Apple revving work on electric car
San Francisco (AFP) Sept 21, 2015 -
Apple aims to have an electric car on the road some time in the year 2019, according to a report on Monday in the Wall Street Journal.
The Journal report, which cited unnamed sources, came amid persistent rumors that Apple is secretly working to put its iconic brand on a high-tech automobile.
The California company has declined to comment on the reports.
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VW scandal: Could the same happen in Europe?
Washington (AFP) Sept 21, 2015 -
The non-profit group which helped expose Volkswagen's deceit on emissions of its diesel cars in the United States said Monday that the same issue could exist in Europe.
In an interview with AFP, Drew Kodjak, executive director of the International Council on Clean Transportation, which works to reduce pollution in air, land and sea transportation, said the growing sophistication of cars heig ...
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Kremlin-backed hackers spying on Europe, Asia, US: cybersecurity firm
Helsinki (AFP) Sept 17, 2015 -
Russia has been sponsoring systematic cyberespionage in Europe, the US and Asia for seven years, Finnish data security firm F-Secure claimed in a report published on Thursday.
The report "links a number of state-sponsored cyber attacks to a hacking group engaged in Russian intelligence gathering," F-Secure said in a statement.
The report identified a group of hackers called "the Dukes" ...
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Youths in military uniform march through Warsaw on Soviet invasion anniversary
Warsaw (AFP) Sept 17, 2015 -
Around 5,000 Polish youths wearing military uniform and carrying Kalashnikov replicas marched through Warsaw Thursday, pledging to come to their country's aid if necessary amid concern over Russian activity in neighbouring Ukraine.
The unprecedented rally took place 76 years to the day after the Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland at the start of World War II - just weeks after Nazi German ...
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Netanyahu to visit White House for 'make up' summit
Washington (AFP) Sept 17, 2015 -
US President Barack Obama will host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on November 9 - their first meeting after a deep row over the Iranian nuclear deal.
The fence-mending meeting, announced by the White House on Wednesday, comes as US-Israeli relations are at their lowest point in decades.
Obama and Netanyahu - after years of frosty personal relations --- cl ...
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Japan lawmakers scuffle over controversial security bills
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 17, 2015 -
Japanese lawmakers scuffled Thursday as they tried - and failed - to stop the security bill that could see the military fight abroad for the first time in decades.
Opposition lawmakers climbed on top of one another as they tried to grab the committee chairman's microphone to prevent him calling a vote on the controversial bills.
In scenes uncommon for Japan's normally sedate parliamen ...
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Inside Cold War Oval Office: CIA releases intel briefs
Washington (AFP) Sept 17, 2015 -
On October 30, 1962 President John F. Kennedy received a secret CIA briefing on the first results of his diplomatic dance with Nikita Khrushchev to end the Cuban missile crisis.
Now, thanks to a major release of previously classified CIA documents, Cold War historians can read along with him the daily memos he and his successor Lyndon B. Johnson received.
The 1960s were tumultuous years, ...
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