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| U.S. brings new charges against accused Silk Road creator |
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| A new indictment against Ross Ulbricht, 30, filed late on Thursday in Manhattan federal court, added charges of narcotics trafficking, distribution of narcotics by means of the Internet, and conspiracy to traffic in fraudulent identification documents. The new charges came on top of four other counts previously asserted by prosecutors: narcotics trafficking conspiracy, continuing criminal enterprise, computer hacking conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy. Ulbricht, who prosecutors said was known online as "Dread Pirate Roberts," lost his bid to dismiss the earlier charges in July. The superseding indictment filed on Thursday accused Ulbricht of personally distributing and aiding in the distribution of substances containing heroin, cocaine, LSD and methamphetamine. |
| Extreme sportsman says he painted a Ukraine flag on Moscow skyscraper |
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| A renowned Ukrainian extreme sportsman said he scaled a landmark Moscow skyscraper and painted a star at the top of the building in the blue-and-yellow colours of the Ukrainian national flag in a burst of patriotic feeling. The man, who goes by the nickname of "Mustang Wanted," posted a self-taken photograph on Facebook that appeared to show him standing on a point of the star in the early morning light, with the streets of Moscow below him. He also taped a Ukrainian flag to one of the points of the star. The stunt earlier this week resonated widely because Russia and Ukraine are at odds over the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine between pro-Moscow separatists and Ukrainian forces. |
| U.N. Security Council condemns journalist's murder, urges defeat of Islamic State |
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 The U.N. Security Council on Friday condemned the beheading of U.S. "The Security Council strongly condemned the heinous and cowardly murder of James Foley," the 15-nation council said in a statement. "It also once again demonstrates the brutality of ISIL (Islamic State), which is responsible for thousands of abuses against the Syrian and Iraqi people." The militants released a video this week showing one of the group's fighters beheading Foley and threatening to kill a second American reporter, Steve Sotloff.
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| U.S. undercover investigators among those exposed in data breach |
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 By Jim Finkle and Mark Hosenball BOSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A cyber attack at a firm that performs background checks for U.S. The breach at Falls Church, Virginia-based US Investigations Services (USIS) exposed highly personal information of workers at the Department of Homeland Security's headquarters as well as its U.S.
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