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| 'Charlie Brown' voice actor faces new charges; sentencing delayed |
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 By Marty Graham SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - A California man who as a child actor voiced the cartoon character Charlie Brown was charged on Friday with threatening a judge, a witness and the San Diego County sheriff at a court hearing meant to sentence him for other charges. Peter Robbins, 59, had faced up to three years and two months in state prison for violating his probation after he earlier admitting charges of stalking and making threats. Robbins cried through the hearing, according to Deputy District Attorney Brenda Daly.
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| Obama announces 'understanding' with China's Xi on cyber theft but remains wary |
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 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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| Judge freezes Neymar's assets in tax evasion probe |
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 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 |
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 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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