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| China detains man for selling "false" reports to foreign website | | Tuesday, May 13, 2014 3:30 AM | |
| | BEIJING (Reuters) - Police in Beijing have detained a man for selling and posting "fabricated information" to a foreign website, state media said on Tuesday, as China tightens its grip on the Internet ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy protests. Xiang Nanfu, 62, published "lots of false stories" on the website of the U.S.-based Chinese news portal Boxun since 2009, the official Xinhua news agency said. ... |
| Boko Haram offers to swap kidnapped Nigerian girls for prisoners | | Tuesday, May 13, 2014 1:42 AM | |
|  By Lanre Ola MAIDUGURI Nigeria (Reuters) - The leader of the Nigerian Islamist rebel group Boko Haram has offered to release more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by his fighters last month in exchange for its members being held in detention, according to a video posted on YouTube on Monday. The search for the girls intensified as a senior U.S. administration official said the United States deployed manned surveillance aircraft over Nigeria and was sharing satellite imagery with the Nigerian government. About 100 girls wearing full veils and praying are shown in an undisclosed location in a part of the 17-minute video in which Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau speaks. Boko Haram militants, who are fighting for an Islamist state, stormed a secondary school in the northeastern village of Chibok on April 14 and seized 276 girls who were taking exams.
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| Credit Suisse deal with U.S. authorities could top $2 billion - sources | |  By Karen Freifeld and Aruna Viswanatha NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New York state's banking regulator is seeking hundreds of millions of dollars from Credit Suisse in its probe of potential tax evasion involving the Swiss bank, according to sources close to the matter, which could push an eventual settlement with U.S. authorities over $2 billion. The settlement with the New York State Department of Financial Services would be in addition to the fine that Credit Suisse is discussing with the U.S. Justice Department. Reuters reported last week that the Justice Department is seeking as much as $1.6 billion from the bank. The talks between Credit Suisse and Benjamin Lawsky, New York's financial services superintendent, are ongoing, people familiar with the matter said.
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| Nearly half of people around world fear torture in custody - Amnesty | | | By Michael Nienaber BERLIN (Reuters) - Nearly half of people around the world fear becoming a victim of torture if taken into custody, a poll for human rights organisation Amnesty International showed on Tuesday. Concern about torture is highest in Brazil and Mexico, where 80 percent and 64 percent of people respectively said they would not feel safe from torture if arrested, and lowest in Australia and Britain, at 16 and 15 percent each, the poll showed. Of the more than 21,000 people in 21 countries surveyed for Amnesty by GlobeScan, 44 percent said they would not feel safe from torture if arrested in their home country. Amnesty said 155 countries have ratified the 30-year-old United Nation Convention Against Torture which was started 30 years ago but many governments were still \"betraying their responsibility\". |
| Rebels appeal to join Russia after east Ukraine referendum | |  By Matt Robinson and Alessandra Prentice DONETSK/SLAVIANSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Pro-Moscow rebel leaders in eastern Ukraine called on Monday for their region to become part of Russia, the day after staging a referendum on self-rule, although Moscow stopped short of endorsing their bid for annexation. Announcing the result of the vote in one of the two provinces where it was held, a leader of the \"People's Republic of Donetsk\", Denis Pushilin, said it was now an independent state and would appeal to join the Russian Federation. \"The people of Donetsk have always been part of the Russian world. \"Based on the will of the people and on the restoration of historic justice, we ask the Russian Federation to consider the absorption of the Donetsk People's Republic into the Russian Federation,\" he told a news conference.
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| London imam claims at U.S. trial he tried to help Yemen hostages | |  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - London imam Abu Hamza admitted to a U.S. jury on Monday that he provided a satellite phone to Yemeni militants months before they kidnapped Western tourists in 1998 and spoke to their leader just three hours after the hostages were taken. The Egyptian-born Abu Hamza, 56, finished two days of testimony on Monday by acknowledging he had used inflammatory language in his sermons but rejected any suggestion that he had committed a crime. During Monday's testimony, Abu Hamza said he acted as a \"mouthpiece\" for a group of Yemeni rebels seeking to overthrow the government but had no idea they planned to take hostages. When he received a call from the militants' leader, Abu Hassan, three hours after the kidnapping, Abu Hamza said he offered to negotiate on the militants' behalf.
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| New NSA chief vows more transparency for embattled agency | |  By Joseph Menn and Warren Strobel WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The new head of the National Security Agency vowed on Monday to lead the embattled spy agency with greater transparency as it balances individual rights against the rising risk of a destructive cyber attack against the United States. In his first interview since taking the helm of both the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command in April, Admiral Mike Rogers said he would be more candid with the public about much of the NSA's work after nearly a year of damaging revelations by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. But he also staunchly defended the NSA's controversial electronic surveillance programs, emphasizing that they were legal and needed better explanation rather than an overhaul. \"The dialogue to date that we have had for much of the last nine months or so from my perspective, I wish was a little bit broader, had a little more context to it, and was a little bit more balanced.\" Last year, Snowden leaked details of numerous top-secret NSA surveillance programs to media, damaging U.S. ties with key allies such as Germany and triggering a worldwide debate about whether the agency had trampled over privacy rights in the name of national security.
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| U.S. would welcome Modi as PM despite past visa ban | |  By David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama faces the prospect this week of having to offer his congratulations to a leader who was barred from the United States less than 10 years ago over massacres of Muslims in 2002. As voting concluded in India's general election on Monday, four major exit polls showed Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi set to become prime minister, with his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies forecast to sweep to a parliamentary majority. He was denied a U.S. visa in 2005 under the terms of a 1998 U.S. law which bars entry to foreigners who have committed \"particularly severe violations of religious freedom.\" Modi's rise on the national stage, however, and the importance of relations with India, which the United States sees as a key counterbalance to China in Asia, have forced a rethink. Ambassadors of the European Union and the United States have met Modi to patch up relations.
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