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| South Korea fires rounds at North in response to projectile | | | By Ju-min Park and Tony Munroe SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea fired tens of artillery rounds towards North Korea on Thursday after the North fired a projectile towards a South Korean loudspeaker that had been blaring anti-Pyongyang broadcasts, the defence ministry in Seoul said. North Korea did not immediately respond to the South's shots, it said, as tensions rose on the peninsula. South Korea said its detection equipment had spotted the trajectory of a suspected North Korean projectile launched at around 3:52 pm (0652 GMT), which did not appear to have damaged the loudspeaker or caused any injuries. |
| Australia detains 7 men suspected of trying to join militants | | | By Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) - Authorities have detained seven young Australian men as they were attempting to fly to the Middle East, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Thursday, over suspicions they wanted to join militant Islamist groups. Australia is on high alert for attacks by radicalised Muslims, including home-grown militants returning from fighting in the Middle East. "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. |
| Islamic State claims Cairo courthouse bomb which wounded 29 | |  By Ahmed Mohamed Hassan CAIRO (Reuters) - Islamic State's Egypt affiliate said it was behind a car bombing that wounded 29 people near a state security building and courthouse in a Cairo suburb early on Thursday. A statement circulated on Twitter by supporters of the group, Sinai Province, said the bomb was a reprisal for the execution of six of its members convicted of carrying out an attack north of the Egyptian capital last year. In May, Egypt executed six members of Sinai Province for attacking soldiers near Cairo in 2014.
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| International terrorists "unlikely" responsible for Thai bomb | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Aukkarapon Niyomyat BANGKOK (Reuters) - International terrorists were not suspected of a bomb attack in Bangkok this week that killed 20 people and China was not the target, Thai authorities said on Thursday, as police said they believed at least 10 plotters were involved. Authorities have not blamed any group for carrying out Thailand's worst bombing. "Security agencies have cooperated with agencies from allied countries and have come to the preliminary conclusion that the incident is unlikely to be linked to international terrorism," said Colonel Winthai Suvaree, a spokesman for Thailand's ruling junta, known as the National Council for Peace and Order.
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| Sirisena's party offers to form coalition govt in Sri Lanka | |  The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) offered on Thursday to form a coalition government with this week's winner of parliamentary elections, in a move that will pave the way for President Maithripala Sirisena to restart his stalled reform agenda. Sirisena had called the elections early after loyalists of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, also from the SLFP, had blocked some of his reforms to make government more accountable and simplify Sri Lanka's complex election rules.
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| Two Filipino coast guards held hostage for 3 months escape during raid | | | Two members of the Philippine Coast Guard taken hostage by al Qaeda-linked militants three months ago have escaped captivity during a raid by U.S.-trained commandos on a remote southern island, an army spokesman said on Thursday. Four other hostages, including two businessmen from Malaysia and South Korea, held at the same location in the jungle near Indanan town on Jolo island have still not been accounted for, army spokesman Captain Antonio Bulao said. |
| Star of Australian TV hit "Prisoner" found guilty of sexual abuse | | | By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) - A star of Australian hit television show "Prisoner: Cell Block H", the women's jailhouse drama that screened globally throughout the 1980s, has been found guilty of sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl 31 years ago, a court official said. Maggie Kirkpatrick, 74, who played prison warden Joan "The Freak" Ferguson for nearly 400 episodes, was found guilty of two counts of indecent assault and one count of gross indecency on a person under 16 by the Melbourne Magistrates Court, the official said. Kirkpatrick had fought the charges, but the magistrate said he believed the victim was a truthful witness after her account of being molested at the actress' home in 1984. |
| 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. |
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