The Indian government requested Facebook for data 9,853 times in the first half of 2017 – up from 6,324 times in the first half of 2016 — Facebook’s latest ‘Government Requests Report’ revealed on Tuesday. Facebook restricted access to 1,228 pieces of content “in response to legal requests from law enforcement agencies and the India […]
The Arab League (AL) announced on Sunday that it has formed a ministerial delegation tasked with responding to the US decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The delegation will respond on the diplomatic and media levels to “the dangerous US decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel,” Xinhua quoted AL spokesman Mhamoud […]
Egypt’s Parliament Speaker Ali Abdel-Aal said on Sunday that Egypt is preparing a UN resolution against the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Speaking during a parliament session, Abdel-Aal said Egypt has begun contacting all Arab leaders and a number of foreign officials for the resolution. Xinhua news agency reported. Abdel-Aal stressed that Jerusalem […]
People in the US city of San Francisco voluntarily turned over about 271 firearms in a gun-for-cash campaign Saturday, the event’s organiser said. The annual Gun Buy Back campaign, sponsored by San Francisco-based violence prevention group United Playaz, encouraged San Franciscans to bring in their firearms in exchange for money, in a show of their […]
Egypt’s Parliament Speaker Ali Abdel-Aal said on Sunday that Egypt is preparing a UN resolution against the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Speaking during a parliament session, Abdel-Aal said Egypt has begun contacting all Arab leaders and a number of foreign officials for the resolution. Xinhua news agency reported. Abdel-Aal stressed that Jerusalem […]
At least nine people have been killed, including two of the attackers, and another 30 injured after four armed insurgents attacked a Methodist church on Sunday in Quetta in Pakistan. The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack. The attack on the Bethel Memorial church on Imdad square, where around 400 people were present, […]
US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he is not considering firing special counsel Robert Mueller. Mueller is investigating allegations of Russian interference in the last year’s US presidential election and collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow, Xinhua news agency reported. When asked if he was considering dismissing Mueller, Trump responded, “No, I’m […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin called US President Donald Trump to express gratitude to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)’s information that helped foil terrorist attack attempts in St Petersburg, the Kremlin said on Sunday. Russia’s Federal Security Service said Friday that it detained seven Islamic State supporters earlier this week for plotting to blow up the […]
The Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) approach from Google researchers helped NASA discover two exoplanets, including an eighth planet around the star Kepler-90. With an eighth planet circling Kepler-90, our solar system now is tied for most number of planets around a single star, NASA and Google said in a statement late on […]
The co-chairs of the Security Council reform process have been holding informal consultations with various countries and have reported that they found “openness to dialogue”, an official said. Brenden Varma, the spokesperson for General Assembly President Miroslav Lajcak, said this on Thursday. The next meeting for the reform process known as the Intergovernmental Negotiations (IGN) […]