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*[[Brazilian]] police detain fugitive [[Italian]] former [[Armed Proletarians for Communism|left-wing guerrilla]] and convicted murderer [[Cesare Battisti (born 1954)|Cesare Battisti]], as he was attempting to flee across the border into [[Bolivia]] to avoid extradition back to Italy and facing his life sentence prison term for four murders in the 1970s. [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-italy-battisti/brazilian-police-detain-italian-fugitive-battisti-idUSKBN1C92QO?il=0 (Reuters)] |
*[[Brazilian]] police detain fugitive [[Italian]] former [[Armed Proletarians for Communism|left-wing guerrilla]] and convicted murderer [[Cesare Battisti (born 1954)|Cesare Battisti]], as he was attempting to flee across the border into [[Bolivia]] to avoid extradition back to Italy and facing his life sentence prison term for four murders in the 1970s. [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-italy-battisti/brazilian-police-detain-italian-fugitive-battisti-idUSKBN1C92QO?il=0 (Reuters)] |
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*U.S. fast-food chain operator [[Sonic Drive-In]] may have had a malware attack at some of its drive-in outlets and may have allowed hackers to access customers’ debit and credit card information. [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-sonic/drive-in-chain-sonic-says-payment-cards-possibly-hacked-idUSKBN1C92S8 (Reuters)] |
**U.S. fast-food chain operator [[Sonic Drive-In]] may have had a malware attack at some of its drive-in outlets and may have allowed hackers to access customers’ debit and credit card information. [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-sonic/drive-in-chain-sonic-says-payment-cards-possibly-hacked-idUSKBN1C92S8 (Reuters)] |
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Revision as of 01:03, 5 October 2017
October 4, 2017 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Iraqi Civil War (2014–present), Battle of Hawija
- The Iraqi Army and allied paramilitary fighters storm the ISIL-held city of Hawija in the Kirkuk Governorate. Hawija is one of the last remaining ISIL strongholds in Iraq. (BBC)
- Niger Armed Forces Defense cooperation
- An apparent ambush near the Niger–Mali border leaves three United States Green Berets and five Nigerien soldiers dead during a joint patrol. (Reuters),(RT)
Law and crime
- Brazilian police detain fugitive Italian former left-wing guerrilla and convicted murderer Cesare Battisti, as he was attempting to flee across the border into Bolivia to avoid extradition back to Italy and facing his life sentence prison term for four murders in the 1970s. (Reuters)
- Cybercrime
- U.S. fast-food chain operator Sonic Drive-In may have had a malware attack at some of its drive-in outlets and may have allowed hackers to access customers’ debit and credit card information. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- 2017 Spanish constitutional crisis
- Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy deploys the 41st Logistic Support Group of the Spanish Armed Forces in Catalonia to support riot police in Barcelona. (The Sun)
Science and technology
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- The Nobel Prize committee awards Swiss Jacques Dubochet, German Joachim Frank, and British Richard Henderson the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structural determination of biomolecules in a solution. (The Guardian) (Nobel Prize.org)