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The Associated Press announced Tuesday that Israeli authorities had shut down live camera feeds showing Gaza and confiscated the equipment, which it denounced as “an abuse by the Israeli government of the country's new foreign broadcasting law.””The Associated Press condemns in the strongest terms the actions of the Israeli government,” the nonprofit news group said in a statement. “We call on the Israeli authorities to return the equipment and resume live feeds immediately so we can continue to provide this important video journalism to thousands of media outlets around the world.”The Israeli military regularly classifies the area surrounding Gaza as…
The Associated Press harshly criticized the Israeli government on Tuesday, citing new censorship laws, after Israeli Defense Forces soldiers seized cameras and equipment and cut live footage in southern Israel.”The Associated Press condemns in the strongest terms the actions of the Israeli government in suspending years of live coverage of the situation in Gaza and seizing AP equipment,” Loren Easton, the news agency's chief communications officer, said in a statement. “I will.” “The closure was not based on the content of the feed, but rather on the Israeli government's abuse of the country's new Foreign Broadcasting Law.”The law, passed last…
The British government acted unlawfully by changing the law to give police greater powers to crack down on street protests, a judge ruled on Tuesday.Civil liberties group Liberty launched a legal challenge to the amendment, which campaigners claimed gave police “nearly unlimited” powers to restrict protests. .Right-wing outspokenness pushed change. Suella Braverman He was the Home Secretary. She had repeatedly promised to use so-called “guerrilla tactics” to crack down on protesters.This was followed by actions by environmental groups, notably Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion, with protesters glued or body-pasted to roads and buildings.The Liberty Party's objection focused on powers…
Darryl Hernandez and Arun Vemley of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will be honored at the 2024 SIA Governors Summit. Silver Spring, Maryland – The Security Industry Association (SIA) has named two government security leaders, Darryl Hernandez and Arun Vemri, each the recipients of the 2024 SIA Outstanding Government Achievement Award. The award, presented at SIA GovSummit, the nation's largest conference connecting government, security and technology, recognizes public servants who have demonstrated extensive leadership and steadfast commitment to support and advance the effective use of security and life safety products in ways that benefit society. The 2024 SIA Excellence…
The trial of three current and former senior Syrian security officials on war crimes charges begins in France on Tuesday. Syrian Air Force intelligence suspects these individuals were involved in the arrest and disappearance of Mazen Dabberg and his son Patrick in November 2013, near the outbreak of civil war. Mr Mazan and Mr Patrick later died in custody. Faced with widespread public outcry and calls for his resignation, energized by the regional fervor of the Arab Spring, the regime of Bashar al-Assad, who had led Syria for years, has since launched a violent crackdown, turning the country into a…
The British government acted illegally by amending a law that gave police more powers to crack down on street protests, a judge ruled on Tuesday.Civil liberties group Liberty launched a legal challenge to the amendment, with campaigners arguing it gave police “almost unlimited” powers to restrict protests. The changes were pushed through when Suella Braverman was interior minister, and she repeatedly promised to crack down on protesters using so-called “guerilla tactics.” This was followed by actions by environmental groups, such as Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion, among others, with demonstrators gluing and lining themselves on roads and buildings. The…
Unlock Editor's Digest for freeFT editor Roula Khalaf has chosen her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter.Taxi drivers across Italy went on strike on Tuesday in response to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's government, which is under intense pressure from angry consumers to increase the availability of taxis.The strike comes after Industry Minister Adolfo Urso met with a delegation of executives from ride-hailing app Uber, which is backed by the powerful taxi driver lobby, which has so far managed to restrict the operations of the US-based company and other similar apps in Italy. This took place several weeks after the incident…
Dark Wicker / Dell TechnologiesFederal agencies are leveraging artificial intelligence tools to modernize threat detection and response, said Dirk Wiker, chief cyber and zero trust architect for Dell Technologies' (NYSE: DELL) Federal Business Unit. He said that they should improve their cybersecurity posture.In an article published on Carahsoft.com, Wiker wrote that AI will allow government agencies to speed up analysis of vast amounts of cyber threat alerts and other data, and glean insights from those alerts. Masu.“AI is critical because it can quickly sift through vast amounts of data from a variety of sources to identify patterns, anomalies, and potential…
image source, Getty ImagesArticle informationauthor, Sam Francis & Laura Jonesrole, Political reporter/economic reporter May 21, 2024, 04:23 BSTUpdated 1 hour agoUnemployed Brits will be encouraged to take part in 'skills boot camps' to fill the labor market gap left by overseas workers, the Work and Pensions Secretary has announced.Mel Stride said the UK had relied on foreign workers “for far too long”.But industry insiders suggested the plans may not be enough for British companies at “breaking point”.Labor also dismissed the proposal as a “talker” that fails to address the scale of the problem.The plan is being overseen by a new…
Mumbai, India — As India's election campaign began to take shape in November, a catchphrase coined by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) began to gain attention. The Modi guarantee was positioned by the ruling party as a personal promise by the prime minister, who is hugely popular with the Indian people, and the BJP sought to contrast it with a motley coalition of opposition parties that fiercely opposed it. The BJP launched Google ads with this tagline in the third week of November. But around the same time, another organization began pouring millions of rupees into a…