BERLIN, Jul 22 – A British man admitted in a German court Friday to staging a large-scale cyber attack on Deutsche Telekom last year, saying he was acting for a Liberian client. The 29-year-old described as “the worst mistake of my life” the attack that knocked more than a million German households
WELLINGTON, Jul 23 – Flood-hit regions of New Zealand were warned to expect more wild weather Sunday after a deluge forced evacuations and emergency declarations in parts of South Island. The military was called in to help as some towns experienced three times their average monthly rainfall in just two days, topping
PUTRAJAYA, Jul 23 – The AirAsia flight AK37 bound for Cochin from Kuala Lumpur today returned to Kuala Lumpur International Airport (klia2) due to techincal reasons, said AirAsia in a statement here. It said the flight left for India at 6.25am, and the aircraft has landed safely at klia2 after two hours
GEORGE TOWN, Jul 22 – Penang Yang DiPertua Negeri Pulau Pinang Tun Abdul Rahman Abbas has reminded all recipients of state honours and medals to show their commitment and individuality as well as become a role model to the community. He hoped these recipients would observe decorum and good behaviour at all
GEORGE TOWN, Jul 22 – Chief Justice Tan Sri Md Raus Sharif heads the list of 1,481 recipients of state honours in conjunction with the 79th birthday celebrations of Yang Di-Pertua Negri Penang Tun Abdul Rahman Abbas. Md Raus, 66, is the sole recipient of the Darjah Utama Pangkuan Negri (DUPN) which
JAKARTA, Jul 22 – Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo has instructed law enforcement officers to shoot drug traffickers to deal with a narcotics emergency facing the country. “Be firm, especially to foreign drug dealers who enter the country and resist arrest. Shoot them because we indeed are in a narcotics emergency position now,”
KUWAIT CITY, Jul 22 – Kuwait has protested to Lebanon over the alleged training by Hezbollah of 21 Shiites convicted last month on charges of forming a “terror cell” in the Sunni-majority emirate. It demanded that pressure be put on the Shiite militant group, which has ministers in the Lebanese government, to
WASHINGTON, Jul 22 – White House press secretary Sean Spicer abruptly resigned Friday in protest at a major shake-up of Donald Trump’s scandal-tainted administration, as pressure mounted from a broadening investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia. Spicer quit after Trump named Anthony Scaramucci, a Wall Street financier and one-time
KOTA BARU, Jul 22 – Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said the people should reject the opposition pact led by a leader, whom he described as “gila talak” (wanting to come back as a leader). He also likened the pact to a ship with three captains, all with
WASHINGTON, Jul 22 – US President Donald Trump will meet Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri in Washington next week for talks on issues including refugees and combatting terrorism, the White House announced Friday. Analysts also anticipate US aid will be high on the agenda of the July 25th talks at the White
KUANTAN, Jul 22 – The Malaysian Corruption Commission (MACC) will continue to focus on curbing corruption related to critical sectors such as logging and and bauxite mining in Pahang. Pahang MACC director Datuk Alias Salim said the fight against corruption should be intensified to raise public confidence in the agency and to plug the leakages in
MANILA, Jul 22 – The Philippine Congress opened a special session Saturday to vote on President Rodrigo Duterte’s bid for an extension of martial law in the south to defeat Islamist gunmen. Duterte is widely expected to win approval for martial law in the region until the end of the year, with
WASHINGTON, Jul 22 – Sarah Huckabee Sanders – a pugnacious Arkansas native from a political family – took to the podium as the new White House press secretary Friday, stepping into perhaps the most difficult job in the world: speaking for Donald Trump. Born in a town called Hope – also the
ANKARA, Jul 22 – Almost 360 people were hurt in the Turkish resort of Bodrum after a magnitude 6.7 earthquake shook Greece and Turkey’s Aegean coast, the Turkish health minister said Friday. Ahmet Demircan said 358 people were hurt, of whom 272 were taken to hospital in ambulances. The rest went on
SAN FRANCISCO, Jul 22 – Facebook could be working on a smartphone, according to paperwork recently spotted by cyber sleuths which the tech giant filed earlier this year. A Facebook unit devoted to hardware filed a patent application in January for a mysterious “modular electromechanical device” that could have speakers, cameras, microphones,
CHICAGO, Jul 22 – A US police chief resigned Friday amid an uproar over the death of an unarmed Australian woman who had called to report a possible sexual assault and was shot by a responding officer. Minneapolis police chief Janee Harteau had faced criticism over her handling of the killing of
MIAMI, Jul 22 – Millions of people, from students to rocket scientists, are poised to contribute to a massive scientific effort to study the total solar eclipse that will sweep across the United States Aug 21. The entire country will fall into shadow as the “Great American Eclipse” passes, though the darkest
JOHANNESBURG, Jul 21 – A trophy hunter in Zimbabwe has shot dead a cub of Cecil the lion whose death in 2015 caused worldwide outrage, researchers tracking the pride confirmed Friday. Xanda, a six-year-old lion fitted with a radio collar, was killed on July 7 in northwest Zimbabwe, close to where US
TOKYO, Jul 21 – NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) announced earlier this year a shift to a new organization structure effective as of April 1, 2017. In line with these structural changes, NEC’s business segments will be revised as of its consolidated financial results for the first quarter of the fiscal
TOKYO, Jul 21 – Japanese investment in the UK has hit a “record high” since last year’s shock Brexit vote, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said Friday. Johnson, a leading campaigner for Britain to quit the European Union, also pledged London will “build a fantastic relationship with our friends and partners in
