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| Cyber experts tread carefully around the Internet | |  By Alina Selyukh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - They know the risks of the Internet better than anyone, but most cyber experts still shop and bank online - with care. \"We operate in the 21st century ... I've got to shop online, I've got to pay my bills online,\" Brigadier General Paul Nakasone, deputy commander of U.S. Army Cyber Command, said at the Reuters Cybersecurity Summit this week. \"You can't really function without it,\" agreed Nart Villeneuve, researcher at the cybersecurity firm FireEye. Some actions can leave you wide open for data abuse, like checking into a hotel and handing over a credit card, he said.
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| Erdogan's abrasive style unchecked by Turkish mine tragedy | |  By Can Sezer and Dasha Afanasieva ISTANBUL (Reuters) - For a man with ambitions to become Turkey's first popularly-elected president in a few months' time, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan appears to have done little to unite the country at a moment of national tragedy. Erdogan expressed regret for the tragedy but told a news conference in the town that it was the sort of incident that happened all over the world, donning his glasses to read a list of mining accidents dating back a century and a half in response to suggestions that Turkish regulation may have been at fault. In the narrow streets of Istanbul's Kasimpasa district, where Erdogan grew up and commands fervent support, his handling of the tragedy did little to dent loyalty to a man seen as a champion of the religiously conservative working classes.
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| Nigerian president to visit town where girls were seized | |  ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan will on Friday visit the northeastern village where more than 200 schoolgirls were seized a month ago by Islamist rebel group Boko Haram, senior government officials said. It will be Jonathan's first visit since the kidnappings to Chibok, epicentre of a growing international effort to rescue the girls. Officials said he would travel on to a regional security summit in Paris at which Boko Haram will be discussed. ...
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| Dinesh D'Souza fails to win dismissal of U.S. charges over straw donors | |  By Nate Raymond and Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dinesh D'Souza, the conservative author and filmmaker, on Thursday failed to win the dismissal of U.S. criminal charges that he used straw donors to make excessive contributions to a 2012 Senate candidate. Ruling from the bench, U.S. District Judge Richard Berman in Manhattan rejected D'Souza's contention that last month's U.S. Supreme Court decision striking some limits on political donations also rendered a straw donor prohibition as unconstitutionally vague. The judge also denied a request by D'Souza, a prominent critic of President Barack Obama, to seek the production of evidence that would support his claim the prosecution was in retaliation for his political activities. Benjamin Brafman, D'Souza's lawyer, afterwards said he was disappointed but was prepared for trial, which is expected Tuesday.
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| Five MSF staff freed after being held months by kidnappers in Syria | | | Five staff members of the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) have been freed after being kidnapped in northwestern Syria in early January by an armed group, the aid group said in a statement on Thursday. MSF, known for sending doctors to conflict zones, said that for security reasons it had closed a hospital and two medical centres in The Jabal Akkrad area in Syria's northwestern Latakia province. \"The reduction of humanitarian aid is a direct consequence of the kidnapping of aid workers,\" MSF said in the statement, adding that approximately 150,000 people in the wartorn area had been deprived of its help. Syria's civil war has left more than 150,000 dead. |
| Up to 21 dead, doctor says, as anti-China riots spread in Vietnam | |  Up to 21 people were killed in Vietnam, a doctor said on Thursday, and a huge foreign steel project was set ablaze as anti-China riots spread in response to China deploying an oil rig in seas claimed by both countries. The doctor at a hospital in central Ha Tinh province said five Vietnamese workers and 16 other people described as Chinese were killed on Wednesday night in rioting, one of the worst breakdowns in Sino-Vietnamese relations since the neighbours fought a brief border war in 1979. More are being sent to the hospital this morning,\" the doctor at Ha Tinh General Hospital told Reuters by phone. China's state news agency Xinhua reported that at least two Chinese nationals had died and more than 100 were hospitalised.
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| Russian police arrest dozens after killing provokes ethnic unrest | | | Russian police detained nearly 60 people on Thursday after a demonstration venting anger against immigrants and demanding the arrest of an Uzbek man suspected of killing a local turned violent, Russian media reported. Some of the hundreds of protesters in the town of Pushkino, 30 km (20 miles) northeast of Moscow, chanted anti-immigrant slogans, toppled kiosks at a street market and attacked a bus, beating its driver, Ekho Moskvy radio reported. The riot raised fears of a new outbreak of racial violence such as happened on the streets of Moscow last October and in 2010 after killings of Slavic men that were blamed on people from the Caucasus. The protesters in Pushkino were angry that Zhakhongir Akhmedov, whom investigators suspect fatally beat a local man, Leonid Safyannikov, after an argument in a parking lot on Tuesday, had escaped arrest. |
| Amid protests, U.S. FCC proposes new 'net neutrality' rules | |  By Alina Selyukh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators on Thursday advanced a \"net neutrality\" proposal that would ban Internet providers from blocking or slowing down access to websites but may let them charge content companies for faster and more reliable delivery of their traffic to users. For four months now, the public can weigh in on the rules proposed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in what promises to be an intense tug-of-war between some tech companies and consumer advocates on one side and Republicans and broadband providers on the other, over the extent to which the agency can regulate Internet traffic. Dozens protested the vote at the FCC on Thursday as many consumer advocates have rejected FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler's proposal that may allow some \"commercially reasonable\" deals in which content companies could pay broadband providers to prioritize traffic on their networks.
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| Factbox - India's general election in numbers | |  Results of India's election are due on Friday, after a record number of voters cast their ballot in the five-week-long marathon. Although India's elections are notoriously difficult to predict, exit polls project a win for a coalition led by Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi. The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have called their campaign \"Mission 272+\" for this reason. - Winning an outright majority has grown more difficult over the years for the two main national parties - Congress, which has governed India as part of a coalition for the last decade, and the opposition BJP.
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| China blames Vietnam, says won't cede inch of disputed territory | |  A top Chinese general on Thursday defended China's deployment of an oil rig in the disputed South China Sea that has triggered deadly protests in Vietnam, saying Beijing can't afford to \"lose an inch\" of territory. Anti-China riots broke out this week in Vietnam, killing up to 21 people and setting fire to factories perceived to have been Chinese-owned, after China towed a giant oil rig into waters claimed by both nations. General Fang Fenghui, chief of the general staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, said in Washington that the drilling rig was operating in China's territorial waters, activity he vowed to protect. He also pointed blame at U.S. President Barack Obama's so-called pivot to Asia, saying some countries in the region seized upon it as an opportunity to create trouble in the South and East China Seas.
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| GM recalls almost 3 million vehicles, to take charge of up to $200 million | |  GM said the new actions were a result of the sharper focus the company has put on safety issues following the recall earlier this year of 2.6 million vehicles for the faulty switch. So far this year, GM has recalled almost 12.8 million vehicles globally, easily topping the 9 million recalled in the previous five years combined. \"We have redoubled our efforts to expedite and resolve current reviews in process and also have identified and analyzed recent vehicle issues which require action,\" GM's global vehicle safety chief, Jeff Boyer, said in a statement. He added GM continues to study how it handles recalls for further improvement in the process.
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