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| Script for Tupac Shakur biopic peddled in celebrity hacking case -studio | | | A production company behind an upcoming biopic about hip hop artist Tupac Shakur acknowledged on Wednesday that the film's script was among those allegedly peddled by a Bahamian man who was arrested for hacking celebrities' email accounts. Alonzo Knowles, 23, is being held without bail after a Tuesday appearance in Manhattan federal court on criminal copyright infringement and identity theft charges. Among the information that Knowles allegedly hacked was a recently finished script for "All Eyez On Me," a biopic of Shakur, who died in a 1996 shooting, according to Greg Mielcarz, executive vice president of marketing and publicity at Los Angeles-based Morgan Creek Productions, the studio making the biopic. |
| Suspected Boko Haram fighters launch four strikes on Lake Chad area | | | By Madjiasra Nako and Abdoulaye Massalaki N'DJAMENA/NIAMEY (Reuters) - Suspected Boko Haram militants launched four attacks over 24 hours on villages in Niger, Chad and Cameroon, killing at least seven people, security and administrative sources said on Wednesday. The Islamist militants are mostly based in northeastern Nigeria but have become a major threat to wider regional security by carrying out attacks in the lawless Lake Chad zone where the borders of Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria meet. |
| Venezuela's outgoing Congress names 13 Supreme Court justices | | | By Diego Ore CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's Congress on Wednesday named 13 justices to the Supreme Court in a manoeuvre critics slammed as a last-minute court-packing scheme by the Socialist Party in the final days before it loses control of the legislature in January. In a demonstration of the sparring likely to come in January when the National Assembly convenes, the two sides were back and forth on the legitimacy of the appointments. Elvis Amoroso, a self-declared "Chavista" National Assembly member, said that the law had been "strictly fulfilled." As well as the 13 justices, the National Assembly named 21 substitutes. |
| China says in advanced talks with U.S. on five graft suspects | | | The Chinese government is in advanced talks with the United States on repatriating five of China's most wanted corruption suspects and will hand over whatever evidence is needed by its U.S. counterparts, Chinese state media said on Wednesday. In April, China published a list of 100 of its most wanted corruption suspects who have been targeted with an Interpol red notice, many living in the United States, Canada and Australia. China's efforts have long been hampered by Western nations that balk at signing extradition deals, partly out of concern about its judicial system and use of torture and the death penalty. |
| Burundi military officer launches new force to challenge president | |  A former senior Burundi military officer who quit the army this year said on Wednesday he had launched a new force to oppose President Pierre Nkurunziza, whose re-election for a third term this year has plunged the nation into chaos. The formation of FOREBU, an acronym based on its French name Force Republicaine du Burundi, which was announced by Edouard Nshimirimana in a statement, was the latest challenge to Nkurunziza's rule by a military officer following a coup attempt by a group of generals in May. It will further stoke worries that violence in Burundi could turn into full-blown conflict, and raise alarm about unity in the army, which was rebuilt after Burundi's civil war ended in 2005.
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| Two Israelis, two Palestinian attackers killed in Jerusalem | |  Two Palestinians went on a stabbing spree along a popular walkway in Jerusalem on Wednesday, killing one person, and were then shot dead by Israeli security forces in what police described as a terrorist attack. Another Israeli was killed, apparently by police gunfire aimed at the stabbers. Wednesday's stabbings took place right outside the Jaffa Gate, one of the main entrances to Jerusalem's walled Old City.
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| Syrian government ready to join UN talks to end conflict - Assad aide | |  A close adviser to Syrian President Bashar al Assad said on Wednesday Damascus was ready to join U.N.-sponsored peace talks with its position bolstered by both Russian backing and the West's retreat from a hardline anti-Assad approach. Bouthaina Shaaban said her government approved of U.N. resolutions passed last week endorsing an international road map for a Syria peace process, a rare display of unity among global powers on a conflict that has killed more than 250,000 people. The resolutions gave U.N. blessing to a plan negotiated earlier in Vienna that calls for a ceasefire, talks between the Syrian government and opposition, and a roughly two-year timeline to create a unity government and hold elections.
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