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 LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – Smartphones, PCs and servers across the world have rec... More »
FILE PHOTO: PetroVietnam’s former chairman Phung Dinh Thuc walks out of a court for lunch, in Hanoi, Vietnam January 8, 2018. REUTERS/Kham/File Photo HANOI/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Vietnam is gripped by its highest profile corruption trial in memory, but some s... More »
(Reuters) – A gift-wrapped package addressed to U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s home in a posh Los Angeles neighborhood that was suspected of being a bomb was instead filled with horse manure, police told local media. The package was found Saturday ev... More »
Australian police patrol the area where a driver on Thursday deliberately ploughed into pedestrians in central Melbourne, Australia, December 22, 2017. REUTERS/Sonali Paul MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Nearly half the 19 people injured when a driver with no known extr... More »
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s intelligence service has published the details of social network profiles which it says are fronts faked by Chinese intelligence to gather personal information about German officials and politicians. The BfV domestic intelligence s... More »
Adrian Kemp of HoustonKemp Economists speaks to Reuters in their office in Singapore November 24, 2017. Picture taken November 24, 2017. REUTERS/Edgar Su (Reuters) – Police and security agencies have so far only taken an interest in blockchain – the distribute... More »
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish counter-terror police detained 10 people including academic Fikret Baskaya early on Monday in an operation targeting members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, state-run Anadolu news agency reported. Baris Yarkada... More »
FILE PHOTO: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends the Future Investment Initiative conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia October 24, 2017. REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed/File Photo DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s powerful Crown Prince called the Supreme Leade... More »
Zimbabwe’s former Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who is due to be sworn in to replace Robert Mugabe as President, addresses supporters in Harare, Zimbabwe, November 22, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings HARARE (Reuters) – Incoming Zimbabwe leader Emmerson Mnang... More »
The Indonesian unit of Freeport-McMoRan Inc closed the main access road to its giant copper mine in the eastern province of Papua on Tuesday for the second time in three days after another shooting incident. More »
Indonesia's military said on Friday it was prepared to take tough measures against rebels who have threatened to "destroy" the mining operations of Freeport-McMoRan Inc in the eastern province of Papua in their independence struggle. More »
Yemen's stocks of fuel will last until the end of November and stocks of vaccines run out in one month if a Saudi-led military coalition does not allow aid into Hodeidah port and the Sanaa airport, UNICEF's representative in the country said on Friday. More »
New security measures including stricter passenger screening take effect on Thursday on all U.S.-bound flights to comply with government requirements aimed at responding to threats of hidden explosives, airlines said. More »
Kaspersky Lab will ask independent parties to conduct security reviews of its widely used anti-virus software to help dispel allegations that the Russian government uses the products to conduct espionage, the Moscow-based company said on Monday. More »
The U.S. mission in Turkey and subsequently the Turkish mission in Washington mutually scaled back visa services after a U.S. consulate employee was arrested in Turkey, in the latest sign of fraying diplomatic relations between the NATO allies. More »
Turkish embassy in Washington said on Sunday it suspended all non-immigrant visa services at all Turkish diplomatic facilities in the United States, after U.S. missions reduced visa services in Turkey. More »
French counter-terrorism investigators questioned five people on Tuesday after police over the weekend found what appeared to be a ready-to-detonate bomb at an apartment building in one of Paris's poshest neighborhoods. More »
Libya's eastern-based military commander Khalifa Haftar was quoted on Friday as saying force must remain an option for imposing order in the country, though he added that a political solution would be preferable. More »
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) has received more than four times as many national-security related requests from the U.S. government in the first half of this year versus a year ago, according to a company report on Thursday. More »
Hackers broke into British company Piriform's free software for optimizing computer performance last month potentially allowing them to control the devices of more than two million users, the company and independent researchers said on Monday. More »
New York police and a host of federal agencies are preparing for the annual traffic and security nightmare known as the United Nations General Assembly, featuring a week of speeches by U.S. President Donald Trump and a parade of other dignitaries. More »
The Manchester music venue where a suicide bomber killed 22 people as they left an Ariana Grande concert in May will reopen on Saturday for the first time since the attack. More »
The United Nations is preparing to deploy up to 250 peacekeepers to Libya to guard its base in the capital as part of a plan to return its operations to the country, the head of the organization's mission there said on Friday. 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 »
Suspected jihadists killed at least 18 people and wounded several during a raid on a restaurant in Burkina Faso's capital overnight but security forces shot dead both attackers and freed people trapped inside the building. More »
A French citizen was killed during an attack by suspected jihadists on a restaurant in Burkina Faso's capital, said a statement issued on behalf of French Foreign Affairs minister Jean-Yves Le Drian. More »
FILE PHOTO: An Etihad Airways Boeing 777-3FX aircraft takes off at the Charles de Gaulle airport in Roissy, France, August 9, 2016. Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Airways said on Tuesday it was helping Australian Federal Police with an investigation that police began into... More »
FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, arrives in Downing Street for a cabinet meeting, in central London, Britain June 20, 2017. Britain’s interior minister will use a visit to Silicon Valley on Tuesday to ask the world’s biggest social media and i... More »
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim speaks during a joint news conference with his Greek counterpart Alexis Tsipras after their meeting at the Maximos Mansion in Athens, Greece, June 19, 2017. The Turkish government asked parliament on Monday to extend emer... More »
Suicide bombers killed 17 people and injured 21 in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, the police commissioner of Borno state said on Wednesday. More »
People shout slogans as Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu (not pictured) walks on the final stage of his 25-day long protest, dubbed “Justice March”, against the detention of the party’s lawmaker Enis Berberoglu... More »
Turkish police have detained 29 suspected Islamic State militants in Istanbul, 22 of them foreign nationals, believed to be preparing to travel to Syria, the state-run Anadolu news agency said on Friday. More »
FILE PHOTO – An illustration picture shows a laptop on the screen of an X-ray security scanner, April 7, 2017. REUTERS/Srdjan Zivulovic/Illustration/File Photo A three-month-old ban on taking electronic devices such as laptops onto aircraft cabins on flights f... More »
FILE PHOTO: Passengers wait for check-in U.S. bound flights at a Turkish Airlines counter at Ataturk International airport in Istanbul, Turkey, March 24, 2017. REUTERS/Murad Sezer Turkish Airlines (THYAO.IS) expects a ban on carrying electronic devices in cabi... More »
FILE PHOTO: Women sit with relatives infected with cholera at a hospital in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, Yemen May 14, 2017. REUTERS/Abduljabbar Zeyad The death toll from a major cholera outbreak in Yemen has risen to 1,500, Nevio Zagaria, the World Heal... More »
FILE PHOTO: An encryption message is seen on the WhatsApp application on an iPhone in Manchester , Britain March 27, 2017. REUTERS/Phil Noble Australia said on Sunday it will push for greater powers to tackle the use of encrypted messaging services used by ter... More »
FILE PHOTO: Military police officers at the scene of a deadly shooting in Vihti, Finland June 18, 2016. Lehtikuva/Roni Rekomaa/via REUTERS/File Photo The Finnish Security Intelligence Service (SUPO) raised its threat level on Wednesday, saying it had become aw... More »
Turkish authorities issued detention warrants for 189 lawyers as part of an investigation into followers of a Muslim cleric accused of orchestrating last July’s attempted coup, state-run Anadolu news agency said on Wednesday. More »
A Saudi soldier was killed and two members of the security forces wounded when an explosive device went off during a patrol in the Kingdom’s eastern Qatif province, the Interior Ministry said on Monday. More »
FILE PHOTO: European Union Justice Commissioner Vera Jourova holds news conference at the EC headquarters in Brussels, Belgium January 10, 2017. REUTERS/Yves Herman The European Union wants to make it easier for law enforcement authorities to get electronic ev... More »
FILE PHOTO: Singer Ariana Grande performs on ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ show in Central Park in New York City, U.S. May 20, 2016. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo French fans of Ariana Grande flooded to a Paris concert hall on Wednesday as the U.S. pop st... More »
Passengers jumped from a plane at a rural Australian airport on Tuesday when a threatening note, which turned out to be a hoax, was found in the bathroom, police and media said, a day after a siege in Melbourne which police are treating as terrorism. More »
A combination photo shows U.S. President Donald Trump (L) in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, U.S. on May 31, 2017 and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan at the scene of the attack on London Bridge and Borough Market in central London, Britain, Ju... More »
Personnel assigned to the U.S. Mission in Egypt are prohibited from visiting religious sites outside greater Cairo until further notice, the U.S. embassy said on Monday in a security message posted on its website. More »
Ariana Grande performs during the One Love Manchester benefit concert for the victims of the Manchester Arena terror attack at Emirates Old Trafford. Danny Lawson/One Love Manchester/via REUTERS U.S. pop singer Ariana Grande headlined a star-studded benefit co... More »
Roddy MacLeod father of Manchester bomb victim Eilidh MacLeod leads the funeral procession to the Church of Our Lady, Star of the Sea, ahead of the funeral of Manchester bomb victim Eilidh MacLeod, in Castlebay on the island of Barra, in Scotland June 5, 2017.... More »
Armed police officers stand on duty in central Manchester, Britain, May 28, 2017. REUTERS/Phil Noble British police said on Monday they had arrested a 16th person in connection with the Manchester suicide bombing last week. More »
Warplanes carried out three air strikes on the Libyan city of Derna on Monday, a witness said, days after Egypt launched strikes on militant camps there against those it said were responsible for killing Egyptian Christians. More »
Britain is looking at range of options to put pressure on internet companies to do more to take down extremist material, Security Minister Ben Wallace said on Sunday. More »
A boy carries a candle during a vigil for the victims of an attack on concert goers at Manchester Arena, in Royton, near Manchester, Britain May 26, 2017. REUTERS/Phil Noble U.S. pop star Ariana Grande said on Friday that she will hold a benefit concert in Man... More »
Britain’s Prime Minister, Theresa May, arrives at number 10 Downing Street, in London, Britain May 25, 2017. REUTERS/Neil Hall British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Thursday she would tell U.S. President Donald Trump that intelligence shared between their... More »
British security services have thwarted 18 militant plots in the UK since 2013, including five following an attack in central London in March, a source with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. More »
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth speaks to Millie Robson, 15, from Co Durham, and her mother, Marie, during a visit to the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital in Manchester, Britain May 25, 2017. REUTERS/Peter Byrne/Pool Queen Elizabeth met some of the young victims... More »
An undated photo from the Facebook account of Olivia Campbell, identified in media reports as one of the victims of the blast at the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester May 22, 2017. Olivia Campbell via Facebook/Handout via REUTERS The following are short prof... More »
Messages and floral tributes left for the victims of the attack on Manchester Arena lie around the statue in St Ann’s Square in central Manchester, May 24, 2017. REUTERS/Jon Super Police scrambled to close down a network around the Manchester suicide bomber wi... More »
FILE PHOTO – Ariana Grande performs at Z100’s Jingle Ball in Manhattan, New York, U.S., December 9, 2016. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/Files Roy More »
A man photographs a sign in Manchester. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth A Polish couple died in the suicide attack in the English city of Manchester, Poland’s Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski said on Wednesday. More »
A man looks at flowers for the victims of the Manchester Arena attack in central Manchester, Britain May 23, 2017. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth North America’s major sports leagues have strict safety procedures at their arenas but have urged fans attending games to ... More »
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 Officials across the globe scrambled over the weekend to catch the culprits ... More »
Women sit with relatives infected with cholera at a hospital in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, Yemen May 14, 2017. REUTERS/Abduljabbar Zeyad Officials in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, controlled by the armed Houthi movement, declared a state of emergency on... More »
Facebook logo is seen on a wall at a start-up companies gathering at Paris’ Station F in Paris, France, January 17, 2017. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer Facebook Inc said on Thursday it suspended 30,000 accounts in France as the social network giant steps up efforts... More »
Britain Athletics – IAAF Press Conference – London Marriott Hotel, West India Quay, Canary Wharf – 13/4/17 IAAF President Sebastian Coe during the press conference Action Images via Reuters / Paul Childs Livepic IAAF president Sebastian Coe said on Thursday he... More »
A man walks past a Yahoo logo during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, February 24, 2016. REUTERS/Albert Gea/File Photo/File Photo Yahoo’s European regulator said it is preparing to give the U.S. Internet company the results of an investigation in... More »
Turkish F-16 warplanes launched air strikes on Kurdish militants in southeast Turkey on Wednesday, killing eight of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters, a provincial governor’s office said. More »
Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop speaks during the 28th International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) Fullerton Lecture in Singapore March 13, 2017. REUTERS/Yong Teck Lim Australia said on Thursday it had received information that terrorists may... More »
White House Senior Advisor Steve Bannon attends a roundtable discussion held by U.S. President Donald Trump with auto industry leaders at the American Center for Mobility in Ypsilanti Township, Michigan, U.S., March 15, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst U.S. Presid... More »
Floral tributes are seen outside New Scotland Yard following a recent attack in Westminster, in London, Britain March 24, 2017. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls Before he killed at least four people in Britain’s deadliest attack since the 2005 London bombings, Khalid Ma... More »
Police work at Carriage Gate outside the Houses of Parliament. REUTERS/Neil Hall The attacker who plowed a car through a throng of pedestrians and then stabbed a policeman outside Britain’s parliament was named on Thursday as Khalid Masood, a British-born man ... More »
Floral tributes are seen placed near the scene of an attack in Westminster, in London, Britain March 24, 2017. REUTERS/Darren Staples British police said they had made two further significant arrests in the investigation into the attack on London’s parliament ... More »
A slogan reads ” The poor vote for NO” next to a mailbox outside a closed Hellenic Post branch in Athens, Greece, March 20, 2017. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis The European Central Bank and two senior euro zone officials were among the intended targets of booby... More »
Unknown gunmen killed the spokesman for Uganda’s police force and also his bodyguard and driver early on Friday as the official left his home in the capital Kampala, a government spokesman said. More »
Malaysian police said on Monday they had arrested seven people, including five Filipinos, for suspected links to the Islamic State militant group. More »
Three U.S. senators asked the secretaries of State, Defense and Homeland Security on Wednesday if they were spending government resources to secure President Donald Trump’s properties around the world. More »
German authorities in the southwestern town of Gaggenau evacuated the city hall on Friday after receiving a bomb threat, its mayor told German television, one day after he canceled an event where Turkey’s justice minister was to speak. More »
German police said on Wednesday that they had deployed forces to a school in the town of Menden near Dortmund, where a media report said there was an armed man. More »
U.S. President Donald Trump holds a ‘Make America Great Again’ rally at Orlando Melbourne International Airport in Melbourne, Florida, U.S. February 18, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque President Donald Trump will interview four candidates for the position of U.S.... More »
Turkish police detained more than 500 people on Monday in operations across Turkey targeting suspects linked with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, state-run Anadolu news agency reported. More »
The story headlined “Arab coalition declares Yemen’s Hodeidah a military zone” is wrong and is withdrawn. The coalition says it did not issue such a statement. There will be no substitute story. More »
Girls stand at the entrance to their tent at a camp for internally displaced people in the northwestern city of Saada, Yemen January 30, 2017. REUTERS/Naif Rahma The United Nations said on Wednesday that 12 million people in Yemen faced the threat of famine br... More »
Women walk past a graffiti, denouncing strikes by U.S. drones in Yemen, painted on a wall in Sanaa, Yemen February 6, 2017. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah Yemen said on Wednesday it had not suspended counter-terrorism operations with the U.S. government, despite cont... More »
Girls stand at the entrance to their tent at a camp for internally displaced people in the northwestern city of Saada, Yemen January 30, 2017. REUTERS/Naif Rahma The United Nations appealed on Wednesday for $2.1 billion to provide food and other life-saving as... More »
Police searched homes and other properties in Britain and the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia on Wednesday for evidence on two suspects believed to have supported Islamist group Jabhat al-Nusra, Germany’s chief federal prosecutor’s office said. 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 »
Turkey has dismissed a deputy head of the state fund which runs seized companies and shut down two local television stations in the latest decrees issued on Monday under emergency rule, imposed in the wake of last July’s failed coup. More »
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump claps at the USA Thank You Tour event at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines, Iowa, U.S., December 8, 2016. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday selected former Bush ad... More »
Members of the Philippine National Police (PNP) Special Action Force patrol after an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was found near the U.S Embassy in metro Manila, Philippines November 28, 2016. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco Philippine police conducted a controlled ... More »
Arab coalition warplanes struck military sites in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Monday, residents said, as two-day ceasefire that was marred by heavy fighting entered its final hours. More »
Libya’s U.N.-backed government has appointed a finance minister and deputy finance minister in a move it hopes will unlock crucial funding from the central bank and revive its flagging fortunes. More »
Officers from the New York Police Department provide security outside of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, which will be the site of the election night event for U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in New York, U.S., November 7, 2016. REU... More »
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan makes a speech during his meeting with mukhtars at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, October 19, 2016. Murat Cetinmuhurdar/Presidential Palace/Handout via REUTERS Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday Germa... More »
A policewoman takes part in a police officers unauthorised protest against anti-police violence in front of the Police Prefecture in Paris, France, October 21, 2016. REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen French police staged protests in Paris and other cities for a fifth nig... More »
Suspected Kurdish militants shot and killed an official in Turkey’s ruling AK Party late on Monday, authorities said, the second shooting of a politician in as many days in the southeast. More »
Asylum seekers Vanessa Mae Bondalian Rodel, 42, from the Philippines, and Ajith Pushpakumara, 44, from Sri Lanka, who helped hiding Edward Snowden while he was in Hong Kong in 2013, attend a special screening of the film ‘Snowden’ directed by Oliver Stone, in ... More »
Suspected Kurdish militants detonated a car bomb near local government offices in Turkey’s southeastern city of Van on Monday, wounding scores of people, a day after two dozen mayors from Kurdish-run municipalities were stripped of office. More »
A riot police officer stands guard in front of Sur municipality office, following the removal of the local mayor from office after he was deemed to support Kurdish militants, in Diyarbakir, Turkey, September 11, 2016. REUTERS/Sertac Kayar Turkey appointed new ... More »
An Australian teenager who planned a terror attack which involved beheading a policeman and attaching explosives to a kangaroo at commemorations of the World War One ANZAC landings at Gallipoli was sentenced on Monday to ten years in prison. More »
Members of Libyan forces allied with the UN-backed government fire a weapon towards Islamic State militants in neighbourhood Number One in central Sirte, Libya August 28, 2016. REUTERS/Ismail Zitouny At least 34 Libyan fighters were killed and more than 180 wo... More »
At least 15 bodies were transferred to a hospital run by Medicins Sans Frontieres in the southern Yemen city of Aden on Monday, a source at the hospital said, after an attack on a building used by local militias. More »
Police are seen outside Saint Joseph catholic church after a suspected terror attack by a knife-wielding assailant on a priest during the Sunday service in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia August 28, 2016 in this photo taken by Antara Foto. Antara Foto/Irsan Mu... More »
Iran has detected and removed malicious software from two of its petrochemical complexes, a senior military official said on Saturday, after announcing last week it was investigating whether recent petrochemical fires were caused by cyber attacks. More »
