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| Cameron's 'Brexit' riddle: Row with EU or row with Eurosceptics? | |  By William James and Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) - When David Cameron urges European Union leaders on Thursday to do a deal to keep Britain in the bloc, he will face a riddle that has haunted Conservative prime ministers for three decades: a row with Europe or a row with Eurosceptics at home? Cameron's bid to renegotiate the terms of Britain's membership of the bloc ahead of a referendum he has promised by the end of 2017, has hit the rocks over a demand to make working EU migrants wait four years before getting some benefits. "My expectation is that by the time we get to February something will be offered which will be presented as a great success, but that it will still be inconsequential." Baker said he has 136 Conservative lawmakers on his mailing list, indicating that more than a third of Cameron's 331-strong parliamentary party may be toying with the idea of a 'Brexit'.
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| Burundi nearing civil war after flare-up - U.N. rights chief | | | Burundi has moved closer to civil war after insurgents attacked military camps last week and authorities responded with house searches, arrests and alleged summary executions, the U.N. human rights chief said on Tuesday. The fighting in the capital Bujumbura last week killed almost 90 people, the worst clashes since a military coup was foiled in May. It follows months of sporadic violence and assassinations, mostly in the capital, between supporters and opponents of President Pierre Nkurunziza. U.N. human rights office spokeswoman Cecile Pouilly told a news briefing that in November alone, U.N. monitors had recorded 56 incidents of extrajudicial killings and 452 cases of arbitrary arrests and detentions, while 389 arbitrary detained people were released. |
| Los Angeles closes all schools after receiving threat | |  By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles shut down all of its schools on Tuesday after officials reported receiving a threat involving backpacks and packages and ordered a search of all schools. The threat came less than two weeks after a married couple inspired by Islamic State militants shot dead 14 people in San Bernardino, California, about 60 miles (100 km) east of Los Angeles. The school district regularly receives threats, but this one stood out for its scale, schools Superintendent Ramon Cortines said.
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| Former Serbian secret policemen face war crimes retrial in The Hague | | | By Thomas Escritt AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Judges at a United Nations court on Tuesday ordered the retrial of two Serbian secret police officials who were acquitted two years ago of crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Balkan wars of the early 1990s. Appeals judges found that Jovica Stanisic, former head of Serbia's State Security Service (DB), and Franko Simatovic, an officer in the DB, had been mistakenly acquitted by trial judges who had misapplied the law. The ruling by the European Union-backed International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) could prove controversial in Serbia, whose government aspires to join the EU despite growing Russian influence in the country. |
| Germany arrests Islamist preacher on charges of recruiting militants | |  A German Islamist preacher was arrested in Germany on Tuesday for recruiting fighters for a militant group in Syria and purchasing and delivering military equipment, the Federal Prosecutor's Office said. Sven Lau, 35, is suspected of recruiting Germans living in and around the western German city of Duesseldorf to fight abroad and was believed to have recruited two fighters already, the office said in a statement. Hundreds of Germans have left the country to join Islamic State in Syria and Iraq since 2012, the interior ministry says.
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| Vatican must step up prosecutions of financial crimes - watchdog | |  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican should be much more aggressive in dealing with people suspected of financial crimes like money laundering and step up prosecutions and indictments, a European finance watchdog agency said on Tuesday. Moneyval, the monitoring body of the Council of Europe, said that while the Vatican has made great strides in cleaning up its scandal-plagued bank and other financial departments, it was still excessively timid on the judicial front. Asked about the criticism, Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said he had no further comment beyond a statement last week that said Moneyval had positively welcomed Vatican efforts to further strengthen anti-money laundering measures.
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| Thai court rejects petition to free detained critic, activist says | | | By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Aukkarapon Niyomyat BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai court on Tuesday rejected a petition to free a critic of Thailand's junta who was arrested in hospital, a leader of an anti-government activist group said. Since then, it has pursued perceived critics of the monarchy and stifled freedom of expression, detaining activists, journalists and opposition politicians at military camps for attitude adjustment sessions. Sirawit Serithiwat, the activist, said the Ratchada Criminal Court on Tuesday rejected a petition he filed for the release of Thanet Anantawong, 25. |
| Blatter reasserts innocence ahead of FIFA ethics hearing | |  Suspended FIFA President Sepp Blatter again proclaimed his innocence in a corruption scandal gripping the world soccer body as he prepares to testify this week before the group's ethics panel. "I am suspended but not isolated and not at all mute." FIFA ethics investigators called in November for sanctions against Blatter and European (UEFA) soccer chief Michel Platini, both of whom were suspended from their posts for 90 days on Oct. 8 pending a full investigation. FIFA's ethics panel is set to rule on the matter next week.
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| Climate deal typo hiccup solved "in a small room," France says | |  A last minute dispute over an apparent typing error in last weekend's global climate deal in Paris was solved "in a small room" and thanks to trust established during the talks, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Tuesday. After two weeks of intense negotiations, the deal was almost derailed in the final hours when the more legally binding word 'Shall' appeared in one of the articles in the place of 'Should.' The last-minute change in text article 4.4 of the COP 21 agreement aimed at limiting global warming by capping CO2 emissions said that developed nations 'shall' have 'economy-wide absolute emissions reduction targets', instead of 'should' as written in previous drafts.
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| Putin signs law allowing Russia to overturn rulings of international rights courts | |  President Vladimir Putin has signed a law allowing Russia's Constitutional Court to decide whether or not to implement rulings of international human rights courts. The law, published on Tuesday on the government website, enables the Russian court to overturn decisions of the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) if it deems them unconstitutional. Human Rights Watch has said the law is designed to thwart the ability of victims of human rights violations in Russia to find justice through international bodies.
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