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DOHA , Qatar (Reuters) – Qatar has launched an investigation into a cyberattack against its official state news agency, an official said on Thursday, after the news agency was hacked. The website of the news agency was hacked early Wednesday morning by hackers who posted a false statement attributed to the country’s Emir, Sheikh Tamin bin Hamad Al-Thani, which seriously deviates from Qatar’s foreign policy. In addition, the Twitter account of the head of the […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (Reuters) – Armed police will patrol trains across Britain for the first time, British Transport Police said on Thursday (May 25). It comes after the threat level was raised to critical following a suicide bombing in Manchester this week. British Transport Police Chief Constable Paul Crowther said in a statement that the move was not due to any specific intelligence related to trains but was part of the national plan to deal […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – The heads of United States intelligence agencies offered a pessimistic assessment Thursday of the security situation in Afghanistan, where the US government is planning to send more troops to combat resurgent Islamic extremists. “The political and security situation in Afghanistan will also almost certainly deteriorate through 2018, even with a modest increase in the military assistance by the US and its partners,” Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said at […]
(Eagle News) — The police has not monitored any “specific imminent threat” to the Association of Southeast Asian (ASEAN) Summit happening in Manila, according to Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Ronald dela Rosa. In a press briefing, Dela Rosa said that they have done all the security preparations needed to make sure that the ASEAN Summit and the related meetings will be safe and secure. “Lahat na ginawa namin. Kung meron pa ring magyayari, […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella said that the statement made by President Rodrigo Duterte about arming civilians to go after the Abu Sayyaf Group should not be taken literally. Abella said the the statement was a “dramatization” to emphasize the need to increase security measures in Bohol. He said it should not be taken as a policy statement. “In a sense it was a dramatization of making sure that security is raised up in […]
by Paul Handley WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump’s chief strategist, has lost his seat on the powerful National Security Council in a high-level White House shakeup. Trump’s elevation of Bannon to a permanent spot on the NSC had been widely criticized as injecting politics into White House deliberations on sensitive defense, foreign policy and intelligence matters. The move revealed Wednesday was seen as a setback for Bannon, the controversial former […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed a new Presidential Security Group commander. Duterte appointed Col. Louie Dagoy, his senior military adviser, to the post. The PSG is tasked with providing the President, and his immediate family with security.
by Hui Min NEO Agence France Presse BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — Germany’s interior minister on Tuesday outlined plans for a security services overhaul, seeking greater federal powers on domestic intelligence and quicker expulsions of illegal migrants following the Berlin truck attack. Thomas de Maiziere also wants federal police to be given wider oversight across the country’s 16 states, and for a new national crisis management centre to be set up. “We don’t have federal jurisdiction […]
UNITED NATION, United States (AFP) — The UN Security Council will vote on Thursday on an Egyptian-drafted resolution demanding that Israel immediately halt its settlement activities in the Palestinian territories and east Jerusalem. A similar resolution was vetoed by the United States in 2011, and it remained uncertain if the measure would be adopted this time. Egypt circulated the draft late Wednesday and a vote was scheduled for 3 pm (2000 GMT) on Thursday. The […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Security has been beefed up at holiday markets throughout France following the carnage in Berlin on Monday, French Interior Minister Bruno Le Roux said. “Security at holiday markets was immediately reinforced” after a lorry ploughed into a Berlin holiday market killing at least nine people, he said. The scenes in Berlin were reminiscent of an attack in the French Riviera city of Nice in July in which Tunisian extremist Mohamed Lahouaiej […]
by Jocelyne ZABLIT LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Authorities ratcheted up security on the Los Angeles metro following a tip from overseas about an impending bomb attack Tuesday against a station in the sprawling rail network. The threat was relayed by an anonymous man who called a public safety line run by an unidentified foreign government, which then passed on the information to a Federal Bureau of Investigation terrorism task force, said Deirdre Fike, […]
