1,116 Results for:

December 3, 2014

Cybersecurity
China and the Power Grid: Hacking and Getting Hacked

Two weeks ago, Admiral Mike Rogers, head of U.S. Cyber Command and the director of the National Security Agency, told a congressional panel that China and "one or two" other countries would be capabl…

National Security Agency (NSA) Director Michael Rogers testifies before a House (Select) Intelligence Committee hearing on "Cybersecurity Threats: The Way Forward" on Capitol Hill in Washington on November 20, 2014. (Joshua Roberts/Courtesy Reuters)

July 23, 2015

Iraq
Underground Railroad to Save Yazidi Women from the Islamic State Could Offer Critical Intel

It has been nearly a year since the self-proclaimed Islamic State kidnapped an estimated three thousand Yazidi women and children during an attack on their villages in northern Iraq. The Islamic Stat…

March 1, 2014

United States
Ukraine and Iran

Today’s news from Ukraine is grim. It’s increasingly clear that Putin believes he has an opportunity to move in the Crimea, and perhaps to take eastern portions of Ukraine for Russia, while destabili…

April 20, 2011

Thailand
Freedom on the Net 2011

People use computers at an internet cafe in Wuhan, Hubei province, January 23, 2010. (Stringer Shanghai/Courtesy Reuters) Freedom House this week released its annual report on Freedom on the Net . O…

People use computers at an internet cafe in Wuhan, Hubei province, January 23, 2010.

April 30, 2020

COVID-19
Coronavirus in South Asia, April 30, 2020: India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh Begin Easing Restrictions

Although coronavirus cases in India, Pakistan, and across the region have not increased as quickly as some feared (so far), South Asia's economies are struggling deeply. Sri Lanka and the Maldives ex…

A ferry barge packed with people and vehicles