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| China confronts U.S. envoy over cyber-spying accusations | |  By Sui-Lee Wee BEIJING (Reuters) - China summoned the U.S. ambassador after the United States accused five Chinese military officers of hacking into American companies to steal trade secrets, warning Washington it could take further action, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday. The U.S. Ambassador to China, Max Baucus, met with Zheng Zeguang, assistant foreign minister, on Monday shortly after the United States charged the five Chinese, accusing them of hacking into American nuclear, metal and solar companies to steal trade secrets.
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| Victorious Modi fights tears in first address to parliament | |  By Shyamantha Asokan NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Narendra Modi fought back tears in an emotional first address to his party in parliament on Tuesday, after the Gujarat chief minister swept to power in an election that has changed the face of politics in the country. Modi will be India's next prime minister after leading the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to a historic victory in a ballot that ended on Friday. The win handed the BJP its first parliamentary majority and reduced the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty's ruling Congress party to 44 seats, the lowest ever tally for a party that won independence and has ruled for most of the 67 years since. He addressed BJP lawmakers filling more than half the seats of Lok Sabha with uplifting words that commentators immediately contrasted with the often wooden addresses of his predecessor Manmohan Singh.
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| South Africa court sends Pistorius for 30 days of mental tests | |  South African Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius was ordered on Tuesday to undergo a month of psychiatric tests to find out whether he was criminally responsible when he shot dead his girlfriend on Valentine's Day last year. Judge Thokozile Masipa told Pistorius he must report to Pretoria's Weskoppies hospital, one of South Africa's top mental institutions, as an outpatient for up to 30 days, starting on May 26. The evaluation would determine "whether the accused by reason of mental illness or mental defect was at the time of the commission of the offence criminally responsible for the offence he is charged and whether he was capable of appreciating the wrongfulness of his act". Pistorius, dressed in a black suit and tie, stood sombrely in the dock as Masipa read out the order before postponing the case to June 30.
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| Thai army chief urges rivals to talk after declaring martial law | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's army declared martial law nationwide on Tuesday to restore order after six months of street protests that have left the country without a proper functioning government, but insisted the surprise intervention was not a military coup. While troops patrolled parts of Bangkok and army spokesmen took to the airwaves, the caretaker government led by supporters of self-exiled former premier Thaksin Shinawatra said it was still running the country. Army chief General Prayuth Chan-ocha said the military had stepped in to restore order and build investor confidence, and warned that troops would take action against anyone who used weapons and harmed civilians. "We ask all sides to come and talk to find a way out for the country," Prayuth told reporters after meeting directors of government agencies and other high-ranking officials.
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| Turkish miners down tools over disaster, eight suspects held | | | By Humeyra Pamuk SOMA Turkey (Reuters) - The main labour union in a Turkish town hit by the nation's worst mining disaster called on thousands of workers to down tools on Tuesday at mines run by the same operator until the sites have been properly inspected. Three hundred and one miners died last week after a fire in a mine in Soma, a small town 480 km (300 miles) southwest of Istanbul, fuelling anger in a nation which has long had one of the world's worst workplace safety records. |
| London imam Abu Hamza convicted of U.S. terrorism charges | |  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - London imam Abu Hamza al-Masri was convicted of terrorism charges in New York on Monday, following a four-week trial that shined a spotlight on the preacher's controversial anti-Western statements. After deliberating for less than two days, a jury of eight men and four women found Abu Hamza, 56, guilty on all 11 counts he faced, handing Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara his second high-profile terrorism conviction in three months. Abu Hamza could face life in prison when he is sentenced in September. Prosecutors had charged the one-eyed, handless Abu Hamza with providing a satellite phone and advice to Yemeni militants who kidnapped Western tourists in 1998, an operation that led to the deaths of four hostages.
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| Sperm donor or parent? Check the box on California form | | | The measure by San Francisco Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, a Democrat, would require sperm donors, surrogate mothers and the people with whom they work to have a child to fill out a series of forms detailing the rights and responsibilities of each person. It would require all couples who use sperm donation or surrogacy to conceive a child to state ahead of time who would have parental rights and responsibilities and who would not. Legal issues around the parental rights of sperm donors have made headlines recently over a debacle involving actor Jason Patric, who donated sperm to a now-former girlfriend and is suing for the right to be part of the child's life. Under current law, sperm donors do not typically have parental rights unless otherwise agreed by the parties involved. |
| Credit Suisse escapes worst as it pleads guilty to U.S. charges | |  By Aruna Viswanatha, Douwe Miedema and Karen Freifeld WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Credit Suisse on Monday became the largest bank in 20 years to plead guilty to a U.S. criminal charge, and will pay a $2.5 billion fine to authorities for helping Americans evade taxes, Attorney General Eric Holder said. U.S. prosecutors said the bank helped clients deceive U.S. tax authorities by concealing assets in illegal, undeclared bank accounts, in a conspiracy that spanned decades, and in one case began more than a century ago. "This case shows that no financial institution, no matter its size or global reach, is above the law," Holder said at a news conference in Washington. The Justice Department has not frequently pursued such convictions of financial companies, especially large ones that could become destabilized following an indictment, but U.S. politicians have pushed for tougher punishment for big banks in response to the 2007-2009 financial crisis.
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| Same-sex couples wed in Oregon after gay marriage ban lifted | |  By Teresa Carson and Shelby Sebens PORTLAND Ore. (Reuters) - Gay and lesbian couples clamoured to be among the first in Oregon to exchange wedding vows on Monday after a federal judge struck down a state ban on same-sex marriage, sparking a day of celebration amid flowers, cakes and honking car horns. The ruling, which came just before a separate legal victory by gay matrimony advocates in Utah, was the latest in a series of court decisions in other states that if upheld will dramatically expand same-sex couples' marriage rights across the country. We've waited for this moment for at least 10 years," said Christine Tanner, who with her partner joined three other Oregon couples in challenging a 2004 voter-approved state constitutional amendment limiting marriage to heterosexual couples. The attorney general of the left-leaning state ultimately declined to mount a legal defence of Oregon's gay marriage ban against the lawsuit, leaving the conservative National Organization for Marriage to try defending it instead.
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| Pakistani Taliban kidnap Chinese cyclist | | | By Saud Mehsud DERA ISMAIL KHAN Pakistan (Reuters) - The Pakistani Taliban have kidnapped a Chinese tourist on a cycling tour of the country, police and Taliban sources said Tuesday, the latest in a series of abductions aimed at raising money for rival Taliban factions. The man, whose name and passport details were supplied to Reuters, was kidnapped on Monday in Daraban, near the western city of Dera Ismail Khan. Abdullah Bahar, a senior Taliban commander, told Reuters the man was in their custody. Kidnaps are rising in Pakistan, although it is unusual for Chinese to be targeted. |
| INSIGHT - How Credit Suisse got a stiffer penalty than UBS | |  By Aruna Viswanatha and Karen Freifeld WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors first raised the specter of a criminal plea by Credit Suisse Group AG more than two years after starting an investigation into whether the Swiss bank had helped wealthy Americans evade taxes. In a meeting with Credit Suisse's lawyers in March 2013, U.S. Justice Department officials, frustrated by what they viewed as poor co-operation from the bank, for the first time said an indictment was possible if they did not see an improvement, according to a person briefed on the situation. Details of what exactly prosecutors were seeking could not be learned, but Credit Suisse has said it could not hand over names of clients to U.S. authorities as Swiss law prevented it from doing so. In October of last year, Kathryn Keneally, the head of the Justice Department's tax division, called the bank's lawyers and said she was prepared to recommend prosecution, the source said.
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