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Department of Defense computers have been hit with an old worm that the DoD won't discuss other than to say it is taking steps to mitigate its effects. One report identified the virus as W32/SillyFCD-W, which spreads via thumb drives that move from machine to machine. Once the virus is on...
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UNITED NATIONS - A key U.N. committee on Friday strongly criticized Iran, Myanmar and North Korea for alleged human rights abuses. Separate resolutions approved by the General Assembly's human rights committee expressed serious concern at accusations of abuse ranging from attacks on peaceful demonstrators in Myanmar to public...
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LIMA, Peru - In a last dash of diplomacy, President George W. Bush on Friday sought China's help in pinning down North Korea to keep its shaky promises of nuclear disarmament. Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao privately tried to push along a way to verify North Korea's nuclear declarations - the latest hang-up in a showdown that has vexed six nations. The meeting came as Bush began his last scheduled foreign journey, at a yearly Asia-Pacific forum, where the world's economic collapse and the North Korea standoff dominated. Bush even allowed that he "felt a little nostalgic" over his final meeting as a head of state with Hu, White House press secretary Dana Perino said. It was some rare...
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NEW YORK - Libya wants to open a new chapter in relations with the United States by tapping into a major government fund to invest in U.S. companies and sending thousands of students to study in America, the son of Libya's leader said Friday. In an interview with The Associated Press, Seif al-Islam Gadhafi also outlined plans for Libya to move from the one-man rule of his father, Moammar Gadhafi, to a constitutional democracy as part of the country's modernization process. The younger Gadhafi said he expects a constitution providing for democratic elections to be adopted by September 2009 - the 40th anniversary of the 1969 revolution that brought...
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MEXICO CITY - Authorities arrested the former head of an elite organized crime strike force on charges that he took a $450,000 payoff from a drug gang, part of a widening corruption scandal involving dozens of federal agents. The arrest of Noe Ramirez, a former deputy attorney general, follows those of four other senior agents in the past three weeks as well as the forced resignations of at least 30 other officers. Among those arrested were the current and former directors of the Mexican office of Interpol, the international police organization. Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora said at a news conference Friday that the arrests are part of an ongoing purge of federal agents corrupted by...
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