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| Iraqi PM says Islamic State plans subway attacks in U.S. and Paris | | Friday, September 26, 2014 1:41 AM | |
|  By Arshad Mohammed and Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Iraq has "credible" intelligence that Islamic State militants plan to attack subway systems in Paris and the United States, the prime minister said on Thursday, but U.S. and French officials said they had no evidence to back up his claims. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's comments were met with surprise by security, intelligence and transit officials in both countries. New York's leaders scrambled to ride the subway to reassure the public that the nation's largest city was safe. ...
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| Islamic State 'brand' gains ground among Asian militants | | Friday, September 26, 2014 1:39 AM | |
|  By Rosemarie Francisco and Stuart Grudgings MANILA (Reuters) - A threat by Philippine militants to kill a German hostage in a show of solidarity with Islamic State is the latest sign that the Middle East group's brand of radicalism is winning recruits in Asia and posing a growing security risk in the region. Over 100 people from Southeast Asia's Muslim majority countries of Indonesia and Malaysia and the southern Philippine region are believed by security officials and analysts to have gone to join Islamic State's fight in Iraq and Syria. ...
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| Hackers exploit 'Shellshock' bug with worms in early attacks | | Friday, September 26, 2014 1:32 AM | |
|  By Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) - Hackers have begun exploiting the newly identified "Shellshock" computer bug, using fast-moving worm viruses to scan for vulnerable systems and then infect them, researchers warned on Thursday. "Shellshock" is the first major Internet threat to emerge since the discovery in April of "Heartbleed," which affected encryption software used in about two-thirds of all web servers, along with hundreds of technology products. ...
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| Militant in Syria beheading videos identified - FBI | |  By Julia Edwards and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A masked Islamic State militant seen wielding a knife in videos at the beheading of two Americans has been identified, FBI Director James Comey said on Thursday, but he declined to give the person's name or nationality. The videos released in August and September of American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff showed a masked Islamic State militant brandishing a knife and speaking English with a British accent. ...
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| Indonesia's parliament puts an end to direct regional elections | |  By Gayatri Suroyo JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's parliament on Friday approved legislation ending direct elections for governors and mayors, a move president-elect Joko Widodo criticized as a "big step back" for the country. Indonesia introduced direct elections for regional leaders in 2005, allowing for a new breed of politician to emerge that were not linked to the political elite, with Widodo being the best-known example. But direct elections in Indonesia, Southeast Asia's largest economy and the world's third largest democracy, have also proven to be costly and in many cases corrupt. ...
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| Pope sacks Paraguayan bishop accused of protecting abuser priest | |  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis has dismissed a Paraguayan bishop accused of protecting a priest suspected of sexually abusing young people, the Vatican said on Thursday. A statement said the pope had removed Bishop Rogelio Ricardo Livieres Plano from his post as head of the diocese of Ciudad del Este and named another bishop to run it as an administrator for the time being. The sacking followed a Vatican investigation of the bishop, the diocese and its seminaries, said the statement, which gave no details. ...
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| Lebanese army tightens grip on border town, kills one person | | | BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Lebanese army said on Thursday one person was killed and two wounded during a search for suspected militants at refugee camps near the border with Syria. Soldiers shot at three people on a motorbike who were trying to set fire to parts of a refugee camp during the raids, killing one and wounding the other two, it said. After dark, the army fired artillery at suspected militants who tried to infiltrate from the border zone, apparently setting off land mines as they did so, a security source said. There were an unknown number of casualties among the militants. ... |
| One of the girls abducted by Boko Haram in Nigeria's Chibok freed - police | |  By Tim Cocks ABUJA (Reuters) - One of more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Islamist Boko Haram rebels in the northeastern Nigerian village of Chibok was freed this week, police and a parent of some of the other missing girls said on Thursday. Boko Haram militants took the girls from a secondary school in the village near the Cameroon border in April, sparking a worldwide outcry, and have remained in captivity ever since. ...
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