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| Snowden to take Norway to court to secure free passage | |  Edward Snowden will take the Norwegian state to court in a bid to secure free passage there, a Norwegian law firm representing the former U.S. spy contractor said on Thursday. Snowden has been invited to Norway to receive a freedom of speech award from the local branch of writers' group PEN International, but is worried that he would be handed over to the United States, his lawyers say. "The purpose is to get legally established that Norway has no right to extradite Snowden to the U.S.," the law firm, Schjoedt, said in a statement.
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| Indonesia fears piracy surge on shipping route could make it "new Somalia" | | | By Fergus Jensen and Kanupriya Kapoor JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia fears piracy on a shipping route along its sea border with the Philippines could reach Somalian levels and has told vessels to avoid danger areas, officials said on Thursday, after a spate of kidnappings. Concerns over maritime attacks by suspected Islamist militants are disrupting the coal trade, with at least two Indonesian coal ports suspending shipments to the Philippines. Up to 18 Indonesians and Malaysians have been kidnapped in three attacks on tugboats in Philippine waters by groups suspected of ties to the Abu Sayyaf militant network. |
| Paris attacks suspect charged with attempted murder in Belgium | |  Salah Abdeslam, a key suspect in November's Paris attacks, has been charged with attempted murder in Belgium during a police shootout in Brussels three days before his arrest, prosecutors said. Abdeslam, who is due to be extradited to France in the next few weeks over his part in the attacks in Paris by Islamic State militants that killed 130 people, appeared before a Belgian judge on Thursday. Investigators found fingerprints of Abdeslam, who was born in Belgium to Moroccan-born parents, at the scene.
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| Exclusive: Egyptian police detained Italian student before his murder - sources | |  An Italian student who was tortured and murdered in Egypt had been detained by police and then transferred to a compound run by Homeland Security the day he vanished, intelligence and police sources say. The claims contradict the official Egyptian account that security services had not arrested him. Giulio Regeni, a 28-year-old postgraduate student, disappeared on Jan. 25, friends say.
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| Bangladesh Bank exposed to hackers by cheap switches, no firewall-police | |  By Serajul Quadir DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh's central bank was vulnerable to hackers because it did not have a firewall and used second-hand, $10 switches to network computers connected to the SWIFT global payment network, an investigator into one of the world's biggest cyber heists said. The shortcomings made it easier for hackers to break into the system earlier this year and attempt to siphon off nearly $1 billion using the bank's SWIFT credentials, said Mohammad Shah Alam, head of the Forensic Training Institute of the Bangladesh police's criminal investigation department. The institute Alam heads includes a cyber crime division.
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| Indonesia instructs commercial vessels to avoid piracy-prone waters around S. Philippines | | | The Indonesian Navy has instructed all commercial vessels to avoid piracy-prone waters around the southern Philippines, a spokesman for the Indonesian military said on Thursday, following a spate of kidnappings and piracy in recent weeks. "The Indonesian Navy, through the Western Sea Security Cluster, is increasing the intensity of patrols up to the exclusive economic zone border with the Philippines and Malaysia to prevent acts of piracy and hijacking," Indonesian military spokesman Tatang Sulaiman told Reuters in a text message. |
| Bulgarian parliament approves compulsory voting to boost turnout | | | Bulgaria's parliament on Thursday approved a law to make voting compulsory in an attempt to boost election turnout and the legitimacy of political institutions. Lawmakers from the ruling centre-right GERB party and its allies approved amendments to the Election Code, making casting a vote a civil duty rather than a civil right. In January, parliament gave the green light to electronic voting, a move expected to help Bulgarians living abroad to take part in elections and encourage more young and educated people to vote. |
| Spain heads towards new election as parties rule out last-minute deal | |  By Julien Toyer MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's political parties on Thursday ruled out last-minute talks to secure a parliamentary majority and form a government, making it virtually inevitable that there will be a new election in June. Spain has been without a government since an inconclusive December election and King Felipe VI is due to meet all parties next week in a last-ditch attempt to strike a deal.
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| Press ban in tatters as UK celebrity threesome story spreads online | | | In England, the answer is to obtain an injunction -- a court order banning media from publishing private information against your will. Britain's Supreme Court will hold a hearing on Thursday at the end of which it will decide whether the ban should remain in place. The person obtained an injunction in January covering England and Wales and kept a lid on the news story for 11 weeks, but on April 6 a widely read U.S. magazine ran it and within minutes it was all over the Internet. |
| UK Supreme Court urged to uphold press ban on celebrity threesome story | |  Britain's Supreme Court was urged on Thursday to maintain a ban on the English press naming a celebrity who was involved in an extra-marital threesome, even though the details are easy to find online. The case has stirred debate in Britain about whether injunctions, court orders banning publication of private information, still serve any practical purpose in the age of the Internet. On Monday, the Court of Appeal ruled that the ban should be lifted because the details of the story were now common knowledge, but the celebrity involved went to the Supreme Court to try and get that decision overturned.
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| In new Ukraine, old clan ties propel 'boy' prime minister's rise | |  By Pavel Polityuk and Matthias Williams KIEV (Reuters) - The rapid rise of a former provincial mayor to become Ukraine's youngest ever prime minister has stirred fears that the very system of clannish oligarchy that the 2014 Maidan street protests were meant to dismantle is still alive and well. Volodymyr Groysman, 38, took office last week at the bidding of his political mentor, President Petro Poroshenko, whose confectionery empire Roshen is based in Groysman's hometown of Vinnytsia. "Groysman is very dependent on Poroshenko," said Yegor Sobolev, an MP for the reformist Samopomich party, which quit the ruling coalition in February.
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| China official dealing with Taiwan to be prosecuted for "vile and severe" graft | | | A former deputy head of China's Taiwan Affairs Office will be prosecuted for "serious discipline violations", the ruling Communist Party's anti-graft watchdog said on Thursday, the latest official to fall in an ongoing crackdown on corruption. China has jailed dozens of senior officials since President Xi Jinping launched a sweeping campaign against graft after assuming office more than three years ago, vowing to go after powerful "tigers" as well as lowly "flies". An investigation found that Gong Qinggai had not honestly reported his stock and real estate assets, spent public money extravagantly, accepted gifts and abused his position for private interests, a statement on the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) said. |
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