US nuclear weapons researchers targeted with Internet Explorer virus
The party responsible for the recently discovered security flaw in the IE 8 browser has yet to be identified, but researchers believe hackers employed a watering-hole attack to specifically target US government employees and contractors who browse a website regularly frequented by staffers in the nuclear sector. Microsoft confirmed on Friday the existence of a [...]
Elderly nun goes on trial for worst breach ever of US atomic complex
Court proceedings began Tuesday in Knoxville, TN for Sister Megan Rice and two other members of the Transform Now Plowshares, an anti-nuke protest group that is charged with crimes related to the July 28, 2012 break-in of the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Prosecutors have charged Rice, 57-year-old Greg Boertje-Obed and Michael [...]
Pentagon releases terrifying statistics of sexual assaults in the military
The full results of the survey will not be unveiled until later this week, but the Pentagon has already disclosed one particularly startling statistic: within the ranks of the military, the number of service members who say they’ve been sexually assaulted during the last year amounts to roughly 26,000. By comparison, 19,300 service members answered [...]
USA:‘One in five suicidal teens have guns at home’
About one in every five American children and teens at risk of committing suicide have said there are firearms in their home, a new study shows. 17 percent of American youth aged 10 to 21 years old, who are at risk of committing suicide, said there are guns in or around their home, according to [...]
Israel attacks on Syria “unacceptable”: Erdogan
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has condemned the recent Israeli airstrikes on a research center near the Syrian capital as “unacceptable.” Erdogan told a parliamentary meeting of his ruling party on Tuesday that “no excuse can justify” the Israeli act of aggression against Syria. “The airstrike Israel carried out on Damascus is completely unacceptable. [...]
UN peacekeepers… abducted by militants
Militants fighting against the Syrian government have abducted a group of UN peacekeepers monitoring the ceasefire line between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. According to Reuters news agency, a militant group operating in Syria issued a statement on Tuesday saying it was holding the four peacekeepers. The statement said the peacekeepers were being held [...]
Putin to Russian officials: Not anymore foreign bank accounts
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a measure that bans top officials and their families from holding foreign accounts, an act aimed at improving the government’s image. Putin on Tuesday signed the bill that includes a ban on owning foreign bank accounts or other financial instruments such as stocks and bonds by ministers, [...]
Chatham House or the elite who shapes the UK Foreign Policy
The Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) and the Council on Foreign Relations in the UK are comprised of a group of elites who although unaccountable shape Britain’s foreign policy. The post-1945 world order, which was marked by closeness between Britain and the United States, was mainly constructed by Think Tanks and Power in [...]
Pakistan: elections and…blood
Nearly twenty people have been killed and many more injured in two separate attacks on election campaign rallies across Pakistan. At least twelve people, including a candidate, lost their lives in a bomb attack in the northwestern town of Hangu. The causalities came after a powerful bomb exploded near the venue of the rally. Another [...]
Former British Chancellor urges UK government to exit EU
A former British Chancellor has called on the UK government to leave the European Union for the good of the country, media reports say. The call by Nigel Lawson, the chancellor of former premier Margaret Thatcher, was made on Tuesday, days after a eurosceptic party gave his Conservative party a drubbing in local elections. [...]