
Fears grow on digital surveillance: US survey
Washington (AFP) Nov 15, 2019 - Americans are increasingly fearful of monitoring of their online and offline activities, both by governments and private companies, a survey showed Friday.
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Washington (AFP) Nov 15, 2019 - Americans are increasingly fearful of monitoring of their online and offline activities, both by governments and private companies, a survey showed Friday.
Nov 15, 2019

Tokyo (AFP) Nov 15, 2019 - A Japanese man detained by Beijing reportedly on allegations of spying has been released and returned to the country, government officials in Tokyo said on Friday.
Nov 15, 2019

Baghdad (AFP) Nov 15, 2019 - Iraq will never be the same following the weeks of demonstrations sweeping its capital and south, its top Shiite cleric said Friday, giving a major boost to anti-government protests with his most emphatic endorsement to date.
Nov 15, 2019

Washington (UPI) Nov 15, 2019 - Raytheon has received a Navy contract to upgrade or replace national item identification numbered parts within two major subsystems of the Aegis Weapon System.
Nov 15, 2019

London, UK (SPX) Nov 15, 2019 - North Korea withdrew from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in 2003. It subsequently developed nuclear weapons, with five underground nuclear tests culminating in a suspected th
Nov 15, 2019

Seoul (AFP) Nov 15, 2019 - US allies South Korea and Japan should settle their differences to maintain a military intelligence sharing pact, Washington's Defense Secretary Mark Esper urged Friday, calling on Seoul to reverse its decision to end it.
Nov 15, 2019

Beijing (AFP) Nov 14, 2019 - China on Thursday said eliminating tariffs was a condition for reaching a trade agreement with the United States, a demand US President Donald Trump said earlier this month that he had rejected.
Nov 14, 2019

Baghdad (AFP) Nov 14, 2019 - Four protesters were killed by tear gas canisters in Baghdad on Thursday as security forces tried to snuff out the largest grassroots movement to sweep Iraq in years.
Nov 14, 2019

Seoul (AFP) Nov 14, 2019 - US military exercises with South Korea could be scaled back to aid diplomacy with the nuclear-armed North, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said, as Pyongyang warned it was running out of patience.
Nov 14, 2019

Washington (AFP) Nov 14, 2019 - The United States said Thursday it was irresponsible for Western nations to ask Iraq to prosecute foreign jihadists, in a veiled criticism of France's refusal to repatriate Islamic State members.
Nov 14, 2019

Kiev (AFP) Nov 14, 2019 - Ukrainian lawmakers on Thursday approved an increase in defence spending that will mark a new record, as President Volodymr Zelensky vows to end the country's long conflict with Russian-backed separatists.
Nov 14, 2019

Hong Kong (AFP) Nov 14, 2019 - With wooden catapults to launch petrol bombs and bows and arrows pilfered from sports departments, Hong Kong's democracy protesters are combining new tactics with medieval tech as they battle police.
Nov 14, 2019

Beijing (AFP) Nov 14, 2019 - China's economy showed further signs of strain on Thursday with data showing a sharp slowdown in consumer spending and factory production, while investment growth hit a record low as the trade war with the US takes its toll.
Nov 14, 2019

Gaza City, Palestinian Territories (AFP) Nov 14, 2019 - The death toll from Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip rose to 32 in three days after Palestinian officials said on Thursday six members of the same family had been killed.
Nov 14, 2019

Washington (UPI) Nov 14, 2019 - The European Union this week announced it has adopted 13 new projects under its defense-cooperation scheme, bringing the total number of collaborative projects under the Permanent Structured Cooperation on Defense and Security, or PESCO, to 47.
Nov 14, 2019

Ankara (AFP) Nov 14, 2019 - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan insisted Ankara would not give up the Russian S-400 missile defence system to purchase the equivalent US Patriot missiles in comments published Thursday.
Nov 14, 2019