Section: Malaysia
Top online pirate suspect arrested in Poland, charged in US
WASHINGTON: A Ukrainian alleged to be the ringleader of the world’s biggest online piracy site, Kickass Torrents, was hit with US criminal charges Wednesday, accused of distributing over $1 billion worth of illegally copied films, music and other content. The Justice Department unveiled a criminal complaint against Artem Vaulin, 30, of...
Pavel Sheremet: Fearless journalist killed in Ukraine
KIEV: Belarus-born journalist Pavel Sheremet, who was killed by a car bomb in central Kiev on Wednesday, was known for his fearless criticism of the leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. An award-winning journalist who interviewed Ukraine’s top politicians, Sheremet was widely admired in the pro-Western country. “He somehow managed...
Prominent journalist killed in car bomb in Kiev
KIEV (Reuters) – A prominent journalist working for the online investigative newspaper Ukrayinska Pravda was killed by a car bomb in central Kiev early on Wednesday morning. …read more Source: The...
Seven Ukraine troops die in worst clashes in two months
KIEV: Ukraine said Tuesday seven of its soldiers had been killed and 14 wounded in the bloodiest clashes with pro-Russian separatists in two months. The announcement — the highest daily death toll since Ukraine reported seven of its soldiers dying on May 24 — follows a flurry of talks between world leaders and Moscow on stopping the 26-month...
HIV infections level off at ‘worrying’ 2.5m a year
PARIS: Some 2.5 million people are still becoming infected with HIV every year even as drugs have slashed the death rate and virus-carriers live longer than ever, a global AIDS study said Tuesday. New infections have plateaued for the past 10 years after a steep dip from the peak rate of 3.3 million in 1997, said the authors of a comprehensive...
Seven Ukrainian soldiers killed in eastern regions amid surge in violence
KIEV (Reuters) – Seven Ukrainian troops were killed in the past 24 hours during fighting with pro-Russian separatists, making July the deadliest month for the Ukrainian military in nearly a year after a sharp increase in violence. …read more Source: The...
Ukrainians take to Facebook to break taboo over rape
KIEV: It was yet another online discussion blaming a rape victim for provoking her attacker that prompted Ukrainian activist Anastasiya Melnychenko’s campaign to shatter taboos in her homeland and neighbouring Russia. In response Melnychenko typed out an unflinching account of the string of sexual assaults she has suffered throughout her...
Russia says catches OSCE employee spying for Ukraine
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s FSB security service said on Monday it had caught an employee of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe spying for Ukraine by passing on sensitive military information about pro-Kremlin separatists. …read more Source: The...
Attacker staked out Nice site, accomplice suspected
NICE, France: The Nice truck attacker staked out the seafront for two days before striking, it emerged Sunday as investigators pieced together details of the Islamic State-claimed massacre and questioned possible accomplices. A source close to the investigation told AFP that Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a 31-year-old Tunisian, sent a text message...
Two held as details emerge about France truck attacker
NICE, France: French investigators arrested two more people yesterday as they pieced together details about the motives and preparations of the Tunisian who rammed a truck into a crowd in an IS-claimed attack that killed 84. Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel visited the Nice promenade with his rented truck on the two days before he smashed the vehicle...
