Six In The Morning Tuesday 1 October 2024

 

'The country is lost': Fear and uncertainty in Lebanon as Israel invades

Hugo Bachega

Middle East Correspondent

Reporting fromBeirut

For the past few days, there was a feeling in Lebanon that an Israeli ground invasion into the country’s south was almost inevitable as Israel indicated its campaign against Hezbollah would not stop with the killing of Hassan Nasrallah, who, for three decades, was the face of the group.

Now that this has been confirmed, with what the Israeli military describes as a “limited, localised and targeted” operation, the fear is that this could be the start of something wider.

History shows that it is easy for Israeli troops to enter Lebanon, but difficult for them to leave.

Russia’s FSB protected Evil Corp gang that carried out Nato cyber-attacks

NCA says cybercriminal gang used family links to spy agency to shield members targeted by US authorities

Dan Milmo Global technology editor

Tue 1 Oct 2024 15.00 BST

A prolific Russian cybercriminal gang carried out attacks against Nato countries at the behest of state intelligence services and used family links with Russia’s domestic spy agency to protect its members after being targeted by US authorities, according to the UK’s National Crime Agency.

The dramatically named Evil Corp group had an unusually close relationship with the Russian state, said the NCA.

The UK’s most senior law enforcement agency said in a briefing published on Tuesday: “Evil Corp held a privileged position, and the relationship between the Russian state and this cybercriminal group went far beyond the typical state-criminal relationship of protection, payoffs and racketeering.”

Julian Assange makes first public address since release

The WikiLeaks founder said he had "pled guilty to journalism" following a plea deal that granted him freedom in June. He called his speech to European lawmakers a "profound shift" after years of confinement.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gave his first public remarks on Tuesday since his release from a UK prison in June.

Speaking before the legal affairs and human rights committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France, Assange addressed the protracted legal battle that had defined his life for over a decade.

"I am not free today because the system worked," Assange told lawmakers from 46 countries. "I am free today after years of incarceration because I pled guilty to journalism."

Rwandan former doctor goes on trial in France accused of genocide

A former doctor, Eugene Rwamucyo, 65, goes on trial Tuesday for alleged genocide during Rwanda's 1994 massacre of Tutsis by the Hutu majority. Accused of aiding anti-Tutsi propaganda and mass murder, Rwamucyo is charged with genocide, complicity, crimes against humanity, and conspiracy. He practiced medicine in France and Belgium after leaving Rwanda.

A former doctor goes on trial on Tuesday accused of genocide in Rwanda, three decades after the massacre of the African country's Tutsi population by the Hutu majority.

Eugene Rwamucyo, 65, is accused of aiding his country's authorities in disseminating anti-Tutsi propaganda and of participating in mass murder in an attempt to destroy evidence of genocide.

The former doctor, who practised medicine in France and Belgium after leaving his country, has been charged with genocide, complicity in genocide, crimes against humanity, complicity in crimes against humanity and conspiring to prepare those crimes.

LDP leader Shigeru Ishiba formally elected Japan's PM

Japanese ruling party leader Shigeru Ishiba was elected prime minister in parliament on Tuesday, succeeding Fumio Kishida to take charge of the country at a time of low public confidence in politics, a shaky economy and mounting security threats.

Ishiba, who was elected president of the Liberal Democratic Party last week, was endorsed by both the lower and upper house.

In the powerful lower house, Ishiba won 291 of 461 votes cast, and 143 of 242 votes in the upper house.

How Japan’s Shinkansen bullet trains changed the world of rail travel forever

By Ben Jones, CNN

 6 minute read 

Published 12:46 AM EDT, Tue October 1, 2024

Sixty years ago, early in the morning of October 1, 1964, a sleek blue and white train slid effortlessly across the urban sprawl of Tokyo, its elevated tracks carrying it south toward the city of Osaka and a place in the history books.

This was the dawn of Japan’s “bullet train” era, widely regarded as the defining symbol of the country’s astonishing recovery from the trauma of World War II. In tandem with the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games, this technological marvel of the 1960s marked the country’s return to the top table of the international community.

In the six decades since that first train, the word Shinkansen – meaning “new trunk line” – has become an internationally recognized byword for speed, travel efficiency and modernity.