Raphael Satter

French security forces struggled with two rapidly developing hostage-taking situations Friday, one northeast of Paris where two terror suspects were holed up with a hostage in a printing plant and the other an attack on a kosher market in Paris involving at least five hostages.

Brothers suspected in a newspaper terror attack were cornered with a hostage inside a printing house on Friday, after they hijacked a car and police followed them to a village near Paris’ main airport.

North Korea’s microscopic corner of the Internet has had a rough couple of days, suffering seven outages in the last 48 hours.

A botched cyberattack aimed at unmasking Syrian dissidents has experts worried that the Islamic State group is adding malicious software to its arsenal.

Belarus wants to forge stronger economic ties with the West after seeing how Russia has been dealing with Ukraine.