Vienna / AFP International observer body the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) confirmed on Wednesday being the victim of a “major” cyber attack. “Early November the OSCE became aware of a major information security incident,” OSCE spokeswoman Mersiha Causevic Podzic said via email. The attack “compromis[ed] the confidentiality” of the OSCE’s IT network and put “its …

  Hong Kong / AFP Two ousted pro-independence Hong Kong lawmakers on Wednesday announced they were making a final bid to overturn a controversial Beijing-linked ban preventing them from taking up their seats in parliament. Yau Wai-ching and Baggio Leung were elected in citywide polls in September but deliberately misread their oaths of office during their swearing-in ceremony, inserting expletives and …

  Dhaka / AFP Four Bangladeshi fishermen were injured when Myanmar’s navy allegedly opened fire on them while they were fishing along the countries’ troubled border in the Bay of Bengal, an official said on Wednesday. A group of 14 fishermen, four of whom have been hospitalised with bullet wounds, told coastguard officials that a Myanmar navy ship had entered …