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Since the end of the Cold War in 1991, the Republic of Cuba has substantially transformed its intelligence operations both within its borders and abroad (Central Intelligence Agency, 2023). The Cold War era had firmly entrenched Cuba within the Soviet sphere of influence; however, following its conclusion and Cuba’s subsequent loss of $6 billion in … Read more

Donald Trump’s historic conviction in the New York state hush money case on Thursday raises several pressing questions about his personal and political future as he continues to run for president. The 12-person jury found Trump guilty of all 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up payments meant to silence damaging stories during … Read more

After she chose doctor-assisted death because she was in agony with no end in sight, the family of a Quebec woman with Lyme disease is calling for change on how the medical system handles cases of the infectious illness. Stéphanie Lavoie was only 30 years old when she died on May 17. She spent most of … Read more

6 minutes ago Anthony Zurcher,Rachel Looker Sergio Flores/Bloomberg via Getty Images Some voters in November may see a less familiar option on their presidential ballot when in the polling booth this November: Chase Oliver. Mr Oliver is this year’s presidential nominee for the Libertarian Party, a political party that typically wins around one per cent … Read more

French Defence Ministry suggests the decision is linked to Paris’s opposition to the continuing Israeli invasion of Rafah. France has banned Israeli companies from participating in this year’s annual Eurosatory arms and defence industry exhibition in Villepinte near Paris next month, the event’s organisers and French authorities have said. “By decision of the government authorities, … Read more

William Goodhind is an investigator and researcher with Contested Ground, an open-access research project that conducts satellite imagery analysis on war and armed conflict. William previously worked with the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine as a Monitoring Officer, patrol leader and imagery analyst between 2015-17 and 2020-22. He was also an OSCE observer in … Read more

U.S. President Joe Biden has given Ukraine the go-ahead to use American weaponry to strike inside Russia for the limited purpose of defending Kharkiv, according to three U.S. officials familiar with the matter. The officials, who requested anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter, underscored that the U.S. policy calling on Ukraine not to use American-provided … Read more

An infamous hacking group claims that it stole the personal information of 560 million Ticketmaster customers — more than half a billion people — and is offering the pilfered data on the dark web for US$500,000. The data includes customers’ names, addresses, phone numbers and partial credit card details, including the last four digits of … Read more

11 minutes ago Kelly Ng & Lok Lee,in Singapore and Hong Kong BBC The Hong Kong 47 were charged three years ago with trying to “overthrow” the government  by organising an unofficial primary in 2020 Hong Kong has found 14 pro-democracy activists guilty of subversion in the largest use yet of a China-imposed National Security … Read more

A verdict is finally looming in Hong Kong’s longest running and largest national security trial of 47 pro-democracy legislators and political activists, with the defendants having together logged 39,000 days or some 108 years on remand even before the sentencing phase of the trial begins. The group was first arrested by the territory’s national security … Read more