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| Berlin market attack suspect killed in shootout in Italy - security source | |  BERLIN/MILAN (Reuters) - A man believed to be the suspect in the Berlin Christmas market truck attack was killed in a shoot-out in a suburb of the northern Italian city of Milan on Friday, a security source told Reuters. The report was one of several conflicting accounts on the whereabouts of the 24-year-old Tunisian Anis Amri. Amri was also was caught on camera by police on a regular stake-out at a mosque in Berlin's Moabit district early on Tuesday a few hours after the attack, Germany's rbb public broadcaster reported.
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| China detains legal activist on suspicion of subversion | | | Chinese authorities have confirmed prominent legal activist Jiang Tianyong has been detained on suspicion of inciting subversion of state power, his lawyer said on Friday, setting the stage for possible formal charges. Disbarred lawyer Jiang, 45, has spoken out about a government crackdown on legal defenders and has been involved in high-profile cases of dissidents who have angered authorities, including blind activist Chen Guangcheng, who left China after he fled to the U.S. embassy in 2012. Jiang's family had been unable to locate him despite police saying he was released on Dec. 1 after spending nine days in detention. |
| Berlin market attack suspect killed in shootout in Italy - security source | | | ROME (Reuters) - A man believed to be the suspect in the Berlin Christmas market truck attack was killed in a shoot-out in a suburb of the northern Italian city of Milan on Friday, a security source told Reuters. The Italian interior minister will hold a news conference at 10.45 a.m. (0945 GMT), the ministry said. (Reporting by Emilio Parodi; Editing by Robin Pomeroy) |
| West Africa regional bloc says forces "on alert" for Gambia | |  BAMAKO (Reuters) - West Africa's regional bloc has put standby forces "on alert" in case Gambian president Yahya Jammeh does not step down when his mandate ends on Jan. 19, president of the ECOWAS commission Marcel de Souza said late on Thursday. Jammeh has vowed to stay in power despite losing a Dec. 1 election to rival Adama Barrow. ECOWAS has previously warned him that it would take "all necessary actions" to resolve the impasse. ...
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| Man matching Berlin market attacker description seen in Denmark | | | COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - A man matching the description of the man suspected of killing 12 people with a truck at a Berlin Christmas market on Tuesday has been seen in Aalborg in northern Denmark, the Danish police tweeted on Friday. The police said people should keep away from the area as it had an ongoing operation there. (Reporting by Teis Jensen; Editing by Robin Pomeroy) |
| As alliance wavers, U.S. says gave Philippines big annual defence aid boost | |  By Manuel Mogato MANILA (Reuters) - The United States provided the Philippines with $127 million in security assistance in the 12 months ended in September, the biggest sum in about 15 years, overlapping with a stream of angry threats from President Rodrigo Duterte to sever their defence alliance. The U.S. embassy in Manila on Friday confirmed its longtime Asian ally had received a 154 percent increase in military assistance from the 2014-2015 period, the biggest sum since American forces returned to the Philippines in 2002. The aid boost went mostly into items such as communications equipment, small arms, replacement parts for hardware and coastal radar for maritime security.
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| Opposition says Congo politicians agree Kabila transition deal | |  By Aaron Ross KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congolese politicians have agreed in principle to a deal under which President Joseph Kabila leaves office by the end of 2017, opposition leaders said on Friday, an unexpected breakthrough after dozens were killed in anti-government protests this week. In return, the constitution cannot be changed to let Kabila stand for a third term, a prime minister will be named from the main opposition bloc and its leader Etienne Tshisekedi will oversee the implementation of the deal, Martin Fayulu and Jose Endundo told Reuters. "He will not try to stand for a new term." A government spokesman declined to comment on the specifics of the deal, which requires final approval by all the delegates at negotiations mediated by Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) Catholic Church.
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| Turkey detains 31 in operation targeting Islamic State - NTV | | | Turkish authorities detained 31 people on Friday suspected of links to Islamic State, broadcaster NTV said, as clashes between Turkish soldiers and the jihadist group intensified in northern Syria. Turkey issued arrest warrants for 41 people in Istanbul for "being members of an armed terrorist organisation", NTV said. Turkey launched a military incursion into Syria on Aug. 24 in support of Syrian rebels to try to push Islamic State away from the border area, and has frequently carried out raids on suspected jihadist safe-houses in Istanbul and other cities. |
| Asia on Christmas alert as police foil two bomb plots | |  By Fransiska Nangoy and Panarat Thepgumpanat JAKARTA/BANGKOK (Reuters) - Security forces across Asia were on alert on Friday ahead of the Christmas and New Year holidays, as police in Australia and Indonesia said they had foiled bomb plots and Malaysian security forces arrested suspected militants. Australian police said they had prevented attacks on prominent sites in Melbourne on Christmas Day that authorities described as "an imminent terrorist event" inspired by Islamic State. The announcement came after an attack in Berlin in which a Tunisian suspect smashed through a Christmas market in a truck on Monday, killing 12 people.
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| U.S. hits Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank with toxic debt penalties | |  By Michael Shields and Arno Schuetze ZURICH/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank have been hit with a combined penalty of more than $12 billion over the sale of U.S. toxic debt, further hampering two of Europe's leading investment banks as they grapple with falling profits. The penalty puts them at a further disadvantage to larger U.S. rivals. Credit Suisse agreed in principle to pay U.S. authorities $2.48 billion to settle claims it misled investors in residential mortgage-backed securities it sold in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis, the Swiss bank said on Friday.
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| Australia assures fans over Boxing Day security fears | |  Cricket Australia has assured fans over security arrangements for the Boxing Day (Dec. 26) test against Pakistan on Friday after police foiled a plot to attack prominent sites in Melbourne with a series of bombs on Christmas Day. About 400 police and members of Australia's domestic spy agency conducted overnight raids on homes in the suburbs of Melbourne and arrested six men and a woman, all Australian citizens in their 20s. "Our security team is in contact with the relevant authorities to ensure we have the appropriate level of security at the Boxing Day test and other cricket matches being held around the country," CA chief executive James Sutherland said.
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| Deutsche Bank agrees to $7.2 billion mortgage settlement with U.S. | |  By Karen Freifeld, Arno Schuetze and Kathrin Jones NEW YORK/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank has agreed to a $7.2 billion settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice over its sale and pooling of toxic mortgage securities in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis. The agreement in principle, announced by Deutsche Bank's Frankfurt headquarters early Friday morning, offers some relief to the German lender, whose stock was hit hard in September after it acknowledged the Justice Department had been seeking nearly twice as much. It also highlights the Justice Department's recent efforts to hold European banks accountable for shoddy securities that contributed to the U.S. housing market collapse.
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| Credit Suisse agrees $5.3 billion U.S. deal on mortgages | |  Credit Suisse had agreed in principle to pay U.S. authorities $2.48 billion to settle claims it misled investors in residential mortgage-backed securities it sold in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis, the Swiss bank said on Friday. Credit Suisse will also provide $2.8 billion in consumer relief over five years from the settlement, it said in a statement, adding the deal was subject to negotiation of final documentation and approval by its board of directors. "Credit Suisse will take a pre-tax charge of approximately $2 billion in addition to its existing reserves against these matters.
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| Swiss Raiffeisen group pays no penalty in talks with U.S. DOJ | |  ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss cooperative banking group Raiffeisen has wrapped up talks with U.S. justice officials on whether it helped wealthy Americans dodge taxes and does not have to pay a fine, it said on Friday. Raiffeisen, Switzerland's third-biggest bank, three years ago decided to qualify itself as one of the Swiss financial institutions that had not committed any offenses under U.S. tax law. An accord with the U.S. Department of Justice this week "creates legal certainty and ends the tax conflict without payment of a penalty", it said in a statement. (Reporting by Michael Shields)
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| Australia makes arrests over 'imminent threat' of Christmas Day attacks | |  By Tom Westbrook SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian police said on Friday they had foiled a plot to attack prominent sites in the city of Melbourne with a series of bombs on Christmas Day that authorities described as "an imminent terrorist event" inspired by Islamic State. Police laid terrorism charges against one man, and were expected to charge at least three others, after authorities conducted overnight raids on homes in the suburbs of Australia's second-largest city. Six men and a woman, all Australian citizens in their 20s, were arrested during the raids, which were conducted by about 400 police and members of Australia's domestic spy agency.
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| Racist rant at Kentucky mall prompts ban, apology from mayor | | | A racist, expletive-filled rant caught on camera at a Louisville, Kentucky, mall has led to a permanent ban for a shopper and prompted an apology from the city's mayor. The video shows a white woman standing in a checkout line at a JCPenney department store in the Jefferson Mall and berating two women who shopper Renee Buckner, who posted the footage on Facebook on Tuesday, said were Hispanic. |
| Video of Texas mother's arrest starts social media storm | | | By Lisa Maria Garza DALLAS (Reuters) - A video showing a white Fort Worth police officer in an escalating argument with a black woman he took into custody along with the woman's daughters touched off a social media storm on Thursday, stoking a debate on race and U.S. policing. The woman identified by relatives as Jacqueline Craig, 46, was put on the ground and the officer held a stun gun to her back after they argued about a man she said had choked her 7-year-old son for throwing paper on the ground. "The initial appearance of the video may raise serious questions," Fort Worth police said in a statement. |
| German police arrest two men suspected of planning shopping mall attack | | | BERLIN (Reuters) - Police special forces arrested two men suspected of planning an attack on a shopping mall in Oberhausen in the West German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, police said on Friday. The suspects, two brothers aged 28 and 31 who were born in Kosovo, were arrested in the city of Duisburg after information provided by security sources, police said in a statement. It was not clear if there was any connection with Monday's attack on a Berlin Christmas market that killed 12 people. Police are searching for a Tunisian suspect whose fingerprints were found inside the truck. ... |
| U.S. sues Barclays, ex-execs for mortgage securities fraud | |  By Karen Freifeld NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday sued Barclays Plc and two former executives on civil charges of fraud in the sale of mortgage-backed securities during the run-up to the 2008-09 financial crisis. The lawsuit was filed after Barclays resisted a penalty the U.S. government had sought in settlement negotiations, a person familiar with the matter said. Major U.S. banks, including JPMorgan Chase & Co and Bank of America Corp, have paid tens of millions of dollars to settle similar claims over misconduct in the sale and pooling of mortgage securities, which helped to cause the financial crisis.
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