Section: Free Malaysia Today (Malaysia)
Trials linked to MH17 downing to be held in Netherlands
AMSTERDAM: Suspects in the 2014 downing of passenger flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine will be tried in Dutch court and under Dutch law, the Netherlands’ foreign ministry said on Wednesday. The decision follows attempts, blocked by Russia in 2015, to set up an international court over the incident, which killed all 298 people aboard the...
US army gear could be ‘Made in Ukraine’ under new defence deals
KIEV: Defence agreements announced during a visit by the Ukrainian president to Washington this month will provide Ukraine with access to defensive military equipment of the sort needed to combat Russian-backed separatists in the east. Kiev trumpeted President Petro Poroshenko’s June 20 visit as an important sign of Washington’s...
Australia creates military cyber unit to expand hacking attacks
SYDNEY: Australia has created its first military cyber division, a government minister said on Friday, seeking to expand hacking attacks on foreign enemies including Islamic State. “This is a result of the changing character of contemporary conflict,” Dan Tehan, the minister assisting the prime minister on cyber security, told reporters in...
New computer virus spreads from Ukraine to disrupt world business
FRANKFURT: A computer virus wreaked havoc on firms around the globe on Wednesday as it spread to more than 60 countries, disrupting ports from Mumbai to Los Angeles and halting work at a chocolate factory in Australia. Risk-modeling firm Cyence said economic losses from this week’s attack and one last month from a virus dubbed WannaCry...
World Bank raises US$500 million with ‘pandemic bonds’
WASHINGTON: The World Bank raised US$500 million to finance rapid response to disease outbreaks, including through sale of its first-ever “pandemic bonds,” the bank announced Wednesday. Drawing on the slow response to the 2013 Ebola outbreak in Africa in which thousands died, the World Bank designed the Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility...
Global wave of cyberattacks hit India’s largest port
MUMBAI: A wave of cyberattacks wreaking havoc across computer systems worldwide disrupted operations at India’s largest container port, the government said Wednesday. India’s shipping ministry said a private terminal run by Danish sea transport giant A.P. Moller-Maersk at the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) in Mumbai had been...
Multinationals hit by vast wave of cyberattacks
KIEV: Several multinational companies said Tuesday they were targeted in a massive wave of cyberattacks which started in Russia and Ukraine before spreading to western Europe. Danish sea transport company Maersk, British advertising giant WPP and the French industrial group Saint-Gobain were among those who said they came under attack and put...
Trump says China tried but failed to help on North Korea
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Chinese efforts to persuade North Korea to rein in its nuclear program have failed, ratcheting up the rhetoric over the death of an American student who had been detained by Pyongyang. Trump has held high hopes for greater cooperation from China to exert influence over North Korea, leaning...
Putin: more US sanctions would be harmful, talk of retaliation premature
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin said new sanctions under consideration by the United States would damage relations between the two countries, but it was too early to talk about retaliation, state news agency RIA reported on Saturday. The U.S. Senate voted nearly unanimously earlier this week for legislation to impose new sanctions on...
Lauded to loathed: Who’s afraid of George Soros?
VIENNA: From his New York home, US financier-cum-philanthropist George Soros has manufactured Europe’s migration crisis, backed a coup in Macedonia and sponsored protests in Hungary. At least that’s what his detractors say, and there are many. From the Kremlin via Skopje to the power corridors of Washington, the Hungarian-born Jewish...
