NEW YORK, MILLAT+(APP/AFP) – US prosecutors announced criminal charges Tuesday against three hackers who allegedly made $4 million in illicit profits from insider trading of information pilfered from law firms advising on corporate mergers. The three defendants, two from Macau and one from China, successfully breached the computer networks of international law firms with New […]
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Arrest in $4 mn US insider trading case from law firm hacks
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Congo’s sculptor with a mission
BUTEMBO, RD Congo, MILAAT+APP/AFP) – In DR Congo’s war-infested Great Lakes region, carpenter-turned-sculptor Sauveur Mulwana has left a trail of monumental statues over the past decade as part of his self-styled mission to revive local history and boost peace. The 42-year-old moved back home to Butembo, a teeming city of more than a million near […]
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Turkey puts broadcast ban on Russia envoy’s killing
ANKARA, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – A Turkish court has put a broadcast ban on reporting of the investigation into last week’s murder of the Russian ambassador to Ankara Andrei Karlov, state media said on Tuesday. A Turkish policeman opened fire on Karlov while he was delivering a speech at the opening of a photography exhibition, in an […]
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Ukraine insurgents release two women thanks to Savchenko
DONETSK, Ukraine, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Ukraine’s pro-Moscow insurgents on Tuesday released two women they had held captive thanks to the intervention of Nadya Savchenko — a Kiev-born female combat pilot who spent nearly two years in a Russian jail. The freeing of the women — a judge and a journalist — came after Savchenko, now a […]
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Bangladesh factories sack 1,500 workers after protests
DHAKA, (millat+APP/AFP) – Bangladesh garment manufacturers have sacked at least 1,500 workers, police said Tuesday, after protests over pay led to a week-long shutdown at dozens of factories supplying top Western brands. Tens of thousands of workers walked out of factories in the manufacturing hub of Ashulia that make clothing for top Western brands like […]
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China announces cyber security strategy
BEIJING, (MILLAT+APP/Xinhua): China’s top Internet regulator released a cyberspace security strategy on Tuesday. The Chinese government will push for a peaceful, secure, open, cooperative and orderly cyberspace, according to the 15-page strategy released by the Cyberspace Administration of China. The government will firmly safeguard cyberspace sovereignty and national security, protect key information infrastructure and crack […]