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(Eagle News) — A suspect in the killing of five members of a family in San Jose del Monte this week has been arrested, with police saying rape was the sole motive for the gruesome crime. Police said Carmelino Navarro Ybañez of Negros Occidental, 26, single, and a construction worker, was arrested by San Jose del Monte Police around 6 p.m. Wednesday. Chief Supt. Aaron Aquino, provincial director of Region 3, said Ybañez, who lives two […]
(Reuters) – Top experts kept a close eye on a major global cyber attack that swept the world, as they gathered on Wednesday (June 28) in Tel Aviv for an annual cyber security conference. The attack disrupted computers at Russia’s biggest oil company, Ukrainian banks and multinational firms with a virus similar to the ransomware that infected more than 300,000 computers last month. The rapidly spreading cyber extortion campaign, which began on Tuesday (June 27), […]
MIAMI, United States (Reuters) – Former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli, wanted by the Central American country on political espionage charges, will remain in United States custody until a June 20 bond hearing in a federal court in Miami, a judge ordered on Tuesday (June 13). Martinelli, accused of using public money to spy illegally on more than 150 political rivals during his 2009-2014 term as president, was arrested outside Miami late on Monday. He has […]
TRIPOLI, Libya (Reuters) – Seven illegal migrants were found dead in a refrigerated truck which was left abandoned on the shores of Qarabulli town, around 65 kilometers east of Tripoli. Libyan authorities found the truck with 34 African migrants held inside, seven of whom appeared to have died of suffocation. According to the migrants, smugglers packed them into the back of the truck to transport them to a boat which they would use to cross […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (Reuters) — A robotic policeman who can help identify wanted criminals and collect evidence has joined Dubai’s police force and will patrol busy areas in the city, as part of a government program aimed at replacing some human crime-fighters with machines. If the “Robocop” experiment is successful, Dubai Police says it wants the unarmed robots to make up 25 percent of its patrolling force by 2030. Clad in the colors of […]
(Reuters) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres strongly condemned on Wednesday the terrorist attack in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, which killed at least 80 people and injured over 350 others. UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said that the “Secretary-General expressed his abhorrence at this act and underlined the need to reinforce the fight against terrorism and violent extremism.” He also noted that the “indiscriminate attacks against civilians are grave violations of human rights and international humanitarian law and can […]
LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) – Basketball superstar LeBron James’ Los Angeles home was vandalized with a racial slur, police said on Wednesday (May 31), one day before the Cleveland Cavaliers player was set to take the court in the first game of the National Basketball Association’s finals. The graffiti was spray-painted on the front gate of James’ house and investigators are looking for any possible suspect involved in the vandalism, said Los Angeles police spokesperson Norma […]
By Rob Lever Agence France-Presse Was North Korea behind the ransomware epidemic that hit global computer networks earlier this month? That’s the subject of heated debate in cybersecurity circles after analysts found similarities in the “WannaCry” worm to other malware attributed to North Korea, including the 2014 hack of Sony Pictures and a cyberheist of millions of dollars from the Bangladesh central bank. The security firm Symantec this week said the shared code makes it […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) – Accident and emergency units in England were nearly back to normal on Tuesday, the National Health Service (NHS) said, after the last restrictions put in place following the global cyber attack were lifted. “Patients are no longer being diverted away from hospital accident and emergency units,” Anne Rainsberry, NHS England’s national incident director, said in a statement. “While there is still some disruption in a small number of areas, most […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) – Disney chief Bob Iger said Monday hackers claiming to have access to one of the company’s unreleased movies were demanding a “huge” ransom, according to United States media reports. He did not reveal which film had been stolen but said the company would not be giving in to the blackmail attempt, according to The Hollywood Reporter, quoting Iger from a meeting in New York with employees of the Disney-owned […]
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 […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) – Seventeen prisoners have been shot dead after a mass breakout at a jail in Papua New Guinea, police said Monday, with 57 still on the run. Inmates from the Buimo jail in the Pacific nation’s second largest city of Lae made a dash for freedom after breaking out of their compound on Friday, with prison warders opening fire. The Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary said in a statement 17 were killed, […]
