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Russia confirms 28,486 daily COVID-19 cases

Russia

MOSCOW, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) — Russia registered 28,486 new coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours, taking the nationwide tally to 10,131,646, the official monitoring and response center said Thursday. The nationwide death toll from COVID-19 increased by 1,133 to 294,024, while the number of recoveries increased by 37,155 to 8,876,788. Meanwhile, Moscow, Russia’s worst-hit … Read more

Google uncovered years-long ‘indiscriminate’ iPhone hack

tech giant

Google security experts uncovered an “indiscriminate” hacking operation that targeted iPhones over a period of at least two years and used websites to implant malicious software to access photos, user locations and other data. In a post Thursday on the blog of Google´s Project Zero security task force, cyber experts did not name the hacked … Read more

Sales tax return has now restricted to one page: Shabbar Zaidi

Chairman FBR inaugurates new tax monitoring system

Chairman Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Shabbar Zaidi on Wednesday said that the time has come for us now to stand on our feet. The FBR chairman was talking to newsmen after addressing convention of the Management Association of Pakistan (MAP) in Karachi. Shabbar Zaidi said that the work has started now in an organized … Read more

US ‘very closely’ monitors the Kashmir situation: White House

US monitors Kashmir situation

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Donald Trump meet in France this weekend, the US President will likely want to hear how PM Modi plans to “reduce regional tensions” in the aftermath of India’s decision to end special status to J&K and split it into two union territories, a White House official said. They added … Read more