Revealed: China suspected of spying on Americans via Caribbean phone networks
Security expert claims Chinese surveillance may have affected tens of thousands of Americans
China appears to have used mobile phone networks in the Caribbean to surveil US mobile phone subscribers as part of its espionage campaign against Americans, according to a mobile network security expert who has analysed sensitive signals data.
The findings paint an alarming picture of how China has allegedly exploited decades-old vulnerabilities in the global telecommunications network to route “active” surveillance attacks through telecoms operators.
The alleged attacks appear to be enabling China to target, track, and intercept phone communications of US phone subscribers, according to research and analysis by Gary Miller, a Washington state-based former mobile network security executive.
Nigerian parents urge government to #BringBackOurBoys
Nigeria's defense minister has said the government will do everything it can to free hundreds of schoolboys who have been abducted by gunmen in Katsina. He called for prayers to ensure "there is no collateral damage."
The parents of some of the boys who were abducted by gunmen in Kankara village took to the streets on Monday to call on the government to secure their release. They held placards that read: "We need our children back" and "Government must talk."
'Bad outcome': Australia to use coal strike to challenge China on emissions
By Eryk Bagshaw and Mike Foley
China and Australia's trade dispute over coal threatens to escalate into a wider spat over climate change and net-zero emissions targets.
The Morrison government will use China's indefinite ban on Australian coal to accuse Beijing of skirting its climate change commitments, as it responds to a major trade strike on Australia's second largest export.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Tuesday said that coal imports from other countries "have 50 per cent higher emissions" than Australian coal. "As a result, that would be a bad outcome for the environment," he said.
A Black Student's Mother Complained About 'Fences.' He Was Expelled.
Marie Fazio
When the mother of a Black ninth grader at a private school in Charlotte, North Carolina, learned last month that his English class was going to be studying August Wilson’s “Fences,” an acclaimed play examining racism in 1950s America, she complained to the school.
The drama, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1987 and was adapted into a critically praised film starring Denzel Washington in 2016, is about a Black family and is peppered with racial slurs from the first page.
Covid-19 vaccine rollout was a moment of hope in pandemic's 'darkest days,' expert says. But the dark days aren't yet over
Updated 1127 GMT (1927 HKT) December 15, 2020
For many Americans, Monday felt like a sigh of relief. After 10 nightmarish months, the first Covid-19 vaccinations began, a historic milestone in a brutal battle.
'Twitter killer' sentenced to death for 9 murders
A Japanese court on Tuesday sentenced a man dubbed Japan's "Twitter killer" to death for the 2017 murders of eight women who posted suicidal thoughts on social media, and a brother of one of the victims.
Takahiro Shiraishi, 30, was found guilty in the high-profile case by the Tachikawa branch of the Tokyo District Court of murdering, dismembering and storing the bodies of the nine in his apartment near Tokyo.
Presiding Judge Naokuni Yano ruled that the none of the eight women consented to being killed, and that Shiraishi was mentally fit to be held responsible for the murders.
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