any way” it can. “We have been transferring almost all the oxygen produced by our enterprises to medical institutions for three months now, forcing us to postpone the testing …
Read More »Troubled ship off UAE coast is ‘safe’ after boarders leave, UK Navy agency says amid reports about Iranian hijacking
“Boarders left the vessel. Vessel is safe. Incident complete,” the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said on Wednesday, without elaborating and identifying the vessel in question. The navigation agency, which was founded by the UK’s Royal Navy and is manned by reservists, reported on Tuesday that an unnamed ship …
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