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According to FT's report, the surveillance system is installed on subsea cable landing stations, which allows India's security agencies to snoop on the personal data and communications of its 1.4 billion citizens. Israel-based Septier has reportedly sold its lawful interception technology to telecoms groups including Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio, the Vodafone Idea, and Singapore’s Singtel. According to the promotional video of Septier, its technology extracts “voice, messaging services, web surfing and email correspondence" of targets.

Titanic, citing a federal law and an international agreement that treat the shipwreck as a hallowed gravesite. The expedition is being organized by RMS Titanic Inc., the Georgia-based firm that owns the salvage rights to the world's most famous shipwreck. The company exhibits artifacts that have been recovered from the wreck site at the bottom of the North Atlantic, from silverware to a piece of the Titanic's hull. The government's challenge comes more than two months after the Titan submersible imploded near the sunken ocean liner, killing five people.

Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Pathaan will release in Japan on 1 September. When released in India this January, it had made over Rs. 543 crore in domestic box office collections, emerging as the highest grossing original Hindi film till date.

A British parliamentary committee is pressuring the government to axe plans that would allow artificial intelligence developers to freely train their systems on existing works of music, literature and art. 

Also read: Highly mutated COVID variant BA.2.86 detected in 2 more countries, but 'pandemic in a different phase’, says WHO The BA.2.86 lineage, which was initially detected in Denmark last month, boasts over 35 mutations in significant portions of the virus when compared to the XBB.1.5 variant, which had been the predominant strain throughout most of 2023. The United States, Switzerland, and Israel have also reported cases of this new variant.

Jewish Independent, after the war, Sinclair started the Sinclair Bros. Garage and Auto Wrecking in Richmond with his youngest brother Joe, and ended up bringing numerous family members to B.C.In the 1960s he moved to Los Angeles with his wife seeking a drier climate for health reasons, but eventually moved back to British Columbia.

G20 Summit in India is all set to commence on September 9 in the national capital. The summit will be held for two days and will be joined by representatives of member nations as well as guest nations who will engage in discussions about diverse economic reforms. The summit will be concluded on September 10 with the adoption of a G20 Leaders' Declaration.

COVID-19 has been detected for the first time in Canada, British Columbia health officials said on Tuesday.The variant, dubbed BA.2.86, was confirmed in the Fraser Health region, and involves a person who had not travelled outside the province, according to a joint statement from provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix.“So far, there does not seem to be increased severity with this strain of COVID and the individual is not hospitalized,” the statement reads.The new variant was first detected in Denmark in July, and has since been confirmed in several countries including the United States.The World Health Organization has classified BA.2.86 as a “variant under monitoring” due to the presence of a large number of mutations.The agency described variants under monitoring as those that show early signs of a “growth advantage” compared to more dominant circulating variants, and which require further evidence of their possible impact.“It was not unexpected for BA.2.86 to show up in Canada and the province.

British officials are warning organisations about integrating artificial intelligence-driven chatbots into their businesses, saying that research has increasingly shown that they can be tricked into performing harmful tasks. In a pair of blog posts due to be published Wednesday, Britain's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said that experts had not yet got to grips with the potential security problems tied to algorithms that can generate human-sounding interactions — dubbed large language models, or LLMs.

crisis hotline for the first time sent a message between the world's superpowers. Communicated by Washington to Moscow, the message dated August 30, 1963 was more about testing every letter of the English keyboard than about addressing immediate conflict: «THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE LAZY DOG'S BACK 1234567890.» But since then, the famed hotline has worked to manage tensions — or to send warnings — between Washington and Moscow, whose relations have plunged to new lows over Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The hotline became reality in the wake of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, with president John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev agreeing that the world came too close to nuclear war. Never a literal telephone as depicted in movies, the hotline was originally a clunky telegraph machine with cables under the Atlantic and Europe that each side would test every hour. The Pentagon, which managed US communications, would often send trivia such as baseball scores while the Kremlin preferred excerpts from classic Russian literature, Howard Patrick, a linguist who helped operate the first machine, said in a 2014 interview with the Pioneer Press in Minnesota. He said there was shock when the hotline was first put to actual use — a message from the United States to officially inform the Soviets that Kennedy had been assassinated in Dallas. The tool's first use to avert conflict took place in 1967 during the Six-Day War in the Middle East.

The figures by fund manager Janus Henderson estimated that 88% of companies globally had either increased their dividends or held them steady in Q2, resulting in $568.1 billion worth of worldwide payouts since the start of the year. The fastest growth came in Europe, where a number of countries such Italy and Spain have introduced or are looking at windfall taxes on bumper profits made by banks and energy firms on the back of rising interest rates and energy prices. Dividends were up nearly 10% to $184.5 billion. That did not including Britain, where the quarterly total dropped to $30.7 billion from last year's $34.9 billion, when oil and gas firms saw a leap in payments after Russia's invasion of Ukraine sent commodity prices surging. This time around, the surge in global interest rates meant banks contributed half the world's dividend growth and drove a quarter of Europe's increase.

Canada has detected its first case of coronavirus infection from the highly mutated BA.2.86 variant of Omicron in a person in British Columbia who had not traveled outside the Pacific province, health officials said on Tuesday. The individual is not hospitalized, and the detection of BA.2.86 virus has not changed the risk to people in British Columbia, the province's top doctor, Bonnie Henry, and Health Minister Adrian Dix said in a joint statement. «It was not unexpected for BA.2.86 to show up in Canada and the province,» they said. "COVID-19 continues to spread globally, and the virus continues to adapt." The BA.2.86 lineage, first detected in Denmark last month, carries more than 35 mutations in key portions of the virus compared with XBB.1.5, the dominant variant through most of 2023.

Authorities say a technical failure that saw hundreds of flights delayed and canceled across the U.K. was caused by problems in some flight data received by Britain’s national air traffic controllers and was not a cyberattack

Flight Centre expects a return to “more favourable dynamics for travellers” after reporting record performance in corporate travel, taking its total sales to their second-highest level ever.

London’s traffic cameras are under attack

A London project to create the world’s largest low-emission zone took effect on Tuesday as authorities imposed a daily charge on the most-polluting vehicles, triggering a debate between those who see the move as a sensible step to clean up the air and those who say it amounts to a war on cars. While several big European cities like Berlin and Paris also impose charges on polluting cars and trucks, London has been a pioneer on the issue. It became the first major European city to force drivers to pay a congestion fee in 2003.

Andrew Forrest, Fortescue’s executive chairman, who is currently facing questions over high executive turnover at his companies, has offered advisory work to former British chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng.

G20 Summit gets underway in New Delhi next week under India's presidency. The September 8-10 meeting will see more than 30 heads of delegations, including the presidents of USA, China, France, UK and Brazil, and leaders of invitee countries from Southeast Asia, South Asia and the Arab world, debate pressing global issues, according to officials. The summit is being seen as a major achievement of the Indian government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is expected to hold meetings with each of the visiting leaders.

International leisure travellers are gradually returning to India, Australia’s Intrepid Travel, which offers services to small groups of travellers for overseas vacations, said. India is the company’s second largest market where tourists from Australia, the US, and the UK arrive in large numbers. In 2021, France-based family office Genairgy, owned by Julien Leclercq, a board member and shareholder of global sports retailer Decathlon, had picked up a significant minority stake of 30% in Intrepid.

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deadly substance online to those at risk of self-harm.York Regional Police Insp. Simon James told reporters on Tuesday that Kenneth Law has now been charged with a total of 14 counts of counselling or aiding suicide within the province of Ontario.James alleges Law operated several websites selling sodium nitrite — a substance which can be lethal in large doses.Sodium nitrite is a white, crystalline substance used as a food additive and typically found in processed meats.