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| Exclusive - Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for U.S. 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 demand, scanning hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts at the behest of the National Security Agency or FBI, said three former employees and a fourth person apprised of the events. Some surveillance experts said this represents the first case to surface of a U.S. Internet company agreeing to an intelligence agency's request 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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| Colombia's 'no' to peace deal could hit U.S. aid | |  By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Colombia's rejection of a deal to end 52 years of civil war will not end U.S. plans to send significant aid next year, although it might prompt lawmakers to keep back some of the $450 million that had been expected, congressional aides said on Tuesday. While spending plans for fiscal 2017 will not be final until late this year, the Senate and House of Representatives had been expected to approve $400 million in development aid, and roughly $50 million in counternarcotics assistance for Colombia for the year ending on Sept. 30, 2017. U.S. support for Colombia is expected to remain strong, although Congress could reduce the appropriation if renewed peace efforts go badly, the aides said.
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| Elections over, Brazil tackles unpopular spending reforms | |  By Anthony Boadle and Maria Carolina Marcello BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Michel Temer's government introduced to Congress on Tuesday a landmark constitutional amendment to cap public spending, seeking to press ahead with unpopular reforms in the wake of last weekend's municipal elections. Temer's new center-right government hopes the proposal, which would limit growth in spending to the rate of inflation for up to 20 years, will clear a Congressional committee this week and be put to a vote in the lower house by next week. In a concession to ease its passage, the government announced on Monday that a cap on health and education expenditure would not go into effect until 2018, rather than next year.
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| Colombia government, rebels in crisis talks after 'No' to peace deal | |  By Marc Frank and Helen Murphy HAVANA/BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's government and Marxist guerrillas went back to the drawing board in Havana on Tuesday after a peace deal they painstakingly negotiated over four years was rejected in a shock referendum result. In a vote that confounded opinion polls and was a disaster for President Juan Manuel Santos, Colombians narrowly rebuffed the pact on Sunday as too lenient on the rebels. Lead negotiators Humberto de la Calle and Sergio Jaramillo were back at a Havana convention centre on Tuesday meeting counterparts from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) to see what the rebels are willing to do, the government said.
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| 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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| Turkey suspends 13,000 police officers, shuts down TV station | |  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, were 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 coup attempt, which led to the deaths of more than 240 people.
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| Congo's Kabila - election day delayed to allow more preparation | |  By Fumbuka Ng'wanakilala DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - 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 reporters in Tanzania's commercial capital Dar Es Salaam.
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| Protesters and police clash at South African student demonstration | |  By Dinky Mkhize and Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Protesters at South Africa's Wits University overturned a police vehicle and threw stones at others on Tuesday as violence at nationwide demonstrations over high tuition fees escalated. Police fired stun grenades, rubber bullets and tear gas at hundreds of students who marched through the university's campus in Johannesburg, dancing the "toyi-toyi" - a common display of protest throughout decades of struggle against white rule. At least two people were arrested when police moved in to enforce a court order on public gathering at Wits - University of the Witwatersrand.
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| Egypt says it killed senior Muslim Brotherhood leader in shootout | | | By Amina Ismail CAIRO (Reuters) - 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 forensic report said that both Kamal and Shehata were shot in the head, he added. |
| 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 Kunduz 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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| Turkish soldier killed in base attack in mainly Kurdish southeast | | | A Turkish soldier was killed and four were wounded in a rocket attack on a military base in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast on Tuesday, the local governor said, accusing members of the armed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) of being behind the action. The military launched an operation and scrambled F16 fighter jets after militants fired rockets at a gendarme outpost near the town of Lice in Diyarbakir province, security sources said. "An attack has been made by the divisive terrorist organisation on military personnel," the Diyarbakir governor's office said in a statement, using terminology regularly used to describe the PKK. |
| U.N.'s rights boss warns Russia over Syria air strikes | |  By Tom Miles and Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations human rights chief told Russia on Tuesday that air strikes on civilian targets in the Syrian city of Aleppo may amount to crimes against humanity which could be brought before the International Criminal Court. High Commissioner Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein said initiatives to resolve the situation in besieged, rebel-held eastern Aleppo should include proposals to limit the use of the veto by the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council. This would enable major powers to refer the matter to the International Criminal Court, a step previously blocked by Russia and China.
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