BRUSSELS -- Around 450 people have been temporarily detained here on Saturday after police forces clashed with around 1,000 "yellow vest" protesters who turned violent.
Six people have been arrested, according to the federal prosecutor's office. (Belgium-Yellow Vest)
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SAN FRANCISCO -- U.S. scientists have found that people's privacy is at high risk as there is growing practice of compiling massive, anonymized datasets about their movement patterns, according to the latest study released over the weekend.
The researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) made the first study on "matchability" of user mobility by analyzing two large-scale datasets from a mobile network operator and a local transportation system in Singapore. (U.S.-Data-Privacy)
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JERUSALEM -- The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on Saturday that they have uncovered another cross border tunnel originating from Lebanon and crossing into Israel.
According to the IDF, the tunnel was constructed by the Hezbollah organization and was still being worked on as recently as the past few days. (Israel-Lebanon-Crossing)
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RAMALLAH -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Saturday that he would dissolve the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) and the parliament of the Palestinian Authority, which Hamas won a majority in 2006.
"In a legal way, we will dissolve the Legislative Council and this will happen soon," said Abbas. (Abbas-Parliament-Hamas) Enditem
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