News Headlines - 16 May 2019

▽ISIS announces new India and Pakistan provinces, casually breaking up Khorasan

Islamic State, in a continuation of its Wilayah restructuring, causally announced the creation of a Wilayah Pakistan on Wednesday, May 15 when claiming two attacks in Pakistan. This followed the creation of Wilayah al-Hind (India) in a May 10 statement claiming an attack in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

▽Venezuela government talking with 'democratic' opposition in Norway - Reuters

Talks are underway in Norway between Venezuela’s government and “democratic” opponents, an envoy said on Thursday, in a possible search for a mediated solution after the opposition’s failure to spark a military uprising against President Nicolas Maduro... Guaido, who denounces Maduro’s 2018 re-election as fraudulent, called for Venezuela’s military to rise up on April 30, but his push quickly petered out and the military’s top brass has since then sworn allegiance to Maduro.

▽U.S. judge dumps 'Pooey Puitton' lawsuit against Louis Vuitton - Reuters

Louis Vuitton has won the dismissal of a lawsuit by a California toy company that accused the French luxury goods maker of trying to interfere with its sales of a poop-shaped toy purse for children, Pooey Puitton... MGA had contended that no reasonable consumers would mistake Pooey Puitton, which retailed for $59.99, for costlier handbags from Louis Vuitton, a unit of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE.

▽GozNym cyber-crime gang which stole millions busted - BBC News

A complex police operation conducted investigations in the US, Bulgaria, Germany, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.
The gang infected computers with GozNym malware, which captured online banking details to access bank accounts... The details of the operation were revealed at the headquarters of the European police agency Europol in The Hague.

▽Eiffel Tower celebrates 130th anniversary with laser show | Euronews

The Eiffel Tower celebrated 130 years since it opened to the public with a laser show on Wednesday, 15 May.
Rising 324 metres (1,063 feet) above the French capital, the "Iron Lady" was designed by Parisian engineer Gustave Eiffel and built for the 1889 Universal Exhibition.