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| Huawei filed new patent suit against Samsung Electronics - China court | | | HONG KONG/SEOUL (Reuters) - Huawei Technologies Co Ltd has filed another patent lawsuit against smartphone rival Samsung Electronics Co Ltd in China, adding to the legal battle between the two Asian electronics giants. Quanzhou intermediate people's court spokesman Wang Zhiwei told Reuters the court accepted the case recently but did not provide further details, including what infringements Huawei is claiming in the lawsuit and when the suit was filed. In May Huawei said it sued Samsung in the United States and China, seeking compensation for what the Chinese firm said was unlicensed use of fourth-generation cellular communications technology, operating systems and user interface software in Samsung phones. |
| U.S. sanctions North Korean leader over rights abuses | |  By David Brunnstrom, Patricia Zengerle and Yeganeh Torbati WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday sanctioned North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for the first time, citing "notorious abuses of human rights," in a move diplomats say will infuriate the nuclear-armed country. The sanctions, the first to target any North Koreans for rights abuses, affect property and other assets within the U.S. jurisdiction. "Under Kim Jong Un, North Korea continues to inflict intolerable cruelty and hardship on millions of its own people, including extrajudicial killings, forced labor, and torture," Acting Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Adam J. Szubin said in the statement.
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| Australian PM Turnbull scrambles for independent votes as race tightens | |  By Matt Siegel SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull scrambled on Thursday to gain support from a small handful of independent lawmakers whose backing he will likely need to form a workable government and end a political vacuum after an unexpectedly close election. There were signs that the instability was beginning to take its toll on the Australian economy, with Standard and Poor's cutting Australia's credit rating outlook to negative from stable, threatening a downgrade of its coveted triple A status. The Australia dollar fell half a U.S. cent after S&P's announcement, which cited concerns the coalition government would be hampered in its plans to return to budget surplus as it struggles to form a majority government.
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| Protests and U.S. probe after Louisiana police shoot black man | |  By Bryn Stole and Kathy Finn BATON ROUGE, La. (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday it would investigate the killing of a black man pinned to the ground and shot in the chest by two white police officers outside a convenience store in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. One officer shot Sterling five times at close range, and the other took something from his pants pocket as he was dying, according to images recorded by Abdullah Muflahi, owner of the Triple S Food Mart where Sterling was killed in the parking lot.
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| Italian victims tortured in Bangladesh attack, autopsies show | |  Islamist militants tortured a group of Italians before killing them during an attack on a restaurant in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka last week, a legal source said on Wednesday. The bodies of the nine Italians, most of whom worked in the clothing industry, were flown back to Rome on Tuesday. The victims, mostly foreigners, included Japanese, Indians and Americans as well as the Italians.
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| Briton pleads not guilty to weapons charges over Trump rally incident | |  (Reuters) - A British man pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to weapons charges stemming from an incident where he was accused of trying to steal a gun from a policeman during a Las Vegas rally for Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Michael Steven Sandford, 20, of Britain, was charged with two felony counts of being an illegal alien in possession of a firearm and one felony count of impeding and disrupting the orderly conduct of government business, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Las Vegas. Brenda Weksler, one of Sandford's federal public defenders, declined to comment when reached by email on Wednesday evening.
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| U.S. attorney general closes Clinton email probe, says no charges | |  By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of private email while secretary of state is closed, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said on Wednesday, removing a legal cloud that threatened the presumptive Democratic nominee's presidential bid. Lynch said she accepted the Federal Bureau of Investigation's recommendations that no charges be brought in the probe, as Republicans made clear they would not let Clinton's email headaches fade away easily. With the Nov. 8 U.S. presidential and congressional elections beginning to heat up, Republicans called on the administration to make public key documents in the Clinton email case.
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