Bangladesh authorities detain student protest leaders in hospital
Home minister says three student leaders taken into custody ‘for their own security’ and were being questioned.
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Thousands pay respects as Vietnam’s ‘especially outstanding’ leader is buried
Thousands of people lined the streets of Hanoi on Friday to pay their final respects to Vietnam’s Communist Party general secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, the most powerful leader the country has seen in decades.
In Japan, Turning the Tables on Rude Customers
The guests arrived 30 minutes before check-in time at a traditional hot springs inn a couple of hours north of Tokyo. When they saw a sign asking that customers wait in their cars, they demanded to know why they could not get their room key early.
North Korean hackers are stealing military secrets, US and allies say
North Korean hackers have conducted a global cyber espionage campaign in efforts to steal classified military secrets to support Pyongyang’s banned nuclear weapons programme, the United States, Britain and South Korea said in a joint advisory on Thursday.
North Korean charged in ransomware attacks on American hospitals
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A man who allegedly carried out cybercrimes for a North Korean military intelligence agency has been indicted in a conspiracy to hack American health care providers, NASA, military bases and other international entities, federal prosecutors announced Thursday.
CrowdStrike blames defect in content update for epic global tech outage
CrowdStrike is blaming a bug in an update that allowed its cybersecurity systems to push bad data out to millions of customer computers, setting off last week’s global tech outage that grounded flights, took TV broadcasts off-air and disrupted banks, hospitals and retailers.
Plane crash at Nepal’s Kathmandu airport kills 18; pilot only survivor
Saurya Airlines plane carrying two crew members and 17 passengers crashes shortly after takeoff and catches fire.
Indonesia’s former vice-president Hamzah Haz dies at 84
Hamzah, who served under President Megawati Soekarnoputri, died at a hospital in Jakarta on Wednesday, a politician from the Development Planning Party, known as PPP, said in a locally televised interview.