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| U.S. Navy secretary says paying attention to cyber threats | | | By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy is working hard to improve the cyber security of its computer networks and weapon and communications systems, while bracing for potential attacks on power grids and fuel supplies, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said Wednesday. Mabus said cyber warfare was a clear threat given Russia's use of cyber attacks before its physical invasions of Crimea and Georgia. It's in every system because we are so networked." Mabus confirmed recent media reports that the Navy was looking at replacing IBM servers used for its Aegis combat system after International Business Machines Corp's $2.1 billion sale of its server division to China's Lenovo Group Ltd last year. |
| About 120 guns found at scene of deadly Texas gang fight | |  By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - About 120 guns and 160 knives were recovered from the scene of a deadly Sunday battle between rival motorcycle gangs in the Texas city of Waco that left nine people dead, police said on Wednesday as they sharply dropped their tally of weapons found. Gang members hid weapons in sacks of flour and bags of chips at the Twin Peaks restaurant, where they attacked each other in a fight that was likely set off by a smouldering turf battle, Waco Police said. Waco Police Sergeant Patrick Swanton told cable channel CNN: "These were vicious gang members that were in our city Sunday." The two main adversaries were motorcycle gangs the Bandidos, seen as the long-standing dominant gang in Texas and called a criminal organisation by the U.S. Justice Department, and the Cossacks, which have been challenging them for power in the state, according to experts on the gangs.
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| Global banks admit guilt in forex probe, fined nearly $6 billion | |  By Karen Freifeld, David Henry and Steve Slater NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - Four major banks pleaded guilty on Wednesday to trying to manipulate foreign exchange rates and, with two others, were fined nearly $6 billion in another settlement in a global probe into the $5 trillion-a-day market. Citigroup Inc , JPMorgan Chase & Co , Barclays Plc , UBS AG and Royal Bank of Scotland Plc were accused by U.S. and UK officials of brazenly cheating clients to boost their own profits using invitation-only chat rooms and coded language to coordinate their trades. Bank of America Corp was fined but avoided a guilty plea over the actions of its traders in chatrooms.
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| 10 Canadians arrested on suspicion of heading to join Middle East militants | | | By Allison Lampert MONTREAL (Reuters) - Canadian police arrested 10 young people from Montreal suspected of wanting to leave the country to join militant Islamist groups in the Middle East, officials said on Wednesday. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said the 10 were detained last weekend at Montreal's international airport. "We have reason to believe that the young Montrealers wanted to travel abroad to join jihadist groups," RCMP spokesman Constable Erique Gasse said. |
| Ten killed in gunfight in violent Mexican state | | | Ten people died and 20 were wounded in Mexico on Wednesday during a gunfight in the troubled southwestern state of Guerrero, where 43 students disappeared and were presumed murdered last year. A spokesman for the Guerrero state prosecutor's office said that the shootout between armed civilians occurred in Tlacotepec, a mountainous area where drug traffickers grow poppies used to make heroin. On Tuesday, in a different part of Guerrero, state prosecutors said they would be launching an investigation into the disappearance of 15 people last week. |
| Man who flew gyrocopter to U.S. Capitol faces up to 9-1/2 years in prison | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Florida man who flew a gyrocopter onto the grounds of the U.S. Capitol in April faces up to 9-1/2 years in prison after being indicted by a federal grand jury on Wednesday. Douglas Hughes, 61, of Ruskin, Florida, was indicted on six charges, including violation of the registration requirements involving an aircraft and violation of national defence airspace, the U.S. Justice Department said. (Reporting by Julia Edwards; Editing by Emily Stephenson) |
| NATO could help EU migrant mission given political will - commander | |  NATO could help the European Union's efforts to counter migrant-smuggling across the Mediterranean if national leaders took a political decision to have it do so, its deputy military commander said on Wednesday. The European Union agreed on a naval mission on Monday to target gangs smuggling migrants from Libya. Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni had suggested on Monday that NATO could contribute to the EU operation by modifying its existing counter-terrorism naval mission in the Mediterranean, called Operation Active Endeavour.
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| Drug plane from Venezuela crashes off the coast of Colombia | | | A plane en route from Venezuela and loaded with cocaine crashed into the Caribbean Sea while being pursued by the Colombian air force, officials said on Wednesday. The unidentified body of a man, found with a Mexican passport, was among the wreckage of the plane, which crashed into the sea off Colombia's northern coast, the air force said in a statement. "The airplane, a Hawker 600, which left Venezuela and was destined for Central America, was detected in the early hours of today when it illegally entered Colombian air space," the statement said. |
| U.S. embassy in Cuba likely to operate in restrictive environment | | | By Patricia Zengerle and Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new U.S. embassy in Havana is likely to operate with controls on staff travel and other restrictions similar to those on American diplomats in other countries with authoritarian governments, Washington's chief Cuba negotiator said on Wednesday. Thursday's talks in Washington will explore terms for reopening embassies in Havana and Washington as part of a deal to re-establish diplomatic ties announced in December by U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro. |
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