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- Exclusive - U.S. grants Airbus license to sell 106 planes to Iran
- Trump drops campaign promise to probe Clinton on email, charity - aide indicates
- Civilian victims of mortar, sniper fire pour into Mosul clinic
- Trump sinks Asia trade pact, opening the way for China to lead
- European lawmakers call for end to Turkey EU membership talks
- German intelligence service to monitor far-right "Reichsbuerger" movement
- Drop in sex trafficking cases in India may mask real number, experts say
- Accused people smuggler appears in Italy court amid doubts over identity
- Suspect in Canada Valentine's Day massacre plot pleads guilty
- From soldiers to midwives, Turkey dismisses 15,000 more after coup bid
- Turkish court starts umbrella trial of U.S.-based cleric Gulen, followers
- Indonesian president says he'll stop "growth of radicalism"
- India may ease rules for cash withdrawals for weddings - official
- South African opposition says police promise to look into Zuma
- Suspect in San Antonio cop killing was angry over custody battles
- Should I stay or should I go? U.S. civil servants gird for Trump
- Followers of cleric Gulen still active in Turkish police, armed forces, Erdogan says
- Trial of Islamic State suspects shows Turkish security flaws before bombings
- Accused killer of UK lawmaker declines to defend himself in court
- Brexit bridge deal for banks nice in theory, tough in practice
- Britain says case of detained aid worker in Iran an "utmost priority"
| Exclusive - U.S. grants Airbus license to sell 106 planes to Iran | |  By Yeganeh Torbati WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has issued a license to France's Airbus for the sale of 106 commercial planes to Iran Air, Iran's flagship carrier, a source familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. The move in the waning months of Democratic President Barack Obama's administration to further unlock jetliner sales to Iran is likely to raise the ire of Republicans in Congress and President-elect Donald Trump. Trump has said he would dismantle the 2015 international nuclear deal with Iran, which includes a measure allowing U.S. and European companies to sell Iran civilian aircraft.
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| Trump drops campaign promise to probe Clinton on email, charity - aide indicates | |  By Doina Chiacu and Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will not pursue investigations against Hillary Clinton over her family's charity or her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state, MSNBC said, dropping a threat made to his Democratic rival during the bitter presidential campaign. Republican Trump had vowed to jail Clinton and crowds at his rallies chanted "Lock her up." But he now believes she "has been through enough," MSNBC reported on Tuesday, citing an unidentified source. Addressing the report in an interview with MSNBC, senior Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway indicated it was correct.
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| Civilian victims of mortar, sniper fire pour into Mosul clinic | |  By John Davison KOKJALI, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi military medics rushed a man whose mouth had been blown apart by mortar shrapnel into their temporary field clinic on the eastern edges of Mosul. "And two dead." All the victims are from areas closer to the centre of Mosul and which Iraqi forces recaptured from Islamic State two weeks ago - but which they have sometimes struggled to secure as civilians remain within the range of the jihadists' mortar and sniper fire. Black armoured vehicles sped into the clinic run by the elite Counter Terrorism Service (CTS) throughout the morning, ferrying in the casualties - an elderly man shot through the knee, another with a leg wound, a girl hit in the chest.
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| Trump sinks Asia trade pact, opening the way for China to lead | |  By Ami Miyazaki and Tom Westbrook TOKYO/SYDNEY (Reuters) - An ambitious Asia-Pacific trade pact linking the United States and 11 countries lay in tatters on Tuesday after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said he would kill the deal on his first day in office on Jan. 20. Trump's statement appeared to open the way for China to assume the United States' leadership mantle on trade and diplomacy in Asia. The Republican termed the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) "a potential disaster for our country." China, Japan and South Korea are already in the initial stages of discussing a trilateral trade deal, and Beijing has been pushing its own limited Asian regional trade pact that excludes Washington for the past five years.
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| European lawmakers call for end to Turkey EU membership talks | | | By Alissa de Carbonnel STRASBOURG (Reuters) - The leaders of the European Parliament's two largest groups called on Tuesday for the European Union to halt membership talks with Turkey because of its post-coup purges. "Our message to Turkey is very clear: accession negotiations should be frozen immediately," said Manfred Weber, the head of the largest faction in the European Parliament, the centre-right European People's Party. |
| German intelligence service to monitor far-right "Reichsbuerger" movement | | | Germany's domestic intelligence service will put the far-right "Reichsbuerger" movement under observation, officials said on Tuesday, just weeks after one of its members shot dead a policeman during a raid at his home. The move came a week after the spy agency's chief told Reuters that ultra-rightists in Germany are increasingly ready to commit violent acts and are networking with like-minded groups across Europe, and even in the United States. Members of the Reichsbuerger (Citizens of the Reich) do not recognise modern-day Germany as a legitimate state, and insist the former, far larger "Deutsche Reich" is still alive despite Nazi Germany's defeat in World War Two. |
| Drop in sex trafficking cases in India may mask real number, experts say | |  By Roli Srivastava MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India has seen a 70 percent drop in cases filed under an anti-trafficking law between 2001 and 2015, which experts attribute to a lack of reporting of the crime and more sex workers moving out of brothels to escape police detection among other factors. According to the latest data from the National Crime Records Bureau, the number of cases filed under India's anti-trafficking Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act fell to 2,424 in 2015 from 8,796 in 2001. The Act is one of a number of laws under which human trafficking and modern slavery are prosecuted in the country.
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| Accused people smuggler appears in Italy court amid doubts over identity | | | By Wladimir Pantaleone PALERMO, Italy (Reuters) - An alleged people smuggling kingpin arrested earlier this year appeared in an Italian court for the first time on Tuesday as his lawyer raised doubts about whether his identity was mistaken. The man, identified as Medhane Yehdego Mered, was arrested in Sudan in May and extradited to Italy two weeks later. Prosecutors accuse him of being a people smuggler who calls himself "the General" after the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. |
| Suspect in Canada Valentine's Day massacre plot pleads guilty | |  A Canadian man accused in a failed shopping mall massacre plot in the Atlantic Canadian city of Halifax pleaded guilty on Tuesday but an American woman charged in the case has pleaded not guilty and is expected to face trial next year, a court spokeswoman said. Court spokeswoman Jennifer Stairs said Randall Shepherd, who was 21 when he faced charges last year, appeared before court on Tuesday. Shepard and American Lindsay Souvannarath, who was 23 when she was charged last year, were accused of conspiracy to commit murder and arson as well as unlawful communication threatening through social media to cause harm or death.
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| From soldiers to midwives, Turkey dismisses 15,000 more after coup bid | | | By Tuvan Gumrukcu and Nick Tattersall ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey dismissed 15,000 more state employees on Tuesday, from soldiers and police officers to tax inspectors and midwives, and shut 375 institutions and several news outlets, deepening purges carried out since a failed coup. The dismissals, announced in two decrees, bring to more than 125,000 the number of people sacked or suspended in the military, civil service, judiciary and elsewhere since July's coup attempt. President Tayyip Erdogan said the measures had significantly weakened the network of U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, whose followers are blamed by Ankara for infiltrating state institutions over several decades and carrying out the attempted putsch. |
| Turkish court starts umbrella trial of U.S.-based cleric Gulen, followers | |  By Ece Toksabay ANKARA (Reuters) - The trial of U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen and 72 other people accused of trying to overthrow Turkey's government began on Tuesday, with the case likely to be expanded to include charges related to an abortive coup in July. Gulen lives in self-imposed exile in the United States and has so far not been extradited to Turkey. The seven jailed defendants appeared before the court on Tuesday, as several of the more senior defendants are believed to have fled abroad after the July 15 coup attempt.
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| Indonesian president says he'll stop "growth of radicalism" | |  By Hidayat Setiaji and Gayatri Suroyo JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian President Joko Widodo said on Tuesday he was determined to "prevent the growth of radicalism", after reports that Islamist extremists are planning protests to destabilise his government. Officials say there has been mounting alarm in the government since more than 100,000 Muslims, led by hardline Islamists, took to the streets of Jakarta on Nov. 4 to demand the removal of the capital's governor, a Christian, for alleged blasphemy. National Police Chief Tito Karnavian warned on Monday of a threat to parliament during rallies expected this Friday and on Dec. 2.
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| India may ease rules for cash withdrawals for weddings - official | |  By Manoj Kumar NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India may soon relax conditions for cash withdrawals for weddings, a top government official said on Tuesday, the day after the central bank issued rules for such bank transactions widely criticised as unworkable. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's shock announcement on Nov. 8 that he would scrap high-value banknotes, to curb untaxed "black cash" circulating in the economy, came in the middle of India's cherished wedding season. Families, rich and poor, go to huge lengths to celebrate weddings in India.
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| South African opposition says police promise to look into Zuma | |  South Africa's main opposition party said on Tuesday that police had promised to look into its accusations of corruption against President Jacob Zuma. The Democratic Alliance (DA) filed a criminal complaint against Zuma last week after an anti-corruption agency published a report listing allegations of influence-peddling in Zuma's government. The DA said an investigation would be conducted by the Hawks, a priority unit within the South African Police Service that handles serious crimes, including corruption.
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| Suspect in San Antonio cop killing was angry over custody battles | |  By Jim Forsyth SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - A 31-year-old man suspected in the ambush killing of a police detective in Texas has apologized to the officer's family and said he "lashed out" in anger after several custody battles. Otis McKane was arrested on Monday for the killing of 50-year-old Benjamin Marconi, a 20-year veteran of the San Antonio force who was gunned down a day earlier as he sat in his squad car outside the department's headquarters. As he was escorted by officers outside the building late on Monday, McKane told reporters he had been involved in several custody battles.
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| Should I stay or should I go? U.S. civil servants gird for Trump | |  By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump's surprise victory in the U.S. presidential election has set off a round of resume-polishing across Washington, as the nation's federal civil servants prepare for a leader who has promised to freeze hiring and reverse many of the policies they have spent the past eight years putting in place. While anti-Washington rhetoric is a staple of U.S. politics, more than two dozen federal workers interviewed by Reuters said Trump's divisive presidential campaign pointed to bigger potential problems than those that would normally come with a routine switch from a Democratic to a Republican administration. As the Republican presidential candidate, Trump encouraged his supporters to harass journalists and attack protesters.
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| Followers of cleric Gulen still active in Turkish police, armed forces, Erdogan says | |  Followers of the cleric Turkey blames for orchestrating a failed coup this year are still active in the armed forces, judiciary and police, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday, as he vowed to continue to root them out. Turkey blames Fethullah Gulen, who lives in self-imposed exile in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, for masterminding the abortive putsch in July, where a group of rogue soldiers attempted to overthrow the government. "There is no place in this academy and land drenched with the blood of martyrs for those who sold their souls to Pennslyvania, the separatist terrorist organisation, or any other illegal organisation," Erdogan said in a speech in Ankara.
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| Trial of Islamic State suspects shows Turkish security flaws before bombings | |  By Ece Toksabay ANKARA (Reuters) - For two years, Haci Ali Durmaz says he used to cross the Turkish border into Syria, join the ranks of Islamic State for a few months, and then return to Turkey to work in construction. Now on trial for involvement in Turkey's deadliest suicide bombing, an attack last year that killed more than 100 people in Ankara, his testimony has highlighted flaws in border security and intelligence which lawyers say has allowed parts of Turkey to become a rear base for jihadists. The Turkish government has improved border security since the bombing and a spate of other attacks, but the consequences of such breaches are potentially far-reaching.
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| Accused killer of UK lawmaker declines to defend himself in court | |  The man accused of murdering Member of Parliament Jo Cox a week before Britain's EU referendum has opted not to speak in his own defence at his trial, a London court heard on Tuesday. Thomas Mair, 53, is accused of shooting and stabbing opposition Labour MP Cox, 41, on the street in the town of Birstall, part of her electoral district in northern England. Prosecutors have told his trial that Cox's attacker had shouted something like "Keep Britain independent" and "Britain first" during the frenzied assault and that a swathe of material about Nazis and the far right were found at Mair's home in Birstall as well as information about Cox herself.
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| Brexit bridge deal for banks nice in theory, tough in practice | | | By Andrew MacAskill, Huw Jones and Anjuli Davies LONDON (Reuters) - Banking executives have welcomed hints that Prime Minister Theresa May will push for a transitional period to help them adjust to Britain's exit from the EU but they fear such a deal might not work in practice. With banks planning for life after Britain leaves the European Union, the executives said a transitional deal may be too difficult politically because of opposition from eurosceptic British lawmakers and the need for the remaining 27 EU nations to pass legislation in their parliaments. "It is going to be a really tough ask. "It may not work politically."The clock is already ticking as banks based in London finalise plans to potentially shift some operations to other European countries so they can still serve EU customers. Some may be tempted to move next year given the uncertain status of any transitional deal and the time it would take to relocate. |
| Britain says case of detained aid worker in Iran an "utmost priority" | |  Britain is working to resolve the case of detained Iranian-British aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, foreign minister Boris Johnson said on Tuesday. Zaghari-Ratcliffe was sentenced to five years in prison in Iran on charges that remain secret, her family said in September. "The Foreign Office is in regular contact with the Iranian government at all levels," Johnson told parliament.
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