Articles from July 2020

Former MI6 officer ‘encouraged Russian oligarch to give evidence against Trump campaign’

Former MI6 officer ‘encouraged Russian oligarch to give evidence against Trump campaign’

Christopher Steele, the former MI6 officer who attracted Donald Trump’s fury for drafting a dossier of allegations about collusion with Moscow, was involved in efforts to flip a high-profile Russian oligarch, according to newly released…

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World’s largest biometric ID system approved by Indian court as 1 billion enroll for welfare and tax

India’s Supreme Court ruled that the country’s controversial biometric identity scheme, the world’s largest, is constitutional and does not violate the right to privacy. The court however curtailed the scope of the Aadhaar identification scheme, declaring that…

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