Month: January 2020

US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has criticised the UK and other allies for “not being helpful” in their response to the Trump administration’s killing of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani. A number of European countries have expressed concern over the killing of Soleimani, a top military general in Iran, amid fears of retaliation and a…

(Bloomberg) — Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister hopes all actors involved in the recent Middle East flare-up take steps to avoid escalation. “We are very keen that the situation in the region doesn’t escalate any further,” Prince Faisal bin Farhan said at a press conference in Riyadh Monday. “It’s certainly a very dangerous moment and we…

REXBURG, Idaho (AP) — Authorities have searched the home of an Idaho man linked to the suspicious death of his first wife and the disappearance of his two new stepchildren. On Friday, investigators with the Rexburg police, Fremont County sheriff’s office and FBI executed a search warrant on the house Chad Daybell shared with Tammy…

Carlos Ghosn’s escape from Japan is “unjustifiable” and he is thought to have left the country using “illegal methods”, the Japanese justice minister said on Sunday, in the first official public comments on the case. Mr Ghosn, the former boss of Nissan and Renault, made a daring escape from Japan where he was on bail…

  Carlos Ghosn managed to escape Japan on a private jet due to a glaring security weakness at a major Japanese airport, The Wall Street Journal and Nikkei Asian Review reported. Ghosn was concealed in a crate for transporting musical instruments that was too large for the baggage scanners in the private terminal of Osaka’s…

MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs has only managed to curb the supply of methamphetamines by less than 1% of annual consumption, proof that it has been a bloody failure, his main political rival, the vice president, said on Monday. Thousands of suspected drug traffickers and users have been killed in…

Hackers have hijacked a US government website and posted an image portraying a bloodied Donald Trump receiving an Iranian fist to the face, captioned with pledges for revenge. Visitors to the Federal Depository Library Program’s website on Saturday were greeted instead by a message purporting to be from the Islamic Republic of Iran. “Martyrdom was…

FDLP A group claiming to be from Iran hacked and defaced a US government agency website on Saturday with an image of Trump being punched in the face alongside pro-Iranian messages. As of Sunday morning, The Federal Depository Library Program’s (FDLP) website was down and the message had been removed from its main page. However, pro-Iranian…

The homepage for the U.S. Federal Depository Library Program was briefly altered Saturday evening to show a pro-Iranian message and an image of bloodied Donald Trump being punched in the face.  A line at the bottom read: “Hacked by Iran Cyber Security Group Hackers. This is only small part of Iran’s cyber ability! We’re always…

Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to accidentally admit his country has nuclear capabilities with an apparent slip of the tongue on Sunday. Click Here: liverpool mens jersey Mr Netanyahu described his country as a “nuclear power” at a weekly cabinet meeting before quickly correcting himself with an embarrassed smile. Israel is widely-believed to possess…