US President Donald Trump said Wednesday he was launching a major new campaign to target Iran’s economy, threatening “tremendous” punishment on any country that helps or does business with the Islamic republic. The intensified economic pressure campaign comes as the war nears its sixth month with no immediate diplomatic or military off-ramp in sight. Trump is also facing renewed…
A helicopter crash in Kenya’s northern Samburu county has left no survivors — with several tourists reportedly on board when it nosedived. The crash happened at Lolokwe Mountain at around 9.13am local time on Wednesday. The Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) said the helicopter was heading from the Loisaba wildlife reserve to the Ewaso Nyiro river that flows through…
The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted 17 Iranians for coordinating an alleged massive cyber theft, infiltrating 144 U.S. universities, 178 foreign universities, 42 U.S. companies, 11 foreign companies, five government agencies, and two non-governmental organisations. The DoJ said the suspects face a 14-count charge for carrying out a cyber theft campaign between 2013 and December 2017. Federal prosecutors…
Pakistan authorities said Monday they detained 258 foreigners, including 40 Chinese nationals, following a raid on an alleged “scam call centre” in the capital Islamabad. “They were running a scam call centre in Gulberg Green, a housing society on the outskirts of Islamabad,” an official from the Federal Investigation Agency, a Pakistani intelligence service, told AFP. “They came to…
Six hundred drones targeted the Moscow region in a sustained overnight assault that wounded three people, the Russian capital’s mayor said on Sunday, as Ukraine steps up long-range attacks into Russian territory. Ukraine has been carrying out strikes deep inside Russia in recent weeks, with drone barrages targeting military, industrial and more recently e-commerce warehouses far from the front…
At least 47 people were killed, while hundreds fled their homes for safety as a deadly magnitude 7.7 earthquake hit the coast of the Indonesian island of Flores in the early hours of Saturday. According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), the earthquake struck at about 6:00 a.m. local time, about 68 kilometres (42 miles) northwest of Ende in…
