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Palestinians Offer New Details of Israel's Botched Gaza Raid | The New York Times

— by Faiz Ahmed — last modified Dec 12, 2018 08:43 AM
"It remains unclear what the Israeli team did inside Gaza. One official said they posed as aid workers, pretending to move disabled people to hospitals in a van. The team had a wheelchair, along with a member disguised as a disabled woman. They visited many houses and even rented an apartment in Gaza City, he said. ... When [Hamas commander] Nour Baraka ordered their detention for further questioning, the Israeli team opened fire and killed him. As the team fled, Hamas security men fired back, apparently killing the Israeli commander."
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114,000 Syrians returned home in 2018 | CTV

— by Faiz Ahmed — last modified Dec 12, 2018 08:35 AM
"Nearly 114,000 Syrian refugees have returned home this year, the Russian military said Tuesday, a mere fraction of the nearly 6 million who have fled the country since the start of the seven-year conflict. UN agencies said they need $5.5 billion in the coming year to support Syria's neighbours hosting the refugees. The UN said Tuesday that Syria's neighbours, Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan, Egypt and Iraq, are hosting the majority of the Syrian refugees, while dealing with their own economic and social challenges. The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said that over the last eight years around one million Syrian children were born in the region and registered as refugees."
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Five Eyes | Wikipedia

— by Faiz Ahmed — last modified Dec 07, 2018 05:26 PM
"In recent years, documents of the FVEY have shown that they are intentionally spying on one another's citizens and sharing the collected information with each other in order to circumvent restrictive domestic regulations on spying. ... The former NSA contractor Edward Snowden described the FVEY as a "supra-national intelligence organisation that doesn't answer to the laws of its own countries"
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CSIS director warns of state-sponsored espionage threat to 5G networks | The Globe and Mail

— by Faiz Ahmed — last modified Dec 07, 2018 05:22 PM
"Mr. Vigneault said large corporations typically hold the most valuable information but they try to put in state-of-the-art cyberdefences, while Canadian universities are largely unaware how they are vulnerable to economic espionage and the threat of infiltration by unnamed state actors who would use their expertise to gain an edge in military technologies. Huawei has developed research and development partnerships with many of Canada’s leading academic institutions. The CSIS director’s warnings come as the United States has mounted an intense campaign to convince Canada and other members of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance to bar Huawei from being involved in 5G mobile technology and software."
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The Guardian view on Huawei: the bigger story | The Guardian

— by Faiz Ahmed — last modified Dec 07, 2018 05:20 PM
"Now New Zealand and Australia have joined the US in barring Chinese equipment in the rollout of 5G networks ... The issue is especially pointed for the remaining members of the “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance, Canada and the UK. The day before the arrest became public, Canada’s top spy warned of the risks of state-sponsored espionage in areas such as 5G mobile networks."
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Marc Lépine Didn’t Want to Kill Women, He Wanted to Kill Feminists | Anne Thériault

— by Roxanne Dubois — last modified Dec 06, 2018 12:50 PM
"When Marc Lépine walked into Montreal’s École Polytechnique on December 6, 1989, he was there to kill feminists. He was very specific about this, both in the manifesto he wrote and the things he said as he rampaged through the school. “You’re all a bunch of feminists. I hate feminists,” he spat when one of his victims tried to defend herself and her classmates. His suicide note blamed feminists for ruining his life and included a list of 19 “radical feminists” that he would have killed if he’d had time."
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