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by Rob Lever / with Alice Tidey in London Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Security researchers on Monday reported signs of a potential North Korea link to the massive cyberattack campaign that sparked havoc in computer systems worldwide and opened fresh political rifts between Russia and the United States. After days of disruptions affecting networks worldwide, a top US official said the number of computers affected had reached 300,000, but that infection […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — United States President Donald Trump discussed specific terror threats with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Moscow’s envoy to the US in the Oval Office last week, but not “sources or methods,” senior officials said Monday. The statements from National Security Advisor HR McMaster and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson came after The Washington Post reported that Trump had revealed classified information to the Russians about a threat posed by […]
SEOUL , South Korea (AFP) — North Korea Monday celebrated the launch of what appeared to be its longest-range ballistic missile yet tested in a bid to bring the United States mainland within reach, saying it was capable of carrying a “heavy nuclear warhead.” Leader Kim Jong-Un personally oversaw the test on Sunday, the official Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) said, and pictures by state media showed him gazing at the missile in a hangar […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) – Ian Brady, the British serial killer notoriously known for the “Moors Murders,” died Monday at the age of 79 in a high security psychiatric hospital, authorities said. Brady and his partner Myra Hindley — who died in prison in 2002 — tortured and murdered five children between July 1963 and October 1965 near Manchester, in central England. Both were jailed in 1966 for three murders before later confessing to another […]
Washington, UNITED STATES (AFP) — Microsoft warned governments Sunday against storing computer vulnerabilities like the leaked one at the heart of the cyberattack that has crippled computers in more than 150 countries. “The governments of the world should treat this attack as a wake up call,” Microsoft’s president and chief legal officer, Brad Smith, wrote in a blog post about what is being called the largest ransomware attack ever. He warned of the danger of exploits […]
BEIJING, China — President Xi Jinping criticized protectionism on Monday at a summit positioning China as a champion of globalization, and secured a free trade commitment from almost 30 other world leaders as the meeting wound up. Xi addressed the leaders–including Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte—on the second day of the forum on his new Silk Road plan, a huge infrastructure project intended to revive ancient land and sea trade routes from Asia to Europe and […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Newly elected French President Emmanuel Macron has named little-known parliamentarian Edouard Philippe from the rightwing Republicans party as his first prime minister, his office announced Monday. The choice of Philippe, a 46-year-old from the northern port city of Le Havre, will be seen as an attempt by Macron to attract other moderates to his new centrist Republique En Marche party (Republic on the Move, REM).
HONG KONG, China (AFP) – A group of refugees who sheltered fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden in Hong Kong are facing deportation after the city’s authorities rejected their bid for protection, their lawyer said Monday. The Philippine and Sri Lankan refugees helped the former National Security Agency contractor evade authorities in 2013 by hiding him in their cramped homes after he initiated one of the largest data leaks in United States history. They have spent years, […]
SELANGOR STATE, Malaysia (Reuters) — Customs officers at Kuala Lumpur International Airport seized 330 endangered tortoises on Monday (May 15). The tortoises flew in from Madagascar on May 14, on Etihad Airways, and had been documented in the manifest as “stones,” Kuala Lumpur Airport Custom Deputy Director Abdul Wahid Sulong told reporters. The 330 tortoises are valued at 1.2 million Ringgit ($277.000), he added. Malaysia is a major transit point for the trade in endangered […]
SANAA, Yemen (AFP) – Authorities in Sanaa, which is controlled by Shiite rebels, have declared a state of emergency over a deadly outbreak of cholera that has spread rapidly in the Yemeni capital. The Huthi-run health ministry said in a statement carried overnight by the rebels’ Saba news agency that cases of cholera had worsened and that it was “unable to contain this disaster.” It launched an appeal for help from international humanitarian organizations to deal with […]
CHINA (Reuters) — Economic indicators show stable growth in the Chinese economy in April. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released the economic data of industry, retail sales, investment and service industry in Beijing on Monday. China’s value-added industrial output, an important economic indicator, expanded 6.5 percent year on year in April, 0.5 percentage points higher than the same month of last year, according to the NBS. China’s retail sales reached 2.73 trillion yuan in […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – Europol, the law enforcement agency of the European Union finds worrying the increasing number of victims of a cyber-attack called “ransomware.” More than 200, 000 victims from 150 countries have been recorded at present. https://youtu.be/2SNj71DeDXU
