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| Police move against protesters as calm dissolves in Ferguson, Missouri | |  Police in riot gear ordered dozens of lingering demonstrators in Ferguson, Missouri, to disperse late on Tuesday and charged into the crowd to make arrests as relative calm dissolved amid protests over the police shooting death of an unarmed black teen in the St. Louis suburb. Street protests in the predominantly African-American community of 21,000 people have been punctuated by looting, vandalism and clashes between demonstrators and police every night since 18-year-old Michael Brown was killed by a white police officer.
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| Afghan government bans NYT reporter from leaving country | |  The Afghan attorney general's office has barred a New York Times reporter from leaving the country after the paper ran a story about ministry and palace officials discussing plans to form an interim government if an election deadlock continues. Afghanistan is in the midst of a ballot that has dragged on for months, with both candidates claiming victory after the June 14 run off, and allegations of mass fraud threatening to derail the process. Matthew Rosenberg, who has spent the past three years covering Afghanistan for the Times, was summoned to the attorney general's office for questioning on Tuesday. The travel ban was not mentioned at the time and the officials did not name any criminal charge under investigation "He's not arrested, but he is not allowed to leave until this issue is resolved," attorney general spokesman Basir Azizi told Reuters by telephone.
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| Pakistani parliament to meet as protesters clog streets outside | |  By Katharine Houreld and Syed Raza Hassan ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani lawmakers are due to meet on Wednesday after an opposition leader and a firebrand cleric led thousands of protesters past riot police and barricades to parliament as part of a bid to force the prime minister to stand down. The protests are led by former international cricket star turned opposition leader Imran Khan and cleric Tahir ul-Qadri, who runs a network of Islamic schools and charities. Legislator Marvi Memon said lawmakers would discuss the political crisis in today's parliamentary session. Exhausted protesters, some carrying blankets or colourful umbrellas, were resting on the grass on Constitution Avenue, the main street housing government buildings, on Wednesday after some used bolt cutters to force their way past barricades of barbed wire and shipping containers late on Tuesday.
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| Missouri racial violence recalls apartheid, UN 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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| U.S. hospital breach biggest yet to exploit Heartbleed bug - expert | |  Hackers who stole the personal data of about 4.5 million patients of hospital group Community Health Systems Inc broke into the company's computer system by exploiting the "Heartbleed" internet bug, making it the first known large-scale cyber attack using the flaw, according to a security expert. The hackers, taking advantage of the pernicious vulnerability that surfaced in April, got into the system by using the Heartbleed bug in equipment made by Juniper Networks Inc, David Kennedy, chief executive of TrustedSec LLC, told Reuters on Wednesday. Community Health Systems said on Monday that the attack had originated in China. Once in, they hacked their way into a database and stole millions of social security numbers and other records, he said.
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| Chinese rail official gets death sentence in corruption case | |  A Beijing court on Wednesday sentenced a former railway official to death for corruption, but promised a reprieve after two years of good behaviour, state media reported, in the latest graft case to hit China's sprawling rail network. Wen Qingliang was sacked as head of the rail bureau in the southwestern city of Kunming in 2011 for "discipline" problems, the usual euphemism for corruption in China. The Beijing court found that Wen took more than 20 million yuan ($3.3 million) in bribes between 2005 and 2011 while working in the northern province of Shanxi "to provide favours to companies bidding on railway projects", the official Xinhua news agency said. His death sentence will be commuted after two years, Xinhua added, which generally means that after two years of good behaviour he will end up with a life sentence.
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| China says will punish all firms that violate laws | | | Companies operating in China will be punished if they violate laws, regardless of whether they are domestic or foreign firms, a senior official at the country's economic planner said on Wednesday. Li Pumin, secretary general of the National Development and Reform Commission, made the comments shortly after the commission said it had fined 12 auto part makers, including foreign firms, 1.23 billion yuan ($200 million) for manipulating prices. "China is a country ruled by law, everyone should be equal before the law. So, it's no matter whether they are domestic or foreign-funded firms, they will receive a punishment as long as they violate laws," Li told a conference. |
| FBI probing reported theft of 1.2 bln Internet credentials | |  Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating a report by a U.S. Hold Security of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, disclosed earlier this month that it had discovered the credentials, collected over several years from approximately 420,000 websites and other servers. "The FBI is investigating the recently reported incident involving the potential compromise of numerous user names and passwords, and will provide additional information as the nature and scope of the incident becomes clearer," agency spokesman Josh Campbell said on Tuesday via email. Hold Security said on Aug. 5 that it obtained the credentials from a criminal gang that it has dubbed CyberVor, which focuses on stealing login credentials.
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| Masked gunmen slay family collecting body at Honduras morgue, kill 9 | | | Masked gunmen attacked a family collecting a body from a morgue in the ultraviolent Honduran city of San Pedro Sula on Tuesday, killing nine people including four of the deceased's kin. The family of Jose Luis Terrero, a state contractor killed on Monday night, were at the morgue to pick up his body when men opened fire, German Alfaro, the head of the national security and investigation force, said. "The information we have is that various men with masks on their faces came in at least two vehicles and opened fire on members of Terrero's family and other employees of a funeral home," Alfaro said. Four of Terrero's family, two bodyguards, a friend of the family and two funeral home employees were killed outside the morgue, Alfaro added. |
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