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Top spy freed in US after more than 20 years

09-01-2023 WASHINGTON/ HAVANA: Ana Montes, among the best-known Cold War spies caught by the US has been released from prison after more than 20 years in custody. The 65-year-old spent almost two decades spying for Cuba while employed as an analyst at the Defence Intelligence Agency. After her arrest in …

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China suspends social media accounts of COVID critics

08-01-2023 BEIJING: China has suspended or closed the social media accounts of more than 1,000 critics of the government’s COVID-19 policies, as the country moves to roll back harsh anti-virus restrictions. The popular Sina Weibo social media platform said it had addressed 12,854 violations, including attacks on experts, scholars and …

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Teacher shot by 6-year-old with gun in US classroom

07-01-2023 NORFOLK, VIRGINIA: A six-year-old student shot and wounded a teacher in Virginia during an altercation inside a first-grade classroom, police and school officials in the city of Newport News said. No students were injured in the shooting on Friday at Richneck Elementary School, police said. The teacher, a woman …

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Russian hackers targeted US nuclear scientists

07-01-2023 MOSCOW: A Russian hacking team known as Cold River targeted three nuclear research laboratories in the United States this past summer, according to internet records reviewed by Reuters and five cyber security experts. Between August and September, as President Vladimir Putin indicated Russia would be willing to use nuclear …

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