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An elite group of North Korean hackers has been identified as the source of a wave of cyberattacks on global banks that has netted "hundreds of millions" of dollars, security researchers said Wednesday. A report by the cybersecurity firm FireEye said the newly identified group dubbed APT38...
Some 1,600 survivors from Indonesia's earthquake and tsunami were whisked to safety by a Navy warship Wednesday, providing much-needed relief for a lucky few after five days marked by shortages and grief. The KRI Makassar docked at the devastated city of Palu in central Sulawesi to take...
Russian senators on Wednesday approved a deeply controversial bill to raise the state pension age as the Kremlin indicated President Vladimir Putin could sign it into law soon. The upper house of parliament, the Federation Council, passed the bill that had sparked rare street protests...
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will head to Pyongyang to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, the State Department confirmed Tuesday. The trip will be a part of a larger tour for the diplomat who is also scheduled to visit South Korea, Japan and China. State Department...
Three researchers Tuesday shared the Nobel Physics Prize for inventions in the field of laser physics which have paved the way for advanced precision instruments used in industry and medicine, the jury said. Arthur Ashkin of the United States won one half of the prize, while Gerard...
At least seven people were killed in a suicide attack on an Afghan election campaign rally Tuesday, an official said, in the latest violence ahead of this month's legislative vote. Another 25 people were wounded when the militant blew himself up among supporters of parliamentary...
A team of ornithologists in Ecuador has identified a new species of hummingbird: a lovely blue-green creature that lives in a cold, barren highland area and is danger of extinction. Team leader Francisco Sornoza saw one of the birds through binoculars a year ago and had a hunch that it...
Canada's Justin Trudeau Monday hailed a new continental trade pact with the United States and Mexico as "profoundly beneficial" for Canadians -- but the prime minister must now sell the deal to skeptical dairy farmers, unions and voters. The 11th-hour deal was reached late Sunday after...
Bones discovered at the foot of the Matterhorn have been identified as the remains of a Japanese national who disappeared on the iconic mountain four years ago, Swiss police said Monday. Police in the canton of Valais said that a 40-year-old climber, who had set out alone, disappeared...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Over 700 Syrian refugees headed back to Syria Monday from Lebanon, in the latest of such returns organized by the General Security, the Lebanese Daily Star reported. Over the past few weeks, about 2000 Syrian refugees have returned to Syria, most of the refugees...
The man at the center of a sex-abuse and financial crimes scandal that is tarnishing the academy that awards the Nobel Prize in Literature was convicted Monday and sentenced to two years in prison for a rape in 2011. Jean-Claude Arnault, a major cultural figure in Sweden, had faced two...
The contemporary art market is booming with Chinese artists helping to push prices up by nearly a fifth in the past year, the world's biggest art index said Monday. Rocketing prices for living artists have for the first time become the motor of the market, Artprice told AFP. Nowhere is...
Two people have been killed in a powerful typhoon that battered Japan over the weekend, officials said Monday, as the storm's aftermath brought travel chaos to Tokyo's morning commute. By Monday morning, Typhoon Trami had cleared Japan, but its powerful winds and heavy rainfall caused...
When Hollywood stars and some of the world's top models get together it's usually their fans who get the goosebumps. But it was actresses Elle Fanning, Andie MacDowell, Eva Longoria and supermodels Winnie Harlow and Ming Xi who had the shivers from a chill breeze as they prepared to...
US and Canadian negotiators were holding eleventh-hour talks on Sunday aimed at revamping the North American Free Trade Agreement ahead of a Washington-imposed deadline, with the outcome far from certain. The talks were being held over the phone, unlike in previous rounds where Canadian...
Fifty-eight migrants rescued by the Aquarius charity ship disembarked in Malta Sunday after nearly a week at sea fearing the authorities would impound the vessel, an AFP journalist said. The migrants, mostly Libyans, boarded two buses at Valletta after being transferred off-shore from...
Indonesians desperate to trace loved ones missing in the earthquake and tsunami that struck the island of Sulawesi are turning to social media sites like Facebook to aid their search. With the scale of the disaster still unclear, telecommunications patchy and some areas still out of...
US President Donald Trump said he and North Korea's Kim Jong Un have fallen "in love" ?- their bromance fuelled by "beautiful letters" he received from the leader of the nuclear-armed state. Trump on Saturday elevated his recent praise of Kim to new heights, at a West Virginia rally in...
North Korea needs more trust in the U.S. and their developing relationship before it will get rid of its nuclear weapons, Pyongyang's top diplomat said Saturday as an envoy from another of the international community's biggest worries — Syria — demanded that the U.S., France and Turkey withdraw...
Heart attacks caused 12 percent of all deaths in the European Union in 2015, Eurostat revealed Saturday on the World Heart Day. Among the Member States, the highest rate of deaths caused by heart attacks were seen in Lithuania (38 percent), followed by Latvia (29 percent) and Slovakia (27...
