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| Russian hackers target NATO, Ukraine and others - iSight | |  By Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) - Russian hackers exploited a bug in Microsoft Windows and other software to spy on computers used by NATO, the European Union, Ukraine and companies in the energy and telecommunications sectors, according to cyber intelligence firm iSight Partners. ISight said it did not know what data had been found by the hackers, though it suspected they were seeking information on the Ukraine crisis, as well as diplomatic, energy and telecom issues, based on the targets and the contents of phishing emails used to infect computers with tainted files. ...
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| Tunisia says it thwarted jihadist attack before elections | | | By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian security forces have arrested a group of Islamist militants, including two women, that planned to carry out attacks in the capital, Tunis, less than two weeks before parliamentary elections, authorities said on Tuesday. Since its 2011 uprising, Tunisia has advanced toward full democracy and is seen as a model for the region. But the small North African country has also struggled with a rise in jihadists opposed to its transition. Tunisians go to the polls on Oct. ... |
| U.S. national shot dead in Saudi capital Riyadh | | | By Angus McDowall RIYADH (Reuters) - A Saudi Arabian gunman killed a U.S. national and wounded another in the capital Riyadh on Tuesday, officials said, heightening Western concerns over security in the world's top oil exporter as regional unrest rises. Police later shot and wounded an assailant and then arrested him, said a statement from the police carried by state media. No motive for the attack was given, but a source familiar with the situation said the gunman may have been taking revenge after being sacked from his job. ... |
| C.African Republic militias deploy children in clashes - U.N. official | | | BANGUI (Reuters) - Armed groups recruited and deployed children in clashes in Central African Republic's capital last week and at least three were killed, including two they had accused of spying, the top U.N. humanitarian official in the country said. The fighting last week marked the most serious violence in months in the former French colony, which has descended into turmoil since rebels seized the capital Bangui and toppled the government in March 2013. ... |
| After Scottish independence vote, separatists say Britain reneging on pledges | |  By Guy Faulconbridge and William James LONDON (Reuters) - Less than a month after Scots spurned independence, separatists said on Tuesday that British Prime Minister David Cameron was betraying Scotland by reneging on pledges to grant more spending powers to the Scottish parliament. In a last-ditch attempt to shore up support for the union days before the Sept. 18 referendum that threatened to break apart the United Kingdom, Britain's three main political parties promised to give more powers to Scotland. ...
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| Ukraine acts against corruption, protests mar election run-up | |  By Richard Balmforth KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine approved sweeping laws on Tuesday to stamp out corruption and curb Soviet-era state surveillance of political life ahead of a parliamentary election its pro-Western leaders hope will push the country towards the European mainstream. But violent clashes between police and protesters in the first real anti-government demonstration in Kiev since the "Euromaidan" upheaval last winter highlighted the potential for disorder in the run-up to the election on Oct. 26. ...
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| Social media: More hindrance than help in banks' cyber crime fight | |  By Steve Slater LONDON (Reuters) - Banks are fighting an uphill battle to protect themselves and their client accounts from cyber attacks, and the sometimes careless use of social media by customers and staff isn't making the fight any easier. British police and banks this week warned customers about the rise in criminals using social media to strike up a relationship and then try to get money from them. ...
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| U.S. to keep custody of marine suspect in Philippines transgender murder case | |  MANILA (Reuters) - The United States will keep custody of a Marine named as a suspect in the murder of a transgender Filipino he met in a bar, The head of the Philippine military said on Tuesday, with one U.S. warship staying on during the investigation of the crime. The commander of U.S. Pacific Command this week ordered the USS Peleliu and another warship to stay in the former U.S. base of Subic Bay until after the end of the investigation into the murder of Jeffrey Laude, 26, who was found strangled on Saturday in nearby Olongapo City. U.S. ...
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| Protesters clash with police in Ukraine capital, throw smoke bombs | |  KIEV (Reuters) - A few thousand protesters clashed with police on Tuesday outside the Ukrainian parliament, throwing stones and smoke bombs and firing with air guns through the building's windows. A Reuters photographer said that the mainly young people, many of whom were masked and armed with batons or metal chains, massed outside the central entrance of the building and began bombarding it with projectiles. Parliamentary deputies, who had just passed anti-corruption laws and voted in a new defence minister in what was the last day of the current parliament ahead of an Oct. ...
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| Trial of accused Boston bomber's friend turns to text messages | |  By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - Text messages between the accused Boston Marathon bomber and some of his college friends will be the focus when the criminal trial of a man charged with lying to investigators resumes on Tuesday. U.S. prosecutors contend that Robel Phillipos, 21, lied to authorities about a visit that he and two other friends made to accused bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's dorm room three days after the 2013 attack, which killed three people and injured more than 260. ...
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| No WTO judgment in tobacco packaging dispute until at least 2016 | |  GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Trade Organization will not rule on a legal challenge to Australia's landmark tobacco packaging laws until at least the first half of 2016, the panel of judges said on Tuesday, a delay that could slow anti-tobacco laws elsewhere. Australia's "plain packaging" rules ban colourful logos and are seen by public health advocates as heralding a new era of tobacco control. But Cuba, Indonesia, Honduras, Dominican Republic and Ukraine say the laws are an illegal restriction on trade. ...
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| Anger as wounded Syria Kurds die stranded at Turkish border | |  By Ayla Jean Yackley SURUC Turkey (Reuters) - With medical supplies depleted in the war-ravaged north Syrian town of Kobani, Kurdish activist Blesa Omar rushed three comrades wounded in battle against Islamic State fighters straight to the border to dispatch them to a Turkish hospital. He spent the next four hours watching them die, one by one, from what he believes were treatable shrapnel wounds, while Turkish border guards refused to let them through the frontier. "To me it is clear they died because they waited so long. ...
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