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| Pachauri told to stay away from TERI after harassment claim - TRFN | |  By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A court on Thursday ordered Rajendra Pachauri, a leading global voice on climate change, to stay away from his Delhi thinktank after a female employee accused him of sexual harassment. Pachauri, 74, quit as chair of the United Nations panel of climate scientists on Tuesday, ending 13 turbulent years in charge of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning group, after the employee, a 29-year-old researcher, made the accusation. Pachauri, who had been chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 2002, denies the allegation. The Indian scientist remains director general of the non-profit thinktank The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), which was set up in 1974 and where he oversees about 1,200 staff.
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| Apple faces second suit from victorious patent firm | |  Fresh off a $532.9 million jury win against Apple Inc , a Texas company is again suing the tech giant, this time over the same patents' use in devices introduced after the original case was underway. Smartflash LLC aims to make Apple pay for using the patent licensing firm's technology without permission in devices not be included in the previous case, such as the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus and the iPad Air 2. The trial covered older Apple devices. On Tuesday, a jury in federal court in Tyler, Texas found that Apple wilfully violated three Smartflash patents with devices that use its iTunes software.
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| 'Jihadi John' killer from Islamic State beheading videos unmasked as Londoner | |  By Michael Holden and Mark Hosenball LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The masked "Jihadi John" killer who fronted Islamic State beheading videos has been identified as Mohammed Emwazi, a British computer programming graduate from a well-to-do London family. The black-clad militant brandishing a knife and speaking with an English accent was shown in videos released by Islamic State (IS) apparently decapitating hostages including Americans, Britons and Syrians. The 26-year-old militant used the videos to threaten the West, admonish its Arab allies and taunt President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron before petrified hostages cowering in orange jump suits.
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| Tougher Internet rules hit U.S. cable, telecom companies | |  By Alina Selyukh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators on Thursday imposed the toughest rules yet on Internet service providers, aiming to ensure fair treatment of all web traffic through their networks. The Federal Communications Commission voted along party lines, with Democrats in favour, to approve new "net neutrality" rules that seek to restrict broadband providers' power to control download speeds on the web, for instance by potentially giving preference to companies that can afford to pay more. The new regulations come after a year of jostling between cable and telecom companies and net neutrality advocates, which included web startups. It culminated in the FCC receiving a record 4 million comments and a call from President Barack Obama to adopt the strongest rules possible.
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| France will hand Austria HSBC tax data within days | |  France will soon hand over to Austria tax data linked to leaked client data of lender HSBC Holdings Plc which has admitted failings in compliance at its Swiss private bank, France's finance minister said on Thursday. "My administration will of course respond positively to this request and will transfer the information desired by the Austrian authorities in the coming days," Michel Sapin told journalists after meeting Austrian counterpart Hans Joerg Schelling. Earlier this month, Austria asked France to hand over tax data on HSBC clients linked with Austria.
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| Insight - Jordan takes no chances in confronting homegrown Jihadis | | | By Samia Nakhoul and Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - At Jordan's State Security court, Islamic State militants, clad in green military fatigues with long, unkempt beards, stood impassively, awaiting sentence inside a black iron cage. The barred enclosure was very much like the one in which their fellow jihadis in Syria burned alive Jordanian pilot Mouath al-Kasaesbeh, igniting a storm across a troubled kingdom in an uneasy alliance with the West against Islamic State (IS). |
| Air strikes hit IS in Syria after 220 Christians abducted | | | By Oliver Holmes and Tom Perry BEIRUT (Reuters) - A U.S.-led alliance launched air strikes against Islamic State on Thursday in an area of northeast Syria where the militants are now estimated to have abducted at least 220 Assyrian Christians this week, a group monitoring the war reported. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the air strikes targeted Islamic State fighters near the town of Tel Tamr, where the militants, also known as ISIS, had captured 10 Assyrian villages. A prominent Syrian Christian, Bassam Ishak, told Reuters: "Some people have tried to call them by cellphone, the relatives that have been abducted, and they get an answer from a member of ISIS who tells that they will send the head of their relative. "They are trying to terrorise the parents, the relatives in the Christian Assyrian community," said Ishak, who is president of the Syriac National Council of Syria. |
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