The FBI’s method for breaking into a locked iPhone 5c is unlikely to stay secret for long, according to senior Apple Inc engineers and outside experts. Once it is exposed, Apple should be able to plug the encryption hole, comforting iPhone users worried that losing physical possession of their devices[…]
Students who survived the massacre at Garissa University in Kenya last year are still struggling to cope with the trauma of losing their friends who were shot and killed by the al-Shabab fighters. A year ago, attackers from the Somali armed group stormed the Garissa University College campus in the[…]
At least 30 soldiers have been killed in fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces along the frontlines of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, officials of both the countries said. Both sides blamed the other for the fighting that began overnight. Azerbaijan said on Saturday that Armenian forces killed 12 of its[…]
Iraqi-born British architect Zaha Hadid, the first female winner of the top Pritzker Architecture Prize, has died at the age of 65. Hadid died after suffering a heart attack at a Miami hospital, where she was receiving treatment for bronchitis, her design firm said in a statement on Thursday. “Zaha[…]
An academic who became pregnant with her second child, aged 44, has shown that abnormal cells in the early embryo are not necessarily a sign that a baby will be born with a birth defect such as Down’s syndrome. Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, who describes herself as one of the growing[…]
Two former senior Rwandan military officers have been sentenced to up to 21 years in jail on charges of inciting the public to cause an insurrection and links with exiled critics of President Paul Kagame. The two were arrested in 2014 and charged with what the prosecutor said was links[…]
China has warned the US that it will protect its sovereignty in the disputed waters of the South China Sea and rejects attempts to use international laws and freedom of navigation as a pretext to undermine its national security interests. In a meeting with US President Barack Obama at the[…]
An Israeli military tribunal has softened charges against IDF soldier accused of killing an already wounded Palestinian attacker from murder to manslaughter. The UN meanwhile called the deadly shooting a “a clear case of an extrajudicial execution.” The shooting of the young Palestinian, 21-year-old Abed al-Fatah al-Sharif, accused of stabbing[…]
Emergency workers in Kolkata continued to search for survivors underneath a collapsed overpass in a congested area of the eastern city, as the construction firm building the flyover was being investigated. At least 23 people were killed and over a dozens were still trapped under the rubble of the under-construction[…]
Lebanon’s armed forces acquired three U.S. helicopters worth $26 million on Thursday to help in efforts to stop Syria’s civil war spilling over its border, along with almost $29 million of British aid as EU countries also step up their support. The Lebanese armed forces have now received a total[…]
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