Gary Davis, the Wicklow man alleged to have been an administrator of the Silk Road website that dealt with illegal drugs and hacking software, has appealed the High Court order that he be extradited to the US and has been granted bail.

The High Court has ordered the extradition to the United States of a Wicklow man alleged to have been an administrator of the Silk Road website that dealt with illegal drugs and hacking software.

The High Court has ordered the extradition of a Wicklow man to the US where he is facing charges for his alleged links to the Silk Road website.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

Light-heavyweight Joe Ward found out about boxing injustice the hard way when he missed out on the London games but his focus now in only on Rio.

“ . . . one vast impacted havoc which the years accrete And slowly heave up, fused and wrecked . . .” Maybe we should get Stephen Edgar to write about Cork hurling, though the first thing to realise about Cork hurling is that the whole problem can’t be taken in at one glance.

Britain: When a cheating spouse upsets the sparrow love nest, it is the children who suffer, scientists have discovered.

 

The US claims a Wicklow man was an administrator of a the Silk Road website which offered anonymity to those both selling and buying items including illegal drugs and hacking software.

The convicted mastermind behind the world’s largest online narcotics emporium has been sentenced to life.

An application for the extradition of a man to face trial in the US on conspiracy charges arising from his alleged links to a narcotics and drugs distribution website will be heard at the High Court in July.

The kingpin of the Silk Road drug cartel believed he was safely hidden online ... he wasn’t. Nina Burleigh on the rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht

Fears about what is happening on the Dark Web has prompted a debate worldwide about whether ordinary users should be allowed to use bitcoin and encryption, writes Michael Moynihan

The suspected mastermind behind the underground website Silk Road was convicted on narcotics and other charges for his role in orchestrating a scheme that enabled around $200m (€175m) of anonymous online drug sales using bitcoins.

Ed Power talks to the team behind the new sex and swords romp based on Marco Polo    

Seventeen people have been arrested in a series of co-ordinated raids on underground websites selling illegal drugs, a top Europol official said yesterday, in one of the largest crackdowns on the so-called ‘darknet’ to date.

A trader in the virtual currency Bitcoin has pleaded guilty to running an unlicensed money transmitting business.

Companies promoting the crypto-currency Bitcoin have been advised to avoid playing cat and mouse with regulators.

In the US, criminal charges have been filed against two operators of the virtual currency website, the Bitcoin exchange.

Police in western China have shot dead eight “terrorists” who attacked them using knives and explosives in the latest in a string of violent incidents in the ethnically tense region.

The tranquility of Glen Park public library, in San Francisco, was disrupted last week by half a dozen FBI agents descending on the science-fiction section, where nerds congregate to read their emails on the free Wi-Fi.

US law enforcement authorities have shut down Silk Road, the web marketplace for illegal drugs like heroin and cocaine as well as criminal activities including murder for hire, and arrested its alleged owner, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said yesterday.

Record quantities of former head shop drugs were stopped entering the country last year, with the seizure of several new substances.

Irish suppliers of synthetic drugs are buying the substances through a sophisticated encrypted online system, according to a drugs researcher.

China executed two people today for what a court described as an attempt to sabotage the Beijing Olympics with an attack that killed 17 police.

Authorities have arrested more than 90 members of a Muslim ethnic minority in China’s far west and are torturing some of them following a series of bombings that left a dozen people dead, an activist alleged today.

Sixteen police officers were killed today when an unknown group rammed a border patrol station on China’s Central Asian frontier before throwing in grenades.

Officials inaugurated the first section of a 1,100-mile, US-backed pipeline today that will bring Caspian Sea oil to Western markets, a project seen as an economic and political boon for the troubled Caucasus region.

A series of explosions blamed on terrorists ripped through the Uzbek capital Tashkent today killing at least three policemen and wounding 20 people.

SOME 50,000 people may have died in Friday's Iranian earthquake, officials said yesterday, as relief workers pleaded for more aid for survivors of one of the deadliest natural disasters of modern times.

IRAN’S earthquake-devastated city of Bam was filled with the stench of death yesterday as top foreign rescuers warned that hopes were fading for any more survivors from a disaster that killed more than 20,000 people.

VIRTUALLY levelled in a devastating earthquake, the historic heart of Bam was one of the wonders of Iran’s cultural heritage, boasting a 2,000-year-old citadel that was the largest mud-brick structure in the world.

Hundreds of armed pro-Taliban Pakistanis seized a remote northern town today and demanded that the military-led Government should stop supporting the US-led strikes on neighbouring Afghanistan, witnesses said.