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| U.S. tech companies unite behind Apple ahead of iPhone encryption ruling | |  Tech industry leaders including Alphabet Inc's Google, Facebook Inc, Microsoft Corp, AT&T and more than two dozen other Internet and technology companies filed legal briefs on Thursday asking a judge to support Apple Inc in its encryption battle with the U.S. government. The rare display of unity and support from Apple's sometime-rivals showed the breadth of Silicon Valley's opposition to the government's anti-encryption effort, a position endorsed by the United Nations human rights chief. Apple's battle became public last month when the Federal Bureau of Investigation obtained a court order requiring the company to write new software to disable passcode protection and allow access to an iPhone used by one of the shooters in the December killings in San Bernardino, California.
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| Drone kills four suspected al Qaeda militants in Yemen | | | A drone strike killed four suspected al Qaeda militants in a car in the southern Yemeni province of Shabwa on Friday, local officials and residents said. Al Qaeda propaganda brochures were scattered over the ground by the road, local officials said. During nine months of civil war and military intervention by a Saudi-led Gulf Arab coalition last March, the United States has kept up drone strikes against jihadist groups in Yemen. |
| Turkish court jails two Syrians over drowning of toddler Aylan - media | |  A Turkish court on Friday sentenced two Syrians to four years in jail over the drowning of five people including toddler Aylan Kurdi, the image of whose dead body sparked global sympathy last September over the fate of migrants, Dogan news agency said. The two Syrians were each sentenced to four years and two months in jail for smuggling, Dogan reported. Since Aylan's death, the European Union has faced a growing crisis over how to deal with hundreds of thousands of migrants from Syria and elsewhere, a crisis that threatens to tear the 28-nation bloc apart.
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| Families of missing MH370 passengers sue airline as deadline nears | |  The families of 12 passengers aboard missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 filed suits against the airline on Friday before a two-year deadline for legal action expires. MH370 disappeared en route to Beijing on March 8, 2014, with 239 passengers and crew on board. Family members of two Ukrainian passengers filed suits in the Malaysian High Court against Malaysia Airlines (MAS).
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| China's annual parliament meets under economic clouds | |  By Pete Sweeney and Kevin Yao BEIJING (Reuters) - China commences its once-a-year parliamentary session this weekend to map out plans for dealing with a wobbling economy and worries the ruling Communist Party is losing its credibility as a competent manager. Overhanging this year's sitting are concerns about the social impact of deep structural reforms in the world's second-largest economy, gyrating financial markets and deteriorating global trade. "Cutting capacity in some traditional sectors could create pressure on employment, but employment problems should be manageable as our services sector still grows at a fast pace," said Wen Bin, chief economist at Minsheng Bank in Beijing.
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| Suspected Northern Ireland car bomb injures prison officer | | | By Ian Graham BELFAST (Reuters) - Police in Belfast said a suspected car bomb had detonated early on Friday in the city, injuring a prison officer who has been taken to hospital. "We can confirm that the man injured following the explosion of a device under his van is a serving prison officer," a police spokeswoman said. A 1998 peace deal largely ended three decades of violence in Northern Ireland between Protestants who want to remain British and Catholics favouring unification with Ireland, but pockets of division and sporadic violence remain. |
| Philippines' Pacquiao slides in opinion poll after anti-gay comments | |  The popularity of Philippine boxer Manny Pacquiao has declined following his anti-gay comments, but the former eight-division world champion could still win May Senate elections, an independent opinion poll showed on Friday. The Bible-quoting Pacquiao's description of gays as "worse than animals" drew criticism last month on social media at home and abroad, and cost him an endorsement deal with Nike, the world's largest sportswear maker. "There was a big drop in his numbers in the latest survey," Ronald Holmes, president of Pulse Asia, which did the survey of 1,800 people, told Reuters.
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| Turkish police detain businessmen in Gulen-linked probe - Dogan news agency | |  Turkish police detained prominent businessmen on Friday over allegations of financing the group of U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, a former ally turned foe of President Tayyip Erdogan, the Dogan news agency reported. It said that the police detained Memduh Boydak, chief executive of furniture-to-cables conglomerate Boydak Holding, as well as the group's chairman Haci Boydak and two board members, and that the police were continuing searches of the company. Erdogan has led a crackdown against once influential followers of preacher Gulen, his former ally, after police and prosecutors seen as sympathetic to the cleric opened a corruption investigation into Erdogan's inner circle in 2013.
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| "Social curse" of huge personal debt raises worries in wealthy Qatar | |  Generous government salaries and free healthcare, funded by vast natural gas reserves in a country with only about 300,000 citizens, do not always translate into healthy bank balances for ordinary Qataris. Instead, they can come under intense social pressure to live way beyond their means, spending lavishly on everything from the latest smart phones and designer fashions to family weddings. Many are borrowing enormous sums from local banks to finance lifestyles they cannot afford, according to a study by Qatar University.
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| China defends foreign NGO law, says still being revised | |  By James Pomfret BEIJING (Reuters) - China needs more time to revise a draft law governing foreign non-government organisations, the parliamentary spokeswoman said on Friday, defending the need for such legislation despite widespread international criticism. The law comes amid a crackdown on dissent by President Xi Jinping's administration which has detained and jailed activists and blamed "foreign forces", including foreign NGOs, for the pro-democracy protests that rocked Hong Kong in late 2014. Speaking ahead of the opening of the annual session of parliament, spokeswoman Fu Ying defended China's justification for the law.
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