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| Austrian asylum centre hit by Molotov cocktail | | | VIENNA (Reuters) - Unidentified attackers threw a Molotov cocktail against the wall of a refugee centre near Vienna, Austrian newswire APA reported on Sunday. A police spokesman told APA a beer bottle filled with a flammable liquid was ignited and thrown, leaving scorch marks on the wall. Nobody was injured. The incident was being investigated by regional police and authorities in charge of handling suspected hate crimes. ... |
| Credit Suisse banker probed for alleged fiduciary duty violations - SonntagsZeitung | | | Geneva prosecutors have opened legal proceedings against a suspended Credit Suisse banker accused of violating his fiduciary duties in a case brought by wealthy Turkish families who say they lost 300 million Swiss francs ($296 million), SonntagsZeitung reported. Two independent Turkish asset managers who oversaw money for wealthy clients that was deposited in Credit Suisse accounts are suspected of illegally covering up losses linked to the Turkish lira's collapse in 2013, the newspaper reported. The suspended Credit Suisse employee is blamed for not halting transactions made by the Turkish asset managers, even after significant deficits piled up, the newspaper reported. |
| Analysis: Renzi faces pressure to stay in office as Italy referendum defeat looms | |  By Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) - When a handful of European leaders met Barack Obama in Berlin this month to say their goodbyes, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi informed the group that he may well lose power before the U.S. president. While Obama leaves office on Jan. 20, Renzi has promised to resign if he does not win a Dec. 4 referendum on constitutional reform, opening the way for renewed political instability in the eurozone's third largest economy. "I have no desire to hang around if I lose," Renzi told the gathering, according to a diplomatic source who was at the low-key Nov. 18 meeting.
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| Uganda says 55 police, tribal insurgents killed in clashes | | | By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) - The Ugandan authorities said on Sunday 41 tribal insurgents and 14 police officers were killed in clashes in the west of the country, and the tribal king of the area near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo was detained. The police, who announced the death toll on Twitter, said the clashes took place in the Rwenzori region, where there has been unrest since a disputed presidential election in February that was won by veteran leader Yoweri Museveni. Army spokesman Paddy Ankunda told Reuters that Charles Wesley Mumbere, the king of the Rwenzururu Kingdom who supports the opposition, was detained for questioning. |
| Brazil's Temer vows to block amnesty for election crimes | |  By Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA (Reuters) - President Michel Temer said on Sunday that he and leaders of Brazil's Congress will not allow an amnesty for election slush funds sought by some lawmakers to avoid prosecution for receiving graft money. Temer called a news conference to staunch a deepening crisis over new corruption allegations against members of his government that are causing new political uncertainty that is delaying economic recovery from a severe recession. "We agreed there will no consideration of an amnesty for slush funds or any other electoral crime," he said, flanked by the leaders of the Senate and lower chamber of Congress.
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| Philippines says 11 Islamic State sympathisers killed in southern siege | | | Government troops have killed at least 11 members of a rebel group in the southern Philippines that has pledged allegiance to Islamic State, the military said, sending local communities fleeing as a battle raged on Sunday. The Maute Group, one of a handful of small militant groups behind years of unrest in the south, had since Saturday occupied parts of a municipality in Lanao del Sur and were holed up in an abandoned town hall. At least four soldiers were wounded in the clashes and there were unconfirmed reports that the group had raised the black Islamic State flag in the hall, said Marine Colonel Edgard Arevalo, a military spokesman. |
| Gambia's president vows 'zero tolerance' of election violence | |  Gambian President Yahya Jammeh warned on Sunday that anyone involved violence or unrest during the country's presidential election in four days time would be dealt with harshly. "There will be zero tolerance (of) ... violence and anyone disregarding public order will face full force of the law," Jammeh told supporters in Brikama, some 30 kilometres (19 miles) west of the capital Banjul, at a rally broadcast on Gambian TV. "I am warning all Gambians against violence." Jammeh and the opposition are campaigning across the tiny former British colony, which straddles a West African river running into the Atlantic whose beaches are a top tourist destination.
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| High turnout as French conservatives choose candidate to battle far-right for presidency | |  By Sudip Kar-Gupta and Marine Pennetier PARIS (Reuters) - Two former prime ministers went head-to-head on Sunday in a runoff vote for France's centre-right presidential nomination, with the victor expected to face a showdown against a resurgent far-right in May. The winner, either Francois Fillon or Alain Juppe, will most likely represent the entire French political mainstream against the National Front's Marine Le Pen, in another test of the anti-establishment anger in Western countries that saw Britain vote to leave the EU and Americans elect Donald Trump as president. Voting opened at more than 10,000 polling stations across France at 8 a.m. (0700 GMT) and was set to close at 7 p.m., with the first results likely up to an hour and a half later.
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| Kabul police raid shisha cafes in "debauchery" crackdown | | | Afghan police and health officials raided cafes and restaurants in Kabul on Sunday, confiscating shisha water pipes and paraphernalia in a campaign to halt "debauchery and vulgarity". Led by the health ministry, authorities plan to go through each Kabul neighbourhood this week to enforce, for the first time, a two-year-old law banning indoor smoking in restaurants. "We have to have control over shisha cafes, which promote debauchery and vulgarity in society," Kabul police chief Abdul Rahman Rahimi told reporters outside one of the many restaurants raided by police. |
| South Africa's Public Protector files complaint against predecessor for leaking Zuma interview - report | |  The new head of South Africa's anti-graft unit, which this month alleged influence-peddling in President Jacob Zuma's cabinet, has laid a complaint against her predecessor for leaking a recorded interview with the president, newspaper Sunday Times reported on Sunday. Former watchdog Thuli Madonsela has said she had the right to make public the audio recording after Zuma accused her of not giving him an opportunity to defend himself. The report focused on claims that the brothers, Ajay, Atul and Rajesh Gupta influenced the appointment of ministers, and called for an investigation into whether Zuma, some of his cabinet members and some state companies had acted improperly.
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| English FA to investigate alleged sexual abuse at soccer clubs | | | By Steve Tongue LONDON (Reuters) - The English Football Association (FA) has launched an internal review to examine allegations of children being sexually abused at professional soccer clubs. After accusations this month from former Crewe Alexandra player Andy Woodward, saying he was molested as a boy by talent spotter and convicted paedophile Barry Bennell, other former youth players have gone public with allegations. Fourth-tier Crewe are looking into the allegations, while Premier League Manchester City are investigating whether Bennell had any association with the club. |
| Spain arrests man on suspicion of Islamist militant activity | | | Spanish police have arrested a Spanish citizen in Madrid on suspicion of belonging to Islamic State, the Interior Ministry said on Sunday. The ministry said the man of Palestinian origin planned on joining the jhadist group in Syria. The accused is resident in the province of Las Palmas on the Spanish Canary Islands. |
| East Congo militia kills 30 civilians, most from rival ethnic group | | | By Aaron Ross KINSHASA (Reuters) - An ethnic Nande militia in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo killed about 30 civilians, mostly Hutus, on Sunday morning, local sources said, in an apparent escalation of deadly violence between the two groups that has flared repeatedly this year. Joy Bokele, territorial administrator in North Kivu province's Lubero territory, told Reuters that fighters from the Mai Mai Mazembe militia attacked the village of Luhanga at about 5 a.m. (0300 GMT) with guns and machetes. Ethnic rivalries, incursions and competition for mineral-rich land have stoked conflict for two decades among eastern Congo's dozens of armed groups, including many "Mai Mai" - self-defence militias originally created to resist Rwandan invasions. |
| China steps up protection of property rights | |  China will increase protection for property rights, including stepping up oversight of the management of state-owned assets, the Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday, citing guidelines issued by the State Council, China's cabinet. New rules and policies are designed to "increase people's confidence in the safety of assets, improve social trust, create positive expectations, and promote the drive for innovation among all economic actors", Xinhua said. It said that the State Council guidelines were the first on property protection issued by the central government in China, where lax enforcement of property laws and unclear land ownership regulations have been a problem for decades.
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| Kuwaiti opposition win big in anti-austerity vote | |  By Sami Aboudi and Ahmed Hagagy KUWAIT (Reuters) - Opposition candidates are estimated to have won around 20 seats out of 50 in Kuwaiti elections that saw most parliament members replaced, in a vote analysts said reflects anger at austerity measures to curb a budget deficit. Analyst Ibrahim al-Hadban said the election campaign had shown that some of the decisions taken by the government were not popular among citizens, including raising gasoline prices. With no political parties, it was difficult to pin down precisely how many opposition MPs had been elected.
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