Briefly World: US probe obtains wide swath of AP phone records

The US Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press

US probe obtains wide swath of AP phone records

WASHINGTON: The US Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperatives top executive called a massive and unprecedented intrusion into how news organizations gather the news. The records obtained by the Justice Department listed outgoing calls for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters,for general AP office numbers in New York,Washington and Hartford,Connecticut,and for the main number for the AP in the House of Representatives press gallery,according to attorneys for the AP. It was not clear if the records also included incoming calls or duration of calls. AP

Nigeria Prez declares emergency in 3 states

ABUJA: Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency Tuesday in three northeastern states Borno,Yobe and Adamawa worst hit by increasing violence by Islamist insurgents. reuters

13 detained over Turkish bombings,toll rises to 51

ANKARA: Turkeys prime minister said authorities had detained four more people in connection with two car bomb attacks in a Turkish town near the Syrian border,bringing the number of suspects in custody to 13. PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan also said Tuesday the death toll in the attacks had increased to 51. AP

Four US soldiers killed in south Afghanistan

Kabul: A roadside bomb killed four US soldiers in south Afghanistan tuesday,officials said,a day after three Georgian soldiers also serving in NATO-led coalition were killed. pti

The Suns politics editor charged over bribery

London: Britains prosecutors say The Sun tabloids politics editor Clodagh Hartley has been charged

over a conspiracy to pay thousands of pounds worth of bribes to a press officer working in the British governments tax department. AP

Key Pak Taliban militant arrested in Karachi

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Karachi: Pakistani police Tuesday claimed to have arrested Amir Sahab,a key commander of banned Tehreek-e-Taliban in the city,who was plotting to carry out attacks on naval installations and government offices. PTI

One in 10 South Africans HIV positive

Cape Town: One in ten South Africans is HIV positive but AIDS-related deaths are falling as ramped-up treatment begins to have an impact,the countrys official statistics agency said Tuesday. PTI