Thursday

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The scene is epic, full of portent. A young woman clothed in white poses enigmatically in the photo’s foreground. Behind her is a vista of denuded mountain slopes and below, a blue pool of water at the bottom of a deep mining pit. Above, sombre grey clouds hang low. It is a picture of dark and light, foreboding and timelessness. The photograph is...
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New variants of the coronavirus have now been reported in at least 31 countries worldwide. One of these new strains named VUI-202012/01 was first reported in the United Kingdom on December 14 and is said to be up to 70 percent more transmissible than the previously dominant strain in the UK. This means it is spreading faster in the UK, making the...

Wednesday

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A growing split between outgoing President Donald Trump and Republicans in the United States Congress widened on Wednesday as the Senate moved closer to overriding a Trump veto and Republican leaders rejected his bid for $2,000 stimulus cheques for Americans. In a one-two punch, the Senate voted overwhelmingly, 80 to 12, to begin reversing President...
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On December 2, teachers and public employees peacefully demonstrated in the city of Sulaymaniyah in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI), demanding their long-overdue salaries. The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has been unable to pay civil servants in full for months due to an ongoing financial crisis. Instead of heeding their...

Tuesday

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United States President Donald Trump’s push for bigger $2,000 COVID-19 relief cheques stalled in the Senate on Tuesday as Republicans blocked a swift vote proposed by Democrats and split within their own ranks over whether to boost spending or defy the White House. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell threw up roadblocks to Trump’s request to increase...
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Google has patched a bug in its feedback tool incorporated across its services that could be exploited by an attacker to potentially steal screenshots of sensitive Google Docs documents simply by embedding them in a malicious website. The flaw was discovered on July 9 by security researcher Sreeram KL, for which he was awarded $3133.70 as part of...
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Palestinian NGO said the increase in virus cases among Israeli jailers is the ‘first source of transmission’ to prisoners. Israeli prison authorities have closed down the Ramon prison after detecting several coronavirus infections among prisoners and guards, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS). There was no comment from Israeli authorities...
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Threat actors have been discovered distributing a new credential stealer written in AutoHotkey (AHK) scripting language as part of an ongoing campaign that started early 2020. Customers of financial institutions in the US and Canada are among the primary targets for credential exfiltration, with a specific focus on banks such as Scotiabank, Royal...

Monday

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Adam Coy, a 17-year veteran, was fired from the Columbus, Ohio police force after shooting Andre Hill, a Black man. A white Ohio police officer in the United States was fired on Monday after bodycam footage showed him fatally shooting 47-year-old Andre Hill – a Black man who was holding a cellphone – and refusing to administer first aid for several...
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Almost 7.5 million cast their vote to choose a successor to President Issoufou. Vote counting has begun in Niger after an election that could lead to the country’s first peaceful transition of power since its independence from France 60 years ago. Almost 7.5 million people cast their vote on Sunday to choose a successor to President Mahamadou Issoufou...

Sunday

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Christmas day explosion wounded three people and damaged dozens of businesses, including an AT&T switching centre. Nashville Police have said Anthony Quinn Warner is under investigation in connection with the Christmas Day bombing that rocked the US city of Nashville. Metro Nashville Police Department Spokesman Don Aaron confirmed Warner’s identity...
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21 people have been arrested across the UK as part of a nationwide cyber crackdown targeting customers of WeLeakInfo[.]com, a now-defunct online service that had been previously selling access to data hacked from other websites. The suspects used stolen personal credentials to commit further cyber and fraud offences, the UK National Crime Agency...
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Health care workers, the elderly and leading politicians got some of the first shots across the bloc to reassure the public that the vaccinations are safe. Europe has launched an enormous COVID vaccination drive, with elderly patients and medics lining up to take the first shots in hopes of seeing off the pandemic that has crippled economies and...
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An authentication bypass vulnerability in the SolarWinds Orion software may have been leveraged by adversaries as zero-day to deploy the SUPERNOVA malware in target environments. According to an advisory published yesterday by the CERT Coordination Center, the SolarWinds Orion API that’s used to interface with all other Orion system monitoring and...

Saturday

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United States President-elect Joe Biden is urging Donald Trump to sign into law an $892bn COVID-19 funding and relief bill that would provide much-needed support to Americans hit hard by the virus and an economic downturn caused by the pandemic. In a written statement, Biden, who is set to take office on January 20, accused Trump of an “abdication...
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Announcement comes after authorities in France and Lebanon also confirm cases of the UK variant. Four cases of a coronavirus variant that recently emerged in the United Kingdom and is believed to be particularly infectious, have been confirmed in Madrid, the regional government has said. All four cases, the first detected in Spain, involved people...

Friday

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The opposition is calling for PM Nikol Pashinyan’s resignation over his handling of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with Azerbaijan. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has backed the prospect of early parliamentary elections next year, after huge protests over his handling of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with Azerbaijan. Pashinyan wrote on Facebook...
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New evidence amidst the ongoing probe into the espionage campaign targeting SolarWinds has uncovered an unsuccessful attempt to compromise cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike and access the company’s email. The hacking endeavor was reported to the company by Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence Center on December 15, which identified a third-party reseller’s...
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Election, which was set to take place in August, was delayed because of the pandemic, as new date is set amid fresh violence. Ethiopia will hold a parliamentary election on June 5, 2021, its National Electoral Board has said on Friday, after postponing the vote from August this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The chairman of the winning party...
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Thursday

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Officials say Moderna vaccine will be distributed to remote, isolated communities in northern Canada. Canada has received its first shipment of Moderna Inc’s COVID-19 vaccines, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday, as the country urged people to limit their contacts during the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. Trudeau said the first shipment...

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