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Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to the media on Friday following the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Earlier, he met with the leaders of China, India, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia. In his first press conference since July, the president was asked about …

France, as well as other European countries, have consistently demonstrated a “colonial mindset” when it comes to African nations, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. The top diplomat made the remarks on Friday during a joint press conference with his Malian counterpart, Abdoulaye Diop, after talks in Moscow. Namely, …

The joint letter from 12 organizations blasted the UK government’s proposal to turn the Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC) into the British International Investment (BII), as part of a proposed update of the nation’s aid program. The groups, including the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD), Global Justice Now, the Trades …

Speaking to public radio on Friday, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban hit back at Dutch PM Mark Rutte and his “colonial” mentality, after he told Budapest to respect LGBTQ+ rights or leave the European Union.  “This is a colonial approach,” Orban stated, adding, “they just give no thought to what …

Matthew Katzman, 25, graduated from Stanford University and is now a doctoral student in “complexity theory,” British newspapers reported on Wednesday. As president of the Magdalen College’s Middle Common Room, Katzman had tabled the motion to remove the portrait of the queen from the area, arguing that it is “meant …

With cooperation from Colonial, the DOJ got a warrant in a federal court in California and successfully “found and recaptured the majority of the ransom” from a bitcoin wallet, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced on Monday. It was the first seizure of this kind ever, she said. Colonial’s CEO admitted …

Giving in to the demands of the blackmailers was “a highly controversial decision,” Blount told the Wall Street Journal in his first interview since the devastating cyberattack on May 7, which saw Colonial Pipeline losing access to its computer systems. He said he authorized the payment of the ransom by …

The six-day shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline network, the biggest fuel-carrying infrastructure facility in the United States, which supplies almost half of the gasoline and diesel that the East Coast consumes, was prompted by a ransomware cyberattack. The attack forced the Colonial Pipeline Company, the pipeline’s operator, to halt supplies …

Citing two anonymous sources said to be familiar with the transaction, Bloomberg first reported on Thursday that Colonial coughed up just shy of $5 million worth of cryptocurrency to hackers sometime after it was hit by a major cyber attack earlier this month, causing a full-scale shutdown of the country’s largest …

The company reopened its pipelines on Wednesday evening around 5pm ET, saying that while it will pump out as much diesel, gasoline and jet fuel as it can, supply chain disruptions caused by the shutdown will take time to sort out.  “Following this restart, it will take several days for …