Monday, May 15, 2017

Air strikes on Islamic State in Syria, kill 30, mostly civilians: monitor

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Air strikes on Islamic State in Syria, kill 30, mostly civilians: monitor

Air strikes on Islamic State in Syria, kill 30, mostly civilians: monitorDawn air strikes on a Syrian border town in the Islamic State-held eastern province of Deir al-Zor killed at least 30 people, most of them civilians including more than a dozen children, a war monitoring group said on Monday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said jets thought to belong to the U.S.-led coalition hit the town of Al-Bukamal near the border with Iraq. A spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State did not immediately respond to a request for comment.


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Anti-Maduro protests persist in Venezuela, policeman shot dead

Anti-Maduro protests persist in Venezuela, policeman shot deadBy Andrew Cawthorne CARACAS (Reuters) - Opponents of President Nicolas Maduro staged sit-ins and roadblocks across Venezuela on Monday to press for elections, sparking new unrest that killed a policeman. Demonstrators have been on the streets daily since early April to demand elections, freedom for jailed activists, foreign humanitarian aid to offset an economic crisis, and autonomy for the opposition-controlled legislature. Maduro accuses them of seeking a violent coup.


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Cyberattacks ease but Putin points finger at US

Cyberattacks ease but Putin points finger at USThe world's biggest ransomware attack levelled off on Monday after wreaking havoc in 150 countries, but Russian President Vladimir Putin called it payback for the US intelligence services. Microsoft's president and chief legal officer Brad Smith has said the US National Security Agency developed the original code used in the attack, which later leaked in a document dump. "Microsoft's leadership stated this directly, they said the source of the virus was the special services of the United States," Putin said on the sidelines of a summit in Beijing.


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