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| Myanmar lawmakers to vote on recall bill amid political turmoil | |  By Timothy Mclaughlin and Antoni Slodkowski YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar lawmakers will vote on Thursday on a bill that could lead to the impeachment of ousted ruling party chief Shwe Mann, as political factions realign after the ex-general was dramatically sacked by the president last week. Shwe Mann was purged less than three months before a general election in Myanmar, which has undergone major changes since the end of direct military rule in 2011, but where rival forces are now vying for power after an unprecedented period of reform. Myanmar's commander-in-chief reiterated the need for the army to maintain its powerful role in politics, but said it would accept the results of the Nov. 8 election in comments posted in English on his Facebook page on Thursday.
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| Hacker's Ashley Madison data dump threatens marriages, reputations | |  By Josephine Mason and Alastair Sharp TORONTO (Reuters) - Love lives and reputations may be at risk after the release of customer data from infidelity website Ashley Madison, an unprecedented breach of privacy likely to rattle users' attitudes towards the Internet. Hackers dumped a big cache of data containing millions of email addresses for U.S. government officials, UK civil servants and high-level executives at European and North America corporations late on Tuesday, the latest cyber attack to raise concerns about Internet security and data protection. The hacker attack has been a big blow to Toronto-based assignation website firm Avid Life Media, which owns Ashley Madison and has indefinitely postponed the adultery site's IPO plans.
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| Exclusive: U.S. government, police working on counter-drone system - sources | | | By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As concerns rise about a security menace posed by rogue drone flights, U.S. government agencies are working with state and local police forces to develop high-tech systems to protect vulnerable sites, according to sources familiar with the matter. Although the research aimed at tracking and disabling drones is at an early stage, there has been at least one field test. Last New Year's Eve, New York police used a microwave-based system to try to track a commercially available drone at a packed Times Square and send it back to its operator, according to one source involved in the test. |
| More racial unrest in St. Louis after police kill black suspect | | | St. Louis police fatally shot a black teenager on Wednesday, who they say pointed a gun at them, and later faced angry crowds, reigniting racial tensions first sparked by the killing of an unarmed black teen in another Missouri town a year ago. St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson said the shooting took place when young black men ran out the back door of a house where officers were carrying out a search warrant. Officers ordered the pair to stop in an alley behind the house. |
| Australia detains 7 young citizens suspected of seeking to join militants | | | By Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian authorities have detained seven young nationals as they were attempting to fly to the Middle East, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Thursday, over suspicions they wanted to join Islamist militant groups. "We have stopped at the airport, seven young Australians who were planning to travel to the Middle East it seems to join terrorist groups over there," Abbott told reporters in Canberra. Australia is on high alert for attacks by radicalised Muslims, including home-grown militants returning from fighting in the Middle East, having raised its threat level to "high" and unleashed a series of high-profile raids in cities. |
| Thai police seek Interpol help to track bomb suspect | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand has asked Interpol for help in tracking down the man they believe planted a bomb in Bangkok that killed 20 people, sending the international police organisation an image of the suspected bomber. "We sent a request for assistance," deputy national police spokesman Kissana Phathancharoen told Reuters. There has been no claim of responsibility and police have not determined a motive for the worst ever bomb attack in Thailand.
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| Blast near Cairo state security building wounds six - security sources | | | By Ahmed, Mohamed and Hassan CAIRO (Reuters) - At least six people were wounded early on Thursday in a car bombing near a state security building and courthouse in a Cairo suburb, security sources said. Comments on Twitter indicated the blast was heard in several parts of the Egyptian capital. Shopkeeper Mohamed Ali said he saw a man park a vehicle that exploded after he stepped away from it. |
| Brazil Senate passes austerity bill in win for Rousseff | |  Brazil's Senate approved a bill to roll back payroll tax breaks on Wednesday that is a key measure in President Dilma Rousseff's efforts to reduce a gaping fiscal deficit and restore confidence in her government's accounts. The Senate voted 45-27 to pass the bill. It was received from the lower house with no changes, so it will go to Rousseff to be signed into law without delay.
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