The United Nations is predicting expanding global economic growth in the next two years, spurred by stronger growth in the last six months and a modest recovery in trade and investment. In its mid-year update released Tuesday, the U.N. said the acceleration is underpinned by firm economic growth in many… Read More
Desperate North Korea behind cyber ransom attack
Things have been rough in North Korea since President Donald Trump stepped up the pressure. Reports say gasoline and other basic resources have run dry, and the regime is growing increasingly desperate for cash. So desperate, Kim Jong Un may have ordered this weekend’s global cyberattack that ransomed computers back… Read More
Iraqi spokesman: ISIS on the brink of defeat
A Baghdad military spokesman says Iraqi forces have surrounded Islamic State militants in Mosul’s Old City, leaving the extremists in control of only about 10.5 percent of the territory in the western half of the city. Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool told reporters that all of Mosul will soon be liberated… Read More
Trump accuses Syria of mass killings and burning the bodies
The Trump administration is accusing the Syrian government carrying out mass killings of thousands of prisoners and burning the dead bodies in a large crematorium outside the capital. The State Department says about 50 detainees a day are being hanged at Saydnaya (Said-nay-ah) military prison, about 45 minutes from Damascus…. Read More
Shocking cyberattack threatens world security
It’s the largest cyberattack in history — and the effects were felt across the entire globe, from Kansas to London to China and back. Dozens of countries were hit with a huge cyberextortion attack this weekend that locked up computers and held users’ files for ransom at a multitude of… Read More
North Korea: Missile can carry “heavy nuclear warhead”
North Korea on Monday boasted of a successful weekend launch of a new type of “medium long-range” ballistic rocket that can carry a heavy nuclear warhead. Outsiders also saw a significant technological jump, with the test-fire apparently flying higher and for a longer time period than any other such previous… Read More
After 6 tense hours, bank hostage finally freed
A man held a hostage for about six hours at a bank in a small Austrian town on Friday. The standoff with police in Erpfendorf, an Alpine town near the German border in Tyrol province, started late Friday morning. It was not clear whether the hostage-taker was armed and there… Read More
Crackdown! ICE arrests 1,300 gang-affiliated illegals
President Donald Trump said he was going to be tough on illegal immigration and crime, and there is no doubt he is living up to his word. Federal immigration officials have helped arrest more than 1,300 gang members accused throughout the United States in the past six weeks, in the… Read More
U.S.-backed Kurdish forces go after ISIS capital
A U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish force expects to push on and capture the Islamic State group’s de facto capital of Raqqa in northern Syria this summer, a commander said Friday. The Syrian Democratic Forces have been buoyed by this week’s capture of the key town of Tabqa and its nearby dam…. Read More
E.U., U.S., in urgent talks to expand airport security
European governments alarmed at a proposed expansion of the ban on in-flight laptops and tablets to planes from the EU are holding urgent talks Friday with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Chief among the concerns are whether any new threat prompted the proposal, said European Commission transport spokeswoman Anna-Kaisa… Read More
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