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Net closes in on Chinese ‘spies’ in UK universities where academics are suspected of passing pioneering British technology to Beijing Specialists have drawn up list of academics suspected of passing on technology Universities under scrutiny include Manchester, Liverpool and Imperial College  No suggestion any of the institutions are aware of, or complicit in, wrongdoing  By …

A cross-party group of MEPs has written to Amazon’s chief executive, Jeff Bezos, demanding information on the online retailer’s monitoring of trade union activists and politicians in response to deleted job postings that described unions as “threats”. The letter, from 37 members of the European parliament, said they were concerned Amazon deliberately targeted workers seeking …

Avro Vulcan bombers mounted the most daring raid of the Falklands War, bombing the Argentinian mainland. Pic: Phil Holding Dutch spies operating as a part of a European equivalent of the Five Eyes espionage alliance helped GCHQ break Argentinian codes during the Falklands War, it has been revealed. Flowing from revelations made in German-language news …

WASHINGTON — Republicans made a point of emphasizing during the impeachment hearings that President Donald Trump provided sophisticated weapons to Ukraine to deter Russian aggression, in contrast to the Obama administration, which declined to do so. President Obama’s decision was portrayed as an example of his timidity in foreign policy. But the story is more …

On Oct. 27, 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt took the stage at The Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC, to speak in honor of Navy Day. With Britain under Nazi siege, Roosevelt wanted the United States to join the fight. The American public was not convinced. “I have in my possession a secret map made by …

Hong Kong’s special trade relationship with the United States has given China the opportunity to steal sensitive technology it would not otherwise have access to, according to American lawmakers and officials. “There is certain open-source evidence of the Chinese violating what we would call our ethical standards,” R. Clarke Cooper, the State Department’s assistant secretary …

Tehran, Iran — Iran said Monday it has arrested 17 Iranian nationals allegedly recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency to spy on the country’s nuclear and military sites, and that some have already been sentenced to death. The arrests took place in the Iranian calendar year ending in March 2019 and those taken into custody …

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Goliath groupers make a booming noise when approached We have a long history of trying to use animals as spies, weapons and warning systems, but the latest plans to use marine organisms as motion sensors may be the strangest yet. When a beluga whale was spotted wearing a harness …