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Dozens of countries hit by huge cyberextortion attack
Published On: May 13, 2017 07:02 AM NPT By: Associated Press
NEW YORK, May 13: Dozens of countries were hit with a huge cyberextortion attack Friday that locked up computers and held users’ files for ransom at a multitude of hospitals, companies and government agencies.
UK hospitals turn away patients after ransomware attack
Published On: May 12, 2017 09:47 PM NPT By: Associated Press
LONDON, May 12: A large cyberattack crippled computer systems at hospitals across England on Friday, with appointments canceled, phone lines down and patients turned away.
Philippine police make more child cybersex arrests, rescues
Published On: May 12, 2017 04:20 PM NPT By: Associated Press
MANILA, May 12: Authorities in the Philippines have rescued four girls and arrested a mother and two other women for allegedly live streaming sexually exploitative videos of children to men paying by the minute to watch from the United States.
Trump attacks on fired FBI chief meet resistance; Russia probe proceeds (video)
Published On: May 12, 2017 01:30 PM NPT By: Reuters
President Donald Trump on Thursday ran into resistance for calling ousted FBI chief James Comey a "showboat," an attack that was swiftly contradicted by top U.S. senators and the acting FBI leader, who pledged that an investigation into possible Trump campaign ties to Russia would proceed with vigor.
UN officials urge India to lift social media ban in Kashmir
Published On: May 11, 2017 07:33 PM NPT By: Associated Press
SRINAGAR, May 11: Two United Nations special rapporteurs urged the Indian government Thursday to lift a ban on social media sites and mobile internet service in the Indian-controlled portion of disputed Kashmir.
UN chief: Drought-stricken Somalia 'hangs in the balance'
Published On: May 11, 2017 05:16 PM NPT By: Associated Press
LONDON, May 11: British Prime Minster Theresa May and U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called Thursday for more support for drought-stricken Somalia, with the U.N. chief requesting another $900 million in aid this year.
Wall collapse kills 23 during wedding celebration in Rajasthan
Published On: May 11, 2017 04:35 PM NPT By: Reuters
Twenty-three people were killed and 30 injured in Rajasthan when a wall collapsed on a crowd of people celebrating a wedding, police said on Thursday.
North Korea says it will seek extradition of plot culprits
Published On: May 11, 2017 01:54 PM NPT By: Associated Press
PYONGYANG, North Korea, May 11: Pyongyang will seek the extradition of anyone involved in what it says was a CIA-backed plot to kill leader Kim Jung Un last month with a biochemical poison, a top North Korean foreign ministry official said Thursday.
8 dead, 20 injured after moderate quake in far western China
Published On: May 11, 2017 10:00 AM NPT By: Associated Press
BEIJING, May 11: A moderate earthquake that struck close to the earth’s surface killed eight people and injured more than 20 others in far western China on Thursday, the region’s earthquake administration said.
Turkey leader calls on US to reverse decision to arm Kurds
Published On: May 11, 2017 07:44 AM NPT By: Associated Press
BEIRUT, Ma7 11: Turkey slammed the Trump administration’s decision to supply Syrian Kurdish fighters with weapons against the Islamic State group and demanded Wednesday that it be reversed, heightening tensions between the NATO allies days before the Turkish leader heads to Washington for a meeting with President Donald Trump.
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