The hacking group behind the SolarWinds compromise was able to break into Microsoft Corp and access some of its source code, Microsoft said on Thursday, something experts said sent a worrying signal about the spies' ambition.
Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a knife attack on police on Monday in the capital of Russia’s southern Chechnya region, AlNaba newspaper affiliated with the group said on Friday.Australia welcomed 2021 with subdued celebrations, as fresh coronavirus restrictions and border closures in the country's two most populous states forced families to ditch New Year plans.Chad has locked down its capital N'djamena for the first time since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic and has declared a dusk to dawn curfew due to a rise in infections, a decree signed by President Idriss Deby showed on Friday.
Kim usually gives a televised speech on Jan. 1, but he is widely expected to skip the speech this year since he will address the country's first ruling party congress in five years sometime in early January.Australia amended its national anthem to remove reference to the country being "young and free" amid calls to recognise that its Indigenous people are the oldest continued civilization in the world.
The Grafton Police Department said the former Advocate Aurora Health pharmacist was arrested on suspicion of reckless endangerment, adulterating a prescription drug and criminal damage to property.Banned from setting off fireworks in much of their city, some Berliners instead tried to launch them from their homes on New Year's Eve, leading to dozens of fires across the German capital.
Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi called his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi and exchanged views on Covid-19, bilateral relations, and regional and international issues of mutual interest, the Foreign Office said.
Public health officials continued to plead with residents just hours before the start of 2021 not to gather for New Year's Eve celebrations.
In April, Trump signed an immigration proclamation targeting people outside of the US seeking to legally migrate to the US, with some exceptions.
The New York Police Department asked the public to help locate the woman without identifying her beyond calling her a suspect in an attack late last week.
Changes apply to everything from pet passports, to how long Britons can visit their holiday homes on the continent and an end to British involvement in a student exchange programme.
The report released by the US Department of Treasury on Thursday states the US blocked $ 342,000 in funds of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), $ 1,725 of the Jaish-e Mohammed (JeM) and $ 45,798 of the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen-al-Islami.
The Pentagon has decided to send home the only Navy aircraft carrier operating in the Middle East, a move that would reduce U.S. firepower in the region amid heightened tensions with Iran, officials said Thursday.
Every country that has a drug regulatory agency will have to issue its own approval for any COVID-19 vaccine, but countries with weak systems usually rely on WHO to vet the shots.
The top Democrat in the Kansas House has refused to give an incoming lawmaker any committee assignments over issues that include an antistalking court order filed against him after he won his seat.
The top Democrat in the Kansas House has refused to give an incoming lawmaker any committee assignments over issues that include an antistalking court order filed against him after he won his seat.Sudan said on Thursday its forces had taken control of all of Sudanese territory in a border area settled by Ethiopian farmers, after weeks of clashes.
Global crude prices edged higher on Thursday but lost more than a fifth of their value in 2020, as lockdowns to combat the novel coronavirus depressed economic activity and sent oil markets reeling.Global crude prices edged higher on Thursday but lost more than a fifth of their value in 2020, as lockdowns to combat the novel coronavirus depressed economic activity and sent oil markets reeling.
Microsoft said Thursday in a blog pos t that hackers tied to a massive intrusion of dozens of U.S. government agencies and private companies snuck farther into its systems than previously thought, although the intrusion doesn't appear to have caused any additional harm.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is praising federal courts nationwide for their flexibility in responding to the COVID19 pandemic, acknowledging in his annual yearend report the role technology has played in keeping courts running.The United States called on Wednesday for the release of a Uighur Muslim medical doctor who relatives say was sentenced to 20 years jail in China because of family members' human rights activism in the United States.
Pfizer “will review all available information on this case and all reports of any confirmed diagnosis following vaccination,” the drug maker said in a statement to Reuters.
At least 22 people were killed and dozens wounded in an attack on Aden airport on Wednesday, moments after a plane landed carrying a newly formed Saudibacked cabinet for governmentheld parts of Yemen.
Samuel Helenius scored twice, Kari Piiroinen made 12 saves and Finland beat Slovakia 60 on Wednesday to improve to 30 in group play in the world junior hockey championship.Global crude oil markets have lost about a fifth of their value in 2020 as strict coronavirus lockdowns paralyzed much of the global economy, but prices have rebounded strongly from their lows as governments rolled out more stimulus.
The MIUI 12 update for Poco M2 comes as firmware version MIUI 12.0.1.0.QJRINXM and is 504MB in size.Asian shares are set to end a tumultuous 2020 by hovering near record highs on Thursday while riskier currencies cruised near 21/2year peaks, buoyed by hopes that COVID19 vaccine rollouts will help the world beat the pandemic.
Two Wisconsin siblings returning from a Christmas lights display were killed Tuesday night when a suspected carjacker fleeing from police drove the wrong way on Interstate 95 in central Florida and collided head-on with their vehicle, authorities said.
Colombia manually eradicated 130,000 hectares of coca crops in 2020, the highest figure in the last decade, the government said.
The incident comes weeks after the government allowed minority Hindus to build a new temple in Islamabad on the recommendation of a council of clerics.A Kansas man shot his estranged wife and killed his motherinlaw before he was fatally shot by a police officer during a confrontation Wednesday at a Wichita home, authorities said.A Baltimore police detective is facing criminal charges after prosecutors say he slammed to the ground a man who refused to wear a face mask inside a grocery store.A tenured professor at the University of Mississippi filed a lawsuit Wednesday saying that state auditor defamed him by saying the professor should be fired for participating in a twoday scholar strike."The Girl Scouts of the USA said Wednesday that child labor has no place in its iconic cookies and called on the two companies that bake them to act quickly to address any potential abuses linked to the palm oil in their supply chains.Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was first told in November 2019 of a pretty bad wrongful raid on the home of a Black woman who wasn't allowed to put on her clothes before police handcuffed her, according to emails released publicly Wednesday.
At least one Kentucky police officer connected to the fatal shooting of a Black woman, Breonna Taylor, is fighting a police move to terminate his employment.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is telling her country's people that they will need to keep up their discipline in fighting the coronavirus pandemic well into 2021, even as vaccinations fuel new hope.The Canadian province of Quebec on Tuesday urged the federal government to require COVID19 testing for residents returning from yearend vacations, after images of maskless tourists frolicking on overseas beaches hit social media as cases rose.Hundreds of migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East waited in the cold on Tuesday to be bussed out of a burned camp about to be dismantled in Western Bosnia, but there was no agreement where they should go.Russian state investigators said on Tuesday they had opened a new criminal case against Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, accusing him of fraudulently spending public donations to organisations he controls on his personal needs.France will not enforce a new lockdown for the time being to curb the spread of the coronavirus but it could soon impose an earlier curfew in eastern areas of the country, the worsthit by infections, the health minister said on Tuesday.Lebanon can ration $2 billion in reserves left for subsidies to last six more months, the caretaker prime minister said on Tuesday, as the country's financial meltdown raises fears of rising hunger.Activist hedge fund Third Point LLC is pushing Intel Corp to explore strategic alternatives, including whether it should keep chip design and production under one roof, according to a letter it sent to the company's chairman on Tuesday that was reviewed by Reuters.
Rapper Sean Diddy Combs provided some coronavirus relief in a Miami neighborhood on Tuesday, handing out $50 bills amid a crowd of hundreds.
Family of a U.S. Army special forces sergeant charged in a deadly shooting at a northern Illinois bowling alley released a statement Tuesday extending their thoughts and prayers to victims and the wider community.Police raided a convent near Russia's Ural Mountains in the early hours of Tuesday and arrested a renegade priest who had seized control of it and allegedly encouraged nuns to commit suicide.
