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| N.Y. judge backs Apple in encryption fight with government | | Tuesday, March 01, 2016 4:01 AM | |
|  By Julia Harte, Julia Edwards and Julia Love REUTERS - The U.S. government cannot force Apple Inc to unlock an iPhone in a New York drug case, a federal judge in Brooklyn said on Monday, a ruling that bolsters the company's arguments in its landmark legal showdown with the Justice Department over encryption and privacy. The government sought access to the phone in the Brooklyn case in October, months before a judge in California ordered Apple to take special measures to give the government access to the phone used by one of the shooters in the San Bernardino, California, attacks. U.S. ...
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| More than $1 billion was transferred into Malaysia PM's accounts - WSJ | | Tuesday, March 01, 2016 3:56 AM | |
|  Deposits into Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak's bank accounts ran to hundreds of millions of dollars more than previously identified by probes into state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. Citing two unnamed people familiar with flows into Najib's accounts and a person familiar with one overseas investigation, the report said that more than $1 billion was deposited from 2011 to 2013, far more than the $681 million earlier identified. The report contradicts a conclusion reached recently by Malaysia's chief law officer.
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| U.S. State Department releases final batch of Clinton emails | | Tuesday, March 01, 2016 3:25 AM | |
|  By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department released the final batch of Hillary Clinton's emails on Monday from her time at the agency's helm, bringing the final tally of emails it says contain classified information to more than 2,000. Republican rivals in the battle for the Nov. 8 election have cited the email controversy in saying Clinton, the Democratic front-runner, is unfit for the presidency. Clinton, secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, has said her email arrangement broke no rules and that she will be vindicated.
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| Missing Hong Kong bookseller to give up British passport, denies being kidnapped | | Tuesday, March 01, 2016 3:19 AM | |
|  By James Pomfret and Farah Master HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong bookseller and British passport holder who disappeared last year has said he will renounce his British citizenship, adding that he had not been kidnapped by Chinese authorities as suspected, but had sneaked into China illegally. Lee Bo, a dual British and Hong Kong citizen, and four associates had gone missing over the past half-year, sparking fears that Chinese authorities had abducted some of the men and taken them back to China.
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| Top Vatican cardinal says senior clergy lied about child sexual abuse | | Tuesday, March 01, 2016 3:12 AM | |
|  By Philip Pullella and Jane Wardell ROME/SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Cardinal George Pell, the highest-ranking Vatican official to testify on systemic sexual abuse of children by clergy in the Roman Catholic Church, on Monday said senior clergy lied to him to cover up abuse in the 1970s. The Vatican's treasurer told Australia's Royal Commission into Institutional Response to Child Sexual Abuse that he was deceived about why abusive priests were moved from parish to parish. Pell's testimony to the Australian inquiry into sexual abuse cases that occurred decades ago has taken on wider implications about the accountability of church leaders given his high rank within the church.
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| N.Y. brokers lose SEC insider trading trial over IBM deal tip | | Tuesday, March 01, 2016 12:52 AM | |
| | By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal jury on Monday found two former New York stockbrokers liable for trading on confidential tips about an IBM Corp acquisition, despite a major appeals court ruling that made insider trading cases harder to pursue. In a victory for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, a federal jury in Manhattan found former Euro Pacific Capital Inc brokers Daryl Payton and Benjamin Durant liable for engaging in insider trading. The trial came after a 2014 appellate ruling limiting the scope of insider trading laws forced prosecutors to drop criminal charges against Payton, Durant and three others. |
| U.S. sportscaster Erin Andrews tells of shock after nude video posted | | Tuesday, March 01, 2016 12:14 AM | |
|  By Tim Ghianni NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) - Sports broadcaster Erin Andrews tearfully told a Tennessee jury on Monday of her shock and humiliation after learning that a nude video of her taken by a stalker was posted on the Internet. Andrews, a former ESPN sportscaster who has since moved to Fox Sports, has sued the Marriott Nashville at Vanderbilt University for $75 million over the 2008 incident, in which a man in a neighbouring room, Michael David Barrett, rigged a peep hole and shot the video of Andrews changing. Andrews has blamed former hotel employees for giving out Andrews' room number, which led to Barrett booking the room next door.
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| Attorney General Lynch says hopes Apple will comply with court order | | Tuesday, March 01, 2016 12:05 AM | |
|  U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said on Monday that she hopes Apple Inc. will still comply with the court order by a federal judge in California to unlock the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters. "It is still our hope that they will see their way clear to complying with that order as thousands of other companies do every day," Lynch said in an interview with Fox News. Asked about the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails, Lynch said the investigation would be done independently and refused to disclose information.
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| In Vietnam, an unlikely haven for gays - and a lucrative market | | Tuesday, March 01, 2016 12:02 AM | |
|  By My Pham HANOI (Reuters) - If it had been in business a decade ago, Nguyen Anh Thuan's restaurant would have been a target for late-night police raids to arrest lawbreakers and stamp out "social evils". Prejudice is giving way to some liberalism, he says, in a country often labelled a human rights abuser but now one of Asia's most progressive on gay, lesbian and transgender issues. "Our business benefits a lot from the LGBT community," said Thuan, who also advises businesses on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues, which are often abbreviated as LGBT.
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| Brooklyn judge denies government's request to unlock iPhone in drug case | |  A federal judge in Brooklyn, New York, on Monday rejected a U.S. Justice Department request to order Apple Inc to help law enforcement access data on a locked iPhone, in a ruling that bolsters the company's arguments in a growing privacy fight with the government. The government sought access to the phone in October, months before a judge in California ordered Apple to give the government access to the phone used by one of the shooters in the San Bernardino, California, attacks. U.S. Magistrate Judge James Orenstein in Brooklyn ruled that he did not have the legal authority to order Apple to disable the security of an iPhone seized during a drug investigation.
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| Karachi property prices soar after Pakistan crime crackdown | |  By Tommy Wilkes KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistani Abdul Qadeer gave up trying to build a block of flats in Karachi four years ago, when gangsters demanding $20,000 in protection money shot him in the legs because he refused to pay. Now he is back, putting the finishing touches to one of several apartment complexes he is constructing, part of a property boom which he attributes to the security crackdown on Islamist insurgents and criminals launched in the city in 2013. Qadeer's experience was not uncommon for those trying to do business in Karachi, home to more than 20 million people and with a reputation as one of the world's most dangerous cities.
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| U.S. judge blocks Indiana governor's order barring Syrian refugees | |  (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday blocked Indiana Governor Mike Pence's order barring state officials from helping Syrian refugees resettle in the state, saying it was discriminatory. Pence was among more than 25 U.S. governors, mostly Republicans, who called on President Barack Obama to stop resettling refugees fleeing Syria's civil war after November attacks by militants in Paris that killed 130. Governors have cited concerns that some refugees could be associated with Islamic State, which claimed responsibility for the attacks.
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| Top Vatican cardinal says pope backs him on stance over abuse issue | |  By Philip Pullella and Jane Wardell ROME/SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Cardinal George Pell, the highest-ranking Vatican official to testify on systemic sexual abuse of children by clergy in the Roman Catholic Church, said on Monday that he has the full backing of Pope Francis. Pell on Sunday told Australia's Royal Commission into Institutional Response to Child Sexual Abuse that the church made "enormous mistakes" and "catastrophic" choices by attempting to cover up abuses in the 1970s. Because of his high position in the Vatican, the Australian inquiry into sexual abuse cases that occurred decades ago has taken on wider implications about the accountability of church leaders.
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| Liberian police fire teargas at supporters of rights activist | | | Police fired teargas and threw stones at a crowd which gathered near a courthouse in the Liberian capital Monrovia on Monday to demand the release of a political activist charged with sedition, a Reuters witness said. Dozens of protesters sought the release of Vandalark Patricks, believing the founder of youth advocacy group SURE-Liberiahe would be brought from prison to the Temple of Justice which houses the main courthouse after his arrest last week. The body of a former head of the Liberia Petroleum Refining Company Harry Greaves, who became a prominent government critic, washed up on a beach in Monrovia last month. |
| Boston bomber passed citizen test months before deadly attack - paper | |  The older of the two brothers behind the deadly 2013 Boston Marathon bombing passed a test to become a U.S. citizen three months before the attack, the Boston Globe reported on Monday, citing federal documents. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, a 26-year-old ethnic Chechen who had immigrated to the United States from Russia a decade before the attack, had correctly answered questions about American history and demonstrated proficiency in English.
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