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| In major shift, Mexico president proposes relaxing marijuana laws | |  By Gabriel Stargardter MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Thursday proposed legalising marijuana-based medicines, raising the amount users can carry and freeing inmates on minor weed charges, in a major shift amid regional efforts to reboot drug policy. Pena Nieto, who is grappling with deadly drug cartel violence, said he will send to Congress a proposal to permit the use and importation of marijuana-based medicines, and raise the amount that weed users can legally carry to 28 grams from 5 grams. Growing and selling marijuana is illegal in Mexico and a mainstay business of violent drug gangs.
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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 lack of sophisticated switches, which can cost several hundred dollars or more, also means it is difficult for investigators to figure out what the hackers did and where they might have been based, he added.
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| U.S. prisoner in Bahrain says he has been freed via royal pardon | | | By Yara Bayoumy WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. citizen who had been sentenced in Bahrain to 10 years in jail in 2013 has been granted a royal pardon and was freed on Thursday after paying a fine, he and his lawyer said. Tagi al-Maidan was born in the United States to a Bahraini mother and Saudi father and his status as a U.S. national had thrown a spotlight on the complex relationship between Washington and Bahrain, a U.S. ally in the volatile Gulf region that has long provided a base for the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet. Mohammed al-Jishi, Maidan's lawyer, said he had received an official document that referred to the royal pardon in Maidan's case. |
| Serbia protests to Croatia over minister's war crimes comment | |  Serbia lodged a diplomatic protest on Thursday after Croatia's foreign minister was quoted as saying it was "an historical perversion" for Belgrade to claim the right to judge war crimes committed anywhere in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. The protest marked an escalation of a row between the neighbours over Croatia's attempt to set conditions for Serbia to make progress in its talks on joining the European Union. Croatia, which fought a 1991-95 war against Belgrade-backed Serb rebels to forge its independence from Yugoslavia, wants Serbia to drop its claim - enshrined in a 2003 law - to jurisdiction over war crimes committed on the entire territory of the former Yugoslavia.
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| FBI paid more than $1.3 million to break into San Bernardino iPhone | |  By Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey said on Thursday the agency paid more to get into the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters than he will make in the remaining seven years and four months he has in his job. According to figures from the FBI and the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Comey's annual salary as of January 2015 was $183,300. Speaking at the Aspen Security Forum in London, Comey was asked by a moderator how much the FBI paid for the software that eventually broke into the iPhone.
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| U.S. calls on Egypt to conduct thorough probe into student's death | |  The United States on Thursday called for an impartial and comprehensive investigation into the death of an Italian student in Egypt and said it had pressed the point in private talks with Egyptian authorities. "We have reiterated that the details that have come to light since his death have raised questions about the circumstances of his death that we believe can only be answered through an impartial and comprehensive inquiry," State Department spokesman John Kirby told a briefing. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry travelled to Cairo this week to raise human rights concerns with Egypt's leaders.
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| Germany arrests two teenagers suspected of bombing Sikh temple | | | Three people were injured in a bomb attack at a Sikh temple in western Germany, police said on Thursday, adding that two 16-year-olds arrested after the attack appeared to have Islamist backgrounds. "We must act on the assumption that it was a terrorist attack, religiously tainted terrorism of the Islamist scene," said Frank Richter, police chief in the city of Essen, where the attack took place last weekend. The second suspect was arrested in a police raid. |
| Ashley Madison plaintiffs cannot sue anonymously over hack, judge says | |  Plaintiffs leading a lawsuit against online dating website Ashley Madison over a security breach that exposed the personal data of customers must publicly identify themselves to proceed with the case, a U.S. judge has ruled. Forty-two plaintiffs, seeking to represent users of the website who had their information compromised, had proceeded anonymously against Ashley Madison's Toronto-based parent company Avid Life Media, the ruling released on April 6 showed. The plaintiffs are suing Ashley Madison, a website that facilitates extramarital affairs, for failing to adequately secure their information, marketing a "Full Delete Removal" service that did not work, and using fake female accounts to lure male customers, according to the ruling.
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| Bulgaria approves compulsory voting to boost turnout | | | Bulgaria's parliament approved a law on Thursday to make voting compulsory in an attempt to boost election turnout and the legitimacy of political institutions. The European Union (EU) member has had five governments since 2012. Lawmakers from the ruling centre-right GERB party, and most of its allies, have now approved amendments to the Election Code that will make voting mandatory. |
| 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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