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Amazon files suit challenging Pentagon ‘war cloud’ contract to Microsoft, may argue Trump ‘meddled’ in process Amazon has filed a lawsuit protesting the Pentagon’s decision to award a contract worth up to $10 billion to Microsoft to supply the military with a new cloud storage system, insisting the bidding process was marred by bias. The high-dollar ‘war cloud’ project, also known as JEDI, was awarded to Microsoft late last month, but on Friday Amazon confirmed it would bring a case to the US Court of Federal Claims to challenge the move. JEDI’s stop-start bidding process was long plagued by complaints of bias, with cloud computing firm Oracle previously alleging the bid was skewed in favor of Amazon, while the Pentagon later carried out a “review” ...

Butina to help Russians ‘in difficult situations’ abroad as part of new job at ombudsman’s office Less than a month after her return to Russia from the US, where she spent over a year behind bars, Maria Butina has joined Russia’s ombudsman office and will focus on helping compatriots who run into trouble abroad. The Russian gun activist, whose case whipped up anti-Russian hysteria in the US and saw mainstream media telling juicy stories about her trading sex for political favors that later proved to be false, will be now helping those who found themselves similarly at fault outside Russia. Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova said Butina accepted an offer to join her team. Speaking at the State Duma Committee on International Affairs...

‘OK boomer’: Biden attempt to roast Trump on Twitter unites left and right in mockery Conservatives and liberals found rare common ground in mocking the Twitter game of former Vice-President and current Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden, after he tried to accuse President Donald Trump of corruption. “Corruption is Donald Trump’s middle name,” Biden tweeted out on Friday, following that up with a plea for $5 donations to oust the “most corrupt president in modern American history.” This prompted Ken Klippenstein, a journalist with the progressive outlet The Young Turks, to post a screenshot of a February story about social media executives advising Biden on how to reach younger voters – and Friday’s tweet as the implied fruit of this collabor...

Trump & Navy trade blows as confusion, conflicting reports swirl around review to expel SEAL accused of war crimes A showdown between President Donald Trump and the US Navy may be shaping up over an attempt to expel a commando from the elite SEAL force. Vague statements and conflicting reports are adding to confusion about the case. After the Navy announced that it would carry out a Trident review to consider expelling Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher from the SEALs earlier this week, Trump stepped in with a tweet, insisting that nothing of the sort would be happening. “The Navy will NOT be taking away Warfighter and Navy Seal Eddie Gallagher’s Trident Pin,” the president said on Thursday. “This case was handled very badly from the begi...

Putin could have been ‘FIRED’ in 1998 – from top spy job that propelled him to presidency Vladimir Putin could’ve had his career smashed months before becoming Russian president, a former Kremlin official claims. He says an influential PM made two attempts to sack Putin from his top job at the Federal Security Service. Putin was in charge of the FSB between September 1998 and May 1999. His breakneck career progress then saw him become the first deputy Prime Minister, then PM, and finally Russia’s caretaker President on December 31, 1999 – after Boris Yeltsin’s surprise resignation. But the current president’s life story might have been quite different, claims the former head of Yeltsin’s administration, Valentin Yumashev. The high-level Kremlin offi...

Authorities impose curfew in capital of Colombia, deploy 20k police against protesters The mayor of Bogota has imposed an overnight curfew on Bosa, Kennedy and Ciudad Bolivar – three districts in the Colombian capital – and deployed 20,000 uniformed police to “establish order” as anti-government protests continue. “What we are facing is not a march,” said Mayor Enrique Peñalosa, announcing the measure on Friday evening, describing the protesters as a small number of “criminals, vandals, looting, stealing and wanting to practically end our city.” The three districts have been the most affected by the violence that has erupted on the sidelines of mass protests against the austerity measures of President Ivan Duque’s government.  ...

1.2 BILLION people’s data – including social media profiles and contact info – found on unsecured Google Cloud server A massive four-terabyte trove of sensitive personal data belonging to over a billion profiles has been found on an unsecured Google Cloud server - its owner still a mystery - in one of the largest single-source data leaks ever. The mountain of data, including phone numbers, email addresses, and social media profiles, was sitting unprotected on an anonymous server hosted on the Google Cloud when security researchers Vinny Troia and Bob Diachenko found it while scanning for vulnerabilities last month. After they reported the massive exposure to the FBI, it disappeared within hours. It’s not clear who accessed it before Troia and Diache...

Bolivian coup government seeks to prosecute Morales for TERRORISM over alleged call to block roads in protest Bolivia’s new government is prosecuting former President Evo Morales on terrorism and sedition charges, alleging the exiled leader, who fled to Mexico in fear for his life, is masterminding protesters’ blockades of the cities. “We are seeking the maximum penalty for sedition and terrorism,” Interior Minister Arturo Murillo told reporters on Friday after filing the legal complaint against Morales with prosecutors. He accused the exiled president of pushing supporters to maintain roadblocks in order to keep food out of the cities, pointing to a recording allegedly found on a cell phone confiscated from a protester during security forces’ force...