National Security

Minister of State for Security Ben Wallace MP has admitted that the suspect in the car ramming British authorities are currently treating it as a terrorist incident is a “British citizen [who] came from another country originally” — or, in common parlance, “an immigrant”.

Reuters offered a look on Tuesday at how high-tech surveillance techniques developed to monitor the Muslims of Xinjiang province are spreading across the rest of China, all the way to the capital city of Beijing. The account provides a textbook case of surveillance state mission creep, as techniques devised for what the Chinese government described as a unique emergency situation become part of everyday life.

The shares for Chinese Internet gaming giant Tencent dropped by 3.6 percent in Hong Kong, Tuesday, after the Chinese government forced them to remove a hit game from their PC store for failing to comply with regulatory standards.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump has urged tough action against the “animals” behind a “terrorist attack” outside London’s Palace of Westminster Tuesday.

In an article echoing similar sentiments from other publications, Asian publication the Diplomat has published an opinion piece which claims that “Facebook’s Plan to Enter China Is Doomed to Fail.”

Contents: Afghan army, backed by US, struggles to regain Ghazni after four days; Taliban attack on Ghazni brings America’s Afghanistan strategy into question.

Siraj Wahhaj and the four other adults arrested at a filthy New Mexico compound where 11 starving children were held and one apparently died were released with bond on Monday. The decision stunned many observers of the case, given the clearly abusive treatment of the children, the outstanding warrant from Georgia against Wahhaj for kidnapping his own son, and the fact that children rescued from the camp told police they were being trained to conduct terrorist attacks on schools.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lashed out against the United States on Tuesday and called for a boycott on American electronics to retaliate against the Trump administration’s tariffs on steel. It was not clear from Erdogan’s remarks if he plans to implement a government ban on U.S. electronics imports or merely wants Turks to refrain from buying them.

Facebook has removed the page of the Latin American communist propaganda network TeleSUR for violating their terms of use, the outlet has announced. 

Anti-Semitic incidents in Germany have risen by 10 percent over the course of the first half of 2018 when compared with the same period in 2017, latest figures reveal.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has responded to the diplomatic spat engulfing Turkey-U.S. relations by pledging a national  boycott of U.S.-made electronic goods.

AMMAN, Jordan — Jordan said Monday that a terror cell targeted in a deadly weekend raid by security forces was composed of supporters of the Islamic State terror group and shared its extremist views.

UNITED NATIONS — The Islamic State extremist group has up to 30,000 members roughly equally distributed between Syria and Iraq and its global network poses a rising threat — as does al-Qaeda, which is much stronger in places, a United Nations report says.

Heavily armed police rushed to Britain’s Houses of Parliament Tuesday morning after a vehicle struck members of the public and crashed into the counter-terror security barrier ringing the building.

U.S. Army Green Beret Sgt. 1st Class Reymund R. Transfiguracion, 36, of Waikoloa, Hawaii, died Sunday from wounds he received from an improvised explosive device while on a combat patrol in Helmand Province in Southern Afghanistan. 

The U.S. Embassy in Ankara has denied reports that American pastor Andrew Brunson will be released from house arrest and allowed to return back to the United States.

Because Washington, DC, has not yet implemented new sanctions against Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin has not yet ordered retaliatory sanctions against the United States, although the Russian Foreign Ministry said it is working on tit-for-tat retaliatory measures.

Leaders of five Caspian Sea nations — Russia, Kazakhstan, Iran, Azerbaijan, and Turkmenistan — reportedly signed a historic agreement on Sunday that aims to settle a longstanding dispute over ownership of oil and gas reserves on the landlocked body of water.

Although he has previously been described as skeptical of President Donald Trump’s plan to create a “Space Force” branch of the U.S. Military, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis said on Sunday that he supports the proposal.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei firmly “banned’ negotiations with the United States on Monday and said he doubted America will “confront Iran militarily.”

China continued its crackdown against the Quannengshen cult, better known as “The Church of Almighty God” or “Eastern Lightning” in the West, with an unspecified number of arrests and trials in August. According to Chinese media, movement leaders and key senior followers were targeted in the latest arrests.

HuffPost’s “hate and extremism” reporter Christopher Mathias took to Twitter to attack news outlet Vox for covering Antifa violence against journalists and police officers over the weekend.

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Sunday urged the country’s young people to make citizens arrests on those they suspect of corruption, including members of their own families. 

While Facebook and Google are attempting to break into the Chinese market with agreements to abide by Chinese Internet laws and attempts to develop new China-centric apps, some aren’t convinced that the tech giants will be successful in developing a strong presence in China.

Chinese government officials and state-run media outlets are denying reports that over a million Uighur Muslims from the province of Xinjiang have been herded into “re-education camps” where they are held without due process and, according to some reports, physically tortured.

Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga attacked “unjust immigration policies” in his homily Sunday, deflecting attention from his scandal-plagued archdiocese and alleged financial misconduct.

NEW YORK — Rob Goldstone, the English publicist and music manager, admitted that “I didn’t know what I was really even talking about” when he sent a much publicized email to Donald Trump Jr. to set up the infamous Trump Tower meeting claiming to possess incriminating information and documents on Hillary Clinton originating with “the Crown prosecutor of Russia.”

Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk admitted Monday that his claim of “funding secured” did not mean that he had a deal in place to fund a private buyback of the electric car company’s outstanding stock.

TEL AVIV – Israel could oust the Gaza-ruling Hamas, Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said on Sunday as a report emerged that the terror group’s leaders were in the IDF’s crosshairs.

Contents: A ‘historic’ Caspian Sea agreement leaves major issues unresolved; Major issues about commercial exploitation remain unresolved.

Iran’s increasing economic problems are as much a result of internal mismanagement as U.S. external trade pressure, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei conceded Monday.

CAIRO — Egypt’s Interior Ministry says police killed six suspected Islamic militants in a shootout in a Cairo suburb.

Iran’s defence minister unveiled the next generation of Tehran’s Fateh Mobin short-range ballistic missile on Monday, according to conservative news agency Tasnim.

The military has field-tested a new fighting method combining infantry, tanks and combat engineering into one unified force, as part of a major military reform meant to streamline the Israel Defense Forces, the army said Sunday.

BEIRUT— An explosion in northern Syria killed at least 36 people Sunday and wounded many others, but the cause of the blast wasn’t immediately known, opposition activists said.