SAN JUAN: A Canadian company announced Tuesday that its US subsidiary submitted applications to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to mine the seafloor, sparking outrage by bypassing a UN agency that regulates deep international waters. The Metals Company said that it was seeking two exploration licenses and a commercial recovery permit, marking the first […]
ADDIS ABABA: The World Food Programme said Tuesday that it was suspending aid for 650,000 malnourished women and children in Ethiopia because of a lack of funding.The UN agency warned they were among 3.6 million people in Ethiopia who would no longer have access to food aid in the coming weeks without urgent new funding.“WFP […]
File photo: US homeland security secretary Kristi Noem (Picture credit: AP) Dozens of staffers at the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), including acting administrator Cameron Hamilton, have recently undergone lie detector tests as part of a widening department of homeland security (DHS) crackdown on alleged leaks of national security information, according to CNN.The polygraphs, […]
KEW: For the first time in MI5’s 115-year history, the famous UK spy agency is revealing some of its secrets in a London show featuring confessions from double agents and James Bond-like gadgets.Under the spotlight is Karl Muller, one of the first major enemies captured by the domestic intelligence agency in 1915, and his fruity […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has appointed former navy commander Eli Sharvit as the next head of the domestic security agency, his office announced Monday, despite the Supreme Court halting the dismissal of the current chief.“After extensive interviews with seven qualified candidates, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to appoint former navy commander, Admiral Reservist […]
An 86-year-old woman from Queens is at risk of losing her home after the city’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) hit her with a staggering $22,828.71 water bill, an amount she insisted is completely inaccurate.Margaret McGowan, who has lived in her modest Tudor-style house in Flushing for 50 years, says she had never paid more […]
