Section: US & Canada
This is how the FBI hunts down the world’s most notorious cyber-criminals
Cyber-attacks are ten a penny now, and the FBI and other authorities that investigate these crimes around the world have many hurdles to cross if they want to catch a hacker. Police forces can often be hindered by the dark web and anonymizing tools used by cyber-criminals to cover their tracks, but there are also political barriers in arresting...
Ukraine will try again for downed plane tribunal
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Ukraine’s foreign minister said Thursday that the five countries investigating the downing of a Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine a year ago will try again to get U.N. Security Council approval for an international tribunal to prosecute the alleged perpetrators. …read more Source: CNS...
Athletics Roiled by Reports of Mass Doping
The world of international track and field was reeling Sunday after reports that 146 medals at the Olympics and World Championships between 2001 and 2012 were won by athletes with suspicious blood test results. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said Sunday it was “very alarmed” by the reports in two European media outlets. German...
For the record: What the leaders said at the launch of #elxn42
(THE CANADIAN PRESS/Fred Chartrand) It’s official: The campaign has begun. Canada is headed to the polls on October 19. Here’s what the leaders had to say at the official start of a gruelling 11-month campaign. (Additional leaders’ remarks will be added as we receive them.) Related: Read our in-depth primers on the...
Transcript of Stephen Harper’s remarks after Parliament dissolved
OTTAWA – Good Morning.A a few minutes ago, I met with his excellency, the Governor General, and he has agreed to my request that Parliament be dissolved.In accordance with our commitment to a fixed election date, the next general election will be held as prescribed by law.As it is my intention to begin campaign-related activities, as is...
Greece – give it a chance
Singapore 2. August 2015. Greece – give it a chance. By: Joergen Oerstroem Moeller Hardly was the ink dry after the agreement July 17th between Greece and its creditors before columnists, commentators, economists and politicians jumped to far reaching conclusions: Greece would never make it. Leaving the Euro (Grexit) is certain. This is the...
Ukraine president honors priest with checkered Holocaust-era record
(JTA) — Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko praised the actions of a priest who saved Jews during the Holocaust, but who has not been recognized for it in Israel for his apparent sympathy for Nazi Germany. Poroshenko spoke in favor of Andrey Sheptytsky at the unveiling on Wednesday of a monument in the priest’s honor in Lviv, the news...
Everyone around Joe Biden is discussing a presidential run, but the vice president hasn’t made any decision yet
Vice President Joe Biden’s associates have resumed discussions about a 2016 presidential run after largely shelving such deliberations while his son was sick and dying earlier this year. But Biden has yet to tell his staff whether he will run or personally ask them to do any planning for a potential campaign, according to several people...
Russia-backed rebels in Ukraine say radioactive waste cache is safe
Russia-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine have sought to assuage concerns that a cache of radioactive waste at a local chemical factory could pose a threat. …read more Source: CTV...
Rebels in eastern Ukraine say radioactive waste cache safe
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine have sought to assuage concerns that a cache of radioactive waste at a local chemical factory could pose a threat. …read more Source: CNS...
