Section: The Epoch Times (USA)
British Hospitals, Spanish Firms Among Targets of Huge Cyberattack
LONDON/MADRID—A huge cyberattack brought disruption to Britain’s health system on Friday and infected many Spanish companies with malicious software, and security researchers said a dozen other countries may be affected. Hospitals and doctors’ surgeries in parts of England were forced to turn away patients and cancel appointments....
Ex-rebel Leaders Detail Role Played by Putin Aide in East Ukraine
MOSCOW—A top aide to Vladimir Putin decides how the pro-Moscow administration of eastern Ukraine is run and who gets what jobs there, three former rebel leaders said, challenging Kremlin denials that it calls the shots in the region. Their comments to Reuters shed light on the role played by the secretive Vladislav Surkov, who has long been at...
France Fights to Keep Macron Email Hack From Distorting Election
PARIS—France sought to keep a computer hack of front-runner Emmanuel Macron’s campaign emails from influencing the outcome of the presidential election, with the electoral commission warning on Saturday that it may be a criminal offense to republish the data. Macron’s team claimed a “massive” hack had dumped emails, documents and...
Merkel Says She Has Good Relationship With Trump Despite Frosty Start
BERLIN—German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday that she and President Donald Trump have built a “good working relationship” even though the two had frosty exchanges last year that raised fears of damage to the pivotal U.S.-German partnership. “President Trump and I have developed a good working relationship, which doesn’t rule out...
Putin Says Trust Erodes Under Trump, Moscow Icily Receives Tillerson
MOSCOW—Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday trust had eroded between the United States and Russia under President Donald Trump, as Moscow delivered an unusually hostile reception to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in a face-off over Syria. Any hope in Russia that the Trump administration would herald less confrontational relations has been dashed in...
US to Hold Accountable Those Who Commit Crimes Against ‘Innocents’
LUCCA, Italy—The United States will hold responsible anyone who commits crimes against humanity, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Monday, days after the U.S. military unexpectedly attacked Syria. Tillerson is in Italy for a meeting of foreign ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) major industrialized nations, with his counterparts from...
Post-Stalinist Soviet Poet Yevtushenko Dies in US
MOSCOW—Russian poet Evgeny Yevtushenko, a leading force in the brief post-Stalinist Soviet literary “thaw” of the 1960s, has died in the United States at the age of 85, TASS news agency reported on Saturday, citing a close friend. “Five minutes ago, Evgeny Aleksandrovich (Yevtushenko) departed into eternity,” TASS said, quoting Mikhail Morgulis,...
Russia Not Interfering in French Elections, Says Candidate Fillon
PARIS—France’s conservative presidential candidate on Friday dismissed as “fantasy” concerns that Russia could be interfering in the election and said he would seek a better balance in relations with a country that was nevertheless “dangerous”. Francois Fillon, who had been favorite to win the election until a scandal over his wife’s...
Poland Shuts Consulates in Ukraine After Grenade Attack
KIEV/WARSAW—Poland temporarily closed its consulates in Ukraine after a grenade attack overnight at one of its buildings near the Polish border that Kiev said was intended to harm bilateral ties with Warsaw. Relations between Poland and Ukraine have deteriorated in the past year in a row over World War II atrocities, although Warsaw still...
Russia’s Putin Meets French Presidential Contender Le Pen in Kremlin
MOSCOW—President Vladimir Putin met French National Front leader Marine Le Pen in the Kremlin on Friday, handing her a potential boost to her campaign to win next month’s presidential election in France. Putin told Le Pen Moscow reserved the right to meet any French politician it wanted and that she represented “quite a fast-growing element...
