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| Obama seeks over one-third rise in U.S. cyber security funding | |  By Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's budget proposal for the 2017 fiscal year seeks $19 billion for cyber security across the U.S. government, a surge of $5 billion over this year, according to senior administration officials. The request comes as the Obama administration has struggled to address the growing risk posed by criminals and nation states in the digital world. Cyber threats are "among the most urgent dangers to America's economic and national security," Obama said in a Wall Street Journal op-ed published on Tuesday.
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| Karnataka police say bust child trafficking racket to U.S. | | | By Anuradha Nagaraj CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Police in Bengaluru have broken up an international child trafficking racket and arrested 16 members of a gang suspected of sending children illegally to the United States, an investigating officer said on Tuesday. The syndicate sent at least 25 children to the United States using false documents before the special investigative team made the arrests, he said. The breakthrough comes at a time of mounting concern over the rise in human trafficking in India. |
| Lawsuit by killer Breivik prompts soul-searching in Norway | |  By Alister Doyle OSLO (Reuters) - Locked away in a Norwegian prison since he killed 77 people in a rampage in 2011, Anders Behring Breivik goes to court next month to argue that his effective solitary confinement makes him a victim of cruel and inhuman treatment. Breivik killed eight people with a car bomb in Oslo then gunned down 69 people at a meeting of the Labour Party's youth wing on an island. "His case is so exceptional and so hard for Norwegian society that we don't know how to tackle it," headmaster Trond Lien told Reuters at Handelsgymnasium high school in Oslo, which Breivik attended in the 1990s.
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| Bosnian Serb general who helped lead Srebrenica massacre dies | |  By Thomas Escritt AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Bosnian Serb General Zdravko Tolimir, serving a life sentence for genocide including the massacre at Srebrenica during the early 1990s war in Bosnia, died in The Hague on Monday evening, a court spokesman said. The former head of military intelligence in the Bosnian Serb army, was convicted of crimes including the slaughter of 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995, in what remains Europe's worst massacre since World War Two. "He was taken ill at the court's detention centre at around 9pm last night," said spokesman Nenad Golcevski.
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| Spain's Princess Cristina returns to court in tax fraud trial | |  Spain's Princess Cristina returned to court in Palma de Mallorca on Tuesday as defendants began to testify in a fraud trial that centers on her husband's business affairs and has badly damaged the image of the royal family. King Felipe's 50-year-old sister became the first member of the Spanish royal family to stand in the dock at a preliminary hearing in January, and she now faces a full trial on tax fraud charges after an appeal by her lawyers was thrown out. Cristina will be the last of 17 defendants to testify at the Palma court, where the case is being held.
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| Maharashtra lawyers back Muslim women's demand to use Mumbai mosque | |  By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Officials in Maharashtra said they were in favour of allowing Muslim women full access to a landmark mosque in Mumbai, bolstering a nationwide campaign to allow women entry to all places of worship. Lawyers for the state, backing a petition filed by two Muslim women in the high court in Mumbai said on Tuesday the government could not deny the women equal rights. The Haji Ali dargah Trust has said it would be a "grievous sin" to allow women near the tomb of the 15th century Sufi saint housed within the mosque.
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| Swedish prosecutor preparing new application to interview Assange | |  The Swedish prosecutor heading a preliminary investigation into Wikileaks founder Julian Assange over an allegation of rape said she was preparing a new application to interview the Wikileaks founder in Ecuador's embassy in London. Last week a United Nations panel report said Assange's period at the embassy amounted to arbitrary detention. "The prosecutor in charge, chief prosecutor Marianne Ny, is currently working on a new application to interview Julian Assange in Ecuador's embassy in London," Sweden's prosecution authority said in a statement.
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| Indonesia jails seven for supporting Islamic State | | | An Indonesian court on Tuesday handed down prison terms to seven men accused of supporting Islamic State amid a security crackdown on the militant group's suspected sympathisers in the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation. Indonesia has been on high alert since a bomb and gun attack in the capital Jakarta last month claimed by Islamic State stamped the group's presence in the region for the first time. The men were jailed for between three and five years on charges ranging from training with a military camp in Syria to propagating extremist ideology and raising funds to help Indonesians travel to the Middle East to join Islamic State. |
| Do you want fries with that? Man charged with throwing alligator into fast food restaurant | | | A Florida fast food restaurant got a customer it wasn't expecting when a live alligator was tossed through a drive-thru window by a patron. Joshua James, 23, of Jupiter, Florida, had wanted to play a practical joke on a friend working at the Wendy's restaurant in Royal Palm Beach when he decided to hurl the reptile into the building, his parents told local broadcaster WPTV. "It was a stupid prank," Linda James said. |
| Thai junta could opt for a previous constitution if draft rejected, panel official says | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's junta could pick one from among 19 previous constitutions if a July referendum rejects a draft charter unveiled last month, a constitutional panel spokesman said on Tuesday. The January document was the junta's second attempt at a draft after the previous charter was torn up following a May 2014 coup by the military. Critics, including Thailand's main political parties, say the draft constitution is likely to be rejected in the nationwide referendum required to approve it, so delaying the time frame for a general election.
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