Terror Alert Facebook 'death star' will facilitate terrorism,...

The nation's top national security figures have warned that a plan by Facebook to fully encrypt its message services will potentially create a global dark web, enabling terrorism, paedophilia and ...

Terror Alert No to police state rule after the terrorist killing of...

The beheading Friday of middle school teacher Samuel Paty by a young Chechen Islamist in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine has shocked millions internationally. Quite irrespective of their views on Paty’s decision to show his class obscene caricatures of the prophet Mohamed to provoke debate on freedom of expression, masses of people are saddened and disgusted by the grisly murder of a teacher trying...

Terror Alert Former ISA detainee jailed for lying in passport application

Zulfikar Mohamad Shariff, who was detained in 2016 for spreading terrorist ideology, has been jailed six weeks for lying in his passport application. (Yahoo News Singapore file photo) More SINGAPORE —  A man detained by the authorities in 2016 for actively spreading terrorist ideology online and helping to radicalise at least two Singaporeans was jailed six weeks on Thursday (22...

Terror Alert Iraq Discovers Remains of More Than 50 IS Victims in Mass...

WASHINGTON - Iraqi officials say they have found a new mass grave that contains the remains of several dozen people who appear to have been executed on the spot by Islamic State in the disputed northern province of Kirkuk. Yehia Rasool, military spokesperson for Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, announced Tuesday on Twitter that Iraqi forces found the corpses of more than 50 people by...

Terror Alert Oregon DHS asks for public’s help locating missing...

BOARDMAN, OR (KPTV) - The Oregon Department of Human Services is asking for the public’s help locating a missing and pregnant 16-year-old foster child from Boardman. Mya Miranda is believed to be in danger, according to Oregon DHS. She is 25 weeks pregnant. Miranda was last seen Oct. 17. She is believed to be traveling to Milton-Freewater or Walla Walla, Washington or...

Terror Alert U.S., Mexico and Canada Seek Ways to Cease Border...

© Provided by NBC San Diego The San Ysidro Port of Entry Following news that restrictions among the U.S., Mexico and Canada borders would be extended until Nov. 21, immigration officials urged everyone to refrain from illegally crossing any border. Edgar Ramirez of the Department of Homeland Security at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico said in a statement that the “ups and downs...

ISIS Suspect held over Dresden murder is Isis recruiter

A failed asylum seeker and Islamic State recruiter from Syria has been arrested on suspicion of stabbing a German tourist to death in Dresden. The suspect, identified by local media as Abdullah al-HH, 20, is accused of having used a large kitchen knife to attack two men in their fifties as they walked through the city’s old town. Both victims were seriously injured and one of them, a...

ISIS Suspect held over Dresden murder is Isis recruiter

A failed asylum seeker and Islamic State recruiter from Syria has been arrested on suspicion of stabbing a German tourist to death in Dresden. The suspect, identified by local media as Abdullah al-HH, 20, is accused of having used a large kitchen knife to attack two men in their fifties as they walked through the city’s old town. Both victims were seriously injured and one of them, a...

ISIS Islamic State links prison break in DRC to speech from...

The Islamic State’s official claim for yesterday’s prison break in Beni, DR Congo. In its official media statement regarding yesterday’s massive prison break in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) , the Islamic State has directly linked that operation to a recent speech made by its spokesman, Abu Hamza al-Quraishi. The Islamic State begins its statement (above) by summarizing...

ISIS The United States Can Counter Putin and Assad With a...

For more than eight years, the leaders of North and East Syria have pursued their project of self-rule in defiance of the Assad regime in Damascus. The Kurdish-led region has withstood the Islamic State, multiple Turkish interventions, a partial U.S. withdrawal, and the deployment of Russian troops. Russian President Vladimir Putin seemingly believed the U.S. withdrawal last autumn would...

ISIS Yazidi sex slave is tormented by Isis even after escape

H idden in a false compartment beneath the seat of a supply van, the young Yazidi captive had a thousand reasons to escape from the detention camp. Abducted as a sixteen-year-old by Islamic State, she has survived genocide, enslavement, rape and war. Now, concealed in the vehicle as it drove out of the gates of the al-Hawl facility, was a chance to make a break for freedom. Yet when the van...

ISIS Syrian ISIS supporter is arrested in Germany on suspicion...

A young Syrian ISIS supporter has been arrested after stabbing a German tourist to death and injuring another earlier this month. Abdullah AHH, 20, was arrested after the attack in the eastern German city of Dresden on October 4, authorities said today. Prosecutors said they suspect the man may have had an Islamic extremist motive for the attack, news agency DPA reported. He was jailed...

U.S. Cyprus, Greece, Egypt to Turkey: drop the rancor, join us

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) - The leaders of Cyprus, Egypt and Greece on Wednesday renewed an invitation to Turkey to become a partner in reaping the potential benefits of offshore gas deposits, while urging Ankara to end its “aggressive” actions in the eastern Mediterranean. Their one-day regional summit in Cyprus came amid high tension between neighbors and NATO allies Greece and...

U.S. US court grants pro-Palestinian group legal victory in...

A US court ruled in favour of pro-Palestinian groups in a lawsuit that sought to hold them responsible for an act of terrorism that occurred in Jerusalem in 1996, years before they were formed. A federal court in Chicago ruled  on Tuesday that the two groups - American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) and Americans for Justice in Palestine (AJP) - are not liable to pay $156m in damages to Stanley...

U.S. Normalization seen as part of deal to remove Sudan from...

The US State Sponsors of Terrorism List could soon be down to just Iran, North Korea and Syria.On Monday, President Donald Trump announced that the designation will no longer apply to Sudan in exchange for $335 million in compensation to the American victims and their families of attacks on the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, and on the destroyer USS Cole in Yemen in...

U.S. Double stabbing in Dresden 2 weeks ago being investigated...

A knife attack in the German city of Dresden a fortnight ago, in which one tourist was killed and a second was seriously injured, is now being treated as a terrorist attack, prosecutors said on Wednesday. Police arrested a 20-year-old Syrian man on Tuesday evening after investigators found evidence linking him to the stabbings. Federal prosecutors in the city of Karlsruhe say he has an...

U.S. Cyprus, Greece, Egypt to Turkey: drop the rancor, join us

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The leaders of Cyprus, Egypt and Greece on Wednesday renewed an invitation to Turkey to become a partner in reaping the potential benefits of offshore gas deposits, while urging Ankara to end its “aggressive” actions in the eastern Mediterranean. Their one-day regional summit in Cyprus came amid high tension between neighbors and NATO allies Greece and Turkey over...

U.S. The Beheading of a Teacher in France Exposes a Cultural...

FRANCE-ATTACK-EDUCATION-ISLAM President of French Ile-de-France region Valerie Pecresse (1st L), mayor of Conflans Sainte-Honorine Laurent Brosse (C) and mayor of Eragny-sur-Oise Thibault Humbert (2nd R) attend the 'Marche Blanche' in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, northwest of Paris, on October 20, 2020, in solidarity after a teacher was beheaded for showing pupils cartoons of the Prophet...

World The global security testing market is predicted to record...

The factors fueling the market growth are the rising security threats, a growing number of network attacks, and government regulations with regard to network security. MARKET INSIGHTS New York, Oct. 22, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "GLOBAL SECURITY TESTING MARKET FORECAST 2021-2028" - https://www.reportlinker.com/p05977656/?utm_source=GNW...

World France, Waging a Crackdown, Honors a Teacher and Depicts...

PARIS — Two teenagers were paid about $350 to identify a teacher who was later decapitated outside the suburban school where he worked, a prosecutor said Wednesday, as officials continued to investigate a killing that has set off a wave of national mourning, tributes to the teacher, and a broad government crackdown against Muslim individuals and groups. The national homage continued...

World Growing calls for release of priest arrested in India on...

MUMBAI, India – There are growing demands in India for the release of Father Stan Swamy, who was arrested on Oct. 8 on terrorism charges. Swamy is a noted human rights activist who has long spoken out against the mistreatment of India’s tribal community in in Jharkhand state. He was arrested in Ranchi and remanded by a special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Mumbai – on the other...

World No Christmas parties for the police, military this year

No Christmas parties for the police, military this year Franco Luna (Philstar.com) - October 22, 2020 - 1:07pm MANILA, Philippines — Amid the coronavirus pandemic—and the community quarantine in the Philippines that has dragged on for 219 days—neither the national police nor the military will be throwing Christmas parties in their units for Christmas this year.  This was...

World Kiwi woman 'intended to facilitate a terrorist act'...

A woman who had her passport cancelled because it was believed she planned to facilitate a terrorist act for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has had her application for a judicial review denied. The woman, who has permanent name suppression, applied for a review after her passport was suspended and then cancelled in 2016 and the High Court has today released the decision of Justice...

World Indonesian woman first to be tried under Philippines’ new...

MANILA: Philippine authorities on Wednesday said that a suspected Indonesian suicide bomber who was arrested in a joint military and police operation in Sulu four days ago would serve as a test case for the country’s newly signed anti-terror law (ATL). “This is the first major case, I think, where certain persons suspected of being foreign terrorists are being charged with violating our new...

Coronavirus News Naperville to grant 6-month waivers of liquor and tobacco...

Waitress Ksenia Belajeva, brings drinks to Kristen McSweeney, 31, and Geoff Roche, 60, while they dine at Empire Burgers & Brew Tuesday in Naperville. The city is waiving liquor fees for six months for businesses like restaurants that service alcohol on site. (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)

Coronavirus News Unilever Boosted by Cleaners and Ice Cream During Pandemic

© Bloomberg A tub of Ben and Jerry's ice cream, manufactured by Unilever Plc, in a freezer at a Morrisons supermarket, operated by Wm Morrison Supermarkets Plc, in Saint Ives, U.K., on Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020. Morrison shares rose after the U.K. grocer and Amazon.com Inc. said customers can now do their full Morrisons food shop on Amazon.co.uk. (Bloomberg) -- Unilever’s growth...

Coronavirus News Washoe County detention facility on lockdown after 16...

CLOSE Three generations of one Nevada family - grandmother Patricia Villaseca, her daughter Cyndi Camacho and newborn Elli Camacho, 5 months - all recovered from COVID-19. Reno Gazette Journal The Washoe County Sheriff's Office announced that the detention facility is on lockdown following an increase in positive COVID-19 cases. Eleven inmates and five personnel at the jail...

Coronavirus News Stalled US stimulus and rising COVID-19 cases knock markets

US House speaker Nancy Pelosi delivers remarks before signing the Paycheck Protection Program Healthcare Enhancement Act on Capitol Hill in Washington, on 23 April. Photo: Tom Brenner/Reuters Asian markets took a stumble and Europe’s also opened lower on Thursday as hopes of a US stimulus deal diminish and COVID-19 cases continue rising. The pound rose as possibility of Brexit talks...

Coronavirus News Brazilian dies in COVID-19 vaccine trial

A volunteer in a clinical trial of the COVID-19 vaccine being developed by Astrazeneca and Oxford University has died in Brazil. Brazil's health authority said on Wednesday that although the volunteer had died, the trial would continue. So far 8,000 people have been given the first dose of the vaccine in six cities in Brazil, which is grappling with one of the world's worst outbreaks of the...

Coronavirus News This 'neo bank' tripled its clients in the pandemic (and...

October 22, 2020 8 min read This article was translated from our Spanish edition using AI technologies. Errors may exist due to this process. This story originally appeared on Alto Nivel By Antonio Sandoval Financial inclusion has become the flag of the Fintech sector in Mexico, which has not only detected a large business niche, but is also aware that the country's...