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Reuters
East Asia & Pacific > Japan > Tokyo
The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on Japan's second largest yakuza crime syndicate and its leaders, freezing their U.S. assets and blocking their transactions with American entities. The financial penalties against the Sumiyoshi-Kai clan and its two leaders are the second time the Obama administration has tried to disrupt the yakuza's activities since it identified the Japanese group as a significant criminal organization.
Financial Times
East Asia & Pacific > Burma > Rangoon
Myanmar’s president Thein Sein has pledged an “unprecedented and irreversible course of change” in his country and for the first time credited the compromises made by opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi for helping facilitate the radical reforms his government has undertaken over the past year.
Reuters
Europe > Spain
Spanish political satire magazine El Jueves has published a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad on its cover, soon after violent protests rocked the Muslim world over a U.S. film and French caricatures deemed insulting to Islam.
Computerworld
Global
Attacks that wipe data on Samsung devices remotely can also be used to disable SIM cards, experts say
ZD Net
Global
A joint strike force specialising in disrupting identity fraud and illegal credit-card manufacturing has made yet another set of arrests, cementing the shutdown of what was the largest carding operation in Australia.