Dog In Forlorn Search For Owner After China Landslide

A droopy-eyed white dog apparently looking for its owner has been found in the rubble of a landslide that buried a village in southwest China, a state broadcaster said Sunday. A rescuer was seen on English-language channel CGTN trying to coax the downcast canine away from the mound of rocks and earth that has left … Read more

Bangladesh ‘militants’ Surrender After Facebook Plea

Five young Bangladeshis accused of being Islamist militants surrendered to authorities Sunday, an official said, after a lengthy siege that prompted questions about heavy-handed police tactics. Elite counter-terror troops surrounded a one-storey house in the central district of Narsingdi on Saturday afternoon after a tip-off that Islamist extremists were holed up there. The information came … Read more

Facebook Accused of Targeting Vulnerable Teens With Predatory Ads

The Australian has obtained confidential internal documents from Facebook that supposedly show how it’s possible for the company to take advantage of teenagers’ insecurities to benefit advertisers. The leaked document was written by two Australian Facebook execs and included how monitoring users’ posts, comments and interactions could help figure out when people felt “defeated”, “overwhelmed”, … Read more

Russian Hackers Tracked Ukrainian Artillery Units Using Android Implant

A hacking group linked to the Russian government and high-profile cyber attacks against Democrats during the U. S. presidential election likely used a malware implant on Android devices to track and target Ukrainian artillery units from late 2014 through 2016, according to a new report released Thursday. The malware was able to retrieve communications and … Read more

MPs Won’t Be Ministers In My Gov’t – Nduom

Flagbearer of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP,) has said that a 2017 PPP administration will not have Members of Parliament (MPs) serve as ministers of state. According to him, MPs are legislators whose works range from law making to serving as a watchdog for the Executive arm of government and that duplicating their roles make … Read more