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World close to ?serious digital sabotage?
May17

World close to ?serious digital sabotage?

Imagine what would happen if the banking system were sabotaged for a week, says Dutch spy chief THE HAGUE: The world may be close to a “serious act of digital sabotage” which could trigger unrest, “chaos and disorder”, Dutch spy chief Rob Bertholee warned on Tuesday. Sabotage of critical infrastructure “is the kind...

Top films competing in Cannes Film Festival
May15

Top films competing in Cannes Film Festival

From the tale of a mysterious beast to a migrant who finds he can levitate after being shot on a border fence, these are the 19 movies competing in the main competition at this week’s Cannes film festival which gets underway on May 17: – Wonderstruck – Todd Haynes in back in period mode after his huge hit “Carol” with the first of two...

Portugal wins the Eurovision for first time
May14

Portugal wins the Eurovision for first time

KIEV: Portugal’s Salvador Sobral won the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday performing a jazz-style ballad written by his sister, taking the top spot for the first time in the country’s history and celebrating with a call to “put emotion back into music”. Along with singers from Italy and Bulgaria, Sobral was a favourite going into...

Portugal wins Eurovision Song Contest for the first time
May14

Portugal wins Eurovision Song Contest for the first time

Portugal’s Salvador Sobral won the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday performing a jazz-style ballad written by his sister, taking the top spot for the first time in the country’s history and celebrating with a call to “put emotion back into music”. Along with singers from Italy and Bulgaria, Sobral was a favorite going into the...

Major cyber attack hits companies, hospitals, schools worldwide
May13

Major cyber attack hits companies, hospitals, schools worldwide

(Reuters) – A global cyber attack leveraging hacking tools believed to have been developed by the U.S. National Security Agency has infected tens of thousands of computers in nearly 100 countries, disrupting Britain’s health system and global shipper FedEx.Cyber extortionists tricked victims into opening malicious malware attachments...

Global realtime cyber attack infects thousands of computers worldwide
May13

Global realtime cyber attack infects thousands of computers worldwide

LONDON/MADRID: A global cyber attack leveraging hacking tools believed to have been developed by the US National Security Agency has infected tens of thousands of computers in nearly 100 countries, disrupting Britain’s health system and global shipper FedEx. Cyber extortionists tricked victims into opening malicious malware attachments to...

English hospitals say hit by suspected national cyber attack
May13

English hospitals say hit by suspected national cyber attack

An international cyber attack on Friday struck countries including the UK and Spain, British Prime Minister Theresa May said, as security experts warned it could affect many other countries. The UK’s state-run National Health Service declared a “major incident” after the attack, which forced some hospitals to divert ambulances...

Portugal puts Eurovision hopes in big-hearted crooner
May12

Portugal puts Eurovision hopes in big-hearted crooner

A few weeks ago, Salvador Sobral, a 27-year-old crooner tipped as a favourite for Saturday’s Eurovision Song Contest, was an unknown artist waiting for a heart transplant. But with his intimate rendering of the melancholic “Amar Pelos Dois” (For the Both of Us) written by his older sister Luisa — a success in her own right — Sobral is...

US criticises Russian build-up near Baltic states
May11

US criticises Russian build-up near Baltic states

US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis said on Wednesday that a Russian missile deployment near the Baltic states was “destabilising”, and officials suggested the United States could deploy a Patriot missile battery in the region for Nato exercises in the summer. US allies are jittery ahead of war games by Russia and Belarus in September...

Russia’s Lavrov meets Secretary Tillerson ahead of Trump talks
May10

Russia’s Lavrov meets Secretary Tillerson ahead of Trump talks

WASHINGTON: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met Wednesday with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson ahead of rare Oval Office talks with Donald Trump, whose firing of his FBI chief again put the spotlight on Moscow’s alleged meddling in last year’s US election. On Tuesday, Trump dismissed FBI Director James Comey, who was...