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British intelligence provided the tip-off that led to the arrest of a retired Austrian army officer on suspicion of spying for Russia, an Austrian newspaper has claimed. The tip-off was politically motivated and came amid British displeasure at the Austrian government’s refusal to distance itself from Russia in the wake of the Skripal poisoning, Kleine […]

Click:balloon twisting Russian prosecutors on Monday accused Bill Browder, a prominent critic of Vladimir Putin, of ordering the murder of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky and several other business associates – the latest in a string of efforts to discredit one of the most vocal advocates of sanctions against the regime. Magnitsky, a lawyer working for Mr Browder, was […]

China has flaunted its advanced stealth fighter jets with full missile loads for the first time as Beijing flexed its military might at its biennial air show. Two Chinese J-20s – China’s answer to the US F-22s and F-35s – roared over the crowds in Zhuhai, a southern Chinese city, with its bomb bay doors open […]

Donald Trump has threatened to strip more reporters of their White House passes and said Ronald Reagan would have handled CNN’s Jim Acosta in the same way as he doubled down over the row.  The US president denied that a video showing the heated exchange with Mr Acosta circulated by the White House press secretary […]

Donald Trump has provided the special counsel’s office with written answers to questions about his knowledge of Russian interference in the 2016 election, his lawyers said on Tuesday. The step – the first time the US president has directly cooperated with the investigation – is a milestone in a months-long negotiation between Mr Trump’s lawyers and special […]

OTTAWA — The Canadian economy contracted 0.1 per cent in January, hurt by unscheduled maintenance shutdowns in the oilpatch and weakness in the real estate sector following mortgage rule changes, Statistics Canada said Thursday. The agency said the drop in real gross domestic product for January compared with growth of 0.2 per cent in December. […]

CCP, the developer of Eve Online, is making a new action MMO. The company’s London-based team is behind the unannounced action MMO (the main developer of Eve Online is based in Reykjavik in Iceland). CCP mentioned the game as part of an announcement it is using Unreal Engine 4 for all of its currently unannounced […]

OTTAWA — The federal government is putting billions of dollars behind its bid for reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples in Canada as a whole, but also addressing the distinct and individual needs of First Nations, Inuit and Metis. Tuesday’s budget earmarks $4.7 billion over the next five years, the bulk of it aimed at supporting Indigenous […]

Up to 145 pilot whales have died in a mass stranding on a remote part of a small New Zealand island, authorities said on Monday. The stranding was discovered by a hiker late on Saturday on Stewart Island, 19 miles off the southern coast of the South Island. Half of the whales were already dead […]

TORONTO — When University of Toronto engineering professor Parham Aarabi first began researching face tracking technology, it never occurred to him that his resulting startup would later be snapped up by the world’s biggest cosmetics company, L’Oreal. In fact, Aarabi thought the initial application of what is now ModiFace’s lip and eye tracking capabilities would […]