A ransomware attack paralyzed the networks of at least 200 U.S. companies on Friday, according to a cybersecurity researcher whose company was responding to the incident. The REvil gang, a major Russian-speaking ransomware syndicate, appears to be behind the attack, said John Hammond of the security firm Huntress Labs. He said the criminals targeted a software supplier called
More than 400,000 people in Ethiopia’s Tigray are now suffering famine and 1.8 million others are on the brink, a top United Nations official has said, painting a devastating picture of an embattled region where humanitarian access is extremely restricted. Tigray has been racked by conflict since November 2020 when fighting erupted between Ethiopia’s federal government – backed
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has ordered the closure of the border with Ukraine in a bid to halt what he referred to as an influx of arms to coup plotters detected by the nation’s security forces, according to state news agency BelTA. "A huge amount of weapons is coming from Ukraine to Belarus. That's why I ordered border-security forces to fully close the border
Brazil’s Amazon region in June recorded the most forest fires for that month in 14 years, according to the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), which compares the number of fire spots for the same month of
ST. PAUL, Ore. (AP) — On his 38th birthday, Sebastian Francisco Perez, an immigrant from Guatemala, played chess with his nephew. The next day, he went to work at a nursery in a rural Oregon town as the thermometer soared well above 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.8 Celsius). Perez collapsed that day, June 26, as a heat wave baked the Pacific Northwest in all-time record-high
BERLIN: Austrian authorities have arrested three Afghans as suspects in the rape and killing of a 13-year-old girl, a crime that has prompted strong condemnation and tough talk from the country’s leader on crimes committed by migrants. The girl’s body was found next to a tree
VANCOUVER: Hundreds of people were evacuated in western Canada as fires added to the unprecedented heat wave in the region, which for days has been baking in record-breaking temperatures. The village of Lytton, 250 kilometers (155 miles) northeast of Vancouver, was evacuated on Wednesday night
Donald Trump's company and its long-serving finance chief pleaded not guilty in a New York court after they were charged with fraud and tax crimes, in a major blow to the former president. The 15 felony counts were the first charges in an almost three-year investigation by the Manhattan district attorney into the financial dealings of the vast real estate-to-golf course
WASHINGTON--The United States said on Thursday China’s rapid build-up of its nuclear forces was concerning and called on Beijing to engage with it “on practical measures to reduce the risks of destabilizing arms races.” The buildup had become more difficult for China to hide and it appeared it was deviating from decades of nuclear strategy based around minimal deterrence, State
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday he would hand over power to whoever wins next year's presidential election cleanly – but not if there is any fraud. His comments will do little to dispel the concerns of his critics, who fear that the far-right former
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli fighter jets struck a weapons manufacturing site in Gaza overnight in response to incendiary balloons launched over the frontier into Israel, the military said early Friday. There
Emmanuel Macron has launched an attack on left-wing ideology in France, claiming society was becoming “progressively more racial” and that defining people in this way
Japanese prosecutors said Friday they are seeking jail sentences of nearly three years for an American father-son duo who admit helping former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn jump bail and flee Japan. The prosecutors told a Tokyo court they are seeking a sentence of two years, 10 months for former special forces operative Michael Taylor, and two years, six months for his son Peter.
MINSK (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 02nd July, 2021) Belarus will present claims to German
Widespread power cuts have hit Iraq at a time when the country is suffering scorching summer temperatures. The electricity cut on Friday was caused by the failure of a major power line, local media report. The capital, Baghdad, and southern provinces have been particularly badly affected. Protesters have taken to the streets against
By Randall Chase, Associated Press DOVER, Del. — The Boy Scouts of America have reached an $850 million agreement with attorneys representing some 60,000 victims of child sex abuse in what could prove to be a pivotal moment in the organization’s bankruptcy case. The settlement would mark one of the largest sums in U.S. history involving cases of sexual abuse. Attorneys for the
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia’s government on Friday rejected accusations that it’s trying to “suffocate the Tigray people” by denying them urgently needed food and other aid, even as transport and communications links remained severed to the region that faces the world's worst
A Boeing 737 cargo plane was forced to execute an emergency water landing off the coast of Hawaii after taking off from Honolulu, according to . After takeoff, the plane was forced to turn back for
Turkey officially withdrew on Thursday from an international treaty to prevent violence against women, enacting a decision that drew condemnation from many Turks and
Ottawa, July 1 (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 1st Jul, 2021 ) :Another 182 unmarked graves were discovered at a third former indigenous residential school in Canada as two Catholic Churches went up in flames on Wednesday, with anger mounting over the mushrooming abuse scandal. The Lower Kootenay Band said experts using ground-penetrating radar mapping located what are