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(USA) Top US generals condemn Capitol assault in rare message to troops (Al Jazeera)

US Army’s Joint Chiefs of Staff warn any act that disrupts the constitutional process is against the law. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/13/top-us-generals-condemn-capitol-attack-in-message-to-troops

(USA) US gov’t carries out first execution of female inmate since 1953 (Al Jazeera)

Lisa Montgomery, 52, was pronounced dead at 1:31am after receiving a lethal injection at a federal prison in Indiana. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/13/us-carries-out-its-1st-execution-of-female-inmate-since-1953

(USA) YouTube suspends Trump channel, removes video (Al Jazeera)

Homepage of Trump’s channel featured a month-old video of Trump casting doubt on the voting process. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/13/youtube-suspends-trump-channel-removes-video

(USA) Parler: Amazon defends booting messaging app over violent content (Bloomberg, Al Jazeera)

Amazon suspended Parler after it was used by Trump supporters to organise storming of US Capitol last week. https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/1/13/bb-parleramazondefendsbooting-messaging-app-over-violent-content

(Sri Lanka) Sri Lanka jails former minister for saying judges are corrupt (Al Jazeera)

Ranjan Ramanayake, deputy minister of United National Party before it was voted out in 2019, claims he is being targeted for speaking out against...

(Deforestation, Land Use) Use pandemic to protect forests, WWF urges consumers, politicians (Al Jazeera)

The world has lost tropical forest equivalent to the size of California over a 13-year period, environmental group World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)...

(Israel, Syria) Israel carries out nearly 20 air raids in Syria: War monitor (Al Jazeera)

Israeli night raids which hit arms depots and military positions in eastern Syria killed at least five soldiers and 11 allied fighters, the Syrian...

(APT/Hacking) Sophisticated hacking campaign uses Windows and Android zero-days (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/113342/hacking/project-zero-watering-hole-attack.html

(Cyber Crime/Deep Web) Police took down DarkMarket, the world’s largest darknet marketplace (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/113332/deep-web/dark-web-darkmarket-seized.html

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