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| Nigeria rejects swap of Boko Haram prisoners for schoolgirls - UK official | |  By Isaac Abrak MAIDUGURI Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria's president has rejected an offer from Islamist rebel group Boko Haram to exchange schoolgirls it abducted for imprisoned militants, but the government is open to broader talks with the rebels, a visiting British minister said. President Goodluck Jonathan is under pressure to crush the rebels who have killed thousands in their campaign for an Islamist state and to free the girls whose abduction a month ago has sparked global outrage. Government officials initially said they were exploring all options with respect to the swap proposal and later said they were willing to negotiate with Boko Haram without specifying whether any putative talks might include an exchange for the girls. Jonathan further refined that position on Wednesday during talks with Britain's Minister for Africa Mark Simmonds.
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| FBI official says cyber crime crackdown coming soon | |  The FBI is getting more aggressive in pursuing cyber criminals and hopes to announce searches, indictments and multiple arrests over the next several weeks, the agency's official in charge of combating cyber crime said on Wednesday. If you are going to attack Americans, we are going to hold you accountable," the FBI's Robert Anderson told the Reuters Cybersecurity Summit. "If we can reach out and touch you, we are going to reach out and touch you." Anderson said the FBI would show \"a much more offensive side\" to it cyber program, which he took over in March. He declined to comment on the status of the probe into a weeks-long cyber attack on retailer Target Corp that came to light in December.
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| Boko Haram rebels kill four Nigerian soldiers in ambush | | | Boko Haram rebels killed four Nigerian soldiers in a night ambush outside the northeastern city of Maiduguri and several insurgents also died in the firefight, according to a statement on Wednesday from Defence Headquarters. Soldiers fired shots in the air at Maiduguri barracks on Wednesday because they were angry with their commanders about having been made to return at night to the city through an area where Boko Haram is fighting an insurgency, soldiers told Reuters. Troops engaged the insurgents in a fierce combat and extricated themselves from the ambush killing several insurgents. |
| Qatar sets out labour reforms after rights criticism, but no timetable | |  By Amena Bakr DOHA (Reuters) - Qatar unveiled plans for labour reforms on Wednesday after persistent criticism from rights groups over its treatment of workers, but it set no timetable and the changes would still leave employees without a minimum wage or trade unions. Qatar has the highest proportion of migrant workers per population in the world and a lack of workers' rights has attracted international attention as the country prepares to host the 2022 soccer World Cup. Pressure on the Arab country grew after Britain's Guardian newspaper reported in September that dozens of Nepali construction workers had died and that labourers were not given enough food and water. The proposed reforms include replacing a contentious sponsorship law, known as \"kafala\", in which workers need their employer's permission to change jobs, with a system based on employment contracts, officials said in Doha.
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| New York's Sept. 11 Memorial Museum readies for its close-up | |  By Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK (Reuters) - A museum memorializing the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks opens this week to victims' family members and next week to the public, displaying artifacts from mangled columns recalling the enormity of that fateful day to shattered eyeglasses recalling its personal pain. Visitors to the National September 11 Memorial Museum in downtown Manhattan descend to exhibitions several stories below street level to be greeted by a Hudson River retaining wall that survived the attacks and a column scrawled with numbers of the police and firefighters who did not. The museum is the culmination of eight years' work designing the exhibits, collecting artifacts and settling innumerable disputes over how best to document the day when hijacked planes slammed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and an open field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, killing nearly 3,000 people. Battles over oversight and funding slowed construction even as reconstruction of the larger World Trade Center site was getting under way.
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| Sony Pictures acquires film rights for Greenwald's book on Snowden | |  Sony Pictures Entertainment has acquired the film rights to journalist Glenn Greenwald's book about former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, recruiting producers of the James Bond franchise to bring the story to screen, the studio said on Wednesday. Snowden, 30, who disclosed details of the U.S. National Security Agency's surveillance programs to news media last year, has been granted asylum in Russia and risks being arrested and extradited if he sets foot in any U.S.-allied country. Greenwald was one of the first journalists to report on Snowden's leaks in Britain's Guardian newspaper and won a Pulitzer Prize along with documentarian Laura Poitras for their work covering Snowden on the run.
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| Mine disaster casts spotlight on Turkey's industry regulation | |  By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Opposition politician Ozgur Ozel held a miner's helmet aloft in parliament last month as he demanded an investigation into a spate of mining accidents in the western Turkish town of Soma. His call was rejected by deputies from Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's ruling AK Party, whose overwhelming parliamentary majority enables them to block almost every opposition motion. Two weeks later, some 240 workers have been pulled dead from a mine in the town and more than 100 remain trapped, a disaster likely to prove the deadliest of its kind in Turkish history. As images of soot-smeared survivors and grieving families were beamed around the world, the accident threw the spotlight on Turkey's poor record on workplace safety and on what the government's critics say is its wilfully lax regulation.
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