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| U.S. to secure guilty plea in case tied to JPMorgan hack probe | | | By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors are expected to obtain their second guilty plea in a case related to what they say was an illegal bitcoin exchange owned by an Israeli behind a series of hacking attacks on organizations such as JPMorgan Chase & Co. Prosecutors in a letter filed in Manhattan federal court said Michael Murgio of Florida will plead guilty on Thursday after being charged for participating in a scheme to pay bribes to let the bitcoin exchange's operators gain control of a credit union. Under a plea agreement, Murgio has agreed to plead guilty to a single count of making a false statement to the U.S. National Credit Union Administration, said Stuart Kaplan, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Murgio was added as a defendant in April in a case against others including his son Anthony Murgio, who prosecutors say operated the unlicensed bitcoin exchange, Coin.mx, and was involved in the bribe scheme. |
| No message received from Philippines about changing alliance - White House | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has received no formal communication from the Philippines government about making specific changes to the alliance between the two countries, the White House said on Wednesday during a regular news briefing. Earlier in the day during a visit to Japan, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte reiterated comments about his country's ties with long-time ally Washington, saying he might end defense treaties. (Reporting by Susan Heavey; Writing by Eric Walsh) |
| Pro-immigrant protesters snarl New York City morning commute | | | By David Ingram NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pro-immigrant protesters chained themselves together and blocked lanes on the George Washington Bridge between New Jersey and New York City on Wednesday, briefly halting traffic during the morning rush on the busiest U.S. bridge. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the bridge, said delays were as long as 90 minutes on the bridge's upper level on the city-bound side. Ten protesters were arrested, Port Authority spokesman Steve Coleman said. |
| Security guards who killed Palestinian sibling assailants cleared | | | By Ori Lewis JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Two Israeli security guards will not face charges for shooting dead a Palestinian woman brandishing a knife and her brother, the Justice Ministry said on Wednesday. Israeli police said after the attack in April the Palestinian siblings had both had knives and tried to carry out an attack at Qalandia checkpoint in the West Bank. "After examining the evidence, including the security guards' versions and the video footage ... the case has been closed against one of the guards for lack of evidence and the other because he was blameless," the ministry statement said. |
| Donald Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame star vandalized | |  By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was badly vandalized, possibly with a sledgehammer, media and officials said on Wednesday. A photo published in the online Hollywood publication Deadline.com showed Trump's name scratched out, the emblem in the middle dislodged and chips from the star missing. The Republican presidential nominee, real estate developer and reality TV star has been the focus of several large protests during his campaign appearances in California, where polls show he is trailing far behind Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
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| Pakistani militants say they worked with Islamic State to attack police college | |  By Syed Raza Hassan and Saud Mehsud QUETTA/DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - A faction of the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) cooperated with Islamic State this week in an attack on a police college that killed 63 people, the group's spokesman told Reuters on Wednesday. The confirmation of a link between the two groups will stoke fears that Islamic State, based in Syria and Iraq, is building a presence in Pakistan. Islamic State claimed responsibility for Monday's attack in the city of Quetta and released photographs of the purported gunmen who killed cadets during a raid that lasted nearly five hours.
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| Dozens of civilians abducted and killed in Afghanistan | | | Gunmen rounded up and shot dozens of civilians in a remote part of Afghanistan on Tuesday, UN officials said, in an attack that prompted angry protests from residents about government failure to protect them. The provincial governor's spokesman blamed fighters from Islamic State for the killings in the central-western province of Ghor, but there was no independent confirmation. Government security forces have long struggled to exert control in Ghor, a poor and mountainous province with sharp ethnic and tribal divisions and illegal armed groups that operate with impunity. |
| Ban children from dangerous religious rituals, says child protection commission | | | By Anuradha Nagaraj CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India's child protection agency has appealed to parents not to let children take part in religious rituals that could be dangerous, following a teenager's death after a 68-day fast. The appeal follows public outcry over the death of 13-year-old Aradhana Samdhariya from the minority Jain community in the southern city of Hyderabad. Samdhariya died due to cardiac arrest on Oct. 3, a day after her family held a procession in which she rode on a chariot dressed in bridal finery to celebrate the end of the ritual of surviving only on water. |
| No sleep for Ukraine officials as corruption reform deadline looms | | | By Pavel Polityuk and Alessandra Prentice KIEV (Reuters) - As the deadline nears for some 50,000 Ukrainian officials to fill out wealth declaration forms, lawmakers and ministers have vented their frustration at the tedious procedure with a mix of wry jokes and angry outbursts. The online form, to be filled out by Sunday night for a publicly searchable database, is part of a reform backed by the International Monetary Fund that is designed to prevent officials from amassing wealth through corruption. "This is not a system, it is hellfire," Yegor Guz, an MP for the People's Front party, said in a Monday Facebook post after he repeatedly tried and failed to revise his declaration. |
| Venezuela opposition marches against Maduro 'dictatorship' | |  By Alexandra Ulmer and Andrew Cawthorne CARACAS (Reuters) - Opposition supporters rallied throughout Venezuela on Wednesday against unpopular socialist President Nicolas Maduro, whom they accuse of turning into a dictator by preventing a plebiscite to remove him. The opposition coalition says Maduro must go before the situation worsens, but Venezuela's electoral authorities last week canceled a planned signature drive to hold a recall referendum against him, citing fraud. An enraged opposition said Maduro, a former bus driver and union leader who narrowly won election to succeed Hugo Chavez in 2013, had crossed the line.
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| Lifetime of privation made Albanian priest a Catholic cardinal | | | By Benet Koleka SHKODER, Albania (Reuters) - Albania's new Roman Catholic cardinal stuck to his faith even when his communist persecutors screwed handcuffs on so tight that he fainted from pain, or when they tried luring him into marriage to escape jail. Ernest Simoni, the only survivor of a Catholic clergy that was wiped out by Albania's post-war Communist regime, became the mainly Muslim country's only cardinal after impressing Pope Francis with his fortitude in the face of a lifetime of privations and torture. "We did not speak." His Calvary began on Christmas Day 1963 after he celebrated a mass for slain U.S. President John F. Kennedy, a Catholic. |
| Pop singer Timberlake will not be investigated for ballot selfie | |  Hours after Tennessee authorities said on Tuesday they were investigating pop star Justin Timberlake for posting a photo of himself in a polling station on social media, the local district attorney said no such probe was under way. "The statement released earlier today by my office regarding Justin Timberlake and an investigation was incorrect and was released without my knowledge," Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich said. A representative for Timberlake did not respond to requests for comment.
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| Israeli army says soldier wounded by shots fired from Lebanon | | | The Israeli military said an Israeli soldier was wounded on Wednesday by shots fired from a vehicle travelling in Lebanon along a border fence, and troops returned fire. A Lebanese army statement said there was no truth to reports shots had been fired from a car at a soldier from Lebanese territory. An Israeli army statement said troops who fired back at the vehicle had "confirmed a hit". |
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