| How the NHS and global cyber attack was halted by an 'accidental hero' Brit blogger who refuses to reveal his name - The Sun | ||
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| Donald Trump's tweet about Comey 'tapes' prompts WikiLeaks to offer $100,000 bounty | ||
President Trump's alluding Friday to having taped his conversations with former FBI Director James Comey has already propelled the purported talks to the top of WikiLeaks' wish list. The anti-secrecy website on Friday said it's willing to pay $100,000 for the "tapes" referenced by the president this week in the ... | ||
| Report: Trump Considering Dropping Sean Spicer | ||
President Trump is weighing a major administration shake-up that would include firing White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, according to a New York Times report.
He also has become frustrated with Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, the former Republican National Committee chairman.
After a tumultuous week stemming from Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey and a series of mixed explanations for its timing and reasoning, Trump "is considering a broad shakeup" of his team that would include dropping Spicer:
According to the report, Trump has put forth Fox News commentator Kimberly Guilfoyle as a possible replacement for Spicer.
Spicer, his deputy Sarah Huckabee Sanders and even Vice President Mike Pence put forth the story this week that Trump acted on the recommendation of the Justice Department to dismiss Comey. However, Trump then told NBC News anchor Lester Holt that he was going fire Comey "regardless" of any recommendation.
The post Report: Trump Considering Dropping Sean Spicer appeared first on Washington Free Beacon. | ||
| Global cyber-attack: Security blogger halts ransomware 'by accident' - BBC News | ||
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| Trump says it's possible he could pick FBI head by next week | ||
President Donald Trump said Saturday that "we can make a fast decision" on a new FBI director, possibly by late next week, before he leaves on his first foreign trip since taking office.       | ||
| Bus crash kills 17 in southwest Turkey tourist town | ||
ANKARA (Reuters) - Seventeen people were killed and 13 injured when a bus carrying Turkish tourists crashed near the southwestern holiday town of Marmaris, a local governor said on Saturday.     | ||
| What a real crisis could mean for Trump - Politico | ||
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| Official: North Korea open to US talks under 'conditions' | ||
BEIJING (AP) -- A top North Korean diplomat said Saturday that Pyongyang would be willing to meet with the Trump administration for negotiations "if the conditions are set."... | ||
| Security Experts Scramble to Contain Fallout From Cyberattacks | ||
A sign outside the Royal London Hospital, in Central London. The hospital was one of a number of hospitals and institutions operated by Britains National Health Service hit Friday by a large-scale ransomware cyber attack.  | ||
| Russia Seeks Investment, Trade Links on China's New 'Silk Road' - Voice of America | ||
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| As Trump seeks billions for 'the wall,' U.S. still fighting landowners over 'the fence' - Chicago Tribune | ||
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| Poll gives UK Conservatives big lead ahead of June election | ||
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party maintained a strong lead over the main opposition Labour Party, ahead of a June 8 national election, according to an ORB opinion poll for The Telegraph.    | ||
| Новости - 13 Май, 2017 | ||
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| G-7 Finance Chiefs Reassured on U.S. Tax Plans | ||
Finance chiefs from the worlds largest industrialized economies sounded a note of cautious optimism this weekend on U.S. plans for a tax overhaul, and agreed to bolster the financial system against increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks.  | ||
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| 9:22 AM 5/13/2017 - Russia and US Presidential Elections of 2016 - Google News: Investigators seek former... | ||
9:22 AM 5/13/2017 - Russia and US Presidential Elections of 2016 - Google News: Investigators seek former Trump adviser's bank records as Russian probe widens - Fox News
More Cyber Victims Emerge as Agencies Search for Clues Saturday May 13 th , 2017 at 9:23 AM WSJ.Com: World News 1 Share Governments and executives scrambled to recover from a cyberattack that wreaked havoc on computer systems around the world, as the list... | ||
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| 7:16 AM 5/13/2017 - U.K. Health Service, Targeted in Cyberattack, Ignored Warnings for Months Saved ... | ||
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| Clapper: Comey uneasy about dinner with Trump youtu.be/1xVfLe8t9tI via @YouTube | ||
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Trump's war with Comey intensifies
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Under siege in the media and on Capitol Hill, Trump on Friday morning lobbed a direct threat at the former director, tweeting that Comey “better ...
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Amid reports he demanded a loyalty pledge from Comey, critics warned Trump was guilty of a grotesque abuse of power, or even worse.
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| FBI chief sacking: 'Four to be interviewed' to replace Comey | ||
The first interviews to find a replacement for fired FBI Director James Comey are set to take place.
Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe is among four people who will meet Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his deputy Rod Rosenstein. But about 11 people in all are being considered, US media report. President Trump has faced a backlash for sacking Mr Comey, who had been investigating alleged Russian meddling in the US election. White House spokesman Sean Spicer told reporters the president would fill the job "as soon as he finds a candidate that fits the qualities that he feels are necessary". One of those being interviewed is Republican Senator John Cornyn, the second highest-ranking member of the Senate and a former Texas Attorney General. Andrew McCabe was the FBI's deputy director until the abrupt departure of his boss. He appeared to contradict the White House this week when he described the inquiry into alleged Russian meddling in the US election as "a highly significant investigation". He also cast doubt on White House claims that Mr Comey had lost the confidence of his staff. Read more:The other two candidates named in the US press are New York Appeals Court Judge Michael Garcia and senior lawyer Alice Fisher. Mr Garcia is a former New York prosecutor and Ms Fisher was an assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's criminal division. She currently works at a law firm. Meanwhile, President Trump is facing growing questions about whether he secretly recorded his conversations with Mr Comey. In a tweet, Mr Trump appeared to issue a thinly veiled threat to Mr Comey, saying he had "better hope there are no tapes" of their conversations. The BBC's Laura Bicker in Washington says Mr Trump was referring to a private White House dinner in January during which the president claims Mr Comey assured him he was not being investigated over alleged links to Russia. Mr Trump seemed to be suggesting that he would release recordings if Mr Comey gave his own version of events, she adds. In an interview with Fox News Mr Trump said that he didn't want to discuss the matter and that all he wanted was for Mr Comey to be honest. President Trump has previously told NBC News that Mr Comey requested the one-on-one dinner, but the former FBI director reportedly maintains it was the president who invited him. Mr Comey had said he was "uneasy" before the dinner, according to former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. On Friday, the White House denied reports that President Trump had also asked Mr Comey to pledge loyalty to him. According to a report in the New York Times, Mr Comey said he would offer the president honesty, but not loyalty. Mr Trump's press secretary Sean Spicer has rejected the report. Echoes of WatergateMr Trump's behaviour has provoked fresh comparisons between his administration and that of disgraced President Richard Nixon, who famously recorded conversations, speeding his downfall during the Watergate scandal.Senior Democrats on the House judiciary and oversight committees wrote to the White House on Friday demanding copies of any recordings. John Conyers and Elijah Cummings' letter noted "it is a crime to intimidate or threaten any potential witness with the intent to influence, delay or prevent their official testimony". Read more: | ||
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| Trump's war with Comey intensifies thehill.com/policy/nationa | ||
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Germany has begun the process of upgrading 103 out-of-service Leopard 2A4 and 2A6 tanks to the latest model, the Leopard 2A7V—an upgrade that will cost the state the equivalent of 760 million euros ($833 million). The big news is that by revamping and deploying these new vehicles, the Bundeswehr is expanding its tank fleet by over 40 percent, from 225 to 320 main battle tanks.
This increase in force size is going to take time: the revamped Leopards will enter service between 2019 and 2013. There are also provisions to convert thirty-two additional tanks into specialized engineering and bridge-laying support vehicles.
Before getting our elbows greasy diving into the technical details, we should consider the expansion’s obvious significance: the additional tanks are part of Germany’s gradual rearming of the Bundeswehr after years of downsizing and declining operational readiness, due to the end of the Cold War and trust in the U.S. military to shield it from future threats. The German public, mindful of the legacy of World War II, has shown little enthusiasm for getting involved in foreign wars or maintaining a large military.
However, defense policy changed in 2014, when Moscow demonstrated its willingness to use military force to advance its foreign policy objectives in eastern Europe by seizing Crimea from Ukraine in April 2014 with “little green men,” followed by the deployment of Russian tanks (crewed by active-duty Russian Army “volunteers”) in support of Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. German security concerns have recently been further aggravated by a new element of unpredictability in the U.S. commitment to NATO. While the Trump administration recently declared that NATO is “no longer obsolete” after entering a dispute with Moscow over Syrian chemical weapons, Berlin probably still feels it may need to play a larger role as a security provider in central Europe.
The Leopard 2 has for several decades stood among the top main battle tanks in the world, alongside the American M1 Abrams. Both vehicles share potent Rheinmetall 120-millimeter guns, boast advanced sights and fire-control systems permitting accurate fire on the move, and tip the scales at well over sixty tons in weight due to their heavy composite armor, which renders their frontal armor virtually immune to most Cold War–era antitank rockets and missiles. The Abrams and Leopard 2 are also relatively nimble for heavy main battle tanks, able to cruise over forty miles per hour.
Comparing the M1 and Leopard 2 leads to a sort of Coke-Pepsi rivalry—which is to say that they both do roughly the same thing, but there are enough little differences to inspire die-hard advocates for each. The Leopard 2’s diesel engine is often favorably compared to the loud, gas- turbine engines used in the M1, affording the German tank greater operational range. The M1A2 tanks used by the U.S. Army benefit from ultra-dense depleted-uranium armor and ammunition that enables superior defensive performance and higher penetrating power, respectively. However, Germany has political issues with using depleted uranium, so the later Leopard models compensate with highly sloped wedge-shaped turrets with spaced composite armor, as well as longer-barrel guns (fifty-five-calibers instead of forty-four) to generate greater kinetic energy for their tungsten armor-piercing shells, in order to (mostly) catch up to the punch of American DU rounds.
Nearly 3,500 Leopard 2s have been produced in numerous variants over the years, each version boasting improvements in armor protection and firepower since the first in the series entered service in 1979. Leopard 2s currently serve in the armies of eighteen countries, including Canada, Indonesia, Poland, Qatar, Spain, Sweden and Turkey.
Although the Abrams has seen a lot more combat over the decades, the Leopard 2 has been battle tested—though not against the Soviet tanks it was designed to duel with. In Afghanistan, Canadian and Danish Leopard 2s serving in NATO’s International Security Assistance Force survived hits from IEDs and rocket-propelled grenades, though a few were damaged and one Danish crew member was mortally wounded by a mine explosion. In return, the Leopard 2s were praised by coalition commanders for providing effective fire support for international forces battling the Taliban.
The Leopard 2 did not fare so well when Turkey deployed a battalion of them in December 2016 as part of its campaign to capture ISIS-held Al Bab near the Syrian border. Deadly antitank weapons have proliferated in the Syrian conflict, and much less well-armored Turkish M60 Patton tanks had suffered heavy losses to both ISIS and Kurdish rebels. In a series of attacks, ISIS destroyed or disabled as many as ten Leopard 2s using old Russian antitank missiles. Some of the Leopard 2s were even “captured” before being knocked out by coalition air strikes.
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Новости Радио Свобода: точность, оперативность, беспристрастность
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Governments and executives scrambled to recover from a cyberattack that wreaked havoc on computer systems around the world, as the list of victims grew to include Germany’s main rail operator and a swath of the Russian banking system.
Celebrating Mass in Saturday morning, 100 years after three shepherd children in Fátima reported seeing an apparition of the Virgin Mary there, Pope Francis canonized two of the visionaries as saints, saying Mary had given them a still-timely warning and message of hope.
