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| Oregon becomes third U.S. state to allow recreational marijuana sales | |  By Courtney Sherwood PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) - Marijuana sales for recreational use began in Oregon on Thursday as it joined Washington state and Colorado in allowing the sale of a drug that remains illegal under U.S. federal law. Oregon residents 21 years and older can buy up to a quarter-ounce (seven grams) of dried pot at roughly 200 existing medical-use marijuana dispensaries as a new law took effect. About 40 people lined up outside the medical pot dispensary Shango in a strip mall near Portland International Airport for the chance to buy recreational pot one minute after midnight, when the changes went into effect.
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| Sri Lanka says to cooperate with U.N. on war crimes inquiry | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Sri Lanka signalled on Thursday it aims to establish a credible judicial process involving foreign judges and prosecutors to investigate alleged war crimes during its long conflict with Tamil rebels, in line with U.N. recommendations. Activists and international experts said that the domestic mechanism must win the trust of victims and survivors and provide robust witness protection for those who testify, especially against the Sri Lankan military. Sri Lanka co-sponsored the text.
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| VW says emission scandal investigations to take months | |  By Andreas Cremer BERLIN (Reuters) - Volkswagen said on Thursday it would take longer than expected to investigate its rigging of vehicle emissions tests, raising the prospect of months of uncertainty as it grapples with the biggest business crisis in its 78-year history. After a seven-hour meeting late on Wednesday, the German carmaker's supervisory board said it would take "at least several months" to complete investigations, including an external inquiry being conducted by U.S. law firm Jones Day. Europe's largest carmaker has admitted cheating in diesel emissions tests in the United States and Germany's transport minister says it also manipulated them in Europe, where Volkswagen sells about 40 percent of its vehicles.
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| Platini has more explaining to do, German league chief | |  UEFA chief Michel Platini must provide more details over a payment of more than $2 million from soccer's ruling body FIFA and its troubled president Sepp Blatter, German football league (DFL) president Reinhard Rauball said on Thursday. Platini, president of European soccer's governing body and until recently the favourite to succeed Blatter, has been in the spotlight since Swiss police placed FIFA's leader under criminal investigation and accused him of making a "disloyal payment" of two million Swiss francs ($2.05 million) to the Frenchman in 2011.
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| EU court rules migrants who defy expulsion can be jailed | |  European Union countries can imprison migrants who re-enter their territory after being expelled, the EU's top court ruled on Thursday in a judgment likely to be closely watched across the continent as it struggles to cope with a migration crisis. The European Court of Justice was considering the case of an Albanian national who was deported from Italy in 2012 but returned to the country, in breach of a three-year entry ban. More than half a million migrants have entered the European Union this year.
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| Assault on Thai government websites 'symbolic', minister says | | | By Aukkarapon Niyomyat and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand on Thursday played down a coordinated attack on several government websites, with the technology minister pledging that a controversial plan for a single internet gateway would not disrupt social media and business communications. Thailand's military government has shown a zero-tolerance approach to dissent and has banned protests since a coup in May last year. At least seven websites connected to the government were forced offline late on Wednesday in a protest organised on social media website Facebook against the plan to channel internet content through one gateway, from about 10 now. |
| Prominent Turkish journalist attacked in latest sign of pressure on media | | | A prominent Turkish journalist has been beaten up outside his home, his newspaper said on Thursday, in what the country's main opposition party called a sign of growing social tension under President Tayyip Erdogan. Ahmet Hakan, a columnist for Turkey's leading secular Hurriyet newspaper and a host on broadcaster CNN Turk, was followed home from the television station by four men in a black car late on Wednesday, before being assaulted near his residence, according to Hurriyet Editor-in-Chief Sedat Ergin. Ergin did not say who he thought might be behind the attack, which cames just weeks after prosecutors launched an investigation into the newspaper's owner, Dogan Media Group, on accusations of "terrorism propaganda". |
| Newsweek magazine says hacking disrupts its Pakistan website | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Newsweek Pakistan said on Thursday that its website had been disrupted by computer hackers. "Our website is offline due to a hacking incident. We are working on resolving this at the earliest. We apologize for the inconvenience," the news magazine said in a post on Twitter. The primary site for Newsweek, which is owned by privately-held IBT Media Inc, remained operational. (Reporting by Lisa Lambert; Editing by Susan Heavey) |
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