Monday

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Minnesota regulators approve final permit for Enbridge Energy’s Line 3 crude oil pipeline, but the start date is not specified. Minnesota regulators have approved the final permit for Enbridge Energy’s Line 3 crude oil pipeline replacement across northern Minnesota, giving the company the green light to begin construction on the $2.6bn project in...
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China’s factory activity expanded at the fastest pace in more than three years in November, while growth in the services sector also hit a multi-year high, as the country’s economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic stepped up. Upbeat data released on Monday suggest the world’s second-largest economy is on track to become the first to completely...

Sunday

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Seeking to end the rift in the Gulf region, Kushner will meet Qatari emir and Saudi crown prince, according to US media reports. White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and his team will travel to Saudi Arabia and Qatar this week for talks aimed at resolving the dispute between the neighbouring Gulf countries, according to United States media reports. A...
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Republican lawsuit sought to invalidate mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania, where President-elect Biden won by 81,000 votes. The US state of Pennsylvania’s supreme court has dismissed another legal challenge to the election by supporters of President Donald Trump, further reducing his already near-impossible odds of overturning the results. A Republican...

Saturday

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Runoff races for Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’s two most-populous cities, will be among those held on Sunday. Brazilians are preparing to head to the polls for municipal election runoffs on Sunday, as COVID-19 infections continue to surge in the South American country. Voters will cast their ballots in mayoral and city council races in 57...
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Muhyiddin Yassin promises to hold polls after he averts showdown by winning parliamentary support for his administration’s budget. Malaysia will hold a general election when the novel coronavirus pandemic is over, Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said on Saturday, shortly after he averted a showdown by winning parliamentary support for his administration’s...

Friday

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More than 90,000 COVID-19 patients are in hospitals across the United States, which continues to see rising infections. The number of COVID-19 patients being treated in hospitals across the United States reached 90,000 on Friday, Reuters News Agency reported, as people travelled to attend Thanksgiving holiday gatherings this week. The rate of hospitalisations...
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A cyberespionage group with suspected ties to the Kazakh and Lebanese governments has unleashed a new wave of attacks against a multitude of industries with a retooled version of a 13-year-old backdoor Trojan. Check Point Research called out hackers affiliated with a group named Dark Caracal in a new report published yesterday for their efforts to...
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The alleged victim, identified as Michel, says he was jumped on by police at his music studio. French President Emmanuel Macron was “very shocked” by images purporting to show a Black music producer being beaten up and racially abused by Paris police, BFM TV reported, quoting comments given to it by the presidency. French authorities are investigating...

Thursday

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UNRWA received lowest level of contributions since 2012, at a time when pandemic is exacerbating the needs of refugees. The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees said that, for the first time in its history, it has run out of money until the end of the year. The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)...
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Three Nigerian citizens suspected of being members of an organized cybercrime group behind distributing malware, carrying out phishing campaigns, and extensive Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams have been arrested in the city of Lagos, Interpol reported yesterday. The investigation, dubbed “Operation Falcon,” was jointly undertaken by the international...
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Many of us here would love to turn hacking into a full-time career. To make that dream come true, you need to master your subject and earn some key certifications. To speed up this process, you might want to take a little guidance from the experts. Featuring 98 hours of content from top instructors, The Ultimate 2020 White Hat Hacker Certification...
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Court hands down dozens of life sentences for some of the nearly 500 defendants, including army commanders and pilots. A Turkish court is handing down verdicts for hundreds of people accused of plotting to overthrow President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a failed coup attempt four years ago, with dozens of them handed life sentences. Nearly 500 defendants,...

Wednesday

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The S&P 500 index and the Dow walked back from record closing highs, pulled lower by cyclicals and small caps that drove the rally earlier in the week. The S&P 500 index closed lower on Wednesday as mounting United States layoffs in the wake of new mandated lockdowns to contain surging COVID-19 infections dampened investors’ appetite for...
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Two popular Android apps from Chinese tech giant Baidu have been removed from the Google Play Store in October after they were caught collecting sensitive user details. The two apps in question—Baidu Maps and Baidu Search Box—were found to collect device identifiers, such as the International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) number or MAC address,...
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cPanel, a provider of popular administrative tools to manage web hosting, has patched a security vulnerability that could have allowed remote attackers with access to valid credentials to bypass two-factor authentication (2FA) protection on an account. The issue, tracked as “SEC-575” and discovered by researchers from Digital Defense, has been remedied...
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Judicial investigator asks MPs to probe current and ex-ministers dating back to 2013, when 3,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate arrived at Beirut port. Beirut, Lebanon – Lebanon’s top investigator has asked Parliament to investigate 10 former ministers he suspects are responsible for the conditions that led to the devastating August 4 explosion that...

Tuesday

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The outgoing administration of US President Donald Trump issued a new temporary rule that could require tourist and business travellers from two dozen countries – most in Africa – to pay a bond of as much as $15,000 to visit the United States. The US State Department on Monday said the temporary final rule, which takes effect December 24 and runs...
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An adware and coin-miner botnet targeting Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan at least since 2012 has now set its sights on Linux servers to fly under the radar. According to a new analysis published by Intezer today and shared with The Hacker News, the trojan masquerades as HTTPd, a commonly used program on Linux servers, and is a new version...
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VMware has released temporary workarounds to address a critical vulnerability in its products that could be exploited by an attacker to take control of an affected system. “A malicious actor with network access to the administrative configurator on port 8443 and a valid password for the configurator admin account can execute commands with unrestricted...
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Sputnik V vaccine is 95 percent effective according to second interim analysis of clinical trial data, developers say. Russia’s two-shot Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine will cost less than $20 per person on international markets and will be free of charge for Russian citizens, according to a statement on the official Sputnik V Twitter account. Kirill...

Monday

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Nurses from the profession’s largest union in the United States have warned of dire stresses on the healthcare system as the country sees a new surge in COVID-19 cases and hospitalisations. In a news conference on Monday, members of the National Nurses United, which represents 170,000 registered nurses across the US, detailed harrowing accounts of...

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