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| Los Angeles schools closed after electronic threat | | | Los Angeles schools were closed on Tuesday after the district received an electronic threat to many schools, school and police officials said. Los Angeles police and the FBI were notified of the threat, which is being investigated, officials said. The electronic threat came via a message, Ramon Cortines, the superintendent of Los Angeles schools, said. |
| 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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