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*Following Newspaper Report Microsoft is investigating how Israel’s military surveillance agency, Unit 8200, is using its Azure cloud storage platform, amid concerns the company’s staff in Israel may have concealed key details about its work on sensitive military projects. Senior executives are scrambling to assess what data Unit 8200 holds in Azure after a UK Guardian investigation revealed how the spy agency has used the cloud platform to store a vast collection of intercepted Palestinian mobile phone calls. The joint investigation with the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and Hebrew-language outlet Local Call found Unit 8200 has used a customised and…

Twin cathedral bells rang in unison in Nagasaki, Japan, for the first time in 80 years today, August 9, commemorating the moment the city was destroyed by an American atomic bomb. The two bells rang out at Immaculate Conception cathedral, also called the Urakami cathedral, at 11.02am, the moment the bomb was dropped on August 9, 1945, three days after a nuclear attack on Hiroshima,also in Japan. The imposing redbrick building, with its twin bell towers atop a hill, was rebuilt in 1959 after it was almost completely destroyed in the monstrous explosion just a few hundred metres away. Only…

*As Tragedy Rocks Family Within Months The family of the dead pilot of the military helicopter that crashed on Wednesday in Ghana killing the country's Defence Minister, Dr Edward Kofi Boamah, his cabinet colleague, and other top officials, has lost three siblings in the last couple of months. The country has declared three days of mourning with investigation ongoing into the cause of the mishap. In a tragic tale on the pilot's family, the pilot, Squadron Leader Peter Abaafeme Anala, had recently lost two siblings before he perished in the crash. The first was on March 31, 2025, when his…