Jul 20 Bangladesh enforces curfew with order to ‘shoot on sight’ after weeks of protests turned deadly By Julhas Alam, Sheikh Saaliq, Associated Press Police imposed a strict curfew with a “shoot-on-sight” order across Bangladesh as military forces patrolled parts of the capital Saturday after scores were killed and hundreds injured in clashes over the allocation of civil service jobs. Continue reading
Jul 20 Faulty CrowdStrike update took down 8.5 million Windows computers around the globe By David Koenig, Isabella O'Malley, Associated Press As the world continues to recover from massive business and travel disruptions caused by a faulty software update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, malicious actors are trying to exploit the situation for their own gain. Continue reading
Jul 20 Israel responds to Houthi drone attack with airstrikes in Yemen, officials say By Ahmed Al-Haj, Wafaa Shurafa, Jack Jeffery, Associated Press The Israeli army said Saturday it has struck several Houthi targets in western Yemen following a fatal drone attack by the rebel group in Tel Aviv the previous day. The Israeli strikes appeared to be the first on Yemeni soil… Continue reading
Jul 19 Watch 5:39 News Wrap: Top UN court says Israel’s rule over Palestinian territories ‘unlawful’ In our news wrap Friday, the top U.N. court says Israel's rule over occupied Palestinian territories is "unlawful," Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for an Iranian-made drone that hit Tel-Aviv, the government of Bangladesh announced a nationwide curfew as student protests… Continue watching
Jul 19 Watch 5:48 Russian ‘sham trial’ and 16-year sentence for Gershkovich is appalling, WSJ publisher says By Amna Nawaz, Zeba Warsi After a rushed, secretive trial, a Russian court convicted American journalist Evan Gershkovich in a case the U.S. dismisses as a sham. The Wall Street Journal reporter was sentenced to 16 years in a high-security penal colony. He is the… Continue watching
Jul 19 What we know about the massive tech outage causing worldwide disruptions By Associated Press At the heart of the massive disruption is CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity firm that says the problem occurred when it deployed a faulty update to computers running Microsoft Windows — with the company noting that the issue was not a security… Continue reading
Jul 19 Vietnam Communist Party head Nguyen Phu Trong, country’s most powerful leader, dies at age 80 By Associated Press Trong had dominated Vietnamese politics since 2011, when he was elected party chief. During his tenure, he worked to consolidate the Communist Party's power in Vietnam's single-party political system. Continue reading
Jul 19 Bangladesh orders nationwide curfew as deaths mount in protests over government jobs By Julhas Alam, Krutika Pathi, Al Emrun Garjon, Associated Press The announcement came after police and security officials fired on protesters earlier Friday and banned all gatherings in the capital. Several people were killed, media reports said. Continue reading
Jul 19 Top UN court says Israel’s presence in occupied Palestinian territories is ‘illegal’ and should end as ‘rapidly as possible’ By Mike Corder, Associated Press The International Court of Justice said in its non-binding opinion issued Friday that Israel has abused its status as the occupying power in the West Bank and east Jerusalem by carrying out policies of annexing territory, imposing permanent control and… Continue reading
Jul 19 Global technology outage disrupts flights, banks and companies around the world By Charlotte Graham-McLay, Elaine Kurtenbach, David McHugh, Haleluya Hadero, Associated Press Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike said the trouble with the update it issued that was affecting computers running Microsoft Windows was not a security incident or cyberattack. Continue reading