Vladimir Putin challenges US on Syria claims

Russian President Vladimir Putin has challenged the US to present to the UN evidence that Syria attacked rebels with chemical weapons near Damascus.

Mr Putin urged Mr Obama - as a Nobel Peace Prize laureate - to think about future victims in Syria before using force.

He said it was ridiculous to suggest the Syrian government was to blame for the attack, calling it a "provocation by those who want to drag other countries into the Syrian conflict". "Syrian government troops are on the offensive and have surrounded the opposition in several regions," he said. "in these conditions, to give a trump card to those who are calling for a military intervention is utter nonsense."

He said that the US failure to present evidence to the international community was "simply disrespectful".

source bbc news 

MAKS headroom: Russia unveils plans for new anti-missile system, 5th-generation fighter jet

Russia is developing a fifth-generation unmanned fighter jet and a completely new missile defense system which can simultaneously engage several supersonic targets in space, it has been revealed at the MAKS-2013 airshow.

“We are working in accordance with plans developed together with the Defense Ministry. At this stage this implies further preliminary testing. The current stage is largely based on the technological breakthroughs we have achieved in the framework of the ‘fifth generation’ program,” Pogosyan told the Russian ITAR-TASS agency, in reference to the upcoming drone.

source  rt.com 

US intelligence agencies will finally reveal how many people each year they target

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has announced that the US intelligence community will start revealing how many people are targeted each year by surveillance, a long-sought victory for transparency advocates. In a Tumblr post, Clapper says that the NSA and other agencies will begin releasing the total number of surveillance orders made under several programs.

The numbers are set to be revealed in an annual report issued by the intelligence community, including information about orders justified under various FISA and Patriot Act provisions. Among them is FISA Section 702, which authorizes collecting email and other electronic information, as well as FISA-authorized wiretaps, business record collection (which justified collecting Verizon customers' phone records), and national security letters, the secret and overused subpoenas used by the FBI.

Google Confirms It Has Acquired Android Smartwatch

Google is rumoured to be developing a smartwatch of its own, with patents turning up earlier this year (filed in 2011), and a report by the FT that claimed Google’s Android team was in the process of developing such a device.

If Google isn’t building its own smartwatch hardware, acquiring WIMM Labs could be a way to help it develop a custom version of Android designed for wrist-mounted wearables, which it could then provide to OEMs the same way it currently does with Android proper

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