On Sunday, the Taliban swept to power in Afghanistan after a few weeks of stunning military victories. The armed group had been toppled in a US-led invasion in 2001 following the September 11 attacks on US soil, but it gradually regained strength, carrying out numerous attacks on foreign as well as Afghan forces in the…
London, United Kingdom – The collaboration between whistle-blowers and journalists has for years led to major revelations about corruption and the abuse of power in the United Kingdom. In 2013, journalists exposed the scale of mass surveillance carried out by Western governments through documents leaked by the National Security Agency (NSA) dissident, Edward Snowden. In 2009,…
A cybersecurity flaw in software designed by BlackBerry Ltd could put at risk cars and medical equipment that use it and expose highly sensitive systems to attackers, the US drugs regulator and a federal agency has said. The warning came on Tuesday after the Canadian company disclosed that its QNX Real Time Operating System (QNX…
Gov. Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State, has felicitated former president, retired Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (IBB) on his 80th birthday anniversary. In a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media, Malam Mukhtar Gidado, in Bauchi on Tuesday, Mohammed lauded Babangida for achieving the feat. The governor noted that the former president, remained one of Nigeria’s…
President Emmanuel Macron has said France, Germany and other EU countries are working on a coordinated response against expected “irregular migratory flows” from Afghanistan, where the Taliban’s takeover has fuelled fears among rights groups of a looming crisis. Speaking on Monday in a televised address from his summer residence, Macron described the situation in Afghanistan…
Uganda’s constitutional court is scrapping a controversial anti-pornography law whose provisions included a ban on wearing miniskirts in public, in a decision hailed by women’s rights campaigners. The judgement on Tuesday said that the 2014 legislation, which had been dubbed the “anti-miniskirt law,” was “inconsistent with or in contravention of the constitution of the republic…
More than 30 people were killed in a rebel attack in the West African country of Niger, the Ministry of Interior has said. Armed assailants on motorcycles attacked the village of Darey Dey in the Tillaberi region close to the border with Mali on Monday and killed 37 people, including 14 children, according to the…
An unnamed woman has sued folk singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, alleging he sexually abused her after giving her drugs and alcohol in 1965 when she was 12 years old. A spokesman for Dylan, 80, said the allegations were false. “The 56-year-old claim is untrue and will be vigorously defended,” the spokesman said. In a civil lawsuit…
Korean Air Lines Co., South Korea’s biggest carrier, on Monday said it would consider rerouting flights to avoid Afghanistan’s airspace following the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul. Korean Air said that some of its cargo flights had used the Afghan airspace at high altitudes, though its passenger flights have not. “We are closely monitoring the (political)…
