By: Nicole Perlroth @ 2021 The New York Times Company In a year rife with ransomware attacks, when cybercriminals have held the data of police departments, grocery and pharmacy chains, hospitals, pipelines and water treatment plants hostage with computer code, it was a win, rare in the scale of its success. For months, a team […]
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Singapore Will Require Vaccination or Daily Tests for Workplace Access Next Year
By: John Yoon @ 2021 The New York Times Company Although only 4% of the workforce in Singapore is unvaccinated for COVID-19, the government announced Saturday that a vaccine-or-test mandate would take effect in January for practically every worker in the public and private sectors. Those who refuse vaccination will have to pay for a […]
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In a Surge of Military Flights, China Tests and Warns Taiwan
By: Chris Buckley and Amy Qin c.2021 The New York Times Company Record-breaking numbers of Chinese military planes probed the airspace near Taiwan over the weekend, prompting Taiwanese fighter jets to scramble and adding muscle to Beijing’s warnings that it could ultimately use force to take hold of the island. The sorties by nearly 80 […]
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Hidden Agenda Behind Deal France Called a Betrayal
By: David E. Sanger @ 2021 The New York Times Company The United States and Australia went to extraordinary lengths to keep Paris in the dark as they secretly negotiated a plan to build nuclear submarines, scuttling France’s largest defense contract and so enraging President Emmanuel Macron that on Friday he ordered the withdrawal of […]
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A Hard-Line Conservative Hopes to Be Japan’s First Female Leader
By: Motoko Rich, Makiko Inoue and Hikari Hida c.2021 The New York Times Company TOKYO — Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, often talked about creating a society in which women could “shine.” Now, a year after he resigned because of ill health, Abe is backing a woman, Sanae Takaichi, to lead the governing Liberal […]
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COVID Ravaged South America. Then Came a Sharp Drop in Infections.
By: Ernesto Londoño, Daniel Politi and Flávia Milhorance c.2021 The New York Times Company RIO DE JANEIRO — Just a few weeks ago, COVID-19 was spreading with alarming ease across a cluster of nations in South America, overwhelming hospital systems and killing thousands of people daily. Suddenly, the region that had been the epicenter of […]