Giorno: 29 Agosto 2023

Thomas More Society Vows Appeal in Lauren Handy Conviction

The Thomas More Society decried the guilty verdict handed down by a “federal court fraught with bias” and vowed an appeal on behalf of pro-life advocate Lauren Handy, who faces up to 11 years in prison for illegally blockading an abortion facility nearly three years ago.[#item_full_content]

FBI Seizes Malware Network in Blow to Global Cybercrime

U.S. officials said Tuesday that the FBI and its European partners infiltrated and seized control of a major global malware network used for more than 15 years to commit a gamut of online crimes including crippling ransomware attacks. They then remotely removed …[#item_full_content]

Zimbabwe’s opposition calls for internationally-supervised redo of controversial election

Zimbabwe’s main opposition party on Tuesday demanded fresh elections supervised by neighboring countries, digging in on its rejection of last week’s polls that saw President Emmerson Mnangagwa win re-election and his long-ruling ZANU-PF party retain its majority in a vote criticized by international observers. Gift Siziba, the deputy spokesman for the Citizens Coalition for Change […]

Greek wildfire now EU’s largest on record as it enters 11th day

A massive wildfire was burning unabated in northeastern Greece for the 11th day Tuesday despite the efforts of hundreds of firefighters and a fleet of water-dropping aircraft from Greece and several of its European Union partners. After burning across vast tracts of land, the blaze in the Alexandroupolis and Evros region was mainly concentrated deep […]

UBS and Inside Paradeplatz settle lawsuit after Credit Suisse dispute

UBS and Inside Paradeplatz have settled a lawsuit initially brought against the popular Zurich based finance blog by Credit Suisse, the publication said on Tuesday. As part of the settlement, Inside Paradeplatz agreed to delete or amend user comments and three passages from posts. The remaining claims where dropped. A spokesperson for UBS confirmed that […]

Japan sees signs of turning point in decades-long battle with deflation

Japan may be at an inflection point in its 25-year battle with deflation as price and wage rises show signs of broadening, the government said on Tuesday, signaling its conviction the economy was nearing an end to prolonged stagnation. The optimistic view echoes that of the Bank of Japan (BOJ), which has said corporate price- […]

Technical failure that halted UK air traffic blamed on issues with flight data

A technical failure that saw hundreds of flights delayed and canceled across the U.K. was caused by problems in some flight data received by Britain’s national air traffic controllers and was not a cyberattack, authorities said Tuesday. The breakdown, which hit on a late-summer holiday Monday that is one of the busiest days of the […]