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| Kenyan president changes security officials after al Shabaab kill 36 | | | By Edmund Blair and Edith Honan NAIROBI (Reuters) - Somali al Shabaab Islamist militants killed 36 non-Muslim workers at a quarry in northeast Kenya on Tuesday, prompting the president to change his top security officials to tackle a relentless wave of violence. Kenyans have grown increasingly critical of President Uhuru Kenyatta and his government for failing to do more to defend the nation from the incessant militant attacks, which have killed well over 200 people since 2013. ... |
| In Zimbabwe, the route to power is called Mugabe | |  By MacDonald Dzirutwe HARARE (Reuters) - Ninety-year-old Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe is - quite literally - paving the way for his wife's ascent to power. In another sign of the First Lady's growing clout, Harare residents awoke on Tuesday to a new street, Dr Grace Mugabe Way, leading to the conference centre where Africa's oldest leader may this week anoint his chosen political successor. ...
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| Kenyan court sentences U.S. man to 50 years for child pornography | | | NAIROBI (Reuters) - A Kenyan court on Tuesday sentenced a 59-year-old U.S. man to 50 years in jail for circulating pornographic images of children on the Internet. Terry Ray Krieger, who initially pleaded not guilty but then changed his plea to guilty, was convicted by Nairobi's senior principal magistrate Joseph Karanja. Krieger had been charged with circulating obscene depictions of children on social media sites between May 2013 and October 2014. Karanja said Krieger had faced similar charges in Michigan in the United States in the past. He did not give further details about that case. ... |
| Iran hackers target airlines, energy, defense companies - researchers | | | By Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) - Iranian hackers have infiltrated major airlines, energy companies, and defense firms around the globe over the past two years in a campaign that could eventually cause physical damage, according to U.S. cyber security firm Cylance. The report comes as governments scramble to better understand the extent of Iran's cyber capabilities, which researchers say have grown rapidly as Tehran seeks to retaliate for Western cyber attacks on its nuclear program. ... |
| Three turn themselves in as probe involving Thai princess's kin widens | | | By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Two Thai army officers and a civilian have answered a police summons, police said, in a widening corruption investigation that has also led to the arrest of high-ranking policemen and relatives of Princess Srirasmi, the wife of the Crown Prince. The investigation comes at a time of heightened sensitivity surrounding the palace months after the military launched a coup. The revered but ailing King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 86, was admitted to hospital in October and underwent an operation to remove his gallbladder. ... |
| Lebanon detains wife of Islamic State leader | |  By Laila Bassam and Sylvia Westall BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Lebanese army detained a wife and daughter of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as they crossed from Syria nine days ago, security officials said on Tuesday, in a setback to the group as it comes under increased military pressure. The woman was identified as Saja al-Dulaimi, an Iraqi, by a Lebanese security official and a senior political source. The Lebanese newspaper As-Safir reported she had been detained in coordination with "foreign intelligence". ...
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| Israel appears headed toward early national election | |  By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel appeared to be headed on Tuesday toward an early election after right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his major centrist coalition partner failed to patch up differences. Netanyahu's government, which is dominated by the right and came to power early last year, has been unraveling over a range of issues including the 2015 budget. He said on Monday he would go to the polls unless rebellious ministers stopped attacking government policies. ...
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| Egypt's public prosecutor appeals Mubarak verdict, cites flaws | |  CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's public prosecutor said on Tuesday he had appealed against a court decision to drop charges against former president Hosni Mubarak, his interior minister and six aides over the killing of protesters in a 2011 uprising. Mubarak, now 86, was sentenced to life in prison in 2012 for conspiring to murder 239 demonstrators during an 18-day revolt that ended his 30-year rule, but an appeals court ordered a retrial. Last Saturday, the court dropped its case against Mubarak, igniting angry protests in Cairo in which two people were killed. ...
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| Liverpool's Balotelli apologises for social media post | |  LONDON (Reuters) - Liverpool striker Mario Balotelli apologised on Tuesday for his social media post which appeared to contain potentially racist and anti-Semitic references. Balotelli, who made the post on his Instagram page on Monday, will be investigated by the Football Association (FA), according to British media reports. The 24-year-old Italian later deleted the post. "I apologize if I've offended anyone," Balotelli said on Twitter. "The post was meant to be anti-racist with humour. I now understand that out of context it may have the opposite effect. ...
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| Philips ends Nintendo motion-tracking patent dispute | |  AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch technology group Philips has resolved its patent dispute with Nintendo over the motion and gesture-tracking systems used in the Japanese company's gaming consoles. Philips said on Tuesday that the two companies had sealed a deal to cross-licence portions of each other's patent portfolios and that it would terminate patent infringement proceedings against Nintendo in Germany, Britain, France and the United States. In June Philips won an infringement case in Britain relating to the body-tracking technology used in Nintendo's Wii and DS consoles. ...
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| In Bhopal, two women spark hope for disaster's disabled children | |  By Nita Bhalla BHOPAL, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Along the corridor of a rudimentary rehabilitation centre, women in saris and burkhas sit cross-legged on a red and white tiled floor, rocking children with twisted limbs and clawed fingers in their laps. The children - ranging from 2 to 12 years old and dressed in grey, white and red checked uniforms - look up wide-eyed, moaning and grunting, unable to speak or move due to illnesses such as cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy and Down's syndrome. "I've been coming here for the last six months. ...
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