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Official statistics, compiled by Campaign Against Arms Trade reveal that the UK government licensed £3.3 billion worth of arms to Saudi Arabia in the first 12 months of the Saudi-led bombing of Yemen.
A murderous attack on disabled people in Japan has brought condemnation and condolences from the World Council of Churches.
Amnesty International has expressed concern at reports that the Turkish authorities have issued arrest warrants for 42 journalists.
Bread for the World President, the Rev David Beckmann, addressed faith activists and delegates yesterday at the Democratic National Convention on the importance of ending hunger.
This week’s tragic attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida is a deeply painful reminder of how much we have failed to honestly confront the problem of school shootings in America.
Putting up “Gun-Free Zone” signs is not a solution. It is an act of self-deception. By definition, the determined killers carry their guns past the signs. They are not slowed down for one second by community sentiment.
The current strategies of responding to a violent threat by either freezing students in place or accelerating student evacuation both carry seeds of disaster. Freezing the students in place simply sets them up to be killed methodically by a brutal, evil, or mentally ill person. Having them flee may lead them to run rig...
In Day of Wrath, a novel by Bill Forstchen, there is a vivid description of how dangerous our current school policies are in setting up the innocent to be killed. In this stunning depiction of a methodical radical Islamist assault targeting American schools, the moral and intellectual dead-end of the current policies i...
America is not going to become gun-free. Firearm specific bans, such as bans on semi-automatic rifles, won’t have an impact because the majority of mass shootings in the United States are committed with semi-automatic handguns. In fact, the deadliest school shooting in our history, in April 2007 at Virginia Tech, was c...
Mental health-focused “solutions” are incompatible with civil liberties. America is not going to adopt laws to apprehend or restrict every person who might become dangerous. That would trap hundreds or even thousands of innocent people to try to stop the few truly deranged, dangerous people. Each killer’s threat is muc...
After each wave of killings, we wring our hands, say strong words and do little.
The fact is, evil people with guns must be stopped by good people with guns.
Furthermore, the faster good people can respond, the fewer innocent people will be killed.
Every school in America should have several teachers and administrators trained in firearms who are permitted to carry concealed weapons. The number of these “protectors of the innocent” in each school should be determined by the number of students. Agreeing to serve in this role might be encouraged with an appropriate...
Because these protectors would have concealed weapons and not be in uniform, would-be killers would have no idea who might be capable of ending their threat by ending them.
This idea is the same principle behind the Federal Air Marshal Service, which was rapidly expanded after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. We don’t rely on gun-free zone propaganda to protect our airports and airplanes; we rely on countervailing force. Furthermore, because air marshals are unidentifiable (they ...
If we are really serious about protecting our children, we must have trained and equipped protectors prepared to handle this type of situation whenever there are school activities. The Parkland school had an armed officer assigned to the campus, but the officer never encountered the shooter and was not able to respond ...
Instead, teachers and administrators serving as protectors could complement and support the dedicated officer or security personnel who are already serving in many schools. This combination of using uniformed police officers to handle standard school security challenges, while also having responsible adult protectors w...
Newt Gingrich is a contributor to Fox News and a former Speaker of the House.
Nasir Adderley's 92-yard touchdown on a kickoff return at New Hampshire was ESPN's top play on Saturday.
Nasir Adderley has a slew of new wanna-be friends on Instagram and would-be Twitter followers this week.
All he really wanted was a touchdown, and the University of Delaware senior got that.
The national fanfare and social-media interest that followed are the consequences of modern-day, instantaneous stardom. That’s what greeted Adderley after ESPN’s SportsCenter named his return No. 1 in its list of top plays around college football Saturday.
It wasn’t so much the 92-yard runback that caught viewers’ attention. It was the hard hit that Adderley delivered on New Hampshire reserve safety Matt Sherlock, the first would-be tackler to greet him at Wildcat Stadium in Durham. Adderley then stood there for a moment over the toppled Sherlock.
“I thought I was out of bounds, so that’s why I hesitated,” said Adderley, who was at the Delaware 22-yard line.
Teammate Malcolm Brown then urged Adderley to keep going, he said. Adderley escaped from a swarm of UNH tacklers, cut toward the middle of the field and dashed to the end zone.
The SportsCenter tweet with video of Adderley’s return included the description “Trucked him so hard on the way to a TD everybody stopped.” As of Wednesday morning, it had been retweeted almost 12,000 times and had more than 37,600 likes.
Some viewers, typically, mistook Delaware for Michigan because of the similar helmet pattern and colors but were quickly corrected.
Delaware was lined up expecting an onside kick with 10 players well in front of Adderley.
Special teams coach Clint Sintim was yelling for Adderley to go down after getting the ball. Head coach Danny Rocco was urging him to make a fair catch.
Adderley, who has started all 40 games of his Delaware career as a cornerback and safety, also scored a touchdown as a sophomore on a 22-yard interception return at Albany. He is a cousin of Pro Football Hall-of-Famer Herb Adderley, a cornerback with the Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys from 1961-72. They speak reg...
This one came right after New Hampshire had pulled within 31-14 on Kyle Reisert’s 55-yard fumble return with 13:29 left and quickly put Delaware back in charge in the 38-14 win.
Later Saturday night, his cellphone started “blowing up,” said Adderley, a Philadelphia resident who attended Great Valley High. His mother, Ria, was the first person to tell him about his SportsCenter distinction.
“That definitely made me feel good,” he said.
It was also the second time Adderley had done it.
Last year, his tumbling, one-handed interception in Delaware’s 18-17 loss at Towson — another video feast for the eyes — had also made the top of the ESPN list.
This was far better, for good reason.
Quarterback Pat Kehoe was cleared to return to the game at New Hampshire after injuring his knee early in the fourth quarter, but Rocco said he preferred to play it safe and stuck with backup J.P. Caruso. X-rays and an MRI didn’t reveal a serious injury and though the knee is sore, Kehoe is expected to play this week. ...
Senior wide receiver Jamie Jarmon missed the New Hampshire game with a hip injury and will also likely be sidelined against Towson.
Blue Hen Touchdown Club MVPs from the New Hampshire game were wide receiver Gene Coleman II (offense), defensive end Cam Kitchen (defense) and special-teamers Adderley and Troy Reeder.
Offensive coordinator/running backs coach Matt Simon will speak at Friday’s Blue Hen Touchdown Club luncheon at noon at the Carpenter Center.
COFFS Coast is on flood watch.
Heavy downpours throughout yesterday led to a warning of flash flooding from the Bureau of Meteorology.
Forecasters say a deep trough lying off the north coast will intensify into a low-pressure system, dumping more heavy rain over the next 48 hours.
The system, which is swelling rivers, creeks and drains on the Coffs Coast, has led to a 70 per cent chance of flooding along the Orara, Bellingen, Nambucca and Clarence Rivers and Coffs Creek before Saturday.
Coffs Harbour bureau weather observer Roger Brown said flash flooding is expected once the weather system reaches its full potential.
“It is one of these coastal lows that forms off our area bringing strong south-easterly winds and heavy rains,” Mr Brown said.
“It is similar to the low that brought flooding to the south coast earlier this week and flash floods are expected between Yamba and Taree through until Saturday,” he said.
Coffs Harbour yesterday received 4mm of rain between 6am and 9am, while a further 15mm fell up until 3pm.
The heaviest falls came last night and downpours are set to continue today with predictions 200mm could fall for the week.
In the event of flooding the SES can be reached on 132 500.
A Belgian court today found two Rwandan nuns guilty of war crimes in the African nation's 1994 genocide in which more than 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered.
The jury convicted the Roman Catholic nuns, Sisters Gertrude and Maria, of most of the counts of homicide against them. They were charged with helping Hutu extremists kill more than 5,000 people at their convent.
In the landmark ruling--the first time a civilian jury in one country has judged suspected war criminals from another nation--the 12-member jury also delivered guilty verdicts against two other defendants, college professor Vincent Ntezimana and factory owner Alphonse Higaniro.
A 1993 Belgian law gives Belgian courts jurisdiction over violations of the Geneva Convention on war crimes, no matter where they were committed.
Meanwhile, a U.N. court investigating the 1994 genocide delivered its first "not guilty" verdict Thursday, acquitting a former mayor of involvement in the massacre.
Judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania, acquitted Ignace Bagilishema of nine counts of genocide and crimes against humanity.
Bagilishema was mayor of Mabanza in Kibuye province in western Rwanda during the genocide.
The tribunal's three judges were unanimous in their decision on eight of the charges. Two out of three found him not guilty on the charge of complicity in the genocide.
The prosecution alleged that Bagilishema, 46, knowingly sent thousands of Tutsi refugees to Kibuye, where there were arrangements to have them killed.
* THE DRAW: This region could be like taking candy from a, well, a candy machine for No. 1-seeded Arizona, which outscored No. 2 Kansas by 38 points in the last 25 minutes of a game Jan. 25, one day after several sweet-toothed Wildcat players allegedly ransacked a vending machine. No. 3 Duke failed to gain a No. 1 seed...
* BEST FIRST-ROUND GAME: No. 7 Memphis vs. No. 10 Arizona State. Sun Devil center Ike Diogu, 19, gives up six years to Chris Massie, 25, of Memphis, but nothing else. Diogu scored in double figures in every game this season. Point guard Antonio Burks, 23, and sixth man John Grice, 23, are other veterans on a Memphis te...
* SLEEPER: There is unprecedented excitement in Omaha over tiny Creighton. Coach Dana Altman, whose name has surfaced for the anticipated UCLA opening, uses a 10-player rotation led by All-American candidate and three-point shooting specialist Kyle Korver. Creighton should handle Central Michigan and 7-foot center Chri...
* UPSET IN THE MAKING: Gonzaga over Cincinnati. It wouldn't be much of a shocker, but the Bulldogs could romp if they catch Cincinnati on one of its frequent lackluster shooting days. Gonzaga should bring a large contingent of fans to Salt Lake City, making a second-round game against Arizona a marquee event.
* IMPACT COACH: Mike Krzyzewski of Duke. Three national championships and nine Final Fours give him the edge over fellow coaching legends Lute Olson of Arizona (one title, five Final Fours) and Roy Williams of Kansas (zero titles, three Final Fours).
* IMPACT PLAYER: Nick Collison. The Kansas senior is in the mold of other experienced big men who dominate the tournament on their way out the door to the NBA. The 6-9 Collison runs the floor well and should give the Jayhawks an edge in a potential Sweet 16 matchup against Duke.
* THE PICK: Arizona. The Wildcats provided Steve Lavin with his last victory as UCLA coach, but should regroup and march to the Final Four. This supplies Lavin in his next job with a ready-made uplifting saga, a sure-fire way of convincing unsuspecting listeners his last Bruin season was a rousing success.
Key: PPG-points per game; PA-Points allowed per game; FG%-Field goal percentage; 3-PT%-3-point field goal percentage; PPS-points per shot; RPG-Rebounds per game.
Gaining remote code execution in Hyper-V will see researchers earn a quarter of a million dollars.
Microsoft has added to its suite of bug bounties by launching its Windows bounty program that targets security holes in its Windows 10 Insider Preview slow ring.
The highest payout of the program will be $250,000 for an "original and previously unreported" functioning exploit within Hyper-V that allows for remote code execution and impacts the hypervisor and host kernel. However, the exploit needs to work on the latest release of the Windows Insider Preview slow ring.
"If a submission reproduces in a previous WIP Slow build but not the current WIP Slow at the time of your submission, then the submission is ineligible," Microsoft said in an explanatory note.
If a researcher reports an issue that is known to Microsoft and is the first external finder of the vulnerability, Microsoft said it will pay 10 percent of the highest amount due to them.
Remote code execution bugs found within a Windows Insider Preview, or the Edge web browser will gain up to $15,000, with privilege escalation, remote denial of service, and information disclosure exploits paid on a sliding scale down to $500.
In March, Microsoft launched its Office Insider Builds bug bounty program, for which researchers could earn up to $15,000 in the normal course of the program, with "certain submissions" able to gain in excess of $15,000. The program closed on June 15.
At the same time, Intel launched its first bug bounty program, with the chip giant promising to part with $7,500 for critical software bugs, $10,000 for critical firmware bugs, and up to $30,000 for each critical Intel hardware bug disclosed to the company.
Earlier this week, the Tor Project started a bounty program, with researchers able to gain up to $4,000 per report.
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court has temporarily intervened in a fight over DVD copying, and the justices could eventually use the case to decide how easy it will be for people to post software on the Internet that helps others copy movies.
More broadly, the case against a webmaster whose site offered a program to break DVD security codes could resolve how people can be sued for what they put online.
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor granted a stay last week to a group that licenses DVD encryption software to the motion picture industry, giving the court time to collect more arguments. She requested filings by later this week. The group has spent three years trying to stop illegal copying.
The case puts the court in the middle of a cyberspace legal boundary fight: Where can lawsuits involving the World Wide Web be filed?
Consumers' rights are pitted against industry copyright protection, with billions of dollars at stake, said Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies, a Silicon Valley consulting firm.
"All of us have felt this was going to be forced up the legal chain," he said.
The DVD industry wants the Supreme Court to use its case against a former webmaster to clarify where lawsuits can be filed.
New York technology analyst Richard Doherty said companies have delayed many new products, services and forms of entertainment because of the DVD industry's problems.
"The future of digital delivery has been on hold ever since this case first came," said Doherty, head of The Envisioneering Group. "They need to know it's going to be protected, it's not going to be ripped off seven seconds after being put on the Internet."
The issue of Internet jurisdiction has come up in Australia, where that country's highest court ruled recently that a businessman could sue for defamation over an article published in the United States and posted on the Internet.
The California Supreme Court ruled in November that the former webmaster, Matthew Pavlovich, cannot be sued for trade secret infringement in California. Justices said he could be sued in his home state of Texas, or in Indiana, where he was a college student when codes that allowed people to copy DVDs were posted on his...
The program was written by a teenager in Norway and is just one of many easily available programs that can break DVD security codes.
The ruling by a divided California court makes it harder for the industry to pursue people who use the Internet to share copyrighted material.
Pavlovich's attorney, Allonn Levy, said Monday that a group should not be allowed to "drag a student who's involved with a website into a forum that's halfway across the country." He said the case affects all people who use the Internet and businesses with sites on the Internet.
The California-based DVD Copy Control Association argued that California was the proper venue because of the movie industry's presence in that state. Lawyers for the association told the Supreme Court that the stay was needed to keep Pavlovich from reposting the decryption program on the Internet.
Germany will send a unified team to the Winter and Summer Olympics in 1992, the presidents of the two national Olympic committees announced Wednesday.
It will be the first time since the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo that Germany will compete with a unified team.
Willi Daume, president of the West German Olympic Committee, and Joachim Weiskopf, president of the counterpart East German organization, said the two national committees will merge in December to oversee the formation of a single team.
The union will follow the political merging of the two German states, expected in early December.
"We had no dissenting opinions whatsoever," Daume said. "The unification will be completed by the two Olympic committees in an orderly fashion. We will be working intensively together in the coming weeks."
The first appearance by the united German team in international athletics probably will be at an international competition at the World Indoor Track Championships in Seville, Spain, March 8-10, 1991, authorities in East Berlin said.
"We're moving ahead quickly for the sake of the athletes," Weiskopf said. "A fast merger is important in order to remove any uncertainty about who will make the team.
"As the two Germanys grow together there has been great concern over whether the athletes would feel shorted out of the competition for fewer places. Still we find great support among our sportsmen for forming one team from one country."

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