International Glance
North Korea fired on Sunday an unidentified projectile from a region near its west coast, South Korea's military said.
The nature of the projectile is not immediately clear, a South Korean military official said by telephone. Yonhap news agency reported the projectile launched appeared to be a ballistic missile.
The launch took place at a region named Kusong located northwest of the capital, Pyongyang, where the North previously test-launched its intermediate-range missile it is believed to be developing.
North Korea fires unidentified projectile: South Korea military
'Accidental hero' halts ransomware attack and warns: this is not over
The “accidental hero” who halted the global spread of an unprecedented ransomware attack by registering a garbled domain name hidden in the malware has warned the attack could be rebooted.
The ransomware used in Friday’s attack wreaked havoc on organisations including FedEx and Telefónica, as well as the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), where operations were cancelled, X-rays, test results and patient records became unavailable and phones did not work.
Jordanian 'attacker' shot dead by Israeli police
A Jordanian man was shot dead by Israeli police in East Jerusalem after he allegedly stabbed an officer in the neck.
Eye witnesses told Al Jazeera that the incident took place at 1.30pm local time (1030 GMT) on Saturday near the Chain Gate which leads to Al Aqsa mosque.
Worldwide ransomware hack hits hospitals, phone companies
A global ransomware attack is holding more than 60,000 computers hostage.
Banks, telephone companies and hospitals have all been ensnared in the worldwide hack, with the malware locking down computers while demanding a hefty sum for freedom.
Mexican woman who uncovered cartel murder of daughter shot dead
A Mexican woman who doggedly pursued her daughter’s killers in a region plagued by with drug cartel violence has been shot dead in her home, reflecting both the lawlessness plaguing large swaths of the country and the risk faced by victims’ families who pursue justice.
Miriam Rodríguez Martínez was murdered on 10 May, when Mexicans mark Mother’s Day and families of those who have disappeared during the decade-long drug war march to demand action by the authorities.
Turkey arrests Cumhuriyet editor-in-chief Oguz Guven
Turkish police arrested the online editor of the Cumhuriyet newspaper on Friday, an unidentified police official said.
Oguz Guven, the editor-in-chief of cumhuriyet.com.tr, was taken to Istanbul police headquarters, the official said on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to the media.
UN: Up to 245 missing after 2 Mediterranean shipwrecks
Two wrecks of migrant ships in the Mediterranean have claimed as many as 245 lives, including those of at least five children, according to survivor accounts given to U.N. agencies and authorities in Sicily, where dozens of rescued migrants were taken.
Survivors of one wreck, some of them hospitalized in Pozzallo, Sicily, where they were being treated for hypothermia and exhaustion, told authorities who interviewed them that their traffickers had crammed some 130-140 people, apparently all from central African countries, into a motorized rubber dinghy designed to hold at most 20 people.
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