Olympic officials want to know what Russia’s anti-Gay law will mean to athletes – Barack Obama says he’ll reign in US surveillance, even as two email carrier shut down rather than acquiesce to the NSA’s demands – And two people who hid out in the jungle during the Vietnam war are just now coming home.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is asking Russia to clarify how its new anti-LGBT laws will affect athletes at next year’s Winter Olympic Games.  Human rights advocates the world over have called for the games to be moved to another country or boycotted in protest at the law, which critics say has encouraged a deadly spate of violence against gay people.  Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko said Olympic athletes would “have to respect the laws of the country” during the games.

US President Barack Obama is promising a broad review of America’s surveillance programs, after embarrassing revelations of the National Security Agency’s (NSA) abilities to eavesdrop on American citizens.  In a news conference at the White House, Mr. Obama said, “America is not interested in spying on ordinary people.”  However, a preview of the reforms he is proposing apparently still allow for the collection of metadata.

Two US companies that provided super-private encrypted email services abruptly shut down, apparently the only way they could foil the US government’s pressure to let it tap in and read peoples messages.  They are Silent Circle and Lavabit, the latter being the choice of fugitive US intel leaker Edward Snowden, who asked why internet giants such as Google and Facebook “aren't fighting for our interests the same way small businesses are?”

There does not seem to be a lot of complaining about an apparent Israeli drone strike in a particularly “lawless” section of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.  And that might signal a new level of cooperation between the former foes, especially after earlier fears that the deposed Muslim Brotherhood government was turning a blind eye to Islamist activity in Sinai.  Egyptian military sources say five militants were killed in the strike.

Hours after American officials evacuated the US Consulate in Lahore, security forces in the Pakistani capital Islamabad went on high alert over fears of a possible militant attack on the headquarters of the Pakistan armed forces.  2,500 police were deployed in the city.  But it was in another city, Quetta, where gunmen opened fire on people outside of a mosque.  At least nine died.

Turkey is advising its citizens to leave Lebanon as soon as possible after the kidnapping of two Turkish Airlines pilots.  The men were taken from a bus for flight crew that was on the way to Beirut’s International Airport.  The kidnappers want to exchange the pilots for nine Lebanese hostages in Syria.

Mexico has freed a drug lord convicted of ordering the kidnapping, torture, and murder of a US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent.  Rafael Caro Quintero served 28 years in prison, but a Mexican court ruled that he should have been tried in a state and not a federal court, and released him before the media was notified.  The 1985 murder of Agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena shocked the US, which considered its agents ‘untouchable’, and marked a low point in US-Mexican relations.

A father and son who fled into the jungle during the Vietnam War 40 years ago were finally coaxed into coming out.  Ho Van Lang and his now 82-year old father were apparently traumatized by the landmine deaths of three family members and fled into the jungle in the central part of the country.  Over the decades, they’d apparently gone feral; The two wore loin clothes, could barely communicate with language, and startled people with their gestures.  They lived in a tree house and survived on roots, fruits, and small game.