Four men have been charged in California with plotting to kill Africans and destroy overseas US targets. One of four is a former member of the United States air force. David Willis reports.
The FBI says a former US air force man serving in Afghanistan help to introduce the other three men to the doctrine of a former al-Qaeda leader. Sohiel Omar Kabir, a US citizen who was born in Afghanistan is alleged to offered accommodation and meetings with terrorists in Skype conversations with the others. One of whom was born in Mexico, another in the Philippines, and the third is a US citizen. Together the FIB says the group was planning to to engage in what it calls a violent Jihad which was included bombing military bases and government facilities in both Yemen and Afghanistan.
A strike called by two of Argentinas biggest unions has paralysed much of Buenos Aires and other cities. Most trains and subway lines were close, flights were cancelled, and the streets in Buenos Aires remained empty as roadblocks were set up to access routes to the capital.
And a Greek man has been arrested on suspicion of stealing nine million personal data files in a mass breach of private information. Police said the 45-year-old was found have taken data files containing Greek tax numbers, vehicle license plate numbers and home addresses. Some of the files may have been duplicated. The police now trying to work out how the data found after they raided the man's home, came to be in his procession and whether he intended to sell it.