LONDON (AP) — International law enforcement agencies say the recent $45 million dollar ATM heist is just one of many scams they're fighting in an unprecedented wave of sophisticated cyberattacks.
Old-school robberies by masked criminals are being eclipsed by stealth multimillion dollar cybercrime operations which are catching companies and investigators by surprise.
"We are seeing an unprecedented number of cyberscams that include phishing for...
GOMA, Congo (AP) — In a story May 11 about the arrival of Tanzanian troops in eastern Congo, The Associated Press erroneously cited United Nations mission spokesman Col. Felix Basse. The information should have been attributed to Alexandre Essome, press information officer for the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the eastern province of North Kivu.
A corrected version of the story is below:
A contingent of about 100 Tanzanian troops arrived in eastern...
ROME (AP) — Thousands of supporters of former Premier Silvio Berlusconi rallied in a northern Italian city Saturday to protest the media mogul's recent conviction by a Milan appeals court for tax fraud, cheering their hero as police in riot gear separated them from jeering opponents.
The backers turned out for the "Everyone for Silvio" rally by his Freedom People party in a square outside the cathedral in Brescia, a small industrial city that is a bastion of the...
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's interior minister says security authorities have arrested three suspected al-Qaida militants who were planning to carry out suicide attacks on vital installations and an unspecified embassy.
Mohammed Ibrahim told a news conference Saturday that the men had been in contact with Dawood al-Assady, a leader of al-Qaida in southeast Asian countries such as Pakistan.
Ibrahim said authorities seized 10 kilograms (22 pounds) of ammonium...
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's interior minister says security authorities have arrested three suspected al-Qaida militants who were planning to carry out suicide attacks on vital installations and an unspecified embassy.
Mohammed Ibrahim told a news conference Saturday that the men had been in contact with Dawood al-Assady, a leader of al-Qaida in southeast Asian countries such as Pakistan.
Ibrahim said authorities seized 10 kilograms (22 pounds) of ammonium...
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's interior minister says security authorities have arrested three suspected al-Qaida militants who were planning to carry out suicide attacks on vital installations and an unspecified embassy.
Mohammed Ibrahim told a news conference Saturday that the men had been in contact with Dawood al-Assady, a leader of al-Qaida in southeast Asian countries such as Pakistan.
Ibrahim said authorities seized 10 kilograms (22 pounds) of ammonium...
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Voters in Pakistan have been streaming to the polls today despite militant attacks that have now claimed 22 lives.
The violence continues what has been a bloody election season, with more than 130 people killed in bombings and shootings.
Today's vote pits an unpopular incumbent against a two-time prime minister and a former cricket star.
Despite the violence, the election is seen by many as a key step toward...
AYLESBURY, England (AP) — Finance leaders from the Group of Seven leading industrial economies say Japan's stimulus policies are directed at boosting its economy out of a two-decade period of stagnation, not an attempt to drive down its currency to make Japan's exports more competitive.
At the conclusion of a two-day meeting of leading financial representatives from the G-7 countries — the U.S., Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Canada and the U.K. — host British Treasury...
BANJUL, Gambia (AP) — The Gambian government says that it has released a Muslim cleric who had been in detention for five months.
The state Gambia Radio Television Services announced late Friday that Imam Baba Leigh was released by the National Intelligence Agency.
The outspoken Imam was taken away by plainclothes officers on December 3, 2012. Media reports linked his arrest with comments he made in August 2012 in which he described the executions of...
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar's government warned Saturday that a new cyclone barreling north into the Bay of Bengal could threaten the country's western coast next week, raising fears the storm could swamp low-lying camps housing tens of thousands of embattled Rohingya Muslims who fled sectarian violence last year.
The brunt of the cyclone is currently heading toward Chittagong, Bangladesh. But its direction could still shift northeast and hit Myanmar's Rakhine state...
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