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| Fifty-three blindfolded bodies found in Iraq as political leaders bicker | | | By Raheem Salman and Isra' al-Rubei'i BAGHDAD Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi security forces found 53 corpses, blindfolded and handcuffed, south of Baghdad on Wednesday as Shi'ite and Kurdish leaders traded accusations over an Islamist insurgency raging in the country's Sunni provinces. Officials said dozens of bodies were discovered near the mainly Shi'ite Muslim village of Khamissiya, with bullets to the chest and head, the latest mass killing since Sunni insurgents swept through northern Iraq. "Fifty-three unidentified corpses were found, all of them blindfolded and handcuffed," Sadeq Madloul, governor of the mainly Shi'ite southern province of Babil, told reporters. He said the victims appeared to have been killed overnight after being brought by car to an area near the main highway running from Baghdad to the southern provinces, about 25 km (15 miles) southeast of the city of Hilla. |
| Microsoft drops lawsuit against Vitalwerks after service cuts | |  By Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp has dropped a lawsuit against Vitalwerks Internet Solutions that alleged the privately held Web services firm failed to take proper steps to prevent its systems from being abused by cybercriminals. The two companies said on Wednesday they had settled the lawsuit, which was announced by Microsoft on June 30 as it launched an operation to wrest control over infected PCs from cybercriminals. Microsoft's operation targeted malicious software known as Bladabindi and Jenxcus, which is believed have infected millions of Windows PCs around the globe. Microsoft obtained an order from a federal judge in Nevada to launch the operation, telling the court it would be able to siphon off criminal traffic without impacting legitimate users of a service run by Vitalwerks, known as No-IP.com.
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| Detroit art sale could bring less than half collection's value -expert | |  (Reuters) - The Detroit Institute of Arts collection may be worth as much as $4.6 billion, but a sale of art works would raise less than $2 billion to pay the bankrupt city's creditors, according to a report released on Wednesday. Michael Plummer, an art expert hired by the institute and the city to evaluate the collection and ways to raise cash from it, concluded that litigation and market conditions would depress prices. Some of Detroit's hold-out creditors have been pushing the city to sell or monetize art works to increase settlement payments in the city's plan to adjust $18 billion of debt and exit the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. "The report makes it abundantly clear that selling art to settle debt will not generate the kind of revenue the city's creditors claim it will," said Bill Nowling, spokesman for Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr.
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| N.Korea list of Japanese abductees contains some 30 names - Nikkei | | | (Reuters) - North Korea has given Japan a list of some 30 missing Japanese still living in the country, Japan's Nikkei daily reported on Thursday, citing sources - three times as many names as the paper reported a week ago. The list includes known victims of North Korean state-sponsored kidnappings in the 1970s and 80s - believed to have been snatched to train spies - and, as of Wednesday, Tokyo had matched about two-thirds of them with domestic records of missing persons, the Nikkei said. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has made the abductees' fate a focus of his political career, and proof that some of them are alive would almost certainly boost his popularity. Some of those on the list are among the 12 victims of North Korean abductions recognised by Tokyo who have yet to return to Japan, the Nikkei reported. |
| Sonia Gandhi says Modi's government in 'witch hunt' as Congress probed on taxes | |  By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Sonia Gandhi, president of ousted Congress party, on Wednesday accused the new Narendra Modi-led government of a "political witch hunt" after tax authorities began probing her party as she and her son face allegations over misusing funds. The Gandhis are the torchbearers of a dynasty that has led India for most of its post-independence era since 1947 but that was dealt its worst ever election defeat by Modi in the general election that ended in May. Last month a court summoned Sonia and her son Rahul to answer allegations that they used $15 million of party funds to pay off debts accrued by a now defunct newspaper publishing business several years ago. A Congress official said the party had received "notices" from the tax authority, a communication in which the recipient is asked to explain apparent irregularities in his tax declarations. The official said the notices pertained to income tax and were related to the court case involving Gandhi and her son, although he did not give further details.
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| NY lawmakers set to clamp down on Times Square's caped crusaders | |  Cartoon characters like Mickey Mouse and Spider-man have been adored by generations of children, but their costumed counterparts who roam New York City's Times Square are more a public nuisance, New York City lawmakers said on Wednesday. Indeed, tighter restrictions are likely ahead for the people who don the oversized costumes and pose for pictures with tourists for a fee, City Council members said at a meeting of the Times Square Alliance. The unlicensed workers, who are under scrutiny in the wake of unsavory incidents with tourists, can be very aggressive, said Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer. City lawmakers have said that dressing up in a costume in Times Square could be protected under the constitutional right to freedom of speech.
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| Justin Bieber to be charged with misdemeanor vandalism - LA DA | |  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pop star Justin Bieber will be charged with misdemeanor vandalism for allegedly pelting a neighbor's home with eggs in January, the Los Angeles County District Attorney said on Wednesday. Bieber, 20, could have faced a felony charge if damage to the home in an upscale Calabasas, California, community was greater than $20,000. The vandalism charge adds to the Canadian singer's recent legal woes in which has been charged with assault in Toronto and driving under the influence in Miami Beach. (Reporting by Eric Kelsey; Editing by James Dalgleish)
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| Refugee agency says more than 35,000 people displaced by Yemen fighting | |  More than 35,000 people have been displaced in Yemen's Omran province, a local government refugee agency said on Wednesday, a day after Shi'ite Muslim tribal fighters overran the provincial capital following fighting that killed more than 200 people. In an urgent appeal sent to relief organisations operating in Yemen, the head of the Yemeni government refugee agency in Omran reported "mass flight of Yemenis from Omran and surrounding areas after the city's fall". "Based on the monitoring and follow-up that we have been doing, there are more than 35,000 people that have left for other areas in Omran or to the greater Sanaa area, Hajja and Mahaweet," Mutahhar Yahya Abu Sheeha wrote in his appeal. "We direct this urgent appeal to help these families and to provide emergency help to ensure basic needs of shelter and food and medical aid, and to help get these trapped families," he said.
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