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| Rats! New Yorker charged with vermin control scam | | Friday, October 21, 2016 3:04 AM | |
|  By David Ingram NEW YORK (Reuters) - There are a lot of vermin in New York City, but this time some people didn't smell the rat. Some 101 unsuspecting residents and property owners this year fell for a scam when they got a notice in the mail saying they were in violation of the city's vermin control regulations and owed $120, authorities said on Thursday. The man, Myong Hwan Han, also known as David Han, is charged with mail fraud and conspiracy to commit mail fraud, according to a criminal complaint signed by a postal inspector and filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
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| Activists in Thai opposition heartland say no politics during mourning | | Friday, October 21, 2016 2:46 AM | |
|  By Robert Birsel KHON KAEN, Thailand (Reuters) - In villages scattered through the green rice fields of northeast Thailand, a stronghold of support for former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his opposition "red shirt" movement, people have put politics on hold to mourn King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Thailand was plunged into grief when the 88-year-old king died on Thursday last week, a monarch seen as a father figure for generations of Thais of all political persuasions. Thaksin, who lives in self-exile offered his condolences upon the death of the king in a Facebook post but made no other comment.
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| Journalism group wants charges dropped against pipeline protest filmmakers | | Friday, October 21, 2016 1:29 AM | |
|  By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A press freedom group on Thursday urged prosecutors in two states to drop charges against three documentary filmmakers who were arrested while filming activists as they sought to shut down major oil pipelines from Canada to the United States. The Committee to Protect Journalists said Lindsey Grayzel, Carl Davis and Deia Schlosberg were acting as journalists, not protesters, when they were taken into custody at pipeline sites in Washington state and North Dakota, and were protected by free speech rights.
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| Russia wants to weaken the EU, EU leaders say | | Friday, October 21, 2016 12:22 AM | |
|  Russia is trying to weaken the European Union, EU leaders agreed on Thursday, noting they needed to stay the course and remain united in policies towards Moscow. "Leaders emphasized all sorts of Russian hostilities from airspace violations to information campaigns, cyber attacks, interference into the political processes in the EU and beyond," the chairman of the EU summit Donald Tusk told a news conference. "Given these examples, it is clear that Russia's strategy is to weaken the EU," he said.
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| U.S. vote authorities warned to be alert to Russian hacks faking fraud - officials | | Friday, October 21, 2016 12:20 AM | |
|  U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials are warning that hackers with ties to Russia's intelligence services could try to undermine the credibility of the presidential election by posting documents online purporting to show evidence of voter fraud. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said however, that the U.S. election system is so large, diffuse and antiquated that hackers would not be able to change the outcome of the Nov. 8 election.
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| For Trump, challenging an election loss would be tough | |  If Donald Trump were to challenge the outcome of next month's presidential election, as he has hinted he might, he would face a difficult and expensive fight, according to election attorneys and a review of voting laws in key battleground states. Trump has said he is worried the Nov. 8 election might be rigged in favour of his opponent, Hillary Clinton, and in Wednesday's debate he refused to say he would accept the outcome. North Carolina, for example, doesn't allow a presidential candidate to request a recount at all if one candidate has a lead of more than 0.5 percent of the total votes cast.
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