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| S.Korea nuclear operator says cyberattacks continue, reactors safe | | | By Meeyoung Cho SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's nuclear power operator said on Sunday that cyberattacks on non-critical operations at the company's headquarters are continuing but the country's nuclear power plants are operating safely and are secure from attack. Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co Ltd has been intensifying its cyber security, President and CEO Cho Seok said. He gave no details of the continued cyberattacks or the company's response, citing security reasons. "We cannot let cyberattacks stop nuclear power operation," Cho told a news briefing. ... |
| In U.S.-Cuba prisoner swap, mystery surrounds the unnamed 53 | |  By Daniel Trotta HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba's most prominent dissidents say they have been kept in the dark by U.S. officials over a list of 53 political prisoners who will be released from jail as part of a deal to end decades of hostility between the United States and Cuba. For years, dissident leaders have told the United States which opponents of Cuba's communist government were being jailed or harassed, but they say they were not consulted when the list of prisoners to be freed was drawn up or even told who is on it. ...
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| Man from Ahmadi religious minority killed in Pakistan after Muslim leader calls them "enemy" | | | ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Gunmen in eastern Pakistan shot dead a member of the Ahmadi religious minority on Saturday, an Ahmadi spokesman said, five days after a Muslim leader denounced Ahmadis on a popular Pakistani television talk show. Luqman Ahmad Shehzad was shot in the back of the head near Bhiri Shah Rehman village, a small community of Ahmadis in the Gujranwala district, said Saleem ud Din, the spokesman. He is the eleventh person killed for being Ahmadi in Pakistan this year. ... |
| Greek PM urges lawmakers to avoid snap election | |  By Renee Maltezou ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras warned lawmakers on Saturday against the snap election that will be called if he loses a key presidential vote in parliament next week, but said he was confident of winning if Greeks did go to the polls. Recent opinion polls show Samaras' conservative New Democracy party is narrowing the gap with the left-wing Syriza party, which wants to renegotiate Greece's international bailout and roll back austerity measures, but still trails by around three points. ...
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| Angry police shun NYC mayor at funeral for slain officer | |  By Jonathan Allen and Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of police from cities across the United States filled a New York City church and nearby streets on Saturday for the funeral of one of two policemen shot by a man who said he was avenging the killing of unarmed black men by police. The service for Rafael Ramos was one of the largest police funerals in the city's history, with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden among the dignitaries. But the tradition-bound ceremony was marked by an unusual protest against Mayor Bill de Blasio. ...
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| Strict sharia forces gays into hiding in Indonesia's Aceh | |  By Gayatri Suroyo and Charlotte Greenfield BANDA ACEH, Indonesia/JAKARTA (Reuters) - Overwhelmed by fear, members of the main gay rights group in the Indonesian town of Banda Aceh started burning piles of documents outside their headquarters in late October, worried that the sharia police would raid them at any moment. Indonesia's northernmost province of Aceh had weeks earlier passed an anti-homosexuality law that punishes anyone caught having gay sex with 100 lashes. Amnesty International criticised it, saying it would add to a climate of homophobia and fear. ...
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| North Korea blames U.S. for Internet outages, calls Obama 'monkey' | |  By Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea called U.S. President Barack Obama a "monkey" and blamed Washington on Saturday for Internet outages it has experienced during a confrontation with the United States over the hacking of the film studio Sony Pictures. The National Defence Commission, the North's ruling body chaired by state leader Kim Jong Un, said Obama was responsible for Sony's belated decision to release the action comedy "The Interview", which depicts a plot to assassinate Kim. ...
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| Suspected state hacking campaign used commercial software | |  By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A previously undisclosed hacking campaign against military targets in Israel and Europe is probably backed by a country that misused security-testing software to cover its tracks and enhance its capability, researchers said. The attack program relied on software usually sold by Boston-based Core Security to companies and other customers that want to test their own defenses, said researchers coordinated by Israel's independent Computer Emergency Response Team, or CERT. ...
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| Sony works for third day to restore PlayStation after attack | |  By Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) - Sony Corp worked for a third day on Saturday to restore services to its PlayStation network as the FBI said it was looking into the disruption, which began on Christmas Day. "We are aware of the reports and are investigating the Sony PlayStation matter," Federal Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Jenny Shearer said via email. She did not elaborate. ...
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