DUBAI: United Arab Emirates – Iran‘s hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi has long been seen as a protege to Iran’s supreme leader and a potential successor for his position within the country’s Shiite theocracy. News of his helicopter making what state media described as a “hard landing” on Sunday immediately brought new attention to the leader, … Read more
Representational image only. The Pegasus spyware, which the Union government has not categorically denied buying or using, allows attackers to extract all the contents of smartphones by leveraging software weaknesses that are known to a select few hackers, and sold for millions of dollars. The Wire news website’s editor Siddharth Varadarajan and another journalist in … Read more
CNN — Up to 10 people, including children, are feared to have been killed Friday in a crackdown on protests by Iranian security forces in the southeast of the country, human rights watchdog Amnesty International said. In several Twitter posts Friday, Amnesty said security forces had fired live ammunition at “peaceful protesters from the rooftops … Read more
Following controversy over snooping of phones of politicians, judges and journalists, Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said Amnesty International must be banned in India. Amnesty International has forensically investigated phones. Sarma said, “Amnesty International is infamous for its long history of hatching conspiracies against India’s democratic fabric & its leadership. I strongly condemn this … Read more
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was a potential target of the Israeli-made Pegasus spyware programme by clients of the NSO Group cyberespionage firm, media reports claimed on Monday. The collaborative efforts by an international media consortium on an investigation into a data leak showed that at least one number once used by Prime Minister Khan … Read more
Southeast Asian leaders demanded an immediate end to killings and the release of political detainees in Myanmar in an emergency summit with its top general and coup leader Saturday in the Indonesian capital, Indonesian President Joko Widodo said. The leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations also told Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing during … Read more
Lima: The head of Peru’s Congress has called for the “immediate resignation” of interim president Manuel Merino after a violent crackdown on protests against his new government left at least three dead and more than 60 injured. Thousands have taken to the streets in days of protests against Merino following the ouster of his popular … Read more