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The Independent
April 4, 2018
Russia has demanded the UK present "every possible element of evidence" that it was responsible for the Salisbury nerve agent attack on a former spy that triggered a global diplomatic row and plunged its relationship with many Western nations to lows not seen since the Cold War. Yury Filatov, Moscow'sÃâà...
WTOP
April 4, 2018
After spat, BBC spy show gets access to ancient Greek temple ... ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A panel of archaeologists has granted a British television crew access to an ancient site near Athens to film scenes for a TV adaptation of spy novelist John le Carre's “The Little Drummer Girl” — reversing a decisionÃâà...
Business Insider
April 4, 2018
The US government has detected rogue devices that foreign spies and criminals could be using to track cellphones and intercept calls and messages in Washington, DC. The Department of Homeland Security revealed this information in a letter it sent to Sen. Ron Wyden last month, according to the Associated Press.
EarthSky
April 4, 2018
Astronomers call it Lensed Star 1 because gravitational microlensing magnified its light some 2,000 times. That's how they saw it shining from the distant past, only 4.4 billion years after the Big Bang. Astronomers said on April 2, 2018, that they used the Hubble Space Telescope to find the most distant starÃâà...
New York Times
April 4, 2018
Britain's military laboratory has not established whether the nerve agent that poisoned a Russian former double agent and his daughter came from Russia, the laboratory's chief executive said on Tuesday. “We have not verified the precise source,” the executive, Gary Aitkenhead, told Sky News.
The Hill
April 4, 2018
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday called for a probe into the poisoning of a former Russian spy in the United Kingdom last month. Putin made the remarks after meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara and demanded that Moscow play a role in the probe, according to TheÃâà...
Seeking Alpha
April 4, 2018
The SPDR S&P 500 ETF ( SPY) might be the most popular ETF product and currently has a market capitalization near $250 billion. It tracks the S&P 500 index tick for tick. Beginning in late January, the SPY has seen two violent drawdowns, with the most recent decline experiencing a closing value belowÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
April 3, 2018
... of various EU nations, NATO member states, the US and other countries that see themselves as Britain's allies, with Moscow responding in kind. A US State Department official said on Friday that Russia could apply to accredit more diplomats to replace the 60 alleged spies that have been expelled from the United States.
Foreign Affairs
April 3, 2018
The poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter on British territory on March 4—an act that could only have been carried out by Moscow—has set off a chain of diplomatic expulsions and counter-expulsions recalling the Cold War. On March 26, in retaliation for the assassination attempt, the UnitedÃâà...
Voice of America
April 3, 2018
But spy efforts are a two-way street, and the United States is no stranger to intelligence-gathering operations in academia, either. Alex van Schaick was a Fulbright scholar researching organized labor movements in Bolivia when he met a U.S. government official for what he presumed to be a customaryÃâà...
Maine Public
April 3, 2018
Matthew Algeo, a former news producer at Maine Public, interviewed Isaacson in 2002 on the occasion of the release of his book, “Memoirs of an Amateur Spy.” As he told Algeo, his first assignment with the OSS was to parachute behind enemy lines near the end of WWII and distribute propaganda.
ArmyTimes.com
April 3, 2018
Irving Isaacson, a World War II soldier who became a spy in Europe for the forerunner of the CIA, has died in Maine. He was 102. (Courtesy of Albert ... He authored “Memoirs of an Amateur Spy: The Story of the First OSS Spy in the Cold War with the Russians” in 2001. Isaacson met his wife, AuschwitzÃâà...
New York Times
April 2, 2018
Mr. Skripal, who was freed in a spy swap with the United States in 2010, is still in critical condition and unresponsive, but Yulia is conscious and talking, .... and Britain deepened last week, after the United States and European allies expelled more than than 150 Russian diplomats suspected of being spies.
Concord Monitor
April 1, 2018
Two children embrace as people gather and board a bus at the Russian Embassy in Washington, Saturday, March 31, 2018. A group of Russian diplomats, who earlier in the week were ordered by the US Administration to leave the country, and their families have left Russia's embassy and will fly toÃâà...
The Guardian
April 1, 2018
'Salisbury isn't about bad news': signs of recovery a month after spy attack. Decontamination begins at sites linked to ... Exactly four weeks ago the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, collapsed just across the river Avon from the church. Skripal, 66, remains critically ill at the city'sÃâà...
ABC News
April 1, 2018
The United States and more than a dozen European nations kicked out Russian diplomats on Monday and the Trump administration ordered Russia's consulate in Seattle to close, as the West sought joint punishment for Moscow's alleged role in poisoning an ex-spy in Britain. (AP Photo/AlexanderÃâà...
BBC News
March 31, 2018
The UK has rejected a complaint from Russia over a search of one of its aircraft at London's Heathrow Airport, as a row over the poisoning of a former Russian spy deepens. The British government described the search of the Aeroflot plane on Friday as "routine" after Russia suggested it was "illegal".
The Guardian
March 30, 2018
Another added: “Imagine that some percentage of leakers are spies for governments. A call to morals or problems of performance would be irrelevant in this case, because dissolution is the intent of those actors.” Facebook did not respond to a request for comment on Friday about the leaked posts.
POLITICO.eu
March 29, 2018
Russian Embassy staff in London used the case of a British weapons inspector who killed himself in 2003 to insinuate that U.K. security services may have been involved in the poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter. The briefing in London on Monday was open to “all accredited embassies”Ãâà...
National Geographic
March 29, 2018
Furry Spies. Tristram Wyatt, zoologist at the University of Oxford and expert in pheromones, says there's a strong evolutionary incentive for species to learn to listen in on their neighbors. These Huge Rats Can Sniff Out Land Mines Oct. 7, 2015 - A group in Cambodia is using Gambian giant rats to find theÃâà...
BBC News
March 29, 2018
Russia has expelled 60 US diplomats and closed the St Petersburg consulate in a tit-for-tat response to US action over a spy poisoning case in the UK. Russia's foreign minister said other countries that expelled Russians could expect a "symmetrical" response. It comes amid a row over the nerve agentÃâà...
NBCNews.com
March 29, 2018
One current official said there is a gentlemen's agreement — "honor among thieves" — in which there are lines spies should not cross. ... The most recent purge, said a current U.S. official, was meant to "put a dent in Russian spy operations" both by creating chaos in Russia's U.S. operations and limitingÃâà...
CNBC
March 29, 2018
Russia has ordered 60 U.S. diplomats to leave by April 5, the foreign ministry said on Thursday, in a retaliatory move against Washington which expelled a similar number of Russian diplomats over the poisoning of a Russian spy in England. The foreign ministry said it had declared persona non grata 58Ãâà...
New York Times
March 29, 2018
The stories are all real-life — no fictional spies like James Bond. The “Encryption” gallery tells the story of Alan Turing and Joan Clarke, the cryptanalysts of World War II, who cracked the German Enigma code; Virginia Hall in “Special Ops,” the woman with one leg who operated in occupied France and wasÃâà...
CNBC
March 29, 2018
The attempted murder of Skripal, a 66-year-old former colonel in Russian military intelligence who betrayed dozens of Russian agents to Britain's MI6 spy service, has plunged Moscow's relations with the West to a new post-Cold War low. After Britain expelled 23 Russians it said were spies working underÃâà...
BBC News
March 28, 2018
A Russian ex-spy and his daughter first came into contact with the nerve agent that poisoned them at their home, police have said. The highest concentration of ... In July 2010, he was one of four prisoners released by Moscow in exchange for 10 Russian spies arrested by the FBI. He was later flown to theÃâà...
The Economist
March 28, 2018
ARTIFICIAL intelligence (AI) is barging its way into business. As our special report this week explains, firms of all types are harnessing AI to forecast demand, hire workers and deal with customers. In 2017 companies spent around $22bn on AI-related mergers and acquisitions, about 26 times more than inÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
March 28, 2018
The mass expulsion of Russian officers has cast a light on the unspoken but still widely practiced East-West spy game, a remnant of the Cold War era. DW looks at why so many spies were allowed to operate in these countries in the first place. Why do countries allow spies to work within their borders?
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 28, 2018
Britain ordered the expulsion of 23 Russian diplomats suspected to be spies on March 14, after Moscow ignored Prime Minister Theresa May's demand for ... by Moscow after being convicted of passing on information about Russian agents in various European countries, came to Britain in a 2010 spy swap.
Kotaku
March 28, 2018
Last week at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Jason and I met up with Chris Hecker, the ex-Maxis designer who's been working on the 1v1 competitive espionage game Spy Party for almost a decade. (For a good time, read this entertaining Stephen Totilo hands-on preview of the gameÃâà...
CNBC
March 28, 2018
British Prime Minister Theresa May welcomed a U.S. move to expel 60 Russian diplomats over a chemical attack on a former Russian spy in the English city of Salisbury in a phone call with President Donald Trump, her spokesman said on Wednesday. "The prime minister today spoke with President TrumpÃâà...
BBC News
March 27, 2018
Theresa May says the 23 Russian diplomats kicked out of Britain are "undeclared intelligence officers". In other words, they're "spies". This might surprise anyone who thought the key requirements for being a good diplomat were a firm handshake, a decent backhand and the ability to order a gin and tonicÃâà...
NL Times
March 27, 2018
Various Turkish media sources report that Turkey launched an investigation into a Dutch diplomat believed to work in Turkey as a spy. News station A-Haber and newspapers Aksam and Sabah all published reports on this story on Monday, NOS reports. According to the Turkish media, Dutch man A.Z. is inÃâà...
The Conversation AU
March 27, 2018
The Australian government is expelling two Russian spies as part of a broad international retaliatory action against the nerve agent attack on the former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Britain earlier this month. The diplomats have been “identified as undeclared intelligenceÃâà...
The New Yorker
March 27, 2018
Noah Emmerich, who plays the doltish F.B.I. agent Stan Beeman, may even miss viewers berating him on the street for his ongoing failure to catch the spies right under his nose. “ 'I know, I know,' I tell them,” he said. “ 'I've seen the show, too.' ” Holly Taylor, who plays the Jenningses' daughter (and apprentice spy), Paige,Ãâà...
New York Times
March 27, 2018
When William C. Dudley, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, announced that he planned to step down, progressives and pro-labor groups saw a rare opportunity to influence an important economic policy appointment over which President Trump has no say. Almost immediately, theyÃâà...
Vox
March 27, 2018
The White House said in a statement on Monday that the actions “make the United States safer by reducing Russia's ability to spy on Americans and to conduct covert operations that threaten America's national security.” It explained that it was shuttering the Seattle consulate specifically because of howÃâà...
BBC News
March 27, 2018
Guardian front page Image caption The Guardian shows demonstrations at Westminster over Labour's handling of alleged anti-Semitism in the party. It says Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's apology came after "pressure from the Jewish community and his own MPs". The Times front page Image caption TheÃâà...
NPR
March 27, 2018
GREENE: So the administration is describing them as intelligence agents. What more do we know? Are these spies? Does this mean the Trump administration knows these people are spies? I'm assuming these aren't - spy is not a title they would use for themselves. So what are these people up to?
euronews
March 25, 2018
Workers who complained of safety violations were reported by police spies and prevented from getting another job in the construction industry, an investigation has uncovered. Richard Martin of the Metropolitan Police admitted that allegations workers were put on a 'blacklist' used by building firms to vetÃâà...
Economic Times
March 25, 2018
While smartphones are the epitome of modern convenience, the dirty little secret is that these omnipresent devices, which we have with us 24X7, and keep switched on for most of that time, are also a serious threat to our privacy. Here's why: 1 Geotracking A key feature of a smartphone is its ablity to locateÃâà...
euronews
March 24, 2018
Russia said that the proximity of the lab to the incident could be seen as suspicious. However, Aitkenhead said such claims were "frustrating" and that he had "complete confidence" that nothing could have gone from the lab to the "wider world". Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisonedÃâà...
UNIAN
March 24, 2018
Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia Skripal, 33, remain critically ill in hospital, after they were found unconscious on a bench in Salisbury, Wiltshire. The UK government says they were poisoned with a nerve agent of a type developed by Russia called Novichok while the RussianÃâà...
The Times
March 24, 2018
A former MI6 officer once said that his job was sometimes made easier by two fictional spies. One was James Bond, the other George Smiley. The popularity of Bond made the idea of being a real spy sound more entertaining than it actually was. Reading about Smiley, on the other hand, encouraged theÃâà...
The Guardian
March 23, 2018
Speaking as she departed from the meeting of leaders in Brussels, Theresa May confirmed that fresh evidence presented to the 27 other member states had encouraged them to endorse the UK's analysis of the incident earlier this month, which left the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter,Ãâà...
New York Times
March 23, 2018
BRUSSELS — Britain's prime minister, Theresa May, won greater than expected support from the European Union on Friday over her escalating diplomatic battle with Russia, a significant victory for a leader who has often found herself isolated in Brussels as her country prepares to quit the bloc. After hoursÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
March 18, 2018
Russia boots 23 British diplomats in spy poisoning dispute. By Associated Press. Mar 17, 2018 | 2:25 AM. | Moscow. Russia boots 23 British diplomats in spy poisoning dispute. Motorcycle police escort a British army truck carrying the car of Sergei Skripal as it is driven from the Churchfields industrial estate in Salisbury.
BBC News
March 18, 2018
The Czech Republic has rejected Russian claims that it was one of four countries most likely to have manufactured the nerve agent used to poison Sergei Skripal and his daughter. Czech Foreign Minister Martin Stropnicky said this was "wholly unsubstantiated" and "highly speculative". The ex-spy and hisÃâà...
PBS NewsHour
March 18, 2018
MOSCOW — Russia on Saturday announced it is expelling 23 British diplomats and threatened further measures in retaliation in a growing diplomatic dispute over a nerve agent attack on a former spy in Britain. The Russian Foreign Ministry also said in a statement that it is ordering the closure of the BritishÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
March 18, 2018
Russia on Saturday announced it is expelling 23 British diplomats and threatened further measures in retaliation in a growing diplomatic dispute over a nerve agent attack on a former spy in Britain. The Russian Foreign Ministry also said in a statement that it is ordering the closure of the British Council,Ãâà...
