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Britain and the Netherlands Accuse Russia of Cyberattacks

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Britain and the Netherlands Accuse Russia of Cyberattacks

Top News: The Netherlands said Thursday it had thwarted, with British help, a Russian cyberattack against the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the international chemical weapons watchdog.

Dutch Defense Minister Ank Bijleveld said four Russian intelligence officials had been caught spying on the OPCW earlier this year and kicked out of the country.

Britain accused Russia’s military intelligence agency of carrying out a string of such attacks, including hacking the U.S. Democratic National Committee in 2016. Russia’s foreign ministry called the claims a “rich fantasy of our colleagues from Britain.”

Peru: Former Peruvian dictator Alberto Fujimori was ordered back to prison Wednesday by the country’s Supreme Court.

In 2009, he received a 25-year prison sentence for human-rights abuses he committed while in power, including killings by death squad. Last year, then-President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski pardoned him on medical grounds.

AFRICA

•  Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed pledged to put an end to the ethnic violence that has been threatening the country’s stability for months.

•  Ugandan police confiscated 24 red napkins from the home of Edith Byanyima, the sister-in-law of Kizza Besigye, an opposition politician. (The opposition Forum for Democratic Change party frequently displays red ribbons.) "Since our duty is to detect and prevent crime, our officers went there and indeed obtained 24 red pieces of cloths,” a police spokesman told the state-linked New Vision newspaper.

•  An explosion at a fuel depot on Cairo’s outskirts killed at least one person and injured at least three.

AMERICAS

•  U.S. President Donald Trump and Mexican President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador spoke by phone Wednesday. López Obrador urged Trump to increase economic development initiatives in Mexico and Central America as the best way to stop undocumented immigrants from traveling north.

•  Oil giant ExxonMobil is looking at selling off many of its assets in the Gulf of Mexico, Reuters reports.

•  In Brazil, 63,880 people were killed in homicides last year—far more than died in the war in Syria over the same period.

ASIA

•  Rosmah Mansor, former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak’s wife, pleaded not guilty to 17 charges, including tax evasion and money laundering.

•  South Korea is pushing the United States to accept the verified closure of a North Korean nuclear facility rather than a full inventory of all North Korean nuclear weapons as an adequate next step in nuclear negotiations with Pyongyang.

•  India faced criticism from the United Nations for deporting seven Rohingya Muslims back to Myanmar. The U.N. special rapporteur on racism, E. Tendayi Achiume, said India risked breaching its international legal obligations by returning the men to possible harm.

•  "Given the ethnic identity of the men,” she argued, “this is a flagrant denial of their right to protection."

EUROPE

•  The U.S. Department of Justice opened an investigation into Danske Bank’s money laundering operations in Estonia, through which clients funnelled some $200 billion in suspicious funds.

•  At least two candidates have announced their plans to challenge German Chancellor Angela Merkel for leadership of her party, the Christian Democratic Union. While Merkel is likely to face more serious challenges in the future, neither of the announced candidates is seen as posing a threat: One is a 26-year-old law student and the other owns an aluminium manufacturing company.

•  In Ukraine, Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi announced his intention to run against incumbent President Petro Poroshenko in next year’s presidential election.

MIDDLE EAST

•  After the International Court of Justice ruled on Wednesday that the United States should ease sanctions on Iran, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the United States would pull out of the 1955 Treaty of Amity between the two countries, the terms of which the United States had violated, according to Iran’s arguments before the ICJ.

•  Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait on Thursday said they would deposit $1 billion into Jordan’s central bank—part of a broader effort to prop up the country’s economy.

•  Saudi Arabia is mulling the possibility of purchasing a stake in the South African state-owned defense firm Denel, among other South African arms companies, Reuters reports.

- By Benjamin Soloway

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