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| Filmmakers plan series on El Salvador's civil war priest murders | | | SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - One of the most notorious atrocities of El Salvador's 12-year civil war, the 1989 killing of six Jesuit priests, is to be the subject of a new television series starring Mexican actor Diego Luna, producers said on Thursday. Focusing on the priests' murders, as well as the 1980 slaying of San Salvador's Archbishop Oscar Romero, the series "Cortando el Puente" (Cutting the Bridge) will revisit crimes which remain highly sensitive from the bloody war that ended in 1992. The six priests, five of whom were Spanish, were shot along with a housekeeper and her daughter. ... |
| Sony malware may be linked to other damaging attacks - researchers | |  By Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) - Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered what they say is technical evidence linking the massive breach at Sony Corp's Hollywood studio with attacks in South Korea and the Middle East. Moscow-based security software maker Kaspersky Lab said on Thursday it uncovered evidence that all three campaigns might have been launched by the same group, or facilitated by a single organization skilled in working with destructive malware. ...
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| Top U.S. justice official promises probe after NYC police chokehold death | |  By Sebastien Malo, Barbara Goldberg and Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday promised a full investigation into a white New York police officer's role in the choking death of an unarmed black man, following a night of protests over a grand jury decision not to bring charges in the incident. More protests were expected on Thursday in New York. The grand jury's decision on Wednesday came nine days after the news that a white officer in Missouri who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager would also not face criminal charges. ...
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| North Korea still a suspect in Sony attack despite denial | |  By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea is a principal suspect in the cyber attack on Sony Pictures, a U.S. national security source told Reuters on Thursday, while a North Korean diplomat denied Pyongyang was behind the crippling hack. The U.S. government's investigation into the Nov. 24 attack is being led by the FBI's Los Angeles Field Office and the Hollywood studio is cooperating, a law enforcement source said. ...
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| Hillary Clinton backs federal probes of Ferguson, Staten Island cases | |  By Richard Valdmanis BOSTON (Reuters) - Potential Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton said on Thursday she was pleased the U.S. Department of Justice was investigating the recent deaths of unarmed black men in incidents with police. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Wednesday the Department of Justice would launch a civil rights investigation into the chokehold death of Eric Garner in the New York City borough of Staten Island in July. There is also a federal probe into the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by a white policeman in Ferguson, Missouri, in August. ...
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| Fresh protests set for Thursday after no charges in NYC chokehold case | |  By Barbara Goldberg and Sebastien Malone NEW YORK (Reuters) - Protesters vowed a new round of demonstrations in New York on Thursday after a grand jury decided not to charge a white police officer in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man on Staten Island. Meanwhile, New York City Patrolmen's Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch told reporters on Thursday that Mayor Bill de Blasio had failed to support police after the decision and told the public that they should fear officers. "Unequivocally, police officers feel like they have been thrown under the bus," Lynch said. ...
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| U.S. disclosed failed attempt to rescue American in Yemen | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday disclosed a failed attempt last month to rescue a U.S. citizen held hostage by al Qaeda's Yemen branch, saying he was not present at the targeted location but that other hostages were freed. Luke Somers, 33, an American journalist, was kidnapped in Yemen's capital Sanaa in September 2013, joining several other foreigners including Westerners held by militant Sunni Muslim armed groups in the volatile Arabian peninsula country. The U.S. ... |
| At least 20 killed in fighting in Russia's Chechnya | |  GROZNY/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Gunmen attacked a police post and stormed a building on Thursday in Grozny, capital of Russia's southern province of Chechnya, killing 10 policemen in clashes in which 10 of the attackers were also killed. The bloodiest fighting in Chechnya for months erupted a few hours before President Vladimir Putin said in a speech in Moscow he would defend Russia against what he called attempts to dismember it. The attack underlined the fragile security situation in Chechnya more than a decade after Putin sent troops to quell an Islamist separatist uprising there. ...
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