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Cyber Security - Analyses & Assessments - Nov 30, 2018
Dell hit with cyber attack
Dell Inc said that it reset passwords for all accounts on its Dell.com online electronics store on Nov. 14, five days after it discovered and stopped hackers who were attempting to steal customer…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Nov 30, 2018
Kartarpur Corridor: Pathway to Reconciliation
India & Pakistan will build the Kartarpur corridor for Sikh Pilgrims to visit Holy Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara where the founder of Sikhism, spent his last few years. It is seen as symbol of peace…
World - Analyses & Assessments - Nov 30, 2018
Billion-dollar bank error
A Russian state bank appeared to give a $12bn loan to one of Africa’s poorest countries — then claimed the stated payment to the Central African Republic was an accounting error. VTB Bank is one of…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Nov 30, 2018
Israel-Chad Rapprochement Amidst Opposition
Following Chad President Idriss Deby’s historic visit to Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to visit Chad to formally reestablish diplomatic ties between the two nations. Many in…
Technology - Analyses & Assessments - Nov 29, 2018
Australia’s new Media giant
One of Australia’s oldest newspaper owners, Fairfax Media ltd., was taken over by Nine Entertainment Co., forming the country’s largest media conglomerate. Nine Entertainment Co. must now compete…
World - Analyses & Assessments - Nov 29, 2018
France’s Fiery Fuel Tax Protests
The “Yellow Vest” protests in France have seen thousands take to the streets across the country over rising fuel prices. Embattled French President Emmanuel Macron has said he will not abandon the…
Business - Analyses & Assessments - Nov 29, 2018
Microsoft, the most valuable company
Microsoft briefly reclaimed its title as the world’s most valuable company from its longstanding rival Apple, almost two decades after it sat atop the stock market rankings. Microsoft Corporation is…
World - Analyses & Assessments - Nov 29, 2018
Papua New Guinea’s TB Crisis
Papua New Guinea has launched systematic screening for tuberculosis fight a TB epidemic. The government has been criticised for failing to prioritise public healthcare. Papua New Guinea occupies the…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Nov 29, 2018
Yongbyon open to inspections
Kim Jong Un is willing to let international inspectors visit the Yongbyon nuclear site, North Korea’s main nuclear facility. Pyongyang had previously allowed entry to the Nyongbyon site back in 2009…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Nov 28, 2018
Growing Worries of Israeli Annexation
According to a UN envoy, Israel’s new settlement in Hebron has been seen as a reaffirmation of Israel's intent to remain permanently in occupied West Bank. Hebron, located in the occupied West Bank,…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Nov 28, 2018
Trump threatens to hike Chinese tariff
Ahead of the G20 summit in Argentina, Donald Trump has indicated that he would also slap a tariff on all remaining Chinese imports if negotiations with Xi Jinping fail to produce a US-China trade…
Environment - Analyses & Assessments - Nov 28, 2018
Climate change comes at a cost
A federal government report has warned that Climate change could cost the US hundreds of billions of dollars and result in the deaths every year by the end of the century unless there is a shift to…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Nov 28, 2018
British parliament seizes Facebook documents
The British parliament has reportedly seized documents that are alleged to contain important information about Facebook decisions on data and privacy controls that led to the Cambridge Analytica…
World - Analyses & Assessments - Nov 28, 2018
Japan's LDP wants Aircraft Carrier ‘mother ship’
Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has set a proposal to introduce a multipurpose “mother ship” enabling take-offs and landings by fighter jets in its new basic defence program, which is…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Nov 28, 2018
Ground-breaking Cancer Drug Gets FDA Approval
The US Food and Drug Administration approved Vitrakvi, an advanced cancer treatment drug shown to significantly reduce tumours in 81 per cent of patients with 24 different types of cancers while…
Environment - Analyses & Assessments - Nov 28, 2018
Africa hosting Sustainable Blue Economy conference
Africa is hosting a historic conference that has to do with environmental protection. The first ever Sustainable Blue Conference is being held Kenyan capital, Nairobi. According to the World Bank,…
Cyber Security - Analyses & Assessments - Nov 27, 2018
Saudi Arabi’s Israeli Hacking Tools
The Israeli company NSO Group Technologies offered Saudi Arabia a surveillance system a few months before Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman began his purge of regime opponents, and was allegedly used…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Nov 27, 2018
NASA lands robotic probe on Mars
The US-made spacecraft has survived what NASA called “seven minutes of terror” and landed safely on a flat Martian desert, to begin the first scientific investigation of the planet’s interior.…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Nov 27, 2018
E.U. leaders approve Brexit plan
The agreement — “historic,” according to German Chancellor Angela Merkel — will cut Britain out of the European Union, marking the first time a nation has ever sought to depart the bloc. On June 23rd…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Nov 27, 2018
Russia may start trade talks with Seoul
Negotiations on the implementation of a free trade zone agreement between Moscow and Seoul may start in 2019, according to South Korea’s ambassador in Moscow, Woo Yoon Keun. Modern relations between…