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| Arrested CONMEBOL head agrees to U.S. extradition - Paraguay media | | | Paraguay's Juan Angel Napout, president of the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL), has agreed to be extradited to the United States after being arrested in Zurich on charges of involvement in bribery schemes for marketing and broadcast rights, the ABC daily reported on Monday. Napout was among 16 football officials charged by U.S. prosecutors on Thursday following a first wave of arrests last May in its investigation of world football's governing body FIFA. Napout and fellow FIFA executive committee member Alfredo Hawit of Honduras were suspended from football by the FIFA ethics committee for 90 days after their arrests. |
| White House says Venezuelan election shows 'overwhelming desire' for change | | | The White House said on Monday results of the election for Venezuela's National Assembly showed a clear desire for change and were "encouraging." "The people of Venezuela have expressed their overwhelming desire for a change in direction," White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters, noting it was too soon to tell whether the results would lead to a change in the nation's relationship with the United States. |
| Triumphant Venezuela opposition looks to boost economy, free prisoners | |  By Andrew Cawthorne and Eyanir Chinea CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's opposition vowed on Monday to revive the OPEC nation's troubled economy and free jailed political activists after winning control of the legislature for the first time in 16 years of Socialist rule. By afternoon, some results from Sunday's election were not yet in, but the Democratic Unity coalition had already won a commanding majority in the 167-member National Assembly. Opposition leaders said final tallies showed they reached the crucial bar of two-thirds.
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| U.S. DOJ to examine Chicago Police Department's use of force | |  The U.S. Justice Department said on Monday it will investigate Chicago's police department following protests over the 2014 police shooting death of a black teenager, on the same day local prosecutors said they would not seek charges in another police shooting case. U.S. authorities will look at the department's use of force, including deadly force, among other issues, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said at a news briefing. Lynch's announcement came after almost two weeks of protests in Chicago following the release of a 2014 police squad car dashboard video showing police officer Jason Van Dyke emptying his gun into 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, shooting him 16 times.
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| Top tribunal to consider temporarily lifting Platini ban | |  By Brian Homewood BERNE (Reuters) - Sport's highest tribunal will meet on Tuesday to consider temporarily lifting the 90-day suspension on Michel Platini barring him from seeking the presidency of football's scandal-plagued governing body FIFA. Platini, the European football boss who until recently was seen as the man to lead FIFA out of its worst ever graft crisis, was suspended by FIFA's ethics committee on Oct. 8 pending a full investigation into his conduct. Sepp Blatter, who has been FIFA president since 1998, was also suspended after being swept up by a crisis that has led to criminal investigations into the sport in both Switzerland and the United States.
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| San Bernardino staff back on job amid tight security after rampage | |  By Tim Reid SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (Reuters) - San Bernardino County employees began returning to work under tighter security on Monday, five days after a co-worker and his wife killed 14 of their colleagues at a holiday party. Crisis counselling teams were reaching out to families of those killed and wounded on Dec. 2 in the fusillade from U.S.-born Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his Pakistani wife, Tashfeen Malik, 29. Most San Bernardino County workers returned to work on Monday for the first time since the massacre that President Barack Obama has called an act of terrorism, county officials said at a news conference.
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| Florida man tied to hacking case involving JPMorgan indicted | |  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Florida man has been indicted for scheming to make illicit payments to an official at a credit union that prosecutors say facilitated an illegal bitcoin exchange owned by an Israeli linked to cyber attacks on companies including JPMorgan Chase & Co . Yuri Lebedev, 37, pleaded not guilty on Friday to a one-count indictment filed last week in Manhattan federal court, a spokeswoman for Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said on Monday. Lebedev was arrested in July along with a Florida man, Anthony Murgio, for engaging in a conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business.
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| Had Baltimore officer called for help, no homicide ruling: medical examiner | |  By Ian Simpson BALTIMORE (Reuters) - A defence lawyer for a Baltimore police officer charged in the death of a young black man in police custody on Monday attacked the findings of the medical examiner who ruled the death a homicide. Officer William Porter, 26, is accused of manslaughter in the April death of Freddie Gray from a spinal injury. Assistant Medical Examiner Dr. Carol Allan, who conducted Gray's autopsy, testified in Baltimore City Circuit Court that she would not have classified Gray's death a homicide had Porter called a medic when Gray asked for one.
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| UK's long-delayed Heathrow decision likely to slip again - source | |  By Kate Holton and Sarah Young LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron is unlikely to give final approval for expanding Heathrow Airport as expected this month, further delaying the politically charged decision which has been 25 years in the making, an industry source said. Cameron had promised a decision on whether to back the 23 billion-pound ($35 billion) expansion programme by the end of the year but the person familiar with the process said this was now likely to come next year, possibly only after London's mayoral election in May. "We now expect the final decision next year," said the source, speaking on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the issue. The debate over a third runway at the airport has pitted environmentalists and voters in affluent west London against the country's biggest businesses and some politicians who see expansion as vital for economic growth.
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| Swedish legal watchdog rejects proposal for border controls | |  The top legal watchdog in Sweden, a major destination for migrants flocking to Europe this year, on Monday rejected a government request for the right to impose tighter border controls and shut a bridge to Denmark. The Swedish Council on Legislation said the centre-left government's plan resembled martial law and would violate refugees' right to seek asylum in Sweden. Stockholm imposed temporary border controls in early November, the first in over two decades and a turn-around in its open-doors policy.
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| Suspect carried out 'hideous' London knife attack for Syria, British court hears | |  By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - A man accused of attacking a commuter with a knife at an east London underground train station said he was acting for Syria, a prosecutor told a London court on Monday. Muhaydin Mire, 29, of east London, was charged with attempted murder in attacking a 56-year-old commuter from behind at the ticket gates of Leytonstone underground station on Saturday evening, Westminster Magistrates' Court heard. Police are treating the incident as a terrorist attack.
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| Corrected - Yemen peace talks to start Dec 15 alongside ceasefire - U.N. | |  (Corrects first paragraph and quote in fourth paragraph to remove mention of "humanitarian" ceasefire) By Stephanie Nebehay and Mohammed Ghobari GENEVA/DUBAI (Reuters) - Yemen's warring parties are expected to observe a ceasefire and start U.N.-sponsored peace talks in Switzerland from Dec. 15 in a bid to end months of fighting that have killed nearly 6,000 people, the United Nations said on Monday. Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, U.N. special envoy to Yemen, said that the exiled Yemen government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and Iran-backed Houthis were committed to the peace process laid down by the Security Council last April. "I have been strongly encouraging the parties to work on confidence-building measures including implementing a ceasefire, the releasing of prisoners and facilitating the delivery of humanitarian supplies," Ould Cheikh Ahmed told reporters in Geneva where he announced the talks.
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| After Paris, Balkans considers regional fight against arms smuggling | | | By Daria Sito-Sucic SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Western Balkan governments are looking at creating a network of experts to help tackle the illicit trade in weapons from the region, officials said on Monday, amid concerns after the Paris attacks about guns falling into the hands of militant Islamists. Some of the assault rifles used by the perpetrators of the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris, claimed by Islamic State and in which 130 people died, were traced to the former Yugoslavia. Former Yugoslavia, which collapsed in turmoil and war in the 1990s, has long been a rich source of illicit weapons for criminal gangs in Europe. |
| Brazil's Rousseff seeks speedy vote on impeachment bid | |  By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff urged Congress on Monday to cancel its summer recess in January and deal swiftly with a request for her impeachment to nip in the bud an attempt to unseat her that she called undemocratic and legally flawed. Rousseff's opponents are seeking to impeach her for allegedly breaking budget laws as she ramped up economic stimulus during her re-election campaign last year. Rousseff's aides have said she has enough votes to block impeachment in the lower house, but that could change as her opponents whip up anti-government sentiment.
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| French parties scramble to halt rise of far-right National Front | |  By Michel Rose and Leigh Thomas PARIS (Reuters) - France's mainstream political parties were scrambling for a way to stop the rise of the far-right National Front (FN) on Monday after its historic first-round lead in regional elections. Boosted by fears over the Islamic State attacks that killed 130 people in Paris on Nov. 13, Marine Le Pen's party secured 27.7 percent of the vote nationally. Riding a wave of euroscepticism and anti-immigrant feeling which has brought far-right parties to prominence across Europe, the breakthrough bolsters Le Pen's position as a serious contender for the 2017 presidential election.
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| Austrian police file terrorism charges against Swedish teen | | | Austrian police have filed terrorism charges against a 17-year-old Swedish girl of Somali background, suspecting she wanted to travel via Vienna to Syria to join jihadi militants, a spokesman said on Monday. The parents of the girl, who has no previous link with Syria, had informed Swedish police of their daughter's travel plans and their concerns about the possibility of her joining Islamic State militants. Austrian police detained the girl, who is a Swedish citizen but only speaks broken Swedish, at a train station in Vienna on Saturday. |
| Pakistan woman in California shooting attended troubled university | |  By Mehreen Zahra-Malik MULTAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Security officials have been closely monitoring a university in east Pakistan attended by Tashfeen Malik, the woman involved in last's week's mass shooting in California, because of concerns that Islamist militancy was taking hold there. Malik, a Pakistani, attended the sprawling Bahauddin Zakariya University to study pharmacy between 2007 and 2012, after she had lived most of her life in Saudi Arabia.
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| Ukraine still has work to do on reforms, U.S. VP Biden says | |  U.S Vice President Joe Biden said on Monday Ukraine still had a lot of hard work to do on reforms, as he announced new financial aid of $190 million to help the country fight corruption and streamline its bureaucracy. Ukraine's Western backers have repeatedly urged Kiev authorities to stick to reform promises made under a $40 billion international bailout programme aimed at shoring up the country's war-torn economy, which was brought close to bankruptcy by years of corruption and economic mismanagement. "It is absolutely critical for Ukraine to root out the cancer of corruption ... Ukraine is on the cusp -- what happens in the next year is likely to determine the fate of the country for generations," Biden told a joint briefing with President Petro Poroshenko following bilateral talks.
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| Amid Palestinian violence, Israel tracks far-right Jewish threat | |  By Luke Baker JERUSALEM (Reuters) - For more than two months, Israel has been battling a wave of deadly attacks by Palestinians targeting Israelis. At the same time, and in a reflection of the complications of the region, it is trying to rein in violent, far-right Jewish groups intent on sowing discord with Muslims and Christians. Last week, Israeli police announced a breakthrough in a case from July, saying members of a "Jewish terror group" had been arrested over the torching of a Palestinian home in the West Bank that killed 18-month-old Ali Dawabsheh and his parents.
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| New Swedish TV crime series targets global appetite for Nordic Noir | | | By Alistair Scrutton and Violette Goarant STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A new Swedish crime saga, dubbed a Scandinavian version of the U.S. drama series "Breaking Bad", hopes to emulate the success of other Nordic TV exports such as "The Bridge" with a dark tale of marijuana, mafias and motherhood in suburban Stockholm. "Gasmamman", or "Mother Goose", stars Alexandra Rapaport as a mother of three and accountant at a boat marina who takes over the family's illegal marijuana business after her husband is shot in a drug deal gone wrong. The producers of Gasmamman hope the series will receive the kind of reception won by "The Bridge" and "The Killing", which led to millions of people around the world becoming fans of what is known as 'Nordic Noir' detective and crime stories. |
| 'Deputy pope' called to testify in Vatican leaks trial | |  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The 'deputy pope' will be summoned to testify before a Vatican court hearing a trial over the theft of confidential papal documents, the first time such a high-ranking official will appear at a public trial inside the city-state. The lawyer for Francesca Chaouqui, a former public relations consultant for a Vatican reform commission, asked that Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin and two other high-ranking Vatican prelates appear before the court. Parolin, who is sometimes known as the deputy pope, is second only to Pope Francis in the hierarchy of the Vatican, which governs the worldwide Roman Catholic Church.
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| Militant group publishes photo of what it says were Mali hotel attackers | |  Islamist militant group al Mourabitoun published a photograph on Monday of two men dressed in military fatigues it said attacked a luxury hotel in Mali's capital on Nov. 20 and killed 20 people, the SITE monitoring group said. The image shows the young men holding AK-47 rifles and standing in front of a pick-up truck bearing a black flag with Arabic writing that is apparently an emblem of a militant group. "Two knights from the knights of martyrdom ... carried out an operation on the Radisson hotel, killing in it dozens of foreigners of various nationalities," read a photo caption in Arabic that named the two men.
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| Palestinian stabs Israeli in West Bank, shot dead - Israeli police | |  A Palestinian man stabbed and critically wounded an Israeli in the West Bank city of Hebron on Monday and was then shot dead by security forces, Israeli police said. Such incidents have become a daily occurrence in Israel, Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank since the eruption two months ago of a wave of Palestinian street violence fuelled in part by strife over a contested holy site. In the Hebron attack, paramilitary border police fatally shot the assailant after he stabbed an Israeli man several times in the upper body, a police spokeswoman said.
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| German court declares 93-year-old Auschwitz SS guard fit for trial | | | The trial of a 93-year-old former SS guard accused of being an accessory to the murder of at least 170,000 people at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau will open in mid-February, a court spokeswoman said on Monday. The court in the western town of Detmold took the case against the man known as Reinhold H. who lives in the neighbouring village of Lippe. The news came after a German court last week permitted the trial of another German man, aged 95, accused of being an accessory to the murder of at least 3,681 people at Auschwitz-Birkenau. |
| Stolen Dutch paintings found in Ukraine after 10 years | | | A collection of stolen Dutch masterpieces dating from the country's 17th-century Golden Age has been discovered in a villa in rebel-held eastern Ukraine 10 years after they were stolen, a museum said on Monday. The 24 paintings, valued at 10 million euros ($10.8 million)when they went missing in 2005, reappeared in July when two men approached the Dutch embassy in the Ukrainian capital Kiev offering to sell them back. De Telegraaf newspaper said two Dutch stolen art investigators had found out they were in the hands of an "ultra-nationalist militia" in eastern Ukraine that wanted five million euros for them. |
| No explosives found on German plane grounded in Budapest | |  Police said they found no explosives on a German passenger plane after it diverted to Budapest on Monday following a bomb threat. The jet operated by Condor airlines , heading from Berlin to Hurghada in Egypt, had turned back from Serbian airspace after the alert. "Police have finished the search and have not found any explosives or explosive devices," Hungarian police spokeswoman Viktoria Csiszer-Kovacs said.
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| Pistorius to apply for bail in South African court on Tuesday | |  Disgraced Olympic and Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius will appear in court on Tuesday to apply for bail following his conviction for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, the justice department said. "The bail application hearing for Oscar Pistorius has been set down for tomorrow at 9.30 am (0730 GMT) at the Pretoria High Court," the department said on Monday. The future date for Pistorius' sentencing will also be announced on Tuesday, the department said.
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| No explosives found on German plane grounded in Budapest - police | | | BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Police said they found no explosives on a German passenger plane after it diverted to Budapest on Monday following a bomb threat. The jet operated by Condor airlines, heading from Berlin to Hurghada in Egypt, turned back from Serbian airspace after the alert. "Police have finished the search and have not found any explosives or explosive devices," police spokeswoman Viktoria Csiszer-Kovacs said. (Reporting by Krisztina Than and Gergely Szakacs) |
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