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US seizes $3.6bn of stolen bitcoin in record haul
AFP, Published on 09/02/2022
» WASHINGTON: The US Justice Department announced Tuesday it had recovered more than 94,000 bitcoin stolen in 2016, currently valued at $3.6 billion, a record seizure.
Hong Kong to define more national security crimes
AFP, Published on 12/01/2022
» HONG KONG: Hong Kong will define a host of new national security crimes, the city's leader said Wednesday, as she presided over the first session of a new "patriots only" legislature scrubbed of political opposition.
Mystery solved? FBI arrest suspect in manuscript theft scam
AFP, Published on 08/01/2022
» NEW YORK - A mystery that has shaken the literary world for years -- the theft of hundreds of unpublished manuscripts from distinguished authors -- may finally be about to be solved.
Flash mob thefts terrorize US retailers ahead of Christmas
AFP, Published on 25/11/2021
» WASHINGTON: US retailers are adding security and locking up goods after flash mob heists involving dozens of thieves at once stunned luxury stores in the San Francisco area and beyond, as the holiday shopping season opens.
US court convicts Chinese intelligence agent of economic espionage
AFP, Published on 06/11/2021
» WASHINGTON - A Chinese intelligence officer was convicted in US federal court Friday of economic espionage in an alleged state-backed effort to steal technology from US and French aerospace firms, the Justice Department said.
Sparse attendance at rally in support of US Capitol rioters
AFP, Published on 19/09/2021
» WASHINGTON - A few hundred protesters turned up Saturday in Washington to rally in support of the pro-Trump rioters who ransacked the US Capitol on January 6, but they were outnumbered by a robust security presence and journalists.
S.Africa's Zuma mounts last-ditch legal fight against jail term
AFP, Published on 03/07/2021
» NKANDLA (SOUTH AFRICA) - South Africa's ex-president Jacob Zuma on Friday mounted a last-ditch legal bid to avoid prison after the country's top court ordered him jailed for failing to appear before graft investigators.
'World's leading bank robbers': North Korea's hacker army
AFP, Published on 26/05/2021
» SEOUL: Nuclear-armed North Korea is advancing on the front lines of cyberwarfare, analysts say, stealing billions of dollars and presenting a clearer and more present danger than its banned weapons programmes.
Huawei listed anew as threat to US national security
AFP, Published on 13/03/2021
» SAN FRANCISCO - US regulators on Friday listed Huawei among Chinese telecom gear firms deemed a threat to national security, signalling that a hoped for softening of relations is not in the cards.
US sturgeon scientist accused in caviar scheme
AFP, Published on 19/02/2021
» WASHINGTON - The fish eggs were supposed to be for research, not for eating -- but a US biologist reportedly known as Wisconsin's "sturgeon general" was hatching another plan.