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| Volkswagen faces billions in penalties as U.S. sues for environment violations | |  By Julia Edwards and Joel Schectman WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Monday filed a civil lawsuit against Volkswagen AG for allegedly violating the Clean Air Act by installing illegal devices to impair emission control systems in nearly 600,000 vehicles. The allegations against Volkswagen, along with its Audi and Porsche units, carry penalties that could cost the automaker billions of dollars, a senior Justice Department official said. "The United States will pursue all appropriate remedies against Volkswagen to redress the violations of our nation's clean air laws," said Assistant Attorney General John Cruden, head of the departments environment and natural resources division.
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| Oregon refuge occupiers voice ire at U.S. government reach | |  By Jim Urquhart PRINCETON, Ore. (Reuters) - The leaders of a group of self-styled militiamen who took over a U.S. wildlife refuge headquarters over the weekend said on Monday they had acted to protest the federal government's role in governing wild lands. Ammon Bundy, a leader of the group, told reporters outside the occupied facility on Monday that his group had named itself "Citizens for Constitutional Freedom" and was trying to restore individual rights. Bundy and law enforcement officials declined to say how many people were occupying the refuge headquarters.
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| Iraqi Sunni mosques attacked in apparent retaliation for Saudi execution | |  By Stephen Kalin and Saif Hameed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least two Sunni Muslim mosques have been attacked in Iraq and two people killed in apparent retaliation for the execution of a senior Shi'ite cleric in Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia, officials and police said on Monday. Iraqi Shi'ites protesting the Jan. 2 execution of Saudi Shi'ite cleric Nimr al-Nimr separately marched in Baghdad and southern cities, while a powerful Iranian-backed Shi'ite militia group pressured the government to sever ties with Riyadh. Iraq's Interior Ministry confirmed the attacks on Sunni mosques late Sunday in Hilla, around 100 km (60 miles) south of Baghdad.
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| Exclusive - Saudi Arabia to halt flights, trade with Iran - minister | |  By Angus McDowall RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia widened its rift with Iran on Monday, saying it would end air traffic and trade links with the Islamic republic and demanding that Tehran must "act like a normal country" before it would restore severed diplomatic relations. Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir told Reuters in an interview that Tehran was responsible for rising tensions after the kingdom executed Shi'ite Muslim cleric Nimr al-Nimr on Saturday, describing him as a terrorist. Insisting Riyadh would react to "Iranian aggression", he accused Tehran of dispatching fighters to Arab countries and plotting attacks inside the kingdom and its Gulf neighbours.
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| Site of massacre in San Bernardino, California reopens | |  The office building in San Bernardino, California, where 14 people were massacred last month by a married couple inspired by Islamist militants, reopened on Monday. Security would be heightened for the facility, which was closed in the aftermath of the Dec. 2 shooting, said Inland Regional Center Executive Director Lavinia Johnson. The couple attacked the California holiday party just weeks after gunmen and suicide bombers linked to the Islamic State militant group killed 130 people in a series of coordinated attacks in Paris.
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| India mulls options on Pakistan talks after air base attack - source | |  NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India is mulling its options on whether to go ahead with foreign secretary-level talks with Pakistan scheduled for later this month after militants attacked an Indian Air Force base over the weekend, a government official said on Monday. A final decision on the talks, scheduled for Jan. 15, is expected to be taken after security forces have completed their operation at the Pathankot air base, near the Pakistan border, the source said, requesting anonymity. (Reporting by Paritosh Bansal; Editing by Douglas Busvine)
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| Kyrgyzstan deports Briton after horse penis comment | | | A British employee of Kyrgyzstan's biggest gold mine, detained by police after comparing a national dish to a horse penis, was told on Monday to leave the country within 24 hours for working without an official permit. Michael Mcfeat posted a comment on Facebook saying that his Kyrgyz colleagues were queuing for their "special delicacy, the horse's penis" at New Year celebrations, sparking a brief strike at the Kumtor mine as well as calls for criminal prosecution. The dish in question, chuchuk, is a sausage made from horse meat and intestines. |
| Hezbollah targets Israeli forces with bomb, Israel shells south Lebanon | |  By John Davison and Suleiman Al-Khalidi BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hezbollah set off a bomb targeting Israeli forces at the Lebanese border on Monday in an apparent response to the killing in Syria last month of a prominent commander, triggering Israeli shelling of southern Lebanon. Israel has struck its Iran-backed Shi'ite enemy Hezbollah in Syria several times, killing a number of fighters and destroying weapons it believes were destined for the group, whose support for President Bashar al-Assad has been crucial in the country's civil war. Israel's army said Monday's blast, targeting military vehicles in the Shebaa farms area, prompted Israeli forces to respond with artillery fire.
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| Two civilians, 3 security officers killed in Turkish action against Kurd rebels | |  By Seyhmus Cakan DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Two civilians, two soldiers and a police officer have been killed in southeastern Turkey as military operations to root out armed fighters focused on urban centres across the mainly Kurdish region, security sources said. A local court jailed the former mayor of the mainly Kurdish city of Van for 15 years, the maximum term for the crime of membership of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). President Tayyip Erdogan said last week there would be no let-up in a military campaign he said had killed more than 3,000 militants in 2015.
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| Germany sees no evidence Iran could retreat from nuclear deal | |  There is no evidence that Iran is planning to depart from a deal reached with world powers last year to scale back its nuclear programme and it could even fulfill all of its agreements this month, a German foreign ministry spokesman said on Monday. "I very much expect that there is no interest among the decisive actors in Iran - the Iranian government, the Iranian president, and elsewhere - in diverging from the agreements made in Vienna last summer," Martin Schaefer told a news conference. Iran signed a nuclear deal with six world powers, including Germany, in July that would see it curb its nuclear activities in exchange for the easing of crippling economic sanctions.
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