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| Bangladesh central bank governor resigns over cyber heist | |  By Serajul Quadir DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh's central bank governor Atiur Rahman resigned on Tuesday following demands of accountability from the government after $81 million was stolen from the bank's U.S. account in one of the largest cyber heists ever. Rahman, who returned to Dhaka late on Monday after attending a weekend International Monetary Fund conference in New Delhi, told Reuters that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had accepted his resignation. The government also fired two deputy governors of the bank, Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith said, days after blaming it for keeping the government in the dark about the theft.
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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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| 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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