Latest World News 11th July, 2013

• Obama executive order requires federal government employees to learn to spy on co-workers, to prevent more WikiLeaks-type disclosures 

• ·         Snowden: I never gave any information to Chinese or Russian governments 
• ·         Mexico Is the Fattest Country in the World, Study 
• ·         London’s police spend over $16,000 per day to stake out Julian Assange 
• ·         World Service Authority has issued a world citizen passport for Edward Snowden 
• ·         Congress derails Obama plans to arm Syrian rebels 
• ·         In a landmark judgement, Indian Supreme Court has said people convicted of crime cannot hold parliamentary positions 
• ·         Spain Admits U.S. Behind Rumor Snowden Was Aboard Bolivian Jet 
• ·         Horrifying accounts of a massacre of Muslim students by Buddhists in Myanmar.
• ·         Japan officials mistakenly reveal internal memos - They used the wrong privacy settings for Google Groups online discussions, allowing anyone to see internal memos, including over 6,000 cases of info from public or private organizations, among them, hospital records. 
• ·         Nudists in France demand change in law, saying they are being criminalized and treated as sex offenders just for taking clothes off 
• ·         Mission creep: Australian local council intercepted phone, email data to hunt litterbugs 
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• ·         ‘We aired lies’: Al Jazeera staff quit over ‘misleading’ Egypt coverage 
• ·         Egypt orders arrest of Muslim Brotherhood leader 
• ·         Whole-life jail terms without review breach human rights - European court. 
• ·         Julian Assange stakeout at Ecuadorean embassy costs Met police £3.8m (so far); MP cites misallocation as "ridiculous" waste of time & resources 
• ·         Snowden's flight from Moscow to Venezuela would apparently cost $200,000. 
• ·         Iran Jewish Leader slams Ahmadinejad for his holocaust comments, says Jews were not sent to concentration camps for a "stroll." 
• ·         Expert calls for marijuana to be legalised to reduce harm of binge drinking in teens 
• ·         Exclusive: US bankrolled anti-Morsi activists 
• ·         The Pirate Bay founder is raising money for spy-proof messaging app 
• ·         Before the 2008 financial crisis, 32 % believed their governments to be effective at tackling corruption. Today that figure is 23 %. Transparency International: Shows a crisis of trust in politics and real concern about the capacity of those institutions responsible for bringing criminals to justice
• ·         Egypt issues arrest warrant for Muslim Brotherhood leader on charges of inciting violence in Cairo when 51 died. 
• ·         In the Philippines, masturbation is murder. 
• ·         Saudi Arabia approves $5 billion aid package to Egypt 
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• Anonymous hactivists reveal files of corrupt governing party in Spain
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