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| Obama announces 'understanding' with China's Xi on cyber theft but remains wary | |  By Matt Spetalnick and Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama announced on Friday that he had reached a "common understanding" with Chinese President Xi Jinping on curbing economic cyber espionage, but threatened to impose U.S. sanctions on Chinese hackers who persist with cyber crimes. The two leaders also unveiled a deal to build on a landmark emissions agreement struck last year, outlining new steps they will take to deliver on pledges they made then to slash their greenhouse gas emissions. Speaking after White House talks during Xi's first U.S. state visit, Obama quickly homed in on the thorniest dispute between the world's two biggest economies - growing U.S. complaints about Chinese hacking of government and corporate databases, and the suspicion in Washington that Beijing is sometimes behind it.
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| U.S. government finds new emails Clinton did not hand over | |  The U.S. Defense Department has found an email chain that Hillary Clinton did not give to the State Department, the State Department said on Friday, despite her saying she had provided all work emails from her time as secretary of state. The correspondence with General David Petraeus, who was commander of U.S. Central Command at the time, started shortly before she entered office and continued during her first days as the top U.S. diplomat in January and February of 2009. The Defense Department provided the emails to the State Department in "the last several days," State Department spokesman John Kirby said in a statement.
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| Judge freezes Neymar's assets in tax evasion probe | |  The parents of Brazil forward Neymar have denied any wrongdoing after a judge froze 188.8 million reais ($47.6 million) of the player's assets in a tax evasion case. Neymar is accused of not paying 63.3 million reais in taxes between 2011 and 2013 but his parents said the Barcelona player "cannot declare what is not his" and is not a partner in the firms a judge said were part-owned by the player. Barcelona Football Club was cited as the source of unreported money.
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| Google faces renewed U.S. antitrust scrutiny, this time over Android | |  By Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has opened a preliminary investigation into whether Google Inc uses its Android operating system to dominate competitors as more consumers go mobile, two sources familiar with the matter said on Friday. The Android mobile platform is a key element in Google's strategy to maintain revenue from online advertising as people switch from Web browser searches to smartphone apps. The FTC had previously investigated Google for allegedly breaking antitrust law in a separate case but that probe ended in a settlement.
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| Russia summons Polish ambassador after Soviet graves vandalised | | | MOSCOW/WARSAW (Reuters) - The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned the Polish ambassador to Moscow on Friday after graves of Soviet soldiers were vandalised in a Polish village, an act which Poland's Foreign Ministry also condemned. The incident comes just over a week after Ambassador Katarzyna Pelczynska-Nalecz was summoned in Moscow to explain the removal of a Soviet-era statue in a Polish town. "One gets the impression that the desecration of our memorial places has been raised in Poland to the rank of a state policy," the statement said. |
| U.S. court to revisit Guantanamo detainee's conspiracy conviction | | | By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Friday agreed to reconsider a June decision that threw out the last remaining conviction of a Yemeni man described as a publicist for al Qaeda who was prosecuted before a special military tribunal at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued an order saying a 10-judge panel will hear oral arguments in the case of Ali Hamza al Bahlul, who U.S. officials said made videos for Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda organisation. |
| Under pressure from the right, U.S. House Speaker Boehner quits | |  By Susan Cornwell and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner will leave Congress at the end of October after struggling with repeated rebellions by conservatives during a tumultuous five-year reign as the chamber's top Republican. The 65-year-old Ohio lawmaker stunned Republican House members at a meeting on Friday morning with the announcement that he would leave the top job in the 435-seat chamber and resign his seat effective on Oct. 30. U.S. Representative Kevin McCarthy, 50, of California, the No. 2 House Republican, quickly became the leading contender to replace Boehner as speaker.
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| Egypt says police killed militants who attacked Italian consulate | | | Egyptian security forces on Friday killed nine militants who took part in a bomb attack at the Italian consulate in Cairo in July, the Interior Ministry said. The ultra-hardline Islamic State group, which has supporters based in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, had claimed responsibility for that July attack which killed one person. The Interior Ministry said three policemen were wounded in an exchange of fire with what it called "terrorists" killed in a raid on a house in Cairo on Friday. |
| Swiss target world soccer chief Blatter in criminal probe | |  By Brian Homewood and Mark Hosenball ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into Sepp Blatter, the head of world soccer body FIFA, on suspicion of criminal mismanagement and misappropriation of funds, the Swiss attorney general's office said on Friday. It said Blatter was interrogated after a meeting of FIFA's executive committee in Zurich, and authorities carried out a search at the organisation's headquarters on Friday. "The office of the FIFA President has been searched and data seized," the office of the attorney general (OAG) said.
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| Exclusive - Macau billionaire jailed in U.S. subpoenaed in foreign bribery probe | | | By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - A billionaire Macau developer arrested for lying to U.S. customs officials about why he brought $4.5 million in cash into the United States was subpoenaed in 2014 as part of a separate foreign bribery investigation, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday.Ng Lap Seng, who was previously tied to a Clinton-era campaign finance probe, is being held without bail on charges filed in Manhattan federal court that he lied to U.S. customs officials about the purpose of the cash he brought into the country over a two-year period. ... |
| New VW boss faces host of problems after emissions scandal | |  By Andreas Cremer WOLFSBURG, Germany (Reuters) - Volkswagen knows it will take much more than just new leadership and a corporate overhaul to clear the air after it was caught cheating in U.S. diesel emissions tests. Beyond the measures announced by the German carmaker on Friday, VW executives, customers, investors and workers alike are struggling to divine what lies ahead. The new chief executive, 62-year-old Matthias Mueller, until now head of the Porsche sports-car division, faces a host of problems that had already been looming before the diesel scandal broke and may now be worsened by its repercussions.
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| Bulgarian church urges government to stop migrants | |  The Bulgarian Orthodox Church said on Friday the Balkan country's authorities should not let any more migrants cross its borders, encouraging government's determination to tackle an influx that has overwhelmed its neighbours. "We consider that our government should in no way allow more refugees into our country," the church said in a statement, signed by Patriarch Neofit, the head of the Orthodox Church, and other members of the Holy Synod - the church's top executive body. The Black Sea state, a member of the European Union but not of the border-free Schengen Area, has deployed more border police, installed cameras and motion sensors, and is extending a security fence to cover 160 km (100 miles) of its border with Turkey.
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| Thai police say detained man is Bangkok bomber, admits to crime | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai police said on Friday a man they are holding in custody is the bomber behind a deadly attack in Bangkok last month, the latest twist in an investigation marred by contradictory statements. Police spokesman Prawut Thawornsiri said a man arrested with bomb materials on Aug. 29, who has been referred to both as Bilal Mohammed and Adem Karadag, the name on a Turkish passport he holds, was responsible for the bombing. The blast killed 20 people including 14 foreigners, making it the deadliest such incident in Thai history.
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| From the Pope to Malala: Quotes on the U.N.'s new global goals | |  Leaders from 193 nations adopted an ambitious new set of global goals on Friday to combat poverty, inequality and climate change in the most comprehensive effort ever by the United Nations to tackle the world's ills. Following are some key quotes about the U.N's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) approved at a three-day summit that opened on Friday with an address from Pope Francis: POPE FRANCIS: - "We cannot permit ourselves to postpone "certain agendas" for the future.
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| Yazidi teen petitions UK government to save girls from Islamic State | | | By Magdalena Mis LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Rozin Khalil, a Yazidi teenager living in Britain, still remembers harrowing stories about the persecution of her minority group that she heard as a 10-year-old girl in her village in northwestern Iraq. Now the abuse of Yazidis at the hands of Islamic State has prompted her to set up an online campaign to get support for hundreds of women and girls who, according to rights groups, have been captured, raped and tortured, forced to convert to Islam and to marry militants. Khalil hopes that her petition, which has gathered nearly 200,000 signatures in two months, will prompt the British government to act on its pledge to punish the perpetrators of sexual violence in conflict, and help victims. |
| FIFA's Blatter cooperating with Swiss criminal probe - lawyer | |  Sepp Blatter, the head of world soccer body FIFA, is cooperating with a Swiss criminal investigation, Blatter's U.S. attorney said on Friday. Attorney Richard Cullen said a contract the Swiss Attorney General said Blatter signed in 2005 with the Caribbean Football Union was "properly prepared and negotiated by the appropriate staff members of FIFA." "Certainly no mismanagement occurred," he said in an emailed statement.
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