Next to have their jobs automated: airport-security screeners? Aviation and government authorities are starting to use machines in lieu of people to verify the identities of fliers by scanning their faces, irises or fingerprints. Dozens of airports in Europe, Australia and the U.S. already employ such technology so passengers can pass immigration checks without showing…
Read More(Reuters) – Egyptian security forces have arrested the son of a Muslim Brotherhood leader on charges of inciting violence, the Interior Ministry said, in the latest move in a crackdown against the group now branded a terrorist organization.
Read Moreby Anna Borshchevskaya The twin bombings that shook Russia’s city of Volgograd this weekend and left at least 31 dead, could be but a preview of what is to come in February during the Olympic games in Sochi. After Russian President Vladimir Putin decided to host the Olympic games in Sochi— a town approximately 400…
Read MoreMoscow (CNN) — A massive explosion at a train station in the Russian city of Volgograd killed at least 16 people, including one police officer, the Investigative Committee of Russia said on its website Sunday.
Read MoreLebanese officials say a car bombing in central Beirut has killed former Finance Minister Mohamad Chatah and at least four others.
Read MoreHONOLULU — President Obama signed a sweeping defense policy law here Thursday that cracks down on sexual assault in the military and eases restrictions on transferring detainees from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the custody of foreign countries.
Read Moreby Anna Borshchevskaya The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI)-one of the most trustworthy sources on media translation the Middle East and South Asia—reported on December 26 that Al-Qaeda’s Al-Sahab media arm published an updated version of their propaganda movie La Tukalifu Ila Nafsak (“Commit No One But You”), encouraging individual terror attacks in the…
Read MoreDuring more than 14 hours of interviews, the first he has conducted in person since arriving here in June, Snowden did not part the curtains or step outside. Russia granted him temporary asylum on Aug. 1, but Snowden remains a target of surpassing interest to the intelligence services whose secrets he spilled on an epic…
Read More(Reuters) – The Egyptian government intensified its crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood on Wednesday, formally listing the group as a terrorist organization after accusing it of carrying out a suicide bomb attack on a police station that killed 16 people.
Read MoreThe White House has reportedly withdrawn its initial choice to be the U.S. ambassador to Egypt after objections were raised by representatives of the military regime in Cairo.
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