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| Two arrested in White House security incidents -Secret Service | |  Uniformed Secret Service police have arrested two people who breached security at the White House and triggered brief lockdowns at the presidential residence, the Secret Service said on Monday. One person was arrested about 11:30 p.m. EST on Sunday (0430 GMT Monday) after climbing over a bicycle rack set up outside the White House's main fence and charged with unlawful entry, Secret Service spokesman Brian Leary said. At about 6:45 a.m. EST (1145 GMT) on Monday another person was stopped after trying to enter through a White House gate as a construction worker was going out. The White House was briefly locked down after both incidents as part of Secret Service protocol.
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| Twitter, law enforcement investigate alleged Islamic State threats | |  Twitter Inc and law enforcement authorities are investigating alleged threats made by Islamic State militants against the social media network's co-founder and other employees, the company said in reaction to media reports. "Our security team is investigating the veracity of these threats with relevant law enforcement officials," a representative for Twitter said in a statement on Monday.
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| Georgia's sole female death row inmate set to be executed | | | The only woman on death row in Georgia is scheduled to be executed on Monday for her husband's 1997 murder, barring last-minute legal action. Kelly Renee Gissendaner, 46, would be the first woman executed by the state in 70 years. Prosecutors said she plotted with her boyfriend, Gregory Owen, to kill her husband, Douglas Gissendaner, who was stabbed to death in a desolate area in suburban Atlanta after being abducted from his home. Owen confessed to carrying out the Feb. 7, 1997 murder and implicated Kelly Gissendaner. |
| Rebekah Brooks in talks to return to News Corp - source | |  By Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - Rebekah Brooks, the former Rupert Murdoch protegee cleared last year of running an illegal campaign to hack into phones for tabloid scoops, is in talks to return to the media conglomerate, a source said on Monday. A person familiar with the situation said Brooks, who rose in 14 years from the most junior newsroom position to edit the country's biggest selling newspaper, was likely to return to a role focusing on new digital and social media avenues. Under the proposal, she was likely to be based in Britain and would work with Storyful, a 2013 News Corp acquisition that discovers, verifies and acquires news and footage on social media networks. If agreed, the role will mark the first time the 46-year-old has returned to News Corp since she quit in July 2011 amid a firestorm sparked by revelations that staff at the News of the World tabloid had hacked into the phones of thousands of people to break news.
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| Indian Oil suspends official for leaking information - sources | |  Indian Oil Corp (IOC), the country's biggest refiner, has suspended its general manager for international trade for allegedly leaking confidential information to an official of a private company, several company sources told Reuters. This comes amid a crackdown on the leak of documents from Indian government offices. Police have so far arrested more than a dozen people including private company executives and ministry officials. State-run IOC suspended Debangshu Ray from Friday after it was found he was leaking sensitive information by phone, the sources said, declining to be named due to the sensitivity of the issue.
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| Saudi consul released after three years as hostage in Yemen | | | RIYADH (Reuters) - A Saudi Arabian diplomat returned to Riyadh on Monday after he was released by kidnappers in Yemen where he spent three years as a hostage, the kingdom's Interior Ministry said in a statement carried by state media. Abdullah al-Khalidi, Saudi Arabia's consul in Aden, was seized in March 2012 and later appeared as a hostage in videos released by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) calling on the Saudi authorities to do more to free him. (Reporting by Angus McDowall, editing by Sami Aboudi/Jeremy Gaunt) |
| Lavrov calls Nemtsov murder "heinous crime"; urges moves by Ukraine | |  Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told the main U.N. human rights forum on Monday that the murder of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov was a "heinous crime" and that President Vladimir Putin was leading an investigation to bring perpetrators to justice. He addressed the Geneva forum shortly before U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and after the foreign ministers of Croatia and Slovakia voiced concern at the killing in Moscow on Friday. Lavrov also called on Ukraine to distance itself from what he called "extremists" in the east and pursue a course towards peace.
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