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| Snowden launches push for global privacy treaty | |  Fugitive former U.S. spy contractor Edward Snowden on Thursday backed a push for an international treaty on privacy rights, protection against improper surveillance and of whistleblowers as he said more countries are trying to boost spying powers. Speaking via video conference from Russia, which granted him asylum in 2013 after he leaked details of mass U.S. surveillance programs, Snowden said mass spying was a global problem that needs a global response. "We have to have a discussion, we have to come forward with proposals to go 'how do we assert what our rights are, traditionally and digitally and to ensure that we can not just enjoy them, but we can protect them," Snowden said.
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| Israel tightens crackdown on Palestinian petrol bomb, stone-throwers | |  By Ori Lewis JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel will impose a minimum four-year jail term on Palestinian petrol bombers and rock throwers and will ease open-fire regulations and impose harsher fines, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday. The Israeli leader's "Security Cabinet" of senior ministers agreed measures aimed at quelling a recent rise in roadside attacks against Israeli vehicles in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank. "The Security Cabinet unanimously adopted a series of measures within the framework of our fight against stone throwers, petrol bombs and flares," Netanyahu said in a recorded televised statement.
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| Blatter says failure to back reforms would be betrayal | | | By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - Outgoing FIFA president Sepp Blatter told his scandal-plagued federation's 209 member associations on Thursday that failure to support reform would amount to a betrayal of millions of football fans. Blatter's comments came as FIFA's executive committee began a two-day meeting where it was due to discuss a request to provide greater transparency around investigations into allegations of corruption. The committee also will be given an update on the second of two reform processes which have begun since FIFA was plunged into the worst crisis in its 111-year history in May. Football's governing body has been in turmoil since 14 sports marketing executives and football officials, including several from FIFA, were indicted in the United States on bribery, money laundering and wire fraud charges. |
| Apple lists top 25 apps hit by malware in first major attack | |  Apple Inc said the WeChat messaging app and car-hailing app DiDi Taxi were among the 25 most popular apps that were found to be infected with malicious software, the first-ever large-scale attack on its App Store. The company had not previously disclosed which apps had been affected, although many had been identified by third parties. Apple said on Sunday it was cleaning up its App Store after several cybersecurity firms reported that unknown hackers had embedded a malware, dubbed XcodeGhost, in hundreds, possibly thousands, of Chinese apps.
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| Before Congress, Pope urges U.S. to end hostility to immigrants | |  By Philip Pullella and Scott Malone WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a historic speech to the U.S. Congress, Pope Francis on Thursday asked Americans to end hostility towards immigrants, jumping into a divisive debate about how the country should deal with millions of undocumented workers and their families. Bringing a message that America's power and wealth should be used to serve humanity, the Argentine pontiff said the United States must not turn its back on "the stranger in our midst." "Building a nation calls us to recognise that we must constantly relate to others, rejecting a mindset of hostility," the 78-year-old Francis told the Republican-dominated legislature. Francis, born to an Italian immigrant family in Argentina, delivered a wide-ranging speech that addressed issues dear to liberals in the United States but also emphasized conservative values and Catholic teachings on the family.
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| European investors weigh Volkswagen lawsuits over emissions scandal | |  By Kirstin Ridley and Sinead Cruise LONDON (Reuters) - European shareholders in Volkswagen are considering claiming damages from the German car maker after it admitted rigging U.S. diesel emissions tests in a scandal that has wiped around $25 billion off its market value. Investors as well as car owners, who bought VW vehicles on the basis of false emissions information, are examining their rights as the once-venerable company battles a crisis that casts fresh doubt on the integrity of the entire auto industry. "If we can with some certainty establish that we, as investors, were misled by the company, and that has affected our returns, then I cannot rule out that we would seek compensation from the company," one of Volkswagen's top investors in Europe told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation.
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| FIFA election is closed shop, says candidate Zico | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - FIFA has closed the door on those within football who want to enter the presidential election race, former Brazil playmaker Zico said on his Thursday as his bid threatened to hit the buffers. Zico is struggling with the rule that requires potential candidates to present letters of support from five national football associations by Oct. 26, four months before the election. "The problem is not that I am a victim, the victims are everyone who works in football who could have the ambition to one day be a candidate," Zico told reporters at a Zurich hotel.
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