News Headlines - 15 August 2019
▽South Korea to remove Japan from preferred trade list - Japan Today
South Korea said Monday that it has decided to remove Japan from a list of nations receiving preferential treatment in trade in what was seen as a tit-for-tat move following Tokyo's recent decision to downgrade Seoul's trade status amid a diplomatic row.
It wasn't immediately clear how South Korea's tightened export controls would impact bilateral trade. Seoul said some South Korean companies exporting to Japan will be able to receive exceptions from case-by-case inspections that are normally applied on sensitive shipments to nations with lower trade status and go through the same fast-track approval process that they currently enjoy.
The leader of a political party critical of public broadcaster NHK said he will continue his protest over celebrity Matsuko Deluxe's comments in a commercial TV program, which he says ridiculed people who voted for the party... In the program called "Goji ni Muchu," Matsuko last month called members of the political party "sickening people" and said, "I think there are a considerable number of people who voted for the party as a joke."
Tachibana reacted sharply to the celebrity's comment. He staged a protest in front of a studio at the TV station when the program was being aired live on Aug. 12 and said, "Don't ridicule voters." He was joined by his supporters who gathered at the scene, leading to a standoff with police officers.
At a news conference, Tachibana explained his criticism is directed at Tokyo MX rather than the celebrity.
▽Moscow Passenger Plane Makes 'Miraculous' Crash-Landing in Cornfield - The Moscow Times
A Russian passenger plane's emergency landing in a cornfield near Moscow after birds were sucked into its engines has been hailed by state media as a "miracle" and compared to a 2009 U.S. flight's landing after striking a flock of geese.
Russians have said it was a miracle that no one was killed when the Ural Airlines Airbus 321 came down in a field southeast of Moscow with its landing gear up after hitting a passing flock of gulls, disrupting the plane's engines. The plane was traveling from Moscow to Crimea's Simferopol with 234 people on board.
▽First DJ set in space: The weirdest clubbing locations - BBC News
Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano has become the first person to DJ in space... He carried out a set on board the International Space Station on Tuesday night, which was streamed to a cruise ship of clubbers in the Mediterranean sea.
To mark the out of this world occasion we thought we'd look back at the DJs who have also performed in places you might not expect.
▽Nasty New Malware Waits Until You Visit A Porn Site, Then Starts Recording
At the end of last week, ESET's security researchers disclosed the discovery of a new strain of malware that takes the trend for sextortion to a new level. Varenyky, as the malware was named by its finders, monitors the activity on infected computers, watching until a pornographic website is visited, and then starts recording the screen.
According to the ESET team, Varenyky first came to light in May, when a malware spike was identified in France. And this is the other twist with Varenyky-it has been designed to specifically target French computer users. For now.
Varenyky is aimed at Orange customers in France, sending out fake invoices as Microsoft Word attachments to load the malware.
