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A general view shows the headquarters of the Federal Security Service (FSB) (L) in central Moscow, Russia, November 10, 2015. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin July 30, 2016 MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s intelligence service said on Saturday that the computer networks of 20 organizations, including state agencies and defense companies, have been infected with spyware in what it described as a targeted and coordinated attack. The Federal Security Service, the FSB, said the malware and the way the networks were infected were similar to those used in previous cases of cyber espionage found in Russia and other countries. The agency did not say who it suspected of being behind the attacks. “Information technology resources of government agencies, scientific and military institutions, defense industry companies and other entities involved in crucial infrastructure have been infected,” the FSB said in a statement on its website. The FSB’s announcement f...

People make their way next to the headquarters of Bank of Greece in central Athens, Greece, October 30, 2015. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis July 30, 2016 ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece’s central bank forecasts the country will post a primary surplus of 1.3 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) this year, its governor Yannis Stournaras told a Greek newspaper. Under its third international bailout signed last summer, Greece aims at a primary surplus – which excludes debt servicing costs – of 0.5 percent of GDP this year. The bank had forecast earlier this month the country would achieve a surplus of 0.9 percent this year. “Fiscal hurdles for 2016 have been overcome and the forecast by the (central) Bank of Greece is that the year will close with a primary surplus of 1.3 percent of GDP,” Stournaras was quoted as saying by Sunday’s To Vima newspaper. He said that, therefore, Greece has fiscal room and will not need to ac...

A new Fiat Chrysler Automobiles sign is unveiled at Chrysler Group World Headquarters in Auburn Hills, Michigan May 6, 2014. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook July 29, 2016 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. auto safety regulators said Friday they were extending oversight of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV for an additional year, requiring the Italian-American automaker to submit to monthly meetings and early disclosures of potential vehicle issues. In July 2015, Fiat Chrysler agreed to a $105 million settlement with the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for mishandling nearly two dozen recall campaigns covering 11 million vehicles. It also agreed to monitoring by former U.S. Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater. Fiat Chrysler said in a statement on Friday that NHTSA’s decision to extend the requirements was not based on the company’s performance to date, but rather to “facilitate continued communication,” citing a letter from the agency.

Barbed wire fences surround the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre located near Darwin in the Northern Territory, Australia, July 27, 2016. AAP/Neda Vanovac/via REUTERS MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Hundreds of people rallied in major cities across Australia on Saturday criticizing the government’s response to video showing aboriginal children being teargassed and abused in prison.  Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has ordered an inquiry into the treatment of children in the detention center after the Australian Broadcasting Corporation this week aired footage showing guards teargassing teenage inmates and strapping a half-naked, hooded boy to a chair. But he has rejected calls for a broader national inquiry. The United Nation Human Rights High Commission called on Australia on Friday to compensate children abused in prison. “We are shocked by the video footage that has emerged from Don Dale youth detention center in the No...

The logo of car-sharing service app Uber on a smartphone over a reserved lane for taxis in a street is seen in this photo illustration taken in Madrid on December 10, 2014. REUTERS/Sergio Perez/Illustration/File Photo July 29, 2016 By Heather Somerville SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A federal judge on Friday denied a motion by Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] to compel arbitration in a passenger lawsuit over so-called surge pricing brought against the ride-hailing company’s chief executive. Spencer Meyer, a Connecticut passenger and the lead plaintiff who filed the lawsuit, was subject to a user agreement requiring that disputes with San Francisco-based Uber be arbitrated. Although Meyer sued only CEO Travis Kalanick, the company requested arbitration after Uber was added as a defendant to the lawsuit last month. U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan said in his decision that consumers are often “allegedly consenting to an entire lengthy set...

People inspect the damage as they stand near a Save the Children sponsored maternity hospital after an airstrike in the rebel-controlled town of Kafer Takhareem in Idlib province, Syria July 29, 2016. REUTERS/Ammar Abdullah July 29, 2016 BEIRUT (Reuters) – A Syrian maternity hospital in a rebel-held area of Idlib province was extensively damaged on Friday after a direct hit, international charity Save the Children, which supports the hospital, said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors violence in Syria’s five-year-old conflict, said air strikes hit the hospital and also a civil defense building. The number of casualties is not yet known, a spokesman for Save the Children said. The hospital in Kafer Takhareem, the only maternity facility for about 70 miles (110 km), works with around 1,300 women and children a month and delivered some 340 babies last month, the spokesman said. In another part of the northern Idlib countrys...

U.S. musician Prince performs at the Hop Farm Festival near Paddock Wood, southern England July 3, 2011. REUTERS/Olivia Harris/File Photo July 29, 2016 (Reuters) – A Minnesota judge dismissed claims from 29 would-be heirs to the estate of the late pop star Prince, strengthening the inheritance claims of the performer’s surviving siblings, court records released on Friday showed. Carver County Judge Kevin Eide made the ruling on Thursday, adding that six people determined to be Prince’s siblings, half-siblings or other relatives would have to undergo genetic testing. The denials of other would-be heirs came in response to a flood of individuals seeking a piece of the estate, estimated to be worth more than $500 million, left by Prince when he died unexpectedly in April at the age of 57, apparently without a will. Among the claims dismissed by Eide’s 19-page ruling was one by Georgia resident Claire Boyd, who said she had been married to...

Delegate Tony Davis of Chicago, Illinois, gets a temporary Hillary Clinton presidential campaign tattoo on the floor of the convention during the second night at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. July 26, 2016. REUTERS/Mark Kauzlarich By John Whitesides and Amanda Becker PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – Democrat Hillary Clinton took her newly energized campaign to become America’s first woman president on the road on Friday to “Rust Belt” swing states that might decide the fate of the Nov. 8 election. After presenting an upbeat view of the country in her keynote address to the Democratic convention on Thursday night, the former secretary of state launched a campaign tour of Ohio and Pennsylvania, two heartland states hit by the decline in U.S. manufacturing. Clinton is likely to face a tough challenge in such states from Republican nominee Donald Trump, a New York businessman who is trying to win white working-class v...