Yemen deports 2 American, 2 British journalists

Armed Yemeni security forces raided an apartment shared by four Western journalists Monday and deported them because of their coverage of a growing uprising against the country's longtime ruler, one of the reporters said.

The journalists, two Americans and two Britons in their 20s, contribute to publications including the Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post.

"They came into our apartment this morning and they told us all to come to the immigration office," said Oliver Holmes, 24, a Briton. "They sat us down and said, 'You're being deported.'"

In the car on the way to immigration, the journalists were allowed to make phone calls. But their phones and passports were confiscated for hours while they were held at the immigration office and then as they packed up their apartment under the gaze of armed agents.

One of the agents told Holmes they were being kicked out because of their coverage of the uprising, which was inspired by the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt.

The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists said it was alarmed by the expulsion of foreign journalists, saying it may be a prelude to intensified repression of journalists seeking to cover the protests.

"We call on the authorities to revoke these explusions and allow all journalists to work freely," said CPJ Deputy Director Robert Mahoney.

A CPJ statement also quoted two local journalists as saying that a group of 20 people believed to be government supporters went to the Journalists Syndidcate in Sanaa Monday and threatened to burn it down.

Funeral set for NY officer killed by 2nd officer

Funeral services will be held Friday for a New York police officer who was shot to death by a second officer.

Nassau County police Officer Geoffrey Breitkopf (BRYT'-kahf) was killed Saturday night by an officer from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police Department.

The officers had been responding to the Massapequa (mas-uh-PEEK'-wuh) Park home of a knife-wielding man. The suspect was killed when he charged police.

Minutes later, Breitkopf was shot. His shooting remained under investigation Monday.

It was the second line-of-duty death of a Nassau County officer this year.

Breitkopf's funeral will be held Friday at St. Margaret's of Scotland Church in Selden. His wake will be Wednesday and Thursday at the Selden Fire Department headquarters.

Obama thanks Danish PM for troops in Afghanistan

Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen assured President Barack Obama Monday that Denmark has an unwavering commitment to help the U.S. in Afghanistan.

"We are in this with the long-term perspective," Loekke Rasmussen told Obama at the White House.

He said he visited Danish troops in Helmand province two weeks ago and became convinced more needed to be done to wean the region from its dependence on the narcotics trade. As a result, he said, Denmark has increased assistance for alternative crops in Afghanistan, where the cultivation of opium-producing poppies is a significant part of the economy.

Denmark has more than 700 troops in Afghanistan as well as police and army training teams in Helmand province.

Obama commended Loekke Rasmussen for Denmark's assistance in Afghanistan.

Twitter, regulators finalize security settlement

Federal regulators finalized a settlement Monday with Twitter related to data security lapses in 2009 that gave hackers access to users' accounts.

The Federal Trade Commission said the settlement resolves charges that Twitter deceived its customers and put their privacy at risk by failing to keep their personal information safe as promised by the company's policies.

The settlement bars Twitter from misleading consumers about its security and privacy practices for 20 years. The startup, which lets people publish short messages called tweets, must also establish a comprehensive information security program that will be audited every other year for 10 years.

No monetary damages were assessed.

The FTC complaint said that hackers were able to gain administrative control of Twitter twice between January and May 2009, and that weak employee passwords and other poor security practices on the part of staffers were to blame. About 55 accounts were accessed by the hackers.

Twitter has said that it quickly closed the security holes after the breaches were discovered.

Part of Ivorian city slips out of Gbagbo's grasp

On a road that curves around a swath of vegetation at the far north of this commercial capital, cars leave territory controlled by strongman Laurent Gbagbo at a checkpoint consisting of a pile of logs. Beyond it is the first barricade manned by gunmen loyal to the country's internationally recognized president.

The line of control is slowly creeping south, toward the presidential palace Gbagbo refuses to let go.

It's been over 100 days since Gbagbo was declared the loser of this African country's presidential election, and for most of that time the residents of the neighborhood called PK-18 waited for the international community to remove the defiant leader, who first grabbed power a decade ago. That didn't happen and two weeks ago, the face of the neighborhood began to change. Families streamed out, pulling suitcases on rollers behind them.

In their place arrived scruffy men. Some wore amulets around their necks and woolen head coverings, the traditional dress of the country's northern rebels allied with Ouattara.

A team of Associated Press journalists was the first to enter PK-18 this month days after the insurgents had pushed out the army, crossing 11 checkpoints to get inside, some no further than 100 feet apart.