China’s southern province of Guangdong and the tropical island province of Hainan are working to restore power and communications after severe damage caused by Super Typhoon Yagi. Electricity and water supplies have been “basically restored” in Zhanjiang, the southernmost city in Guangdong, the city’s official outlet Zhanjiang Daily reported on Monday. But electricity has not … Read more
Common challenges The collaboration is just one strand in a growing transatlantic network of center-left think tanks and political operatives shaping policy and political messaging in Washington and London. Common challenges on both sides of the Atlantic include immigration, housing and pressure from the left on issues such as the Gaza crisis. Matthew McGregor, the … Read more
ICEYE is a small company — founded in 2014 and with only about $100 million in revenue last year, but it owns a network of more than 30 small surveillance satellites — each weighing less than 100 kilograms. Rafał Modrzewski, the CEO of ICEYE, said that an example of what not to do was the … Read more
Under the bloc’s regulatory structure, European commissioners, who are nominated by national leaders, have a say in how rules are implemented, but typically do not meddle in how officials enforce the law. Last year, just as Europe’s social media rules came into force, Breton also urged enforcers to focus on potential harm at both X … Read more
Eau de Paris’ data showed that high levels of E. coli bacteria were detected in the river at least once during every day of the first week of the Olympics, between July 26 and Sunday, with two exceptions: July 30 and July 31, the day of the men’s and women’s triathlon. On the day of … Read more
It’s extremely rare for Telegram to “nuke” a whole channel, said Squirrell, who previously worked as a senior adviser on counter-terrorism to the British government. However, the platform has acted upon notices from the security services or counter-terrorism police before. An example of this was Europol’s “day of action” against ISIS-linked accounts in 2019, where … Read more
The Turkish communications watchdog BTK said it blocked access to the online platform Instagram on Friday in a short statement posted on its website. The authority didn’t provide specific reasons for its decision dated today but it came after the Turkish presidency’s communications director Fahrettin Altun on Wednesday called out the Meta-owned social media for … Read more
The former chief of Greece’s intelligence service told judges the agency didn’t use illegal phone malware between 2019 and 2022 to spy on targets, Reuters reported, citing court documents. The surveillance scandal broke in August 2022 when it was revealed that the government had wiretapped the phone of opposition Socialist Pasok leader Nikos Androulakis. Investigative … Read more
In the first few days of the new government, public affairs agency Shearwater Global announced they’d hired former Labour Home Secretary Charles Clarke. Ex-Labour MP Holly Lynch was snapped up by Arden Strategies, the agency run by former Scottish Labour Leader Jim Murphy. Swathes of former political advisers and party comms staff have also found … Read more
Neither the Azerbaijani nor Belarusian governments responded to requests for comment. “With friends like these“ Artillery and drones were used extensively in combat between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces in recent years. This included during a 2020 war between the two sides over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, which lies inside Azerbaijan’s internationally recognized borders but … Read more
