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| Suspended Guatemalan judge pleads not guilty in U.S. soccer case | | | By Nate Raymond and Brendan Pierson NEW YORK (Reuters) - A suspended Guatemalan judge who was arrested while aboard a Disney cruise ship has pleaded not guilty to charges that he took bribes in exchange for media and marketing rights to World Cup qualifier matches. Héctor Trujillo, who was secretary general of the Guatemalan soccer federation and a judge on the country's Constitutional Court until his Dec. 4 arrest, entered his plea on Wednesday in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, a spokeswoman for Brooklyn prosecutors said on Thursday. Football bosses from South and Central America, including Trujillo, were among 16 people charged on Dec. 3 for engaging in schemes involving over $200 million in bribes and kickbacks sought for marketing and broadcast rights to tournaments and matches. |
| Return of Texas 'affluenza' teen delayed, mother jailed in U.S. | |  By Alex Dobuzinskis and Dave Graham LOS ANGELES/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The Texas teenager derided for a claim of "affluenza" as a defense for a deadly drunken-driving crash, won a delay of weeks for a return to Texas from Mexico, while his mother was in a Los Angeles jail on Thursday after being deported. A Mexican court has granted fugitive Ethan Couch, 18, an injunction against his deportation, delaying his return by weeks or months, a Mexican migration official said on Thursday. Couch and his mother, Tonya Couch, 48, were captured in the Mexican Pacific Coast resort city of Puerto Vallarta on Monday.
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| Suspected Islamic State backer held for New York attack plot - Justice Department | |  A 25-year-old man who planned to attack a restaurant in upstate New York on New Year's Eve has been arrested and charged with attempting to provide material support to Islamic State, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday. Emanuel L. Lutchman, "claiming to receive direction from an overseas ISIL member, planned to commit an armed attack against civilians at a restaurant/bar located in the Rochester, New York, area today," the department said in a statement, referring to Islamic State by an acronym. A criminal complaint against Lutchman, who appeared in U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York on Thursday, described him as a "self-professed Muslim convert with a criminal history dating back to approximately 2006.... as well as previous state mental hygiene arrests." It said Lutchman expressed support for Islamic State in telephone conversations with a paid informant in November and December.
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| Belgium detains six people over New Year's attack plot | |  By Robert-Jan Bartunek and Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian police detained six people during house searches in Brussels on Thursday as part of an investigation into an alleged plot to carry out an attack in the capital on New Year's Eve. Police carried out searches at six locations in the Belgian capital and one just outside the city, seizing computers, mobile phones and equipment for airsoft, a sport involving guns that shoot non-lethal plastic pellets. Two Belgian nationals arrested earlier this week and named as 30-year-old Said S. and 27-year-old Mohammed K., are being held on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack, prosecutors said.
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| French journalist forced to leave China after article on troubled Xinjiang | |  By Sui-Lee Wee BEIJING (Reuters) - A French journalist has been forced to leave China after the government said it would not renew her press credentials for the new year in response to a critical report on Beijing's policies in the troubled western region of Xinjiang. The departure of Ursula Gauthier, a reporter for the French current affairs magazine L'Obs, marked the first time in more than three years that a journalist has been forced to leave China due to a refusal by authorities to renew accreditation. China's foreign ministry said on Saturday that Gauthier could no longer work in China because she did not make a public apology for an article she wrote on Nov. 18.
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| Criminal case against Cosby could hinge on credibility | |  Bill Cosby's sworn statement in 2005 that he used a prescription sedative to seduce at least one woman could be one crack in his defence that the prosecution is likely to exploit in a criminal sexual assault case against the once-beloved entertainer. The charges that Cosby sexually assaulted a woman in 2004 after plying her with drugs and alcohol filed in a Pennsylvania court on Wednesday mark the first criminal case against the comedian whose reputation suffered from dozens of misconduct accusations. The case will likely come down to who has more credibility with a jury, criminal defence lawyers said: Cosby, who was once a dominant presence on U.S. television, or accuser Andrea Constand, a former Temple University employee who went to police 11 years ago and then sued Cosby when prosecutors did not initially act.
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| Bill Cosby charged with felony sexual assault in Pennsylvania | |  By Daniel Kelley NORRISTOWN, Pa. (Reuters) - Bill Cosby was charged on Wednesday with sexually assaulting a woman after plying her with drugs and alcohol in 2004, the only criminal case against a once-beloved entertainer whose father-figure persona has been marred by dozens of similar misconduct accusations. A frail-looking Cosby, 78, walking with a cane and accompanied by two lawyers, appeared for his arraignment hours later at a courthouse just outside Philadelphia, where he posted a $1 million bond, turned over his passport and was ordered to avoid any contact with his accuser. Smiling and politely thanking District Court Judge Elizabeth McHugh at the end of the brief proceeding, Cosby left the Elkins Park courthouse and was driven to a nearby police precinct to be finger-printed and booked.
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| Cosby sexual assault charge motivated by politics - lawyer | |  Comedian Bill Cosby's lawyer characterized the sexual assault case against him as a "political football" and said on Thursday the entertainer will not consider any plea deals because he is not guilty of a crime. Washington-based lawyer Monique Pressley accused the district attorney's office in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, of playing with her client's life by making the case a focal point in a recent election and unjustly accusing him of a crime. Cosby, 78, was charged on Wednesday with sexually assaulting a woman after giving her drugs and alcohol in 2004.
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| In first court appearance, Cosby cuts a feeble figure | |  (Reuters) - The sight of 78-year-old Bill Cosby walking with a cane into a Pennsylvania courthouse as he held the hands of his lawyers on Wednesday was in stark contrast to the spry, wisecracking 1980s TV dad most Americans remember. Cosby's appearance on Wednesday included a stumble as he walked into the courthouse in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, outside Philadelphia. While Cosby is not reported to have any serious medical conditions, paparazzi photos of him in November leaving his New York townhome with his wife, Camille, supporting him, and looking weak sparked a flurry of rumours on social media that he was dying.
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| King of Mandela's clan jailed in South Africa - media | |  The king of the AbaThembu clan of South Africa's late anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela has started a 12-year jail sentence for arson, kidnapping and assault, local media reported on Thursday. South Africa recognizes several royal families, who command respect, especially in the countryside.
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| Erdogan vows no respite in Turkey's war on Kurdish militants | |  By Nick Tattersall and Melih Aslan ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday vowed no let-up in a military campaign which he said had killed more than 3,000 mostly Kurdish militants this year in some of the heaviest fighting since their insurgency began three decades ago. In a New Year statement, Erdogan said Turkey had "the resources and determination" to deal with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which first took up arms in 1984 to push for greater autonomy in the largely Kurdish southeast. The violence has preoccupied the NATO member's armed forces and complicated international efforts to fight Islamic State in neighbouring Syria, where a Kurdish group linked to the PKK is fighting the jihadists.
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| Thai junta extends "attitude adjustment" to New Year drink drivers | |  Thailand's military government has expanded a draconian "attitude adjustment" programme aimed at muzzling its critics to include drink drivers in a bid to limit road accidents during the New Year period. Driving under the influence of alcohol remains a chronic problem in Thailand, a big consumer of beer and whiskey. Drivers who fail breathalyser tests or people caught racing face seven to 15 days in detention, according to an announcement made in the Royal Gazette.
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| BBC reports own websites hit by cyber attack | |  The BBC's online services, including its news website and iPlayer catch-up TV platform, were taken down on Thursday by a large web attack, the British broadcaster reported. The BBC's sites, which rank only behind Google and Facebook in visitor numbers in Britain, according to Internet analytics firm comScore, were hit from 0700 GMT, with many users receiving an error message rather than content. The BBC press office said it would not confirm or deny it had been hit by an attack.
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