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| More Ashley Madison affair website data leaked online -report | |  Emails sent by the founder of infidelity website AshleyMadison.com appear to have been exposed in a second, larger release of data stolen from its parent company, Vice Media's online technology site Motherboard reported on Thursday. The data dump by a group of hackers who have attacked the site appeared to include email messages linked to Noel Biderman, the site's founder and chief executive officer of its parent company Avid Life Media. In a message, the hackers, who call themselves the Impact Team said: "Hey Noel, you can admit it's real now." The release comes as the U.S Defence Department said it was investigating the alleged use of military email accounts on the site.
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| FIFA give little away after secretive sponsors' meeting | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - FIFA discussed reforms with some of its leading commercial partners on Thursday during a secretive meeting at the headquarters of world soccer's scandal-plagued governing body. FIFA told its partners it was committed to reform and transparency but would not comment further on the meeting which it described as "internal." "During the meeting, FIFA reaffirmed its commitment to transparency, reform, and collaboration with its valued partners," said a statement. "No further comment will be made on the internal discussions between the parties." FIFA said that AB InBev, Adidas, Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Visa were present.
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| Tsipras resigns, paving way for snap Greek election | |  By Renee Maltezou and Michele Kambas ATHENS (Reuters) - Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras resigned on Thursday, hoping to strengthen his hold on power in snap elections after seven months in office in which he fought Greece's creditors for a better bailout deal but had to cave in. Tsipras submitted his resignation to President Prokopis Pavlopoulos and asked for the earliest possible election date. Government officials said the aim was to hold the election on Sept. 20, with Tsipras seeking to crush a rebellion in his leftist Syriza party and seal public support for the bailout programme, Greece's third since 2010, that he negotiated.
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| Greek main opposition party leader says he'll try to form government | |  Greece's main opposition party leader said on Wednesday he would contact leaders of other parties to try to form a government after Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras resigned, adding that his New Democracy party was ready to contest elections too. Given the arithmetic of the current parliament, New Democracy has little chance of pulling a coalition together.
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| Eurogroup's Dijsselbloem hopes Greek elections won't delay reforms | |  Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem said on Thursday he hoped the resignation of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and new elections would not delay or derail the bailout package Athens has negotiated with its creditors. "It is crucial that Greece maintains its commitments to the Eurozone," Dijsselbloem said in a statement emailed to Reuters. "I recall the broad support in the Greek parliament for the new program and reform package and I hope the elections will lead to even more support in the new Greek parliament." Dijsselbloem's remarks follow Tsipras's decision to resign and call snap elections earlier on Thursday.
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| Mauritanian anti-slavery activist loses appeal against jail | | | A Mauritanian court on Thursday rejected an appeal by the country's leading anti-slavery campaigner to be released from jail, upholding a two-year sentence passed in January. The West African government has attempted to criminalise slavery and last week passed a law making it a crime against humanity and doubling prison terms for offenders. Biram Dah Abeid, a former presidential candidate, was arrested in November during a peaceful anti-slavery march. |
| Greek PM announces to resign to pave way for snap polls | |  Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said he would resign on Thursday to pave the way for early elections, saying it was up to Greeks to judge whether he adequately represented them in a battle with foreign lenders on austerity demands. "The political mandate of the January 25 elections has exhausted its limits and now the Greek people have to have their say," Tsipras said in a televised address. Fresh from clinching a bailout deal, Tsipras opted for early elections to consolidate his position after nearly a third of lawmakers from his Syriza party refused to back the programme in parliament last week, robbing him of a guaranteed political majority.
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| "King of Rome" given Godfather funeral | | | The head of a notorious Rome crime family was given a lavish funeral on Thursday, with a helicopter dropping red rose petals on mourners and a brass band playing the theme tune from the Godfather movie. Italian politicians denounced the ostentatious sendoff for Vittorio Casamonica, 65, and called on the interior ministry to explain whether it had given special permits for the ceremony. An ornate hearse pulled by six, black-plumed horses, carried Casamonica's body to a Roman Catholic basilica in the Rome suburbs, where a funeral mass was celebrated. |
| Two Thai bomb 'suspects' deny link, international terrorism "unlikely" | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Aukkarapon Niyomyat BANGKOK (Reuters) - A bomb attack in Bangkok in which 20 people were killed was likely planned weeks in advance by a group of 10 people, Thai authorities said on Thursday. No one has claimed responsibility for the blast, Thailand's worst bombing, on Monday evening at a popular Hindu shrine crowded with tourists. The elimination of foreign militant involvement would feed speculation that either Muslim separatists waging a low-intensity insurgency in southern Thailand, or domestic political activists, were involved.
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| Tensions rise as North and South Korea exchange artillery fire | | | By Ju-min Park and Tony Munroe SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea fired dozens of artillery rounds towards North Korea on Thursday after the North shelled across the border to protest against anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts by Seoul - the first exchange of fire in 10 months. North Korea did not return fire but warned Seoul in a letter that it would take military action if the South did not stop the loudspeaker broadcasts along the border within 48 hours, the South's Defence Ministry said. |
| Germany charges suspected U.S and Russian spy with treason | | | German prosecutors said on Thursday they had charged a former employee of the BND foreign intelligence agency with treason and suspect he gave secrets to both the United States and Russia up until last year. The arrest last year of the man, identified as Markus R., chilled relations between Berlin and Washington, the closest of allies during the Cold War, and followed revelations of extensive snooping on Germany by the U.S. National Security Agency. Arrested in July last year on suspicion of spying for the Americans, he was charged on Aug. 11 this year on two counts of treason, breaking official secrets and corruption, said prosecutors. |
| Pakistan bans film on Mumbai attacks after accused mastermind protests | |  By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Pakistani court on Thursday banned an Indian film about the 2008 Mumbai attacks in response to a petition filed by the man New Delhi accuses of masterminding the killing of 166 people over three days. Hafiz Saeed, the founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba which the United Nations has listed as a terrorist organisation, petitioned the court to ban the Kabir Khan-directed feature film "Phantom" on the basis that it maligns Pakistan and vilifies Saeed and his current organisation, Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The Lahore High Court issued a ban on Thursday, Saeed's lawyer said.
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