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| Iraq security forces on alert as Shi'ites gather for Ashoura | |  By Haider Kadhim KERBALA Iraq (Reuters) - Millions of Shi'ite Muslims gathered at shrines and mosques across Iraq on Tuesday for the Ashoura religious ritual with Iraqi security forces on alert for any repeat of the attacks that have inflicted mass casualties during past pilgrimages. The presence in the country of ultra-hardline Islamic state militants who swept through the north earlier this year raises the possibility of wider bloodshed this year. Islamic State, seen as more ruthless than its predecessor in Iraq, al Qaeda, believes Shi'ites are infidels who deserve to be killed and the group has claimed responsibility for numerous suicide bombings against members of the majority sect. Security for the event has been tight since suspected al Qaeda suicide bombers and mortar attacks killed 171 people during Ashoura, an event that defines Shi'ism and its rift with Sunni Islam, in Kerbala and Baghdad in 2004.
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| Supreme Court says Bollywood must allow female make-up artists - paper | |  By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A nearly six-decade ban on women being employed as make-up artists in India's film industry is set to end after the Supreme Court said it was gender biased and should not continue for a day longer, the Indian Express said on Tuesday. India's $2-billion film industry is the largest in world by ticket sales.
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| Islamic State tortured Kurdish child hostages - rights group | | | Islamic State militants in Syria forced children as young as 14 to watch videos of beheadings and beat them with cables during six months of captivity, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday. The Sunni Muslim militants abducted a group of children on May 29 as they returned to the Syrian town of Kobani after taking school exams in the city of Aleppo. Islamic State has captured swathes of Iraq and Syria, declaring an Islamic caliphate that erases borders between the two. Kobani, a predominantly Kurdish town on the Syrian border with Turkey, has been besieged by Islamic State militants for more than a month despite U.S.-led air strikes meant to displace them. |
| Banks to launch new tool to fight hackers - WSJ | |  A group of cybersecurity firms funded by big banks plan to launch a platform that will allow financial companies to communicate faster about potential cyber breaches, the Wall Street Journal reported. The move follows cybersecurity attacks on some big banks last month, where JPMorgan Chase & Co's computer systems were hacked exposing the contact details of 73 million households and 7 million small businesses. The group gathered funds from 16 banks including JPMorgan, Citigroup Inc , BB&T Corp and U.S.
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| Tutu and Jolie back U.N. drive to end statelessness in a decade | |  By Emma Batha LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nobel Peace Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie backed an ambitious global campaign on Tuesday to end the plight of at least 10 million stateless people with no country to call home. A child is born stateless every 10 minutes, the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) said as it kicked off the "I Belong" campaign. "Statelessness makes people feel like their very existence is a crime," UNHCR head António Guterres said. "We have a historic opportunity to end the scourge of statelessness within 10 years, and give back hope to millions of people." Stateless people are denied the rights and benefits most people take for granted.
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| UK spy chief demands more access to Twitter, Facebook to thwart attacks | |  By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) - Twitter and Facebook are so important to militant groups that the U.S. The new director of Britain's GCHQ, Robert Hannigan, said Twitter Inc, Facebook Inc and WhatsApp were in denial about their unintended role as "the command and control networks of choice for terrorists".
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| Islamic State releases 93 Syrian Kurds - monitor | | | The militant Islamic State group has released 93 Syrian Kurds it captured in February as they made their way from northern Syria to neighbouring Iraq, a group monitoring the conflict said on Tuesday. Islamic State seized around 100 people, accusing them of being members of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) which has opposed the group, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The offshoot of al Qaeda, which is the target of U.S.-led air strikes in Syria and Iraq, released all but six of the Kurds in that group in Syria on Monday, the Observatory said. |
| Gunmen kill five in Saudi Arabia, six suspects arrested - SPA | | | Gunmen shot dead at least five people in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province, state news agency SPA reported on Tuesday, in what local residents said was an attack on Shi'ite Muslim worshippers marking one of their most important religious anniversaries. Al-Ahsa is one of the main centres of minority Shi'ite Muslims in Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia, who are now marking Ashoura, the holy day commemorating the death of Prophet Mohammad's grandson Imam Hussein with public ceremonies and processions. He said there were reports that Saudi security forces had found a vehicle apparently used by the attackers, with automatic weapons inside it, and arrested one person in connection with the attack. |
| Pirate Bay co-founder arrested in Thailand | | | A co-founder of the Swedish file-sharing website, The Pirate Bay, has been arrested in Thailand, police said on Tuesday, after he tried to cross into the country from neighbouring Laos. Hans Fredrik Lennart Neij, who is known in hacking communities as "TiAmo", was detained at a checkpoint in the northeastern town of Nong Khai, immigration police said. "Mr. Neij was detained ... while trying to cross into Thailand from Laos where he had been living since 2012," Police Major General Chartchai Eimsaeng told reporters. The Swede has traveled to Thailand nearly thirty times since 2012 and has a home on the resort island of Phuket, he added. |
| South African prosecutors appeal Pistorius verdict and sentence | |  The South African prosecution authority confirmed on Tuesday it would file an appeal against the culpable homicide verdict and five-year jail sentence handed down to paralympian Oscar Pistorius last month. Pistorius was absolved of the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp at the end of a seven-month trial after the state failed to convince judge Thokozile Masipa of Pistorius' intent to kill when he fired through a locked toilet door at his luxury Pretoria home, leading to a conviction for negligent killing and a five-year jail term. "Today, we announce that the NPA will file the application for leave to appeal both the conviction and sentence," the National Prosecuting Authority said in a statement on Tuesday.
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| Thai junta appoints panel to draft new charter | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's military government appointed a committee to draft a new constitution on Tuesday in a move seen aimed at preventing ousted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his allies from returning to power. Nearly six months after the army seized power, a 36-member committee headed by Bavornsak Uwanno, a law academic at the conservative King Prajadhipok Institute who is known to have military sympathies, began work on a new charter. The committee must propose a draft within four months, before sending it to the National Reform Council and junta, formally known as the National Council for Peace and Order, for approval. "My hope is that the new constitution will put a stop to past divisions and that the public will be as involved in its drafting as possible," Thai junta leader General Prayuth Chan-ocha told reporters on Tuesday.
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| Hyundai, Kia in record settlement with U.S. for overstating mileage | |  WASHINGTON/DETROIT (Reuters) - Korean carmakers Hyundai Motor Co and affiliate Kia Motors Corp will pay $350 million in penalties to the U.S. Department of Justice and the California Air Resources Board resolves an investigation of the South Korean carmakers' 2012 fuel economy ratings. The greenhouse gas emissions that the forfeited credits would have allowed are equal to the emissions from powering more than 433,000 homes for a year, the EPA said. McCarthy said Hyundai and Kia had committed the most egregious violation of the reporting standards.
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