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World News on Oct. 22nd, 2016
Saturday, October 22, 2016
VietPress USA (Oct. 22nd, 2016):
American vigilante hacker sends Russia a warning: An American vigilante hacker -- who calls himself "The Jester" -- has defaced the website of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in retaliation for attacks on American targets. (money.cnn.com)
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The US told Ecuador to give Wikileaks 'an eviction notice,' according to intelligence officials (businessinsider.com)
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India Completes Its Nuclear Triad: INS Arihant, First Indigenously Constructed Nuclear Submarine, Reportedly Inducted (ibtimes.com)
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New Hong Kong politicians defy Beijing by raising independence issues during swear-in ceremony (abc.net.au)
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Malware that targets the “internet of things,” a new breed of small gadgets that are connected to the internet, may have powered the global attack on popular websites (bloomberg.com)
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Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed a transistor which operates on energy ‘scavenged’ from its environment and say this could enable devices which function for months or years without a battery. (newelectronics.co.uk)
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Is Finland Russia's next target? Finnish government communications chief Markku Mantila said his officials had observed a barrage of state-sponsored media attacks ahead of the country's celebrations marking 100 years of independence from Russia (independent.co.uk)
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Colombia's Avianca airline is avoiding Venezuelan airspace after a flight from Spain was approached by at least one warplane on Friday, creating a diplomatic incident, according to flight records and company officials. (theguardian.com)
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Iran arrests 11 linked to underground 'modelling and decadence' network, say reports (ibtimes.co.uk)
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Researchers have analysed data revealing which plane crashes the public is interested in. They counted the number of page views and edits of Wikipedia articles of about 1500 plane crashes to find that a death toll of 50 is the minimum threshold to predict significant levels of public interest. (phys.org)
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Chinese gang kidnaps and cripples children, forces them to beg on streets of Malaysia (shanghaiist.com)
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Schindler factory to become a Holocaust memorial -- building where Oskar Schindler saved 1,200 Jews from concentration camp by hiring them to work in his factory to become a memorial site (dw.com)
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