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| Al Jazeera journalist Greste arrives home in Australia | | Thursday, February 05, 2015 3:14 AM | |
|  Peter Greste, the Al Jazeera journalist freed after more than a year in an Egyptian prison, arrived back in his Australian homeland on Thursday and called for the release of two colleagues still in custody. He had been sentenced to seven years on charges that included aiding a terrorist group in a case that had attracted widespread attention and criticism of Egypt's leadership and judiciary. This is a moment that I've rehearsed in my mind at least 400 times over the past well, 400 days," said Greste after embracing well-wishers on his arrival in Brisbane. Greste's colleagues, Canadian-Egyptian Mohamed Fahmy and Egyptian national Baher Mohamed, remain in prison. They were jailed for between seven and 10 years on charges including spreading lies to help a terrorist organisation - a reference to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.
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| Health insurer Anthem hit by hackers - WSJ | | Thursday, February 05, 2015 3:01 AM | |
|  REUTERS - Health insurer Anthem Inc said hackers broke into a database containing personal information for about 80 million of its customers and employees, the Wall Street Journal reported. Investigators are still determining the extent of the incursion that was discovered last week, and Anthem said it is likely that tens of millions of records were stolen, the Journal reported. (http://on.wsj.com/1EEZxJy) Reuters could not immediately reach Anthem for comment outside regular U.S. business hours. (Reporting by Supriya Kurane in Bengaluru)
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| U.S. must improve defences, cyberattack response - Pentagon nominee | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government must improve its ability to defend against and respond to escalating cyberattacks on its computer networks, President Barack Obama's nominee for defence secretary Ashton Carter said Wednesday. Carter said the U.S. responses to cyberattacks could include actions in cyberspace or using other means. Obama last year blamed a cyberattack on Sony Pictures on North Korea and imposed new sanctions to cut the country's remaining links to the international financial system. (Reporting by Andrea Shalal and Lisa Lambert; Editing by James Dalgleish)
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| Killing of Jordanian pilot bolsters king's case for war | |  By Suleiman Al-Khalidi KARAK, Jordan (Reuters) - The brutal killing of a Jordanian pilot by Islamic State militants has triggered a wave of nationalist fervour that may bolster King Abdullah's case for a military campaign his country is waging against the group alongside the United States. In the slain pilot's home region of Karak, criticism voiced of the government's failure to bring home airman Mouath al-Kasaesbeh has given way to demands for revenge and military retribution against Islamic State in Syria. Unable to bury the slain pilot, who was shown burnt to death in a cage and then crushed under rubble in a video released on Tuesday, his family received condolences at their home village of Ay near Karak, 100 km (60 miles) south of Amman. Held in a traditional tent adorned with portrait photos of the newlywed 28-year-old Kasaesbeh, the gathering was an occasion for grief but also a show of support for King Abdullah who has faced public criticism over the hostage crisis.
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| Islamist militant 'Marwan' possibly killed in Philippines raid -FBI | | | By Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) - DNA tests indicate one of the United States' "most wanted terrorists," Zulkifli bin Hir, also known as Marwan, may have been killed in a raid by police in the Philippines last week, the FBI said on Wednesday. The results of the tests conducted by the FBI "do not provide absolute identification," said David Bowdich, assistant director for the FBI's Los Angeles field office. The FBI had offered $5 million for the arrest of bin Hir, a Malaysian member of the al Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiah militant group behind numerous bombing attacks in the Philippines. |
| Chad, Cameroon say kill 250 Boko Haram fighters in regional offensive | | | By Madjiasra Nako and Bate Felix N'DJAMENA/DAKAR (Reuters) - Troops from Cameroon and Chad killed more than 250 Boko Haram militants in two days of heavy fighting in a major regional offensive against the Islamists from neighbouring Nigeria, their governments said on Wednesday. Cameroon said it forces fought off an attack on one of its border towns early on Wednesday by Boko Haram, a group that has kidnapped hundreds and killed thousands in northern Nigeria and mounted increasingly bloody cross-border raids. Cameroon's L'Oeil du Sahel newspaper said Boko Haram fighters raided mosques and houses in the town, slitting people's throats and killing dozens. The reports could not be verified and Boko Haram does not give statements to the media. |
| Islamic State selling, crucifying, burying children alive in Iraq - UN | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Islamic State militants are selling abducted Iraqi children at markets as sex slaves, and killing other youth, including by crucifixion or burying them alive, a United Nations watchdog said on Wednesday. Iraqi boys aged under 18 are increasingly being used by the militant group as suicide bombers, bomb makers, informants or human shields to protect facilities against U.S.-led air strikes, the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child said. "We are really deeply concerned at torture and murder of those children, especially those belonging to minorities, but not only from minorities," committee expert Renate Winter told a news briefing. "We have had reports of children, especially children who are mentally challenged, who have been used as suicide bombers, most probably without them even understanding," Winter told Reuters.
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| At least 21 killed in machete attack in northeast Congo | | | At least 14 men and seven women were killed overnight in the town of Mayangose in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo by machete-wielding attackers who, unusually, spared their children, a civil society leader said on Wednesday. Ugandan militants from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF)group that operates along the Congo border attacked between 9 p.m. (1900 GMT) and 1 a.m., Omar Kavota, a spokesman for the Civil Society of North Kivu said from the nearby city of Beni. "They killed 14 men and seven women, but this time they spared the young children." Local government officials were not available for comment. Martin Kobler, head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission to Congo (MONUSCO) said in a statement that tens of people had been killed in the attack. |
| Jordanian king vows "relentless" war on Islamic State's own ground | |  By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordan's King Abdullah vowed a "relentless" war against Islamic State on their own territory on Wednesday in response to a video published by the hard-line group showing a captured Jordanian pilot being burned alive in a cage. Jordan hanged two Iraqi jihadists, one a woman, on Wednesday and vowed to intensify military action against Islamic State. Jordan, which is part of the U.S.-led alliance against Islamic State, had promised an "earth-shaking response" to the killing of its pilot, Mouath al-Kasaesbeh, who was captured in December when his F-16 warplane crashed over northeastern Syria. Government spokesman Mohammad al-Momani said on Wednesday: "We are talking about a collaborative effort between coalition members to intensify efforts to stop extremism and terrorism to undermine, degrade and eventually finish Daesh." Daesh is used as a derogatory Arabic term for Islamic State.
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| Egyptian court sends activist Ahmed Douma to jail for life | |  An Egyptian court sentenced prominent activist Ahmed Douma to life in prison on Wednesday, judicial sources said, part of a sustained crackdown on Islamist and liberal government opponents. Douma, a leading figure in the pro-democracy revolt that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak, was convicted of rioting, inciting violence and attacking security forces in late 2011. The judge, Mohamed Nagi Shehata, jailed three Al Jazeera journalists, including Australian Peter Greste, last year in a case that provoked an international outcry, and has sentenced hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood supporters to death. {ID:nL6N0VB0M5] He runs a criminal court in Giza, a satellite city of Cairo, and has played a prominent role in the Egyptian judiciary's mass jailings of Islamist and liberal demonstrators since Islamist president Mohamed Mursi was deposed in mid-2013.
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