Iran’s Supreme Leader risks Trump fury with huge demand as US peace talks on brink
Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei’s order could completely destroy all hopes of a peae deal being agreed.
Day: May 21, 2026
Drupal Patches Highly Critical Vulnerability Exposing Websites to Hacking
CVE-2026-9082 can be exploited without authentication for information disclosure, privilege escalation, and remote code execution.
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Ukraine says drones hit Russian refinery as long-range strikes escalate
The Russian governor of the region said two people were killed.
The differences — and similarities — in the Trump and Putin visits to China
On the surface, Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s back-to-back summits with U.S. President Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin looked pretty similar, with formal handshakes in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, enthusiastic greetings from flower-waving childre…
Microsoft Defender vulnerabilities exploited in the wild (CVE-2026-41091, CVE-2026-45498)
Attackers are exploiting two Microsoft Defender vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-41091 and CVE-2026-45498), Microsoft acknowledged and CISA confirmed by adding them to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The vulnerabilities CVE-2026-41091 allows for …
Campaigners take French state to court over toxic ‘forever chemicals’
Environmental organisations and residents of some of France’s worst PFAS pollution hotspots have launched legal action against the French state, accusing it of long-standing failure to tackle contamination by so-called “forever chemicals”.
Residents told to shelter as Lativa issues drone alert and scrambles NATO fighter jets
A NATO fighter jet shot down a suspected Ukrainian drone over neighbouring Estonia
Microsoft Warns of Two Actively Exploited Defender Vulnerabilities
Microsoft has disclosed that a privilege escalation and a denial-of-service flaw in Defender has come under active exploitation in the wild.
The former, tracked as CVE-2026-41091, is rated 7.8 on the CVSS scoring system. Successful exploitation of the…
Verdict due in Rio-Paris plane crash appeals case
A Paris appeals court will issue a verdict on Thursday on the 2009 crash of an Air France passenger jet after the airline and planemaker Airbus faced trial over corporate manslaughter. Relatives of some of the 228 passengers and crew who died when t…
How Chinese, Iranian companies profit in Russia-occupied Ukrainian regions
More than a dozen Chinese companies operate in Donetsk and Luhansk, according to a Ukrainian monitor.