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| Thai protesters force PM to flee meeting after three killed in Bangkok | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Protesters seeking to oust Thailand's government broke into the grounds of an air force compound on Thursday where the acting prime minister was meeting the Election Commission to fix a date for new polls, forcing him to flee. The disruption of acting Prime Minister Niwatthamrong Boonsongphaisan's efforts to organise an election came hours after gunmen attacked anti-government protesters, killing three. The turmoil comes as the government loyal to ousted former premier Thaksin Shinawatra squares off with opponents backed by the royalist establishment over who should be prime minister, in the latest phase of nearly a decade of rivalry. Hundreds of protesters converged outside an air force school in north Bangkok after word spread that Niwatthamrong was meeting commission officials there.
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| Amid protests, U.S. FCC to vote on new 'net neutrality' proposal | |  By Alina Selyukh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. telecommunications regulators will vote on Thursday on whether to formally propose new \"net neutrality\" rules that may let Internet service providers charge content companies for faster and more reliable delivery of their traffic to users. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler has come under fire from consumer advocates and technology companies for proposing to allow some \"commercially reasonable\" deals where content companies could pay broadband providers to prioritize traffic on their networks. Critics worry the rules would create \"fast lanes\" for companies that pay up and mean slower traffic for others, although Wheeler has pledged to prevent \"acts to divide the Internet between 'haves' and 'have nots.'\" Some 200 activists have said they plan to protest at the FCC on Thursday, joining a few hard core critics who have camped outside the agency for a week. Consumer advocates were also mobilizing Internet users to protest online on blogs and through social media.
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| South Korea indicts four ferry crew for homicide | |  By Ju-min Park MOKPO South Korea (Reuters) - The captain and three senior crew members of a South Korean ferry that capsized in April, killing more than 280 passengers, many of them school children, were indicted for homicide on Thursday, a senior prosecutor said. Prosecutors also indicted the 11 other surviving crew members of the ferry Sewol on negligence charges. The crew has been under criminal investigation after they were believed to have escaped the sinking vessel before many passengers.
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| More than 20 dead as anti-China riots spread in Vietnam | |  More than 20 people were killed and rioters attacked Vietnam's biggest steel plant overnight as violent anti-China protests spread to the centre of the country a day after arson and looting in the south, a doctor and newspapers said on Thursday. A doctor at a hospital in central Ha Tinh province said five Vietnamese workers and 16 other people described as Chinese were killed in the rioting, one of the worst breakdowns in Sino-Vietnamese relations since the neighbours fought a brief border war in 1979. More are being sent to the hospital this morning,\" the doctor at Ha Tinh General Hospital told Reuters by phone. Taiwanese media said rioters attacked a huge steel plant in Ha Tinh province owned by Formosa Plastics Group, Taiwan's biggest investor in Vietnam.
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| Two killed, at least 21 wounded in blast near Thai protest site - police | |  Two people were killed and at least 21 wounded on Thursday in an explosion near an anti-government protest site in the Thai capital of Bangkok, police said. A doctor at a Bangkok emergency centre said the wounded had been hit by shrapnel. It was the most serious incident in long-running protests since five people were killed and dozens wounded in clashes on Feb. 18, when police made their most determined effort to clear demonstrators. Protesters have been on Bangkok's streets since November trying to bring down the government and there have been regular small attacks and clashes.
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| Lockheed says cyber attacks quadrupled since 2007 | |  By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lockheed Martin Corp, the No. 1 provider of information technology to the U.S. government and the top Pentagon supplier, said on Wednesday the number of sophisticated cyber campaigns aimed at its computer networks had more than quadrupled since 2007. The weapons maker had identified 43 distinct organizations that were actively targeting Lockheed's networks this year, and the number could rise, Chandra McMahon, vice president for commercial markets at Lockheed's information systems business, told the Reuters Cybersecurity Summit in Washington. That compares with 10 campaigns directed against Lockheed, which builds the F-35 fighter jet, satellites and warships, in 2007, and 28 in 2010, she said. Lockheed and other U.S. weapons makers are frequent targets of criminal groups, nation states and other hackers seeking to extract valuable information about high-end weapons systems.
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