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| Owner of Ashley Madison website confirms some authentic data leaked | |  Avid Life Media, the company behind infidelity website AshleyMadison.com, confirmed on Wednesday that some legitimate data has been stolen from it and published online, but said it has never stored credit card information on its servers. Hackers dumped a massive cache of data about Ashley Madison users online late on Tuesday, posting it on a part of the Internet that is only accessible by using a specialized browser. The release of the information came a month after a breach of Ashley Madison security was first reported, and after Toronto-based Avid Life ignored hackers' demands to shut down both the Ashley Madison site and another site called Established Men, which pairs older men with young women.
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| South African justice minister blocks Pistorius parole | |  By Peroshni Govender JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Oscar Pistorius will not be freed on parole this Friday because the decision to do so was made without the right legal basis, South Africa's justice minister said on Wednesday, shocking the athlete's family as they prepared for his homecoming. The former Paralympics gold medallist had been expected to be released after serving 10 months of a five-year sentence for killing his model and law graduate girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day 2013. Justice Minister Michael Masutha said the parole board had wrongly taken a decision to release Pistorius on parole before the athlete had served a sixth of his sentence, as required by law.
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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 was holding a teleconference to approve disbursing the first tranche of funds under the new Greek programme.
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| 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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| 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 in September last year, saying he was caught on Russian territory.
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| U.N. warns Israel that law changes could worsen human rights | | | The United Nations said on Wednesday that Israel's decisions to impose up to 20 years prison for people throwing stones and to force-feed prisoners on hunger strike threatened to worsen an "already-precarious human rights situation." U.N. political affairs chief Jeffrey Feltman also told the U.N. Security Council he was concerned about Israel's decision to extend the use of prolonged administrative detention and called for all detainees to be promptly charged or released. Israel's security cabinet on Aug. 2 extended to its own citizens so-called "administrative detention", a practice commonly applied to Palestinian militant suspects and condemned internationally. |
| India's few policewomen battle sexism at every level - rights group | |  By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India's police force is not only drastically short of women, it is also plagued by sexism, with women given menial duties, bypassed for promotion and scared to report sexual harassment by male colleagues, a Commonwealth study said on Wednesday. The report by the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative found that despite a federal government call for the force to raise the proportion of women to 33 percent, women make up only 6.11 percent of India's 2.3 million police. Interviews with male and female police officers in five Indian states found that women faced a deep-seated gender bias across the police force which started at recruitment and carried on throughout their career, said Devika Prasad, co-author of the report "Rough Roads to Equality: Women Police in South Asia".
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| Pakistan's Asif, Butt cleared to return - ICC | |  Pakistani cricketers Mohammad Asif and Salman Butt will be free to return to competitive action on Sept. 2 after serving bans for involvement in match-fixing, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said on Wednesday. The pair, suspended in 2011 for their part in attempting to fix the 2010 Lord's test against England, have fulfilled the conditions laid down by the ICC's independent Anti-Corruption Tribunal. Fast bowler Mohammad Amir will also be eligible to return to international cricket at the same time.
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| S.Africa's Pistorius' family "disappointed" after parole suspended | |  JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The family of athlete Oscar Pistorius who was jailed for killing his girlfriend said on Wednesday they were disappointed the athlete would not be released this Friday after the justice minister suspended his parole. "We are shocked and disappointed that Oscar won't be home this Friday," a family member who did not want to be named told Reuters on Wednesday. (Reporting by Peroshni Govender; Editing by James Macharia)
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| In Egypt, the "disappeared" resurface on TV as "terrorists" | | | By Ahmed Aboulenein CAIRO (Reuters) - Plainclothes Egyptian state security officers pounced on Suhayb Saad as he left a Cairo restaurant in June. Such detentions and videotaped confessions are a new feature of a crackdown on dissent launched after the military toppled Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood in 2013 -- Egypt's first freely-elected president -- after mass protests, rights groups say. Saad is one of nine young men who friends, family, and rights groups say were taken by security services and forced to confess on television to crimes they never committed. |
| Saudi-led alliance wins Yemen battles, but peace remains elusive | |  By Mohammed Ghobari and Noah Browning SANAA/DUBAI (Reuters) - Emirati tanks heave across southern Yemen's stony wastes and Apache helicopters from a Saudi-led coalition, dubbed "black genies" by local media, rule its skies, helping fighters loyal to the exiled government win the initiative against an Iran-allied militia. The advanced weapons deployed by Gulf Arab states have powered the local fighters into territory controlled by the Houthi group, reversing the tide in a civil war linked to a regional power struggle between Sunni Muslim states and Iran. "People are hoarding food or else fleeing to the countryside and there are Houthi fighters everywhere in the streets." Yemen's foreign minister in exile has upped the ante, saying the war may soon end with the violent downfall of the Houthis' leader and their ally, ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh.
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| Eight soldiers killed in southeast Turkey bomb attack - military | | | Eight Turkish soldiers were killed in a bomb attack on their vehicle by Kurdish militants in southeast Turkey on Wednesday, the military said, intensifying conflict after the breakdown of a two-year ceasefire last month. Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants planted explosives on a highway in the province of Siirt and detonated them around 1110 GMT, the general staff said in a statement, as security forces clashed with the PKK across the mainly Kurdish southeast. Security sources said PKK fighters had killed four Turkish soldiers in clashes in Diyarbakir province since Tuesday as a peace process launched by the state and the group's jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan in 2012 unravelled. |
| Erdogan says Turkey is "heading rapidly" towards new election | |  Turkey is heading rapidly towards a new election and only the "will of the people" can break a political deadlock after the ruling AK Party failed to form a working government, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu formally ended attempts to find a junior coalition partner on Tuesday after weeks of talks with opposition parties failed, handing the mandate back to Erdogan and making a snap election almost inevitable. "Because of the failure to form a government, we have to seek a solution with the will of the people ... so we are heading rapidly towards an election again," Erdogan said in a speech to local officials, broadcast live on television.
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