Кабінет міністрів України на засіданні 13 жовтня підтримав пропозицію міністра внутрішніх справ Арсена Авакова щодо виділення коштів з Фонду боротьби з коронавірусом на доплати поліцейським.

Як пояснив Аваков, за минулий тиждень у Патрульній поліції підтверджено 1,8 тис. випадків зараження коронавірусом.

«За сьогодні – 286, це абсолютний рекорд», – заявив міністр.

Наразі невідомо, яку суму МВС отримає з фонду.

У вересні Міністерство внутрішніх справ повідомило, що від початку пандемії коронавірусу виявлено майже 4,5 тисячі випадків COVID-19 серед українських правоохоронців.

Для фінансування заходів щодо боротьби з коронавірусом уряд створив окремий фонд розміром у майже 65 мільярдів гривень. Фонд боротьби з COVID-19 наповнювався шляхом урізання видатків на інші сфери. Найбільше «порізали» фінансування освітніх, культурних та спортивних проєктів. Частину фінансування також забрали з фонду регіонального розвитку, фонду енергоефективності, Верховного та Конституційного судів тощо.

На початку червня стало відомо, що з «ковідного» фонду витратили близько 30 мільярдів гривень, тобто менш як половину. Решту – а це 35 мільярдів – уряд спрямував на «Велике будівництво» доріг та інших об’єктів інфраструктури.

18 червня Верховна Рада України ухвалила у другому читанні та в цілому законопроект №3509, який передбачав, зокрема, перерозподіл грошей із Фонду боротьби з COVID-19 на ремонт і будівництво доріг та інших об’єктів інфраструктури.

У Фонді боротьби з COVID-19 недостатньо коштів для реалізації трьох бюджетних програм, заявив голова Рахункової палати Валерій Пацкан на початку вересня.
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Turkish drones are playing a big role in supporting Azerbaijan’s offensive in Nagorno Karabakh. With Turkey deploying them from Syria to Libya, they have become an integral part of Ankara’s efforts to project its power beyond its borders. But as Dorian Jones reports from Istanbul, the Turkish drone industry is facing international pushback.
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U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett on Tuesday declined to answer a range of questions from senators on how she might rule on legal disputes she would face if confirmed to fill a crucial vacancy on the country’s highest court. Barrett, however, said she would not let her personal and religious views determine how she would decide cases.“I have no agenda,” Barrett said as the Senate Judiciary Committee opened two days of questioning on her lifetime appointment by President Donald Trump to the nine-member court. “I’ll follow the law.”Barrett, in initial queries from two Republicans, the panel chairman, Sen. Lindsey Graham, and Sen. Chuck Grassley, and two Democrats, Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Patrick Leahy, declined to say how she might rule on the court’s 1973 legalization of abortions in the United States, gun ownership rights sanctioned by the U.S. Constitution and whether, in a case to be heard by the court next month, the country’s national health care law should remain in effect.Judge Amy Coney Barrett speaks after President Donald Trump announced her as his nominee to the Supreme Court, in the Rose Garden at the White House, Sept. 26, 2020, in Washington.Legal disputes on presidential election
She also rebuffed a question on whether she would recuse herself, if she is quickly confirmed by the Senate, from considering any legal disputes arising from the Nov. 3 national election. Trump is trying to win a second four-year term in the White House and faces Democratic former Vice President Joe Biden.Trump has assailed mass balloting by mail and said he wants the court to help decide the election. The president, trailing Biden in national polls, says he wants Barrett confirmed to avoid a 4-4 stalemate on contested election issues.Barrett said she has had no conversations with Trump or his staff “on how I would rule” on election disputes. She said it would have been unethical for her as a sitting federal appellate court judge to have such a discussion.The 48-year-old Barrett is a favorite of U.S. conservatives looking to give the court a decided 6-3 conservative majority for decades to come. She has cited the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, for whom she served as a law clerk two decades ago, as her philosophical mentor, for his strict interpretation of the U.S. Constitution as written two centuries ago rather than reinterpreting it to current life in the U.S.Barrett said that if she is confirmed as the fifth woman ever to serve on the court, “You would be getting a Justice Barrett, not a Justice Scalia.”      Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg lies in state in Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Sept. 25, 2020.Replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg
If confirmed, Barrett would replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a liberal icon who died last month at 87. Democratic critics fear that Barrett would vote to undo many of the reforms championed by Ginsburg, including abortion rights and the right for gays to marry and be treated equally in American society.Graham called Barrett’s selection “one of the greatest picks President Trump could make.” He predicted Monday that the committee’s 12 Republicans will all vote in favor of Barrett’s nomination with all 10 Democrats opposed. Republican leaders say they have enough votes in the full Senate to confirm her nomination.Gun ownership, abortion
Barrett assured Graham that despite her family owning a gun, she could fairly “decide such a case” calling for tighter restrictions on gun ownership sanctioned by the Constitution’s Second Amendment.Similarly, Barrett said as an appellate court judge she has set aside her devout Catholic beliefs to issue rulings according to U.S. law and could do so again on the Supreme Court.But she made no promises on how she might rule on abortion, which the Catholic Church opposes. She said high court precedent from long ago rulings is “presumptively controlling,” and that some decisions fall into the “super precedent” category, such as the 1954 decision banning school segregation by races as unequal treatment of Blacks and unconstitutional.Scalia dissented against abortion rights, but Barrett declined to say whether she also thinks the legality of abortion was wrongly decided.“It would be wrong for me as a sitting judge to say,” Barrett told Feinstein. “I have to decide cases as they come before me. I can’t pre-commit to judge a case in any way. I’ll follow the law.”She said that even as the court has ruled that Americans have a personal right to own a gun, the ruling “leaves room for gun regulation. I promise I would come to that with an open mind. Any issue should be decided by the facts of the case.”Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) attends the second day of the U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Oct. 13, 2020.30 minutes of questions per Senator
The 22 Judiciary panel lawmakers each have 30 minutes to question Barrett on Tuesday before a second round of questions set for Wednesday. Graham has set an initial vote for Thursday on her nomination.  That would allow for final approval late next week and a vote by the full Republican-majority Senate before the end of the month, just days ahead of the presidential and congressional elections.The confirmation hearings opened Monday with Barrett telling senators that courts “should not try” to make policy and should leave that to American presidents and Congress.  Barrett laid out a strict interpretation of the high court’s role, saying it is “not designed to solve every problem or right every wrong in our public life.” Affordable Care Act
Feinstein immediately signaled that the minority Democrats plan to sharply question Barrett about one major policy dispute — her view that a 2012 Supreme Court decision upholding the legality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a national health care law affecting millions of Americans, was wrongly decided.  The court is considering a new challenge to the ACA on Nov. 10, by which time Barrett could be a justice on the court, deciding whether to overturn the statute or allowing it to stand. Feinstein noted that before Trump named Barrett to a federal appellate court judgeship in 2017, she wrote a law review article contending that Chief Justice John Roberts cast the deciding vote upholding the health care law with what she claimed was contorted reasoning so that the law would remain in effect. Barrett claimed that Roberts pushed the interpretation of the law “beyond its plausible meaning to save the statute.”The question in the new case is whether the abolition of a tax on people who refused to buy health insurance was enough to void the whole law, as Trump and his administration contend. Again, however, Barrett declined to offer a view on a case on which she might have to rule. FILE – U.S. Supreme Court in Washington.Conservative majority
In nominating Barrett, Trump hopes to cement a 6-3 conservative majority on the court before Election Day.  Biden says that either he or Trump should make the Supreme Court appointment after the inauguration of one of them in January.More than 10 million voters have cast early ballots in the presidential election. A Washington Post-ABC News poll showed that 44% of registered voters say the Senate should hold hearings and vote on Barrett’s nomination, while 52% say the nomination should be left to the winner of the presidential election and a Senate vote next year. 
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Національний банк України опівдні 13 жовтня оприлюднив довідкове значення курсу 28 гривень 31 копійка за долар. Це на 6 копійок більше за офіційний курс на сьогодні.

На українському міжбанківському валютному ринку торги відкрилися на рівні 28 гривень 29–31 копійка за одиницю американської валюти, станом на 12:30 котирування зросли до 28 гривень 31–32,5 копійки за долар, свідчать дані Finance.ua.

«На торгах по долару спостерігається часта зміна тренду в моменти виходу великих покупців та продавців. Особливого ажіотажу ні з купівлі, ні з продажу поки не спостерігається. Але ще не сказали своє слово нерезиденти, яких поки небагато на ринку і які, швидше за все, вийдуть на міжбанк ближче до обіду», – написали опівдні експерти сайту «Мінфін».

Попри зростання минулого тижня, гривня все ще перебуває поблизу до найнижчих цього року показників (28,4 за долар). Близько двох місяців тому, 17 серпня, торги завершилися на гривню нижче – на рівні 27 гривень 23,5–25,5 копійки за одиницю американської валюти.
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Israelis and Palestinians are closely following the U.S. elections. For many in Israel, incumbent Donald Trump is the most pro-Israeli U.S. president in history. Some in the Jewish state fear that a Joe Biden victory could mean a change in U.S. foreign policy – one that Palestinians would welcome. Linda Gradstein reports for VOA from Jerusalem.Videographer: Ricki Rosen
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Police in Western Australia state Tuesday said one worker died and two others were injured when the roof collapsed on a site where they were working at a university in Perth.Police Commander Mike Bell told reporters two of the men were on the roof when it gave way, causing them to fall more than 20 meters to the ground. One of those men died at the scene. The third man was inside the building. All three men were in their 20s.A spokeswoman for a local ambulance service told the Reuters news agency the two survivors were taken to a local hospital, where they were being treated for multiple injuries.Bell said authorities had not determined what caused the roof to collapse. Local media report Australian authorities are conducting an investigation.
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Україна добиватиметься від Польщі збільшення кількості транспортних дозволів для українських вантажних водіїв. Про це під час українсько-польського транспортного форуму в Одесі заявив президент України Володимир Зеленський.

За його словами українські перевізники постійно стикаються з проблемою недостатньої кількості дозволів проїзду територією Польщі в режимі міжнародних вантажних автомобільних перевезень.

«Ми багато про це вчора говорили і я вважаю, що в найближчому майбутньому досягнемо прогресу в цьому питанні. Вільна конкуренція – один з фундаментальних принципів вільного ринку в Європі, до якого ми всі прагнемо», – заявив Зеленський. Він зазначив, що попросив і президента Польщі Анджея Дуду і його уряд не сприймати українців як суперників.

На форум також приїхав президент Дуда. Виступаючи перед представниками бізнесу і двох урядів політик заявив, що дозволи потребуватимуть контролю з українського боку.

«У Польщі ми спостерігаємо велику активність українців в транспортних проектах. Можу сказати, що ми будемо підтримувати українські амбіції у розвитку України як логістичної країни в східній Європі, як країни транзитної. Ми будемо працювати над тим, щоб Україна отримала всі необхідні дозволи і також маємо надію, що з української сторони система дозволить перевіряти ці дозволи і що це допоможе обмежити нелегальну торгівлю», – зазначив Дуда.

В Одесі в рамках форуму заплановане підписання договір про співпрацю морських портів Гданськ (Польща) і Одеса (Україна). Президенти двох країн також домовились про надання урядового кредиту від Польщі в розмірі 100 мільйонів євро на умовах пов’язаної допомоги.

В своїй промові президент Зеленський також заявив про важливість розвитку залізничного сполучення між містами двох країн, а президент Дуда – про важливість розвитку прикордонних переходів між двома країнами для доступу українських товарів на ринки ЄС і Великої Британії. Наразі Польща є другим по обсягу ринком в світі для експорту українських товарів і послуг. В 2019 році року їхній обсяг сягнув восьми мільярдів доларів, а об’єм польських інвестицій – 800 мільйонів доларів. Форум проходить без участі ЗМІ, за офіційними причинами, через карантинні обмеження.

 
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В Україні станом на 12 жовтня офіційно зареєстровано 427 тисяч безробітних, повідомив Державний центр зайнятості на запит Радіо Свобода.

За даними центру, цей показник на 159 тисяч – тобто на 59% – перевищує дані на цю ж дату 2019 року. З початку карантину, тобто з 12 березня, по 9 жовтня статус безробітного отримали 525 тисячі людей – у ДЦЗ цей показник оцінюють як на 53% вищий, ніж за такий самий період торік.

«Найбільш суттєве зростання кількості безробітних спостерігалося в Київській, Одеській, Закарпатській, Львівській областях та м. Києві (в 1,8–2,8 раза). При цьому в Луганській, Сумській, Дніпропетровській, Черкаській та Вінницькій областях кількість безробітних зросла на 32–38%», – зазначають у центрі.

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При цьому за цей же період з 12 березня по 9 жовтня, звітує установа, 342 тисяч громадян знайшли роботу за сприяння Центру зайнятості.

В базі державної служби зайнятості станом на 12 жовтня зареєстровані 67 тисяч вакансій – на 34% менше, ніж на цю ж дату торік.

«Станом на 12 жовтня на одну вакансію претендувало шестеро безробітних (на відповідну дату минулого року – 3 особи)», – підсумовує відділ комунікацій Державного центру зайнятості.

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Роботодавці найбільше подавали вакансії за такими спеціальностями:

кваліфіковані робітники з інструментом (швачка, електромонтер, електрогазозварник, слюсар-ремонтник, слюсар-сантехнік, слюсар аварійних робіт, робітник комплексного обслуговування й ремонту, монтер колії, пекар, маляр)
робітники обслуговування, експлуатації устаткування та машин (водій, оператор, машиніст котельної, водій тролейбуса, водій трамвая, токар, тракторист, оператор заправних станцій, дорожній робітник, машиніст екскаватора, водій навантажувача)
працівники сфери торгівлі і послуг (продавець, кухар, охоронник, помічник вихователя, офіціант, бармен, поліцейський, перукар)
професіонали (вчитель, вихователь, викладач закладу вищої освіти, педагог-організатор, інспектор, інженер, провізор, лікар, психолог, економіст, керівник музичний);
некваліфіковані працівники (підсобний робітник, прибиральник службових приміщень, двірник, вантажник, робітник з комплексного прибирання будинків, укладальник-пакувальник, комірник, сторож, кухонний робітник);
фахівці (медична сестра, бухгалтер, фармацевт, майстер виробничого навчання, електрик, механік, електромеханік, фельдшер, інструктор з фізкультури, технік);
керівники і менеджери (менеджер із збуту, головний бухгалтер, керівник гуртка, майстер, начальник відділу поштового зв’язку, завідувач господарства).

При цьому центр має дані тільки про тих безробітних, які офіційно зареєструвалися, і про вакансії, які подають до нього самі роботодавці.

Станом на 21 травня, через два місяці після початку карантину, в Україні, згідно з даними Державної служби зайнятості, офіційно було 502 тисячі безробітних. Це на 65% більше, ніж показник на той день минулого року.
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Investor trading activity on Asian markets was mixed Tuesday. The Nikkei index in Japan closed 0.1% higher. Sydney’s S&P/ASX index finished up one percent. The KOSPI index in Seoul was down just over one-half of a point, but was unchanged percentage-wise. Taipei’s TSEC index dropped nearly nine points, but was also unchanged percentage-wise.   In late afternoon trading, Shanghai’s Composite index was up one-and-a-half points, but percentage-wise was unchanged, and Mumbai’s Sensex was down 0.1%. Trading on Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index was closed due to a typhoon warning. In commodities trading, gold is selling at $1,920.40 per ounce, down 0.4%.  U.S. crude oil is selling at $39.57 per barrel, up 0.3%, and Brent crude oil is selling at $41.87 per barrel, also up 0.3%. All three major U.S. indices are trending down in futures trading.   
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Peru’s social insurance system announced the rate of weekly coronavirus infections nationwide dropped between 50 to 70 percent in several regions during a recent two week period. The EsSalud Heat Map report revealed coronavirus cases decreased more than 50 percent in 17 provinces.   Four regions, including Puno, Madre de Dios, Amazonas, and Moquegua experienced the greatest decline, with cases dropping more than 70 percent.  EsSalud’s Intelligence and Data Analysis Unit Chief Dante Cersso appealed to Peruvians to remain vigilant in their safety practices. The reduction in new cases in the capital, Lima fell as much as 36 percent. According to Cersso, the latest figures mirror the tally for cases recorded in late April. The reductions in new infections are noteworthy because Peru has been among the leaders in COVID-19 infections in Latin America. So far, Peru has reported more than 851,000 infections and 33,357 deaths. 
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The White House is moving forward with three sales of advanced weaponry to Taiwan, sending in recent days a notification of the deals to Congress for approval, five sources familiar with the situation said on Monday. The move in the run-up to the Nov. 3 U.S. election, first reported by Reuters, is likely to anger China, which considers Taiwan a wayward province that it has vowed to reunite with the mainland, by force if necessary. Reuters broke the news in September that as many as seven major weapons systems were making their way through the U.S. export process as the Trump administration ramps up pressure on China. Asked for a response to Monday’s news, the Chinese embassy urged Washington in an emailed statement to stop arms sales to and military ties with Taiwan, “lest it should gravely harm China-US relations and cross-Strait peace and stability.” In the emailed statement, an embassy representative said: “China consistently and firmly opposes US arms sales to Taiwan and has firm resolve in upholding its sovereignty and security.” Leaders of the Senate Foreign Relations and House of Representatives Foreign Affairs committees were notified that three of the planned weapons sales had been approved by the U.S. State Department which oversees Foreign Military Sales, the sources said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The informal notifications were for a truck-based rocket launcher made by Lockheed Martin Corp called a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), long-range air-to-ground missiles made by Boeing Co called SLAM-ER, and external sensor pods for F-16 jets that allow the real-time transmission of imagery and data from the aircraft back to ground stations. Notifications for the sale of other weapons systems, including large, sophisticated aerial drones, land-based Harpoon anti-ship missiles and underwater mines, to deter amphibious landings, have yet to reach Capitol Hill, but these were expected soon, the sources said. A State Department spokesman said: “As a matter of policy, the United States does not confirm or comment on proposed defense sales or transfers until they are formally notified to Congress.”Taiwan Air Force’s F-16 fighter jets fly during the annual Han Kuang military exercise at an army base in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan, July 4, 2015.Congressional backing for Taiwan The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations and House of Representatives Foreign Affairs committees have the right to review, and block, weapons sales under an informal review process before the State Department sends its formal notification to the legislative branch. Lawmakers, who are generally wary of what they perceive as Chinese aggression and supportive of Taiwan, were not expected to object to the Taiwan sales. Taiwan’s representative office in Washington said it had no comment. Taiwan’s Defense Ministry declined to comment. News that new arms sales were moving forward came after senior U.S. officials last week repeated calls for Taiwan to spend more on its own defense and to carry out military reforms to make clear to China the risks of attempting to invade. It comes at a time when China has significantly stepped up military activity near Taiwan and as U.S.-China relations have plunged to the lowest point in decades as the U.S. election nears. President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, have both sought to appear tough in their approach to Beijing. Speaking on Wednesday, the U.S. national security adviser, Robert O’Brien, warned against any attempt to retake Taiwan by force, saying amphibious landings were notoriously difficult and there was a lot of ambiguity about how the United States would respond. The United States is required by law to provide Taiwan with the means to defend itself, but it has not made clear whether it would intervene militarily in the event of a Chinese attack, something that would likely lead to a much broader conflict with Beijing. O’Brien said Taiwan needed to invest in capabilities including more coastal defense cruise missiles, naval mines, fast-attack craft, mobile artillery and advanced surveillance assets. 
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Microsoft announced legal action Monday seeking to disrupt a major cybercrime digital network that uses more than 1 million zombie computers to loot bank accounts and spread ransomware, which experts consider a major threat to the U.S. presidential election. The operation to knock offline command-and-control servers for a global botnet that uses an infrastructure known as Trickbot to infect computers with malware was initiated with an order that Microsoft obtained in Virginia federal court on Oct. 6.  Microsoft argued that the crime network is abusing its trademark. “It is very hard to tell how effective it will be, but we are confident it will have a very long-lasting effect,” said Jean-Ian Boutin, head of threat research at ESET, one of several cybersecurity firms that partnered with Microsoft to map the command-and-control servers. “We’re sure that they are going to notice and it will be hard for them to get back to the state that the botnet was in.” Cybersecurity experts said that Microsoft’s use of a U.S. court order to persuade internet providers to take down the botnet servers is laudable. But they add that it’s not apt to be successful because too many won’t comply and because Trickbot’s operators have a decentralized fall-back system and employ encrypted routing. Paul Vixie of Farsight Security said via email “experience tells me it won’t scale — there are too many IP’s behind uncooperative national borders.” And the cybersecurity firm Intel 471 reported no significant hit on Trickbot operations Monday and predicted “little medium- to long-term impact” in a report shared with The Associated Press.  But ransomware expert Brett Callow of the cybersecurity firm Emsisoft said that a temporary Trickbot disruption could, at least during the election, limit attacks and prevent the activation of ransomware on systems already infected.  The announcement follows a Washington Post report Friday of a major — but ultimately unsuccessful — effort by the U.S. military’s Cyber Command to dismantle Trickbot beginning last month with direct attacks rather than asking providers to deny hosting to domains used by command-and-control servers.  A U.S. policy called “persistent engagement” authorizes U.S. cyberwarriors to engage hostile hackers in cyberspace and disrupt their operations with code, something Cybercom did against Russian misinformation jockeys during U.S. midterm elections in 2018. Created in 2016 and used by a loose consortium of Russian-speaking cybercriminals, Trickbot is a digital superstructure for sowing malware in the computers of unwitting individuals and websites. In recent months, its operators have been increasingly renting it out to other criminals who have used it to sow ransomware, which encrypts data on target networks, crippling them until the victims pay up. One of the biggest reported victims of a ransomware variety sowed by Trickbot called Ryuk was the hospital chain Universal Health Services, which said all 250 of its U.S. facilities were hobbled in an attack last month that forced doctors and nurses to resort to paper and pencil.  U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials list ransomware as a major threat to the Nov. 3 presidential election. They fear an attack could freeze up state or local voter registration systems, disrupting voting, or knock out result-reporting websites.  While cybersecurity experts say the operators of Trickbot and affiliated digital crime syndicates are Russian speakers mostly based in eastern Europe, they caution that they are motivated by profit, not politics. They do, however, operate with impunity with no Kremlin interference as long as their targets are abroad.  “In today’s world, Trickbot is a type of a plague,” said Alex Holden, founder of Milwaukee-based Hold Security, which tracks its activity closely on the dark web, “and a government that ignores a global plague is more than complacent.” Trickbot is “malware-as-a-service,” its modular architecture lets it be used as a delivery mechanism for a wide array of criminal activity. It began mostly as a so-called banking Trojan that attempts to steal credentials from online bank account so criminals can fraudulently transfer cash. But recently, researchers have noted a rise in Trickbot’s use in ransomware attacks targeting everything from municipal and state governments to school districts and hospitals. Ryuk and another type of ransomware called Conti — also distributed via Trickbot — dominated attacks on the U.S. public sector in September, said Callow of Emsisoft.  Holden said the reported Cybercom disruption — involving efforts to confuse its configuration through code injections — succeeded in temporarily breaking down communications between command-and-control servers and most of the bots. “But that’s hardly a decisive victory,” he said, adding that the botnet rebounded with new victims and ransomware. The disruption — in two waves that began Sept. 22 — was first reported by cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs. The AP could not immediately confirm the reported Cybercom involvement. 
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Roberta Wright McCain, the mother of the late Sen. John McCain who used her feisty spirit to help woo voters during his 2008 presidential campaign, has died. She was 108.A spokesperson for daughter-in-law Cindy McCain says Roberta McCain died Monday. A cause of death was not immediately released.”It is with great sadness that I announce the death of my wonderful Mother In-law, Roberta McCain,” Cindy McCain posted on Twitter. “I couldn’t have asked for a better role model or a better friend.”In a tweet, granddaughter Meghan McCain thanked her “Nana” for teaching her how to live life with “grit, conviction, intensity and love.””There will never be another one like you, you will be missed every day. I wish my daughter had gotten to meet you,” said McCain, who gave birth to her first child last month.At 96, Roberta McCain became the Republican senator’s secret weapon at campaign stops as evidence that voters need not worry about her son’s age — then past 70 — as he sought the presidency.She once said her son liked to hold her up as an example of “what he hopes his life span will be.”In August 2018, however, it was the mother who ended up mourning the son when John McCain died of brain cancer. Despite being slowed by a stroke, Roberta McCain attended the memorial and burial services in Washington and Maryland for the middle son she called “Johnny.”She remained energetic and active into her 90s, traveling often with her identical twin sister Rowena, who died at age 99. She attended the 2008 Republican National Convention, where her son credited “her love of life, her deep interest in the world, her strength, and her belief we are all meant to use our opportunities to make ourselves useful to our country.”It was 1933 when a 20-year-old Roberta Wright defied her family and eloped with John McCain Jr. Documents released in 2008 showed that as a young ensign, John Jr. got into trouble when the couple decided to marry, and he left his ship without permission.”I got married young,” she told The Muskogee Phoenix in her native Oklahoma in 2008. “I was 20 years old, and it was the best decision I ever made.”She married into a storied military family — her husband retired in 1972 with the rank of four-star admiral, the same rank held by his father, John S. “Slew” McCain Sr. Her son was later held as a prisoner-of-war in Vietnam, even as his father was commander in chief of Pacific forces by the late 1960s.Roberta McCain was a young woman when her three children were born, later telling the Oklahoma paper that she was “too young and irresponsible to know you were supposed to worry about them. I just let them go. I got a kick out of watching them.”The senator said in 2008 that his “father was often at sea, and the job of raising my brother, sister and me would fall to my mother alone.”Her other son, Joe, told The Associated Press in 2007 that the family had endless dinner-table discussions about history, politics and legislation led by their mother.”We were all basically on the same side of the fence,” Joe McCain said. “But it was like Talmudic scholars arguing about a single word or an adjective in the Testament.”When Sen. John McCain wrote a memoir about his experience as a POW for nearly six years in a north Vietnamese prison, he described times when he swore in English at his Vietnamese guards, who did not understand.His mother later told him: “Johnny, I’m going to come over there and wash your mouth out with soap.”Meghan McCain recalled her grandmother’s strong will and sense of duty in a 2012 column for The Daily Beast website, writing that Roberta McCain did not have “a lot of patience for excuses, especially from my father when he was growing up and acting out.””She once hit him over the head with a thermos in the back of a car because he was acting up so badly on a road trip,” Meghan McCain wrote.The McCain matriarch’s spunky personality became the stuff of stories for the family — and among those in their circle of Washington society.”Last Christmas, she wanted to drive around France. So, she flew to Paris and tried to rent a car,” the senator once joked. “They said she was too old, so she bought one and drove around France.”Roberta Wright was born Feb. 7, 1912, in Muskogee, Oklahoma, where her father was a businessman, whose varied, colorful enterprises included bootlegging and oil wildcatting. The family moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1920s.Her husband commanded submarines in World War II and was second in command of the cruiser St. Paul during the Korean War. He later held key posts, including the Navy’s chief of congressional liaison, and died in 1981.In 1934, when a fitness report deemed him underweight, the future admiral wrote: “My wife doesn’t know how to cook, and my meals are very irregular.”
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The state of Virginia proclaimed Monday “Indigenous Peoples’ Day,” the latest of a growing list of states that have chosen to honor Indigenous Americans on a federal holiday dedicated to Christopher Columbus.“As a country and as a Commonwealth, we have too often failed to live up to our commitments with those who were the first stewards of the lands we now call Virginia, and they have suffered historic injustices as a result,” Gov. Ralph Northam said in a statement.Last year, Maine, New Mexico and Vermont moved to officially observe Indigenous Peoples’ Day, joining Alaska, Hawaii, Oregon and South Dakota.Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia honor Indigenous Peoples’ Day on Columbus Day via proclamation.Columbus Day has been a federal holiday since 1937, commemorating Italian explorer Christopher Columbus’ “discovery” of the United States — a land already occupied by Indigenous Americans. In 1977, a delegation of Native Nations presented a resolution to the United Nations-sponsored International Conference on Discrimination Against Indigenous Populations in the Americas, paving the way for individual cities and states to commemorate Indigenous Peoples’ Day.“By dedicating this day to the strength and resilience of Indigenous peoples, we condemn those who have tried to erase us, and build strength through understanding,” Deb Haaland, the first Indigenous woman to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives, wrote Monday on Twitter.By dedicating this day to the strength and resilience of Indigenous peoples, we condemn those who have tried to erase us, and build strength through understanding. #IndigenousPeoplesDaypic.twitter.com/gDPN5P9LWf— Rep. Deb Haaland (@RepDebHaaland) October 12, 2020In addition to honoring Indigenous lives, proponents of Indigenous Peoples’ Day cite crimes committed by Columbus against Indigenous people as a reason to change the nature of the holiday.“After 50 years of “Columbus discovering America,” 2.86 million of the estimated 3 million Tainos living on the island now named Hispaniola had died, 95% of the population,” Rebecca Nagle, Cherokee writer and activist, wrote Monday on Twitter.6. After 50 years of “Columbus discovering America”, 2.86 million of the estimated 3 million Tainos living on the island now named Hispanola had died, 95% of the population. Imagine if in a period of 50 years, 19 out of every 20 people you knew had died.— Rebecca Nagle (@rebeccanagle) October 12, 2020The White House released a statement Monday honoring Columbus Day, denouncing “radical activists” for “seeking to undermine” the legacy of Columbus.“These extremists seek to replace discussion of his vast contributions with talk of failings, his discoveries with atrocities, and his achievements with transgressions,” the statement reads.  
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Обсяги падіння внутрішнього валового продукту України почали скорочуватися у липні після пікового падіння – такі підсумки восьми місяців 2020 року оприлюднило Міністерство економічноно розвитку і торгівлі 12 жовтня.

За твердженням міністерства, майже всі економічні галузі уповільнили падіння в умовах м’якого карантину, деякі з них – зокрема, роздрібна торгівля та будівництво – навіть показали зростання.

Мінекономіки вказує на те, що у відновленні економіки зіграли роль часткове відновлення пасажирських перевезень, реалізація відкладеного споживчого попиту, а також початок збору врожаю в аграріїв.

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«За даними НБУ індекс очікувань ділової активності у серпні 2020 року порівняно з липнем 2020 року на 1 пункт та становив 47,9 пунктів, зокрема, бізнес стримано оцінює результати своєї діяльності на тлі пролонгації адаптивного карантину. Як результат, за підсумками восьми місяців 2020 року скорочення зведеного індексу виробництва уповільнилося і становило 6,5% (7,3% за сім місяців 2020 року). Відповідно, зменшення обсягів ВВП Мінекономіки орієнтовно оцінює на рівні 5,8% (порівняно з минулим роком – ред.», – повідомляє міністерство.

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Падіння ВВП, згідно з оприлюдненими даними, сягнуло піку в червні – 6,7%. Після цього показник почав поступово скорочуватися. Мінімум зведеного індексу виробництва товарів, який відображає динаміку діяльності виробничої сфери національної економіки, прийшовся на цей же місяць і становив 7,7%.

За свіжим прогнозом Світового банку, у 2020 році українська економіка впаде на 5,5%
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