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| 'Anonymous' hackers plead guilty to minor charge in U.S. for cyberattacks | | Wednesday, August 20, 2014 12:03 AM | |
|  By Aruna Viswanatha ALEXANDRIA Va. (Reuters) - Four members of the hacking group Anonymous pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge on Tuesday after a judge had earlier questioned whether prosecutors had treated the defendants too harshly for their crimes. The hackers, part of a group that gained notoriety for frequent cyber-battles with U.S. Attorney's office in the Eastern District of Virginia with a felony crime under which they could have faced a decade in prison. Attorney's office in San Jose were largely resolved through misdemeanor convictions with no jail time, and the federal judge overseeing the Virginia set of cases had asked why similar defendants were facing more severe punishment in his state.
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| South Korea parties back, families oppose, ferry disaster probe | |  By Ju-min Park and Hyunjoo Jin SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean ruling and opposition party leaders agreed on Tuesday on legislation to investigate April's Sewol ferry disaster more deeply, but a spokesman for families of the victims said they would oppose the bill. The Sewol, overloaded and travelling too fast on a turn, capsized and sank on a routine journey on April 16, killing more than 300 people, most of them school children, prompting a backlash against the government of President Park Geun-hye over its handling of the disaster. Family members of the victims and survivors have been calling for a more transparent investigation into the sinking of the ferry and subsequent rescue operation, which was widely criticised. Tuesday's agreement had appeared to end a deadlock that had threatened to derail other legislation, but the opposition of family members could jeopardise the deal that still needs approval from legislative committees and the full parliament.
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| Ex-India PM immune from some claims of Sikh genocide: U.S. judge | |  Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is immune from claims that he supported the genocide of Sikhs during his decade leading the country, a federal judge has ruled. District Judge James Boasberg in the District of Columbia said on Tuesday, Singh, who resigned in May, did not have "head-of-state immunity" from claims arising from his time as finance minister. Inderjit Singh, an Indian Sikh, claimed in the 2013 suit that as finance minister from 1991 to 1996, Manmohan Singh funded cash rewards for members of the military who murdered Sikhs. Boasberg said U.S.
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| As Missouri violence flares, fingers point to outsiders | |  By Scott Malone FERGUSON Mo. (Reuters) - As darkness fell on Ferguson, Missouri, the crowd of several hundred people protesting the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black teen quickly and radically changed. By the end of another night of violence, dozens of people had been arrested, marking the latest outbreak of rancor in the St. Louis suburb where calls for peaceful protests have been overshadowed by episodes of looting, arson and clashes with police over the last 10 days. Civil rights leaders and police - at odds over much of what has occurred in this small, mostly black St. Louis suburb - agree on at least one hypothesis: Many of the perpetrators are not local residents. After Monday's violence, 56 people were arrested overnight, most on a charge of failure to disperse, according to the St. Louis County Justice Services Center.
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| Turkish president Gul tips FM Davutoglu to be next prime minister | |  By Orhan Coskun ANKARA (Reuters) - Outgoing Turkish president Abdullah Gul said on Tuesday that Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was likely to take over as chairman of the ruling AK Party, and thus become the next prime minister. Turkey's current prime minister and AKP chairmain Tayyip Erdogan earlier this month tightened his grip on political power in the NATO member nation when he won the country's first direct presidential elections with more than 51 percent of the vote. "As far as I see, Davutoglu will take over the post. We will support him," Gul said, answering journalists' questions during a farewell reception in the capital Ankara.
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| U.S. government's nuclear watchdog victim of cyber attacks - report | |  Nuclear Regulatory Commission was "successfully hacked" three times in recent years in attacks involving tainted emails, according to an internal investigation on cyber attacks at the agency, Nextgov.com reported on Tuesday. At least two of the attacks originated overseas, according to the report obtained by Nextgov, a rare public report with details of a cyber attack on the energy sector. The publication said it obtained a copy of a report by the NRC's Office of the Inspector General, which reviewed 17 suspected breaches from 2010 to 2013. "The few attempts documented in the OIG Cyber Crimes Unit report as gaining some access to NRC networks were detected and appropriate measures were taken," NRC spokesman David McIntyre said.
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| Saudi court sentences one to death, 30 to jail for militant attacks | | | A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced one man to death and 30 others to prison terms of up to 30 years for their part in a series of militant attacks against government and foreign targets since 2003, state media reported. The men were part of a group of 50 being tried as a single militant cell and accused of murder and kidnapping, as well as bombing cars, government buildings and foreign residential compounds and plotting to assassinate government officials and attack embassies. Fourteen of them were sentenced on Monday, including the man facing the death penalty, and 13 others given jail terms of four to 30 years. The other 17 were given prison sentences of two to 25 years in a court session on Tuesday, Saudi Press Agency reported. |
| British singer Cliff Richard cancels cathedral performance | |  British singer Cliff Richard, whose house was searched last week by police investigating allegations of a sexual offence involving an underage boy in the 1980s, has cancelled a performance he was due to give next month in Canterbury Cathedral, his spokesman said on Tuesday. Richard, 73, who was in Portugal when the search was carried out, has denyied any wrongdoing. He has stayed at his Portuguese home since the search of the property in Berkshire, southern England, and was due to return to Britain next month. "Sir Cliff was due to perform on 26 September at a charitable event in Canterbury Cathedral but doesn't want the event to be overshadowed by the false allegation and has therefore withdrawn," his spokesman said in a short statement.
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| Missouri racial violence recalls apartheid, U.N. rights chief says | |  Navi Pillay, who is due to step down at the end of the month after six years in the U.N. hotseat, urged U.S. The United States is a freedom-loving country and one thing they should cherish is people's right to protest," Pillay said in a wide-ranging interview in her office along Lake Geneva.
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| Pakistani protesters march on parliament as police stand by | |  By Katharine Houreld and Syed Raza Hassan ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of protesters used a crane and bolt cutters to force their way past a barricade of shipping containers in the Pakistani capital Tuesday as they marched on parliament to try press the prime minister to resign. Thousands of Pakistani riot police and paramilitaries had used the containers and barbed wire to seal the diplomatic and political zone of the capital before the march began. They did not intervene as protesters moved the outermost of a ring of barricades. The protests are led by former international cricketer Imran Khan, head of the country's third-largest political party, and cleric Tahir ul-Qadri, who controls a network of Islamic schools and charities.
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