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| Berlin police suspect explosive device caused car to explode, driver dead | |  German police said they suspect an explosive device caused a car to explode and kill the driver on a road in central Berlin on Tuesday morning. The explosion took place on a wide street in the Charlottenburg western district of Berlin and the car, a Volkswagen Passat, was heading towards the city centre.
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| Berlin police say believe explosive device caused car to explode | | | German police said on Twitter that they believe an explosive device caused a car to explode while it was driving along a road in central Berlin on Tuesday morning. "Our investigators believe it was an explosive device that caused the vehicle to explode," said Berlin police, who have sealed off the area. |
| Islamic State claims murder of Muslim preacher in Bangladesh | | | Islamic State has claimed responsibility for murdering a Muslim preacher in Bangladesh, an online group that monitors extremist activity said on Tuesday, the latest killing declared by the militant group in the South Asian nation. Islamist violence has surged in recent months in the Muslim-majority country, but the government has rejected Islamic State's claims, blaming the violence instead on homegrown militant groups. The U.S.-based SITE Intelligence Group said Islamic State had claimed to have killed the man late on Monday in Jhenaidah, a district about 100 miles (161 km) west of Dhaka, the capital. |
| Pursuing war criminals in Syria should not wait for war end - U.N. | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - United Nations human rights investigators on Syria said on Tuesday that preparing prosecutions against war criminals should not be delayed until the end of the conflict, now entering its sixth year. The U.N. Commission of Inquiry, which has documented atrocities committed by all sides in the war, has compiled a confidential list of suspects and begun providing judicial assistance to authorities investigating foreign fighters. President Vladimir Putin announced on Monday that "the main part" of Russia's armed forces in Syria would start to withdraw, telling his diplomats to step up the push for peace as U.N.-mediated talks resumed in Geneva between the Syrian government and opposition.
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| Chinese hackers behind U.S. ransomware attacks - security firms | |  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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| Legal opinion backs Austria's migrant cap - paper | |  A cap on asylum claims announced by Austria in January does not break European Union law, according to a legal opinion commissioned by the Austrian government, daily Oberoesterreichische Nachrichten said on Tuesday, citing government sources. Austria, which has a population of 8.4 million and last year received 90,000 applications for asylum, has said it will limit the number of refugees it accepts this year to 37,500. The Austrian government was not immediately available for comment on the report.
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| Mass killer Breivik makes Nazi salute as he sues Norway for "inhuman treatment" | |  By Gwladys Fouche SKIEN, Norway (Reuters) - Mass killer Anders Behring Breivik made a Nazi salute at the start of a court case on Tuesday in which he is accusing the Norwegian state of inhuman treatment by keeping him in isolation after he massacred 77 people in 2011. Wearing a black suit, white shirt and golden tie, the 37-year-old raised his right arm in a Nazi salute as he arrived. It was considered too dangerous to hear the case in Oslo and the court is sitting inside the prison's gymnasium, whose walls are lined with timber wall bars and a climbing wall as well as two basketball hoops.
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| Norwegian mass killer Breivik makes a Nazi salute in court | |  Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik raised his right arm in a Nazi salute on Tuesday as he arrived for the first day of the lawsuit he is bringing against the Norwegian state to change the conditions of his detention. Breivik argues he is the victim of inhuman treatment. The lawsuit is taking place in the gym hall of Skien prison, where Breivik is being held, in southern Norway.
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| Bangladesh central bank governor resigns over cyber heist | |  By Serajul Quadir DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh's central bank governor Atiur Rahman said on Tuesday he had resigned after $81 million was stolen from the bank's account at the New York Fed in one of the largest cyber heists in history. Rahman told Reuters that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had accepted his resignation. Unknown hackers breached the computer systems of Bangladesh Bank and transferred $81 million from its account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to casinos in the Philippines between Feb. 4 and Feb. 5.
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| Major Thai trafficking trial opens amid fears for witnesses | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - The trial of 92 suspected human traffickers, arrested after the discovery of shallow graves of migrants in Thai jungle, began in Bangkok on Tuesday and the attorney-general's office said it would be over within a year amid fears about the safety of witnesses. Traffickers abandoned boatloads of migrants at sea last year after a crackdown by Thai authorities that led to a regional migrant crisis with Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar and Bangladesh refusing boats permission to land. Rights groups had expressed fears that a drawn-out case, lasting anything up to two years, could put the hundreds of witnesses at risk because of inadequate police protection.
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| Myanmar's parliament elects Suu Kyi confidant Htin Kyaw as president | |  By Hnin Yadana Zaw and Antoni Slodkowski NAYPYITAW (Reuters) - Myanmar's parliament elected a close friend and confidant of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi as president on Tuesday, making Htin Kyaw the first head of state who does not hail from a military background since the 1960s. Suu Kyi led her National League for Democracy (NLD) to a landslide election win in November, but a constitution drafted by the former junta bars her from the top office. It is the victory of my sister Aung San Suu Kyi," Htin Kyaw told Reuters after the vote.
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