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Microsoft services including Outlook, Teams and Copilot suffered a worldwide outage on Thursday, disrupting access for tens of thousands of users across 74 countries and territories. The company blamed elevated infrastructure loads and said it was working to restore services, but recovery remained limited hours later.
A London court has found two Iranian citizens guilty of surveilling reporters for a Persian-language television station critical of Iran's goverment. One was also convicted of planning a violent attack against them.
The pair were promised rewards to send intelligence back to Iran, while one was prepared to commit a 'violent attack'.
Two Iranian men convicted of spying in Britain as France accuses the IRGC of cyberattacks and UAE officials warn of Iranian sleeper cells abroad.
Mostafa Sepahvand and Farhad Javadi Manesh carried out surveillance in an effort to inflict violence on three people Two men of Iranian origin who were hired through social media as part of a plan to “eliminate” journalists in the UK have been found guilty of engaging in conduct likely to assist Tehran’s intelligence services. Mostafa Sepahvand, 41, and Farhad Javadi Manesh, 46, carried out surveillance and reconnaissance between August 2024 and March last year in an attempt to inflict violen...
In a secret ballot on Wednesday, the UN General Assembly voted for Iran to join the Committee for Programme and Coordination.
The trial exposed an operation in which Iranian agents offered money and inducements to so-called 'proxies' in order to target their enemies in the UK but never found their targets.
Two Iranian nationals who arrived in the UK illegally have been found guilty of spying for their country in the first case of its kind.
Good morning. I’m Luca Bertuzzi, holding the pen for today’s newsletter. In this edition, leaders from across the world are flocking to Dublin for the European Political Community summit, where the war in Ukraine looms large, while the latest EU-UK draft statement significantly softened its wording.
A Palestinian American activist has been refused entry to the UK to attend his charity’s annual Gaza fundraiser.
The US has accused three men linked to Iran of masterminding a "campaign of terror" against Jewish targets in the UK and Europe, as well as a thwarted plot at RAF Fairford.
US prosecutors claim the three men were planning a "campaign of terror" against Jewish communities and a UK airbase. The Fairford incident prompted the US to pull out its bombers used for operations against Iran.
Seventy years ago today, on November 7, 1956, Britain and France were forced into a humiliating ceasefire in Egypt. The Suez Crisis was over. Despite capturing the Suez Canal with ease just a week earlier, a failure to secure US support ended the military operation, and ended Britain’s 300-year status as a global superpower. Earlier in 1956, newly-elected Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser promised to industrialise his country. But, after the US pulled out of a funding agreement, Egypt had...
Britain’s ambassador to Israel is honorary president of organisation counting among its members arms firms with $12 billion in Israeli military contracts for operations in Gaza
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Genocide-denying former Israel spokesman Eylon Levy has been accused of threatening UK and US journalists over Gaza. Certainly, Levi’s language is deeply sinister. Levi began with an X post about the IOF putting its “crosshairs” on four journalists: Brits Piers Morgan and Owen Jones, British-born US journalist Mehdi Hasan, and US commentator Hasan Piker. Certainly […] By Skwawkbox
The UK foreign secretary’s announcement of a “double lock” on arms sales to Israel earlier this month has had no impact, with the government declining to suspend any existing licences, despite reports suggesting otherwise. On 8 September, Ed Miliband announced the double lock during a Commons speech on banning settlement trade. He said the government […] By The Canary
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