The Iranian news agency, Tasnim has just reported a shooting and hostage situation at the Iranian parliament and that twelve people are reportedly dead. However, there are conflicting reports across several state news agencies as to how many attackers were involved, whether one of the attackers blew themselves up with explosives, or whether security forces […]
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Greece today finds itself in the unenviable position of having to sell off yet more State assets as part of a desperate battle just to stay afloat under the ridiculous pressure of international bailout terms. Germany (as part of the EU and in conjunction with the ECB) utterly refuses to allow Greece any form of
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Current events in the Philippines have brought to the fore once again the spread of extremism and radicalism from its heartland, and further destabilized the already shaky foundation of a complex and dangerous environment. The city of Marawi has for the past week effectively been a warzone, as the Philippine army battles Islamist militants in
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Regardless of whether one believes President Trump gained power via Russian ‘collusion’ or somehow managed to influence the British public’s decision to vote for Brexit, etc, one thing is absolutely certain in today’s post-truth world. While the cracks of disunity emerge between the so-called allied countries to reveal the true playing field in the world
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The Chinese president Xe Jinping has said recently that he is willing to help mend ties with South Korea, which have become more than a little strained since the deployment of the US missile-defence system there. But this ‘tension’ should be seen as nothing more than a public distraction or a magician’s ‘sleight of hand’.
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Hackers either working for the Vietnamese government or on their behalf have broken into the computers of multinationals operating in the country as part of an increasingly sophisticated cyber espionage campaign, according to a security company called FireEye. Cyber-criminals are frequently reported in the news for their attempts to gain access to valuable data to
Since the formal break up of the USSR at the end of 1991, the majority of the former Soviet bloc countries would certainly appear to offer great, albeit still risky, investment opportunities in one form or another to the wealthy speculative investor. That view is perhaps easy to understand given the geopolitical position Russia finds
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The sheer scale of the cyber-attack that took place on Friday the 12th, which affected 150 countries, is unprecedented. Companies are still working to ensure their protection from the ransomware. The ransomware utilised over the weekend is called WannaCry, which is designed to spread quickly from a single machine across an entire network, allowing for
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New infection of machines by this variant of WannaCry has been halted after the discovery of a kill switch. All Windows Operating Systems still receiving security patches (Vista, 7, 8.1, 10, Server 2008, Server R2, Server 2012, Server 2012 R2, Server 2016) are STILL VULNERABLE unless you have applied Microsoft security hotfix MS17-010 released April
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Governments have a lot to answer for regardless whether they support ‘left’ or ‘right’ policies, and history is replete with examples of how often we are told that their new ‘plan’ will benefit us all only to end up causing far more trouble than the existing plan would have done had it been left in
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