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U.S. evacuates China consulate staffers as illness mystery deepens
The same concussion-like symptoms that hit staffers at the U.S. Embassy in Cuba have been reported at the consulate in Guangzhou.
Facebook says it gave Huawei and other Chinese firms access to user data
Facebook says it has provided access to its users’ data to Huawei, a Chinese smartphone maker that US intelligence agencies have described as a security threat.
U.S. gives Humvees to Afghan army and then blows them up when they fall into Taliban hands
American warplanes have destroyed about 40 U.S.-supplied Humvees that the Taliban captured from Afghanistan’s military over the past several years, according to coalition military statistics provided to USA TODAY.
UN accuses Saudi Arabia of using anti-terror laws to justify torture
Saudi Arabia is systematically using anti-terror laws to justify torture, suppress all dissent and imprison human rights defenders, the UN has concluded following a five-day official inspection of the country at the invitation of the government.
Isis plotters caught in undercover MI5 sting
MI5 officers posed as Islamic State fighters in an undercover internet operation to thwart Britain’s first all-female terrorist plot, it can be revealed.
The Rapid Retraction of a School-Shooting Video Game
Activists managed to quash a video game called Active Shooter before it was even released to the public, the culmination of a public uproar over what critics described as the game’s normalization of violence and glamorization of death.
Citizens lose $14m to cybercrime
In 2017, there were 1,694 reports of electronic bank card fraud, with those transactions amounting to $14.5 million. There were 78 prosecutions.
The FBI wants you to do this one thing to your home router, now
Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Turn your router off, then turn it back on. That’s one of the things the FBI is asking people to do to help thwart a cyberattack it says agents of a foreign government are launching against U.S. citizens.
Artillery Strike Kills More Than 50 Taliban Leaders In Afghanistan, U.S. Military Says
More than 50 senior Taliban commanders were killed in an artillery strike on a meeting in Afghanistan’s southern province of Helmand, a U.S. military spokesman said on Wednesday, as fighting continues across the country.
‘Active Shooter’ video game prompts outrage amid spate of school shootings
A new video game that simulates school shootings is facing colossal backlash and demands that it be pulled amid a spate of school massacres across the United States.
