Reports had said French President Emmanuel Macron was among potential Pegasus spyware targets. (File)
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An official at Israeli cybersecurity company NSO Group said Wednesday that the firm s controversial Pegasus spyware tool was not used to target French President Emmanuel Macron.
The comments came as Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urged Israel to suspend exports of the spying technology after heads of state including Macron and scores of journalists and rights activists featured on a list of alleged targets selected for potential surveillance.
We can specifically come out and say for sure that the president of France, Macron, was not a target, Chaim Gelfand, chief compliance officer at NSO Group, told the i24 News television network.
FIJI PARTICIPATES AT 5TH FRANCE - OCEANIA SUMMIT
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Leaders from across Oceania were joined by French President Emmanuel Macron at the 5th France-Oceania Summit in reaffirming their commitment to unity and solidarity of the Pacific family, in building back better against the common challenges of COVID-19 and climate change.
The France-Oceania Summit was established in 2003, to bring together France, as a Forum Dialogue Partner, and its Pacific territories in a dialogue with Forum countries and regional organisations. It has met every three to four years including in 2003 (Tahiti), 2006 (Paris), 2009 (Noumea) and 2015 (Paris).
The timing of this 5th France-Oceania Summit was sequenced ahead of President Macron’s anticipated visit to French Polynesia at the end of the month where expectations are that it will highlight the main challenges and priorities for the region, including COVID-19, climate change and biodiversity, ahead of the International Union for C
Canadian government summits on anti-Semitism and Islamophobia: a political fraud
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The government used Wednesday’s “National summit on Antisemitism” to equate left-wing opposition to the crimes of the Israeli state and Zionism with anti-Semitism. Today, they will pretend that the past two decades of Canadian history did not happen. The complicity of Canadian imperialism in the scapegoating of Muslims, its staunch support for the Israeli state’s ongoing dispossession
France orders series of investigations into Pegasus data
French President Emmanuel Macron has ordered multiple investigations to be carried out after his phone number, as well as those of his former PM, appeared in the leaked database of the Pegasus Project
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French President Emmanuel Macron has ordered multiple investigations to be carried out after his phone number, as well as those of his former Prime Minister and the majority of his 20-strong Cabinet, appeared in the leaked database at the heart of the Pegasus Project, The Guardian reported.
French Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Wednesday the Elysee (official residence of the French President) had ordered a series of investigations , after vowing to shed all light on the revelations , the report said.
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