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Yemeni forces kill 21 protesters at sit-in demonstration
SANAA – Forces loyal to Yemen’s embattled president killed 21 protesters as they crushed a sit-in demonstration in Taez, an organiser said on Monday, as suspected Al-Qaeda gunmen killed six soldiers in the south. Security service agents backed by army and Republican Guards stormed the protest against President Ali Abdullah…
Lockheed says it fended off ‘tenacious’ cyber attack
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Lockheed Martin Corp., the U.S. government’s top information technology provider, said on Saturday it had thwarted “a significant and tenacious attack” on its information systems network a week ago but was still working to restore employee access. No customer, program or employee personal data was compromised thanks…
US secretly helped France develop nuclear weapons, documents reveal
WASHINGTON — The United States secretly helped France develop advanced nuclear weapons in the 1970s as part of a bid by the Nixon administration to sow divisions in Europe, declassified US documents showed. Henry Kissinger, the senior aide to President Richard Nixon and apostle of realpolitik, is quoted as saying…
More than 1,700 Taliban fighters join Afghan reintegration program
WASHINGTON — More than 1,700 former Taliban combatants have turned in their weapons to join a reintegration program started by the Afghan government nearly a year ago, the NATO general in charge of the program said Thursday. “So far we’ve got about 1,740 former fighters who have formally joined the…
Homeland Security warns shoe bombs still a threat
LAS VEGAS — Shoe bombs remain a threat for US aviation, said Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who said passengers will have to continue to remove their shoes at airport screenings. Napolitano drew applause at a conference of travel and tourism industry leaders with her remarks that the department has…
Security flaw causes Sony’s PlayStation Network to stumble amid re-launch
Following one of the most costly and wide-reaching thefts of data in history, Sony’s re-launch of the popular PlayStation Network (PSN) stalled yesterday when their password-reset system was revealed to have a fatal flaw that allowed hackers to steal user accounts. The hack worked by gaming the unique string of…
Scientists doubt veracity of TSA body scanner safety tests
The Transportation Security Administration says its full-body X-ray scanners are safe and that radiation from a scan is equivalent to what’s received in about two minutes of flying. The company that makes them says it’s safer than eating a banana. But some scientists with expertise in imaging and cancer say…
Syrian protesters killed at Lebanon border crossing
DAMASCUS — The deadly unrest in Syria spilled over into Lebanon where a woman was killed at a border crossing as protests against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime entered a third month on Sunday. Gunfire from Syria raked a crowd at Al-Boqayah crossing near the town of Wadi Khaled, killing the…
Obama admin. claims right to censor ‘unclassified’ materials
In the case of former National Security Agency (NSA) executive Thomas A. Drake — indicted last April and accused of funneling documents to an unnamed reporter at an unnamed newspaper, for stories that have not been identified — the president’s lawyers have made a unique and potentially unprecedented claim. With…
Iran tells EU next nuclear talks must be “just”
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran’s top nuclear negotiator replied on Tuesday to a letter from the EU foreign policy chief on a resumption of talks over Tehran’s atomic program, saying they must be held without pressure, state television said. The United States and allies suspect Iran is trying to develop atom bombs under the…
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