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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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| 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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| Indian police investigate workers and children held in debt bondage | | | By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Police in Punjab are investigating whether a brick kiln owner held migrant workers and their children in debt bondage, after labourers and activists protested preliminary findings that there were no violations of labour laws. Forty people - from eight families, including adult workers and about a dozen children - were allowed to leave the kiln this week in Bathinda district in Punjab state after activists and other workers said they had been held against their will because the owner said they owed money. Deputy Police Commissioner Basant Garg said the problem appeared to be outstanding pay due to the workers, but added that after three inquiries, police found "no evidence of any bonded labourers". |
| China says missing bookseller doesn't want his case hyped up | |  China hit back at U.N. criticism of its human rights record on Tuesday, saying a group of detained lawyers had committed serious economic crimes and missing Hong Kong bookseller Lee Bo was assisting a police enquiry and did not want publicity. "Lee repeatedly clarified that he voluntarily went back to mainland China for assisting in the investigation, and is safe and sound," China's mission in Geneva said in a statement. "Lee hopes that the general public respect his personal choice and privacy and do not hype up attention on the case." Another bookseller, Gui Minhai, had left the country in 2004 after being handed a suspended sentence for killing a student by drunk driving, but gave himself up to police last October, and was also involved in other crimes, the statement said.
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| Suu Kyi meets Myanmar's military chief again as transition talks drag on | |  Aung San Suu Kyi met again with Myanmar's powerful commander-in-chief on Wednesday, according to a Facebook post by his office, as talks over a protracted political transition drag on and amid reports that the military chief has secured a five-year extension. The meeting is the third between Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and Suu Kyi since her National League for Democracy (NLD) won a sweeping victory at the Nov. 8 general election, securing some 80 percent of elected seats in parliament. The post on the page of the commander-in-chief's office said that discussions in Naypyitaw, the capital, lasted just over an hour and focused on "the rule of law and achieving everlasting peace." Top aides from the NLD and military were both present.
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| Maldives opposition leader jailed for 12 years for role in protests | | | By Daniel Bosley MALE (Reuters) - A Maldives court has sentenced an Islamist opposition leader to 12 years in jail, convicting him on terrorism charges related to a speech that protested the imprisonment of the islands' first democratically elected president, Mohamed Nasheed. Best known as an exotic tourist destination, the Indian Ocean archipelago has been roiled by political unrest since Nasheed was ousted in disputed circumstances in 2012. Under pressure from foreign governments, President Abdulla Yameen's government released Nasheed last month to let him seek medical treatment in London. |
| Turkish PM says work on new constitution will go on after main opposition pulls out | |  Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Wednesday the ruling AK Party would continue work on a new constitution after the main opposition CHP pulled out of a parliamentary commission charged with working on a new text. In a speech in Ankara broadcast on Turkish television, Davutoglu called on other opposition parties to continue work in the parliamentary commission. The CHP pulled out in protest at AKP efforts to include stronger presidential powers, championed by President Tayyip Erdogan, in the new constitution.
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| Obama says ASEAN summit discussed need to lower tensions in South China Sea | |  U.S. President Barack Obama said on Tuesday he and leaders of Southeast Asian countries meeting in a California summit discussed the need to ease tensions in the South China Sea, and agreed that any territorial disputes there should be resolved peacefully and through legal means. "The United States and ASEAN are reaffirming our strong commitment to a regional order where international rules and norms and the rights of all nations, large and small, are upheld," Obama said at the end of the summit with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. "We discussed the need for tangible steps in the South China Sea to lower tensions including a halt to further reclamation, new construction and militarization of disputed areas," he said.
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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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| Polio worker shot as Pakistan holds countrywide vaccination drive | | | Gunmen shot and wounded a Pakistani polio worker in the eastern city of Lahore on Wednesday, the latest in a string of attacks against eradication teams in a country that accounts for more than 70 percent of the world's cases of the virus. More than 100,000 health workers fanned out across Pakistan this week, stepping up a drive to eliminate the polio virus this year from one of its last bastions, despite threats from militants against the vaccination teams. "Initial reports say that two men on a motorcycle opened fire on the vaccinators and ran away," police spokesman Hammad Haider told Reuters. |
| Soccer radio deals in the U.S. put spotlight on FIFA's bidding process | |  By Mica Rosenberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - As world soccer body FIFA faces pressure to reform in the wake of a global corruption scandal, several current and former media executives are raising questions about the transparency of the bidding process for U.S. radio broadcasting rights to the World Cup. The company was co-founded by Andres Cantor, who famously introduced American soccer fans to the Latin American style of yelling "Gooooooal!" One former chief executive of a rival broadcaster, Joaquin Blaya, said that in 2000 then-FIFA president Sepp Blatter told him he had a deal for the next two World Cups in South Korea/Japan (2002) and Germany (2006), but the contracts instead went to Cantor's Futbol de Primera for a lower price.
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