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| Defendant in German neo-Nazi trial denies active role in murders | |  The lone surviving suspect in a neo-Nazi killing case that shocked Germany admitted on Wednesday that she was told after the fact about murders committed by fellow members of an underground cell but denied participating actively in them. Breaking her two-and-a-half-year silence in a closely-watched trial in Munich, Beate Zschaepe, through a statement read out by her lawyer, said: "I was involved neither in the preparations, nor in the carrying out" of the murders.
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| A steal at 4,000 rupees: car once owned by India's most wanted man Dawood Ibrahim | | | A government auctioneer will sell on Wednesday farmland, a restaurant and even a car which officials say once belonged to the country's most wanted man, fugitive Mumbai mafia boss Dawood Ibrahim. Police have been unable to trace him for decades, but for as little as 4,000 rupees ($60), bidders can snap up a car he purportedly owned - a 15-year-old green Hyundai Accent sedan now parked in a working-class Mumbai suburb. The properties, confiscated more than a decade ago, make up only a tiny fraction of Ibrahim's assets. |
| Inquiry launched into U.S. ambassador over Thai royal insult law comments | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Aukkarapon Niyomyat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai police launched an inquiry on Wednesday into criticism by the U.S. ambassador of a harsh royal insult law just a day after the junta rapped Britain's envoy for his remarks on the freedom of assembly. U.S. Ambassador to Thailand Glyn Davies made the remarks in an address on Nov. 25 at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand criticizing the military regime for "the lengthy and unprecedented" jail sentences handed down under the law, which exists ostensibly to protect the royal family. Thailand's military has proved sensitive to criticism from the West since seizing power in May 2014, and has drawn closer to countries such as China which have expressed support for the junta.
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| Third Paris concert hall attacker visited Syria - judicial source | |  A third man who attacked the Bataclan concert hall in Paris on Nov. 13 has been identified as a 23-year-old from Strasbourg who went to Syria with a group of other young people at the end of 2013, a judicial source and other officials said on Wednesday. Sources close to the situation named the attacker, who died in the assault, as Foued Mohamed-Aggad. Prime Minister Manuel Valls confirmed on BFMTV that the man had finally been identified.
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| Men, arms, still pour into east Ukraine from Russia - U.N. | |  Arms and fighters are still pouring into rebel-held areas of eastern Ukraine from Russia, a United Nations report said on Wednesday, as it announced the death toll from 20 months of fighting was now approaching 9,100. Killings, torture and lawlessness still prevail in the disputed region, the report by the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said. It went on: "There remains, however, an inflow of ammunition, weaponry and fighters from the Russian Federation into the territories controlled by the armed groups, leaving the situation highly flammable." "The absence of effective control of the Government of Ukraine over considerable parts of the border with the Russian Federation ... continued to facilitate an inflow of ammunition, weaponry and fighters to the territories controlled by the armed groups," it said.
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| Georgia executes man for 1992 killing over forged checks | | | Georgia on Wednesday executed a man convicted in the 1992 murder of a family friend, state officials said, after he lost appeals based on the drug to be used in a lethal injection. The execution of Brian Keith Terrell, 47, takes to 28 the number of people put to death in the United States this year. Terrell was convicted of shooting and beating to death John Watson, 70, after Watson threatened to prosecute him for using forged checks to steal money out of Watson's bank account, court records showed. |
| Over 35,000 Britons petition to ban Trump from UK after 'Muslim ban' comments | |  More than 35,000 Britons have signed an online petition to ban U.S. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump from the country following his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States. In response to a deadly shooting spree in California by two Muslims whom the FBI said had been radicalised, Trump called for a complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States "until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on." After condemnation from around the world, Trump on Tuesday defended his proposal which he said was no worse than those of then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who oversaw the internment of more than 110,000 people in U.S. government camps after Japanese forces bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
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| South Korea man arrested in connection with Japan shrine blast | |  A South Korean man was arrested on Wednesday in connection with a blast last month at Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine for war dead, an official at Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department said. The shrine is seen in China and South Korea as a symbol of Japan's past military aggression. Police arrested Jeon Changhan, 27, for unlawful entry.
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| Venezuela's Maduro says will veto amnesty laws, reshuffle cabinet | |  By Girish Gupta and Alexandra Ulmer CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced an imminent cabinet reshuffle on Tuesday after his ruling Socialist Party was crushed in legislative elections, but he vowed to veto opposition plans for an amnesty law for jailed politicians. Current National Assembly head Diosdado Cabello added that the government would appoint 12 new supreme court judges, among other "tasks," before Dec 31. The new legislature, two-thirds of which will be made up of opposition politicians, is set to begin work in January.
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| Australia, SE Asia need to "re-double" efforts to avoid Paris-style attacks | | | Australia and Southeast Asia must re-double efforts to share intelligence and make sure Paris-style terror attacks can't be replicated in the region, Australian Justice Minister Michael Keenan said on Wednesday. Hundreds of Indonesian Islamic State sympathisers and some Malaysians and Singaporeans are believed to have gone to fight in Syria and Iraq. Southeast Asia faces the risk of attack when they return, Malaysia has said. |
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