Several alleged leaders of the international hacking organization “Anonymous” are not anonymous anymore. U.S. officials Tuesday announced the arrests of six high-profile hackers, including Hector Xavier Monsegur. Documents filed in a federal court in New York indicate that Monsegur, known…
American poets will read the works of dissident Turkmen poets on September 24 outside the Washington embassies of Turkmenistan, Myanmar, and Yemen to protest the censorship of poetry, RFE/RL’s Turkmen Service reports. The event is part of the Day of Poets, in…
Apple has been silently deleting outgoing mail that contains unacceptable words and phrases. What sorts of words and phrases? Good question! Apple won’t say. It definitely doesn’t like political yammering. Shut up, hippies. One email that has repeatedly triggered a…
AWACS, the acronym for Airborne Warning and Control System planes, was one of the biggest headline stories of 1981. And when Congress finally approved the controversial sale of reconnaissance planes to Saudi Arabia we thought it was in the best…
Source: VOA The Obama administration has condemned shooting by Yemeni security forces against anti-government protesters that left at least 12 dead on Monday. U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner called the violence in the cities of Taiz and…
Source: VOA Popular protests engulfed large swathes of the Arab world after Friday prayers, as anti-government movements appear to gain momentum. Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators turned out across the Arab world after Friday prayers to express anger at their…
Source: VOA Thousands of anti-government protesters streamed into a square in Yemen‘s capital, Sana’a Wednesday despite a deadly clash with government loyalists at the site on Tuesday. Opposition protesters gathered near Sana’a University, where at least one person was killed…
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