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National Crime Agency Helps Take Down Website Linked To Cyber Crime
A website blamed for launching more than four million cyber-attacks around the world, including attempts to crash banks in the UK, has been taken down in a major international investigation.
The operation, which involved the UK's National Crime Agency, blocked Webstresser.org - which allows criminals to buy attacks on businesses.
The site was used by a British suspect to attack high street banks last year, causing hundreds of thousands of pounds of damage. Six suspected members of the gang behind the site have been arrested, with computers seized in the UK, Holland and elsewhere.
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10 People Killed And Many Injured After Canada Van Attack
Canadian police are questioning the suspected driver of a rented van that ploughed into pedestrians in northern Toronto on Monday, killing 10 and injuring 15.
Alek Minassian, 25, was not previously known to authorities, police said. The incident appeared to be deliberate but the motive was not clear, officials added.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the "tragic and senseless attack" had brought him "great sadness".
Meanwhile, an officer has been praised for not opening fire during a tense standoff with the suspect, who claimed to be armed.
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Armenian Soldiers Join Protest Against Prime Minister
Armenian soldiers have joined protests against the prime minister in the country's capital Yerevan.
There have been days of protests against Serzh Sargsyan, who was recently appointed PM after being president for 10 years.
The defence ministry warned soldiers who participated that they would be harshly punished.
Monday's rallies followed the arrest of protest leader Nikol Pashinyan on Sunday. He has now been released. This is the 11th day of demonstrations against Mr Sargsyan, who held talks with Mr Pashinyan - an opposition MP - on Sunday before he was detained.
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Salah Abdeslam Receives Twenty Year Sentence For Paris Attacks
Salah Abdeslam, the sole surviving suspect from the 2015 Paris attacks, has been jailed for 20 years in Belgium over a gunfight that led to his arrest.
Abdeslam, 28, and co-defendant Sofien Ayari were both convicted of terror-related charges of attempted murder.
Ayari, 24, was also given a 20-year sentence. Both fired on officers who raided a flat in Brussels in 2016.
Abdeslam is being held in a jail in France and is due to face trial there over the Paris attacks themselves. He had refused to answer questions from the judge in the trial in Brussels, and eventually refused to attend the hearings.
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Muslim Convert Receives Sentence For Sharing Terror Handbooks
A man has been jailed for owning and sharing terrorist handbooks.
Muslim convert Adam Wyatt, 48, admitted disseminating a terrorist publication that said "Britain must atone for its sins in Palestine" and posting on social media that jihad was an obligation for all Muslims.
Wyatt, of Bridgewater Street, Salford, was sentenced to three years and nine months at Manchester Crown Court.
A judge ruled his actions were intentional rather than reckless.
Material in his possession including a book about poisons and other deadly substances that could be used in terrorist attacks.
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CIA Director Had Secret Meeting With Kim Jong-un
CIA director Mike Pompeo travelled to Pyongyang for a secret meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, US media report.
The meeting to prepare for direct talks between US President Donald Trump and Mr Kim took place on about 1 April, unnamed officials said.
Mr Trump had earlier alluded to high-level direct talks with Pyongyang. But this unexpected and clandestine meeting would mark the highest level US contact with North Korea since 2000.
"We have had direct talks at... extremely high levels," Mr Trump said from Florida, where he is hosting Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
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UK And US Intelligence Report On Russian Hackers
State-sponsored Russian hackers are actively seeking to hijack essential internet hardware, US and UK intelligence agencies say.
The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the FBI and the US Department of Homeland Security issued a joint alert warning of a global campaign.
The alert details methods used to compromise the networking equipment used to move traffic across the net. This could be used to mount a future offensive, it warned.
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Germany Charges 94 Year Old Former SS Guard
German prosecutors have charged a 94-year-old former SS guard with aiding and abetting mass murder at the Nazis' Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.
The case against the German man - not yet named - has gone to a court in Mannheim, western Germany.
He was 19 when, in December 1942-January 1943, he assisted in the murder of some 13,335 people, it is alleged. He has denied knowing that mass murder was going on. Last month, a convicted Auschwitz guard died in hospital.
Nearly one million Jews were murdered at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp complex. Tens of thousands of others also died, mainly Poles.
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Two Dead In Separate London Stabbings
Two people have been stabbed to death in London in separate attacks within 40 minutes of one another.
A 26-year-old man died in hospital after being attacked in Colindale, north-west London, while a woman in her 30s died at the scene of a stabbing in Brixton, south London.
An 18-year-old man is in a critical condition after a third separate stabbing three hours later, on Sunday.
More than 35 people have been stabbed to death in the capital so far in 2018.
A woman, 34, was arrested on suspicion of murder at the scene of the Colindale attack.
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Opposition Parties To Face Theresa May Over Syria Air Strikes
Theresa May is to face MPs' questions about her decision to authorise air strikes against the Syrian government.
Opposition parties say MPs should have been consulted before the UK joined the US and France in bombing three Syrian sites, in response to a suspected chemical attack on the town of Douma.
Labour says its advice suggests the military strikes were not legal.
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson promised MPs would have "abundant time" to have their say.
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