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| CCI suspects Monsanto JV abused dominant position | |  By Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Competition Commission of India (CCI) has ordered an investigation into a Monsanto joint venture, saying it suspected the company had abused its dominant position as a supplier of genetically modified (GM) cotton seeds. The case arose as Indian authorities consider whether to allow commercial growing of the country's first genetically modified food crop, a technology that promises to improve yields but sharply divides public opinion in India. Local farmers and some of their associations, including one affiliated to PM Narendra Modi's ruling party, have complained that Monsanto overprices its products using its position as supplier of GM seeds used in more than 90 percent of the country's cotton cultivation.
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| Twitter users back Apple in fight with U.S. over iPhone access | |  Edward Snowden and others on Twitter rallied on Wednesday in support of Apple Inc's opposition to a U.S. court order to help federal investigators by unlocking an iPhone used by one of the shooters in December's deadly attack in San Bernardino, California. "Apple" and "San Bernardino" were trending heavily as topics on Twitter following Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook's decision to fight the order by a federal judge in Los Angeles that Apple provide "reasonable technical assistance" to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the case.
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| Baltimore gangster who inspired 'The Wire' characters dies in prison | | | The onetime Baltimore gangster who inspired characters on the critically acclaimed HBO series "The Wire" has died in a federal medical prison in North Carolina, officials said Wednesday. Nathan Barksdale, 54, died on Saturday in the Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina, spokesman Greg Norton said. "He had been ill so it was not unexpected," Norton said, without giving a cause of death. |
| Academy sues over $200,000 so-called Oscar gift bags | |  The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which hands out the awards, wants the public to know that it hasn't approved any of those items. In a federal lawsuit filed on Tuesday in Los Angeles, the organization accused Distinctive Assets of promoting the gift bags as official Oscars swag. "Distinctive Assets uses the Academy's trademarks to raise the profile of its 'gift bags' and falsely create the impression of association, affiliation, connection, sponsorship and/or endorsement," said the lawsuit, which names the company's founder, Lash Fary, as a defendant.
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| Trump, Rubio chide Apple over order on shooter's phone | |  U.S. Republican presidential candidates criticized Apple Inc on Wednesday for opposing a government request for help hacking into an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino attackers, saying national security is more important than fears about invasion of privacy. The company late on Tuesday said it was opposing a court order to help the Federal Bureau of Investigation break into an iPhone that belonged to the male shooter, Rizwan Farook, before the deadly Dec. 2 attacks in San Bernardino, California. Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said the demand threatened the security of Apple's customers.
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| "Zero Days" director says U.S. government secrecy trend "appalling" | |  By Michael Nienaber and Michael Roddy BERLIN (Reuters) - The director of a new documentary outlining U.S. plans for an extensive cyber attack on Iran said on Wednesday he was angry and appalled by the rapidly growing trend towards secrecy in the U.S. government. Veteran documentary maker Alex Gibney was speaking to reporters in Berlin, where his film "Zero Days" is being shown in competition for the Berlin International Film Festival's top Golden Bear prize. The documentary says how the U.S.'s National Security Agency (NSA) developed a cyberwar programme dubbed "Nitro Zeus" that it hoped would bring Iran to its knees in the event of hostilities.
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| U.S. appeals court upholds Apple e-book settlement | |  By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld Apple Inc's $450 million settlement of claims that it harmed consumers by conspiring with five publishers to raise e-book prices. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan rejected a challenge by e-books purchaser John Bradley to the fairness, reasonableness and adequacy of Apple's class-action antitrust settlement with consumers and 33 state attorneys general. U.S. District Judge Denise Cote in Manhattan had approved the settlement in November 2014.
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| Police raid Madrid office of China's biggest bank in money laundering investigation | |  Spanish police raided the Madrid offices of China's biggest bank, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), on Wednesday as part of an investigation into alleged money laundering, the Interior Ministry said. The investigation by police, the Spanish tax agency and Europol involves funds handled by a criminal group acting in Spain which the Ministry says passed through the bank and were transferred to China.
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| FIFA Ethics Committee sanctions Beckenbauer | |  FIFA's ethics watchdog on Wednesday imposed a warning and 7,000 Swiss franc ($7,055) fine on German soccer great Franz Beckenbauer for stonewalling an investigation. The former World Cup-winning player and coach is arguably Germany's most iconic footballer and a household name who also ran the 2006 World Cup in his home country, "In the present case, Mr Beckenbauer failed to cooperate with an Ethics Committee investigation...regarding the 2018/2022 FIFA World Cup bids despite repeated requests for his assistance," FIFA's ethics panel said in a statement. FIFA is investigating the awarding of those tournaments as world soccer's governing body faces the biggest graft scandal in its history which has led to the indictment of several dozen leading soccer officials in the United States.
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| Pope to pray for migrants at Mexico-U.S. border, Vatican counters Trump | |  By Philip Pullella and Gabriel Stargardter CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Pope Francis heads to the once notorious Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez on Wednesday, a major migrant crossing on the U.S. doorstep where grisly drug violence has killed thousands, to pray for those who risk their lives migrating north. Once one of the world´s deadliest cities, Ciudad Juarez remains a violent magnet for Mexican, Central American and Asian migrants looking to jump across the U.S. border. Francis' visit, and his focus on the plight of migrants who risk murder, rape and extortion in their quest to reach the United States, is a symbolic critique of the anti-immigrant rhetoric of candidates for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.
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| Fighting outside Delhi's Patiala House court hearing JNU student sedition case | |  By Aditya Kalra and Rupam Jain NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Fighting broke out on Wednesday around Delhi's Patiala House court hearing a case against a Jawaharlal Nehru University student union leader accused of sedition, a charge that has sparked protests across university campuses and criticism the government was curtailing free speech. Kanhaiya Kumar, head of the student union at Delhi's JNU, was rushed from a car through a gate into the court by police officers protecting him with a riot shield.
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| Italy postpones gay civil unions voting, adoption rights at risk | |  By Massimiliano Di Giorgio and Steve Scherer ROME (Reuters) - Italy on Wednesday postponed voting on legislation that offers homosexual couples legal recognition as some allies of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi pushed for the removal of a provision that allows limited adoption rights. This latest delay represented a setback for Renzi, who had promised to enact the law last year but has faced implacable opposition both within parliament and from the Roman Catholic Church, which continues to wield great influence in Italy. Fearing possible defections by Catholic members of the ruling centre-left Democratic Party (PD) during secret voting on a battery of amendments, the PD chief whip in the Senate, Luigi Zanda, asked to put off the scheduled voting until next week.
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