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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. |
| Triumphant Venezuelan opposition looks to free prisoners | |  By Andrew Cawthorne and Eyanir Chinea CARACAS (Reuters) - Triumphant opposition leaders vowed on Monday to use their new majority in Venezuela's legislature to free jailed opponents of the Socialist government, but also promised not to go after political foes. The Democratic Unity coalition won more than twice the number of National Assembly seats as the Socialists in Sunday's vote that punished President Nicolas Maduro's government for deep economic and social crisis in the oil-producing country. It was the first time in 16 years that the "Chavismo" movement, named for former socialist President Hugo Chavez, lost its majority in the 167-member assembly, and gives the opposition a platform to further erode Maduro's power.
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| Platini's counsel invited to CAS hearing on Tuesday | |  The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has invited counsel for both Michel Platini and FIFA to attend a hearing on Tuesday on whether his 90-day suspension from football should be temporarily lifted. UEFA president Platini has been provisionally banned pending a FIFA ethics inquiry into his conduct and a final verdict in his case is due by the end of the month.
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| 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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| 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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| 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. |
| 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) |
| "You ain't no Muslim, bruv": Britons defiant over "terrorist" knife attack | |  By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) - The stabbing of a man in the London metro in what police described as a terrorist attack provoked a defiant riposte from a bystander that has struck a chord in Britain: "You ain't no Muslim, bruv". The 29-year-old assailant shouted "This is for Syria" as he attacked a 56-year-old man and threatened others before being detained by police who used a stun gun, witnesses said. An onlooker standing near a pool of blood shouted the colloquial phrase that has swiftly become a popular Twitter hashtag #YouAintNoMuslimBruv and is intended to deny that such an attack could have anything to do with Islam.
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| Merkel preaches benefits of migration at 'guest worker' party | |  By Paul Carrel BERLIN (Reuters) - Immigration can enrich Germany and even jog Germans to learn more about Christianity, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday, shrugging aside the growing unease in her coalition over the influx of nearly a million migrants this year. Speaking a day after the far-right National Front pulled off a historic win in neighbouring France, Merkel lauded the contribution to Germany's economy and society of the "Gastarbeiter" (guest workers) who came in the postwar decades. "Many of you have experiences that we can't offer," she told the Gastarbeiter and their descendants, many of whom came from Muslim Turkey and the Balkans, at an event marking the 60th anniversary of a programme that boosted then-West Germany's economy while turning it into a more multi-ethnic society.
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| Italy arrests man suspected of helping jihadists enter country | | | Police in the southern Italian city of Bari have arrested an Iraqi man suspected of helping 11 foreign Islamist militants come to Italy, from where they had moved on to France, Belgium and other European countries. Special operations police named the man as Majid Muhamad, 45, who they said had obtained false passports to enable the suspected militants to enter Italy between March and September this year. |
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