China has called on Pakistan to protect Chinese workers after a resurgence in militant violence that has targeted some of Beijing’s $60bn of investments in the country. Two Chinese engineers were killed this month in a bomb attack by ethnic separatists on a convoy leaving Karachi’s international airport. Those in the convoy were employees of … Read more
TDI experts answer Texans’ top auto insurance questions. What should auto insurance cost, and what’s the best kind to get? To answer a question about cost, you need to know what a policy covers first. TDI’s automotive insurance guide can help, and there’s a policy comparison tool at www.opic.texas.gov. It’s important to know what you … Read more
Implications for the United Kingdom and Cyprus On 2 September 2024, the United Kingdom Foreign Secretary David Lammy faced a series of questions in Parliament on the UK’s arms and surveillance support to Israel through its military bases in Cyprus. Referring to the recent decisions by the International Court of Justice (ICJ or Court), the … Read more
Perfectl Malware Perfectl in an impressive piece of malware: The malware has been circulating since at least 2021. It gets installed by exploiting more than 20,000 common misconfigurations, a capability that may make millions of machines connected to the Internet potential targets, researchers from Aqua Security said. It can also exploit CVE-2023-33246, a vulnerability with … Read more
Professor Steve Peers, Royal Holloway University of London Photo credit: viewsridge, via Wikimedia commons Introduction Along with judgments on Afghan women asylum seekers (discussed here) and the status of Turkey as a ‘safe third country’ (discussed here), the Court of Justice of the European Union recently gave its first judgment interpreting the substance … Read more
