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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. |
| Exclusive: Russian tankers defy EU ban to smuggle jet fuel to Syria - sources | | | By Guy Faulconbridge and Jonathan Saul LONDON (Reuters) - Russian tankers have smuggled jet fuel to Syria through EU waters, bolstering military supplies to a war-torn country where Moscow is carrying out air strikes in support of the government, according to sources with knowledge of the matter. At least two Russian-flagged ships made deliveries - which contravene EU sanctions - via Cyprus, an intelligence source with a European Union government told Reuters. A separate shipping source familiar with the movements of the Russian-flagged vessels said the ships visited Cypriot and Greek ports before delivering fuel to Syria. |
| 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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| Defence hawk Skvernelis to be new Lithuanian prime minister | | | By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS (Reuters) - The Lithuanian parliament appointed Saulius Skvernelis, a defence hawk and former interior minister affiliated to the Lithuanian Peasants and Greens Union, as prime minister on Tuesday. Skvernelis says he will keep Lithuania's pro-European policy, and, in the face of a resurgent Russia, pledged to increase country's defence spending above NATO's informal threshold of 2 percent of gross domestic product after 2018. "We do not have a luxury to increase defence spending slowly, we must send clear signal to our partners and countries in the region that we look after our defence responsibly", Skvernelis told parliament in an address last week. |
| Turkey issues arrest warrant for head of Syrian Kurdish party - Anadolu | | | Turkish authorities issued an arrest warrant for the leader of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) on Tuesday in relation to a February bomb attack on military buses in the capital Ankara, the state-run Anadolu news agency said. The warrant named Salih Muslim - co-chair of the PYD, the political arm of the YPG Syrian Kurdish militia, which the United States is backing in the fight against Islamic State in neighbouring Syria. Turkey is angered by the U.S. support and says the PYD is linked to Kurdish militants fighting for autonomy inside its borders. |
| Police arrest 178 in Europe-wide money laundering crackdown | | | Police forces across Europe and the United States arrested 178 people as part of a crackdown on money laundering last week and identified some 23 million euros ($24.46 million) in stolen funds, the European Union judicial agency Eurojust said. The arrests were the result of an operation targeting the practice of money muling, where illicit funds are disguised by wiring them through the accounts of intermediaries, or mules, who are paid with a cut of the proceeds. Some 580 money mules were identified and police interviewed 380 suspects during the operation, which was intended to tackle the growing volume of online payment and card fraud across the continent. |
| A mother leaves Japan so that her teen son can stay | | | By Minami Funakoshi and Thomas Wilson TOKYO (Reuters) - On a morning in mid-September, Utinan Won hugged his mother and then watched as she passed through departures at Tokyo's Narita airport on her way to Bangkok. Two and a half months earlier, judges in a Tokyo court had upheld deportation orders against 16-year-old Utinan and his mother, Lonsan Phaphakdee, both Thai nationals living in Japan on provisional release status. For Lonsan, who had been living in Japan for more than two decades, the meaning of the ruling was clear: Return to Thailand, and she could open a way for her son to remain in Japan. |
| Four charged with plotting to assassinate late Saudi king - media | | | Four suspected al Qaeda members have gone on trial accused of plotting to assassinate the late King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, newspapers in the kingdom reported on Tuesday. The reports provided no details on the alleged assassination plot or when it may have occurred, but said the defendants were also charged with belonging to an extremist group, communicating with an al Qaeda leader and attempting to recruit Saudi youth. "The trial of four al Qaeda terrorists accused of plotting to assassinate the late King Abdullah opened at the Special Criminal Court," the Arab News daily said, adding that the accused had been convicted earlier on other militancy charges. |
| Turkey's AK Party withdraws controversial bill on sexual abuse for review | |  By Gulsen Solaker and Humeyra Pamuk ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's ruling party has withdrawn for review a proposed bill allowing men accused of sexual abuse to avoid sentence, but a public uproar has persisted, with opposition parties and civil society groups calling for it to be canceled entirely. Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said the draft will be withdrawn from the parliament's general assembly and sent back to a commission for review and to seek the opinion of the opposition and civil society, in line with a call from President Tayyip Erdogan for a wider consensus. The proposal, a copy of which was seen by Reuters, would have allowed sentencing to be indefinitely postponed in cases of sexual abuse committed "without force, threat or deception" before Nov. 16, 2016, if the perpetrator married the victim.
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| Analysis: Democrats search for answers to stem a spreading Republican tide | |  Not only do Republicans control the White House and both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives, they now hold 33 governor's offices. Republican Phil Scott won in Vermont over Democrat Sue Minter who was criticized, like presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, for failing to develop an economic message that resonated with voters worried about good-paying jobs. Considered a liberal bastion, Vermont has a tradition of sometimes choosing a Republican governor to keep one party from having too much control.
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