One foreign photographer has been killed and a reporter wounded in a shooting by an Afghan policeman in the country’s east, a day before presidential elections. Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus, a 48-year-old German national, was killed instantly according to the news agency, while AP reporter Kathy Gannon, a Canadian, was wounded in the attack on Friday. “Anja and Kathy together have spent years in Afghanistan covering the conflict […]

A report by the Senate Intelligence Committee concludes that the CIA misled the government and the public about aspects of its brutal interrogation program for years — concealing details about the severity of its methods, overstating the significance of plots and prisoners, and taking credit for critical pieces of intelligence that detainees had in fact surrendered before they were subjected to harsh techniques. The report, built around detailed chronologies of […]

Florida authorities Wednesday announced the arrests of 22 people, including three who listed Walt Disney World as their employer, in a sting of people allegedly targeting children for sexual activity. The arrests came after a weeklong investigation involving the Lake County sheriff’s cybercrimes unit in central Florida and other agencies. In the sting, which was called “Be Mine,” detectives posed as children, or parents of children, in various online chat […]

If you want to start out as an Intelligence Bureau officer, then be prepared to earn Rs 5500 a month (basic) and expect an annual increment of Rs 175 until your salary touches Rs 9000. No wonder there is such a massive vacancy in the Intelligence Bureau which very often our politicians have accused of not providing the required alerts ahead of a terror strike. While the salary aspect to […]

Microsoft announced this morning that Satya Nadella will serve as its third chief executive. Various reports over the past week pegged Nadella, Microsoft’s former cloud and enterprise head, as the leading candidate to replace Steve Ballmer when he retires later this year. A 22-year veteran of the company, Nadella’s appointment makes it clear that cloud services will play a big role in Microsoft’s future. In addition, Microsoft also announced that […]

Tom Mulcair urges Stephen Harper to make the issue of military suicides a personal priority. The Canadian military is dealing with another case of suspected suicide, the third sudden death in a week. The latest tragedy, which occurred Wednesday, involves a reservist belonging to The Princess of Wales’ Own Regiment, one of the country’s oldest military units, based in Kingston, Ont. Several defence sources identify the victim as Cpl. Camilo […]

Transcript Hello, my name is Cpl. Chantal Farrah and I’m a police officer with the RCMP in New Brunswick. This message is being shared with you because we need your help in identifying a man who is captured in a video sexually abusing a little girl. The pictures are captured from a video in which a man is sexually abusing a little girl who appears to be approximately 3 years […]

The conclusion from the results is straightforward; the Congress is a political force in decline. When you consider the fact that the gap between the two parties is only set to widen — more so in states such as Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan with Narendra Modi as the candidate, and with the BJP likely to fare far better in Chhattisgarh in 2014 — it seems there is little the party […]

I will raise 500,000 mujahids to liberate Kashmir…” – Masood Azhar Founder of Jaish-e-Muhammad, Masood Azhar became a legend after he came back to Pakistan. One of my close relatives, who later headed an intelligence agency, was thrilled over the hijacking of Indian Airliner IC 814 in 1999, not knowing that the people who were released would one day turn against Pakistan. The Frankenstein that Pakistan thus created, had turned […]

More than four-in-five of fast food workers in New York City say they have been victims of wage theft or work hour abuse at their jobs, according to a survey released today from Fast Food Forward, an advocacy group that has been aligned with striking restaurant workers across the city. Workers at New York City fast food chains have staged multiple one-day strikes in recent months, first in November and […]