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| Obama's 'Big Data' privacy plans get lift from lawmakers | | | By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House is working with a Republican congressman on the U.S. House of Representatives' leadership team and Democrats in both the House and Senate on a bill to protect data collected from students through educational apps. The legislation, aimed at ensuring kids' data is used only for educational and legitimate research purposes, is the first of President Barack Obama's "Big Data" privacy plans to gain traction in the Republican-controlled Congress. Obama has pushed to do more to protect privacy in an age when consumers leave a trail of digital footprints through smartphones, other personal devices and social media, information that can be collected, analyzed and sold. It is one element of his broad strategy to beef up the nation's cyber laws, an issue that has gained momentum after high-profile cyber thefts of data from companies such as Target Corp and Home Depot Inc. Late on Wednesday, No. 2 U.S. health insurer Anthem Inc said hackers stole personal information on up to 80 million people. |
| U.S. considers declassifying report on Saudi funding of al Qaeda | | | By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration is considering whether to declassify still-secret sections of a congressional inquiry into the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks which examined Saudi Arabian support for Islamist militants, the White House said on Thursday. Interest in the 28-page section of the report was raised after an imprisoned former al Qaeda operative, Zacarias Moussaoui, said in deposition transcripts filed this week that more than a dozen prominent Saudi figures donated to his group in the late 1990s. Saudi officials have denied this. White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters that following a congressional request last year the intelligence community was undertaking a review of the decision to classify the secret section. |
| Boehner sees call for military authorization vs Islamic State soon | |  U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner said on Thursday he expects President Barack Obama to seek congressional authorization for using military force against Islamic State soon and also called for speeding up assistance to Jordan. "I'm expecting that there will be an authorization for the use of military force sent up here in the coming days. "It is also going to be incumbent upon the president to go out there and make the case to the American people," as well as help push Congress to pass the authorization, he added.
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| Jury selection starts in 'American Sniper' Texas murder trial | |  By Marice Richter DALLAS (Reuters) - The first steps in jury selection began on Thursday in a Texas court for the trial of the man charged with murdering Chris Kyle, the former Navy SEAL whose best-selling autobiography was turned into the hit movie "American Sniper." About 800 residents of largely rural Erath County have been called as potential jurors in the trial of Eddie Ray Routh, 27, charged with murdering Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield at a shooting range about 70 miles (112 km) southwest of Fort Worth on Feb. 2, 2013. Jury selection starts on Monday and opening arguments are planned for Feb. 11. Judge Jason Cashon told jurors they could still serve even if they saw the movie or read Kyle's book, the Dallas Morning News reported. Routh was arrested that day and has been jailed in Erath County on $3 million bond.
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| Ex-Argentine spy boss wanted for questioning in prosecutor's death | |  By Sarah Marsh and Richard Lough BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine investigators want to grill a former spy chief over the death of a state prosecutor who alleged the country's president tried to thwart his investigation into the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center. Oscar Parrilli, head of the Intelligence Secretariat, known as SI, said ex-counterintelligence boss Antonio Stiusso would be allowed to divulge agency secrets so investigators could question him fully about events leading up to Alberto Nisman's death. Nisman was found dead in his apartment on Jan. 18, a day before he was due to testify about his claim that President Cristina Fernandez tried to whitewash his findings that Iran was behind the Jewish center attack in Buenos Aires in order to win economic favors from Tehran.
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| Army veteran charged with threatening U.S. Capitol shooting | |  A U.S. Army veteran from Maryland who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder has been charged with threatening to shoot his wife and others at the U.S. Capitol building, prosecutors said on Thursday. The suspect, Michael Bogoslavski, 33, of Cheverly, Maryland, was charged in U.S. District Court with using interstate commerce on Monday to make a threat, Maryland's U.S. Attorney's Office said in a statement. Bogoslavski allegedly said in a text message to his wife, who works in the Capitol, that he would go to Washington to shoot her, a Capitol Police officer and others, according to an affidavit. "I'm going to die, suicide by cop," Bogoslavski said in a phone call to his wife overheard by a Capitol Police agent, the affidavit said.
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| Sahara says bank letter underpinning rescue deal was forged | |  By Sumeet Chatterjee MUMBAI (Reuters) - Indian conglomerate Sahara Group said on Thursday that a letter intended to support a $2 billion transaction with a U.S.-based former broker was forged, dealing a major setback to the group's efforts to secure bail for its jailed boss, Subrata Roy. The statement came a day after Reuters reported evidence that Saransh Sharma, a California man who was leading the deal through his company Mirach Capital Group, didn't have the money to pull off the transaction. A manager at Bank of America told Reuters he didn't write a crucial letter, attributed to him, which purported to verify the existence of a billion-dollar bank account. Sharma had said he was backed by a group of U.S. and U.K. investors for the deal, whom he declined to name, and said they were the source of funds supposedly placed in the Bank of America account.
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| Norway, one of world's richest nations, drops plan to ban beggars | | | Norway's government dropped a plan to ban begging on Thursday after opposition parties and rights campaigners said it would criminalise anyone offering help to the poorest people in one of the world's richest nations. The opposition Centre Party dropped its previous support of the proposed law, leaving the minority right-wing government -- which has linked begging to rising crime rates -- without a majority to get it through parliament. "It cannot be a crime to give clothes, food and shelter," Marit Arnstad, head of the party's parliamentary group, told the NTB news agency. Deputy Justice Minister Vidar Brein-Karlsen told Reuters the proposed law had now been dropped. |
| U.N. wants 1,030 more peacekeepers for Central African Republic | |  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has asked the U.N. Security Council for 1,030 more peacekeepers for Central African Republic after the mission was left overstretched when infrastructure and senior officials needed to be protected in the capital, Bangui. A largely Christian "anti-balaka" militia took up arms in 2013 in response to months of looting and killing by Muslim Seleka rebels who had toppled President Francois Bozize and seized power in March of that year.
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| Amsterdam aims to give prostitutes shared ownership in brothels | | | Amsterdam is looking for an investor to buy five buildings where sex workers can work collectively in their own prostitution business, a spokesman for the city's mayor says. City authorities hope the sex workers will be safer if they can work together in a building rented and run by a business they own. |
| Five charged in ID theft ring that bought Apple gift cards | | | By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Five people accused of running an identity theft ring in the New York City area have been charged in a 394-count indictment with stealing personal information from hundreds of dental patients to buy Apple gift cards. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance on Thursday said the ring bought $700,000 worth of gift cards after fraudulently obtaining "instant credit" that Apple had offered online in conjunction with Barclays Plc's Barclaycard, and then used the cards to buy Apple products. The alleged ringleader was Devin Bazile, a former Apple sales associate. Prosecutors said he recruited Apple store employees to misuse names, addresses, birth dates and Social Security numbers that were stolen by defendant Annie Vuong from more than 250 patients at a Manhattan dental office, where she worked as a receptionist. |
| Rap mogul 'Suge' Knight returned to jail from hospital | |  Rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight, charged with murder and other offenses in a fatal hit-and-run incident, was returned to jail from a Los Angeles-area hospital late on Wednesday, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said. Department spokesman Deputy Kelvin Moody said Knight, 49, was released from the hospital at about 9 p.m. (0500 GMT). He declined to describe the nature of Knight's medical treatment. Knight was hospitalized on Tuesday, reportedly after complaining of chest pains, shortly after pleading not guilty to murder, attempted murder and two counts of felony hit-and-run.
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| Former pop star Gary Glitter found guilty of child sex offences | |  Former British pop singer Gary Glitter, who shot to fame in the 1970s as a "glam-rock" star but was later convicted of child sex crimes, was found guilty on Thursday of indecently assaulting three girls. Glitter, 70, whose real name is Paul Gadd, came to prominence with the hit "Rock and Roll", and became renowned for his figure-hugging shiny silver all-in-one suits and platform shoes. On Thursday he was convicted of attempted rape, four counts of indecent assault and one of having sex with a girl under the age of 13, all in the 1970s. "Paul Gadd abused his access to young fans in order to give himself the opportunities to assault and abuse his victims," Chief Crown Prosecutor Baljit Ubhey said in a statement after the verdict.
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| Climate change pushes India's poorest children into slavery - Satyarthi | |  By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Disasters resulting from climate change are pushing poor Indian families into poverty so deep that they are lured by traffickers into selling their children into bonded labour or prostitution, Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi said on Thursday. "I have witnessed many incidents where the children became the worst victims of environmental disasters caused by climate change and these kind of things," Satyarthi told Reuters TV on the sidelines of a conference on climate change.
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| Sri Lanka bans alleged killer of Rajiv Gandhi from travelling abroad | |  By Ranga Sirilal COLOMBO (Reuters) - A Sri Lankan court on Thursday barred former Tamil Tiger rebel leader Kumaran Pathmanathan, wanted by India in connection with the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, from travelling abroad, a lawyer said. Pathmanathan, who became leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in 2009, after their defeat by the Sri Lankan army, is also on Interpol's most wanted list on charges including arms smuggling and criminal conspiracy. "The Court of Appeal issued an order to the Controller of Emigration and Immigration to prevent him leaving the country," said Sunil Watagala, a lawyer who had sought Pathmanathan's arrest. Pathmanathan had been the LTTE's chief arms procurer and run its global fund-raising network as it fought to carve out a separate state for minority Tamils in Sri Lanka.
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