WhatsApp to go ahead with ‘full feature’ money transfer service in India WhatsApp will launch a “full feature” inter-bank money transfer service in India, its biggest market, after a test involving a million users, National Payments Corp of India said. Friday’s statement marks the de facto official launch of WhatsApp’s […]
Facebook faces big challenge to prevent future U.S. election meddling The Russian influence operation designed to tamper with the 2016 U.S. presidential election used a combination of old-school espionage tactics and 21st-century technologies that will not be easy to stop, even now that the methods have been exposed, experts said. […]
Exclusive: Haiti president says many aid organizations hid misconduct Haiti’s president said on Friday that sexual misconduct by staff of British charity Oxfam was only the tip of an “iceberg” and called for investigations into Doctors Without Borders and other aid organizations which came to the country after its 2010 […]
Brazil army ordered to take over security in violent Rio de Janeiro Brazil’s federal government on Friday ordered the army to take over command of police forces in Rio de Janeiro state in a bid to curb violence driven by drug gangs, who have “virtually taken over” Rio’s metropolitan area […]
Australia’s PM meets deputy to fix sex-scandal split Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has held crisis talks with his deputy Barnaby Joyce to heal a dangerous rift that is threatening the ruling coalition’s one-seat majority. A source with knowledge of the talks told Reuters that the pair met for an hour […]
‘Sinister and systematic attack’ by Russians prompts U.S. Congress calls for action U.S. Republicans and Democrats both called for concerted action to combat foreign interference in U.S. elections after Special Counsel Robert Mueller announced indictments of Russians for meddling in the 2016 U.S. campaign on Friday. “These Russians engaged in […]
Turkish army hit village in Syria’s Afrin with suspected gas: Kurdish YPG, Observatory Syrian Kurdish forces and a monitoring group said the Turkish military carried out a suspected gas attack that wounded six people in Syria’s Afrin region on Friday. There was no immediate comment from the Turkish military, which […]
China’s Hui Muslims fearful Chinese New Year education ban a sign of curbs to come For some in China’s ethnic Hui Muslim minority here, a recent ban on young people engaging in religious education in mosques is an unwelcome interference in how they lead their lives. Their big fear is […]
‘New Yorker’ says handwritten note by former Playmate details affair with Trump A former Playmate, who says she has been emboldened by the #MeToo movement and declining health, has confirmed to The New Yorker that she authored an eight-page, hand-written document about her alleged affair with Donald Trump that the […]
Why active shooter drills didn’t help in the Florida high school shooting Run, hide, fight. Shelter in place. If you see something, say something. We would love to believe that the horror of a school shooting could be kept at bay by a simple mantra, but as the massacre of […]
