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North Korean group hacked Kansas hospital, got $100K Bitcoin ransom. Now FBI has found the funds.
The FBI seized $500,000 after Kansas and Colorado health care providers paid Bitcoin crypto ransoms to hackers from North Korea and Chinese launderer. The cooperation of a Kansas hospital with law enforcement providers after a cyberattack crippled their systems ultimately helped federal officials find and seize about $500,000 in ransoms paid by American health care to North Korean hackers. The…
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Europe counts cost of heatwave, Spain PM says more than 500 died | Climate Crisis News
Spain’s prime minister has said more than 500 people died during a 10-day heatwave as Europe counts the cost of a record period of extreme temperatures. Climate change protesters said the scorching weather should be a wake-up call for the continent. “This has nothing to do with ideologies, but with a reality, with a climatic emergency that the planet is…
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Delay as the New Denial: The Latest Republican Tactic to Block Climate Action
WASHINGTON — One hundred million Americans from Arizona to Boston are under heat emergency warnings, and the drought in the West is nearing Dust Bowl proportions. Britain declared a climate emergency as temperatures soared above 100 degrees Fahrenheit and parts of blistering Europe are ablaze. But on Capitol Hill this week, Republicans were warning against rash action in response to…
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Iran endorses Russia’s unprovoked war in Ukraine as Putin looks for allies with the fighting raging on
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a joint press conference with his Iranian and Turkish counterparts following their summit in Tehran on July 19, 2022.Atta Kenare/Getty Images Iran’s supreme leader offered a strong endorsement of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “In the case of Ukraine, if you had not taken the helm, the other side would have done so and initiated…
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Brazil authorities doing little to prevent deforestation: Report | Environment News
Environmental criminals in the Brazilian Amazon are responsible for the massive destruction of public forests, but the nation’s federal police have done little to prevent this ecological damage, a new study has found. According to the report (PDF), conducted by the Igarape Institute, a Brazilian think-tank, the destruction took place in state and federal forests that are “unallocated,” meaning they…
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Opinion | When We Consent, We Shouldn’t Feel Terrible After, Right?
Experiences like these are common, but they aren’t stories of sexual assault — we freely consented, without fear of violence and often with the coveted verbal “yes.” After all, asking young men to be mind readers seems neither practical nor fair. Everything went according to script. Why then, did we go through with sex we didn’t want? And why didn’t…
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‘We’re Losing’ but Moscow Will Never Admit It, Russian Soldier Says
AFP via Getty As Russia openly announced its plan to seize more Ukrainian land on Wednesday, a Russian soldier was caught spilling to relatives back home that Vladimir Putin’s troops are “losing,” according to Ukrainian intelligence. Audio shared by Ukraine’s Security Service is said to capture an intercepted phone call between a soldier based in the Kharkiv region and a…
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Biden announces US-Africa summit for mid-December | News
Fifty African leaders are expected to join President Biden in Washington, DC to discuss many issues, including food security. President Joe Biden has announced that the United States will bring together leaders from across the African continent for a major summit in Washington, DC this December to discuss pressing challenges from food security to climate change. “The summit will demonstrate…
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Draghi Says He’ll Stay as Italy’s Prime Minister, if Parties Unite
Five Star, which won 33 percent of the vote in 2018 and is, as a result, still the largest party in the government, has since cratered. It has dreaded elections for years, but as the country’s next scheduled elections approach in early 2023, the downside of early elections has decreased. Still, the party, which has lost about two-thirds of its…
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Video shows Putin waiting awkwardly for Erdoğan for nearly a minute, in scene similar to how he treated the Turkish leader 2 years ago
President Vladimir Putin waiting to meet President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Tehran, Iran, on July 19, 2022, in images collaged by Insider.Turkish Presidency /Anadolu Agency via Getty Images/Insider Putin was kept waiting for nearly a minute ahead of a meeting with Erdoğan on Tuesday. Turkish media zoomed in on Putin’s uncomfortable gestures before the Turkish president arrived. It’s a reversal…
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