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| Accused owner of 'BlackShades' malware near guilty plea -filing | | | By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Swedish man who U.S. authorities say helped create malicious software used to hack half a million computers worldwide is expected to plead guilty in New York next week, according to a court filing. Alex Yucel, 24, the alleged owner of BlackShades, has reached a plea deal in principle, according to a document filed by federal prosecutors on Monday. BlackShades sold software that gave hackers remote control of other people's computers, allowing them to record keystrokes, steal passwords and gain access to personal files, according to authorities. "We anticipate that the plea agreement will be executed by the end of this week," Assistant U.S. Attorney Sarah Lai wrote to U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel, asking him to set a date next week for a possible guilty plea. |
| Egypt court sentences 183 Muslim Brotherhood supporters to death | | | By Omar Fahmy CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court sentenced 183 supporters of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood to death on Monday on charges of killing police officers, part of a sustained crackdown by authorities on Islamists. The men were convicted of playing a role in the killings of 16 policemen in the town of Kardasa in August 2013 during the upheaval that followed the army's ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Mursi. Thirty-four of them were sentenced in absentia. ... |
| Rap mogul Suge Knight's bail revoked in fatal hit-and-run case | |  Rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight, who was arrested on suspicion of murder last week in Los Angeles after police said he ran over two people before fleeing the scene, has had his bail revoked, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said on Monday. The 49-year-old co-founder of the hip-hop label Death Row Records was being held on more than $2 million bail, but it was revoked because he was deemed a possible flight risk, a candidate for California's three-strike rule and his criminal past, Sheriff's Deputy Amber Smith said. Knight was also considered a possible risk to intimidate witnesses, Smith said. Knight, who has served time in prison for violating terms of past sentences, has yet to be charged.
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| Al Jazeera journalist relieved to be free, calls for release of colleagues | |  By Amena Bakr DOHA (Reuters) - Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste said on Monday it was a great relief to be freed from prison in Egypt, but that he felt "incredible angst" about leaving two imprisoned colleagues behind. He and two colleagues had been sentenced to seven years on charges that included aiding a "terrorist" group, according to security officials but the journalists have said they were simply reporting the news when arrested in December 2013. "This (release) has been like a rebirth," he said in an interview on Al Jazeera, his first public remarks since he was freed. Al Jazeera journalists Mohamed Fahmy, a Canadian-Egyptian, and Baher Mohamed, an Egyptian national, remain in prison in Cairo.
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| Dutch journalist to be tried in Turkey on 'terror propaganda' charges | | | A Turkish court will try Dutch journalist on charges she disseminated "terrorist propaganda", a move that is likely to deepen Western fears over press freedom in the NATO member state. The indictment accuses freelance journalist Frederike Geerdink of posting messages on Facebook and Twitter in favour of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), she told Reuters by telephone. "I am constantly thinking about how to do my job as a journalist and ... always make conscientious choices and choose my words carefully," Geerdink said. While Kurdish and Turkish journalists are often targeted by prosecutors, Geerdink's indictment is a rare instance of a foreign journalist being pursued on criminal charges in Turkey. |
| U.N. says peace talks to start in Libya within next few days | | | By Ahmed and Elumami TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Peace talks between Libya's warring factions and the two governments they back will start within days, a U.N. special envoy said on Monday, after efforts to bring together senior representatives from both sides in Geneva failed last month. Libya has been in chaos since a NATO-backed revolt ousted Muammar Gaddafi nearly four years ago and its rival governments are kept in power by armed groups which Western powers fear are dragging the country into full-scale civil war. Last month, the U.N. managed to bring some members of the factions to talks in Geneva but the Tripoli-based parliament known as GNC wanted the dialogue to take place inside Libya. |
| Spain to pass measures to tackle homegrown Islamist militants | | | REUTERS - The Spanish government and the main opposition party have agreed to pass new measures to combat individuals travelling to fight in radical Islamist groups or acting in "lone wolf" attacks on home soil, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Monday. The agreement follows last month's attacks by Islamist militants in Paris, which prompted European governments to look at expanding the powers of their security agencies. ... |
| Obama proposes $3.99 trillion budget, draws scorn from Republicans | |  By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday proposed a $3.99 trillion budget that drew scorn from Republicans and set up battles over tax reform, infrastructure spending, and the quest to prove which party best represents the middle class. In his fiscal year 2016 budget blueprint, a political document that must be approved by Congress to take effect, Obama proposed a series of programs to help middle-income Americans that he would pay for with higher taxes on corporations and wealthy individuals. Obama's budget fleshes out proposals from his State of the Union address last month and helps highlight Democratic priorities for the last two years of his presidency and the beginning of the 2016 presidential campaign. "I know there are Republicans who disagree with my approach.
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| 'Power Rangers' actor arrested in fatal sword stabbing in California | | | An actor who co-starred in the "Power Rangers Wild Force" television series has been arrested on suspicion of stabbing a roommate to death with a sword in Southern California, authorities said on Monday. The slaying on Saturday afternoon in Palmdale, California, north of Los Angeles, stemmed from an argument between the suspect and the victim that turned violent, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said in a statement. According to an account of the incident provided by sheriff's deputies, the suspect, Ricardo Medina, 36, retreated to his bedroom with his girlfriend during the altercation, but his roommate, Joshua Sutter, followed them and forced open the door. A spokeswoman for the department confirmed that Medina is the actor who played the Red Lion Wild Force Ranger on the "Power Rangers Wild Force" TV series in 2002. |
| Female Iraqi militant held by Jordan is heroine to jihadists | |  By Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Stephen Kalin AMMAN/BAGHDAD (Reuters) - When her husband blew himself up in a luxury hotel during a wedding in Amman a decade ago, Sajida al-Rishawi was meant to die too, but her suicide bomb belt did not go off. Today, as a death-row prisoner in Jordan, she is a heroine to jihadists in the region, who may be willing to swap a Jordanian pilot for her. Rishawi, now in her mid-40s, has an influential background in militant circles: she hails from a powerful Sunni clan in Western Iraq, and her brother was a top lieutenant of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the founder of al Qaeda's Iraq branch. Today, that group has since transformed itself into Islamic State, breaking off from al Qaeda and controlling swathes of Iraq and Syria.
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| Four surviving Magna Carta copies on show together after 800 years | |  By Sarah Young LONDON (Reuters) - The four surviving original copies of the Magna Carta, the English treaty which established that nobody was above the law, were put on display together in London's British Museum on Monday for the first time. Just 1,215 ballot winners will see the copies of the treaty in which King John granted rights to rebel barons. King John added his seal to the Magna Carta, or Great Charter, giving all free men the right to justice and a fair trial, after landowners, reacting against heavy taxation, had renounced their oaths of allegiances to him and captured London. Written with quills on vellum in 1215, it became a symbol for the rule of law and helped to inspire the U.S. constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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| As U.S. faces new threats, Pentagon seeks bigger defense budget | |  By David Alexander and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facing new security challenges in the Middle East and Ukraine, the Obama administration on Monday proposed a $534 billion Pentagon base budget plus $51 billion in war funds as it urged Congress to end spending cuts which it says erode U.S. military power. In addition to the base budget and war funding requests, the administration proposed some $27 billion in defense spending at other agencies, primarily nuclear weapons work by the Department of Energy. The Pentagon base budget proposal broke through the $499 billion federal spending cap for fiscal year 2016, setting up a debate in Congress over whether to continue deep cuts to federal discretionary spending or to amend the limits set in a 2011 law that sought to narrow the U.S. budget deficit.
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| CORRECTED - Uber probed by U.S. judge on driver benefits | |  (In Jan 30 item, corrects judge's name to Vince, not Vincent, in paragraph 7) By Dan Levine SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. judge appeared skeptical on Friday about Uber's bid for a quick pretrial ruling that its drivers are contractors and not employees, a critical question facing Silicon Valley's sharing economy. App-based ride service Uber, and smaller rival Lyft, face separate lawsuits seeking class action status in San Francisco federal court, brought on behalf of drivers who contend they are employees and entitled to reimbursement for expenses, including gas and vehicle maintenance. At a court hearing on Friday, U.S. District Judge Edward Chen said Uber's bid for a pretrial ruling its drivers are contractors is a "tough argument" to make, given that the drivers serve Uber's business goals. "The idea that Uber is simply a software platform, a service provider and nothing else, I don't find that a very persuasive argument," Chen said.
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| Saudi Arabia has helped save British lives - PM Cameron says | |  Saudi Arabia has given information which helped save British lives, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday, saying it was important to maintain a relationship with the kingdom despite accusations it has a poor record on human rights. The British government's decision to fly the Union flag at half mast on public buildings following the death of Saudi's King Abdullah last month drew criticism human rights campaigners and several prominent British politicians. Asked about this decision during a question and answer session on Sky news on Monday, Cameron said the countries had a long standing relationship and it was "a mark of respect". "We have a relationship with Saudi Arabia partly over things like trying to achieve peace in the Middle East but crucially over fighting terrorism ... Since I have been prime minister a piece of information that we have been given by that country has saved potentially hundreds of lives here in Britain," he said.
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| Albanian highwaymen outwitted by Chinese karate skills | | | Three Albanian gunmen met their match when they held up three Chinese contractors only to be outwitted and overpowered by the karate skills of their would-be victims. The Chinese contractors re-enacted for Albania's News24 TV on Monday what they said had happened on a mountain road in northern Albania on Sunday after they were held up at gunpoint. |
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