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| German prosecutor to probe U.S. spies for bugging Merkel's phone | |  By Stephen Brown BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's top public prosecutor has launched an investigation into the bugging of Angela Merkel's mobile phone by U.S. intelligence in the light of revelations by former spy agency contractor Edward Snowden, authorities said on Wednesday. The two countries have been at odds over the U.S. National Security Agency's (NSA) spying habits since Snowden's revelations last year showed the United States had listened in on many of its allies, including Merkel, severely testing ties between Berlin and Washington. Attorney General Harald Range's office said Germany's top federal prosecutor has enough data to push ahead with an official investigation.
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| Suspected Islamists kill dozens in northeast Nigeria | | | Suspected Islamist militants killed dozens of civilians in three villages in northeastern Nigeria, a security source and a relative of one of the victims said on Wednesday, where almost daily deadly attacks have intensified over the last few weeks. Gwoza, in Borno state, is the main stronghold of militant group Boko Haram. Dozens of people were killed in each attack, the security source said, but could not give more precise figures.Andrew Tada, himself from Attagara but living in Borno state's capital Maiduguri, said he lost two cousins in the attack, noting that residents had told him they were preparing to bury 45 people from that village alone. "We are just asking government to give us security to go there tomorrow to evacuate the corpses for burial." The security source said about three quarters of the people in the three villages were Christians, although he did not know if the attacks had targeted them specifically. |
| Gunmen kill Red Cross official in Libya, fire grenade at PM's office | |  By Ahmed Elumami and Ayman al-Warfalli TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI Libya (Reuters) - Gunmen in Libya shot dead a Swiss national working for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), fired a grenade at the prime minister's office and tried to kill a renegade general in a series of attacks on Wednesday. Anarchy is spreading in the North African oil-producing country where turmoil and political infighting have reigned since the 2011 uprising that ousted Muammar Gaddafi. A plethora of armed militias operate at will beyond state authority. In the east outside Benghazi, ex-general Khalifa Haftar survived an assassination attempt.
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| China state media calls for 'severe punishment' for Google, Apple, U.S. tech firms | |  Chinese state media lashed out at Google Inc, Apple Inc and other U.S. technology companies on Wednesday, calling on Beijing "to punish severely the pawns" of the U.S. government for monitoring China and stealing secrets. U.S. companies such as Yahoo Inc, Cisco Systems Inc, Microsoft Corp and Facebook Inc threaten the cyber-security of China and its Internet users, said the People's Daily on its microblog, in comments echoed on the front page of the English-language China Daily.
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| Comedian Kevin Meaney arrested for elbowing woman at NYC airport | | | Stand-up comedian Kevin Meaney was arrested at a New York City airport and charged with assault for elbowing a woman in the chest, police said on Wednesday. Meaney, 58, is accused of walking toward the 29-year-old woman at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Tuesday evening and elbowing her in front of witnesses, leaving her in pain, the Port Authority Police Department said. Meaney, who lives in New York City, was in jail on Wednesday waiting arraignment for misdemeanour assault, police said. Meaney and the woman, who is from Grand Forks, North Dakota, did not know each other and it was not clear what led to the incident, police said, but the victim and two witnesses said the elbowing appeared deliberate. |
| Kyrgyzstan national pleads not guilty to hampering Boston bomb probe | |  By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - A citizen of Kyrgyzstan on Wednesday pleaded not guilty to charges of lying to federal investigators about his ties to the two ethnic Chechen men accused of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombing. An FBI agent who had worked on his case acknowledged under cross-examination by defense attorney Edward Hayden that Matanov, who lived in Quincy, Massachusetts, had shown up at a local police station the morning of April 19, 2013, while a manhunt was under way for suspected bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, to identify the man, but that the FBI had not interviewed him until the next day. Hayden noted that charging papers pointed out that Matanov had dinner with the suspected bombers, Dzhokhar and his brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the night of the attack and discussed the incident. Hayden asked FBI Special Agent Timothy McElroy under cross-examination if there was any evidence that Matanov at the time had suspected the Tsarnaevs of being involved in the attack.
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| Inspectors press Syria on chemical arms "discrepancies" - envoys | | | By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Inspectors overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons arsenal have asked President Bashar al-Assad's government to clarify disparities in its original declaration on its cache of toxic gas, U.N. diplomats said on Wednesday. The envoys were citing remarks by Sigrid Kaag, head of the joint mission to Syria of the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, who was briefing the 15-nation U.N. Security Council. Last month, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that a June 30 deadline for the destruction of all of Syria's declared chemical weapons would not be met. French U.N. Ambassador Gerard Araud said on his Twitter feed that Kaag's mission "will need to continue its activities beyond this date (June 30)." Another diplomat said Kaag had made clear the destruction work would not be completed this month. |
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