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| Venezuela's outgoing Congress names 13 Supreme Court justices | | | By Diego Ore CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's Congress on Wednesday named 13 justices to the Supreme Court in a manoeuvre critics slammed as a last-minute court-packing scheme by the Socialist Party in the final days before it loses control of the legislature in January. In a demonstration of the sparring likely to come in January when the National Assembly convenes, the two sides were back and forth on the legitimacy of the appointments. Elvis Amoroso, a self-declared "Chavista" National Assembly member, said that the law had been "strictly fulfilled." As well as the 13 justices, the National Assembly named 21 substitutes. |
| China says in advanced talks with U.S. on five graft suspects | | | The Chinese government is in advanced talks with the United States on repatriating five of China's most wanted corruption suspects and will hand over whatever evidence is needed by its U.S. counterparts, Chinese state media said on Wednesday. In April, China published a list of 100 of its most wanted corruption suspects who have been targeted with an Interpol red notice, many living in the United States, Canada and Australia. China's efforts have long been hampered by Western nations that balk at signing extradition deals, partly out of concern about its judicial system and use of torture and the death penalty. |
| Burundi military officer launches new force to challenge president | |  A former senior Burundi military officer who quit the army this year said on Wednesday he had launched a new force to oppose President Pierre Nkurunziza, whose re-election for a third term this year has plunged the nation into chaos. The formation of FOREBU, an acronym based on its French name Force Republicaine du Burundi, which was announced by Edouard Nshimirimana in a statement, was the latest challenge to Nkurunziza's rule by a military officer following a coup attempt by a group of generals in May. It will further stoke worries that violence in Burundi could turn into full-blown conflict, and raise alarm about unity in the army, which was rebuilt after Burundi's civil war ended in 2005.
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| Two Israelis, two Palestinian attackers killed in Jerusalem | |  Two Palestinians went on a stabbing spree along a popular walkway in Jerusalem on Wednesday, killing one person, and were then shot dead by Israeli security forces in what police described as a terrorist attack. Another Israeli was killed, apparently by police gunfire aimed at the stabbers. Wednesday's stabbings took place right outside the Jaffa Gate, one of the main entrances to Jerusalem's walled Old City.
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| Syrian government ready to join UN talks to end conflict - Assad aide | |  A close adviser to Syrian President Bashar al Assad said on Wednesday Damascus was ready to join U.N.-sponsored peace talks with its position bolstered by both Russian backing and the West's retreat from a hardline anti-Assad approach. Bouthaina Shaaban said her government approved of U.N. resolutions passed last week endorsing an international road map for a Syria peace process, a rare display of unity among global powers on a conflict that has killed more than 250,000 people. The resolutions gave U.N. blessing to a plan negotiated earlier in Vienna that calls for a ceasefire, talks between the Syrian government and opposition, and a roughly two-year timeline to create a unity government and hold elections.
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| Bosnia court indicts wartime commander for crimes by Islamic fighters | | | By Maja Zuvela SARAJEVO (Reuters) - A Bosnian war crimes prosecutor on Wednesday indicted a wartime Muslim army commander on charges of failing to prevent crimes committed by foreign Islamic fighters against captive Bosnian Serb soldiers during a 1992-1995 war. The 63-year-old retiree Sakib Mahmuljin was arrested on Dec. 8 on charges of acting in contravention of international humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions while serving as a commander of the 3rd Corps of the Army of BiH. Prosecutor said the alleged crimes dated to July-October 1995 toward the end of the war, when the 3rd Corps and a detachment of foreign fighters known as El-Mujahid carried out offensives in central Bosnia. |
| Austrian right-wing activists stage mock beheading of migrant advocates | | | A far-right Austrian group staged a mock beheading in Vienna's busiest shopping street of two of its members holding "refugees welcome" signs, while several police officers watched the event, saying they were protecting the right of assembly. At least four police officers and dozens of shoppers look on as jihadist chants in English fill the street and other masked men hold a flag sporting Islamic-style Arabic writing. Austria's anti-Islam Freedom Party is ahead of the two ruling centrist parties, according to recent opinion polls, with just over 30 percent support after a boost from worries over immigration in the staunchly Catholic country. |
| Saudis reduce maid's death sentence to jail term for adultery - Sri Lankan ministry | | | By Shihar Aneez COLOMBO (Reuters) - Saudi authorities have reduced a Sri Lankan maid's sentence for adultery from death by stoning to a three-year jail term after an appeal, Colombo's foreign ministry said on Wednesday. The maid, 45, who is married and had worked as a domestic helper in Riyadh since 2013, was convicted in August of adultery with a fellow Sri Lankan migrant worker. Sri Lankan acting Foreign Minister Harsha De Silva said the appeal against the death sentence was taken up by the Saudi court on Tuesday and he welcomed the outcome. |
| Spanish parties outline conflicting views on post-election pacts | |  By Julien Toyer and Blanca Rodríguez MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's main political parties outlined conflicting positions on Wednesday on how to form a viable government in the wake of an inconclusive election on Sunday, suggesting the negotiations will be complex and time-consuming. Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez, speaking to the media after meeting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, said he would reject any pact that led to a new government with Rajoy or his People's Party (PP), dashing hopes of a grand coalition of the mainstream left and right. On Sunday, Rajoy's centre-right PP won the most votes but fell far short of a parliamentary majority, while the Socialists came second.
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| Somali government bans Christmas celebrations | | | The government of Somalia has issued a ban on Christmas and New Year's celebrations in the Muslim country, saying the festivities "have nothing to do with Islam." "We warn against celebration of Christmas, which is only for Christians," Sheikh Mohamed Kheyrow, director of Somalia's ministry of religion, said on state radio. The Christmas holiday and its drum beatings have nothing to with Islam." He said the ministry has sent letters to the police, national security intelligence and officials in the capital Mogadishu instructing them to "prevent Christmas celebrations." The announcement had echoes of Islamist militants al Shabaab, which controlled the capital Mogadishu until 2011. |
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