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| Germans shaken by mass attacks on women in Cologne at New Year | |  By Madeline Chambers BERLIN (Reuters) - About 90 women have reported being robbed, threatened or sexually molested at the New Year's celebrations outside Cologne's cathedral by young, mostly drunk, men, police said on Tuesday. Police and witnesses have said about 1,000 men, split into groups, attacked women in the square. Some witnesses said the men were of North African appearance, stirring strong emotions in Germany where Chancellor Angela Merkel has welcomed people fleeing war zones in the Middle East and Africa.
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| Ethics watchdog recommends nine-year ban for FIFA's Valcke | |  FIFA's ethics watchdog has recommended a nine-year ban for secretary-general Jerome Valcke over accusations of corruption over the sale of World Cup tickets, one of dozens of allegations involving officials at soccer's crisis-plagued governing body. Cornel Borbely, chief investigator for FIFA's independent ethics committee, requested that Valcke be fined 100,000 Swiss francs after completing an investigation into the Frenchman's conduct, the watchdog said in a statement. The allegations against Valcke stem from former Israeli soccer player Benny Alon telling a news conference in September in Zurich that he agreed in 2013 to pay cash to Valcke to secure plum World Cup tickets in Brazil in 2014.
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| Missing Hong Kong publisher returned to China "voluntarily" - wife | |  By James Pomfret and Rain Liang HONG KONG (Reuters) - A publisher of books critical of China's leaders who went missing in Hong Kong last week has travelled to China voluntarily, his wife said on Tuesday, as Britain reminded its former colony of its commitment to press freedom. Four other associates of the publisher that specializes in selling and publishing gossipy political books on China's Communist Party leaders have been unaccounted for since late last year. The disappearances and China's continued silence have stoked fears of mainland Chinese authorities using shadowy tactics that erode the "one country, two systems" formula under which Hong Kong has been governed since its return to China in 1997.
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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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| Indian policeman: Militants abducted me before base attack | |  By Rupam Jain Nair and Krista Mahr NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The day before a deadly assault on an air base in Pathankot, a police officer returning from a temple was abducted by a group of heavily armed men speaking Urdu, he said on Tuesday. "The minute I saw them I realised that they were terrorists," Police Superintendent Salwinder Singh told media. "One of the gunmen snatched my phone and made calls to Pakistan," Singh said.
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| Defence minister says six militants killed in Pathankot air base operation | |  By Rupam Jain Nair and Krista Mahr NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian security forces have killed six militants who launched an assault on a military air base in Pathankot that killed seven security personnel and injured 22, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said on Tuesday. Speaking at the air base, Parrikar declined to say definitively that no more militants were at large until the four-day-old operation to clear the facility was over. While praising Indian security forces for eliminating the attackers, Parrikar also alluded to "some gaps" in security that allowed the attackers to reach the base in the northwestern state of Punjab.
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| VW faces billions in fines as U.S. sues for environmental violations | |  By Julia Edwards and Georgina Prodhan WASHINGTON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department has sued Volkswagen for up to $90 billion for allegedly violating environmental laws - five times regulators' initial estimate and a reminder of the carmaker's problems nearly four months after its emissions scandal broke. Although such U.S. lawsuits are typically settled at a fraction of the theoretical maximum penalty, analysts said the size of the claim meant Volkswagen (VW) could face a larger bill than previously anticipated. "The announcement serves as a reminder/reality check of VW's still unresolved emissions issues," Goldman Sachs analysts wrote in a note, maintaining their "sell" recommendation on the stock.
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| Iran says Saudi Arabia cannot cover 'crime' by cutting ties | |  By Bozorgmehr Sharafedin DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday Saudi Arabia cannot hide "its crime" of executing a Shi'ite Muslim cleric by cutting ties with Tehran, warning that discord could affect the fight against terrorism. Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Sudan broke all ties with Iran and the United Arab Emirates downgraded its relations on Monday after the Saudi embassy in Tehran was stormed by protesters. Kuwait recalled its ambassador to Iran on Tuesday.
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