Russian Federation to train Kurdish forces at north Syria base

Russia’s military will train Kurdish forces in Syria, the militia’s spokesman said Monday, in Moscow’s first agreement of its kind with the group that controls large parts of the country’s north. His comments at news conference in Ankara came after the Syrian-Kurdish YPG militia said Russian Federation was setting up a military base in northwestern Syria and would help train YPG fighters.

Apple, Samsung, Microsoft express concern about Central Intelligence…

“It lools like not only is [the Central Intelligence Agency arsenal] being spread around contractors and former American computer hackers for hire, but now maybe around the black market or being used by these American hackers who sometimes, you know cross both sides of the fence-they’re called grey hats-for attacking others”, Assange said . To Snowden, the biggest story about ” Vault 7 ” is that US intelligence services have purchased software vulnerabilities so it could use them to spy on people, when, in the interests of public safety, it should have turned over the information to the makers of the software.

Canada to welcome 1200 refugees fleeing ISIL

Hussen says Canada has long offered protection to refugees based on “vulnerability, not religion or ethnicity” and will thus focus on “highly vulnerable” survivors of Daesh. The program is expected to cost CAN$28 million and there will will be an emphasis on women and girls.

Jio effect: Tata Tele mulls merger with RCom-Aircel-MTS combine

Shares of the telecom service operators were on a roll on Monday amid news reports of major consolidation moves gaining momentum, involving the biggies Tata Teleservices, Reliance Communications, Idea Cellular and Vodafone India, as the incumbents look for scale and operational efficiency to take on the onslaught of competition from the giant new entrant Reliance Jio. To counter the price war started by Mukesh Ambani-promoted Reliance Jio, Tata Teleservices is said to be in talks with younger brother Anil Ambani’s Reliance Communication , according to a financial daily.

Russian political elites revel in Trump’s inauguration

The U.S. Embassy building is reflected in a window of a Russian military outerwear shop “Armia Rossii” displaying a poster of Donald Trump, in downtown Moscow, Russia, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017, hours ahead of Donald Trump being sworn in as president of the United States, The poster reads: “10 percent discount to the embassy employees and US citizens on the Inauguration Day”. less The U.S. Embassy building is reflected in a window of a Russian military outerwear shop “Armia Rossii” displaying a poster of Donald Trump, in downtown Moscow, Russia, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017, … more Visitors arrive for a party at a nightclub in Moscow, Russia, on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017.

BHOS presidential scholar easily chooses university

News selected on topics and regions – oil and gas, business, politics, IT, the South Caucasus, the Caspian Sea region, Central Asia Ranking of the Azerbaijani banking sector The project initiated by Public Relations department of Baku Higher Oil School and entitled “10 questions to Presidential Scholar at BHOS”, Process Automation Engineering student Ramil Huseynov is answering our questions. – I was born in Raduzny city of the Russian Federation in 2000.