About 270,000 UK forces records exposed to Chinese hackers

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Payroll data at risk includes names, bank details and addresses of current and former force members, government sources suggest

An estimated 270,000 payroll records belonging to nearly all members of Britain’s armed forces have been exposed to Chinese hackers in a breach at a third-party contractor that was discovered a few days ago.

The data at risk includes names and bank details for full-time military personnel, part-time reservists, including at least one MP, and veterans who left after January 2018. It was managed by a private contractor, SSCL.

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Leeds Green party councillor says sorry for comments about Gaza conflict

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Mothin Ali has not been suspended from city council despite proclaiming ‘Allahu Akbar’ and other remarks causing offence

A Green party councillor at the centre of an antisemitism row has apologised “for the upset caused” by his remarks but hit back at “Islamophobic” attacks against him.

The Green party has launched an investigation into Mothin Ali, who was elected to Leeds city council last week, but has declined to suspend him.

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Drake’s security guard ‘seriously injured’ in shooting at Toronto mansion

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Guard was shot inside Drake’s home and had serious but non-life-threatening injuries, while the assailant fled in a vehicle

A security guard at the mansion of Canadian hip-hop artist Drake has been “seriously injured” in a shooting outside the musician’s Toronto home.

The victim, an adult male, was rushed to a Toronto hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries following the shooting early on Tuesday morning.

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Biden administration pauses ammunition shipment to Israel, US officials say – ABC News

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  1. Biden administration pauses ammunition shipment to Israel, US officials say  ABC News
  2. US confirms it's holding up transfer of bombs, fearing Israel will use them in Rafah  The Times of Israel
  3. US pauses shipment of bombs Israel could use in Rafah  POLITICO
  4. 'I hope it's not true': Former Israeli PM  Fox News
  5. US reveals it paused shipment of bombs for Israel over Rafah concerns  BBC
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Garrick Club votes to accept female members for first time

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Members back dropping men-only rule in place for 193 years, after Guardian revealed details of membership list

The men-only Garrick Club has finally voted to allow women to become members, 193 years after the London institution first opened its doors.

The vote was passed with 59.98% of votes in favour at the end of a private meeting where several hundred members spent two hours debating whether to permit women to join.

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Leader of world’s ‘most prolific ransomware group’ charged in Lockbit case — $10 million reward for his arrest – CNBC

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  1. Leader of world's 'most prolific ransomware group' charged in Lockbit case — $10 million reward for his arrest  CNBC
  2. U.S. Charges Russian National with Developing and Operating LockBit Ransomware  Department of Justice
  3. DOJ offering $10 million for help finding man experts say is likely behind Wichita cyber attack  KAKE
  4. The Alleged LockBit Ransomware Mastermind Has Been Identified  WIRED
  5. Russian Hacker Dmitry Khoroshev Unmasked as LockBit Ransomware Administrator  The Hacker News
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Australia bans alleged Russian leader of global ransomware group LockBit

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Dmitry Khoroshev named as having a ‘senior role’ in group allegedly behind 18% of reported Australian ransomware attacks in 2022-23

An alleged leader of the international ransomware group LockBit has been hit with financial sanctions and banned from travelling to Australia.

The Australian government named Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev, a Russian citizen, as having a “senior leadership role” in a criminal group that supplied a global network of hackers with the tools and infrastructure to carry out online attacks.

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‘No safe place’: people in Rafah describe terror as Israeli assault begins

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With fuel dwindling for aid trucks and main entry points to south of Gaza closed, residents wonder how they will survive

Aid agencies in Gaza have less than a day’s fuel for trucks and tankers that deliver vital food, medicine, water and diesel to millions across the territory, threatening an almost complete shutdown of operations including bakeries and hospitals, officials have warned.

All main entry points to the south of Gaza are closed and there has been widespread looting of existing stocks in Rafah after aid agencies were forced to leave warehouses unguarded following warnings to evacuate the area from Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) ahead of the military offensive launched on the city on Tuesday morning.

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Israeli offensive on Rafah would break international law, UK minister says

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Andrew Mitchell says military action on city will not eradicate Hamas and priority is to secure a permanent ceasefire

An Israeli military offensive on the city of Rafah would break international humanitarian law and not lead to the eradication of Hamas, Andrew Mitchell, the UK’s deputy foreign minister, said on Tuesday, but he held back from spelling out any planned British consequences if a full-scale invasion goes ahead.

The line, agreed with the US, is aimed at limiting the options of the Israeli government so that it will accept a version of the three-stage peace deal adopted by Hamas. The UK said its aim was to secure a permanent and sustained ceasefire, and the removal of Hamas from the future governance of Gaza.

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‘Magical moment’ as fire-ravaged Brazil museum receives big fossil donation

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Collection of more than 1,000 fossils including rare dinosaurs given to National Museum in Rio six years after devastating blaze

Nearly six years after it was engulfed by a devastating fire that inflicted incalculable damage on Brazil’s cultural heritage, the country’s national museum has received an important donation of more than a thousand fossils as part of a campaign to help rebuild the collection lost to the flames.

The fire, caused by an electrical short-circuit on the night of 2 September 2018, consumed the former imperial palace which housed the 200-year-old museum in a park just north of Rio de Janeiro’s city centre and destroyed about 85% of its archive of 20m artefacts.

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IDF strikes Hezbollah targets in six locations in Lebanon – The Jerusalem Post

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  1. IDF strikes Hezbollah targets in six locations in Lebanon  The Jerusalem Post
  2. Army announces two reserves troops killed in Hezbollah drone attack Monday  The Times of Israel
  3. Watch: Inside Lebanon's ghost towns after Israeli strikes  BBC.com
  4. Two Israeli Soldiers Killed in Hezbollah Drone Strike - Israel News  Haaretz
  5. Hezbollah says its drone hits northern Israeli town, two soldiers killed  Reuters
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