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| South Korea indicts four capsized ferry crew members for homicide | | Thursday, May 15, 2014 3:31 AM | |
|  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 of the passengers. Of the 476 passengers and crew on board, 339 were children and their teachers on a school trip.
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| Two killed at Thai protest as anger mounts over premier | | Thursday, May 15, 2014 3:21 AM | |
|  By Apornrath Phoonphongphiphat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Unidentified gunmen attacked anti-government protesters in Bangkok on Thursday, killing two people as Thailand's rival political factions squared off over who should be prime minister. Protests aimed at ending the influence of ousted former premier Thaksin Shinawatra have brought occasional violence to Bangkok since November, with no sign of any compromise raising concern about possible intervention by the military. Witnesses said a small group of men armed with guns and grenades attacked protesters near the Democracy Monument in Bangkok's old quarter in the early hours of Wednesday. Paradorn Pattanatabut, a security adviser to the prime minister, said he suspected the attack was a reaction to pressure by the anti-government side to force the Senate to appoint a new prime minister.
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| Two killed, at least 21 wounded in blast near Thai protest site - police | | Thursday, May 15, 2014 2:04 AM | |
|  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 | | Thursday, May 15, 2014 1:47 AM | |
|  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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| 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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