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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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| UK's Mr Brexit says no vacancy for ambassador to United States | |  Britain's Brexit Secretary David Davis said on Tuesday there was no vacancy for the job of ambassador to Washington as the incumbent was very good. U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said many people would like to see Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage as British ambassador to Washington. The ambassador there is very very good, as we've seen," Davis told the BBC.
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| Willing to oppose Trump, some U.S. Senate Republicans gain leverage | | | By Ginger Gibson and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It is no surprise that Democrats in the U.S. Congress will oppose Donald Trump but the most important resistance to fulfilling the president-elect's agenda is beginning to emerge from Republicans on Capitol Hill. A small number of influential Republicans in the Senate are threatening to block appointments to Trump's administration, derail his thaw with Russia and prevent the planned wall on the border with Mexico. |
| China arrests three Australian Crown Resorts employees | | | Three Australian employees of casino operator Crown Resorts Ltd detained in China since mid-October have been formally arrested on suspicion of gambling offences, Australia's foreign minister said on Tuesday. The detention of the Australian nationals, who include Crown's head of international VIP gambling, Jason O'Connor, held along with 14 other Crown employees, has sparked concern of a wider crackdown on gambling in China. Foreign minister Julie Bishop said in a brief statement emailed to Reuters that the Australian government had been notified of the arrests. |
| Turkey's pro-Kurdish opposition to return to parliament, ending boycott - officials | | | ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) will resume participation in parliamentary sessions from Tuesday, party officials said, ending a boycott it launched this month after the arrest of its two co-leaders. The party would resume taking part in sessions in the general assembly from Tuesday, three HDP officials told Reuters, without giving further details. Turkey drew international condemnation for the arrest of the leaders and other lawmakers from the HDP, the second-largest opposition grouping in parliament, as part of a terrorism investigation. ... |
| From soldiers to midwives, Turkey dismisses 15,000 more after coup bid | | | By Tuvan Gumrukcu ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey on Tuesday dismissed 15,000 more officials, from soldiers and police officers to tax inspectors and midwives, and shut 375 institutions and news outlets, deepening purges condemned by Western allies and rights groups after a failed coup. European allies have criticised the breadth of the purges under President Tayyip Erdogan, with some calling for a freezing of Turkey's EU membership talks. Erdogan has rejected such criticism, saying Turkey is determined to root out its enemies at home and abroad, and could reintroduce the death penalty. |
| Palestinian tries to stab Israeli security guard, shot dead - Israeli police | |  An Israeli security guard shot and killed a Palestinian who tried to stab him at a busy checkpoint in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, Israeli police said. Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said the Palestinian was brandishing a knife and approached the guard on foot in the vehicle lane of the Qalandiya checkpoint. At least 228 Palestinians have been killed in violence in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip since October 2015.
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| Hundreds more Myanmar Rohingya flee to Bangladesh - aid workers | |  By Mohammad Nurul Islam and Wa Lone COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh/YANGON (Reuters) - Hundreds of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar crossed the border to Bangladesh over the weekend and on Monday, aid workers said, seeking shelter from escalating violence in the northwest that has killed at least 86 people and displaced some 30,000. An official from the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the United Nations' migration agency, who did not want to be identified, said he had witnessed more than 500 people enter its camps in the hills near the border on Monday. Aid workers from other United Nations agencies and Reuters reporters in the IOM camps also reported seeing Rohingyas who said they had recently fled the fighting in Myanmar.
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| UKIP's Farage: I can help UK build ties with Trump | |  Leading Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage said on Tuesday he was in a good position to help Britain build ties with Donald Trump after the U.S. President-elect tweeted that Farage should be British ambassador to Washington. "I have known several of the Trump team for years and I am in a good position with the President-elect's support to help," Farage, leader of the opposition UK Independence Party (UKIP), wrote in a column for the Breitbart website. Trump, who after his election victory met Farage ahead of any EU leaders, had said on Twitter that "many people" would like to see the UKIP leader, who is on very bad terms with the ruling Conservatives, as Britain's ambassador.
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| Court says Republican gerrymandering in Wisconsin was unconstitutional | |  By Brendan O'Brien MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Republicans in Wisconsin tilted district maps in their favor in order to hamper Democrats and ultimately win state elections in 2012 and 2014, a federal court said on Monday in a case that could influence future rulings on gerrymandering. The United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin decided 2-1 that Act 43, a redrawing of districts approved by the state's Republican-led legislature in 2012, violated the U.S. Constitution, court documents showed. "We find that the discriminatory effect is not explained by the political geography of Wisconsin nor is it justified by a legitimate state interest," the court wrote in its ruling.
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| Trump's pullout of TPP opens way for China | |  By Ami Miyazaki and Tom Westbrook TOKYO/SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Asia-Pacific trade deal stands almost no chance of working now that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has pulled the plug on it, proponents of the pact said on Tuesday, opening the way for China to assume the leadership mantle on trade. Japan and Australia expressed their commitment to the pact on Tuesday, hours after Trump vowed to withdraw from the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership on his first day in office, calling the deal "a potential disaster for our country." Trump's declaration appeared to snuff out any hopes for the deal, a signature trade initiative of President Barack Obama, five years in the making and meant to cover 40 percent of the world economy. The TPP, which aims to cut trade barriers in some of Asia's fastest-growing economies and stretch from Canada to Vietnam, can't take effect without the United States.
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| Turkey's nationalist opposition: AKP's constitutional change bill reasonable | |  The leader of Turkey's nationalist opposition said on Tuesday his party views the ruling AK Party's proposed bill to change the constitution as reasonable, indicating support of legislation likely to give President Tayyip Erdogan more power. Speaking at a weekly parliamentary group meeting, Devlet Bahceli also said there were several points in the proposal that would require consultations between the two parties, but that these could be overcome. The AK Party's bill plans to expand the powers of the presidency, in line with Erdogan's long-standing ambition to establish an executive presidency.
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| Struggling Australian PM wins much-needed victories in Parliament | |  By Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, whose leadership has been questioned after political setbacks, on Tuesday won a much-needed victory in parliament, with the passage of two controversial bills. Australia's Senate, which the government does not control, passed a labour bill that it had previously blocked, triggering an election in July. Turnbull has seen his poll numbers hit their lowest since taking power in September 2015, and political commentators have questioned his future as prime minister, as confidence erodes in Australia's fourth leader in the last six years.
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| Egypt court overturns life sentence against ex-president Mursi | |  Egypt's Court of Cassation overturned on Tuesday a life sentence against deposed President Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood and ordered a retrial in the case that revolves around accusations of espionage with Palestinian group Hamas. The court last week overturned a death sentence against Mursi in a separate case, meaning he no longer faces execution. Democratically elected after the 2011 uprising, Mursi was overthrown in mid-2013 by Abdel Fattah al-Sisi following mass protests against his rule, and was immediately arrested.
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