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took office. The committee’s public rebuke of U.S. leaders is an uncommon action by a UN body, and the panel noted enforcement of its recommendations was uncertain.

The White House dismissed the committee’s findings through a spokesperson who called the UN assessment biased and defended the administration’s record on public safety and border security, citing major declines in several crime categories and large numbers of deportations since the President

seekers were denied essential services such as healthcare, education and social support.

among those shot by federal agents during an operation in Minnesota and described the use of lethal force in those cases as amounting to arbitrary deprivation of life and other serious violations of international human rights law. The report also said detained migrants, refugees and asylum

The committee reported incidents it characterized as discriminatory, dangerous or violent and said those actions resulted in at least eight deaths in the three months covered by the review, including protesters and detained migrants. The panel named two U.S. citizens, Alex Pretti and Renee Good,

called for repeal of what it described as discriminatory asylum procedures and for stronger safeguards for personal data held by immigration agencies.

enforcement operations near schools, hospitals and faith-based institutions and urged review of U.S. immigration policies to address obligations under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, which the United States ratified in 1994. The panel also

The committee said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) engage in what it described as routine racial profiling and arbitrary identity checks affecting people of Latino, African and Asian origin. It recommended suspending immigration

hate crimes and “produced serious human rights harms,” according to the committee.

Discrimination said demeaning or racist language directed at migrants, refugees and asylum seekers by senior political figures — the panel singled out former President Donald Trump and other U.S. leaders — combined with tougher enforcement operations, has increased the risk of discrimination and

A United Nations committee charged with monitoring racial discrimination publicly criticized increased immigration enforcement in the United States and said political leaders’ rhetoric had contributed to serious human rights harms. The Geneva-based Committee on the Elimination of Racial

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the scope and impact of the disruption.

Stryker directed employees to follow business continuity procedures, and some staff were instructed to remove corporate management and applications from personal devices, including Intune Company Portal, Teams, and VPN clients. The company continues to investigate, contain the threat, and assess

company. The attackers also claimed a separate breach of payments firm Verifone the same day; Verifone said it found no evidence of an incident and reported no client service disruptions.

Authorities including the FBI and CISA were contacted for comment. Security firms tracking cyber activity described the incident as notable because it would represent an escalation from espionage-focused activity tied to the war into destructive effects against a major U.S. medical technology

specific technical details and the exact method of access have not been publicly confirmed. Microsoft did not provide a comment in response to requests. Reports also noted phishing and spoofed messages as tactics the group has used previously.

Investigations into how attackers gained access to Stryker’s Microsoft environments were ongoing. Public reporting and technical accounts indicate attackers likely accessed Stryker’s Microsoft Intune management console and used its remote-wipe capability to erase or reset some devices, but

and its history of penetrating IT networks and sometimes remaining dormant before destructive action. The group said the action was retaliation for a U.S. military missile strike on a school in Iran; that motive is Handala’s claim.

that devices managed through Microsoft Intune were remotely reset to factory settings or had device-management software removed, causing work-issued phones to stop functioning. Security researchers and observers have noted Handala’s past use of data-wiping malware that targets Windows and Linux

A pro-Iran hacking collective that uses the name Handala publicly claimed responsibility and asserted it erased data from more than 200,000 systems, servers, and mobile devices and extracted 50 terabytes of data. Handala also displayed its logo on employee login pages, and employees reported

severely affected with some locations reverting to paper-based workflows.

said the disruption continues and provided no timeline for full restoration. Stryker employs about 53,000 people worldwide and reported global sales of 22.6 billion in 2024; operations in some countries, including Ireland where the company employs at least 4,000 people, were reported to be

Stryker reported the disruption in a Form 8-K and said it activated its incident response plan, engaged external advisers and cybersecurity experts, and has "found no indication of ransomware or malware" and believes the incident is contained while teams work to assess the impact. The company

Stryker, a U.S. medical technology company, is experiencing a global network disruption after a cyberattack that affected parts of its Microsoft-connected environment and left many employees unable to access company-linked phones and computers.

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appearance scheduled.