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| China behind 'massive' cyber-attack on Australian government - ABC | | Wednesday, December 02, 2015 4:20 AM | |
|  By Matt Siegel SYDNEY (Reuters) - A major cyber-attack against Australia's Bureau of Meteorology that may have compromised potentially sensitive national security information is being blamed on China, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported on Wednesday. The Bureau of Meteorology owns one of Australia's largest supercomputers and the attack, which the ABC said occurred in recent days, may have allowed those responsible access to the Department of Defence through a linked network. The ABC, citing several unidentified sources with knowledge of the "massive" breach, placed the blame on China, which has in the past been accused of hacking sensitive Australian government computer systems.
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| Chicago police chief out, review launched over black teen's death | | Wednesday, December 02, 2015 1:27 AM | |
|  By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago's police chief was ousted on Tuesday after days of protest over a white officer's shooting of a black teenager 16 times and the department's refusal to release a video of the killing for more than a year. Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced during a news conference that he had asked Garry McCarthy, police superintendent since May 2011, to resign. Emanuel also said he was creating a new police accountability task force.
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| Senior officer says London police could handle Paris-style attack | | Wednesday, December 02, 2015 12:18 AM | |
| | By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - London police could deal with an attack by heavily armed marauding terrorists, one of the capital's most senior officers said on Wednesday, rejecting suggestions the mostly unarmed force would struggle to cope with a Paris-style assault. Following the attacks last month when militants killed 130 people and injured hundreds more at sites across Paris, critics said police in London had neither the numbers of armed officers nor the weaponry to deal with a similar incident. Yes we do," Assistant Commissioner Patricia Gallan told reporters. |
| British parliament set to vote for Syria air strikes | | Wednesday, December 02, 2015 12:08 AM | |
|  Britain's parliament is set to vote on Wednesday to approve air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria after months of wrangling over whether enough opposition Labour lawmakers would back military action. Prime Minister David Cameron has said he believes British warplanes, which have been bombing Islamic State targets in Iraq for more than a year, should also be tackling the group in Syria rather than "sub-contract" UK security to other countries. The election of veteran anti-war campaigner Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader in September complicated his plans.
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| African military leader pleads guilty in U.S. to cash smuggling | | Wednesday, December 02, 2015 12:01 AM | |
| | Sekouba Konate, an African general who served as Guinea's transitional president for a year after a military coup, pleaded guilty to U.S. charges on Tuesday that he smuggled thousands of dollars into the United States. Konate, 51, was indicted in May and faces up to five years in prison when he is sentenced on Feb. 19, the U.S. Justice Department said. Known in Guinea as "El Tigre" for his ferocity in battle, Konate served as interim president of the West African country in 2010. |
| Cleveland officer said he thought 12-year-old he shot was active shooter | | | A Cuyahoga County grand jury is considering whether Officer Timothy Loehmann, who shot Tamir Rice, should face charges along with his partner, Frank Garmback, in the November 2014 incident in a park next to a city recreation centre. Loehmann shot Rice twice within seconds of leaving a police car that pulled up next to the child in response to a 911 call of a man waving a gun in the park. Rice, who died the next day, had a replica handgun that uses plastic pellets. |
| U.S. says wants to keep up momentum in Syria peace talks | |  By Louis Charbonneau and Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday voiced the hope that momentum in talks aimed at hammering out a peace plan to end Syria's nearly five-year civil war could continue, and said the next meeting of major world powers could take place this month in New York. "There is significant enthusiasm to keep the momentum going, particularly with regard to thinking through whether local ceasefires might be possible on an expedited basis," U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power told reporters. The first two rounds of talks on Syria among major Western and Middle Eastern powers were held in Vienna.
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| Five Syrians caught in Honduras heading for U.S. freed from jail | | | Five Syrian men caught in Honduras trying to reach the United States last month on fake Greek passports were freed from jail on Tuesday, after they agreed to pay a fine in exchange for the charges against them being dropped, a court spokeswoman said. Caught in Tegucigalpa's Toncontin airport in the aftermath of the Paris attacks, the Syrians had aroused fears in the United States of the possibility of Islamic State fighters entering through the country's southern border with Mexico. Court spokeswoman Barbara Castillo said the men had each agreed to pay a fine of 10,000 Lempiras ($450) for the charges of falsification of documents to be dropped. |
| Accused killer Durst faces $100 million New York lawsuit in wife's disappearance | |  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nine months after millionaire Robert Durst appeared to confess on television to killing his wife, her family is suing for $100 million on the unusual grounds they never got to bury their loved one properly. While Durst, 72, was never charged in the 1982 disappearance of Kathleen Durst, he is in custody in New Orleans on a federal gun charge while he awaits extradition to Los Angeles for the 2000 killing of longtime friend Susan Berman. In filing a lawsuit in New York state court on Monday, attorneys for Kathleen Durst's family relied on an obscure bit of common law, known as the right to sepulchre, which gives families the right to bury their relatives properly.
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| 'Visa waiver' travellers would be fingerprinted under Senate bill | | | By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Travellers to the United States from "visa waiver" nations would have to provide fingerprints and photos under a U.S. Senate bill to intensify scrutiny of foreigners, one of several border-tightening measures offered since the Paris attacks. The measure is the latest to propose tightening U.S. border control since the Nov. 13 shootings and bombings in France by Islamic State militants that left 130 people dead, triggering a wave of fear across the United States. The bill was introduced on Tuesday by a bipartisan group of senators led by Democrat Dianne Feinstein and Republican Jeff Flake. |
| Guinea military leader pleads guilty in U.S. to cash smuggling | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sekouba Konate, the general commander of the African Union's security force who served as Guinea's transitional president after a military coup in 2009, pleaded guilty in he United States on Tuesday to bulk cash smuggling and making false statements. Konate, 51, pleaded guilty in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. He faces up to five years in prison when he is sentenced Feb. 19. (Reporting by Nate Raymond in New York; editing by Grant McCool) |
| U.N. helicopters launch strikes against Congo rebels after deadly raid | | | By Aaron Ross KINSHASA (Reuters) - U.N. helicopters launched strikes against Ugandan rebels near the northeastern border of Democratic Republic of Congo in response to attacks that killed dozens of people, the force's top general said on Tuesday. About 30 people were killed on Sunday when Islamist militant fighters from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) attacked military bases near the town of Eringeti. Helicopter gunships fired missiles at ADF positions several miles southeast of Eringeti from about 8 a.m. (0600 GMT), Jean Baillaud, interim force commander for the U.N. mission, MONUSCO, told Reuters, adding he believed rebels suffered losses. |
| Ex-boxing champ Taylor pleads guilty to Arkansas felony charges | |  By Steve Barnes LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) - Former world middleweight boxing champion Jermain Taylor on Tuesday entered guilty pleas in an Arkansas state court to felony charges stemming from three separate cases and is set to face sentencing in April 2016, court officials said. Taylor, 37, had earlier indicated he would contest the charges, which include shooting and wounding a cousin in 2014 near the boxer's home in suburban Little Rock. Taylor pleaded guilty to nine counts, each of which is a D-class felony under Arkansas law.
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| Canadian caught with 51 turtles in his pants pleads guilty in Michigan | | | (Reuters) - A Canadian college student caught at a border checkpoint in August 2014 with 51 live turtles in his pants pleaded guilty to six smuggling charges on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Kai Xu, 27, of Windsor, Ontario, admitted to smuggling or trying to smuggle more than 1,600 turtles of different species out of the United States from April 2014 until his arrest in September 2014. In August 2014, Xu crossed the U.S.-Canada border into Detroit and was watched by U.S. agents as he picked up a package at a parcel centre and appeared to transfer items before heading back to the border, according to a criminal complaint. |
| Al Qaeda Syria wing frees Lebanese in return for jailed Islamists | |  By Tom Perry and Laila Bassam BEIRUT (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's Syrian wing freed 16 Lebanese soldiers and policemen on Tuesday in exchange for the release of jailed Islamists including the ex-wife of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The Nusra Front seized the Lebanese 16 months ago during an attack on the Lebanese border town of Arsal, mounted together with the Islamic State jihadist group which is still believed to be holding nine soldiers captured in the incursion. The exchange was brokered by Qatar and cast new light on the Gulf state's channels to the Nusra Front, a powerful player in the Syrian war that has been designated a terrorist group by the United Nations and United States.
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| U.S. nominee to be Myanmar envoy does not see big sanctions changes | |  President Barack Obama's nominee to be ambassador to Myanmar said on Tuesday he does not anticipate major changes in U.S. sanctions in the wake of the country's historic election last month. "I would not anticipate, nor recommend any dramatic change," Scot Marciel, currently a deputy assistant secretary of State and former ambassador to Indonesia, said at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Nobel peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) won a resounding victory in Myanmar's Nov. 8 polls, which were seen as a significant step towards ending decades of military rule.
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