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Telephone numbers linked to least 14 heads of states and governments, including French President Emmanuel Macron, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa are among the 50,000 numbers on a leaked database that includes some people whose phones were targeted for hacking by Pegasus spyware. NSO Group, which counts some 36 […]
Flemings, a contact-tracking system by NSO, the same Israeli firm that developed Pegasus, is a contact-tracking system developed earlier this year aimed at helping the Governments track the spread of Covid-19. The system allowed governments to feed real location data of people to visualize and track the spread of the virus. The firm claimed that […]
“Journalists and human rights defenders play an indispensable role in our societies, and when they are silenced, we all suffer.”, The UN human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet issued a statement after the revelations were brought forth by the Pegasus Project. Bachelet further stated “These reports also confirm the urgent need to better regulate the sale, […]
A leaked database and analysis of infected phones show that the months before Saudi dissident and journalist Jamal Khashoggi and even at least a year after his gruesome murder, people associated with him including two women closest to him, were selected for potential surveillance by clients of the Israeli company NSO Group. The Pegasus Project, a […]
On the 8th of July 2021, the Japanese government under Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga decided to impose a state of emergency in Tokyo, considering the recently increasing number of COVID-19 cases. This decision is speculated to have been taken in order to host the 2021 Olympic Games without causing a COVID crisis in Tokyo and […]
Physical willpower is important but it’s the mind that matters. Bhavina and Sonal Patel have just proven that. Not related, though they share the same last name, Bhavina, 34, and Sonal, 33, are now all set to participate in Tokyo Olympics. Bhavina and Sonal both have polio and are disabled from their waist down. They […]
In recent years, Siberia has undergone some record-breaking temperature readings making it hotter than usual. It is undergoing a persistent heatwave which is also affecting the Arctic Circle, one of the coldest regions badly. The land surface temperature of the Arctic Circle reached 48C due to this. Siberia has also been hit by wildfires leading […]
In 1995, women around the world gathered in Beijing, China, for the Fourth World Conference on Women and developed the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. It was adopted unanimously by 189 countries. The Beijing Declaration became the most ambitious global agenda for empowerment of women and girls. Now, 26 years later, tens of thousands […]
Even as the United States sets about pulling its troops out ofAfghanistan in matter of weeks, several towns and districts of the war-ravaged mountain-locked country have slipped into the clutches of theTaliban. Faced with this prospect of the radical Islamist group gainingcontrol, India, which is deeply invested in that country, has feltcompelled to open back […]
