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  WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange’s revelation last week of the CIA’s arsenal of hacking tools had a misplaced tone of surprise, a bit like Claude Raines’ famous line in “Casablanca”: “I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!” The hacking community, of which WikiLeaks and the CIA’s cyberwarriors are both aggressive offshoots, has been invading and ...

  Indian mining billionaire Anil Agarwal wins a gold star for boldness. His timing? “Could do better.” During the depths of the mining industry’s debt panic in January 2016, a 2 billion pound ($2.5 billion) investment in London-listed Anglo American Plc would have secured him more than two-thirds of the stock. Today, after a commodity price rebound and Anglo’s deleveraging ...

  When President Donald Trump claimed on Twitter that his predecessor had tapped his phones, he created something of a metaphysical crisis. No one — not the Justice Department, not Congress and least of all the president himself — seemed able to ascertain the truth about the accusation. Now that they’ve had some time to look into it, what do ...

  The American diplomatic dichotomy couldn’t have been starker as far as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s approach towards North Korea is concerned. On the one hand Tillerson said North Korea has nothing to fear from the US or its allies. On the other hand, he suggested that US military action against North Korea was an option. Tillerson is on ...

  BEIJING / AP US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Saturday pushed for closer China-US cooperation on dealing with North Korea’s nuclear program in his first face-to-face talks with top Chinese diplomats. Tillerson’s visit to Beijing followed his remarks in South Korea on Friday in which he warned that pre-emptive military action against North Korea might be necessary if ...

  MOSCOW / AP Russia’s lower house of parliament is launching an investigation into US news media that operate in Russia, a move that comes amid growing suspicion in America of Russian interference. A statement on the website of the chamber, the Duma, does not specify how the investigation would be conducted or what might be done with its results. ...

  LONDON / AP Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says Scotland should get more sweeping powers but remain in the United Kingdom. Brown entered the fray over the region’s future on Saturday with a speech in Scotland saying Brexit makes the case for Scottish independence weaker, not stronger. He said Scotland should be able to set some tax rates, ...

  BERLIN / AP Germany’s foreign minister says Turkey’s chances of joining the European Union are dwindling, but the country might one day hope for a privileged partnership with the bloc. Sigmar Gabriel told German weekly Der Spiegel in an interview published Saturday that “Turkey is further away than ever before from EU membership.” Gabriel, whose center-left Social Democrats have ...

  HOMS / AP Scores of Syrian opposition fighters and their families began leaving the last rebel-held neighborhood in the central city of Homs on Saturday as part of a Russian-backed evacuation deal signed earlier this week. By midday around 100 fighters and their families had left the city, once known as the epicenter of the 2011 uprising against President ...

  ORLY / AP Soldiers at Paris’ busy Orly Aiport shot and killed a man who wrestled one of their colleagues to the ground and tried to steal her rifle on Saturday, officials said. Thousands of travellers were evacuated and at least 15 flights were diverted to the city’s other airport, Charles de Gaulle. No one else was hurt. Police ...