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| RBI asks lenders to put in place cyber security policy | |  The Reserve Bank of India on Thursday said the country's lenders must put in place a cyber security policy "immediately" in order to combat internet threats and asked the sector to identify risks according to the degree of potential danger. "It is essential to enhance the resilience of the banking system by improving the current defences in addressing cyber risks," the RBI said in a statement. "Banks should immediately put in place a cyber-security policy elucidating the strategy containing an appropriate approach to combat cyber threats." The central bank asked lenders to specify potential risks as "low, moderate, high and very high" and reiterated that the lenders must report all "unusual cyber-security incidents" to the RBI.
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| Use it or lose it: Occasional Ohio voters may be shut out in November | |  By Andy Sullivan and Grant Smith CINCINNATI (Reuters) - When Larry Harmon tried to vote on a marijuana initiative in November in his hometown of Kent, Ohio, the 59-year-old software engineer found his name had been struck from the voter rolls. Two hours south in Zanesville, restaurant worker Chris Conrad, 37, was also told he was no longer registered. Both men later found out why: they had not voted often enough. As the Nov. 8 elections loom, officials in Ohio have removed tens of thousands of voters from registration lists because they have not cast a ballot since 2008.
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| China graft buster raps health ministry, drug regulator | | | China's top graft buster rapped the health ministry and food and drug administration on Thursday for problems including taking bribes for drug purchases, following its latest inspection of the two bodies. China's over-burdened health-care system is blighted by crowded hospitals, corruption and tension between patients and staff, and the government has struggled to enforce reforms. The drug regulator came in for particular criticism this year after a scandal over millions of illegal trades of vaccines through a black market drugs ring. |
| Militants kidnap 17 members of Afghanistan's Hazara community | | | MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Gunmen have kidnapped 17 members of Afghanistan's Hazara community, officials said on Thursday, the latest incident involving members of the Shi'ite Muslim minority highlighting the risk of sectarian violence. "The passengers, all our Hazara brothers, were travelling towards the city centre when their van was stopped by the Taliban and taken away," said Zabihullah Amani, spokesman for the provincial governor. Mohammad Noor Rahmani, head of the provincial council, said the kidnapping happened a day after a Taliban commander in the area was detained by Afghan forces during a clash. |
| EgyptAir black box search zone narrows after signal detected | |  By Lin Noueihed and Richard Lough CAIRO/PARIS (Reuters) - Search teams zeroed in on the wreckage of EgyptAir flight MS804 on Thursday after a French vessel picked up a signal from one of the crashed jet's black boxes. An Egyptian source on the investigation committee told Reuters the search zone for the crashed Airbus A320 had been reduced to a 2 km (1.24 miles) radius from 5 km. France's transport minister said it would be about eight days before the flight recorder was recovered from the Mediterranean seabed. Locating the black boxes is crucial to understanding why the jet plummeted into the Mediterranean en route from Paris to Cairo on May 19, killing all 66 people on board.
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| Three monks charged in Thailand as tiger potions, charms point to illicit trade | |  By Patpicha Tanakasempipat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai authorities charged three Buddhist monks on Thursday after they were caught trying to smuggle tiger skins and charms made from tiger parts out a temple which monks said was a tiger sanctuary but critics said was a money-spinning tourist trap. The Buddhist temple west of Bangkok has long been popular with tourists who paid about $20 each to get in and pose for pictures with its tigers, and to feed cubs and walk among them. The discovery on Thursday of the tiger skins and charms, or amulets, made from skins in a pick-up truck, and jars containing the bodies of tiger cubs in the temple, pointed to an even more lucrative business than thought.
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| Families of six crew on downed Malaysian plane MH17 sue airline | |  The families of six cabin crew aboard ill-fated Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 sued the airline on Thursday for negligence and breach of contract, nearly two years after the plane was downed over eastern Ukraine. Flight MH17 was en route from Amsterdam to the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur when it was shot down in July 2014, killing all 298 passengers and crew. The aircraft was shot down by a Russian-made surface-to-air missile, the Dutch Safety Board concluded in a report last year, but did not identify any responsible party or group.
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| Odisha becomes first state to give welfare to transgender community | | | By Jatindra Dash BHUBANESWAR, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Odisha is the first region in the country to give transgender people social welfare benefits - such as a pension, housing and food grains - usually allocated for only the most impoverished, an official said on Thursday. Niten Chandra, principal secretary of Odisha's Department of Social Security, said the move to give the transgender community the same benefits as those living below the poverty line was aimed at improving their overall social and economic status. For example, they very often do not get employment easily," Chandra told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. |
| Leaders of banned Tajik Islamist party get life sentence in coup case | | | Two former leaders of a banned Islamist party were jailed for life in Tajikistan on Thursday on charges of being behind an attempted coup last year, in a case criticised by human rights groups as politically motivated. Russia, which supported President Imomali Rakhmon in a civil war in the 1990s, maintains a military base there. The sentences passed by Tajikistan's Supreme Court completed the virtual elimination of the main opposition force capable of challenging Rakhmon, in power since 1992, and follow a May referendum that could allow him to rule for life. |
| Sweden convicts man of preparing suicide bomb attack | | | A 20-year-old Swede was sentenced to five years in prison on Thursday for preparing to build a bomb to carry out a suicide attack, a court said. "The man had gathered information on bomb-building from the Internet and downloaded propaganda from IS," the Attunda District Court said. "He is now sentenced to five years in prison for preparing to commit a terrorist crime." The man, named as Aydin Sevigin, was found guilty of buying materials such as a pressure cooker and ball bearings to make a bomb, intending to blow himself up in a suicide attack. |
| Terror case opens up Kuwait's sectarian divisions | |  By Sylvia Westall KUWAIT (Reuters) - Kuwaiti security service officers raided farmhouses near the Iraqi border late last summer, slicing through carpets and smashing open concrete floors. Hidden in large plastic containers was a weapons cache, the largest discovered in Kuwait's history. State television showed Kuwait's Interior Minister, a senior ruling family member, solemnly viewing the results of the operation.
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| Lionel Messi testifies in tax fraud trial | |  By Richard Martin BARCELONA (Reuters) - Soccer's five-times World Player of the Year Lionel Messi arrived at a court in Barcelona on Thursday to testify against charges of tax evasion. A few bypassers applauded the arrival of the Argentina and FC Barcelona player while several people shouted at him, but in contrast to when he appeared at a local court in 2013 to give evidence, there were no Barcelona supporters present. Messi and his father, Jorge Horacio Messi, entered the court immediately without speaking to reporters.
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| Court convicts 24 in Gulbarg society massacre case | |  A court convicted 24 Hindus on Thursday of murder and other charges related to an anti-Muslim riot in Gujarat in which dozens of Muslims were killed at a time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was chief minister. A total of 69 Muslims, including a former lawmaker, were killed at a housing society in Ahmedabad in the 2002 riot when a mob set fire to their homes and attacked fleeing families, prosecutors said. "It has taken me 14 years to prove the crime committed against innocent Muslims.
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| Lebanese army kills IS militant, arrests three during raid-source | | | The Lebanese army shot and killed an Islamic State militant and detained three more during a raid on Thursday in the Akkar region of northern Lebanon, security sources said. The cell was accused of participating in the killing of Lebanese soldiers and of wounding an officer in the Interior Ministry's intelligence branch. The raid took place at a house in the village of Khirbet Daoud, near the northern border with Syria. |
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