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| U.S. Republicans chide Apple over order on shooter's phone | |  Prominent U.S. Republicans criticized Apple Inc on Wednesday for opposing a government request for help hacking into an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino attackers, calling the issue tough but important to boosting national security. The technology 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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| S&P cuts Brazil deeper into junk territory in blow to Rousseff | | | By Alonso Soto BRASILIA (Reuters) - Standard & Poor's downgraded Brazil's credit rating deeper into junk territory on Wednesday, citing its failure to curb its fiscal deficit, in a surprise blow to President Dilma Rousseff`s bid to haul the economy out of its worst recession in decades. S&P cut Brazil's sovereign credit rating to BB from BB+ with a negative outlook, just five months after becoming the first agency to strip the country of its coveted investment grade. Standard & Poor's highlighted the government's inability to plug the widening fiscal deficit amid a deepening political and economic crisis. |
| English FA backs Infantino for FIFA president | |  Gianni Infantino has won the support of the English Football Association in his effort to win next week's FIFA presidential election, chairman Greg Dyke said on Wednesday. Five candidates will be standing on Feb. 26 to replace outgoing president Sepp Blatter, banned for eight years amid a widening graft scandal that has shaken world soccer's ruling body. "We decided we would back Gianni Infantino," Dyke told Sky Sports television following a board meeting.
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| Mobiles banned from FIFA voting booths to ensure secrecy | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - Mobile phones and cameras will be banned from polling booths at next week's FIFA presidential election to ensure each vote remains secret, one of the candidates said on Wednesday. Frenchman Jerome Champagne said he raised the issue with the electoral committee because he was concerned some voters had come under pressure to photograph their ballot papers to prove they had taken part. FIFA's 209 member national associations (FAs) each hold one vote.
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| Brazil's Rousseff bolstered by allied whip victory in house | |  President Dilma Rousseff's main coalition partner, the fractious Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PDMB), re-elected a key ally of hers as its leader in the lower house of Congress on Wednesday, enhancing her chances of blocking an impeachment threat. Leonardo Picciani was confirmed as PMDB house whip in a 37-30 vote, defeating a rival backed by Rousseff's arch-enemy Speaker Eduardo Cunha, who took up an opposition request to impeach the president in December. Picciani's re-election brought some relief for the embattled president because he is expected to pick pro-Rousseff PMDB members to sit on an impeachment committee that must decide whether there are grounds for her impeachment.
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| South Carolina governor to back White House hopeful Rubio - source | |  South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, viewed in Republican circles as a possible U.S. vice presidential candidate, will endorse U.S. Senator Marco Rubio for their party's 2016 White House nomination on Wednesday, three days before her state's presidential primary, said a source familiar with the situation. The daughter of Indian immigrants, Haley, 44, seized the spotlight in January when in the Republican response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech she set herself apart from the party's presidential candidates by calling for tolerance on immigration and civility in politics. The Civil War-era emblem of the Confederate South is long associated with slavery.
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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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| Turkey's Erdogan says to fight forces behind Ankara bombing | |  Turkey's fight against "pawns" carrying out attacks and the forces behind them will grow more determined, President Tayyip Erdogan said in a statement on Wednesday, after a car bomb killed at least 28 people in the capital Ankara. "We will continue our fight against the pawns that carry out such attacks, which know no moral or humanitarian bounds, and the forces behind them with more determination every day," Erdogan said in a statement. A car laden with explosives detonated next to military buses near the armed forces' headquarters on Wednesday.
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| U.S. extremist groups surge in 2015, research group says | | | Extremist groups proliferated in the United States in 2015, a U.S. research group said on Wednesday, as ideologically driven violence and incendiary political rhetoric created fertile conditions for white supremacists and other fringe actors. The Southern Poverty Law Center said the number of far-right "hate groups" grew to 892 in 2015 from 784 the year before, spurred by battles over the Confederate flag, gay marriage, immigration and Islamic terrorism. The SPLC also reported an increase in armed citizen militias, to 998 in 2015 from 874 the year before, as anti government activists were energized by land-use clashes with the federal government in the West and fears the Obama administration may tighten gun laws. |
| San Bernardino County approved FBI search of shooter's iPhone - document | |  By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - San Bernardino County authorities owned the Apple iPhone seized from a vehicle used by the San Bernardino shooters and gave federal investigators permission to search the phone's contents, a government court filing showed. The iPhone 5C is the subject of a federal court order on Tuesday demanding that Apple Inc help the U.S. government to unlock it, reopening a debate on the legal, political and technological repercussions. Rizwan Farook, who along with his wife Tashfeen Malik, killed 14 people and wounded 22 others in a shooting rampage in San Bernardino, California last December, was assigned the phone by the county health department he worked for, prosecutors said in the document filed on Tuesday.
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| Scores of dismembered bodies found in Colombian jails | | | Remains of at least 100 dismembered prisoners and visitors have been found in drain pipes at a jail in Colombia's capital that houses drug traffickers, Marxist rebels and paramilitaries, investigators said on Wednesday. Body parts were found at La Modelo jail in Bogota, one of the Andean nation's biggest penitentiaries, as well as in jails in the cities of Popayan, Bucaramanga and Barranquilla, said Caterina Heyck, an investigator at the attorney general's office. |
| Belgium find video of nuclear official in search for Paris attack clues | |  Belgian investigators searching houses linked to suspects in the Islamist militant attack on Paris in November found a video tracking movements of a man linked to the country's nuclear industry, prosecutors said on Wednesday. La Derniere Heure newspaper reported earlier that police hunting for Belgian links to the shootings and suicide attacks that killed 130 people in Paris found information suggesting that Islamic State militants, who claimed responsibility for the carnage, was also looking into targeting a nuclear power plant. The newspaper said investigators carrying out house searches in December found a video lasting several hours showing footage of the entrance to a home in the north of Belgium.
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| Ex-White House aide and ex-IBM CEO to head cyber security panel | |  By Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former White House national security adviser Tom Donilon and former IBM chief executive Sam Palmisano will lead a new commission to strengthen U.S. cyber defences over the next decade, the White House said on Wednesday. President Barack Obama set up the Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity this month and sought $19 billion for cyber security across government in his annual budget proposal, a boost of $5 billion over the previous year. ...
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| Thousands attend anti-government protest in Kosovo, demand snap election | |  By Fatos Bytyci PRISTINA (Reuters) - Thousands protested in Kosovo's capital Pristina on Wednesday, demanding the government's resignation and snap elections as the poor Balkan country marked the eighth anniversary of its independence from Serbia. Anger has simmered in the country since the government signed an EU-brokered accord with Serbia in August, giving Kosovo's ethnic Serb minority greater local government powers and the possibility of financing from Belgrade. The protest, organised by opposition parties who reject the accord, followed a similar one on Jan. 9, when demonstrators set fire to the government's headquarters.
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| U.S. Constitution 'clear' on filling Supreme Court vacancies - White House | |  U.S. administration officials have been in touch with members of both political parties in the U.S. Senate about the effort to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the White House said on Wednesday. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the Republican-led Senate should take up President Barack Obama's eventual nominee to the high court. The president and first lady Michelle Obama will pay their respects to Scalia at the Supreme Court on Friday and Vice President Joe Biden will attend Scalia's funeral service on Saturday, Earnest told a news briefing.
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| California Attorney General Harris says not interested in Supreme Court job - report | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - California Attorney General Kamala Harris said she is not interested in being nominated for the vacancy on the Supreme Court, the San Jose Mercury News reported on Tuesday. "I do not wish to be considered. I am running for the United States Senate," said Harris, who is running to replaced retiring Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer in California. (Reporting by Ayesha Rascoe and Roberta Rampton)
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| Apple opposes order to help unlock California shooter's phone | |  By Dustin Volz and Joseph Menn WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Apple Inc opposed a court ruling on Tuesday that ordered it to help the FBI break into an iPhone recovered from a San Bernardino shooter, heightening a dispute between tech companies and law enforcement over the limits of encryption. Chief Executive Tim Cook said the court's demand threatened the security of Apple's customers and had "implications far beyond the legal case at hand." (http://apple.co/1Lt7ReW) Earlier on Tuesday, Judge Sheri Pym of U.S. District Court in Los Angeles said that Apple must provide "reasonable technical assistance" to investigators seeking to unlock the data on an iPhone 5C that had been owned by Syed Rizwan Farook. Federal prosecutors requested the court order to compel Apple to assist the investigation into the Dec. 2 shooting rampage by Farook and his wife, killing 14 and injuring 22 others.
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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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| 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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| 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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| "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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| 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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