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| China anti-graft campaign to tackle poverty relief funds misuse | | Tuesday, March 15, 2016 3:16 AM | |
| | BEIJING (Reuters) - China's anti-graft campaign will take on a new dimension by targeting officials who misuse or embezzle poverty relief funds, the country's top prosecutor told state media in an interview published on Tuesday. Cao Jianming told the official China Daily graft probes will become "more aggressive" by going after grassroots officials to stamp out abuse of finances for rural living allowances, education and medical insurance, as well as ecological protection. ... |
| Analysis - Apple fight could escalate with demand for 'source code' | | Tuesday, March 15, 2016 3:01 AM | |
|  By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The latest filing in the legal war between the planet's most powerful government and its most valuable company gave one indication of how the high-stakes confrontation could escalate even further. In what observers of the case called a carefully calibrated threat, the U.S. Justice Department last week suggested that it would be willing to demand that Apple turn over the "source code" that underlies its products as well as the so-called "signing key" that validates software as coming from Apple. Together, those two things would give the government the power to develop its own spying software and trick any iPhone into installing it.
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| Exclusive - Chinese hackers behind U.S. ransomware attacks: security firms | | Tuesday, March 15, 2016 3:00 AM | |
|  Hackers using tactics and tools previously associated with Chinese government-supported computer network intrusions have joined the booming cyber crime industry of ransomware, four security firms that investigated attacks on U.S. companies said. Ransomware, which involves encrypting a target's computer files and then demanding payment to unlock them, has generally been considered the domain of run-of-the-mill cyber criminals. "It is obviously a group of skilled of operators that have some amount of experience conducting intrusions," said Phil Burdette, who heads an incident response team at Dell SecureWorks.
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| In secret meetings, Taliban rejected Pakistan pressure on peace process | | Tuesday, March 15, 2016 2:58 AM | |
|  By Mehreen Zahra-Malik and Jibran Ahmed ISLAMABAD/PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani officials threatened to expel Afghanistan's Taliban from bases in Pakistan if they did not join peace talks this month, but the militants rebuffed their traditional patron, two officials said, casting doubt on how much influence Islamabad retains over them. After the secret meetings with Pakistani officials about two weeks ago, the Taliban's Supreme Council met at an undisclosed location and voted to reject the talks scheduled for early March with the Afghan government, according to a council member. Instead, the insurgents are now pouring back into Afghanistan for what they say will be a fierce spring offensive to be launched soon. Pakistan's influence over the insurgents is the lynchpin to the peace plan developed over last few months by Afghanistan, Pakistan, the United States and China to bring an end to the 15-year-old war in Afghanistan.
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| Harvard to scrap law school seal associated with slavery | | Tuesday, March 15, 2016 2:20 AM | |
|  By Marcus E. Howard NEW YORK (Reuters) - Harvard University will replace the official shield of its prestigious law school which features the family crest of an 18th century slave holder, after students objected to its racist associations, the school said on Monday. The Harvard Corporation, the Massachusetts university's governing body, voted to approve a recommendation by a Harvard Law School committee to retire the shield. Harvard President Drew Faust told Martha Minow, dean of the law school, on Monday that the university backed the recommendation.
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| Trump will not be charged with 'inciting riot' in North Carolina | | Tuesday, March 15, 2016 12:25 AM | |
|  By Colleen Jenkins WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) - A North Carolina sheriff's office said on Monday it would not charge Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump or his campaign with "inciting a riot" at a rally in the state last week. North Carolina is one of five states holding Republican and Democratic primary elections on Tuesday in the race to select candidates for November's U.S. presidential election. The Cumberland County Sheriff's Office, based in Fayetteville, earlier had said it was reviewing whether Trump or his campaign incited a disturbance at a rally last Wednesday.
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| Al Qaeda gunmen drank in bar before unleashing Ivory Coast attack | |  By Joe Bavier GRAND BASSAM, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - Gunmen from al Qaeda's North African branch drank beer at a beachside bar before launching a shooting rampage at an Ivory Coast resort town that left at least 18 people dead, the group's third major attack in West Africa in four months. Sunday's raid, details of which are beginning to emerge in witness and official accounts, was the furthest yet from al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb's (AQIM) traditional desert base, a worrying indication of the militants' growing reach. The attack raised questions about Ivory Coast's preparedness for such an attack, with some asking why such a sensitive target was left so vulnerable.
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| Iditarod repeat champ leads pack as Alaska race enters home stretch | | | By Steve Quinn JUNEAU, Alaska (Reuters) - One musher in Alaska's gruelling sled-dog race appears to stand between Dallas Seavey's third consecutive Iditarod title and a painful second place finish - his father, Mitch. As racers headed into the home stretch on Monday in the nearly 1,000-mile race through the U.S. state's frigid wilderness, father and son have been exchanging leads while being pushed by upstart Brent Sass and perennial contender Aliy Zirkle. Based on last year's times, a winner could cross the finish line in Nome as early as 4 a.m. local time (1200 GMT) on Tuesday. |
| Vatican prelate admits leaks; says woman 'spy' intimidated him | |  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A Vatican prelate on Monday admitted in court he had leaked confidential documents to the media and said he had been manipulated into it by a woman co-defendant who claimed she was a spy. After an adjournment of more than three months, Spanish Monsignor Angel Lucio Vallejo Balda was questioned at the resumption of the so-called "Vatileaks II" trial. Vallejo and four other people are on trial in the case, which centres on the publication last year of two books based on leaked documents that depict a Vatican plagued by graft and where Pope Francis faces stiff resistance to his agenda.
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| Former employee accuses Volkswagen of evidence destruction in lawsuit | | | A fired Volkswagen Group of America employee has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the German automaker , accusing it of deleting documents and obstructing justice in the ongoing diesel emissions investigations. Daniel Donovan, who worked as an information technology employee in VW's general counsel office since 2008, claims in the suit filed in Oakland County Circuit Court in Michigan last week that he was fired in December "because of his refusal to participate in a course of action" that would destroy evidence and obstruct justice. Donovan alleges he was fired because he refused to participate in destroying evidence in ongoing probes of VW by the Justice Department and Environmental Protection Agency over software that allowed diesel vehicles to emit up to 40 times legally allowable pollution in real world driving. |
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