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| EBay issues, then deletes call to change passwords | |  REUTERS - EBay Inc issued a notice on its websites asking users to change their passwords, but took down the message a short time later without explanation. The message, on its PayPal online payment unit's press and community website pages, did not say why passwords needed to be changed. EBay and PayPal representatives were not immediately available for comment on the notice issued at 1:30 a.m. ET (0630 GMT), which was previously reported by tech blog Engadget (http://r.reuters.com/zef59v). The message headline was "eBay Inc. To Ask All eBay Users To Change Passwords" but had no other information other than the words "place holder text".
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| Ryan Gosling debut fails to light Cannes critics' fire | |  By Alexandria Sage CANNES France (Reuters) - Hollywood actor Ryan Gosling burned up the screen at the Cannes film festival with his directorial debut on Tuesday, but critics' reaction was a damp squib. Gosling's "Lost River", which was to premiere at Cannes on Tuesday night, includes enough images of blazing buildings to satisfy the most ardent pyromaniac. Tim Robey of Britain's Daily Telegraph called the film - set in a near-deserted community pockmarked by scorched houses - a "crapocalypse." Gosling's movie, which he also wrote, is one of 19 to compete in the "Un Certain Regard" category for emerging directors at the prestigious festival on the French Riviera. The Hollywood heartthrob has been a frequent visitor to Cannes as an actor, most recently accompanying two Nicolas Winding Refn films - the bloody slasher set in Bangkok, "Only God Forgives", and pulp thriller "Drive".
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| Egypt court jails 155 Brotherhood supporters | |  CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court sentenced 155 Muslim Brotherhood supporters to jail terms on Wednesday and gave 54 of them life sentences, judicial sources said, in a case related to violence in the Nile Delta province of Mansour last August after the army's ouster of President Mohamed Mursi. Other defendants were sentenced to between three to 10 years in jail. The charges included instigating violence and chaos and membership in a banned group. Police fired tear gas at demonstrators outside the courthouse who were chanting against the verdict. ...
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| Thailand's reluctant general grasps political nettle | |  By Robert Birsel BANGKOK (Reuters) - Just months before his retirement, Thai army chief General Prayuth Chan-ocha has taken on a responsibility he may much rather have dodged. "Prayuth in charge," the Nation newspaper blared across its front page on Wednesday, a day after the 60-year-old soldier declared martial law, putting himself at the centre of a nearly decade-long political impasse. "What we have now has been described as 'half a coup' or 'martial law light'," said Anthony Davis, a Thailand-based analyst at security consulting firm IHS-Jane's. "It basically puts the lid on further conflict over the short term but leaves him holding the political ball." At a meeting of government agency heads on Tuesday, people present said Prayuth came across like an exasperated school headmaster, chiding the head of the government's investigation agency for pressing charges against a protest leader. Protesters took to Bangkok's streets in November, accusing the government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra of corruption and nepotism.
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| Tymoshenko loses her magic in Ukraine presidential race | |  By Gareth Jones KIEV (Reuters) - Campaigning for Ukraine's presidential election, Yulia Tymoshenko says she alone can save the nation from disaster. Opinion polls put Tymoshenko, a two-times prime minister, in a distant second place behind confectionary magnate Petro Poroshenko for Sunday's vote with just 10 percent support - humiliating a woman whose trademark peasant's hair braid and rhetoric have defined Ukrainian politics for a decade. But her supporters, who insist the polls are wrong, and political analysts say it would be rash to write off Tymoshenko, whose ambition and self-belief appear undimmed by health problems and by a jail sentence that ended in February. "I will do whatever I can as president to ensure that Ukraine decides its own future in Europe as a full-fledged member of the democratic world," she told reporters after addressing supporters at a business forum in Kiev this week.
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| China sentences 39 on terrorism charges in crackdown | | | China on Wednesday sentenced 39 people to jail terms of up to 15 years on terrorism charges, as authorities crack down on the restive far western region of Xinjiang, hit by a recent string of knife and bomb attacks blamed on Islamist separatists. They were accused of crimes ranging from inciting violence and distributing recordings with extremist content to illegally making firearms and promoting ethnic hatred, the Legal Daily newspaper, run by the ruling Chinese Communist Party, said. "All those who dare to challenge the power of the state or the lives of the people, will be severely punished in accordance with the law without lenience," the paper quoted a judge of Xinjiang's high court criminal tribunal as saying. Three people were killed and 79 others injured in an attack on a railway station in the city of Urumqi, in Xinjiang, late in May. In March, 29 were killed and 143 more were injured at a train station in the southwestern city of Kunming. |
| Egyptian court sentences ousted leader Mubarak to three years jail | |  An Egyptian court on Wednesday sentenced ousted president Hosni Mubarak to three years in prison on charges of stealing public funds. "The court orders Mohamed Hosni Mubarak to be sent to jail for three years," said judge Osama Shaheen as Mubarak looked on from a cage flanked by his sons, who were sentenced to four years in jail on the same charges. The court fined Mubarak and his sons 21.197 million Egyptian pounds ($2.98 million) and ordered them to repay about 125 million Egyptian pounds of funds the court said they had stolen. Mubarak's former intelligence chief, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, is poised to be elected president next week.
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| S.Korean sect submits to search for founder linked to doomed ferry | |  By Ju-min Park ANSEONG/INCHEON South Korea (Reuters) - Hundreds of followers of a religious sect submitted on Wednesday to a search of their rural commune by South Korean authorities seeking the arrest of the head of the family that operated a ferry which capsized last month killing more than 300 people. Yoo Byung-un is wanted on charges of embezzlement, negligence and tax evasion stemming from a web of business holdings centered around I-One-I, an investment vehicle owned by his sons that ran the shipping company Chonghaejin Marine. Believed to be in his 70s, Yoo is a co-founder of the Evangelical Baptist Church that runs the sprawling Anseong compound about two hours south of Seoul. Arrest warrants have been issued for Yoo's two sons, the younger of which is believed to be in the United States.
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