Section: US & Canada
Truce Faltering as E. Ukraine Fighting Spikes
Intense clashes this week between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russia rebels are jeopardizing a fragile peace agreement and renewing concerns of a possible summer offensive. Ukrainian officials say it is the worst fighting since a cease-fire deal six months ago and may signal the start of a Russia-backed offensive by rebels in eastern Ukraine. A...
9 accused of making $30 million using hacked press releases
Nine people in the U.S. and Ukraine were charged Tuesday with making $30 million by hacking into business newswire services, reading corporate press releases before they came out, and then trading on that information ahead… …read more Source: WAVE 3...
Feds: Group made $30M with hacked press release information
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A group of Ukrainian hackers worked with securities traders in the U.S. to make $30 million by breaking into the computers of companies that put out corporate press releases and trading on the information before it was made public, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.Prosecutors in New Jersey and New York City, along with...
Flight MH17: Possible Russian missile parts found at MH17 site, say prosecutors
Flight MH17: Dutch prosecutors from a joint international criminal investigation into the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in eastern Ukraine say some of the debris recovered from the site may belong to a Russian-made BUK surface-to-air missile system. …read more Source: Christian Science...
Labour’s Suicide by Socialism?
“I do not know if the people would vote for superior men if they ran for office,” Tocqueville once noted, “but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.” How easily those words spring to mind this summer in Britain. Here the opposition Labour party is voting for a new leader to replace Ed Miliband following its worst general election result...
Russia Plans To Add New Countries To Food Import Ban List
Russia said on August 11 that it is planning to add new countries to its Western food import ban list. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Feds: Group made $30M with hacked press release information
A group of Ukrainian hackers worked with securities traders in the U.S. to make $30 million by breaking into the computers of companies that put out corporate press releases and trading on the information before it was… …read more Source: WAVE 3...
Suspected Russian missile parts found at MH17 crash site in Ukraine
The Malaysia Airlines plane appeared to have been shot down last year, killing all aboard. …read more Source: USA...
MH17 Probe Yields Possible Parts of Russian Missile
Investigators probing last year’s downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine have found fragments that may have come from a Russian surface-to-air missile. Dutch prosecutors said in a statement Tuesday that the investigators from Belgium, Australia, Ukraine, Malaysia and the Netherlands who are conducting the criminal...
Insider trading ring alleged to have made $30 million from hacking press releases
Federal authorities made arrests this morning in a case involving an alleged insider trading ring that hacked several thousand press releases containing market-moving information. The indictment, which has been seen by Business Insider, names five defendants: Ivan Turchynov (Ukrainian resident/alleged hacker) Oleksandr Ireemenko (Ukranian...
