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Pirate attacks surge in 2020: watchdog

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 13 09:47 PM

Pirate attacks on ships worldwide jumped 20 percent last year driven by a record spate of kidnappings off West Africa, a maritime watchdog said Wednesday, urging increased sea patrols.  Read more »

Indonesia to free cleric linked to Bali bombing

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 08 06:02 AM

JAKARTA - A radical cleric linked to the deadly Bali bombings is to be freed from prison Friday, stirring grief and anger among victims nearly 20 years after Indonesia's worst terror attack. Read more »

Woman dies in suspected New Zealand shark attack

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 07 03:52 PM

A woman has died after an apparent shark attack at a popular New Zealand beach, police said Thursday. Read more »

DITO Telecommunity taps retired colonel to beef up cybersecurity, plans to hire more military retirees

Bruce Rodriguez, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 10 09:53 PM

(UPDATED) — DITO Telecommunity, the country's third telco player, has hired a retired military official to help strengthen its security systems against cyber attacks. Read more »

Bears spotted 13,670 times in Japan in April-Sept., most since 2016

Kyodo News
Posted at Oct 26 04:13 PM

The tally was released following a recent spate of bear encounters by residents in Japan. Two women died in October as a result of bear attacks. Read more »

Cyber warriors sound warning on working from home

Polina Kalantar, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 14 11:41 AM

Cyber warriors on NATO's eastern edge are warning that the growing number of people working from home globally due to the pandemic is increasing vulnerability to cyber attacks. Read more »

Woman who attacked Fil-Ams in California gets 45-day jail time; victims cry foul over 'disappointing' plea

Steve Angeles, ABS-CBN North American News Bureau
Posted at Oct 07 07:04 AM

TORRANCE, California - It took almost one year, a pair of hate-filled incidents caught on tape, and several community rallies, for Filipina racist abuse victim, Kayceelynn Salminao, to finally see her attacker in court and get justice.  Read more »

At least 5 killed in rocket fire near Baghdad airport: army

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 29 02:14 AM

Three Iraqi children and two women from the same family were killed Monday when a rocket targeting Baghdad airport, where US troops are stationed, fell instead on their home, the army said. Read more »

UNESCO heeds appeal, tags Ampatuan massacre case as 'ongoing/unresolved' despite court verdict

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 25 07:45 PM

MANILA - The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) heeded the appeal of stakeholders to reclassify its earlier assessment of the Ampatuan Massacre.  Read more »

Twitter tightens security for politicians and journalists

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 18 07:09 AM

Twitter on Thursday said it is tightening security of high-profile politicians, campaigns and journalists as a "critical preventative step" ahead of the US presidential election. Read more »

Internet show host, patay sa pamamaril sa Sorsogon

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 14 10:27 PM

SORSOGON - Isang internet show host ang pinaslang ng mga di pa kilalang salarin sa Barangay Cabid-an, Sorsogon City nitong Lunes ng gabi. Read more »

Al-Qaeda threatens to repeat Charlie Hebdo carnage for republishing Mohammed cartoons

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 12 05:31 AM

PARIS - Al-Qaeda has threatened French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo with a repeat of a 2015 massacre of its staff after it republished controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, the SITE observatory said on Friday. Read more »

New York to mark 9/11 anniversary amid the coronavirus pandemic

Catherine Triomphe, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 10 02:39 PM

NEW YORK - With crime on the rise, shops and apartments increasingly vacant and homeless people on the sidewalks, New York on Friday will mark the 19th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic and a bitter fight with the White House. Read more »

How to survive in the ‘Shark Attack Capital of the World’

Rebecca Renner, The New York Times
Posted at Sep 04 05:39 PM

Florida far leads the United States in shark attacks, and Volusia County has accounted for more than one-third of its total since 1882. Read more »

Trial opens over Charlie Hebdo terror attacks that stunned France

Anne-Sophie Lasserre and Valentin Bontemps, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 03 04:46 AM

PARIS - Fourteen suspected accomplices of the jihadist gunmen who attacked the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket appeared in a Paris court Wednesday, five years after the three days of terror that rocked France. Read more »

France's Charlie Hebdo reprints Mohammed cartoons for trial

Stuart Williams and Frédéric Pouchot, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 02 02:16 AM

French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, the target of a massacre by Islamist gunmen in 2015, said Tuesday it was republishing hugely controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed to mark this week's start of the trial of alleged accomplices to the attack. Read more »

Military, police ramp up search for more suspects in Jolo bombings

Davinci Maru, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 26 06:26 PM

Philippine authorities are searching for more suspects involved in Monday's twin explosions in Jolo, Sulu that left scores of security forces and civilians killed and wounded, the deadliest such attack in the country this year. Read more »

Virus lockdowns limit IS attacks in many nations: UN

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 25 08:11 AM

Coronavirus lockdowns appear to have reduced the threat of Islamic State group attacks in many countries, but the risk is greater in Iraq and Syria, a UN official said Monday.   Read more »

'Unacceptable': UN strongly condemns Jolo blasts

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 25 12:16 AM

MANILA - The United Nations strongly denounced the twin explosions that rocked Jolo, Sulu on Monday, killing 15 people and wounding dozens of others in what maybe this year's deadliest attack in the country. Read more »

Journalists in southern Mexico 'live in terror' of gangs' violence

Jennifer Gonzalez Covarrubias, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 09 10:07 AM

Since 2006, when the government launched a military offensive against drug traffickers, Mexico has witnessed a growing wave of violence. Read more »