US Dramatically Ramps Up Bombing Campaign Against Small Boats in the Waters of Latin America

UK High Court Backs Facial Recognition Rollout Authored by Kit Knightly via OffGuardian.org, Yesterday evening, the UK’s High Court ruled in favour of the Metropolitan Police in a legal challenge pertaining to the use of Live Facial Recognition Technology (LFR) across London’s transport network. The case had been brought by Silkie Carlo of Big Brother Watch and Shaun Thompson, a youth worker who was previously misidentified by the technology, “over concerns it could be used arbitrarily or in a discriminatory way”. Specifically, their lawyers argued that the current powers claimed by police governing the...

Israeli forces continued to carry out attacks on southern Lebanon, even as they geared up for yet another round of talks with the Lebanese government in the wake of more than half a dozen agreements with them that failed to do anything to stop the ongoing war. Airstrikes were reported in Baraachit and Beit Yahoun, […]

US Africa Command said in a press release on Monday that its forces launched another airstrike in Somalia on April 9, marking at least the 53rd US bombing in the country this year. AFRICOM said the strike targeted al-Shabaab about 80 miles northwest of the southern port city of Kismayo in Lower Juba, Somalia’s southernmost […]