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British lawmakers hit by 'sustained' cyber attack

Britain's parliament was hit by a "sustained and determined" cyber attack on Saturday designed to identify weak email passwords, just over a month after a ransomware worm crippled parts of the country's health service. The House of Commons said it was working with the National Cyber Security Centre to defend parliament's network and was confident […]

Britain charges Barclays, ex-bosses over "unlawful" Qatari deal

Barclays (BARC.L) and four former top executives were charged with fraud on Tuesday over undisclosed payments to Qatari investors as part of a 12 billion pound ($15 billion) emergency fundraising during the financial crisis in 2008. Britain's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) charged Barclays Plc, former chief executive John Varley, Roger Jenkins, Tom Kalaris and Richard […]

Britain seeks 'special' EU ties as Brexit talks start

Brexit Secretary David Davis arrived in Brussels on Monday to launch talks he hoped would produce a "new, deep and special partnership" with the EU in the interest of Britons and all Europeans. Beaming as he met the European Union's chief negotiator Michel Barnier at the EU executive's Berlaymont headquarters, the veteran campaigner for Britain […]

How the Pentagon paid a British PR firm $500 million for top secret Iraq propaganda

Fake News and False Flags: How the Pentagon paid a British PR firm $500 million for top secret Iraq propaganda By Crofton Black and Abigail Fielding-Smith -- The Pentagon gave a controversial UK PR firm over half a billion dollars to run a top secret propaganda programme in Iraq, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism can […]

Globalization: Made in the USA

By Gary A. Grappo -- First published in Fair Observer -- Visiting Senior Scholar at Center for Global & Area Studies, University of Wyoming Globalization has become bad word of late. It has been the punch line for the "Leave" supporters of Brexit, a campaign platform—if indeed he has such a thing—for US presidential candidate […]

Palestinians suing Britain over 1917 Balfour Declaration

The Levant News -- Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki asked the Arab League summit gathered in Mauritania on Monday to help the PA file a lawsuit against the British government over the Balfour Declaration, which allowed thousands of Jews to come to Palestine at the expense of the Palestinians. Malki further blamed the United […]

NATO versus the EU?

by Graham E. Fuller* -- The NATO summit is over. Most Americans unfailingly believe NATO generously serves EU interests. Yet many Europeans don’t see it that way. They fear that NATO actually undermines a balanced Europe. Is it NATO with the EU? Or NATO versus the EU? The two organizations were created by different states […]

Expect More Violence in the Post-Brexit UK

By Dr. Maha Hosain Aziz* -- Well, that really was a close one. On June 23, over 51 percent of voting citizens shockingly opted for the U.K. to leave the EU. They effectively voted against the status quo, the “entire political class” and globalization. But what’s next for the country, post-Brexit? Political risk will be […]

Brexit- Whistling Past the Graveyard

The Levant News - by Graham E. Fuller -- What an irony that Great Britain should be the one country in the world to deliver what could be the coup de grâce to the modern European order and to a meaningful Atlantic relationship. It is incredible that the population of the UK should have so […]

'Explosive shock' as Britain votes to leave EU, Cameron quits

BY GUY FAULCONBRIDGE AND KATE HOLTON for REUTERS -- Britain voted to leave the European Union, forcing the resignation of Prime Minister David Cameron and dealing the biggest blow to the European project of greater unity since World War Two. Global financial markets plunged on Friday as results from a referendum showed a 52-48 percent […]

Queen's birthday: Nine surprising facts about Elizabeth II

By Olivia Blair for The Independent -- From the countless television programmes, newspapers and photographers which have chronicled the Queen’s life over the past 90 years the public would be forgiven for thinking they know pretty much all there is to know about the longest-reigning monarch in British history. However, there still seems to be […]

Activating the Sleepers: ISIS Adopts a New Strategy in Europe

By Christoph Reuter in Beirut for Spiegel -- Last week's attacks in Brussels show that Islamic State has built up a sophisticated network of terrorists that goes well beyond al-Qaida's capabilities. It is now able to strike using sleepers who have not yet been identified by security officials. They chose the perfect moment. Just as […]

Trump wants to leave U.S. allies in the lurch

By Bill Schneider for Reuters -- Thanks to Donald Trump, Americans now know what a populist foreign policy looks like: “Not isolationist, but America First.” That’s how the Republican presidential front-runner defined his views to an interviewer last week. “I like the expression,” Trump said, implying that he had never encountered the term “America First” […]

UNHCR won't work in Greek 'detention centers' in swipe at EU-Turkey deal

THE LEVANT NEWS -- LESBOS, GREECE | BY KAROLINA TAGARIS FOR REUTERS -- The United Nations refugee agency said on Monday it would not operate in "detention centers" on the Greek island of Lesbos for migrants and refugees arriving from Turkey, dealing a blow to the European Union's agreement with Ankara last week. The UNHCR […]

EU's Mogherini in tears over Brussels attacks

AMMAN (AFP) - EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini broke down in tears Tuesday after talking about the deadly attacks in Brussels, cutting short a news conference in Jordan. The bombings marked "a very sad day for Europe as Europe and its capital is suffering the same pain that this region has known and knows […]

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