China’s “Great Firewall” may have been partly to blame for the first major attack on Apple’s App Store, but experts also point the finger at lax security procedures of some big-name Chinese tech firms and how Apple itself supports developers in its second biggest market. A malicious program, dubbed XcodeGhost, hit hundreds – possibly thousands – of Apple iOS apps, including ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Wednesday opened one of the biggest mosques in Europe, warning against the lure of jihadists as the government frets over its citizens fighting for the Islamic State group. Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas were the guests of honour at the unveiling of the 20,000-square metre mosque in the ...

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has called on all Australians to make a “cultural shift” and stop disrespecting women, declaring that gender inequality lies at the heart of domestic violence. In comments that have been labelled a “gamechanger” for the fight against domestic violence, Mr Turnbull called on parents, teachers and employers to get on board the culture change, saying he wanted Australia to ...

THE AUSTRALIAN SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 By: Anthony Klan The NSW government is in ­advanced stages of implementing new anti-hate laws after autho­rities were unable to prosecute the local head of Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir over anti-Semitic racial taunts. The NSW Attorney-General has been in close talks with Jewish umbrella group the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies, which lodged a complaint ...

The U.S. military has assessed that the type of Russian aircraft in Syria is consistent with protecting their own forces, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday and called on Russia and Iran to be helpful in ending the 4-year-old conflict. “For the moment it is the judgment of our military and experts that the level and type represents ...

Agriculture Minister Akram Chehayeb said Tuesday that his environment plan seemed to be on the right track to implementation.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas warned Tuesday of the risk of a new intifada after clashes last week at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and with tensions rising as Jews and Muslims celebrate major religious holidays. Abbas’ comments after meeting French President Francois Hollande in Paris came with peace efforts at a standstill for more than a year and a recent poll ...

Several supporters of former Prime Minister Tony Abbott were dropped and some new Member of Parliament with no cabinet experience added to new PM Malcolm Turnbull’s cabinet. The new team has five women, including Marise Payne as the country’s first female defence minister. “It is vital to have a contemporary, 21st-century government and that requires renewal,” Mr Turnbull said on Monday. ...

There are at least 58 ISIS defectors who have publicly spoken out why they abandoned the group. Although their experiences and reasons for leaving ISIS are various, many of them left because they were asked to kill other Muslim rebels instead of toppling the Assad regime. ISIS has distinguished itself from other Syrian rebel groups since it first emerged around 2013, especially in expanding its territory and establishing its “caliphate” rather than toppling Assad. ...

Israel and Russia have concurred to corporate in military actions in order to avoid shooting at each other in Syria. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he and Russian president Vladimir Putin “agreed on a mechanism to prevent such misunderstandings.” Netanyahu said that he had informed “on each and every detail” of his Moscow visit, and added “Everyone has an interest in avoiding an unnecessary clash” over ...