Section: CBC (Canada)
2 tourists killed in knife attack at Egyptian resort
An attacker armed with a knife killed two female German tourists and wounded four other foreigners, including two Czechs, at an Egyptian Red Sea beach resort on Friday, local authorities and sources said. …read more Source:...
U.S. Senate panel on Russia plans to question Trump’s former campaign chair
The U.S. Senate judiciary committee plans to question the former chair of the Trump campaign and will subpoena him if necessary, the panel’s Republican chair said Wednesday. …read more Source:...
Trump affirms commitment to NATO allies
Donald Trump affirmed his administration’s commitment to NATO’s defence on Thursday, while calling on Russia to end its “destabilizing” action in Ukraine and elsewhere in the world. …read more Source:...
Netherlands says it will prosecute if suspects named in downing of MH17
Any suspects in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine in 2014 will be prosecuted in the Netherlands, the Dutch government announced Wednesday. …read more Source:...
Russian security services involved in recent cyberattack, says Ukraine
Ukraine’s state security service said on Saturday that the Russian security services were involved in a recent cyberattack that hit Ukraine, saying the aim was to destroy important data and spread panic. …read more Source:...
Cyberattack: Was it really ransomware, or an attack on Ukraine — or something yet to come?
A day after the latest cyberattack crippled computers internationally, starting in Ukraine, expert opinions are varying widely over who was behind it and what the real goal was. …read more Source:...
Ransomware attack hits property arm of France bank BNP Paribas
A global cyberattack has hit the property arm of France’s biggest bank BNP Paribas, one of the largest financial institutions known to be affected by an extortion campaign that started in Russia and Ukraine before spreading. …read more Source:...
Ransomware is infecting computers all across Europe in another major attack
A major ransomware attack on Tuesday hit computers at Russia’s biggest oil company, the country’s banks, Ukraine’s international airport as well as global shipping firm A.P. Moller-Maersk. …read more Source:...
Trump faces ‘land of lousy options’ with North Korea after Otto Warmbier’s death
With one American dead after being imprisoned in North Korea and three still in captivity there, U.S. President Donald Trump faces some grim math as he reckons with how to respond to a regime dubbed “the land of lousy options.” …read more Source:...
Trump calls death of Ohio man who was detained in North Korea ‘a total disgrace’
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the death of 22-year-old Otto Warmbier after his lengthy detention in North Korea was a “total disgrace,” and said if the college student had been returned home to the U.S. earlier, “I think the result would have been a lot different.” …read more Source:...