US, other armed foreigners charged in ‘conspiracy,‘ say Haiti police

PORT-AU-PRINCE: Haiti has charged several Americans and other foreign nationals with criminal conspiracy after their arrest with assault rifles and other weapons, the national police said.

The group was detained in central Port-au-Prince Sunday evening and includes five Americans, a Serb, a Russian and a Haitian, police said.

They gave no indication about the motives of the group and said interrogations will continue.

The arrests came 10 days after protests began against corruption and poverty in the Caribbean nation. At least seven people have died during demonstrations demanding the ouster of President Jovenel Moise.

Police said the men were detained at a checkpoint near the central bank.

They are also charged with illegal possession of weapons for allegedly having with them six assault rifles, six pistols, ammunition, bullet proof vests, drones, telecommunications gear and two vehicles.

Canada, one of Haiti’s largest international donors, on Thursday temporarily closed its embassy because of “the current volatility,“ while the State Department in Washington ordered the departure of all “non-emergency US personnel.” — AFP

https://www.thesundaily.my/world/us-other-armed-foreigners-charged-in-conspiracy-say-haiti-police-HG549876

India, Pakistan ‘spy’ row heads for UN top court amid tensions

THE HAGUE: India will on Monday renew its bid to persuade international judges to take an alleged spy off death row in Pakistan, in a controversial court case as fresh bloodshed in Kashmir sends tensions between the neighbours soaring.

Kulbhushan Sudhir Jadhav, a former Indian navy officer, was arrested in the restive southwestern Pakistani province of Baluchistan in March 2016 on charges of espionage and sentenced to death by a military court.

India insists Jadhav was not a spy and that he was kidnapped in Pakistan. New Delhi is asking that the International Court of Justice order Islamabad to annul the sentence, according to in court documents.

The country’s lawyers will on Monday renew their arguments on their broader case for Jadhav’s release before the ICJ, which in 2017 ordered Pakistan to stay Jadhav’s execution.

The rare foray into the international courts for the nuclear-armed rivals could be another flashpoint after Thursday’s massive suicide bombing in Indian-administered Kashmir that killed 41 troops.

https://www.thesundaily.my/world/india-pakistan-spy-row-heads-for-un-top-court-amid-tensions-EH548868

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When they start saying C-A armed in stead of US armed … then I'll know its starting to change

A DARPA Perspective on the Development of the Internet

The history of the internet is inextricably connected with DARPA and the development of new networking and information-sharing technologies. From its humble beginnings as a collection of connected research facilities to today’s global (and extra-global) network of billions of devices, a core theme of the internet’s evolution has been and continues to be the cutting-edge research conducted under DARPA’s auspices. When internet pioneer J.C.R. Licklider described, with intentional grandiloquence, his vision of an “Intergalactic Computer Network” in 1963, he still might not have imagined just how extensively the network whose seeds he planted would grow in the terrestrial realm.

In its scope and ubiquity, the internet has transformed life on a civilization-wide scale. Smartphones and other mobile devices connect bankers in Manhattan and rice farmers in India to a vast sea of information. Using predictive tools that mine this information has allowed child welfare agencies to flag high-risk cases, enabled health care providers to determine which patients are at risk for various conditions and diseases, and helped financial institutions to identify fraud and identity theft, among other benefits. But there are challenges in this new planetary data environment: The same networks of computers and databases and systems and infrastructure that afford society previously unimagined benefits also have been bringing with them new vulnerabilities for violations of privacy, cybercrime, and cyber warfare.

https://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/a-darpa-perspective-on-the-development-of-the-internet/

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We'll know its starting to change when people start posting news from Gab instead of Twatter

No peaceful solution with terrorists in Idlib: Russian Deputy FM

Russia’s principled stance is that any a compromise with terrorists in Syria’s Idlib is impossible and that they must be eliminated, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin said on Sunday on the sidelines of the discussion on the Syrian settlement at the Munich Security Conference.

According to the high-ranking diplomat, 90% of Idlib’s territory is controlled by Jabhat al-Nusra (terror group, outlawed in Russia). “Idlib is a serious problem, this is probably a major concentration of terrorists in the region and maybe beyond its borders,” Vershinin said. “Our principled stance is no to any compromise with terrorists, they must be eliminated.”

Vershinin stressed that this should be done in a way that no civilians are affected and “there should be no damage regarding security concerns, which the Turkish side had voiced.” “Can this be done? Yes,” he said.

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/no-peaceful-solution-with-terrorists-in-idlib-russian-deputy-fm/

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