MARCH 3, 2022
A member of the Cybercrime Centre in a lab at Europol headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands. Photograph: Peter de Jong/AP
EU police body accused of unlawfully holding information and aspiring to become an NSA-style mass surveillance agency
The EU’s police agency, Europol, will be forced to delete much of a vast store of personal data that it has...
MARCH 2, 2022
When she found out Russian tanks were rolling into Ukraine, Anna Myasnokova, 27, left her pet parrot in her apartment in Kharkiv and went to stay in the basement of her office building.
The next day, when she went back to visit her bird, heavy shelling outside sent her into the bathroom to hide. Once the noise quieted down, she washed dishes, just to calm herself.
Back at...
MARCH 5, 2022
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, United States Ambassador to the United Nations, speaks during a special session of the General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters on March 2, 2022 in New York City. / Credit: Michael M Santiago/Getty Images/Getty Images
United Nations – The United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly during an extraordinary emergency session on Wednesday to pass a...
MARCH 2, 2022
A cargo ship carrying thousands of luxury cars has sunk to the ocean floor after 13 days afloat.
The 650-foot-long, 60,000-ton cargo ship transporting Porsches, Bentleys and Audis sank Tuesday in the mid-Atlantic, the ship’s manager and the Portuguese Navy confirmed.
Porsche customers in the United States were expected to be contacted by their dealers and will receive replacements in the near...
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
New Delhi: More than 400 specially trained Russian mercenaries have been flown in from Africa to assassinate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, according to a Daily Mail report.
A private militia, known as the Wagner Group, allegedly has orders from Vladimir Putin to take out Zelensky - and 23 other government figures - to allow Moscow to take over...
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
Mark Zuckerberg said it's a "reasonable construct" for the metaverse to be a time, not a place.
Some have pondered if the metaverse is a moment when our lives are more digital than physical.
Some have posited that the much-hyped metaverse isn't necessarily a place but a point in time — and Mark Zuckerberg seems to agree.
Computer...
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
Amid reports of Pakistan’s economy heading to a historic $20 billion current account deficit, Prime Minister Imran Khan is set to address the nation to “take the nation into confidence on the economy and global challenges amid Russia-Ukraine conflict.”
Pakistan’s former finance minister and economist Dr. Hafeez A Pasha has said that the country is heading towards “a...
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
On an episode of Joe Rogan’s popular podcast last year, he turned to a topic that has gripped right-wing communities and other Americans who feel skeptical about the pandemic: search engines.
“If I wanted to find specific cases about people who died from vaccine-related injuries, I had to go to DuckDuckGo,” Mr. Rogan said, referring to the small...
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and President Donald Trump on stage with other NATO leaders at the NATO summit London, December 4, 2019. ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images
Trump on Monday once again made false claims on Ukraine and NATO.
The former president has sought to rewrite history when it comes to Ukraine as Russia attacks.
Trump...
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C — President Joe Biden's Supreme Court pick, Ketanji Brown Jackson, has begun preparing for a high-stakes confirmation battle to become the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.
Biden's choice, announced Friday, was met with effusive praise by Democratic leaders and progressives. The decision faced pushback from conservative advocates and some skepticism from Republicans, although many...
