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| Amnesty says pro-Hadi Yemen fighters harassing medics in Taiz | |  Amnesty International accused pro-government Yemeni troops battling Houthi forces for control of the southwestern city of Taiz of harassing medical staff and putting fighters among the civilian population, in charges the authorities strongly denied. Civilians in Taiz, which had a pre-war population of 300,000, have been trapped by intense fighting, with dead bodies lying in the streets and hundreds of people wounded this week, the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Tuesday. Amnesty, a London-based human rights watchdog, said that so-called Popular Committees - anti-Houthi local militias backed by exiled President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's government - had detained and threatened to kill medical staff in Taiz and deployed tanks outside hospitals.
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| Venezuela opposition says Vatican-brokered talks 'frozen' | |  By Corina Pons and Alexandra Ulmer CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's opposition said on Wednesday talks with the government were "frozen" after officials failed to attend meetings, throwing cold water on Vatican-brokered attempts to bridge the country's deep political crisis. The two sides are fundamentally at loggerheads, with the opposition seeking the ouster of Socialist President Nicolas Maduro, while authorities vow he will not leave office before his term ends in 2019. "The government, in an irresponsible manner, froze the dialogue process by not showing up to two technical meetings last night," opposition coalition leader Jesus Torrealba told Reuters.
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| Cameroon security forces arrest 100 at anti-discrimination protests | | | By Sylvain Andzongo YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Security forces in Cameroon arrested about 100 people during days of protests over alleged discrimination against minority English-speaking people, Communications Minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary and a senior security source said on Wednesday. Bakary said vandals who mingled with the demonstrators smashed shops in the northwestern town of Bamenda during the protests during which one person was killed. A second security source said the demonstrators also wanted independence for Cameroon's two English speaking regions and the departure of President Paul Biya, who has been in power since 1982 and is one of Africa's longest serving rulers. |
| Contenders, picks for key jobs in Trump's administration | | | (Reuters) - Donald Trump on Wednesday picked South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley as his U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and wealthy Republican donor Betsy DeVos as education secretary. It was the latest move from the Republican president-elect as he works to fill administration positions before his Jan. 20 inauguration. His transition team said he might have another Cabinet-level announcement later in the day. Below are people mentioned as contenders for senior roles. See end of list for posts already filled. ... |
| Nazi-obsessed loner gets life for murder of British lawmaker Jo Cox | |  By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - A loner obsessed with Nazis and extreme right-wing ideology was sentenced on Wednesday to spend the rest of his life in prison for murdering lawmaker Jo Cox in a frenzied street attack that stunned Britain a week before the European Union referendum. Armed with a sawn-off rifle and a dagger, Thomas Mair, 53, shot Cox three times and repeatedly stabbed the 41-year-old mother of two young children in her northern English electoral district as she arrived for a meeting with local residents. During the June 16 attack, he shouted "Britain first" and "Keep Britain independent", his trial heard.
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| Big banks' relationship with Dodd-Frank - it's complicated | | | Having spent billions of dollars on post-crisis U.S. financial industry reforms they once scorned, bankers are concerned the Trump administration, joined by a like-minded Congress, will scrap or significantly change the rules. To comply with a rule known as Dodd-Frank, which was enacted in 2010 following the financial crisis, big U.S banks hired tens of thousands of staffers, built new technology systems, hived off businesses, simplified corporate structures and doubled the amount of capital they hold. Banks lobbied hard against Dodd-Frank as it was being drafted, then cajoled regulators to go easy in defining and implementing precise rules. |
| EU looking into Russian fuel supply to Syria via Europe - source | |  By Gabriela Baczynska and Alissa de Carbonnel BRUSSELS/STRASBOURG (Reuters) - The European Union is looking into whether Russian tankers carried jet fuel to Syria through the bloc's waters despite this being banned, an EU source said on Wednesday. The shipments to Syria bolstered military supplies to a country where Moscow is carrying out air strikes on rebels in support of the government, Reuters reported, citing sources with knowledge of the matter. EU Council Regulation 1323/2014, introduced two years ago, bans any supply of jet fuel to Syria from the EU territories, whether or not the fuel originated in the European Union.
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| Peru slams U.N. agency for hiring former first lady under investigation | |  Peru rebuked the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization on Wednesday for hiring former first lady Nadine Heredia as a Geneva-based director while she is a suspect in a money laundering inquiry. The South American country's Foreign Affairs Ministry issued a statement expressing its "displeasure and protest" over the appointment, which comes amid allegations by public prosecutors that Heredia and her husband, former president Ollanta Humala, took illicit funds from the government of Venezuela and Brazilian construction companies. "We see this as interference in a public investigation of enormous national sensitivity," Foreign Affairs Minister Ricardo Luna said on local broadcaster RPP.
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| High-profile French police site among terrorist suspects' targets - sources | |  A high-profile police site was among the potential targets in a foiled terrorist plot, according to a person arrested in France in connection with the plot, two sources close to the investigation said on Wednesday. France has been under a state of emergency since a wave of Islamist attacks last year, giving police wider powers, and the arrests come at a sensitive time ahead of next spring's presidential elections in which security will be a major theme. The sources said the information, for the moment highly tentative, came from one of five people still in custody after simultaneous police swoops in southern port city of Marseille and Strasbourg in northeast France last Saturday night.
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| More Rohingyas flee to Bangladesh as violence spreads in Myanmar | |  By Mohammad Nurul Islam COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) - More Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar poured into neighbouring Bangladesh this week, with some feared to have drowned after a boat sank during a bid to flee violence that has killed at least 86 people and displaced 30,000. Some Rohingya refugees have been missing since Tuesday after a group crossed the River Naaf that separates Myanmar and Bangladesh. Myanmar troops poured into the western state of Rakhine along the frontier with Bangladesh in response to coordinated attacks on three border posts on Oct. 9 that killed nine police officers.
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| EU 'acting on' report of Russia taking jet fuel to Syria against ban - source | |  The European Union is "aware and acting on" a report that Russian tankers had carried jet fuel to Syria through the bloc's waters despite it being banned, a source said on Wednesday. The EU banned any supply of jet fuel to Syria from its territory two years ago but an intelligence source with a government in the bloc told Reuters at least two Russian-flagged ships made deliveries via Cyprus. 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.
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| EU lawmakers denounce Russian info tactics, anger Putin | |  The European Parliament called on the EU and its states to do more to counter Russian "disinformation and propaganda warfare" on Wednesday, drawing an angry response from President Vladimir Putin. A motion endorsing a committee report, which also called for more effort against attempts by Islamic State to radicalise Europeans, passed by 304 votes to 179. "The European Parliament ... expresses its strong criticism of Russian efforts to disrupt the EU integration process and deplores, in this respect, Russian backing of anti-EU forces in the EU with regard, in particular, to extreme-right parties, populist forces and movements that deny the basic values of liberal democracies," the 59-point motion read.
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| Romario calls for indictments of Brazil football bosses | |  By Andrew Downie SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Romario, the former World Cup winner turned senator, called in a report on Wednesday for the indictment of seven Brazilian football officials in what he called "the biggest sports scandal of all time." The president of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF), Marco Polo Del Nero, was one of those accused of crimes that include racketeering, money laundering and tax offenses. "We can sum this up by stating that practically everything the CBF did under the control of these people we cited was corrupt," Rodrigues said.
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| Spanish court wants two-year prison sentence for Barca's Neymar | |  By Richard Martin BARCELONA (Reuters) - Spain's public prosecutor has called for Barcelona soccer player Neymar to be sent to prison for two years for his part in a corruption case over his transfer from Brazilian club Santos to the Liga champions in 2013, said a court filing on Wednesday. Judge Jose Perals also called for a five-year sentence for former Barca president Sandro Rosell and a fine of 8.4 million euros ($8.9 million) for the club, but called for charges against current president Josep Maria Bartomeu to be dropped. The case stems from a complaint by a Brazilian investment group, DIS, which owned 40 percent of Brazil forward Neymar's transfer rights and which alleges it received less money than it was entitled to as Barca concealed the real transfer fee.
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| U.S. says troubled over arrest of Malaysian activist under security law | |  WASHINGTON/KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday said it was troubled by the arrest of a Malaysian activist and critic of Prime Minister Najib Razak under a security law. Maria Chin Abdullah, the chair of pro-democracy group Bersih, was detained on Friday under Malaysia's Security Offences (Special Measures) Act, or SOSMA, a law that was introduced in 2012 to fight security and extremist threats. "We are troubled by the ongoing detention and solitary confinement of Maria Chin Abdullah under national security laws," Alicia Edwards, a spokeswoman for the U.S. State Department, told Reuters in an emailed statement.
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| Pleading innocence, wanted general says Turkey's purge ruining military | |  By Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A sacked Turkish general, wanted in connection with a failed coup attempt in July, has told Reuters in an interview that the government's purge of top commanders and pilots is inflicting deep long-term damage on the second-biggest army in NATO. Mehmet Yalinalp, who was head of NATO's air command strategy in Germany at the time of the coup attempt, said he was fired a week later. "The impact is disastrous," Yalinalp said of the crackdown since the July 15 putsch, in which he denies involvement.
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| "Love & Hip Hop" creators win dismissal of copyright lawsuit | |  Viacom Inc and the creators of "Love & Hip Hop" have won the dismissal of a federal lawsuit claiming they stole the idea for the popular VH1 reality TV franchise. In a decision made public on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Dean Pregerson in Los Angeles said 8th Wonder Entertainment LLC, Nickie Lum-Davis and Trisha Lum failed to show substantial similarity between "Love & Hip Hop" and their "Hip Hop Wives." The plaintiffs said they pitched their work in 2009 and thought VH1 had given a green light, only to have the network back away because it did not want another "urban" show with a similar audience to its "Basketball Wives." But they said the original "Love & Hip Hop," which premiered in March 2011, ended up being "virtually identical" to "Hip Hop Wives," and even featured one of its proposed cast members, Chrissy Lampkin.
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| Flying drone smuggles cell-phone, saw blade into Danish prison | | | A drone flew a load of illegal items to an inmate's cell on the fourth floor of a Danish prison, the Danish Prison Union said on Wednesday, presumably to help bust the inmate out. The drone carried two mobile phones, a saw blade and various bolts across the Nyborg Prison's wall and successfully delivered them to the inmate through the cell's window on Tuesday night before disappearing. Prison guards immediately discovered the drop and seized the items, but did not catch the drone nor the person controlling it. |
| Slovak prime minister tells journalists they are "dirty prostitutes" | | | Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico told journalists they were "dirty, anti-Slovak prostitutes" on Wednesday when asked about allegations that public procurement rules had been broken for cultural events marking Slovakia's European Union presidency. Fico has long had poor relations with media critical of him or his government, refusing questions from certain journalists and in some cases filing lawsuits. At Wednesday's regular news conference after the weekly cabinet meeting, Fico became angry when asked about allegations made on Sunday by Zuzana Hlavkova and anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International. |
| Bahrain sentences six to life in prison for attempted police bombing | | | A Bahraini court has sentenced six people to life in prison for targeting police by planting a bomb near the entrance to the town of Maameer in May last year, the kingdom's public prosecution office said on Wednesday. Bahrain, which hosts the U.S. Fifth Fleet, has grappled with persistent, low-level violence between largely Shi'ite demonstrators and police since the government crushed an Arab Spring-inspired protest movement in 2011. |
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