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The government should accelerate cultivation of cybersecurity talent and comprehensively inspect information security systems across Taiwan to cope with an increasing number of cyberattacks from China, the New Power Party (NPP) said yesterday. Chinese hackers have stepped up efforts against Taiwan following a visit by US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi last week, attacking government and private Web sites, the party said. While the cyberattacks show that China is the real destroyer of regional peace and security, they have also exposed loopholes in Taiwan’s cyberdefenses, NPP c...

FRANCE <strong>Man attacks ‘Mona Lisa’</strong> A man seemingly disguised as an old woman in a wheelchair on Sunday threw a piece of cake at the glass protecting the Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum and shouted at people to think of planet Earth. The Paris prosecutors’ office said Monday that the 36-year-old man was detained following the incident and sent to a police psychiatric unit. An investigation has been opened into the damage of cultural artifacts. Videos posted on social media also showed the man throwing roses in the museum gallery to slack-jawed guests. The cake atta...

US President Joe Biden yesterday said the crisis in Ukraine was a global issue that heightened the importance of maintaining international order, territorial integrity and sovereignty. Biden’s comments delivered at the opening of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) with Indo-Pacific leaders in Tokyo come a day after he broke with convention and volunteered US military support for Taiwan. “This is more than just a European issue. It’s a global issue,” Biden said of the Ukraine situation at the Quad meeting of the US, Japan, India and Australia. “International law, human rights ...

North Korea yesterday fired a ballistic missile, Seoul said, resuming a weapons-testing blitz after a month-long lull during the Beijing Winter Olympics, as the world’s attention focuses on Ukraine. The launch was Pyongyang’s eighth so far this year, including test-firing its most powerful missile since high-profile negotiations between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and then-US president Donald Trump collapsed in 2017. Diplomacy has languished ever since and despite biting international sanctions, Pyongyang has doubled down on military development, last month threatening to abandon a sel...