A few months before being killed in a U.S. Special Forces raid, Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi released a final video message that symbolically passed the torch to far-flung followers in distant lands. His self-declared caliphate had been defeated, he acknowledged, and it was now up to the terrorist group’s regional chapters to carry … Read more
For years, China’s state-backed hackers have stolen huge troves of company secrets, political intelligence, and the personal information of millions of people. On Monday, officials in the United States and United Kingdom expanded the long list of hacking allegations, claiming China is responsible for breaching the UK’s elections watchdog and accessing 40 million people’s data. … Read more
TEHRAN, Iran — A 30-year-old man gunned down 12 of his relatives Saturday in a remote rural area in southeast Iran, the deadliest shooting reported in decades. Head of the justice department of the province of Kerman, Ebrahim Hamidi, told the semiofficial ISNA news agency the gunman opened fire on his father, brother and other … Read more
A disgraced police officer has left her role before she was sacked which led her to being charged with assault by beating and criminal damage in Greater Manchester. Former Constable Kia Pulford Stone, who was based in Merseyside, was charged following two separate incidents which took place in Wigan, Greater Manchester, on March 4 and … Read more
JERUSALEM — Deadly violence has been surging in the West Bank as the Israeli military pursues Palestinian militants in the aftermath of the Hamas attack from Gaza, with at least 90 Palestinians killed in the Israeli-occupied territory in the past two weeks, mainly in clashes with Israeli troops. The violence threatens to open another front … Read more
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Palestinians on Friday marched in anger to bury a 19-year-old killed by Israeli fire after Jewish settlers rampaged through a flashpoint town in the occupied West Bank the night before. The youth’s death, coming as tensions escalate during the Jewish holiday season, marked the latest in a surge in Israeli-Palestinian fighting … Read more
As if life isn’t hard enough already: rabid otters are apparently a thing. Florida health officials reported this week that a 74-year-old man and a dog were bitten by an aggressive otter, one that later tested positive for the usually fatal viral infection. Both victims have reportedly received treatment and the otter has been euthanized. Meet … Read more
United States cybersecurity officers mentioned yesterday {that a} “small quantity” of presidency businesses have suffered knowledge breaches as a part of a broad hacking marketing campaign that’s probably being carried out by the Russia-based ransomware gang Clop. The cybercriminal group has been on a tear in exploiting a vulnerability within the file switch service MOVEit … Read more