The two-way street of cyberspying

March 24, 2014 - Daily News Briefing

No one holds the moral high ground in cyberspying.

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France provided new satellite data Sunday showing possible debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, as searchers combing a remote part of the southern Indian Ocean tried without success to locate a wooden pallet that could yield clues to one of the world’s most baffling aviation mysteries. The new data consists of “radar echoes” in the same part of the ocean where satellite images previously released by Australia and China showed what might be debris from the plane, French authorities said.

Turkish fighter jets shot down a Syrian warplane Sunday after it violated the country’s airspace, Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said about a move likely to ramp up tensions between two countries already deeply at odds over Syria’s civil war. A spokesman for Syria’s military confirmed the incident, denouncing it as a “blatant aggression.”

Ten of thousands of Hamas supporters took to the streets of Gaza City in the Gaza Strip Sunday to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of the assassination of the group’s spiritual leader in an Israeli airstrike. The rally commemorated the death of Sheik Ahmed Yassin in an Israeli airstrike a decade ago, as well as the assassinations of other top Hamas figures.

An appeals court reinstituted Michigan’s constitutional ban on gay marriage, but not before several hundred same-sex couples rushed to clerk’s offices at the Ingham County Courthouse in central Michigan to be wed. The order on Saturday by a federal appeals court in Cincinnati at least temporarily restored the ban that Michigan voters approved in 2004.

A Ukrainian Air Force commander is being held after his base in Crimea was stormed by pro-Russian forces, and the acting president called for his release Sunday. Col. Yuliy Mamchur is the commander of the Belbek Air Force base near Sevastopol, which was taken over Saturday by forces who sent armored personnel carriers smashing through the base’s walls and fired shots and stun grenades. One Ukrainian serviceman was reported wounded. It was unclear if the forces, who didn’t bear insignia, were Russian military or local pro-Russia militia.

Officials say all of the remaining oil has been taken out of a damaged barge and it is being moved out of the Houston Ship Channel. The barge collided with a ship Saturday and a 168,000-gallon tank started leaking. A port spokesman said Sunday that oil residue has been spotted as far as 12 miles out into the Gulf of Mexico.

The Los Angeles Dodgers opened the Major League Baseball season Saturday with a 3-1 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks in Sydney, Australia, then followed that up with a 7-5 win Sunday. These were the first regular-season major league games played in Australia. The 162-year-old Sydney Cricket Ground was turned into a baseball park over two weeks, and nearly 80,000 fans attended the two games. Stateside Opening Night is March 30 and Opening Day March 31.

Compiled from wire service reports

“The object of the Monitor is to injure no man, but to bless all mankind.” – Mary Baker Eddy

The Daily News Briefing is published Monday through Friday by The Christian Science Publishing Society in Boston, Massachusetts.

Compiled from wire service reports

“The object of the Monitor is to injure no man, but to bless all mankind.” – Mary Baker Eddy

The Daily News Briefing is published Monday through Friday by The Christian Science Publishing Society in Boston, Massachusetts.

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