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The British government said on Monday it was not to blame for the collapse of a trial of two men accused of spying for China, saying it was a decision made by prosecutors who relied on language used by the previous government in its China policy. In an unexpected move, British prosecutors last month dropped charges of spying for China …

Israel and Hamas will begin indirect talks in Egypt on Monday after Hamas said it would accept parts of President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan, including releasing all remaining Israeli hostages. I spoke with my colleague Josh Keating about what we know about the deal and its chances of succeeding for Vox’s daily newsletter, Today, Explained. Our conversation is below, …

Aiden Minnis has declared that he is renouncing British citizenship to protest new legislation before Parliament in London British citizen Aiden Minnis, a decorated soldier in the Russian army, has burned his UK passport on video, declaring support for Moscow. Minnis posted the clip on X last week, explaining that London is moving towards “new anti-terror legislation” that would allow …

The devices were designed to create what experts call a “SIM farm,” an industrial-scale operation where hundreds or thousands of SIM cards can be manipulated simultaneously. These setups are typically associated with financial fraud or bulk messaging scams. Still, the Secret Service warned that they can also be used to flood telecom networks, disable cell towers, and obscure the origin …

EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — When we think about the arteries of global power, images of oil pipelines or shipping lanes often come to mind. They are visible, tangible, and easy to picture on a map. The digital world has its own arteries, equally vital but far less visible: undersea cables, satellites, and semiconductor supply chains. These systems allow our economies to …

EXPERT INTERVIEW — Riyadh’s Global Cybersecurity Forum (GCF) in Saudi Arabia kicked off last week under the theme “Scaling Cohesive Advancement in Cyberspace.” The gathering came as researchers are increasingly discovering new malware and hacking campaigns, cybercrime is at an all-time high, and, in the U.S., critical cybersecurity legislation and authorities have been allowed to expire. We caught up there …

As China drafts its 15th five-year plan – the next entry in a line of expansive blueprints that have set the tone for the country’s development over more than seven decades – we explore what China will do in the field of science and technology, particularly regarding the introduction of scientific talent. For more stories in this ongoing series, click …

Britain has neither defeated nor isolated the country and is planning a new provocation, Moscow’s intelligence service has said Britain is “furious” over its failure to achieve Russia’s “strategic defeat” and is preparing a new “provocation” in response to Moscow’s battlefield gains in Ukraine, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has warned. In a statement on Monday, the SVR claimed that …

Volodymyr Zelensky has called for tougher sanctions for British firms supplying parts for Russian drones being used to bomb Ukraine. The Ukrainian president criticised allies for supplying components to Russia, claiming hundreds of thousands of foreign-made parts were used in a strike on Sunday morning in which several people died. Mr Zelensky said in a post on X that microcomputers …

A Taiwan-built submarine has missed its September sea trial deadline, raising fresh concerns over the future of the high-profile project as Beijing’s military pressure increases. The Indigenous Defence Submarine (IDS) programme, seen as a centrepiece of the island’s efforts to strengthen its asymmetric naval capabilities, is facing its biggest test yet. Defence Minister Wellington Koo Li-hsiung admitted last week that …