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...The use of ransomware by Iran — in which hackers lock up an organisation’s computer systems or data, agreeing to release it only if a ransom is paid — marks a notable shift....
...“France does not pay ransoms, and at the time there really were hostages. It could have caused real problems.”...
...Director and co-writer Ali Abassi’s Cannes prizewinning film deploys fantastic realism to fascinating and original effect, blurring all sorts of boundaries from gender to race to virtue and laying out a...
...From what I can tell, Ahmet Rasim and Ali Kemal even praised each other in columns, although they ended up on different sides of a revolution....
...Reports last April that Doha had paid a ransom of up to $1bn to Islamist extremists, Shia militias and Iranian security officials for the release of Qatari royals kidnapped in Iraq further fuelled Gulf anger...
...The perpetrator of the Lloyds attack allegedly demanded a £75,000 ransom in the form of bitcoin, a digital currency that exists outside the mainstream banking system....
...Isis is believed to have secured millions of dollars in ransom for European hostages and slaughtered others in chilling videos that gave it worldwide notoriety....
...“The government needs to convince people that things will be better,” says Zaid al-Ali, author of The Struggle for Iraq’s Future....
...Their story comes as President Barack Obama announced that the government would no longer threaten the families of American hostages with criminal prosecutions if they try to pay ransoms to groups such as...
...UN officials were hopeful that the resolution would slow the rising level of political violence that has threatened to engulf the country since Ali Abdullah Saleh stepped down as president in November 2011...
...A day earlier the head of a man who had been kidnapped for ransom was found in Benghazi....
...Nasir Ali Shah Bukhari, chairman of the Karachi-based Khadim Ali Shah Bukhari business group with interests in banking and the stock market, says a clean-up operation is essential to improve law and order...
...Ali al-Bukiti, a Houthi spokesman, denied that the movement was directed by Tehran....
...Mr Putin is so well trusted in regime circles that they call him Abu Ali – a common nickname in Mr Assad’s coastal heartlands – the businessman added....
...Russia – Mr Assad’s strongest international ally – said it had received ransom demands for the release of two of its citizens kidnapped on Monday, along with an Italian colleague....
...The failure of President Asif Ali Zardari and Yusuf Raza Gilani, his prime minister, to halt the lawlessness has unleashed fresh criticism of the ruling structure....
...As Ali Naimi, the powerful Saudi oil ministers, has said in the past: “I am about the business of crude oil; I leave the diplomacy to the foreign minister.”...
...ftcamp=rss#axzz1j7baQJyz Zardari steps up battle with army and judges Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan’s president, is locked in an escalating battle with the army and judiciary that will test the limits of the...
...Sana’a, the capital, has seen days of bloody street battles following the unexpected return of Ali Abdullah Saleh, the president....
...“In a sense, the kidnapping for ransom phenomenon shows that a lot of what we’ve done in counterterrorist finance has been effective . . . but if we don’t stop those ransoms then those groups will benefit...
...AQIM has made millions of dollars in ransom money from kidnapping Europeans in the neighbouring Sahel countries that share with Algeria the vast borderless Sahara desert....
...The group regularly kidnaps foreign tourists for ransom and periodically stages attacks against western targets mainly in Sahel countries....
...The anarchy has also spilled offshore, where heavily armed Somali pirates have made tens of millions of dollars in ransoms....
...They say the Taliban raises money for terrorist activities from criminal activities, such as kidnap for ransom, in the city....
...“You have 20 people holding a country of 1.1bn people to ransom.”...
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