Section: Protothema (Greece)
22-year-old who lives with his parents stops the cyber attacks!
The “accidental hero” who halted the global spread of an unprecedented ransomware attack by registering a garbled domain name hidden in the malware has warned the attack could be rebooted. The ransomware used in Friday’s attack wreaked havoc on organisations including FedEx and Telefónica, as well as the UK’s National Health Service...
Russian fighter jet comes within 20 feet of U.S. Navy aircraft!
Russia’s air force scrambled to intercept a U.S. aircraft above the Black Sea, sending a fighter jet that came within 20 feet of its American counterpart. Moscow claimed that the U.S. jet was “approaching the state border of the Russian Federation” when forces in southern Russia deployed an Su-30 fighter jet to follow it. U.S. Naval Forces...
After Brexit Brits want out of Eurovision
It seems when the floodgates open they open wide. The British public is not done attempting to disconnect the country from European institutions it has been a longstanding membership of, according to the results of a new YouGov survey. With the Eurovision Song Contest taking part this Saturday in Kiev, YouGov finds that should the public be given...
Hollywood actor Steven Seagal banned from Ukraine (photos-video)
Action movie legend Steven Seagal has been barred from Ukraine and marked a “threat to national security” over his cosy friendship with Vladimir Putin. The Hollywood veteran, banned by Ukranian’s security service, the SBU, is the second of Putin’s celebrity friends to be blacklisted by the former Soviet state – following French actor...
Putin has a new Secret Weapon in Syria: Chechens
The Russian intervention in Syria has been, by most accounts, a success. And Russian President Vladimir Putin is going to do everything he can to keep it that way. Beginning with an air campaign on behalf of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in September 2015, Russian forces have not only stopped regime losses but also helped Damascus retake...
Chernobyl disaster 31 years on…
The United Nations today commemorated the International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day recalling the devastating explosion of 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant which spewed radioactive material to an area stretching 155,000 square kilometres across Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. Underscoring the need to strengthen international...
US and Russia on the brink of war, warns US Professor (video)
A Harvard Professor on Russia Studies has expressed his gave concerns over the possibility of a war between the US and Russia in an interview on Fox show “Tucker Carlson Tonight”. Stephen Cohen, a Professor Emeritus at Harvard and NYU, as well as an editor at Nation magazine, said the Russian side believes the US political establishment is...
Huge Russian torpedo found on beach in Lithuania! (PHOTOS)
A four-metre long (12-foot) Russia-made torpedo was found on the Curonian Spit on the Baltic Sea coast, near the border with the Russian Federation. The torpedo found, according to the estimates of the border guards, is a training torpedo. It is painted in green and red colors, has inscriptions in Russian. The torpedo was found in...
U.S. and NATO Special Ops just fought a fake Guerrilla war in West Virginia
To the casual observer, the scene might’ve looked like an odd cross between a reenactment of a past war and a demonstration of a future conflict. Elite special operators, some of whom were speaking foreign languages, were roving around the hills of West Virginia on foot, horseback, all-terrain vehicles, and by helicopter, while practicing...
Incredible amount of WWII battlefield relics still being found on the Eastern Front (PHOTOS)
The war on the Eastern Front, known to Russians as the “Great Patriotic War”, was the scene of the largest military confrontation in history. Over the course of four years, more than 400 Red Army and German divisions clashed in a series of operations along a front that extended more than 1,000 miles. Some 27 million Soviet soldiers and civilians...
