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| FBI warns U.S. businesses of cyber attacks, blames Beijing | |  BOSTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation warned U.S. businesses on Wednesday that hackers it believes to be backed by the Chinese government have recently launched attacks on U.S. companies. The "flash" warning described tools and techniques used by the hackers and asked companies to contact federal authorities if they believe they are the victims of such attacks. The document said that the agency recently obtained information regarding "a group of Chinese Government affiliated cyber actors who routinely steal high-value information from U.S. ...
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| Saudi Arabia sentences outspoken Shi'ite cleric to death-brother | |  By Angus McDowall RIYADH (Reuters) - A Saudi judge sentenced to death a prominent cleric on Wednesday who has called for greater rights for the kingdom's Shi'ites, the cleric's brother said, two years after his arrest prompted deadly protests in the oil-producing east of the country. Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr was detained in July 2012 after demonstrations that erupted in February 2011 in Qatif district, home to many of the Sunni-ruled country's Shi'ite minority. His brother, Mohammed al-Nimr, reported Wednesday's sentencing on his Twitter account. ...
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| Saudi convicts 22 on militant charges, sentences 1 to death - SPA | | | DUBAI (Reuters) - A Saudi court sentenced one person to death and 21 others to various jail sentences after they were convicted of a range of militant crimes, including setting up training camps and identifying oil locations to hit, state news agency SPA said on Wednesday. Riyadh's concern about Islamist militants has increased over the past two years as conflicts in Syria and Iraq have attracted more of its own citizens to travel there to join groups fighting in the name of jihad. Of the 22 people convicted, the man sentenced to death was a citizen of Chad, SPA said. ... |
| Steenkamp family ruined by Pistorius shooting - cousin | |  By Siyabonga Sishi PRETORIA (Reuters) - Olympic and Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius "ruined" Reeva Steenkamp's family when he shot her dead, her cousin told a sentencing hearing on Wednesday. The 27-year-old double amputee, who was one of the biggest names in world athletics, was last month convicted of culpable homicide, the equivalent of manslaughter, for killing Steenkamp, his girlfriend, on Valentine's Day in 2013. ...
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| Indian citizen to be executed for Pennsylvania murders | | | By Daniel Kelley PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - An Indian national convicted of killing a 10-month-old girl and her grandmother in a kidnapping for ransom gone awry has been sentenced to death in Pennsylvania. The jury's decision to hand down the death penalty on Tuesday night after convicting Raghunandan Yandamuri, 28, of two counts of first-degree murder means he is the only citizen of India on death row in the United States, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, a nonprofit group that monitors capital punishment. ... |
| Irish-born Chilean priest found guilty of child sex abuse | |  SANTIAGO (Reuters) - An Irish-born Chilean priest was found guilty on Wednesday of sexually abusing a child in his care at a religious school in the capital, Santiago. The court found that John O'Reilly, who moved to Chile from Ireland in 1985, had abused the pre-teen girl behind closed doors at the private Colegio Cumbres in the affluent neighborhood of Las Condes between 2007 and 2009. "The tribunal has established beyond all reasonable doubt that ... O'Reilly resolved to carry out actions of a sexual nature via body contact with a school student," said Judge Maria Teresa Barrientos. ...
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| Kyrgyz MPs pass "anti-gay" law in first reading, ignore U.S. criticism | | | By Olga Dzyubenko BISHKEK (Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan's parliament voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to pass a bill on first reading that bans "gay propaganda," ignoring a call by the United States opposing the discriminatory changes to the Central Asian state's legislation. The bill, condemned by human rights bodies as homophobic and allowing police to take arbitrary action against sexual minorities, was passed by a 79-7 vote. It has to be approved on three readings and be signed by the president to become a law. ... |
| China likely to expel disgraced security chief from party-sources | |  By Benjamin Kang Lim and Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - China's disgraced former domestic security chief, Zhou Yongkang, looks set to be expelled from the ruling Communist Party at a key meeting next week, sources said, possibly paving the way for his formal prosecution. Zhou is the most senior party member to have been targeted in a corruption probe since the Communists swept to power in 1949, and President Xi Jinping has made fighting graft a cornerstone of his administration. ...
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| Philippine police file charges against U.S. Marine in murder case | |  MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine police on Wednesday filed murder charges against a U.S. Marine over the death of a transgender Filipino he met in a bar outside the former U.S. naval base of Subic Bay. The Philippine government also wants to take custody of Private First Class Joseph Scott Pemberton while he stands trial, said a senior Philippine official, who warned that the case could damage military ties between the allies. "Based on two witnesses' testimonies, we believe we have a strong case against the U.S. ...
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| Eight reported dead in latest land clash in China | |  BEIJING (Reuters) - Eight people have died in a clash between construction workers and villagers in southwestern China over a land dispute, the government and Chinese media said on Wednesday, in the latest bout of rural unrest in the world's most populous country. The government of Jinning county near Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province, said on its official microblog that a fight broke out between workers building a trading and logistics centre and the residents of a village. ...
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