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Month: July 2024

Putin’s summer residence gets new air defenses as Ukraine steps up drone attacks

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — As Ukraine grows bolder in striking targets deep inside Russia, Moscow has quietly upped the security measures around President Vladmir Putin’s country residence north of Moscow. Satellite images have revealed that several Pantsir-S1 air defense systems have been installed in the vicinity of the presidential residence on Lake Valdai

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A faulty software update causes havoc worldwide for airlines, hospitals and governments

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A faulty software update caused technological havoc worldwide on Friday, grounding flights, knocking down some financial companies and news outlets, and disrupting hospitals, small businesses and government offices. The breadth of the outages highlighted the fragility of a digitized world dependent on just a few providers for key computing

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Top UN court says Israel’s presence in occupied Palestinian territories is illegal and should end

Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The top United Nations court said Friday that Israel’s presence in the occupied Palestinian territories is unlawful and called on it to end, and for settlement construction to stop immediately, issuing an unprecedented, sweeping condemnation of Israel’s rule over the lands it captured 57 years ago. Israeli Prime

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Tel Aviv en “alerta máxima” tras un “grave” incidente con un dron, según el alcalde. Se reportan al menos un muerto y heridos tras una explosión en el centro de la ciudad

Valeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN) — Tel Aviv se encuentra en “alerta máxima” tras el “grave” incidente con un dron ocurrido este jueves por la noche, en el que murió una persona y “otras resultaron heridas”, según informó el alcalde de la ciudad, Ron Huldai, en un comunicado difundido por X. La policía dijo a CNN que

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How the world’s tech crashed all at once

CNN Analysis by Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — When computers and tech systems around the world went down Friday, snarling airports, closing Social Security offices and limiting jail operations, many people had one question: How on earth could this happen in 2024? A software update from a single cybersecurity company, US-based CrowdStrike, was the root

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Russia convicts US journalist of spying in a trial widely seen as politically motivated

Associated Press YEKATERINBURG, Russia (AP) — Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was convicted Friday of espionage and sentenced to 16 years in a maximum-security prison on charges that his employer and the U.S. government have rejected as fabricated. The swift conclusion of the secretive trial in Russia’s highly politicized legal system could potentially clear

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Alabama birthing units are closing to save money and get funding. Some say babies are at risk

Associated Press/Report for America GROVE HILL, Ala. (AP) — One of the last remaining birthing units in southern Alabama is slated to close to qualify for federal funding that will save the hospital’s emergency services. But doctors warn the move scheduled for next month may cost newborns and pregnant women essential access to obstetric care.

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