02-05-2024 MELBOURNE: Australian airline Qantas says it is investigating a privacy breach on its app that left customers with access to others’ personal details. Some users reported seeing several boarding passes and flight details belonging to strangers, including their names and frequent flyer information. Qantas said it fixed the problem …
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02-05-2024 NEW YORK: Police officers in riot gear arrested dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators at Columbia University in Manhattan on Tuesday night and cleared a building that protesters had seized about 20 hours earlier. Columbia said it had called the police to campus for the second time in less than two …
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02-05-2024 LONDON/ DUBAI: “Tens of millions” of people are using technical workarounds to secretly access WhatsApp in countries where it is banned, the messaging platform’s boss has said. “You’d be surprised how many people have figured it out,” Will Cathcart told media. Like many Western apps, WhatsApp is banned in …
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02-05-2024 NEW YOYK: In October 2016, lawyer Keith Davidson was promised “the easiest deal” he had ever done in his life. On Tuesday, he found himself on the stand in the first criminal trial of a former US president, reading aloud profanity-ridden text messages that led to that deal. Prosecutors …
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02-05-2024 BOGOTA: Colombia’s military has lost millions of bullets, thousands of grenades and several missiles, the nation’s president has said. Gustavo Petro said the missing items had come to light during recent inspections of military bases. He blamed the disappearances on internal corruption, saying military personnel sold weapons to arms …
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01-05-2024 NEW YORK: The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial fined the former US president $9,000 for contempt of court and said he would consider jailing him if he continued to violate a gag order. In a written order, Justice Juan Merchan said the fine may not be …
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01-05-2024 COLUMBIA: Four law enforcement officers were fatally shot and four others were wounded while serving a warrant in Charlotte, North Carolina, officials say. At least one alleged attacker was found dead in the front yard of a barricaded home after a standoff that lasted three hours, police said. Authorities …
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01-05-2024 WASHINGTON/ JERUSALEM: The US state department has found five units of the Israeli military responsible for gross violations of human rights in individual incidents, but says they will continue to receive US military backing. All the incidents involved took place outside of Gaza before the current war. Israel took …
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01-05-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Thousands of videos allegedly showing an Indian MP sexually abusing women have circulated in the southern state of Karnataka, sparking outrage. Police are investigating allegations against Prajwal Revanna who is accused of assaulting several women. Revanna has not commented but an official from …
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01-05-2024 BAMAKO: A senior Islamic State group commander wanted in connection with the deaths of US forces in Niger was killed in an operation by Malian state forces, the country’s army said. Abu Huzeifa, known by the alias Higgo, was a commander in the group known as the Islamic State …
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