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Halt extradition of Huawei exec says former Canada Supreme Court Justice
Jun 24, 2020 (AFP)
Former diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor were detained by Beijing in December 2018, days after Canada's arrest of Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver...
US ex-marine will not appeal Russian espionage verdict
Jun 23, 2020 (AFP)
"(Paul) Whelan will not appeal. He does not believe in Russian justice," his lawyer Vladimir Zherebenkov told news agency Interfax. "He hopes that in the near f...
China threatens 'appropriate response' to US over media curbs
Jun 23, 2020 (AFP)
Beijing decried Monday's move by the US State Department as "bare-faced political suppression of Chinese media" which "further exposes the hypocrisy of the so-c...
Twitter hides 'abusive' Trump tweet targeting protestors
Jun 23, 2020 (AFP)
The move appeared to be the first by Twitter against the president for an "abusive" tweet. In a growing dispute, the platform has recently labeled other Trump t...
US tightens rules on four more Chinese state 'propaganda' outlets
Jun 22, 2020 (AFP)
The State Department said it was reclassifying four outlets -- China Central Television, the China News Service, the People's Daily and the Global Times -- as f...
China charges Canadians with spying, Ottawa 'disappointed'
Jun 20, 2020 (AFP)
Former diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor were detained in December 2018, nine days after Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Cana...
Australia under cyberattacks from state actor
Jun 19, 2020 (AFP)
Warning Australians of "specific risks" and an increased tempo of attacks, Scott Morrison told a press conference that a range of sensitive institutions had bee...
Australia under 'malicious' cyberattack from state actor
Jun 19, 2020 (AFP)
Warning Australians of "specific risks" and an increased frequency of attacks, Scott Morrison told a hastily organized press conference that a range of sensitiv...
US wants undersea data cable to skip Hong Kong
Jun 17, 2020 (AFP)
The Pacific Light Cable Network pending approval by the Federal Communications Commission should connect the US, Taiwan and the Philippines but not go through H...
Amnesty sounds alarm over Gulf, Norway virus apps
Jun 16, 2020 (AFP)
Many countries have turned to smartphones to trace people's movements and track their contacts, allowing officials to monitor coronavirus infections and spot ne...
Russia sentences US ex-marine to 16 years in spy trial
Jun 15, 2020 (AFP)
A Moscow court found Whelan guilty of receiving classified information as he stood in the dock with a sign that read "Sham trial!" and pleaded for US President ...
Russian scientist accused of spying for China: lawyer
Jun 15, 2020 (AFP)
Valery Mitko, the 78-year-old president of the Saint Petersburg-based Arctic Academy of Sciences, has been under house arrest since his indictment in February, ...
Defense alleges abuse of process in Canada arrest of Huawei exec
Jun 15, 2020 (AFP)
At a British Columbia Supreme Court hearing to set the timetable for extradition hearings, defense lawyer David Martin argued that Canadian officials purposely ...
Twitter deletes Chinese 'state-linked' disinformation network
Jun 12, 2020 (AFP)
The revelation came as fellow American tech company, video messaging app Zoom, said it acceded to Beijing's demands that it close accounts of US and Hong Kong a...
Alleged Chinese spy arrested at LA airport for visa fraud
Jun 12, 2020 (AFP)
Xin Wang was taken into custody on June 7 as he prepared to board a flight to Tianjin, China, the US Attorney's Office in San Francisco and the local FBI office...
Zoom accedes to Chinese demands to shutter online activist meetings
Jun 12, 2020 (AFP)
The admission came as the American video app, which has soared in popularity during the coronavirus pandemic, said it would build software to stop takedown dema...
Shuttered Zoom accounts raise China free speech fears
Jun 11, 2020 (AFP)
The disclosure has sparked concerns that the American app, which has soared in popularity during the coronavirus pandemic, is bowing to the demands of authorita...
Microsoft joins rivals, bars police use of face recognition tech
Jun 11, 2020 (AFP)
Microsoft president Brad Smith told a Washington Post event that the company has not sold its technology to police in the United States, and would maintain that...
Twitter removes China, Russia and Turkey 'state-linked' accounts
Jun 11, 2020 (AFP)
By far the biggest network uncovered was linked to China, the US social media giant said, comprised of a "highly engaged core" of 23,750 accounts that was boost...
Raising speech fears, Zoom briefly shuts account over Tiananmen
Jun 10, 2020 (AFP)
US-based rights campaigners turned to Zoom, which has become a way of life for many people during the coronavirus lockdown, to connect more than 250 people to r...
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