WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump lashed out on Sunday at another witness in Congress’ impeachment inquiry against him, saying the aide to Vice President Mike Pence was a “Never Trumper” who should “work out a better presidential attack.” Writ... More »
NAIROBI/JOHANNESBURG/LONDON (Reuters) – As jihadists wreaked ever more havoc in the last two years, mining firms in Burkina Faso rolled out extra security measures, from barracks for government troops protecting them to safe rooms for workers behind barbed wir... More »
KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan security forces on Monday were battling Taliban gunmen who stormed a building in the capital, Kabul, after a bomb-laden truck exploded near the defense ministry at rush hour, injuring at least 100 people, including 35 children, officia... More »
ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – Kurdish security forces killed gunmen who had stormed a government building in the Kurdish city of Erbil on Monday and took hostages in an attack suspected of being carried out by Islamic State, security officials said, Armed with pisto... More »
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A man who attacked and damaged a masterpiece of Russian painting with a metal pole said on Tuesday he had acted for ideological reasons to rescue the reputation of a tsar, recanting an earlier confession that the vandalism was fueled by vodk... More »
TORONTO (Reuters) – Bank of Montreal (BMO.TO) and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CM.TO) said on Monday that cyber attackers may have stolen the data of nearly 90,000 customers in what appeared to be the first significant assault on financial institutions ... More »
GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) – A landmine explosion killed four people, including an election candidate, in India’s northeastern state of Meghalaya in an area where four militant groups are seeking independence, police said on Monday. The attack happened on Sunda... More »
A vehicle of the Russian Emergencies Ministry is parked near a local school after reportedly several unidentified people wearing masks injured schoolchildren with knives in the city of Perm, Russia January 15, 2018. REUTERS/Maksim Kimerling MOSCOW (Reuters) – ... More »
KABUL (Reuters) – Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack near a training facility of Afghanistan’s main intelligence agency in the capital, Kabul, on Monday as gunmen exchanged fire with security forces. Details of the attack remained unclear after... More »
Warplanes attacked a checkpoint outside the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Wednesday, killing five civilians in a taxi and two armed personnel manning the site, witnesses said. More »
Employees of customer support team of the Wnet internet provider work at the company’s headquarters in Kiev, Ukraine July 26, 2017. When the chief of Microsoft Ukraine switched jobs to work for President Petro Poroshenko, he found that everyone in the office u... More »
A hooded man holds a laptop computer as cyber code is projected on him in this illustration picture taken on May 13, 2017. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration Germany’s BSI federal cyber agency said on Friday that the threat posed to German firms by recent cybe... More »
The logo of Mondelez International is pictured at the company’s building in Zurich November 14, 2012. REUTERS/Michael Buholzer Mondelez International Inc (MDLZ.O), the world’s second-largest confectionary company, said its second-quarter revenue growth would b... More »
FILE PHOTO: Empty Maersk shipping containers are seen stacked at Peel Ports container terminal in Liverpool northern England, December 9, 2016. REUTERS/Phil Noble/File Photo Maersk said it was too early to predict the financial impact of last month’s global Pe... More »
FILE PHOTO: A man holds a laptop computer as cyber code is projected on him in this illustration picture taken on May 13, 2017. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration/File Photo Ukrainian cyber police have blocked the second cyber attack against Ukraine, Ukrainian... More »
FILE PHOTO: A message demanding money is seen on a monitor of a payment terminal at a branch of Ukraine’s state-owned bank Oschadbank after Ukrainian institutions were hit by a wave of cyber attacks, in Kiev, Ukraine, June 27, 2017. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko U... More »
Attackers shot and killed three people in a raid on a commercial bank in northeast Kenya’s on Friday, police said. More »
A knife-fielding man suspected of mental illness killed two people and injured 18 in China, the official Xinhua news agency reported. More »
FILE PHOTO: A hooded man holds a laptop computer as blue screen with an exclamation mark is projected on him in this illustration picture taken on May 13, 2017. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration A newly found flaw in widely used networking software leaves ten... More »
A man walks out of a branch of Russian Post in Moscow, Russia, May 24, 2017. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov Russia’s postal service was hit by Wannacry ransomware last week and some of its computers are still down, three employees in Moscow said, the latest sign of we... More »
A hooded man holds a laptop computer as cyber code is projected on him in this illustration picture taken on May 13, 2017. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration Asian governments and businesses reported some disruptions from the WannaCry ransomware worm on Monday... More »
Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga leaves the prime minister’s office after a news conference on reports of the launch of a North Korean missile, in Tokyo, Japan May 14, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai – RTX35PYQ Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide ... More »
South Korea’s presidential Blue House office said on Monday there have been nine cases of ransomware found in the country so far, but did not provide details on where the cyber attacks were discovered. More »
FILE PHOTO: A man types on a computer keyboard in front of the displayed cyber code in this illustration picture taken on March 1, 2017. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration/File Photo Many companies outside the United States may not have cover for a recent comp... More »
Australia and New Zealand appeared to have escaped largely unscathed as they woke up for their first business day since a massive ransomware worm hit thousands of computer systems around the world, disrupting operations at hospitals, shops and schools. More »
Tom Bossert, Homeland Security Advisor to President Trump, announces that Trump today signed an executive order to bolster the government’s cyber security and protect the nation’s critical infrastructure from cyber attacks, during a news briefing at the White ... More »
Afghan national Army (ANA) troops keep watch near the site of an ongoing attack on an army headquarters in Mazar-i-Sharif, northern Afghanistan April 21, 2017. REUTERS/Anil Usyan Afghan President Ashraf Ghani accepted the resignations of his defense minister a... More »
Russia said on Friday that six of its soldiers had been killed while successfully repelling a militant assault on a military facility in Chechnya. More »
DENIS, La Reunion (Reuters) – A 26-year old man has died after being attacked by a shark off the coast of La Reunion island in the Indian Ocean, said a local authority official on Tuesday. More »
A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a government office in Pakistan on Wednesday, killing five people, the army said, the latest attack in a new surge in militant violence. More »
A suspected U.S. drone strike killed two men believed to be al Qaeda militants in central Yemen, local officials said early on Monday, hours after American commandos carried out the first military operation authorized by President Donald Trump. More »
India’s top counter-terrorism agency on Monday charged Pakistan-based militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), and its top leader, with perpetrating a deadly attack on an Indian air force base in January. More »
Forest department officials on Saturday (September 24) promised strict action after a python attacked a man when a group was trying to click a photo with it. More »
MUNICH A German national stabbed four passengers at a train station near Munich early on Tuesday, killing one man and injuring three, in an attack police said appeared to have an Islamist motive. Witnesses said the assailant, a 27-year-old man, shouted “Allahu... More »
LONDON British detectives have charged a man with attempted murder after a knife attack at an east London metro station on Saturday night which was described by police as a terrorist incident. Police said 29-year-old Muhaydin Mire of east London would appear a... More »
An off-duty Maryland police officer charged with biting a man’s testicles during a fight is no longer working for the department, a spokeswoman said on Monday. Police officer Michael Flaig, 31, of Anne Arundel County, left the department for unspecified reason... More »
KABUL Police and residents said Afghan government forces had regained control of most of the besieged city of Kunduz on Monday, and some shops in the center of the provincial capital opened for the first time since it fell to Taliban fighters a week ago.Reside... More »
