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Hackers Target German Politicians

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01/04/2019

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Hackers Target German Politicians

Top News: The personal information of several German politicians was revealed by hackers, with large amounts of private data, including credit card information and identity documents leaked online via a Twitter account. Politicians from across the political spectrum were targeted, with the exception of those from the far-right AfD party. The country’s top cyber defense officials at the Federal Office for Information Security met on Friday to discuss how to respond.

United States: Despite the likelihood of pushback from the Republican-controlled Senate and the White House, Democrats, who took control of the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday, approved legislation designed to end the partial government shutdown without acquiescing to President Trump’s demand to fund a wall at the U.S.-Mexican border. The incoming speaker of the house, Nancy Pelosi, told reporters “We’re not doing a wall. It has nothing to do with politics…It isn’t cost effective.” Pelosi will meet with Trump on Friday morning to discuss their disagreements.

AFRICA

•  The United Nations Security Council is set to hold a closed-door meeting on Friday to discuss the election in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

•  The Catholic Church, a major powerbroker in Congo, has tabulated its own results of the election, citing a clear winner among the 21 candidates, and pressuring the government to release accurate results.

•  Three former Credit Suisse bankers are facing criminal charges for diverting around $200 million dollars in funds to themselves from loans they organized for three state-owned companies in Mozambique between 2013 and 2016.

AMERICAS

•  The U.S. State Department issued a travel warning to its citizens traveling to China, cautioning them to be aware of the “arbitrary enforcement of local laws.”

•  Canada announced that 13 of its citizens have been detained in China since the arrest of Huawei’s chief financial officer on Dec. 1, 2018.

•  Mexico’s foreign ministry has asked the United States to open an official inquiry into the actions of its border patrol personnel who shot tear gas at migrants seeking to cross the border at Tijuana.

ASIA

•  A Sri Lankan woman entered the Sabarimala temple in Kerala, India, amid protests over women’s access to Hindu temples that have paralyzed the state in 2019.

•  Thailand’s first tropical storm in three decades has displaced over 6,000 people and killed a fisherman whose boat capsized in high waves.

•  Indian politicians said that India did not “need sermons from the U.S on Afghanistan,” as both the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and the opposition slammed Trump’s derisive comments on Jan. 2, about India’s investments in the country.

EUROPE

•  German police have detained three men after the office of the far-right AfD party in Doebeln, Saxony, was bombed late on Thursday night. No one was hurt in the blast.

•  In the United Kingdom, Heathrow and Gatwick airports have both ordered military-grade anti-drone equipment to respond to aerial threats like the rogue drones that grounded thousands of travellers transiting through London over the holidays.

•  In France, 75 percent of respondents in a poll released on Thursday said they were not satisfied with how President Emmanuel Macron is running the country.

MIDDLE EAST

•  Iran plans to send warships, including a newly built destroyer, to the Atlantic Ocean, close to U.S. waters, in retaliation for the presence of the U.S. Navy in the Gulf.

•  Residents of Tehran took to social media to skewer Iranian officials for their failure to address an overpowering smell and increased air pollution in the city.

•  The United Nations human rights office said that Saudi Arabia’s trial of those accused of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder was “not sufficient,” and called for an international investigation.

- By Jefcoate O'Donnell

(Maxym Marusenko/NurPhoto/Getty Images)

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