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Ukraine and Russia both hit by cyberattacks on emergency apps

Authorities in both Ukraine and Russia said that their emergency alert mobile applications were targeted by cyberattacks late Sunday. Residents in Ukraine received messages that there was a high nuclear radiation danger in the capital Kyiv, while Russian officials said hackers had sent fake emergency alerts after gaining access to the mobile app for Russia’s Emergency Ministry.

RSF publishes list of press freedom 'predators': 'Dictators want to silence journalists'

Eve Irvine is pleased to welcome Thibaut Bruttin, Director General and Secretary-General of Reporters Without Borders (RSF), who says, “When a journalist is killed, it is everyone's right to know what is being endangered.” His warning captures the central democratic dilemma explored in this interview marking the United Nations' International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists. As journalists confront lethal violence, imprisonment, political intimidation and increasingly hostile working environments, the struggle for press freedom has become inseparable from a more fundamental q

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US: Nine killed in Florida jet crash

A Learjet plane crashed near a busy road in a residential neighborhood in Palm Beach County, leaving all nine people on board dead and a large crater on ground.

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