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Ukraine urges world not to seek ‘lull’ in Russia’s war instead of peace

Around The Globe - Wed, 09/25/2024 - 18:25
Ukrainian president singles out China, Brazil for pushing what he called 'half-hearted settlement plans'.

Florida braces for major hurricane as Helene strengthening rapidly

Around The Globe - Wed, 09/25/2024 - 18:08
Helene is rapidly intensifying and forecast to become a major Category 3 hurricane headed for Florida, forecasters say.

Palestinian confronts Israeli armoured vehicle in occupied West Bank

Around The Globe - Wed, 09/25/2024 - 17:57
A Palestinian man was filmed confronting an armoured vehicle as Israeli forces were conducting a raid on Jenin.

CrowdStrike executive apologizes to Congress for July global tech outage

Technology - Wed, 09/25/2024 - 17:57
WASHINGTON — An executive at cybersecurity company CrowdStrike apologized in testimony to Congress for sparking a global technology outage over the summer.  "We let our customers down," said Adam Meyers, who leads CrowdStrike's threat intelligence division, in a hearing before a U.S. House cybersecurity subcommittee Tuesday.  Austin, Texas-based CrowdStrike has blamed a bug in an update that allowed its cybersecurity systems to push bad data out to millions of customer computers, setting off a global tech outage in July that grounded flights, took TV broadcasts off air and disrupted banks, hospitals and retailers.  "Everywhere Americans turned, basic societal functions were unavailable," House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green said. "We cannot allow a mistake of this magnitude to happen again."  The Tennessee Republican likened the impact of the outage to an attack "we would expect to be carefully executed by a malicious and sophisticated nation-state actor."  "We're deeply sorry and we are determined to prevent this from ever happening again," Meyers told lawmakers while laying out the technical missteps that led to the outage of about 8.5 million computers running Microsoft's Windows operating system.  Meyers said he wanted to "underscore that this was not a cyberattack" but was, instead, caused by a faulty "rapid-response content update" focused on addressing new threats. The company has since bolstered its content update procedures, he said.  The company still faces a number of lawsuits from people and businesses that were caught up in July's mass outage. 

Zelenskyy takes aim at China, Brazil in push for peace in Ukraine

Around The Globe - Wed, 09/25/2024 - 17:30
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy questioned the “true interest” of a push by Brazil and China to end the war.

German Green party leaders resign after election losses

Around The Globe - Wed, 09/25/2024 - 16:59
Co-leaders' exits come after the party failed to cross five percent threshold in Thuringia and Brandenburg state polls.

Israel is repeating its Gaza assault in Lebanon. Why?

Around The Globe - Wed, 09/25/2024 - 16:32
There's an eerie similarity in how Israel is approaching both its assaults. The question is, will that work?

‘I will prevent World War 3’, Trump says

Around The Globe - Wed, 09/25/2024 - 16:19
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would end the war in Ukraine.

Celebrating a martyr’s birthday in Gaza

Around The Globe - Wed, 09/25/2024 - 15:30
My niece asked us to celebrate the birthday of her father, killed in an Israeli massacre. And we did.

Israeli soldiers hide from Hezbollah rockets

Around The Globe - Wed, 09/25/2024 - 14:50
Video shows Israeli soldiers lying on the ground and sheltering from Hezbollah rockets.

Israel has been bombing Gaza and Lebanon at the same time

Around The Globe - Wed, 09/25/2024 - 14:42
Hundreds of Israeli air strikes hit areas across Lebanon this week but Israel’s attacks on Gaza haven’t stopped either.

French immigration rules to be reviewed as far right weaponises murder

Around The Globe - Wed, 09/25/2024 - 14:21
'If we have to change the rules, let's change them,' says Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau.

Blinken accused of lying to Congress over Gaza aid

Around The Globe - Wed, 09/25/2024 - 14:17
The US’s top diplomat Antony Blinken is facing calls for his resignation over allegations he lied to Congress.

Why was Marcellus Williams executed? What to know about the Missouri case

Around The Globe - Wed, 09/25/2024 - 14:03
Marcellus Williams has been executed in Missouri, despite objections from prosecutors.

Donga’s Diary: Libya’s Decade of War

Around The Globe - Wed, 09/25/2024 - 14:00
Through his extensive video archive, Donga looks back on how events in Libya over 10 years changed him and his nation.

Russia moves to ban adoptions from countries that allow gender change

Around The Globe - Wed, 09/25/2024 - 13:27
Parliament's lower house backs measure and says it was aimed at upholding the 'traditional values' of the country.

Manchester City’s midfielder Rodri out for ‘a long time’ due to knee injury

Around The Globe - Wed, 09/25/2024 - 12:49
City manager Guardiola says Rodri's knee ligament injury will be a 'big blow' to the club's performance this season.

Can Israel afford another war in Lebanon?

Around The Globe - Wed, 09/25/2024 - 12:49
Israel's war on Gaza has ground its vital economic sectors to a halt.

Iran’s Khamenei insists Hezbollah will survive Lebanon bombardment

Around The Globe - Wed, 09/25/2024 - 12:38
Armed Shia group hurt by loss of top commanders but will not be brought 'to its knees', the supreme leader states.

Mapping 10,000 cross-border attacks between Israel and Lebanon

Around The Globe - Wed, 09/25/2024 - 12:33
Israel, Hezbollah and other Lebanese groups have exchanged more than 10,200 attacks between October 7 and September 20.

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