Personal details of over 200,000 Malaysian organ donors leaked online: report
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Personal details of over 200,000 Malaysian organ donors and their next of kin have been leaked, with the data available online for over a year, a local tech portal reported on Tuesday.
U.S. State Department creates Cuba Internet Task Force
HAVANA (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday that it had created a Cuba Internet Task Force to promote “the free and unregulated flow of information” on the Communist-run island, an action denounced by Cuban state media as subversive.
Japan PM Abe says to attend Pyeongchang Olympics
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Wednesday he would attend the Pyeongchang Olympics in South Korea next month, after reports he would not attend due to a dispute over “comfort women” forced to work in Japan’s wartime militar…
Twin car bombs kill more than 30 in Libya’s Benghazi: officials
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – A double car bombing in the east Libyan city of Benghazi on Tuesday left at least 33 people dead and dozens more wounded, including senior security figures and civilians, officials said.
U.S. stresses Lebanon must cut Hezbollah from financial system
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon must cut Iran-backed Hezbollah from the financial sector, a U.S. official on combating illicit finance said on Tuesday, two weeks after Washington began a new push to disrupt the militant group’s global financing routes.
Pence aims to counter North Korea ‘propaganda’ at Olympics: White House
ABOARD AIR FORCE TWO (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence plans to use his attendance at the Winter Olympics in South Korea next month to try to counter what he sees as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s effort to “hijack” the games with a propaganda campaign, a White House official said on Tuesday.
At U.N., Russia proposes new inquiry into chemical attacks in Syria
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Russia proposed on Tuesday that the U.N. Security Council create a new inquiry into who is to blame for chemical weapons attacks in Syria, a move the United States slammed as a bid to distract from a French initiative to targ…
Swiss marchers protest against Trump, break through Davos security cordon
ZURICH/DAVOS (Reuters) – Anti-capitalists marched through Swiss cities on Tuesday to protest a planned visit by U.S. President Donald Trump to the World Economic Forum (WEF) and broke through a security cordon in Davos.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in hospital for kidney infection: news site
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African anti-apartheid veteran Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, ex-wife of late President Nelson Mandela, has been hospitalized for a kidney infection but is expected to make a full recovery, the Times Live online news site sai…
Turkey kills at least 260 Kurdish, Islamic State fighters in Syria offensive: military
ANKARA/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Turkey has killed at least 260 Syrian Kurdish fighters and Islamic State militants in its four-day-old offensive into the Kurdish-dominated Afrin region of northwest Syria, the Turkish military said on Tuesday.
