(Tech Xplore) Two types of people thrive in the distant hidden recesses of the Dark Web. One type consists of the good guys: whistleblowers, freedom fighters, journalists, the intelligence community, and law-enforcement agencies, all generally waging the good fight against power, greed, and tyranny.
The other type is made up of the bad guys: criminals, drug gangs, extortionists, weapons dealers, terrorists.
The Dark Web is an active mall where criminals offer a laundry list of criminal...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Iran has said it is fully capable of securing regional waters in co-operation with other regional actors after a move by western allies in the strategic Strait of Hormuz that Tehran called “theatrical”.
The comment came on Sunday as Iranian officials held a ceremony near the country’s southern waters to welcome back two Iranian warships after an eight-month trip around the world.
Two days earlier, the Middle East-based navy commanders of France, the...
(University of Michigan) Better understanding the formation of swirling, ring-shaped disturbances — known as vortex rings — could help nuclear fusion researchers compress fuel more efficiently, bringing it closer to becoming a viable energy source.
The model developed by researchers at the University of Michigan could aid in the design of the fuel capsule, minimizing the energy lost while trying to ignite the reaction that makes stars shine. In addition, the model could help other engineers...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Moscow has issued an arrest warrant for the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor who in March prepared a warrant for the arrest of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on war crimes charges, Russian media reported on Friday.
Karim Khan, the prosecutor at the Hague-based war crimes court, was added to the Interior Ministry’s wanted list, Russia’s state-owned TASS news agency reported on Friday, citing the ministry’s database.
A picture of the ICC prosecutor, who...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) After more than a decade of isolation, Bashar al-Assad, the president of war-torn Syria, has been welcomed back into the Arab League.
al-Assad on Friday attended the regional bloc’s 32nd summit in Saudi Arabia’s port city of Jeddah for the first time since his country’s suspension following the eruption of war in Syria in 2011.
During his speech, he said the summit was a “historic opportunity” to address crises across the region...
(BBC News) The U.S. says it will support providing advanced fighter jets including U.S.-made F-16s to Ukraine, and will back training Ukrainian pilots to fly them.
A senior White House official said President Joe Biden had told G7 leaders in Japan of the decision.
Ukraine President Volodomyr Zelensky, who has requested fighter jets for months, said the decision would "greatly enhance our army in the sky."
U.S. approval for the scheme means other nations can export their...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Russia has agreed to extend a deal that has allowed Ukraine to ship grain through the Black Sea to parts of the world struggling with hunger, a boost to global food security after the more-than-year-old war drove up prices.
“I want to give good news,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday in a televised speech. “With the efforts of our country, the support of our Russian friends and the contribution of...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) The United States has sent approximately 2,400 people – including Cubans, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans – back to Mexico since a contentious border policy known as Title 42 expired late last week, a U.S. official has said.
The end of Title 42, which allowed U.S. authorities to rapidly expel people crossing the country’s southern border under the pretext of protecting public health, late on Thursday coincided with a new policy that restricts access to asylum at...
(BBC News) A long-awaited report has strongly criticized the FBI's handling of its investigation into alleged ties between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign.
In a 306-page report, special counsel John Durham said the agency's inquiry had lacked "analytical rigour."
He concluded the FBI had not possessed "actual evidence" of collusion between Donald Trump's campaign and Russia before launching an inquiry.
The FBI said it had addressed the issues highlighted in the report.
In the report, Durham – who...
(University of Colorado at Boulder) A new study led by physicist Sascha Kempf at the University of Colorado Boulder has delivered evidence that Saturn's rings are remarkably young — potentially answering a question that has boggled scientists for well over a century.
The research, published May 12 in the journal Science Advances, pegs the age of Saturn's rings at no more than 400 million years old. That makes the rings much younger than Saturn itself, which...
