Section: Business Insider (USA)
Feds: Group made $30M with hacked press release info
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a group of hackers made $30 million by breaking into the computer systems of companies that publish news releases about mergers and acquisitions.According to an indictment unsealed Tuesday, the defendants gained access to news releases and traded on the information in them before they were made...
Prosecutors: Possible Buk missile parts found at MH17 site
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch prosecutors said Tuesday they have found what they believe could be parts of a Buk missile system at the site in eastern Ukraine where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was brought down last year.The announcement represents the first time prosecutors have confirmed possible physical evidence of a missile bringing...
MH17 investigators find ‘possible’ BUK missile parts
The Hague (AFP) – Investigators probing the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 said Tuesday they had identified pieces that “possibly” come from a Russian-made BUK missile from eastern Ukraine, where the plane crashed.International and Dutch investigators are probing “several parts, possibly originating from a...
France’s Simon starts with win at Montreal
Montreal (AFP) – French ninth seed Gilles Simon levelled his record at the ATP Montreal Masters to 8-8 as he opened with a 6-2, 6-4 defeat of Italy’s Andreas Seppi on Monday.Simon, a semi-finalist in Canada in 2008 at Toronto, spent just under 90 minutes in advancing to the second round in the major tune-up event ahead of the August...
Russian economy shrank 4.6 percent in Q2 on lower oil prices
MOSCOW (AP) — Official government figures show that the Russian economy was 4.6 percent in the second quarter from the same quarter the previous year in the wake of plummeting oil prices and Western sanctions.The sharp quarterly decline reported Monday by the country’s state statistics agency is more than double the 2.2-percent contraction...
Russia’s economy is shriveling up
Russia’s economy has contracted the most since 2009 following lower oil. Russia’s GDP shrank by 4.6% in the second quarter from the same period last year, following a 2.2% decline in the previous three months, according to the Federal Statistics Service in Moscow cited by Bloomberg’s Anna Andrianova. This was a greater...
A new analysis highlights what Europe gets wrong about Russia — and how it can hurt Putin
In a new analysis, European Council on Foreign Relations senior policy fellow Kadri Liik explores European sanctions against Russia and how European leaders should use them. She observes that Europe doesn’t seem to know what it wants the “structural sanctions” to achieve and thus don’t have any time frame as to exactly...
Ukraine bans films featuring blacklisted Russian actors
MOSCOW (AP) — Ukraine says it has banned the screening of films featuring Russian actors included on a blacklist.It said this weekend the 14 Russian actors, singers and other cultural figures on the blacklist pose a threat to national security.Among those on the list is French-born actor Gerard Depardieu, who became a vocal supporter of Russia...
Ukraine: 4 OSCE vehicles destroyed in apparent arson
MOSCOW (AP) — The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s mission in eastern Ukraine says four of its armored cars were destroyed in an apparent arson attack.It was unclear who carried out the attack in Donetsk, the main rebel-held city.The white sport utility vehicles were parked outside the hotel that houses the OSCE...
Ukraine bidding to become breadbasket of Europe again
MALA DIVYTSA (Ukraine) (AFP) – Oleksandr Verzhykhovskiy slips a crisp stalk of wheat through his fingers and surveys the sun-drenched fields that once made war-torn Ukraine the “breadbasket of Europe” — and now embody its economic hopes.”This is a treasure — if you know how to treat it right,” the...
