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| Exclusive: Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for US intelligence - sources | |  By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers' incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter. The company complied with a classified U.S. government directive, scanning hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts at the behest of the National Security Agency or FBI, said two former employees and a third person apprised of the events. Some surveillance experts said this represents the first case to surface of a U.S. Internet company agreeing to a spy agency's demand by searching all arriving messages, as opposed to examining stored messages or scanning a small number of accounts in real time.
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| Egypt says it killed senior Muslim Brotherhood leader in shootout | | | Egypt's interior ministry said on Tuesday its forces had killed a senior Muslim Brotherhood leader, whom it described as responsible for the group's "armed wing", as well as his aide in a shootout overnight. Mohamed Kamal, 61, a member of the group's top leadership council, and Yasser Shehata, were killed when security forces raided an apartment in Cairo's southern Bassateen district, the ministry said. The Muslim Brotherhood said on its social media accounts that Kamal had disappeared on Monday afternoon, hours before the interior ministry announced his death. |
| Congo's Kabila: election day delayed to allow more preparation | |  Democratic Republic of Congo authorities have delayed elections to make sure the country is better prepared for them, President Joseph Kabila said on Tuesday, answering accusations that the government is dragging its feet to help him to cling onto power. Congo's electoral commission said on Saturday it expected polls to be delayed until December 2018. "We have decided to delay the elections to avoid locking out a huge number of people - most of them young voters," Kabila told journalists in Tanzania's commercial capital Dar Es Salaam.
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| Film '13th' traces path from slavery to U.S. mass incarceration | |  It has been 150 years since slavery was officially abolished in the United States, but documentary "13th" argues that it is still alive in the form of mass incarceration that disproportionately affects black people. Using TV footage, music, and interviews with academics, politicians and former prisoners, director Ava DuVernay portrays African-Americans as remaining enslaved, dating back to lynchings, the battle for civil rights, imprisonments for drug offenses, stop and frisk laws, and the current spate of police killings of unarmed black civilians. The U.S. prison population rose from 357,000 in 1970 to 2.3 million in 2014, the documentary notes.
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| Myanmar repeals emergency law used for decades to silence activists | |  By Wa Lone Yangon (Reuters) - Myanmar has abolished one of the most authoritarian laws used by previous military regimes to silence political opponents, a lawmaker said on Tuesday. Military members of parliament, who fill 25 percent of seats under Myanmar's military-drafted constitution, had opposed repealing it on the grounds it was vital to national security. The law was introduced in 1950 as newly independent Myanmar struggled with nascent ethnic insurgencies but was then frequently used against activists after the military seized power in a 1962 coup.
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| Prosecutors drop probe of German comedian over satirical Erdogan poem | |  German prosecutors said on Tuesday that they had dropped an investigation into a German comedian who was accused of offending a foreign leader after reciting an obscene poem about Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on national television. Comedian Jan Boehmermann read out a poem on a satirical show in March suggesting Erdogan engaged in bestiality and watched child pornography, prompting Erdogan to file a complaint with prosecutors that he had been insulted. The German government had given prosecutors the green light to pursue the case against Boehmermann - a move which brought Chancellor Angela Merkel strong criticism.
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| WikiLeaks' Assange signals release of documents before U.S. election | |  By Andrea Shalal BERLIN (Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said on Tuesday the group would publish about one million documents related to the U.S. election and three governments in coming weeks, but denied the release was aimed at damaging Hillary Clinton. Assange, 45, who remains at the Ecuadoran embassy in London where he sought refuge in 2012 to avoid possible extradition to Sweden, said the election material was "significant" and would come out before the Nov. 8 U.S. presidential election. Assange said her campaign had falsely suggested that accessing WikiLeaks data would expose users to malicious software.
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| Exclusive - J&J warns diabetic patients: Insulin pump vulnerable to hacking | |  Johnson & Johnson is telling patients that it has learned of a security vulnerability in one of its insulin pumps that a hacker could exploit to overdose diabetic patients with insulin, though it describes the risk as low. Medical device experts said they believe it was the first time a manufacturer had issued such a warning to patients about a cyber vulnerability, a hot topic in the industry following revelations last month about possible bugs in pacemakers and defibrillators. J&J executives told Reuters they knew of no examples of attempted hacking attacks on the device, the J&J Animas OneTouch Ping insulin pump.
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| U.N.'s rights boss warns Russia over Syria air strikes | |  By Tom Miles and Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights warned Russia on Tuesday over its use of incendiary weapons in air strikes on the Syrian city of Aleppo, where he said attacks on civilian targets may amount to crimes against humanity. The situation in besieged, rebel-held eastern Aleppo demanded bold new initiatives "including proposals to limit the use of the veto by the permanent members of the Security Council", said High Commissioner Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein. "Such a referral would be more than justified given the rampant and deeply shocking impunity that has characterised the conflict and the magnitude of the crimes that have been committed, some of which may indeed amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity," Zeid said in a statement.
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| Questions over Afghan defences as troops clear Kunduz city | |  Afghan forces regained control of most of the northern city of Kunduz on Tuesday amid sporadic fighting, officials said, as questions arose over how Taliban militants once again managed to penetrate the city's defences. The U.S. military in Kabul said that a "robust" group of special forces, as well as aircraft, were positioned near the city to provide support to Afghan soldiers should the need arise. Insurgents slipped past government forces early on Monday and occupied or attacked central areas of Kunduz, almost exactly a year after they briefly captured the city in one of their biggest successes of the 15-year war.
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| Interview - India to see 'big conflicts' over forest land despite law: activist | |  By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indian officials have been slow to implement a landmark law giving rights to forests to indigenous people because they view it as a handicap to development projects spurring expansion in the fast-growing economy, a land rights campaigner said. The 2006 Forest Rights Act aims to improve the lives of impoverished tribes by recognising their right to inhabit and live off forests where their forefathers settled. Under the law, at least 150 million people could have their rights recognised to a minimum of 40 million hectares (154,400 sq miles) of forest land, the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) estimated.
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| Turkey suspends thousands of police, shuts down TV station as crackdown widens | |  By Tuvan Gumrukcu and Humeyra Pamuk ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish authorities suspended nearly 13,000 police officers, detained dozens of air force officers and shut down a TV station on Tuesday, widening a state-ordered clampdown against perceived enemies in the wake of July's failed coup. The police headquarters said 12,801 officers, including 2,523 chiefs, had been suspended because of their suspected links to U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara accuses of orchestrating the attempt to overthrow the government. Gulen, who lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania, denies any link to the putsch which has shaken the country and led to the deaths of more than 240 people.
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