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| FBI opens criminal probe into report that Seattle police beat student | | Tuesday, December 15, 2015 12:34 AM | |
| | By Eric M. Johnson SEATTLE (Reuters) - The FBI has launched a criminal civil-rights probe into a 2012 incident in which a university student claims police beat him and who last month received a $100,000 settlement from the city of Seattle. The student, David Pontecorvo, was filming the police making an arrest as they responded to a noise complaint at his house party. The federal probe also comes as the Seattle Police Department undergoes a number of court-ordered reforms stemming from a 2012 consent decree between the city and the U.S. Justice Department to curb a pattern of excessive force and biased policing. |
| Exclusive - Obama expected to move on Taiwan arms sales before year-end | | Tuesday, December 15, 2015 12:25 AM | |
|  By Patricia Zengerle and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration is expected as soon as this week to authorise the sale of two guided missile frigates to Taiwan, U.S. congressional sources said on Monday, in spite of China's opposition to the deal. Another congressional aide said the notification from the administration was expected "any time now." The sale would mark the first time in four years that the United States has shipped arms to Taiwan, the longest gap in such arms sales in nearly four decades. It comes a year after Congress passed the Naval Transfer Act authorizing the sale of up to four Perry-class frigates to Taiwan in December 2014.
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| Nigeria army raids Shi'ite sect; hospital says at least 60 killed | | Tuesday, December 15, 2015 12:19 AM | |
| | By Garba Muhammad ZARIA, Nigeria (Reuters) - At least 60 people were killed this weekend when the Nigerian army raided a minority Shi'ite sect and arrested its leader in the northern city of Zaria, the director of a local hospital said on Monday. The army said the Islamic Movement in Nigeria was trying to assassinate the chief of army staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, when members of the sect blocked his convoy in Zaria on Saturday. On Sunday, the army raided several buildings connected to the sect and the home of its leader, Ibrahim Zakzaky. |
| Former U.S. treasure hunter faces sentencing, contempt hearing | | Tuesday, December 15, 2015 12:13 AM | |
| | (Reuters) - A former treasure hunter and fugitive who was captured after two years eluding authorities has refused to answer questions about missing coins and could be found in further contempt on Tuesday at his sentencing, a federal judge in Ohio said on Monday. Thomas "Tommy" G. Thompson, 63, was captured in Florida in January with his girlfriend, Alison Antekeier, with hundreds of thousands of dollars they had received for loot recovered from a shipwreck that was due his crew and investors, prosecutors said. Both pleaded guilty to criminal contempt and agreed to forfeit the $425,380 in cash authorities seized from them when they were captured. |
| Cameron's reforms will not fundamentally change UK-EU relationship - lawmakers | | Tuesday, December 15, 2015 12:07 AM | |
|  By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron's proposed European Union reforms would not fundamentally change Britain's relationship with the bloc and there is no certainty anything promised would actually be delivered, a committee of lawmakers said on Tuesday. Last month, Cameron set out in a letter to Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, the four key areas where he wants to see changes ahead of a membership referendum he has promised to hold in Britain by the end of 2017.
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| Ex-Costa Rica chief agrees to extradition to U.S. on bribery charges | |  A former Costa Rican football chief has agreed to stop fighting extradition from Switzerland to the United States to face charges that he accepted bribes in exchange for media and marketing contracts, his U.S. lawyers said on Monday. Eduardo Li, former president of the Costa Rican football federation, was one of seven football officials arrested in a dawn raid on a luxury Zurich hotel in May. He had been about to join the executive committee of Zurich-based FIFA, world football's governing body. "Mr. Li has decided to deal with the charges in a direct manner rather than through the extradition process," said Samuel Rosenthal, one of Li's lawyers.
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| Brazil police say gang arranged false documents for Syrians - Globo | | | RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Police in Rio de Janeiro have broken up a ring that arranged fake Brazilian citizenship for dozens of Syrian nationals, TV Globo's Jornal Nacional newscast reported, raising security concerns following militant attacks in the United States and Europe and before the Rio Olympic Games in August. Police have identified 72 Syrian nationals involved in the scheme, which arranged false Brazilian birth certificates for Syrian immigrants, the report said on Monday. ... |
| U.S. presidential hopeful Clinton calls for easier naturalization | |  Clinton's remarks, in which she also repeated calls for a pathway to citizenship, ending family detention and closing private detention centres, underscore efforts within the Democratic Party and the presidential race to court Latino voters as that population grows briskly. "I don't want anyone who could be a citizen to miss out on that opportunity," Clinton said in New York at a conference on integrating immigrants into the United States. Clinton said she would work to expand fee waivers for people looking to naturalize and become U.S. citizens, as well as increasing access to language programs to improve English language proficiency.
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| U.S. soldier Bergdahl may face life sentence in court-martial over desertion | |  By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, who walked away from his post in Afghanistan and became a Taliban prisoner for five years, will face court-martial with a potential life sentence, the Army said on Monday. In ordering the court martial on Monday, Army General Robert Abrams did not follow the recommendation of a preliminary hearing which, according to Bergdahl's lawyer, called for Bergdahl to face a proceeding that could impose a potential maximum penalty of a year in confinement. Bergdahl's lawyer, Eugene Fidell, said the defence team "had hoped the case would not go in this direction." He also urged Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who has called Bergdahl a "dirty, rotten traitor," to "cease his prejudicial months-long campaign of defamation against our client." Bergdahl disappeared on foot on June 30, 2009, from Combat Outpost Mest-Malak in Paktika Province, Afghanistan, and was subsequently captured by the Taliban.
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| U.S. Justice Department reviews black teen's shooting by Memphis police | | | (Reuters) - The fatal shooting in July of an unarmed black teenager by a white Memphis police officer is being reviewed by the U.S. Department of Justice, the city's federal prosecutor said on Monday, a month after a grand jury decided not to charge the officer. Several inquiries have been conducted into the shooting of Darrius Stewart, 19, by Officer Connor Schilling, one of several deaths involving officers around the United States that have raised concerns about excessive use of force by police, especially against minorities. "The DOJ has been conducting an independent, comprehensive, and careful review of the evidence collected related to the shooting of Mr. Stewart," U.S. Attorney Edward Stanton III of Memphis told a news conference. |
| Colorado movie gunman Holmes moved to specialised prison | |  By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - Colorado cinema massacre gunman James Holmes was moved on Monday to a prison that specializes in holding convicts with mental-health conditions, and which will allow him to have more contact with other inmates, a prisons spokeswoman said. Holmes was moved from a transitional lockup to the San Carlos Correctional Facility in Pueblo one day after his 28th birthday, said Adrienne Jacobson, spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Corrections. "He is now in more of a general population setting," Jacobson said. "It's a normal progression move." The prison, about 100 miles (160 km) south of Denver, houses about 250 inmates, but not all the convicts have mental-health issues, Jacobson said.
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| Jury starts deliberations over Baltimore officer charged in man's death | |  By Ian Simpson BALTIMORE (Reuters) - A Baltimore jury on Monday began weighing the fate of a police officer charged in the death of a black detainee that triggered rioting and intensified a U.S. debate on police tactics. The seven-woman, five-man jury started deliberations in the case of Officer William Porter, 26, after almost two weeks of testimony in Baltimore City Circuit Court. About two hours after starting deliberations, jurors sent Judge Barry Williams notes asking for transcripts of radio traffic on April 12, the day Gray was arrested, and of Porter's statement to investigators on April 17.
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| New York lawyer convicted of Maxim magazine deal fraud | |  By Nate Raymond and Brendan Pierson NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York lawyer was found guilty on Monday of engaging in a fraud in which a con man impersonated his successful father in order to raise money to buy Maxim magazine. Harvey Newkirk, 39, was convicted by a federal jury in Manhattan on one count of wire fraud stemming from his involvement in helping convicted felon Calvin Darden Jr secure financing for the failed $31 million deal. To close that deal, prosecutors said Darden impersonated his father, Calvin Darden Sr, a former senior executive at United Parcel Service Inc, who lenders were falsely told was putting up collateral for the loans.
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| Trial of China rights lawyer lasts three hours, police block court access | |  By Sui-Lee Wee BEIJING (Reuters) - The trial of one of China's most high profile human rights lawyers on charges of inciting ethnic hatred and provoking trouble lasted just three hours on Monday, with police blocking diplomats, foreign reporters and protesters from the court. Pu Zhiqiang, who has spent nearly 19 months in detention, faces up to eight years in prison if convicted, according to one of his lawyers, Shang Baojun. As many as 11 diplomats from countries including the United States, Germany and France congregated near the Beijing courthouse seeking to observe the trial.
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| Israeli spy Pollard wins further review of U.S. parole conditions | |  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday ordered a federal commission to provide further justification for subjecting former Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard to restrictive probation conditions following his release last month from prison after 30 years. U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest in Manhattan said the U.S. Parole Commission had provided little basis to justify why Pollard must wear an electronic bracelet and submit to monitoring of his work computer. "If there is secret information Jonathan Pollard could disclose, then restrictive conditions could be necessary," Forrest said.
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| Redstone's ex-girlfriend alleges forgery in latest court case | |  (Reuters) - Sumner Redstone's former girlfriend, Manuela Herzer, filed a new lawsuit in California on Monday alleging that the 92-year-old media mogul's signature was forged on a document removing her as his health care agent. Redstone is the controlling shareholder of Viacom Inc and CBS Corp and Herzer's allegations, in lawsuits filed in the past few weeks, that he is no longer mentally competent to run the companies has concerned investors. Redstone had picked Herzer to make his healthcare decisions in case he was not able to.
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| Factbox - Brazil's presidential impeachment process | |  (Reuters) - The Brazilian Congress opened impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff on Dec 2 for allegedly breaking budget laws as she ramped up economic stimulus during her re-election campaign last year. The Supreme Court suspended proceedings until it can clarify rules on Wednesday. Here are the next steps in the presidential impeachment under Brazil's Constitution: 1) A 65-member committee of the Chamber of Deputies, or lower house, decides if the impeachment bid is valid.
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| Maryland man charged with trying to support Islamic State | | | (Reuters) - A Maryland man has been charged with attempting to provide material support to Islamic State, the Justice Department said on Monday, becoming the latest of more than 70 people arrested by U.S. law enforcement authorities for suspected ties to the militant group since 2014. Mohamed Elshinawy, 30, of Edgewood, Maryland, was arrested on Friday, the Justice Department said. According to a criminal complaint unsealed on Monday, Elshinawy pledged allegiance to Islamic State in February and later told his brother he wanted to die as a martyr. |
| Chicago police used excessive force on man dragged by handcuffs - judge | | | By Suzannah Gonzales CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago police used excessive force on a black man who died after he was dragged by handcuffs out of his cell and down a hallway three years ago, a federal judge ruled on Monday. The ruling came as Chicago police and Mayor Rahm Emanuel face intense scrutiny over the police department's use of force. Protesters have called for Emanuel's resignation since last month's release of a video showing a white police officer shooting to death a black teen. |
| Texas plumber sues dealer after company pickup appears in Syria militant photo | | | By Jim Forsyth SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - A Texas plumber whose company pickup lorry with logo and name clearly visible appeared in a photograph of a militant wielding an anti-aircraft weapon in Syria has sued the dealer he sold it to, saying the harassment it generated has damaged his business. Mark Oberholtzer, the owner of Mark-1 Plumbing of Texas City, said he sold the pickup in October 2013 and was shocked to see the photo on social media. Mark Oberholtzer said in a lawsuit seeking $1 million damages that he has been forced to carry a gun for protection and was grilled by investigators from the Department of Homeland security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. |
| Mayor of Georgia city dies from gunshot wound during domestic dispute | | | The mayor of a small city in northern Georgia died after he was shot during a domestic disturbance with his wife, state investigators said on Monday. Clarkesville Mayor Terry Greene was injured in a shooting Sunday night at his home, about 85 miles northeast of Atlanta, and he later died at an Atlanta hospital, said Georgia Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Nelly Miles. Clarkesville Police Chief Brad Barrett told the Northeast Georgian newspaper that police responded to Greene's home at about 7 p.m. after someone in the household called 911. |
| Mexican artist Toledo mourns disappeared, murdered in new show | | | "Never before has there been such violence in Mexico as in recent years, really," he said in a weekend interview. "I wanted to leave a testimony of this violence." The government said the 43 youths were incinerated by a drug gang in league with corrupt police who rounded them up in the city of Iguala in Guerrero after mistaking them for rivals. The case and subsequent investigation sparked international condemnation of Mexico. |
| Bill Cosby files countersuit against seven women in defamation case | |  By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - Actor and comedian Bill Cosby on Monday sued seven women who had accused him of defaming them, saying they lied when they accused him of sexual assault. The countersuit, filed in U.S. district court in Springfield, Massachusetts, contends that the women defamed his "honorable legacy and reputation" by accusing him of sexual misconduct. More than 50 women have come forward to accuse the actor, best known for his role in the 1980s television hit "The Cosby Show," of sexually assaulting them after plying them with drugs or alcohol.
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| EU parliament panel rejects car pollution rules as too lax | |  By Alissa de Carbonnel STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) - The European parliament's environmental committee voted on Monday against new car pollution rules they say are too lenient in the light of the Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) scandal which exposed loopholes in existing emissions tests. The new rules agreed in a closed-door committee in October would allow vehicles to carry on spewing out more than twice official pollution limits, after many of the 28 member states demanded leeway to protect their car industries. Thirteen members of the committee abstained from Monday's vote - mostly from the European People's Party, the largest bloc in the EU parliament, their spokesman said. "In the wake of the Volkswagen scandal, it's clear we need to urgently revise road emission tests, but the proposed exemptions agreed by EU governments are a disgrace," a Dutch liberal member of parliament, Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy, said.
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| Former New Mexico secretary of state gets 30 days jail for corruption | | | By Joseph J. Kolb ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (Reuters) - New Mexico's former Secretary of State Dianna Duran was sentenced on Monday to 30 days in jail for embezzlement and campaign finance violations in connection with hundreds of thousands of dollars she spent in casinos. "I apologise to the people of the state of New Mexico, to my family and friends ... I am truly sorry," Duran wept as she briefly addressed the judge in federal court in Santa Fe. Duran, a Republican, resigned in late October after admitting two counts of felony embezzlement and four misdemeanour counts including money laundering under a plea deal with prosecutors. |
| Baltimore jury starts deliberations for police officer charged in man's death | | | BALTIMORE (Reuters) - A Baltimore jury on Monday began deliberations in the case of a Baltimore police officer charged in the death of black detainee Freddie Gray. The seven-woman, five-man jury started weighing the fate of Officer William Porter, 26, in Baltimore City Circuit Court. Porter faces involuntary manslaughter and other charges in Gray's death from a broken neck in April. (Reporting by Ian Simpson) |
| Burundi starts trial of May coup plotters, days after fighting | |  More than two dozen generals and senior army officers accused of being behind a failed coup went on trial in Burundi on Monday amid heightened tensions in the capital after attacks last week by insurgents in which about 90 people were killed. Former defence minister Cyrille Ndayirukiye and five other generals are among the 28 people standing trial for their role in the attempted coup in May, launched when President Pierre Nkurunziza was abroad.
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| Chicago police commander acquitted of battery | | | By Nikitta Foston and Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - A Chicago police commander who had been praised for his work in high-crime areas was found not guilty on Monday of battery for putting a gun in a suspect's mouth. The acquittal of Glenn Evans, 53, represents a setback for Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez, who has been sharply criticized for taking 13 months to charge another police officer, Jason Van Dyke, with murder in the 2014 shooting death of a black teenager. Evans' trial came as Chicago police were under local and federal scrutiny for use of force, following the release last month of a video showing Van Dyke shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. |
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