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| Brussels police hunt fleeing gunman in Paris probe | |  By Robert-Jan Bartunek, Philip Blenkinsop and Clement Rossignol BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Armed Belgian police locked down a section of Brussels on Tuesday as they hunted a fleeing gunman who wounded an officer during a raid linked to the investigation of November's Islamist attacks in Paris. "This operation is connected to the Paris attacks," a spokesman for Belgium's federal prosecutor told Reuters. The area around the raid, near the main north-south railway linking Paris and Amsterdam, and an Audi car factory, was sealed off, Reuters journalists at the scene said.
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| How to hack a sex toy: tech firms warn public on growing cyber-risks | | | By Caroline Copley HANOVER, Germany (Reuters) - It's not just computers and mobile phones that are vulnerable to cyber attack, according to software firm Trend Micro. As more devices are hooked up to the Internet, it could be anything from medical equipment to industrial machinery - and even sex toys. To illustrate the point, Trend Micro spokesman Udo Schneider surprised journalists at a news conference this week by placing a large, neon-pink vibrator on the desk in front of him and then bringing it to life by typing out a few lines of code on his laptop. |
| Myanmar's parliament elects Suu Kyi confidant 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.
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| Mass killer Breivik gives Nazi salute as he sues Norway for "inhuman treatment" | |  By Gwladys Fouche SKIEN, Norway (Reuters) - Mass killer Anders Behring Breivik gave a Nazi salute at the start of a court case against Norway on Tuesday at which his lawyers argued he has received inhuman treatment by being kept in isolation for murdering 77 people in 2011. Appearing in public for the first time since he was sentenced in 2012, Breivik has had just one visitor with whom he had physical contact - his mother, who was allowed into prison and gave him a hug shortly before she died of cancer in 2013. Clean-shaven and wearing a black suit, white shirt and golden tie, Breivik raised his right arm in a flat-handed Nazi salute on arrival at the court, slightly different from the outstretched arm and clenched fist he used in 2012.
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| Man in Manila gets $30 mln cash from cyber heist; Bangladesh c.bank gov quits | |  By Serajul Quadir and Karen Lema DHAKA/MANILA (Reuters) - Bangladesh's central bank governor resigned on Tuesday over the theft of $81 million from the bank's U.S. account, as details emerged in the Philippines that $30 million of the money was delivered in cash to a casino junket operator in Manila. The rest of the money hackers stole from the Bangladesh Bank's account at the New York Federal Reserve, one of the largest cyber heists in history, went to two casinos, officials told a Philippines Senate hearing into the scandal. Unknown hackers last month breached the computer systems of Bangladesh Bank and attempted to steal $951 million from its Fed account, which it uses for international settlements.
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| Mother Teresa of Calcutta to be made Roman Catholic saint Sept. 4 - pope | |  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Mother Teresa of Calcutta, a nun who dedicated her life to helping the poor, will be made a saint of the Roman Catholic Church at a ceremony on Sept. 4, Pope Francis announced on Tuesday. Last December, he cleared the way for sainthood for the Nobel peace laureate, who died in 1997 at the age of 87 and was known as "saint of the gutters". Teresa, who was born Agnese Gonxha Bojaxhiu of Albanian parents in 1910 in what was then part of the Ottoman Empire and is now Macedonia, became an international figure but was also accused of trying to convert people to Christianity.
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| Bahraini activist begins jail term for ripping up photo of king -lawyer | |  Bahraini activist Zainab al-Khawaja has begun a two-month prison sentence for tearing up a photo of the king, her lawyer said on Tuesday. International rights groups protested after the jailing on Monday of Khawaja, who took her 15-month-old son, Hadi, with her into detention rather than leave him in the care of relatives. The Human Rights First group urged the United States, a close ally of the Gulf Arab state, to publicly call for the release of Khawaja, who is in her early 30s.
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| Berlin police say no "terrorist" background to car explosion | |  German police said there was no indication of a "terrorist" link to a car explosion in central Berlin which killed the driver on Tuesday morning and prosecutors said the victim was a 43-year old man previously investigated for drug dealing. Prosecutors in the capital said they suspected an explosive device had been attached to the car in a murder attack. "There is no evidence of there being a terrorist background," a spokesman for Berlin police said.
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| Pakistan religious groups say law protecting women from abuse "un-Islamic" | |  By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - An all-parties conference convened by Pakistan's oldest Islamic political party and attended by powerful religious groups asked the government on Tuesday to retract an "un-Islamic" law that gives unprecedented protection to female victims of violence. The Women's Protection Act, passed by Pakistan's largest province of Punjab last month, gives legal protection to women from domestic, psychological and sexual violence. Domestic abuse, economic discrimination and acid attacks made Pakistan the world's third most dangerous country in the world for women, a 2011 Thomson Reuters Foundation expert poll showed.
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| Iran insurers to compensate women equally in road accidents | |  By Sam Wilkin DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's legal vetting body has approved a bill that will see female victims of road traffic accidents paid the same compensation as men, in a small step towards gender equality in the conservative Islamic country. The Third Party Insurance Bill, likely to be made law in the coming weeks, will bind insurance companies to compensate victims of road accidents regardless of their gender, state broadcaster IRINN said on Monday. The bill was approved by the Guardian Council, a 12-member Islamic body responsible for ensuring legislation conforms to Sharia (Islamic) law, which had rejected a similar measure passed by parliament in 2008.
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| Cambodia jails student over Facebook call for regime change | |  A Cambodian court on Tuesday jailed a university student for 18 months for inciting crimes in an anti-government Facebook post that called for regime change. Facebook is popular in Cambodia, where disenfranchised citizens have increasingly turned to the Internet to highlight alleged state abuses and demand political reforms. Kong Raya, 24, was the first Cambodian convicted of using social media to attack the government of long-serving Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has warned that online critics could be traced and arrested in a matter of hours.
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| Iranians to vote in April for parliament run-offs - state radio | |  Iran will hold run-off elections next month for 69 parliamentary seats where no candidate secured 25 percent of votes cast in a general election on Feb. 26, state radio said on Tuesday. Results so far show moderate allies of President Hassan Rouhani making big gains from the conservative Islamic establishment but neither faction has a majority, meaning the run-offs will decide who controls the 290-seat parliament. "We will hold the second round of the parliamentary election on April 29, as approved by the Guardian Council," state radio quoted Interior Ministry official Ali Motlagh as saying.
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| China calls for FBI cooperation in internet security, counter-terrorism | |  China wants to have deeper internet security, anti-terrorism and corruption cooperation with the United States, Chinese security officials told the visiting director of the FBI, state news agency Xinhua said. Meeting in Beijing, Public Security Minister Guo Shengkun, told James B. Comey that China was willing to enhance strategic mutual trust and the respect of each others core interests, Xinhua said late on Monday.
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| South African government loses appeal over failure to arrest Bashir | |  South Africa's Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal by the government against a ruling that the state had made an error in letting Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir leave the country despite a court order barring him from doing so. Bashir, who was in South Africa for an African Union summit last June, was allowed to go even though the court had issued an order banning him from leaving until the end of a hearing on whether he should be detained under a global arrest warrant. The court said he should have been arrested to face genocide charges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) because as an ICC signatory, Pretoria is obliged to implement arrest warrants.
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