Sun 13 April 2025: A new legal document submitted in a United States court has revealed that at least 100 individuals in India were targeted by the Pegasus spyware during a WhatsApp hacking operation in 2019. This figure places India as the second-most affected country globally, as per a report by Medianama published on Thursday. […]
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Sun 13 April 2025: A website is using AI to scrape and compile photos from the internet, revealing where and when they were posted. This has sparked widespread concern, with many labeling it “creepy” and “disturbing” due to its potential for misuse and invasion of privacy. The site called PimEyes uses AI to hunt down […]
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Sun 13 April 2025: China said Saturday that BRICS members discussed US reciprocal tariffs and expressed “serious concern” about trade tensions. Beijing said Washington’s tariffs have “severely undermined the international trade system, disrupted global industrial and supply chains, and caused prolonged impact on the world economy,” during the second meeting of the BRICS Contact Group […]
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Sun 13 April 2025: The AFP news agency is reporting that most military sites belonging to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon have been placed under the Lebanese army’s control. The agency cited a source close to the Lebanese armed group. “Out of 265 Hezbollah military positions identified south of the Litani, the movement has ceded about […]
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Sun 13 April 2025: The Ukrainian president condemns ‘terrible’ missile attack days after Trump envoy Steve Witkoff met President Putin in Russia. A Russian ballistic missile attack on the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy has killed more than 20 people, according to local authorities. “On this bright Palm Sunday, our community has suffered a terrible […]
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Sun 13 April 2025: US President Donald Trump said Saturday that talks with Iran are “going OK.” “I think they’re going OK. Nothing matters until you get it done. So, I don’t like talking about it,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One. His remarks came after US presidential envoy Steven Witkoff, accompanied by US […]
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Sun 13 April 2025: Critical community initiatives that provide testing, food and support and HIV vaccine research have been dismantled. Johannesburg, South Africa – Last year, Mary* finally had the conversation she had been dreading for more than a decade. Mary has lived with HIV since 2008. But the 36-year-old has also carried the burden of […]
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Sun 13 April 2025: The European Commission’s coordinator on combating anti-Muslim hatred said on Saturday that racism and Islamophobia are seemingly on the rise in a number of member states. “We know that since the 7th of October (2023), in particular, anti-Muslim hate crime has increased, for instance, by 140% in Germany,” Marion Lalisse told […]
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Sat 12 April 2025: China’s Commerce Minister Wang Wentao had discussions with his Saudi Arabian and South African counterparts to exchange views on responding to the United States’ “reciprocal tariffs”, the Chinese ministry has said. The conversations took place over separate video calls on Thursday in which China discussed strengthening bilateral economic and trade cooperation […]
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Sat 12 April 2025: Hungary on Thursday suggested a “biological attack” as a possible source of the country’s first foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in more than half a century, which has triggered border closures and the mass slaughter of cattle in the northwest. Hungary reported a first case of foot-and-mouth disease in over 50 years on […]
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