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| North Korea fires shots at South Korea loudspeaker in border zone - media | | | SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea fired shots on Thursday towards a South Korean loudspeaker that has been blaring anti-Pyongyang broadcasts in recent days, South Korean media reported. State-run KBS News quoted a South Korean military official as saying that the North Korean military opened fire at around 4 p.m. (0700 GMT) on the western front. Media reports did not say what weapons were used. South Korea had not fired back, Yonhap reported. The South Korean defence ministry said it was checking the report. (Reporting by Ju-min Park; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan) |
| 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. |
| Blast near Cairo state security building wounds 29 - state television | |  By Ahmed Mohamed Hassan CAIRO (Reuters) - A car bomb near an Egyptian state security building and courthouse wounded at least 29 people early on Thursday, state television said. Security sources who inspected the site of the blast in Shubra al-Khaima, a Cairo suburb, said there was a burned-out vehicle and crater. Shopkeeper Mohamed Ali said he saw a man park a vehicle that exploded after he stepped away from it.
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| 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. "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. Five men aged in their 20s and 30s were prevented from flying out of Sydney airport last week to an undisclosed location, Australian Border Protection Minister Peter Dutton told reporters. |
| 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 the country's ruling junta, known as the National Council for Peace and Order.
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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. |
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