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| Egypt court ruling halts parliamentary election -judicial sources | | | Egypt's Administrative Court issued a ruling on Tuesday that effectively halts the March/April parliamentary election process, judicial sources said. The state-run Al Ahram news portal confirmed the Administrative Court's ruling. "The Administrative Court ruled ... halting the execution of the measures taken by the High Election Committee based on the ruling of the Constitutional Court," a judicial source said, citing the ruling. The Supreme Constitutional Court on Sunday found part of an election law that has to do with defining voting districts unconstitutional. |
| Nigeria's Boko Haram releases beheading video echoing Islamic State | | | Nigeria's Islamist sect Boko Haram released a video purporting to show it beheading two men, its first online posting using advanced graphics and editing techniques reminiscent of footage from Islamic State. The footage will stoke concerns that Boko Haram, which evolved out of a clerical movement focused on northeast Nigeria, is expanding its scope and seeking inspiration from global militant networks including al Qaeda and Islamic State. Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has said Boko Haram is allied to both al Qaeda and its offshoot Islamic State, though that has not been confirmed by the group itself. |
| India widens oil leaks probe to defence ministry; security concerns grow | |  By Nidhi Verma and Rupam Jain Nair NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has widened an investigation into leaks of confidential documents from its oil ministry to include the defence ministry, raising fears that other secrets vital to national security may have fallen into the wrong hands. The scandal has engulfed the oil ministry since the arrest two weeks ago of low-level staff suspected of stealing secret documents and selling them to journalists who styled themselves as high-profile industry consultants. So far, investigators have focused on how that information was, in turn, used by some of India's biggest oil companies to pre-empt unfavourable decisions or hurt rivals. Among the documents recovered are correspondence signed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's top aide, proposals for the annual budget and a presentation on the foreign unit of state oil firm ONGC .
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| Mourners pay respects to murdered Kremlin critic Nemtsov | |  By Alexander Winning MOSCOW (Reuters) - Several hundred Russians, many carrying red carnations, queued on Tuesday to pay their respects to Boris Nemtsov, the Kremlin critic whose murder last week showed the hazards of speaking out against Russian President Vladimir Putin. Putin's aides deny any involvement in killing Nemtsov, who was shot in the back four times on Friday within sight of the Kremlin walls, but Nemtsov's friends say he was the victim of an atmosphere of hatred whipped up against anyone who opposes the president. In a gesture of conciliation from the Kremlin, Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich joined mourners filing into the hall where Nemtsov's open casket was on display. Dvorkovich, from the Kremlin's increasingly sidelined liberal camp, was carrying a bunch of red flowers.
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| Exclusive: Obama sharply criticizes China's plans for new technology rules | |  By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday sharply criticized China's plans for new rules on U.S. tech companies, urging Beijing to change the policy if it wants to do business with the United States and saying he had raised it with President Xi Jinping. In an interview with Reuters, Obama said he was concerned about Beijing's plans for a far-reaching counterterrorism law that would require technology firms to hand over encryption keys, the passcodes that help protect data, and install security "backdoors" in their systems to give Chinese authorities surveillance access. "This is something that I've raised directly with President Xi," Obama said. "We have made it very clear to them that this is something they are going to have to change if they are to do business with the United States." The Chinese government sees the rules as crucial to protect state and business secrets.
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| Insight: Costly shift to new credit cards won't fix security issues | |  By Nandita Bose CHICAGO (Reuters) - New technology about to be deployed by credit card companies will require U.S. consumers to carry a new kind of card and retailers across the nation to upgrade payment terminals. Credit card companies have set an October deadline for the switch to chip-enabled cards, which come with embedded computer chips that make them far more difficult to clone. Counterfeit cards, however, account for only about 37 percent of credit card fraud, and the new technology will be nearly as vulnerable to other kinds of hacking and cyber attacks as current swipe-card systems, security experts say. Moreover, U.S. banks and card companies will not issue personal identification numbers (PINs) with the new credit cards, an additional security measure that would render stolen or lost cards virtually useless when making in-person purchases at a retail outlet.
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| Sun Pharma to buy Glaxo's opiates business in Australia | |  Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd , India's largest drugmaker by sales, said on Tuesday it has agreed to buy GlaxoSmithKline's opiates business in Australia to strengthen its pain management portfolio. The business consists of analgesics made from raw materials found in opium poppy plants, and includes two manufacturing sites in the states of Tasmania and Victoria. A Sun Pharma spokesman declined to comment. Glaxo did not immediately respond to a request seeking comment.
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| Small step by Tokyo district could be giant leap for LGBT equality | |  By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) - Same-sex couples in Japan are awaiting the results of a debate in a Tokyo local assembly that may give them what their Western counterparts have long had: a chance to step out of the shadows. The proposal by Tokyo's Shibuya ward to recognise same-sex partnerships from April may seem insignificant compared with the United States, where gay marriage is legal in all but 13 states. It may be much less than we expected, but the first bit is really hard," said Hitoshi Ohashi, who runs a gallery out of the Tokyo apartment he shares with his partner, author Bob Tobin. "We must have the same guarantees and rights," added Ohashi, whose marriage to Tobin in California lacks legal standing in Japan.
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