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Pegasus: Rights Group Says Lebanese Staffer Targeted With NSO Spyware
Human Rights Watch said that one of its senior staff members was targeted last year with spyware designed by the Israeli hacker-for hire company NSO Group.
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South Asian Lawyers Condemn US President Donald Trump's Orders On Immigration
Lawyers' bodies have condemned the executive orders on immigration signed by US President Donald Trump alleging that it encourage racial and religious profiling and almost exclusively target communities of colour.
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FBI 'Confident' That Orlando Gunman Was 'Radicalised'
The US gunman who launched the worst terror attack on American soil since 9/11 at a gay nightclub in Orlando was radicalized by Islamist propaganda, officials said, amid reports he was a club regular.
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Barack Obama Calls Florida Shooting An 'Act Of Terror, Hate'
President Barack Obama on Sunday described the worst mass shooting in US history as "an act of terror" and "an act of hate," saying the massacre of 50 people at a packed gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida was an attack on all Americans.
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Indian-American Judge Amul Thapar to be Felicitated
An Indian-American judge, along with four other attorneys, has been named for National Asia Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) Daniel K. Inouye Trailblazer Award.
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II Leads 800th Magna Carta Anniversary Celebrations
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister David Cameron will attend a ceremony today to mark the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, the document that laid the foundation for parliamentary democracy in the West.
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US directs agents to cover up programme used to investigate Americans
A secretive US Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across the nation to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans.
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Teen charged with trying to blow up Chicago bar
Undercover FBI agents arrested an 18-year-old American man who tried to detonate what he believed was a car bomb outside a downtown Chicago bar, federal prosecutors said Saturday. Adel Daoud, a U.S. citizen from the Chicago suburb of Hillside, was arrested Friday night in an undercover operation in which an agent pretending to be a terrorist provid...
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American Taliban fighter says prayer rule 'absurd'
American-born Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh says a federal prison rule barring him and other Muslims from praying together daily is "absurd" and contends the US is causing him to sin against his religion by prohibiting such gatherings in the name of security.
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Cellphone radiation may alter your brain
So crushing your cellphone into your ear to hear better in a crowded bar is probably a bad idea.
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British govt bars entry to US self-defence expert
The British government has refused to allow an American self-defence instructor to enter the country because it fears his teachings may encourage vigilante violence.
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US Secret Service new rules: No boozing, racy bars
No excessive drinking - and no alcohol at all within 10 hours of working. Disreputable establishments are off limits, as is entertaining foreigners in the hotel room. Those are among the tightened conduct rules the US Secret Service issued on Friday for its agents and employees. They apply even when traveling personnel are off duty. The new behav...
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London hotels: Pamper wealthy Olympic guests
Coming for the Olympics with money to spend? Then there's still time to ensure you can take tea at The Ritz, drink at the Savoy's American bar, or sleep in an Art Deco room at Claridge's.
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Americans take refuge at Cairo embassy
Three American democracy advocates barred by Egyptian authorities from leaving the country have sought refuge at the US Embassy in Cairo, officials said on Monday, as tensions between the two allied nations sharply escalated over a probe into foreign-funded organizations.
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Suu Kyi prepares for defence
Aung San Suu Kyi harbours no ill feelings toward an American whose uninvited intrusion into her house may put her behind bars for five years.
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Pegasus: Rights Group Says Lebanese Staffer Targeted With NSO Spyware
Human Rights Watch said that one of its senior staff members was targeted last year with spyware designed by the Israeli hacker-for hire company NSO Group.
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South Asian Lawyers Condemn US President Donald Trump's Orders On Immigration
Lawyers' bodies have condemned the executive orders on immigration signed by US President Donald Trump alleging that it encourage racial and religious profiling and almost exclusively target communities of colour.
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FBI 'Confident' That Orlando Gunman Was 'Radicalised'
The US gunman who launched the worst terror attack on American soil since 9/11 at a gay nightclub in Orlando was radicalized by Islamist propaganda, officials said, amid reports he was a club regular.
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Barack Obama Calls Florida Shooting An 'Act Of Terror, Hate'
President Barack Obama on Sunday described the worst mass shooting in US history as "an act of terror" and "an act of hate," saying the massacre of 50 people at a packed gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida was an attack on all Americans.
-
Indian-American Judge Amul Thapar to be Felicitated
An Indian-American judge, along with four other attorneys, has been named for National Asia Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) Daniel K. Inouye Trailblazer Award.
-
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II Leads 800th Magna Carta Anniversary Celebrations
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister David Cameron will attend a ceremony today to mark the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, the document that laid the foundation for parliamentary democracy in the West.
-
US directs agents to cover up programme used to investigate Americans
A secretive US Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across the nation to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans.
-
Teen charged with trying to blow up Chicago bar
Undercover FBI agents arrested an 18-year-old American man who tried to detonate what he believed was a car bomb outside a downtown Chicago bar, federal prosecutors said Saturday. Adel Daoud, a U.S. citizen from the Chicago suburb of Hillside, was arrested Friday night in an undercover operation in which an agent pretending to be a terrorist provid...
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American Taliban fighter says prayer rule 'absurd'
American-born Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh says a federal prison rule barring him and other Muslims from praying together daily is "absurd" and contends the US is causing him to sin against his religion by prohibiting such gatherings in the name of security.
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Cellphone radiation may alter your brain
So crushing your cellphone into your ear to hear better in a crowded bar is probably a bad idea.
-
British govt bars entry to US self-defence expert
The British government has refused to allow an American self-defence instructor to enter the country because it fears his teachings may encourage vigilante violence.
-
US Secret Service new rules: No boozing, racy bars
No excessive drinking - and no alcohol at all within 10 hours of working. Disreputable establishments are off limits, as is entertaining foreigners in the hotel room. Those are among the tightened conduct rules the US Secret Service issued on Friday for its agents and employees. They apply even when traveling personnel are off duty. The new behav...
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London hotels: Pamper wealthy Olympic guests
Coming for the Olympics with money to spend? Then there's still time to ensure you can take tea at The Ritz, drink at the Savoy's American bar, or sleep in an Art Deco room at Claridge's.
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Americans take refuge at Cairo embassy
Three American democracy advocates barred by Egyptian authorities from leaving the country have sought refuge at the US Embassy in Cairo, officials said on Monday, as tensions between the two allied nations sharply escalated over a probe into foreign-funded organizations.
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Suu Kyi prepares for defence
Aung San Suu Kyi harbours no ill feelings toward an American whose uninvited intrusion into her house may put her behind bars for five years.
