News Headlines - 03 November 2014

▽FOREX-Dollar surges above 114 yen, holds gains from BoJ policy move | Reuters

The dollar topped 114 yen on Monday, its highest level in nearly seven years, extending gains spurred by the Bank of Japan's surprise decision last week to boost its already massive bond-buying stimulus in an effort to lift a moribund economy.

▽Britain's spy chief says US tech firms aid terrorism - Telegraph

New GCHQ director Richard Hannigan accuses some Silicon Valley companies of becoming 'the command and control networks of choice' for terrorists

▽BBC News - Germany 'would accept UK exit from EU' to protect migration rules

Chancellor Angela Merkel has reportedly warned David Cameron she would rather see the UK leave the EU than compromise over the principle of free movement.
Der Spiegel news magazine quotes German government sources as saying she feared the UK was near a "point of no return".

▽Thatcher papers reveal attack on Kinnock toned down after IRA bomb | The Guardian

Thatcher planned to call Labour leader a ‘puppet’ of hard left during miners’ strike, but altered speech after Brighton bombing

▽Brittany Maynard, 29, kills herself under Oregon's 'death with dignity' law | theguardian.com

The terminally ill woman who revived a national debate about physician-assisted dying ended her life on Saturday by swallowing lethal drugs made available under Oregon’s law that allows terminally ill people to end their lives. She would have been 30 this month.