Month: October 2022

На Рівненщині збили «ворожу ціль» – ОВА

На Рівненщині українські військові збили «ворожу ціль», повідомив голова ОВА Віталій Коваль. «Друзі, під час крайньої повітряної тривоги на півночі Рівненщини було збито ворожу ціль. Дякую силам ППО і ЗСУ за надійний захист! Перемога – за нам», – написав він у телеграмі.   …

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Turkey Slammed over Proposed Social Media Controls

Turkey’s government recently proposed legislation that would criminalize the spreading of misinformation on social media. The move is drawing national and international criticism. Turkey’s so-called disinformation bill drew condemnation from a European legal watchdog that warned the law would threaten freedom of expression and independent journalism ahead of next year’s elections.   The warning is in a report compiled by the Venice Commission, which advises the Council of Europe. Herdis Kjerulf Throgeirsdottir, vice president of the Venice Commission, says the law would have far-reaching negative effects.    “Our main concern is the chilling effect that this will have on the …

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Biden’s National Security Plan Aims at China, Russia

The White House rolled out a long-delayed national security strategy on Wednesday that seeks to contain China’s rise while reemphasizing the importance of working with allies to tackle challenges confronting democratic nations. The 48-page document, which was delayed by the Ukraine crisis, includes no major shifts in thinking and introduces no major new doctrines for Biden’s foreign policy. Instead, the document highlights the White House view that U.S. leadership is the key to overcoming global threats such as climate change and the rise of authoritarian regimes. Even after the Russian invasion, China represents the most consequential challenge to the global …

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Taiwan Says China Looking at Ukraine War to Develop ‘Hybrid’ Strategies

China is looking at the experience of the war in Ukraine to develop “hybrid warfare” strategies against Taiwan including using drones and psychological pressure, a senior Taiwanese security official said on Wednesday. Taiwan has been carefully studying the lessons of the Ukraine war to inform how it may react should China, which views the democratically ruled island as its own territory, ever makes good on threats to use force to enforce its sovereignty claim. China mounted military exercises around Taiwan in August to express its anger at a visit to Taipei by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and it has …

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US Not Ruling Out Russian Cyber Offensive

Top U.S. cyber officials are warning that now is no time for governments or private sector companies to let down their guard and assume Russia’s struggles on the battlefield in Ukraine will carry over into the Kremlin’s efforts in cyberspace.  Instead, they say the recent denial of service attacks targeting the public websites of major U.S. airports – and claimed by the Russian hacker group Killnet – could be “the leading edge of other types of attacks.”  “We are not at a place where we should be putting our shields down,” Jen Easterly, the director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and …

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У Повітряних силах розповіли, як IRIS-T зможе покращити українську ППО

Комплекс IRIS-T, який Німеччина передала Україні, – «потужний комплекс», але однією батареєю цього ЗРК можна прикрити невелику ділянку території, повідомив речник командування Повітряних сил ЗСУ Юрій Ігнат. «IRIS-T – це комплекс, який буде фактично першим на озброєнні нашої держави. Тому що Німеччина його щойно виготовила і він буде на озброєнні Повітряних сил ЗСУ. На жаль, буде лише одна батарея. Бо промисловість поки що не виготовила ні ракет, ні самих комплексів. Комплекс – хороший, потужний. Має добрий радар, має хороші ракети. Одна пускова установка має контейнери для одразу восьми ракет. Може працювати на дальності 40 кілометрів до цілі – це приблизно …

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British Museum Hails Rosetta Stone’s Role in Cracking Hieroglyphs

The Rosetta Stone stars in a new exhibition opening Thursday at the British Museum marking one of the most significant dates in Egyptology — 200 years after a French scholar finally cracked its code and deciphered hieroglyphs. The exhibition comes at a time the British Museum is under pressure from some Egyptologists to hand the Rosetta Stone back to Cairo as British institutions are beginning to return to other countries artifacts looted during the colonial era. Once seen as magical symbols unrelated to spoken language, Egyptian hieroglyphs were swathed in mystery for centuries until philologist Jean-Francois Champollion decoded their meaning …

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UK Spy Chief Says Rise of China World’s Top Security Issue

The head of Britain’s cyber intelligence agency on Tuesday accused China of trying to “rewrite the rules of international security,” saying Beijing is using its economic and technological clout to clamp down at home and exert control abroad.  Jeremy Fleming, director of GCHQ, said that despite war raging in Europe since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Beijing’s growing power is the “national security issue that will define our future.”  In a rare public speech to the Royal United Services Institute think tank, Fleming alleged that Beijing’s communist authorities want to “gain strategic advantage by shaping the world’s technology ecosystems.”  “When it …

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Afghanistan, South Korea, Venezuela Lose Bids for UN Rights Body

Afghanistan, South Korea and Venezuela lost their bids Tuesday to serve three-year terms on the U.N. Human Rights Council. With nearly all the 193-member states voting in the General Assembly, Algeria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Chile, Costa Rica, Georgia, Germany, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Morocco, Romania, South Africa, Sudan, and Vietnam were voted onto the 47-member Geneva-based rights body. Seats are allocated through regional groups. Africa, Eastern Europe, Western Europe and other groups all ran uncontested slates of candidates. But all winners still needed to achieve at least a 97-vote majority. Among the contested seats, Chile and Costa Rica easily ended Venezuela’s re-election bid …

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