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Hackers' broad attack sets cyber experts worldwide scrambling to defend networks
Suspected Russian hackers who broke into US government agencies also spied on less high-profile organizations, including groups in Britain, a US internet provider and a county government in Arizona, according to web records and a security source.
19 December 2020, 15:50 PM
US says it is shuttering last 2 consulates in Russia
The Trump administration has notified Congress that it intends to shutter the last two remaining US consulates in Russia.
19 December 2020, 12:02 PM
IOM records over 3,000 migrant deaths so far this year
The International Organization for Migration’s (IOM)’s Missing Migrants Project has recorded over 3,000 deaths on migratory routes worldwide so far in 2020.
19 December 2020, 04:42 AM
Two dead as cyclone levels Fiji villages
Super cyclone Yasa flattened entire villages as it tore through Fiji, aid agencies said yesterday, with a baby among two confirmed deaths and rescue workers racing to the worst-hit communities.
18 December 2020, 18:00 PM
344 schoolboys released; many remain missing
More than 300 Nigerian schoolboys seized in a mass abduction claimed by Boko Haram experienced their first full day of freedom yesterday after a nearly week-long ordeal.
18 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Blast kills 15 at Afghan Quran reading ceremony
A suspected rickshaw bomb killed at least 15 civilians, including 11 children, at a Koran recitation ceremony in central Afghanistan yesterday, officials said.
18 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Babies born to Covid mothers have antibodies: study
All five babies born to women with Covid-19 infection during a study in Singapore have had antibodies against the virus, although the researchers said it is not yet clear what level of protection this may offer.
18 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Just hours left for a deal
British and EU negotiators plunged into the “final hours” of their scramble for a post-Brexit trade deal yesterday, deeply divided on the highly-charged issue of fishing rights.
18 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Biden taps Haaland as first Native American to run Interior
US President-elect Joe Biden unveiled his environment team Thursday, choosing congresswoman Deb Haaland to serve as the first Native American interior secretary and Jennifer Granholm, a former Michigan governor, as energy secretary.
18 December 2020, 18:00 PM
‘Lies and conspiracy’
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday said his government was a victim of “lies and conspiracy” as it struggled to defuse growing protests by tens of thousands of farmers threatening to encircle New Delhi.
18 December 2020, 18:00 PM
US Vice-President Mike Pence receives Covid-19 vaccine
Vice President Mike Pence became the highest ranking US official to receive the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine on Friday in a live-television event aimed at reassuring Americans the shot is safe. He celebrated the milestone as “a medical miracle” that could eventually contain the raging pandemic.
18 December 2020, 16:37 PM
J&J enrolls about 45,000 participants for late-stage Covid-19 vaccine trial
Johnson & Johnson said on Thursday it has enrolled about 45,000 participants for the first late-stage trial of its Covid-19 single-dose vaccine candidate and that it expects interim data by late-January.
18 December 2020, 14:13 PM
Sony outlaws Cyberpunk from PlayStation Store after bug backlash
Sony is pulling Cyberpunk 2077 from its PlayStation Store only a week after its debut in the wake of complaints of glitches in the video game created by Poland’s CD Projekt.
18 December 2020, 14:11 PM
US to blacklist dozens of Chinese firms including SMIC, sources say
The United States is set to add dozens of Chinese companies, including the country’s top chipmaker SMIC, to a trade blacklist today, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday.
18 December 2020, 08:15 AM
EU allocates 6b euros for refugees in Turkey
The EU yesterday announced that it has allocated to Turkey the full six billion euros Ankara sought in return for its hosting of Syrian refugees.
17 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Pakistan returns $1b of Saudi Arabia’s soft loan
Pakistan has returned $1 billion to Saudi Arabia as a second instalment of a $3 billion soft loan, as Islamabad reaches out to Beijing for a commercial loan to help it offset pressure to repay another $1 billion to Riyadh next month, officials said on Wednesday.
17 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Chinese craft returns to Earth with Moon rocks
Unmanned Chinese spacecraft Chang’e-5 carrying rocks and soil from the Moon returned safely to Earth early yesterday, completing another chapter in China’s effort to become a space superpower.
17 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Hopes lie crushed
Ten years since the intoxicating early days of Tunisia’s revolution, dreams for a better future lie crushed, and in the rural town where it began, the mood yesterday was one of anger rather than hope.
17 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Cyber attack on US govt ongoing: intel agencies
US intelligence agencies have warned a “significant” cyber attack on several federal departments uncovered over the weekend remains ongoing as the government rushes to assess the extent of the breach.
17 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Putin hopes for better ties with US under Biden
Russian President Vladimir yesterday Putin said that he hopes the administration of incoming US President Joe Biden will work with Russia to resolve disagreements between their countries.
17 December 2020, 18:00 PM