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| Stung by Jared Fogle sex scandal, Subway seeks space from spokesman | |  By Lisa Baertlein LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sandwich chain Subway for more than 15 years tied its fortunes to spokesman Jared Fogle and his outsized, 60-inch waist jeans. Fogle was a college student when he lost 245 pounds eating Subway sandwiches and exercising. In 2008, Subway and Fogle celebrated the 10th anniversary of his weight loss with a "Tour de Pants." Now, the 37,000-unit global chain has cut ties with Fogle.
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| Firm that vetted Snowden reaches $30 million settlement with U.S | |  United States Investigations Services Inc, the private firm that vetted former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, has agreed to a settlement worth at least $30 million, resolving U.S. claims connected to its background investigations. The U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday that the settlement with USIS and its parent company, Altegrity Inc [AGRTY.UL], will resolve claims that the firm failed to perform quality control reviews in connection with its background investigations.
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| Fresh racial unrest in St. Louis after police shoot black suspect | | | Police fatally shot a black man they say pointed a gun at them in St. Louis on Wednesday, drawing angry crowds and recalling the racial tensions sparked by the killing of an unarmed African-American teen in nearby Ferguson, Missouri, just over a year ago. St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson said the shooting took place as officers were issuing a search warrant in a crime-ridden neighbourhood, when two young black men ran out the back door of the targeted house. Police officers ordered the men to stop in the alley behind the house and one suspect pointed a gun at officers who then fired approximately four times, killing him, Dotson said. |
| 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 on Tuesday, 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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| U.S. Democratic Senator Markey says he'll support Iran nuclear deal | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, said on Wednesday he would support the nuclear deal with Iran, saying in a statement that he believed "that if strictly implemented, this plan can be effective." The Senate and House of Representatives plan to vote by Sept. 17 on a "resolution of disapproval" brought by Republicans who hope to sink the deal reached in July between Iran, the United States and other partners. (Reporting by Emily Stephenson; Editing by Peter Cooney) |
| Thai police hunt 'foreign' man, two others for Bangkok blast | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai police said on Wednesday that a suspect captured by CCTV cameras minutes before a bomb exploded at Bangkok's Erawan shrine was a foreigner, and his appearance suggested he might be from Europe or the Middle East. Police spokesman Prawut Thawornsiri also said investigators were now convinced two other men seen on the grainy video footage were accomplices.
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| Hacker's Ashley Madison data dump spreads havoc | |  Love lives and reputations may be at risk after the release of customer data from infidelity website Ashley Madison on Tuesday, a dramatic move likely to rattle users' attitude 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. Last month, the hackers threatened to leak nude photos, sexual fantasies, real names and credit card information for as many as 37 million customers worldwide of Ashley Madison, which uses the slogan: "Life is short.
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| Estonian who says Russia abducted him to serve 15 years' hard labour | |  By Jack Stubbs and David Mardiste MOSCOW/TALLINN (Reuters) - An Estonian police officer who says Russia abducted him in a cross-border raid was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Wednesday, stoking tensions between Moscow and the former Soviet republic. Eston Kohver's prison term will put further strain on relations that have deteriorated since Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine last year, reviving bitter memories of Soviet rule. Russia arrested Kohver on espionage charges last September, saying he was caught on Russian territory.
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| Mali separatists reject U.N. exclusion zone around northern towns | | | Separatists in Mali told U.N. peacekeepers on Wednesday to remove a security zone set up around northern towns to forestall further violence with pro-government militias that has undermined a peace accord. The demand will likely raise tension between the separatist Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA) and the Platform pro-government militias and make it harder for the U.N. mission (MINUSMA) to restore a fragile peace. "The CMA requests that MINUSMA lifts the security zone as soon as possible...and let the different parties settle their differences," a statement said. |
| European bailout fund to disburse first Greek tranche on Thursday | | | The European Stability Mechanism will disburse the first tranche of funds from Greece's bailout loan on Thursday, the Greek finance ministry said after the ESM board approved a rescue of up to 86 billion euros on Wednesday. Athens will receive 13 billion euros on Thursday morning, the ministry said, of which about 12 billion euros will be used to pay down debt, including an earlier bridge loan and money owed to the European Central Bank. "Nearly one billion euros will be made available to the Greek state, a sum that can be used to pay arrears," the finance ministry said in a statement. |
| Eight soldiers killed, Istanbul palace attacked as Turkish unrest mounts | |  By Nick Tattersall and Seyhmus Cakan ISTANBUL/DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Gunmen fired on police outside an Istanbul palace and a bomb killed eight soldiers in the southeast on Wednesday, heightening a sense of crisis as Turkey's leaders struggled to form a new government. The Istanbul governor's office said two members of a "terrorist group" armed with hand grenades and an automatic rifle were caught after attacking the Dolmabahce palace, popular with tourists and home to the prime minister's Istanbul offices. Militants from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) meanwhile killed eight soldiers with a roadside bomb in the southeastern province of Siirt, the military said, intensifying a conflict there after the breakdown of a two-year ceasefire last month.
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| Germany backs Greek bailout as Tsipras mulls early polls | |  By Paul Carrel and Lefteris Papadimas BERLIN/ATHENS (Reuters) - The German parliament approved a third bailout for Greece on Wednesday after Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said the country should get "a new start", while in Athens the government agonised over whether to call a snap election. The Bundestag vote cleared one of the final obstacles to Greece getting funding so that it can make a 3.2 billion-euro debt repayment to the European Central Bank on Thursday. The Dutch parliament also gave its blessing to the Greek rescue, while the board of the euro zone's bailout fund in a teleconference approved disbursing the first tranche of funds under the new Greek programme.
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| U.N.'s Central Africa force hit by new allegations of rape | | | By Louis Charbonneau and Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations' troubled peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic has been hit with new allegations of rape by peacekeepers, including one underage victim, a U.N. spokeswoman said on Wednesday. Last week the head of the Central African Republic (CAR) mission, known as MINUSCA, was sacked after a series of allegations of sexual abuse and excessive use of force by peacekeepers. |
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