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| U.S. to probe Ferguson police force after shooting of teen - report | | Thursday, September 04, 2014 2:10 AM | |
|  Justice Department is launching a civil rights probe into the police department in Ferguson, Missouri, several weeks after a white officer shot an unarmed black teenager, sparking racial unrest, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday. Citing two federal law enforcement officials, the Post said the investigation would also look at the practices of other police departments in St. Louis County. The investigation could be announced as soon as Thursday afternoon and will be conducted by the department's civil rights division, the Post said. The Justice Department has already begun a civil rights investigation into the deadly Aug. 9 shooting of Michael Brown, 18, by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson.
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| 'Humiliated' Dinesh D'Souza seeks probation after guilty plea | | Thursday, September 04, 2014 1:48 AM | |
|  By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - The conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza has asked a federal judge to sentence him to probation and community service after pleading guilty to a campaign finance law violation. In a Wednesday court filing, D'Souza's lawyers said their client will present himself as a "disgraced and humiliated man" who acted out of character by having two "straw donors" donate $10,000 each to his friend Wendy Long's unsuccessful 2012 U.S. The sentencing recommendation includes an unusual statement from D'Souza, 53, to U.S. District Judge Richard Berman in Manhattan, who will impose sentence at a Sept. 23 hearing.
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| Saudi religious police issue rare apology for beating Briton | | Thursday, September 04, 2014 1:47 AM | |
| | (Reuters) - The Saudi religious police issued a rare apology on Tuesday for the beating by its personnel of a British man residing in the kingdom in a supermarket in the capital Riyadh. The Commission of the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice said it was re-assigning four of its staff to administrative duty after a video emerged over the weekend of the men in a confrontation with a foreign man. The Briton, who has not been officially identified, was in a women-only checkout aisle at a supermarket in the conservative Sunni Muslim kingdom on Friday when the officers approached him, in a spat which devolved into an assault on the man and his Saudi wife. Public mixing between the sexes is frowned upon in Saudi Arabia and Virtue and Vice personnel patrol public places to prevent it and other perceived violations of Islamic morality. |
| Saudi court jails 24 men on terrorism charges | | Thursday, September 04, 2014 1:45 AM | |
| | (Reuters) - A Saudi court on Wednesday sentenced 22 Saudi citizens, an American and a Yemeni to jail terms of between two and 27 years on terrorism charges, according to the official news agency SPA. The court said charges ranged from "the establishment of a terrorist cell planning to targeting oil pipelines," having weapons, and planning attacks and at home and in neighbouring Bahrain. Unrest by the Shi'ite minority in the oil-rich kingdom has bubbled since the 2011 Arab uprisings, and Saudi Arabia has lent its support to allies in Bahrain to quash anti-government protests mostly lead by Shi'ites. |
| Top Colombian general says rebels will be defeated if no peace deal | | Thursday, September 04, 2014 1:41 AM | |
|  By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's military will not stand in the way of a peace deal between the government and leftist rebels, but would defeat the guerrillas on the battlefield if an accord fell through, the head of the armed forces said on Wednesday. "We will not be an obstacle to peace," General Juan Pablo Rodriguez, a 35-year military veteran who supports the talks, told Reuters in his Bogota office. We will move ahead in the process of neutralizing these terrorist groups." The government, led by President Juan Manuel Santos, has been in peace talks with the Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, for nearly two years, in an effort to end a war that has killed more than 200,000 and displaced millions over the past five decades. It is possible for the armed forces to defeat the FARC militarily, Rodriguez said, though "in a guerrilla warfare conflict it's very difficult to give an exact date." Though the FARC's troop numbers have been more than halved from their height of 20,000 at the end of the 1990s, the military has struggled to decisively defeat the disparate rebel fronts, which operate in hard-to-reach rural areas, including dense and sparsely-inhabited jungle in the country's south.
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| Almost all U.S. Home Depot stores may have been hit by breach -new data | | Thursday, September 04, 2014 1:19 AM | |
|  By Nandita Bose CHICAGO (Reuters) - Customer data could have been stolen from nearly all of Home Depot Inc's stores in the United States, according to new information released on Wednesday by security website KrebsonSecurity. Brian Krebs, who runs the website, had said on Tuesday that the problem could affect all of Home Depot's 2,200 stores in the United States. On Wednesday, he said he found new evidence that the breach first surfaced on the website Rescator, where customer credit cards were listed according to store ZIP code. These codes showed a 99.4 percent overlap with Home Depot stores, he said.
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| Sotloff family mourns beheaded son as a 'gentle soul' | | Thursday, September 04, 2014 12:42 AM | |
|  By David Adams MIAMI (Reuters) - The family of Steven Sotloff, the second American journalist beheaded by Islamic State militants, said on Wednesday he was no hero and no war junkie but "a mere man who tried to find good concealed in a world of darkness." Barak Barfi, a friend of Sotloff who is serving as a family spokesman, read a statement from the family remembering the slain journalist as a "gentle soul" - a fan of the NFL's Miami Dolphins who was fond of junk food, enjoyed the TV series "South Park" and liked to talk to his father about golf. He merely wanted to give voice to those who had none," Barfi said outside the family's one-story home in a leafy Miami suburb. President Barack Obama vowed to "degrade and destroy" the group.
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| UK opposition leader to Scots: Spurn a breakaway because PM Cameron is on way out | |  By William James and Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) - Ed Miliband, the leader of Britain's opposition Labour party, will tell Scots on Thursday to reject independence in a referendum later this month, promising he will win a national election next year and give them the change they crave. Seeking to tap into a dislike of Prime Minister David Cameron's right-leaning Conservative party in Scotland, where it has just one of 59 UK parliamentary seats, Miliband will say Cameron is set to lose a May 2015 election and that his own left-leaning party will give Scotland new powers and policies. "With that election in just eight months time the change Scotland needs is on its way," Miliband will say on a visit there, according to advance extracts of his speech.
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| UN denies Golan peacekeepers ordered to hand arms to Syria rebels | | | By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. peacekeeping chief strongly denied on Wednesday allegations from the Philippines' army chief that Filipino peacekeepers in the Golan Heights were ordered to surrender their weapons to Islamist militants who had trapped them. Filipino army chief General Gregorio Catapang said his soldiers had defended themselves against Islamist rebels last weekend in defiance of an order from their U.N. force commander to surrender their weapons, a move that would be highly controversial in the six-nation, blue-helmeted force. The U.N. ... |
| Gremio kicked out of Brazil Cup for racist abuse by fans | | | A Brazilian sports tribunal has kicked Gremio out of the Brazil Cup after some of their fans racially abused a rival player, a spokesman for the tribunal said on Wednesday. Gremio lost 2-0 to Santos in the first leg of the last-16 tie in the knockout competition last week. The match was marred when Gremio fans shouted "Monkey" and other racist taunts at Santos goalkeeper Aranha. The two teams were supposed to play the return leg in Santos on Wednesday but the match was postponed so the disciplinary commission of the Superior Court of Sporting Justice (STJD) could rule on the case. |
| Like regular cigarettes, e-cigs a "gateway" to harder drugs - study | |  By Gene Emery NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Like conventional cigarettes, electronic cigarettes may function as a "gateway drug" that can prime the brain to be more receptive to harder drugs, U.S. The findings, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, add to the debate about the risks and benefits of electronic cigarettes, the increasingly popular devices that deliver nicotine directly without burning tobacco. "With e-cigarettes, we get rid of the danger to the lungs and to the heart, but no one has mentioned the brain," coauthor Dr. Eric Kandel of Columbia University, whose findings were published in the New England Journal of Medicine, said in a telephone interview. In laboratory studies, the researchers showed that "once mice and rats are on nicotine, they are more addicted to cocaine" after being introduced to that drug, said Dr. Aruni Bhatnagar of the University of Louisville, who was not involved in the study but chaired a 10-member American Heart Association panel on the impact of e-cigarettes.
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| George Clooney to direct film on British phone hacking scandal | |  Actor-filmmaker George Clooney will direct a movie about the phone hacking scandal that ensnared some of Britain's biggest media figures and politicians, studio Sony Pictures Entertainment said on Wednesday. "Hack Attack" is based on the 2014 book of the same name by journalist Nick Davies, who details how British newspapers hacked the telephone voice mails of celebrities, members of the royal family and crime victims to gain private information. "Nick is a brave and stubborn reporter and we consider it an honor to put his book to film." The phone hacking scandal led media mogul Rupert Murdoch to close the News of the World newspaper in 2011 and abandon a $12 billion bid for British pay TV broadcaster BSkyB following a public and political furor, and an exodus of advertisers. The scandal resulted in arrests of top British editors and reached Prime Minister David Cameron, whose media chief Andy Coulson was forced to resign in 2011 over phone hacking when he was News of the World editor.
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| Facebook goes down for some U.S. users | |  Facebook Inc went down briefly for an unknown number of U.S. Facebook said the log-in problems arose after what it called an infrastructure-configuration adjustment. "We immediately discovered the issue and fixed it, and everyone should now be able to connect," a Facebook spokesman said.
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