Articles by Niamh Harris

‘A four-day protest organized by the hacktivist collective Anonymous UK in support of a legal challenge against pervasive use of mass surveillance has begun outside Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). Anonymous has dubbed the protest […]

‘Approximately four months after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370) disappeared in March 2014, while en route from the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur to the Chinese capital of Beijing, another incident took place with a […]

‘The defection of Tory MP Douglas Carswell to UKIP is undoubtedly a major blow for British Prime Minister David Cameron and the ruling Conservative Party. In June, UKIP celebrated an excellent result by topping the […]

Theresa May, Home Seretary has just announced that The UK’s terror threat level is being raised from “substantial” to “severe” in response to conflicts in Iraq and Syria ‘The new alert level means an attack […]

‘Killer robots programmed to open fire without human control are just a “small step” from the battlefield and military powers should agree to outlaw them, a top United Nations official has said. Angela Kane, the […]

‘At least 2,593 people have been killed in eastern Ukraine since the start of the Kiev’s military operation against anti-government forces there started in mid-April, according to a new estimate by the Office of the […]

‘RosRAO, a subsidiary of Russian nuclear giant Rosatom, is among the three companies selected to build a system to filter radioactive tritium out of the contaminated water collected at the stricken power plant– a task […]

‘Twenty healthy volunteers will next week enter a 48-week trial for a US-developed vaccine against the deadly Ebola virus. The trial has been moved forward due to the current outbreak, but the first results are […]

‘Some international flights were diverted and several communities evacuated in the early hours of Friday morning after a volcanic eruption on Papua New Guinea. Mount Tavurvur, on East New Britain Island, erupted hours before dawn, […]