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Video cameras will be used to spy on people to check they are wearing face masks and complying with social distancing when France eases its lockdown next week The city of Cannes on the southern Côte d’Azur trialled the monitoring software It is not currently clear how many other cities will adopt this digital surveillance … Read more
U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that the new coronavirus was ‘not manmade or genetically modified’ but say they are still examining whether the origins of the pandemic trace to contact with infected animals or an accident at a Chinese lab. The statement from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the clearinghouse for the … Read more
A pack of Silverback Mountain gorillas in Uganda were caught for the first time on camera performing a supper serenade. Filmmakers captured the unique ritual by placing a robotic ‘spy’ that resembles a young gorilla deep in the jungle. The team designed the animatronic machine with realistic eye movements, as wild gorillas communicate with each … Read more
South Korea said today it knows Kim Jong Un’s location as it continues to play down rumours that the North’s strongman leader is seriously ill or dead. The South’s unification minister Kim Yeon-chul told lawmakers that ‘the government is aware of Kim Jong Un’s location,’ without explaining further. The minister said Kim Jong Un may be … Read more
James Bond MUST be a man! Killing Eve’s MI6 spy boss Fiona Shaw insists job to replace Daniel Craig should not go to a woman By Chris Hastings Art Correspondent For The Mail On Sunday Published: 01:43 BST, 12 April 2020 | Updated: 01:56 BST, 12 April 2020 In Killing Eve, she plays one of … Read more
Ex-MI6 spy Christopher Steele behind the ‘dirty dossier’ on Donald Trump is being sued by three Russian oligarchs who were named in his ‘kopromat’ file Former MI6 spy Christopher Steele is being sued by three Russian oligarchs Mr Steele’s report on Donald Trump in 2017 alleged the newly-elected US President was in Vladimir Putin’s pocket … Read more
MI5 has appointed its youngest-ever director general – but the intelligence agency has refused to reveal the spy chief’s age. Ken McCallum will become director general of the security service when he takes over the top job from Sir Andrew Parker next month. Mr McCallum, who led the investigation into the attempted assassination of former Russian agent … Read more
A council is using drones equipped with loudspeakers to catch people ignoring coronavirus isolation advice. Neath Port Talbot Council has teamed up with South Wales Police to roll out the tactic across the local area. The gadgets are being deployed to tourist hotspots and locations in Wales that are likely to see mass gatherings. But … Read more
New 007 film No Time To Die is already locked, loaded and ready to go for its November release. Pernicious rumours circulating that its opening date was shifted from April because it was unfinished are wide of the mark. Producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson announced on March 4 that after careful consideration they … Read more
Mistress of Spain’s former King Juan Carlos claims he hired a spy chief to employ a ‘threatening harassment campaign’ against her after she fell out of favour with the family Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein was a lover of Spains’s former King Juan Carlos She claims former head of country’s National Intelligence Centre harassing her Says he … Read more