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KL shares open easier Posted: 14 Jul 2013 06:47 PM PDT Share prices opened the week easier as demand has yet to pick up, as the local bourse could ride on the momentum to chalk up further gains today, dealers said. At 9am, the FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) opened 3.73 points lower at 1,781.92 and slipped 3.13 points to 1,782.52 at 9.06am. Market breadth was positive, with 105 gainers and 64 losers, while 120 counters were unchanged, 1,287 untraded and 21 others were suspended. Turnover stood at 52.512 million shares worth RM32.336 million. HwangDBS Vickers Research said the benchmark FBM KLCI may challenge to overcome the first resistance level of 1,785 ahead. "Sharing our optimism are the futures players, as the July month futures contract is currently trading at 1,788 or a 6.9-point premium over the spot rate. "This comes as Wall Street resumed its rally last night with key US stock indices jumping between 1.1 per cent and 1.6 per cent to reach new highs at the closing bell," it said in a note today. The research house said back home, stocks that could add interest today were IOI Corporation which has unveiled the draft prospectus for the listing of its property arm. Others include AirAsia X as its share price may be supported by the stabilising action in relation to its Initial Public Offering which saw the purchase of 19.5 million shares on Wednesday at RM1.25 a share. On the scoreboard, the Plantation Index rose 19.2 points to 8,537.98, while the Industrial Index lost 9.97 points to 2,997.8 and the Finance Index fell 11.7 points to 16,980.45. The FBM Emas Index fell 17.29 points to 12,408.02, the FBM 70 Index shed 10.29 points to 14,241.97, the FBM100 slipped 18.52 points to 12,153.61 but the FBM ACE Index rose 19.16 points to 4,789.15. Among actives, China Stationery Ltd added 1.5 sen to 29.5 sen, TH Heavy Engineering gained half-a-sen to 85 sen and China Stationery-WA rose one sen to 7.5 sen. As for heavyweights, Maybank earned two sen to RM10.42, while CIMB lost three sen to RM8.29 and Axiata lost six sen to RM6.76.-- Bernama

Ringgit opens lower against US dollar Posted: 14 Jul 2013 06:48 PM PDT [unable to retrieve full-text content]The ringgit opened lower against the US dollar in early trading today in tandem with the depreciating Asian currencies ahead of the release of China's gross domestic product data today, dealers said. The ringgit was quoted at 3.1860/1890 against a US dollar from 3.1775/1785 on Friday. The local currency was traded lower against the Singapore dollar at 2.5186/5219 from 2.5125/5156 Friday and lower against the yen at 3.2088/2125 from 3.2053/2090 last week. The ringgit was also traded lower against the British pound at 4.8134/8192 from 4.8052/8107 Friday and was easier against the euro at 4.1603/1655 from 4.1402/1451 last week.-- Bernama

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For Sanford and Zimmerman, time to move forward - USA TODAY Posted: 14 Jul 2013 09:08 AM PDT Mark O'Mara and Don West, the attorneys for George Zimmerman, said they were satisfied that justice had been served when the jury reached a not guilty verdict. Supporters of Trayvon Martin wait in front of the Seminole County Criminal Justice Center for the verdict to be announced in the George Zimmerman murder trial on Saturday in Sanford, Fla.(Photo: Scott Olson, Getty Images) Story Highlights Zimmerman was found not guilty on both charges Central Florida city has been in spotlight since the 2012 shooting City manager says it's time 'we move forward' SHARECONNECTEMAILMORE SANFORD, Fla. -- City Manager Norton Bonaparte and George Zimmerman lawyer Mark O'Mara had some heated moments during Zimmerman's trial. Now that the verdict is in, they agree on at least one thing: It's time to move on. "Last year people were very angry and they came to Sanford to protest because George Zimmerman had not been arrested," Bonaparte said. "Now he has been arrested. He's been through the trial and a jury has found him not guilty. That's the American judicial system and from that we move forward." This central Florida city of more than 50,000 people drew little national attention before February 26, 2012 -- the night Latino neighborhood watch volunteer Zimmerman encountered black teen Trayvon Martin on a quiet street in a gated community here, some 20 miles northeast of Orlando. Minutes later, Trayvon, 17, was dead of a gunshot wound. Months later, Sanford and Zimmerman remained the focus of national protests. During the trial, O'Mara grilled Bonaparte about his decision to play 911 calls from the night of shooting for Trayvon's family in a group setting. "We thought it was a courtesy to let the family hear it before it was on the news," Bonaparte testified. STORY: George Zimmerman found not guilty STORY: 'System has failed': Crowds react to Zimmerman verdict STORY: Black leaders: Zimmerman verdict is 'old South justice' TIMELINE: Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin case In a press conference after the verdict, O'Mara said his client will now need to get on with his life. "I think he's going to be great. I think he is still worried. Hopefully everyone will respect the jury's verdict," O'Mara said. The immediate reaction Saturday night was not so accepting. Scores of protesters outside the courthouse -- and many more across the nation -- exclaimed disbelief as they learned Zimmerman was found not guilty. "The system has failed!" irate demonstrators chanted here. Bonaparte said Trayvon's death brought to the surface several issues the city needed to deal with. "There were issues that had to do with the African American community and the Sanford Police Department that were not being brought to my attention until after Trayvon was shot and killed," Bonaparte said. Bonaparte said he is now using his new awareness to work with new Police Chief Cecil Smith to make sure Sanford's black residents know the police department represents them and is willing to work with them. Natalie Jackson, a Sanford native and lawyer for Trayvon's family, was disappointed in the verdict but said Trayvon's death has led to positive changes in the city where he died. "Sanford is changed for the better," she said. George Zimmerman, the man accused of murdering 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, has been found not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter in the case that has gripped the nation. The trial happened, Jackson said, because "people took to social media and 2.2 million Americans signed a petition on change.org and demanded — not in an effort to persecute George Zimmerman -- but in an effort to say a black 17-year-old child should be able to walk home from the store and not be shot." "They may have saved the life of another child." Soon after the verdict, Jackson's mother, Francis OIiver, curator of a museum dedicated to a black neighborhood in Sanford, expressed a similar sentiment. Oliver said she began pushing for Trayvon's killer to be arrested the day after the shooting. She later encouraged her daughter, Jackson, to become part of the legal team for Trayvon's parents. "When the verdict came in, it seemed like the bottom fell out of my heart," Oliver said. "I went numb." But Oliver said the people were heard. She noted that Zimmerman was arrested, that former Sanford police chief Bill Lee was fired, and that the new police chief has begun sending out officers to meet people in their neighborhoods. For Zimmerman, the removal of the court's ankle monitor may not mean the end of the odyssey. Robert Zimmerman Jr., Zimmerman's brother, spoke to CNN after the verdict and expressed concern for his brother's safety. "He will be looking around his shoulder the rest of his life," he said. O'Mara acknowledged that people who think Zimmerman killed Trayvon for racial reasons could react violently. "He has to be cautious and protective of his safety," O'Mara said. Zimmerman could even face more criminal charges -- the NAACP is leading a push for federal civil rights charges. Zimmerman may have to go into hiding and be unable to live a normal life for some time, said Jose Baez, the defense attorney who successfully defended Casey Anthony, a Florida mother accused of killing her daughter in a high-profile capital murder case. "The end is not near for George Zimmerman," he said. SHARECONNECTEMAILMORE

House Republicans press new immigration tactic: Obama won't enforce border ... - Fox News Posted: 14 Jul 2013 08:43 AM PDT Congressional Republicans pressed ahead Sunday with their emerging stance on immigration reform, arguing President Obama delaying the implementation of his health care law raises major concerns about whether he'll enforce border security measures in immigration laws. "We cannot fix with laws things the president refuses to do," Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King told "Fox News Sunday." Though well known as one the House's most conservative members, King has emerged as perhaps the chamber's most vocal opponent of the Senate's immigration bill, which includes $40 billion toward additional security along the U.S.-Mexico border and a path to citizenship for at least some of the roughly 11 million illegal immigrants now living in the United States. House Republicans appeared to emerge with the new strategy after a closed-door meeting Wednesday, which was preceded by the Obama administration saying earlier this month that it will delay the start of the so-called employer mandate part of the president's signature health care law until after the 2014 elections. "If the president can selectively enforce ObamaCare, what's to say he cannot selectively enforce border security?" House Minority Leader Eric Cantor said ahead of the meeting. New York Democratic Rep. Steve Israel urged King and other House members opposed to existing immigration reform legislation not to use the president's delay on ObamaCare -- and arguments his administration currently doesn't enforce border security -- to block immigration reform. "You shouldn't use this as an excuse," he told Fox News, pointing out 68 of the Senate's 100 members agreed this summer to reform legislation and that President George W. Bush and the majority of Americans want the federal government to fix the country's broken immigration system. He also said Democrats would work with House Republicans if they wanted to approach immigration reform by passing the legislation in pieces. King also argued Sunday that it was a "mistake" to think the 2012 presidential election in which Obama won roughly 71 percent of the Hispanic vote was a referendum on immigration. Democrats want immigration for a "political issue," he said.

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Texas Senate Approves Strict Abortion Measure - New York Times Posted: 13 Jul 2013 09:14 AM PDT By JOHN SCHWARTZ Published: July 13, 2013 AUSTIN, Tex. — The Texas Senate gave final passage on Friday to one of the strictest anti-abortion measures in the country, legislation championed by Gov. Rick Perry, who rallied the Republican-controlled Legislature late last month after a Democratic filibuster blocked the bill and intensified already passionate resistance by abortion-rights supporters. The bill would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy and hold abortion clinics to the same standards as hospital-style surgical centers, among other requirements. Its supporters say that the strengthened regulations for the structures and doctors will protect women's health; opponents argue that the restrictions are actually intended to put financial pressure on the clinics that perform abortions and will force most of them to shut their doors. Mr. Perry applauded lawmakers for passing the bill, saying, "Today the Texas Legislature took its final step in our historic effort to protect life." Legislators and anti-abortion activists, he said, "tirelessly defended our smallest and most vulnerable Texans and future Texans." Debate over the bill has ignited fierce exchanges between lawmakers and tense confrontations between opponents of the bill, who have worn orange, and supporters of the bill, wearing blue. Signs and slogans have been everywhere, bearing long, impassioned arguments or the simple scrawl on a young man's orange shirt, a Twitter-esque "@TXLEGE: U R dumb." The bill had come nearly this far before: a version had been brought to the Senate in the previous session of the Legislature, in June, and was killed by State Senator Wendy Davis, a Democrat from Fort Worth, with an 11-hour filibuster that stalled the bill until after the deadline for ending the session. The filibuster became a sensation on Twitter and other forms of social media, with more than 180,000 people viewing the filibuster live online. Almost immediately, however, Mr. Perry called for another special session to reconsider the bill, resulting in Friday night's vote. The fight has been heavy with symbols. The House bill's author, Representative Jodie Laubenberg, a Republican from Parker, dangled a pair of baby shoes before her as she spoke on Tuesday; Representative Senfronia Thompson, who offered an early amendment to the bill, was flanked by colleagues holding wire hangers, representing the brutal abortion methods they said would return if legitimate clinics were run out of business. Ms. Laubenberg has said that the bill would close no abortion clinics, adding, "It is time these clinics put patients ahead of profits." Supporters of the bill in the Legislature have been angered by the language of their opponents. During floor debate on Tuesday, Representative Jason Villalba, a Republican of Dallas, said, "I shall stand with Texas women, but I shall stand here no longer and be accused of conducting a 'war on women.' " He said, "We care for and we fight for human baby lives," and showed a sonogram of his own child at 13 weeks. "I will fight, and I will fight, and I will fight to protect my baby." During the Senate debate, the dean of the Senate, John Whitmire, who is a Democrat, angrily told Senator Dan Patrick, a Republican, "I can't sit here and let you question my faith." The bill was opposed by many doctors, including leaders of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Texas Medical Association; the gynecologists' group has run advertisements locally that question the scientific underpinnings of the legislation and tell legislators to "Get out of our exam rooms." The Senate took up the bill Friday afternoon, and people had begun lining up for seats in the third-floor Senate gallery early in the morning. Department of Public Safety officers, their numbers swelled in anticipation of crowds and tumult, searched every bag and confiscated anything that could be thrown — including, for part of the day and until the practice became an object of derision online, tampons. Department officials said the searches had turned up jars "suspected to contain" urine, feces and paint, along with glitter and confetti, but offered no proof. Senators worked through the evening surrounded by commotion and ruckus. Shouts, chants and singing could be heard outside the chamber, and as the final amendment was voted down, protesters tried to chain themselves to the railing of the Senate gallery and were removed. Emotions were high within the Senate chamber as well. Senator Kirk Watson, a Democrat who represents Austin, said that Republicans who do not like the phrase "war on women" should consider the fact that "women don't understand why you keep coming after them." Mr. Patrick retorted in his own speech, "I suggest babies are thinking the same thing." The passage of the bill, by a vote of 19 to 11 just before midnight, was no surprise. Hours earlier, Senator Royce West, a Democrat who represents Dallas, asked lawmakers to add one of the 20 proposed amendments, but said: "The die is cast. We know the bill is going to pass." To explain why he and his colleagues continued to fight when the outcome was certain, Mr. Watson, the chairman of the Senate Democratic caucus, earlier in the week posted a Facebook photo showing an orange T-shirt bearing a statement: "A foregone conclusion has never stopped a group of citizens committed to ideals of democracy and liberty from taking a stand and fighting with everything they've got. This is Texas, baby. Remember the Alamo." The next step will be a court challenge to the new law almost before Mr. Perry's signature has time to dry; the many proposed amendments and discussion of them were clearly intended to build a record that could eventually be reviewed by the courts. In closing her own speech late Friday, Ms. Davis told the groggy lawmakers, those in the gallery and beyond, "The fight for the future of Texas is just beginning."

Zimmerman jury begins 2nd day of deliberations - USA TODAY Posted: 13 Jul 2013 09:21 AM PDT The jury in the George Zimmerman trial is in deliberation. Some of the questions they have to answer include whose voice was heard on the 911 call? Who was on top during the fight, and did Zimmerman act in self defense? George Zimmerman speaks to his attorney Mark O'Mara after the jury left to deliberate during his trial in Seminole Circuit Court in Sanford, Fla., on Friday.(Photo: Gary W. Green, AP) Story Highlights Jurors began weighing evidence against Zimmerman Friday Zimmerman, 29, said he shot Trayvon, 17, in self defense On Friday, jurors asked for an inventory of all evidence in case SHARECONNECTEMAILMORE SANFORD, Fla. — Jurors deciding the fate of George Zimmerman returned to court and resumed deliberations Saturday morning. The jurors entered the courtroom briefly Saturday and were quickly dismissed by Judge Debra Nelson. "All of the evidence will be back there with you," Nelson said, referring to the jury room and a request Friday by jurors to see an inventory of all the evidence in the case. The six-woman jury has the option of acquitting Zimmerman or convicting him of second-degree murder or manslaughter in the death of Trayvon Martin. Jurors began weighing evidence against Zimmerman Friday and recessed after three and a half hours. Zimmerman, 29, a former neighborhood watch volunteer, said he shot Trayvon, 17, in self-defense after being attacked. State prosecutors, however, claim Zimmerman profiled, followed and murdered the teen on Feb. 26, 2012. STORY: Zimmerman trial jurors wrap first day of deliberations STORY: Five key issues for Zimmerman jury STORY: Zimmerman verdict sparks worry of riots Before the jury began weighing evidence Friday, Nelson told the panel they must find, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Zimmerman is guilty of a crime. "You must presume innocence. ... Zimmerman is not required ... to prove anything,'' she said. "The state must prove the alleged crime was committed. It's up to the state to prove his guilt." Deliberations in the high-profile case began shortly before 2:30 p.m. Friday, after Assistant State Attorney John Guy gave the state's rebuttal statements to the defense's closing statements. Guy, looking intently at jurors, said "that child had every right to be afraid of a strange man following him." Following a state tactic used throughout the trial, Guy quoted from Zimmerman's conversation by cellphone with a police dispatcher soon after spotting Trayvon. The prosecutor focused on Zimmerman saying "f--king punks" and "these a--holes always get away." Those words, Guy argued showed the frustration, hate and spite that motivated Zimmerman to shoot Trayvon. Guy also put up a split screen of pictures: Trayvon's dead body on the grass and the bloody head of George Zimmerman after the shooting. "Who lost the fight?" Guy asked. He added that if Zimmerman is acquitted it will send a message that grown men can follow and kill children. He also repeated a sentence he delivered in his opening statement in the rebuttal: "The defendant didn't shoot Trayvon Martin because he had to, he shot him because he wanted to," he said. The George Zimmerman trial was full of shocking moments including explicit language, props, and rising tempers. Mark O'Mara, one of Zimmerman's lawyers, argued in a lengthy closing statement that his client is a conscientious citizen who fired a fatal bullet into a teen while fighting for his life. O'Mara used several visuals in his closing, including a chart about reasonable doubt, self-defense and a computer animation showing Trayvon walking up to Zimmerman and punching him. Trayvon, instead of going home, likely hid, waited for Zimmerman and confronted him, O'Mara said. "That is not an unarmed teenager," O'Mara said in his closing statement, explaining with an actual concrete slab that Trayvon used his fists and a sidewalk to threaten great bodily harm. The defense attorney said that Zimmerman was not the aggressor and that the state's case arguing Zimmerman's cursing on a police call was ill will doesn't make sense. "The fact that he was willing to say it on a call with law enforcement is evidence of non-guilt," O'Mara said. About two hours into their review Friday, jurors asked Nelson for an inventory of all the evidence in the case. Some of the items include several statements Zimmerman gave to police, Trayvon's autopsy report and photos of both Zimmerman's injuries and Trayvon's body. More than 50 witnesses testified as well including forensic experts who testified about the angle in which Trayvon was shot, the position Zimmerman's gun may have been in, and where DNA and blood was found. If convicted of second-degree murder, Zimmerman could face life imprisonment. If he's found guilty on a lesser charge of manslaughter, he faces a prison sentence of up to 30 years. SHARECONNECTEMAILMORE

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US stocks edge to new highs Posted: 12 Jul 2013 04:34 PM PDT NEW YORK: US stocks edged higher to new highs on Friday after strong banking earnings helped offset a profit warning from UPS and fresh trouble for Boeing's Dreamliner aircraft. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 3.38 (0.02 per cent) to 15,464.30, nudging above Thursday's record. The S&P 500 also rose to a new record, adding 5.17 (0.31 per cent) at 1,680.19, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index jumped 21.78 (0.61 per cent) to 3,600.08. Earnings from JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo beat expectations by a wide margin. Wells Fargo shares jumped 1.8 per cent after reporting a jump in net second quarter earnings to US$5.5 billion compared with US$4.6 billion a year earlier, helped by 3.5 per cent growth in loans. Bank executives said its size and varied income streams insulates it from some of the negative effects of higher interest rates. JPMorgan ended the day down 0.3 per cent after trading in positive territory much of the day. The bank reported a 31 per cent gain in profits but warned higher interest rates could crimp profits from mortgage banking. Other banks also gained, including Bank of America (up 2.0 per cent) and Morgan Stanley (up 2.3 per cent). But the Dow was weighted down by Boeing after a parked Ethiopian Airlines 787 Dreamliner plane caught fire at London's Heathrow airport, raising new fears for the trouble-plagued aircraft after it was grounded earlier this year for battery issues. Boeing closed 4.7 per cent lower after dropping as much as 7.4 per cent earlier in the day. UPS closed 5.8 per cent lower, while rival FedEx shed 2.0 per cent, after UPS slashed its second-quarter forecast, citing weak US industrial activity and air freight overcapacity. Dell slipped 0.2 per cent after Carl Icahn and his allies boosted their offer, a rival to the go-private takeover proposed by a consortium led by founder Michael Dell. Alexion Pharmaceuticals soared 12.6 per cent following reports that Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche Holding is seeking financing for a potential takeover of the company. Another pharmaceutical company, Regeneron, jumped 7.3 per cent following a ratings upgrade. Lazard gave the company a "buy" rating, predicting potential growth across numerous business lines. -- AFP

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Zimmerman lawyer says Martin was lying in wait to attack - Reuters Posted: 12 Jul 2013 09:29 AM PDT By Daniel Trotta and Barbara Liston SANFORD, Florida | Fri Jul 12, 2013 12:28pm EDT (Reuters) - Trayvon Martin spent four long minutes preparing to attack George Zimmerman before landing the first punch in a fight that ended in the teenager's death, Zimmerman's defense lawyer said in closing arguments of the murder trial on Friday. Lead defense lawyer Mark O'Mara attempted in his closing argument to the six-member jury to shift the blame to Martin, the unarmed, black 17-year-old who Zimmerman shot dead last year. The case has captivated and divided much of the U.S. public, raising questions about race and guns in America. O'Mara said there was "factual and undeniable evidence" that Zimmerman should be found not guilty. Zimmerman, 29, says he shot Martin in self-defense after he was attacked. Prosecutors contend Zimmerman was a "wannabe cop" who, after calling police on the night of February 26, 2012 and telling them he believed Martin was acting suspiciously in the neighborhood that had seen break-ins, tracked down the teenager. Martin was a guest in the home of his father's fiancée, who lived inside the gated community, and was returning from a nearby convenience store with a snack, ready to watch the NBA All-Star game. Florida state prosecutors have accused Zimmerman of second-degree murder, a charge that could lead to a sentence of life in prison. To convict Zimmerman of that crime, the all-female jury must find he acted with ill will, spite or hatred. The hateful person that rainy night was the 17-year-old Martin, not Zimmerman, O'Mara told the jury. "Somebody decided they were angry. Ticked off. Ill will, spite or hatred," O'Mara said. "It wasn't some cop wannabe." He added, "The person who decided this was going to continue, was going to become a violent event, was the guy who didn't go home when he had a chance to. It was the guy who decided to lie in wait." The jury can also opt for manslaughter, which has a lesser burden of culpable negligence. That carries a prison sentence of up to 30 years. Since he took the case last year, O'Mara has sought to be sensitive to Martin's grieving parents, who have attended the whole trial, but on Friday he seized the opportunity to blame Martin with initiating the confrontation. Martin's mother, Sybrina Fulton, walked out of the courtroom, followed by two of her lawyers, when O'Mara started discussing her son's dead body. Earlier, O'Mara warned jurors against filling in holes in the prosecutors' case, cautioning against making presumptions and assumptions. Yet he invited them to form their own conclusions about Martin, particularly in the four-minute gap that O'Mara said passed between Zimmerman losing sight of Martin and when Martin attacked. He dramatized that length of time by pausing for four minutes, leaving the courtroom silent. "Four minutes. You get to figure out what Trayvon Martin was doing," O'Mara told the jury. "Four minutes to do what? To run home. To walk home." Instead, O'Mara said, he attacked Zimmerman. O'Mara also narrated an animated video re-enactment of the fight from the defense perspective. It showed Martin walking up to Zimmerman and punching him in the face, then jumped ahead to scenes showing Martin on top of Zimmerman, when Zimmerman says he was being beaten and feared for his life. The animation, which O'Mara admitted was "somewhat made up," did not show the fatal gunshot. Prosecutors will have a chance for a final rebuttal argument. Jurors will then start deliberations. When police initially declined to arrest Zimmerman, it provoked street demonstration throughout the United States as critics blamed Zimmerman for pulling out his Kel Tec 9mm pistol, which was fully loaded with hollow-point bullets. Backers of liberal gun laws have rallied behind Zimmerman and helped fund his defense, seeing him as a persecuted hero whose need for self-defense demonstrated the importance of the Second Amendment right to bear arms. (Additional reporting by Kevin Gray in Miami; Writing by Daniel Trotta; Editing by Paul Thomasch, Bernadette Baum and Leslie Gevirtz)

Snowden has 'no regrets,' seeks asylum in Russia - USA TODAY Posted: 12 Jul 2013 09:40 AM PDT Picture released by Human Rights Watch shows US National Security Agency (NSA) fugitive leaker Edward Snowden during a meeting with rights activists at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport Friday.(Photo: Tanya Lokshina AFP/Getty Images) Story Highlights Snowden has been in Russia for weeks He is thought to be seeking asylum in Latin America The U.S. wants him extradited SHARECONNECTEMAILMORE MOSCOW -- Edward Snowden said Friday that he has no regrets over leaking details about U.S. electronic spying networks and is seeking temporary asylum in Russia until he can reach one of the Latin American countries that has offered to take him in. "That moral decision to tell the public about spying that affects all of us has been costly, but it was the right thing to do and I have no regrets," he told a group of human rights activists and other public officials at a meeting at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, where he has taken refuge since June 23. The 30-year-old former defense contractor, who fled first to Hong Kong then Russia, said he did what he believes was right to go public with information on the National Security Agency's surveillance and data-gathering networks in an effort to "correct this wrongdoing." "I did not seek to enrich myself. I did not seek to sell U.S. secrets," he said in a statement released through WikiLeaks. "I did not partner with any foreign government to guarantee my safety. Instead, I took what I knew to the public, so what affects all of us can be discussed by all of us in the light of day, and I asked the world for justice." Snowden, whose U.S. passport has been revoked, said he has formally accepted an offer of asylum from Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, as well as all others which have expressed support "and all others that may be offered in the future." The meeting included Vyacheslav Nikonov, chairman of the Russian state Duma, Sergei Nikitin, head of Amnesty International Russia, Vladimir Lukin, Russia's presidential human rights ombudsman, attorney Genri Reznik, and Tanya Lokshina, of Human Rights Watch. READ: Full statement by Edward Snowden Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, told Russian news agencies after Snowden's announcement Friday that Russia had not received a new bid for asylum from Snowden and that Putin would continue to insist that Snowden stop leaking information. Nikonov told Rossiya 24 that he asked him about Putin's previously stated conditions, and that Snowden told him he had. "He does not want to harm U.S. interests because he is a law-abiding citizen and a patriot," the Russian lawmaker said.. Snowden, in his remarks at the meeting, said governments in Western Europe and North American are acting outside the law by preventing him from traveling and called on the rights activists to intervene with Putin on his behalf. He also indicated that his world had turned upside down since he went public in May in leaking information that published in The Washington Post and The Guardian. "A little over one month ago, I had family, a home in paradise, and I lived in great comfort," Snowden said. "I also had the capability without any warrant to search for, seize, and read your communications. Anyone's communications at any time. That is the power to change people's fates." RELATED STORY: NSA fears Snowden saw details of China spying Snowden said the U.S. government and intelligence agencies have tried to make an example of him as "a warning to all others who might speak out as I have." "I have been made stateless and hounded for my act of political expression," he said. He also invoked the principles declared at the Nuremberg trial of Nazis in 1945 that "individual citizens have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring." Snowden complained that he had been placed on a no-fly list and that countries had been threatened if they offered him support. Snowden also said the U.S. had taken "the unprecedented step" of ordering its military allies to ground a Latin American president's plane in search of a political refuge. He was referring to a decision by some European countries to deny airspace to the plane of the Bolivian president who was flying home last week from Russia. The plane eventually landed in Austria, where it was searched in an apparent belief that Snowden was on board. Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, where National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden is said to be staying in the airport's transit zone.(Photo: Sergei Grits, AP) "This unlawful threat makes it impossible for me to travel to Latin America and enjoy the asylum granted there in accordance with our shared rights," Snowden said. The American Civil Liberties Union, meanwhile, issued a statement Thursday asserting that the former defense contractor "has serious claims for asylum and has a legitimate right to seek asylum irrespective of the human rights record of the country that he ultimately ends up in." The statement charges that the USA has interfered with Snowden's right to seek asylum by revoking his passport and appears to have prevented him from receiving fair and impartial consideration of his application in many of the countries to which he has applied. Jamil Dakwar, director of the ACLU human rights program, and Chandra Bhatnaqar, senior attorney for the program, also warn that by infringing on Snowden's right to asylum, "U.S. actions also create the risk of providing cover for other countries to crack down on whistle-blowers and deny asylum to individuals who have exposed illegal activity or human rights violations. "That's a very dangerous precedent to set," the statement says. Contributing: Stanglin reported from McLean,Va., The Associated Press SHARECONNECTEMAILMORE

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KL shares extend upward momentum Posted: 11 Jul 2013 06:45 PM PDT Share prices on Bursa Malaysia opened higher in early trading today, extending upward momentum as sentiments were boosted by Wall Street's overnight gains, dealers said. At 9am, the FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) opened at 1,785.0, up 3.85 points, and rose 11.54 points to 1,785.92 after nine minutes of trading. Market breadth was positive, with 168 gainers and 52 losers, while 135 counters were unchanged, 1,221 untraded and 16 others suspended. Turnover stood at 62.79 million shares worth RM46.69 million. HwangDBS Vickers Research said Wall Street resumed its rally last night with key US stock indices jumping between 1.1 per cent and 1.6 per cent to attain new highs at the closing bell. "Our Malaysian bourse could ride on the momentum to chalk up further gains today," the research house said. On the chart, the benchmark FBM KLCI may challenge to overcome the first resistance level of 1,785 ahead, it said. Meanwhile, the Plantation Index rose 20.17 points to 8,450.88, the Industrial Index gained 22.69 points to 3,027.41, the Finance Index rose 7.33 points to 16,973.7 and the FBM Emas Index garnered 33.48 points to 12,424.57. The FBM 70 Index garnered 23.36 points to 14,219.11 and the FBM ACE Index rose 12.56 points to 4,776.44. Among actives, Pantech rose three sen to RM1.03, Ekowood added 2.5 sen to 23 sen and Luster gained half sen to 10.5 sen. As for heavyweights, Maybank and Axiata were flat at RM10.44 and RM6.80, respectively, while CIMB earned two sen to RM8.30.-- Bernama

KL bourse up in early trade Posted: 11 Jul 2013 06:51 PM PDT Malaysia's benchmark stock index rose in early trade on Friday, led by gains in oil and gas firm Petronas Gas Bhd and property group UEM Sunrise Bhd. The index, which climbed 0.33 per cent at 9.03am in Kuala Lumpur, outperformed MSCI's broadest index of Asia Pacific shares outside Japan that rose 0.06 per cent, while it underperformed Tokyo's Nikkei share average, which edged 0.50 per cent up. "Continuing from where it left off yesterday, our Malaysian bourse could ride on the momentum to chalk up further gains today," HwangDBS Vickers Research said in a research note to clients. "On the chart, the benchmark key index may challenge to overcome the first resistance level of 1,785 ahead," the note added. HwangDBS also said investors will watch Ahmad Zaki Resources Bhd after the construction firm bagged a contract worth RM172 million.-- Reuters

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Zimmerman defense rests; closing arguments to begin Thursday at 1 pm - MiamiHerald.com Posted: 11 Jul 2013 08:46 AM PDT SANFORD -- George Zimmerman's fate could be in jurors' hands by Friday, after the defense rested its case Wednesday with Zimmerman declining to take the stand. When Circuit Judge Debra Nelson asked Zimmerman, 29, what he had decided about testifying in his second-degree murder trial, the former neighborhood-watch leader stood, straightened his dark suit, and spoke softly. "After consulting with counsel, not to testify, your honor," he said. With both sides having rested, closing arguments will begin Thursday afternoon. Nelson said she wants jurors to begin deliberations Friday afternoon. A six-person, all-female Seminole County jury will decide whether Zimmerman is guilty of murder in the Feb. 26, 2012, shooting death of Trayvon Martin, 17, of Miami Gardens. Prosecutors allege Zimmerman profiled, pursued and murdered the unarmed teen, who was visiting his father in Sanford while on suspension from his Miami-Dade County high school. Zimmerman has maintained that he acted in self-defense, shooting when he felt his life was in danger after Trayvon ambushed him in the dark. The closely watched case sparked protests and marches in the 44-day gap between Trayvon's killing and Zimmerman's arrest. After court Wednesday, defense attorney  Mark O'Mara said he was confident in the evidence his side presented and hopeful for an acquittal. "With evidence the way it is, I think we have a very, very good chance with the jury," he said. Trayvon's family, meanwhile, is hoping for a different outcome, but family attorney Ben Crump said the family does not want to see any violence in the event of an acquittal. "The Martins hope that people peacefully protest," Crump said. O'Mara noted that Zimmerman carefully weighed whether to testify, but believed that jurors already heard his side of the story through his statements to police and the testimony of other witnesses. "A big part of him wanted to get in front of the jury and say, 'This is my story, this is what I've done, and this is why I did it,' " O'Mara said. "It was a very difficult decision for George to make." Before closings begin Thursday, attorneys will argue about what instructions Nelson will give jurors as they go into their deliberations. In addition to second-degree murder, the state wants the jury to consider possible lesser charges, including manslaughter and aggravated assault; the defense does not. "Self-defense is self-defense to everything," including murder, manslaughter, assault and battery, O'Mara said. "What happened out there was not a crime." A manslaughter or aggravated assault conviction could result in a lengthy sentence because a gun was used. If convicted of second-degree murder as charged or of aggravated assault, Zimmerman would face up to life in prison; manslaughter would carry a sentence of up to 30 years. The judge dealt some blows to the defense on Wednesday when she ruled against two pieces of evidence Zimmerman's team had hoped to present to jurors: text and Facebook messages from Trayvon's phone, and a computer-animated re-creation of the confrontation between Trayvon and Zimmerman. The text and Facebook messages included references to Trayvon getting into fights. The defense-commissioned animation, which prosecutors successfully argued only showed Zimmerman's version of events, looks like a computer game showing a Trayvon avatar walking up and punching Zimmerman's character.

Authorities to exhume body of confessed Boston Strangler Albert DeSalvo ... - Boston.com Posted: 11 Jul 2013 08:32 AM PDT By Maria Cramer, Eric Moskowitz and John R. Ellement, Globe Staff Albert H. DeSalvo's body will be exhumed to allow for new forensic testing that may, finally, answer whether he was in fact the Boston Strangler who terrorized Greater Boston during 19 months in the early 1960s. Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley announced the new development today as he also reported that a DNA match has been made between DeSalvo, the self-confessed Boston Strangler, and the murder of 19-year-old Mary Sullivan, who was raped and murdered in her Charles Street home in Boston on Jan. 4, 1964. Conley said the DNA testing showed a "familial match" between forensic evidence in Sullivan's killing, leading prosecutors to ask for a Suffolk Superior Court judge to order the exhumation of DeSalvo's remains in hopes it may help prove a forensic link to the murder of 10 other women attributed to DeSalvo and the Boston Strangler. A total of 11 women, including Sullivan, are considered to be the victims of DeSalvo, Conley said today. Conley said investigators obtained a DNA sample from a bottle discarded by one of DeSalvo's nephews and used it to build the "familial match'' between DeSalvo and Sullivan's murder. , DeSalvo's surviving relatives and Casey Sherman, the nephew of Mary Sullivan, joined forces about a decade ago to conduct DNA testing on Sullivan's remains. The result did not link DeSalvo to Sullivan's death. Sherman is attending the press conference today. Officials are planning to meet with relatives of the women murdered by the Strangler sometime today. They will brief them on the latest investigative avenues used in the case at the meeting this morning, sources said. DeSalvo confessed to being the "Boston Strangler,'' but was never prosecuted for the crimes under a deal negotiated with then-Attorney General Edward Brooke and DeSalvo's attorney, F. Lee Bailey. But many people, including Brooke, have questioned whether DeSalvo did kill all of the women whose deaths have been attributed to the Strangler. "Even to this day, I can't say with certainty that the person who ultimately was designated as the Boston Strangler was the Boston Strangler," Brooke told the Globe in 2012. DeSalvo, who was then imprisoned on other charges, was linked to the killings when he confessed to the crimes to his cellmate, George Nassar. Nassar told Bailey, who negotiated a deal where DeSalvo admitted he was the Strangler, but was never prosecuted for them. DeSalvo was stabbed to death in Walpole state prison in Nov. 25, 1973. He was 42 years old. (Mike Bello of the Globe Staff contributed to this report.) Maria Cramer can be reached at mcramer@globe.com. Eric Moskowitz can be reached at emoskowitz@globe.com. John R. Ellement can be reached at ellement@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @JREbosglobe.

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