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| Sony to name North Korea as source behind cyber attack - tech blog | |  REUTERS - Sony Corp's Sony Pictures Entertainment will name North Korea as the source of the hacking attack that knocked out the company's computer systems for over a week, tech blog Re/code reported, citing two sources close to the investigation. North Korean government has denounced as "an act of war" the film "The Interview", a comedy about a CIA plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Sony could make the announcement as soon as later on Wednesday, Re/code said. (http://on.recode.net/1I0Erp2) (Reporting by Anya George Tharakan in Bengaluru; Editing by Savio D'Souza)
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| Car bomb kills three outside Iran envoy's residence in Yemen | |  By Yara Bayoumy and Mohammed Ghobari SANAA (Reuters) - A car bomb killed three people at the Iranian ambassador's residence in Yemen on Wednesday, an attack claimed by al Qaeda militants who oppose Iran and the Yemeni Shi'ite rebels who control the capital Sanaa. Wednesday's bombing, the second in Sanaa claimed by al Qaeda in as many months, blew a large hole in the Iranian residence and sent rubble flying across the street of the well-guarded diplomatic quarter of the city, a Reuters witness said. A Yemeni civilian and two soldiers were killed, a medical official said. ...
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| U.S. urges banks to consider cyber risk insurance amid hacking threats | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Banks should consider cyber risk insurance to help deal with the financial fall-out from the growing threat of cyber attacks, a top U.S. regulator said on Wednesday. Bankers and officials have become more vocal lately about concerns that malicious hacks could put customer data and the stability of the financial system at risk. Cyber insurance will not stop hackers, but it can help banks improve their broader cyber controls, Treasury Deputy Secretary Sarah Bloom Raskin told the Texas Banker's Association at a cybersecurity conference. ...
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| Obama says China's Xi has consolidated power quickly, worrying neighbors | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that Chinese President Xi Jinping has consolidated power more quickly than any Chinese leader in decades and that is raising human rights concerns and worrying China's neighbors. Obama, who met Xi last month in Beijing, told the Business Roundtable group of top U.S. chief executives that he found the Chinese leader wanted to have good relations with the United States. ...
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| Stepfather apologizes for remarks during Missouri protest - reports | |  REUTERS - The stepfather of a black teenager who was gunned down by a Missouri police officer apologized on Wednesday for his emotional comments during fiery protests last week, but said he did not cause the rioting, according to media reports. Louis Head said his emotions "got the best of me" during protests of a grand jury's decision not to indict white Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson for killing 18-year-old Michael Brown on Aug. 9 in Ferguson, Missouri, a St. Louis suburb, reports said. The remarks were made in a statement obtained by NBC and CNN. ...
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| Venezuela indicts opposition leader Machado, alleging plot to kill Maduro | |  CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela has indicted hardline opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, charging that she participated in an alleged plot to try to kill President Nicolas Maduro, the state prosecutor's office said in a statement on Wednesday. The statement added that "whoever, from inside or outside the national territory, conspires to destroy the nation's republican political style will be punished by eight to 16 years in prison." It was not immediately clear if Machado would be detained pending trial. ...
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| Japan Abe's coalition may keep 2/3 majority in Dec 14 election - media polls | |  TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's coalition may keep its two-thirds majority in the lower house of parliament, media projections showed, hinting he could claim a new mandate for his "Abenomics" recipe to revive the world's third-biggest economy. The results of surveys on Thursday by major newspapers suggested a strong win for the conservative premier, who called the Dec. 14 election last month as a referendum on his economic policies, especially a decision to postpone an increase in the national sales tax. ...
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| Victims call for justice 30 years after Bhopal disaster | |  By Nita Bhalla BHOPAL (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hundreds of protesters gathered on Wednesday outside the abandoned factory which caused the world's deadliest industrial disaster in Bhopal, burning effigies and demanding justice for survivors suffering 30 years later. Elderly women and men, some of whom were injured by the toxic cyanide gas leak, together with activists, supporters and children - some born with physical and mental disabilities - held up banners and chanted "We want justice!" In the early hours of Dec. ...
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| Swedish PM calls new election for March after budget defeat | |  By Daniel Dickson and Johan Sennero STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's prime minister Stefan Lofven called a snap election for March on Wednesday, the Nordic country's first in more than half a century, after parliament rejected his centre-left minority government's first budget. Lofven's coalition of Social Democrats and Greens, widely viewed as the weakest administration in decades, had been seen at risk of a defeat on the budget if the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats voted with the main opposition. ...
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| Hungary summons U.S. ambassador over McCain's "neofascist" comment | |  BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's Foreign Ministry summoned the U.S. envoy on Wednesday after U.S. Senator John McCain called Prime Minister Viktor Orban a "neo-fascist dictator". The United States has become increasingly critical of Orban's government, accusing him of getting too close to Russia since east-west tensions rose over Ukraine. Hungary's foreign minister called in Chargé d'Affaires André Goodfriend over McCain's comments, made in the U.S. Senate during a political spat over the appointment of Hollywood producer Colleen Bell as U.S. Ambassador in Budapest. ...
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| Al Shabaab car bomb kills four Somalis in U.N. convoy | |  By Feisal Omar MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Four Somalis were killed when a car bomb hit a United Nations convoy near the capital's international airport on Wednesday, showing the threat still posed by insurgents despite their recent loss of territory. Al Qaeda-aligned Somali Islamist group al Shabaab claimed responsibility. The group, which wants to topple the Western-backed Mogadishu government and impose its version of Islamic law, damaged a U.N. vehicle but did not kill any U.N. staff, a spokesman for the U.N.'s Somalia mission, Aleem Siddique, said. ...
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