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| China decries call in U.S. to name street after jailed Tiananmen dissident | | | China on Friday criticised a group of U.S. lawmakers for calling for a Washington street near the Chinese embassy to be named after imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, behaviour it said was "provocative" and "ignorant". Thirteen members of the U.S. House of Representatives asked Mayor Vincent Gray in a letter to rename part of International Place NW after the 2010 Nobel recipient, saying it would bring "renewed international attention to Chinese human rights violations", the Washington Post reported on Thursday. Liu, 58, a veteran dissident involved in the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests that were crushed by the army, was jailed for 11 years in 2009 on subversion charges for organising a petition urging an end to one-party rule. "What kind of person is Liu Xiaobo? |
| Home minister seeks report on grisly rape, hanging of teens in Uttar Pradesh | |  By Sharat Pradhan LUCKNOW (Reuters) - New Home Minister Rajnath Singh weighed in on Friday in a grisly case in which two teenage girls were raped and hanged from a tree this week in Uttar Pradesh, as public anger and political controversy over the attack gain momentum. The case is one of the first challenges for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his four-day-old government. It highlights the ongoing struggle to stem sexual violence in India, where a string of high-profile rapes has sparked nationwide protests and international criticism. Singh asked the Uttar Pradesh government to submit a report on the attack, a ministry spokesman said.
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| Turkish telecoms watchdog says waiting on ruling to unblock YouTube | |  Turkish telecoms watchdog BTK said on Friday it had not yet received a ruling by Turkey's top court ordering the removal of a two-month block on video-sharing website YouTube. The Constitutional Court on Thursday ruled that a block on access to YouTube imposed by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's government was a violation of rights, but nearly 24 hours after the ruling was announced the video-sharing site remained inaccessible to most Turks. The court said on Thursday that it has not yet written its full report on the issue and a source at BTK told Reuters on Friday it was not clear when the decision would arrive. This is the second time that the Constitutional Court has overturned a media ban imposed by the government.
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| Second diver dies in Korea ferry search as fugitive businessman's car found | |  A diver searching for bodies in a sunken ferry died on Friday after an accident, the coast guard said, as a car believed to be used by a fugitive businessman linked to the ship was reported found. The diver was pulled from the water where he was involved in the cutting open of the hull in the hope of reaching some of 16 people missing 45 days after the vessel sank, a coast guard official said.
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| EXCLUSIVE - Security enthusiasts may revive encryption tool after mystery shutdown | |  By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A team of security experts may seek to restore and improve a popular computer encryption system after its developers mysteriously shut it down, claiming "unfixed security issues," a leader of the effort told Reuters on Thursday. TrueCrypt, one of a number of programs that encrypt all of a user's hard drive, had gained popularity after fugitive former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden praised it and law enforcement officials complained of their inability to crack it. TrueCrypt had passed the earliest testing, so it shocked many technologists Wednesday when the TrueCrypt website announced it would discontinue encryption support and urged users to move to rival software. "WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues," the notice said."You should migrate any data encrypted by TrueCrypt to encrypted disks or virtual disk images." Speculation has mounted over the cause of the reversal, with some suggesting that the developers had tired of the decade-long project and others guessing that U.S. authorities had demanded a back-door key from the programmers, as happened with anonymous email provider Lavabit.
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| Match-fixing in soccer a "major problem" in Greece, says survey | | | By Brian Homewood BERNE (Reuters) - Match-fixing is a "major problem" in Greece where 12.8 percent of players interviewed in a recent survey said they had been approached and asked to manipulate a game in the last year. The survey, conducted by Birbeck, University of London on behalf of the world players' union FIFPro, said it was also a major problem in Italy, although the number of cases that have been exposed may have been a sign of willingness to tackle the problem. Around 1,500 first and second division players in England, Scotland, Greece, Slovenia, Finland, Italy, Hungary and Romania were interviewed in the survey as part of FIFPro's "Don't Fix it" campaign. |
| China's Xi vows to address poverty, ethnic unity in troubled Xinjiang | |  By Megha Rajagopalan BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping has pledged to alleviate poverty and improve ethnic unity in restive Xinjiang, the most direct indication yet that China's leaders want to address the causes of violence in the remote western region. Xi's comments, made in a speech to Communist Party leaders on Thursday and quoted heavily in Chinese media again on Friday, came after five suicide bombers killed 39 people and wounded 94 in an attack on a vegetable market in the Xinjiang capital, Urumqi, last week, the deadliest such incident in years. Experts have long said economic marginalisation of Xinjiang's large Muslim Uighur ethnic group is one of the main causes of the violence. However, until now, China's leadership had not openly expressed an intention to address the poor economic conditions faced by Xinjiang's Uighurs.
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