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Doubts on N. Korea claim? FBI briefed on theory Sony hack was inside job
Fox News A security firm has brought new evidence to the FBI that it claims points to a laid-off employee and others as the hackers behind the massive cyber-breach at Sony, even as the bureau publicly stands by its explanation that North Korea executed the attack. 2014: The year we entered a cyberpunk presentWashington Post (blog) all 637 news articles » |
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US investigators suspect North Korea hired hackers for Sony hack
Sydney Morning Herald US investigators believe that North Korea likely hired hackers from outside the country to help with last month's massive cyberattack against Sony Pictures, an official close to the investigation said on Monday. As North Korea lacks the capability to conduct ... Sony Hack: FBI Stands By Conclusion That North Korea Was Behind AttackVariety all 432 news articles » |
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FBI still believes North Korea is responsible for Sony hack
CBS News In the face of skepticism from some cyber experts, the FBI continues to stand by its original assertion of Dec. 19 that the North Korean government is responsible for the cyber attack against Sony Pictures, CBS News' Andy Triay and Pat Milton report, according ... US investigators suspect North Korea hired hackers for Sony hackSydney Morning Herald Sony Hack: FBI Stands by Conclusion That North Korea Was Behind AttackVariety Are Former Employees, Not North Korea, to Blame for the Sony Hack?Vanity Fair all 459 news articles » |
Tony Blair doubts Ed Miliband can win 2015 general electionby Rowena Mason, political correspondent
Former Labour PM claims public opinion has not shifted left and ‘a traditional leftwing party’ always loses to rightwing party
Tony Blair has cast doubt on the likelihood of Labour leader Ed Miliband winning the next election, saying it could well be a contest that repeats previous Conservative victories against a traditional leftwing party.
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“Reinventing the Royals” focuses on the hiring of a public-relations professional to restore the reputation of Prince Charles after the 1997 death of his wife, Diana.
Economist: Long Painful Recession in Store for Russiaby webdesk@voanews.com (Mil Arcega)
Russia's battered currency fell sharply again this week after a government report showed the economy had shrunk in November, the first such decline in five years. The Russian government recently announced steps to stabilize its banks and bolster the value of the beleaguered ruble. But experts say the country still faces a recession next year. Despite the holiday lights - the economic prospects for Russia have dimmed. Its currency has lost more than half its value...
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Ukraine president Poroshenko to meet Putin, Obama in peace talks
South China Morning Post (subscription) Ukraine's Western-backed leader Petro Poroshenko has promised to meet Russia's Vladimir Putin and involve US President Barack Obama in his stalled push for peace with pro-Kremlin fighters in the separatist east. The surprise announcement on Monday ... and more » |
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The U.N. Security Council rejected a Palestinian resolution demanding an end to Israeli occupation within three years late Tuesday, a blow to efforts to get the U.N.'s most powerful body to take action to recognize an independent state of Palestine....
US Rejects Palestinian Statehood Resolution at UNby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
The United States, as expected, on Tuesday voted against a U.N. Security Council draft resolution on Palestinian statehood that demanded Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories. The draft fell short of the nine votes needed for passage, but a "no" vote by the United States, which has veto power, meant it would have failed anyway. U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power called the Palestinian draft one-sided and not a constructive step toward a two-state solution. She said...
UN security council rejects Palestinian statehood bidby Associated Press at the United Nations
Defeated resolution called for end to Israeli occupation within three years and for independent state of Palestine to be established within 1967 borders
The United Nations Security Council has rejected a Palestinian resolution demanding an end to Israeli occupation within three years, in a setback for efforts to get the UN’s most powerful body to take action to recognize an independent state of Palestine.
The United States, Israel’s closest ally, had made clear its opposition to the draft resolution and would have used its veto if necessary. But that proved unnecessary because the resolution failed to get the minimum nine “yes” votes required for adoption by the 15-member council.
Security Council draft resolution on Palestinian question not adopted. Vote: 8 in favour; 2 (USA, AUS) against; 5 abstentions
Continue reading...Resolution for Palestinian State Fails in Security Councilby By MICHAEL R. GORDON and SOMINI SENGUPTA
A draft resolution that set a deadline to establish a sovereign Palestinian state failed on Tuesday to receive the nine votes that are needed for adoption in the 15-member United Nations body.
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) -- Police say they are investigating the deaths of seven adults and two young children at three separate but connected Edmonton-area crime scenes....
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The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Tuesday rejected a Palestinian draft resolution, strongly opposed by the United States, that sought peace with Israel within a one-year time frame.
The resolution failed to win the nine-vote majority required for approval, the Associated Press reports. Eight countries voted in favor of the resolution, while two opposed (U.S. and Australia), and five abstained.
“The fact that this draft resolution was not adopted will not at all prevent us from proceeding to push the international community, specifically the United Nations, towards an effective involvement to achieving a resolution to this conflict,” said Jordan’s U.N. Ambassador Dina Kawar after the vote.
The resolution, whose voting had been requested by Jordan, demanded that East Jerusalem become capital of Palestine, according to Al Jazeera. It also asked that negotiations be based on territorial lines prior to Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip in 1967.
The measure was not expected to pass due to strong opposition from the U.S., according to Reuters.U.S. diplomats previously said the resolution would bind Israel and Palestine to a “rushed” timeframe to resolve a decades-long conflict, and that they would use their veto if necessary.
“We voted against this resolution not because we are comfortable with the status quo,” said U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power. “We voted against it because … peace must come from hard compromises that occur at the negotiating table.”
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Michael Grimm has decided to resign from Congress: sources
New York Daily News WASHINGTON — Rep. Michael Grimm has decided to resign from Congress in the wake of his guilty plea on a felony tax evasion charge, sources told the Daily News Monday night. Grimm (R-S.I.) said after he entered his plea last week that he planned to ... Michael Grimm To Resign From Congress: ReportsHuffington Post Report: NY Rep. Grimm to resign in wake of tax pleaUSA TODAY Embattled GOP Rep. Michael Grimm to Resign From Congress Following Guilty...TheBlaze.com Politico- New York Magazine-NY1 all 33 Daily Mail all 24 news articles » |
The U.N. called on any nation with information that may shed light on the 1961 death of Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld to disclose it after new evidence emerged in the past few years suggesting foul play.
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Sir Winston Churchill, the Muslim convert?
Independent Online London - He was fascinated by the Middle East and held Islam in high regard. But Sir Winston Churchill's relatives were less enamoured – and begged the future leader not to convert to the religion. In a letter written to the 32-year-old statesman by Lady ... and more » |
MOSCOW (AP) — Alexei Navalny, the anti-corruption campaigner who is a leading foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was found guilty of fraud and given a suspended sentence of three and a half years on Tuesday.
The verdict was to have been announced next month, but the court session was abruptly moved forward, leading to speculation that authorities wanted to impede possible protests if he is convicted. The verdict comes as Russians are preparing for New Year’s and Orthodox Christmas.
Navalny and his brother Oleg were convicted of defrauding a cosmetics company. Oleg Navalny was also convicted on Tuesday and sentenced to the same prison term, but his was not suspended.
“You want to punish me, but why are you putting him in jail?” Alexei Navalny shouted at the judge.
The brothers had both arrived at the courtroom with luggage, indicating they expected to be immediately sent to incarceration.
Navalny, a lawyer and popular blogger, rose to prominence with his investigations of official corruption and played a leading role in organizing massive anti-Putin demonstrations in Moscow in 2011 and 2012.
In a 2013 trial in a different criminal case, he was found guilty of embezzlement and sentenced to prison, but he was released the next day after thousands of people protested in the streets of Moscow. He was then handed a suspended sentence and finished a strong second in Moscow’s mayoral election in September 2013.
At the conclusion of testimony in the latest trial, prosecutors asked for a 10-year sentence for Navalny. It was not immediately clear why the court chose the shorter term or why it was suspended, but that could reflect official concern about the prospect of unrest.
More than 16,000 people have said on Facebook that they would attend an unsanctioned protest called for Tuesday evening in Manezh Square adjacent to the Kremlin. The provocateur group Pussy Riot released a video Tuesday supporting the protest, featuring women sweeping snow from the square with brooms and then mounting them and flying off as witches.
Alexei Navalny remains under house arrest until his appeals process is exhausted.
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Jim Heintz in Moscow contributed to this report.
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Jeb Bush and Chris Christie atop GOP presidential poll
USA TODAY Gov. Chris Christie held his ground in a new CNN poll on 2016 Republican presidential candidates but he and others are at the moment no match for the frontrunner, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. Bush was the pick of 23% of Republicans surveyed in the ... Ted Cruz 2016: What 5 Leading Pundits Say About GOP Presidential HopefulNewsmax.com all 141 news articles » |
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The risk to the public of contracting Ebola is extremely low, says Scotland's first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, after a healthcare worker in Scotland is diagnosed with the virus. Sturgeon told journalists the woman, who was working in Sierra Leone, is stable and being kept in isolation Continue reading...
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Bishop Who Killed Cyclist Previously Charged With DUI, Marijuana Possession
Chinatopix (Photo : Reuters / Richard Clement) A "ghost bike" memorial marks the spot where a cyclist was killed in 2007 in an accident with a truck in Portland, Oregon. share on facebook. share on twitter. The newly ordained female Episcopal bishop who fatally hit a ... and more » |
Google to blame for Gmail shutdown, say Chinese state mediaby Agence France-Presse in Beijing
World’s biggest email service largely inaccessible within China since 25th anniversary of Tiananmen Square crackdown in June
Google’s unwillingness to obey Chinese law is to blame for the shutdown of its hugely popular email service, state-run media have said after the last easy way to access Gmail was apparently blocked.
“China welcomes the company to do business on the prerequisite that it obeys Chinese law; however Google values more its reluctance to be restricted by Chinese law, resulting in conflict,” the Global Times said in an editorial.
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Organised criminals are flying in crooks from eastern Europe for short-term crime sprees, then shipping them out before they can be tracked by police, said the chief of Europol.
The Department of Public Health said the male actor tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS after engaging in unprotected sex with several other male actors during two separate film shoots.
National lab docked for 'performance failure' stemming from radiation leak at ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The contractor that runs one of the nation's premier national laboratories has lost out on tens of millions of dollars from the federal government because of what officials call a serious performance failure. The National Nuclear Security ... and more » |
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Feds dock Los Alamos lab in performance review
San Francisco Chronicle ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The contractor that runs one of the nation's premier national laboratories has lost out on millions of dollars from the federal government because of what officials call a serious performance failure. The National Nuclear Security ... and more » |
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Euronews: New Year, new hope as Ukraine paves way for NATO membership ...
Kyiv Post Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko gestures as he speaks during the annual press-conference in Kyiv on December 29, 2014. © Volodymyr Petrov. SEE ALSO. Janusz Bugajski: Moscow dissects central-eastern Europe · Ukrainian military: Donbas sees ... and more » |
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Ballots in the EU – including Britain – won’t clarify the question of integration or invent the politics we need for the 21st century
In 2015, European voters could decide if the European Union will survive. Elections in Britain, Spain, Poland, Denmark, Finland, Portugal and Estonia will answer two big questions. First, has disenchantment with the EU reached a tipping point? Second, is the 20th-century model of big political parties based on a collective mass and centrally run party now over?
The two issues overlap. It is simplistic to present this as a contest between populist (bad) and what the Germans call regierungsfähig (able to govern, that is, good) politics. No party wins power without a dose of populism, and the problem with the offer of the traditional 20th-century centre-right and centre-left parties is that so far this century, they have not shown themselves to be very good at government.
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