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| FBI chief warns encryption emboldens would-be Islamic State attackers | |  By Lindsay Dunsmuir WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Barring law enforcement authorities' access to encrypted communications would make it easier for Islamic State sympathizers to attack the United States, FBI Chief James Comey told Senate lawmakers on Wednesday. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is pushing technology companies to let law enforcement authorities have access to encrypted communications to investigate illegal activities. Comey has previously criticized Apple Inc and Google Inc for ramping up encryption.
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| Over 200 Americans have gone or tried to go to Syria to fight - FBI | | | More than 200 Americans have travelled or attempted to travel to Syria to fight for Islamic militants, Federal Bureau of Investigation chief James Comey said on Wednesday. "We continue to identify individuals who seek to join the ranks of foreign fighters ... and also homegrown violent extremists who may aspire to attack the United States from within," Comey told lawmakers on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The radicalization of Americans by Islamic State is a top concern for the agency, and earlier on Wednesday Comey urged technology companies to allow law enforcement authorities access to encrypted communications to help combat the threat. |
| Suspected Boko Haram militants kill 26 people in Chad attacks | | | By Madjiasra Nako N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Suspected militants from the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram killed 26 people in night attacks on two villages on Lake Chad over the weekend, Chadian officials said. Boko Haram has stepped up assaults in recent weeks across the region in what appears to be a fight back against an offensive mounted by soldiers from Nigeria and its neighbours, Chad, Cameroon and Niger. Boko Haram, fighting to carve out an Islamist state in northeast Nigeria, has also launched a string of cross border raids. |
| Berlusconi found guilty of bribing Italian senator | |  NAPLES, Italy (Reuters) - Italy's former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi was found guilty on Wednesday of bribing a senator in 2006 in an effort to topple the then centre-left government. The court in southern Italy sentenced Berlusconi to three years in jail and banned him from holding any public office for five years, a judge said in a ruling shown live on television news networks. The four-times prime minister, who is struggling to revive his political fortunes, denied the charges. ...
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| Pope's 'homecoming' tour moves from Ecuador to Bolivia | |  By Alexandra Valencia and Girish Gupta QUITO (Reuters) - Pope Francis showed his sense of humour during the last few hours of his trip to Ecuador on Wednesday, straying from a prepared speech to joke with people who came to see him at a shrine near the highland capital Quito. "I have a prepared script but I don't want to read it," said the 78-year-old pope to laughs from the crowd, before asking them to pray for him so that he would never forget where he came from. "Do not fall into a spiritual Alzheimer's, do not forget!" Francis added in a totally improvised speech.
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| U.S. spy agency tapped German chancellery for decades - WikiLeaks | |  The U.S. National Security Agency tapped phone calls involving German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her closest advisers for years and spied on the staff of her predecessors, WikiLeaks said on Wednesday. A report released by the group suggested NSA spying on Merkel and her staff had gone on far longer and more widely than previously realised. WikiLeaks said the NSA targeted for long-term surveillance 125 phone numbers of top German officials.
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| Tom Selleck accused of taking water for California ranch -report | |  Actor Tom Selleck has been accused by a California agency of unlawfully taking water from a public hydrant to supply his ranch, even as the state reels from a four-year drought, the Los Angeles Times reported on Wednesday. The Calleguas Municipal Water District filed a complaint on Monday in Ventura County Superior Court against the star of 1980s television series "Magnum, P.I." and the police show "Blue Bloods" which airs on CBS, the Times reported on its website. The complaint said the water district spent nearly $22,000 to hire a private investigator and discovered that, more than a dozen times since 2013, a truck pulled up at a hydrant in the town of Thousand Oaks and filled up on water to deliver to Selleck's ranch in nearby Westlake Village, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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| White House says monitoring situation at New York Stock Exchange | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House and the U.S. Treasury Department are monitoring the "ongoing issue" at the New York Stock Exchange and President Barack Obama has been briefed on the matter, a White House official said on Wednesday. The NYSE Group, which includes the New York Stock Exchange, has suspended trading in all securities because of technical difficulties. (Reporting by Jeff Mason and Roberta Rampton; Editing by Lisa Lambert) |
| Russia blocks U.N. condemnation of Srebrenica as a genocide | | | By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution on Wednesday that would have condemned the Srebrenica massacre as a genocide to mark the 20th anniversary of the killing of 8,000 Muslim men and boys. The vote was delayed a day as Britain and the United States tried to persuade Russia not to veto the text, which would have also condemned denial of the 1995 massacre as a genocide. Russian U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin had appealed for the council not to vote on the resolution, which he described as "not constructive, confrontational and politically motivated." "The blame for the past is placed basically on one people," Churkin said, but he added: "Our vote against ... will not however mean that we are deaf to the sufferings of the victims of Srebrenica and other areas of Bosnia and Herzegovina." Russia had proposed the council instead condemn "the most serious crimes of concern to the international community." The U.N. war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has ruled the massacre, the worst mass killing on European soil since World War Two, was genocide. |
| Inside Palmasola prison, Pope Francis will find inmates rule | | | By Sarah Marsh SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia (Reuters) - Guards only secure the perimeter of Palmasola, Bolivia's most notorious prison. Inside each unit, murderers, drug traffickers and rapists make the rules and run a lucrative criminal economy. Money can buy inmates everything: a cell, a shower, drugs, protection, prostitutes and prime "real estate" as large as two-story houses, from which to run a business or simply live relatively well. |
| Colombian rebels say prepared to call unilateral ceasefire | | | By Nelson Acosta and Julia Symmes Cobb HAVANA/BOGOTA (Reuters) - Leftist Colombian rebels said on Wednesday they are prepared to call a month-long unilateral ceasefire from July 20, a potential boost to peace talks that have been threatened by increased battlefield violence in recent months. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos gave no immediate sign he would reciprocate, saying in response that "more is required" and that rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) need to show more urgency in 2-1/2-year-old peace talks. "With this we seek to generate favorable conditions to advance with our counterparty to work toward a definitive, bilateral cease-fire," FARC leader Ivan Marquez read in a statement in Havana before going behind closed doors for talks with the Colombian government. |
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