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| Defiant mourners in Berlin defend multicultural city | |  By Emma Thomasson BERLIN (Reuters) - Residents of Berlin warned on Tuesday against making hasty judgements about asylum-seekers after a 23-year-old Pakistani man was arrested in connection with a truck attack on a Christmas market that killed 12 people. Oliver Horn, a German architect, put up a poster in French next to a pile of flowers near the attack site in West Berlin reading "Meme pas peur" (Not even scared!), a slogan that was used to show solidarity after the Paris attacks last year. "I am afraid that people will become even more intolerant with this whole question of asylum-seekers in Germany," he added.
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| Zurich mosque gunman was Swiss, no Islamist link - police | |  By Silke Koltrowitz ZURICH (Reuters) - A gunman who shot three worshippers in a Zurich mosque on Monday evening was a 24-year-old Swiss man with Ghanaian roots and no apparent links to Islamist radicalism, police said on Tuesday. The suspect, whom they did not identify by name, is thought to have killed another man in Zurich on Sunday. "He is Swiss and we don't know anything about the motives," Christiane Lentjes Meili, head of criminal investigations for the Zurich cantonal police, told a news conference.
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| Even as the centre holds, Europe's minority governments struggle | |  By Padraic Halpin and Julien Toyer DUBLIN/MADRID (Reuters) - Europe's growing number of shaky minority and coalition governments mostly managed to muddle through 2016 but their lack of political strength suggests they will not be pursuing many major policy initiatives in 2017. Opposition threats to flagship labour reforms in Spain and difficulties passing new residential rental laws in Ireland last week exposed the fragility of incumbents who returned to power this year but in a much weakened form. Bulgaria is braced for months of uncertainty and threats to necessary economic reforms by the fall of its centre-right minority government, while weeks of policy battles almost toppled minority administrations in Norway and Denmark.
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| Guinea soldier wanted for stadium massacre arrested in Senegal | |  By Saliou Samb CONAKRY (Reuters) - Senegal authorities have arrested a Guinean soldier linked to a 2009 massacre in Conakry where at least 150 people were killed and dozens of women raped, a Senegalese security source said on Tuesday. The Sept. 28, 2009, incident in Guinea's capital is seen as one of the worst acts of repression in West Africa's recent history and Human Rights Watch called the arrest a breakthrough in the bid to bring justice. In that incident, security forces opened fire on pro-democracy protestors who had gathered at the stadium to put pressure on then junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara not to stand at an election the following year.
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| EU agrees new gun rules after militant attacks | |  The European Union agreed stricter gun rules on Tuesday but balked at a proposal for a complete ban on the most lethal semi-automatic weapons such as the Kalashnikov. The measure is part of an overall tightening of EU rules that govern the purchase and sale of such weapons since two Islamist gunmen shot dead 12 people in the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in January 2015. "We have fought hard for an ambitious deal that reduces the risk of shootings in schools, summer camps or terrorist attacks with legally held firearms," European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said in statement.
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| Former Flint officials criminally charged in water crisis - media | |  Michigan prosecutors on Tuesday charged four former government officials with criminal conspiracy to violate safety rules in connection with the Flint water crisis, which exposed residents to dangerous levels of lead, local media reported. Former state-appointed emergency managers Darnell Earley and Gerald Ambrose and former city employees Howard Croft, a public works superintendent, and Daugherty Johnson, a utilities manager, were the latest to be charged in the case, the Detroit Free Press reported, citing Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette.
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| Several killed in protests calling for Congo's Kabila to step down | |  By Tim Cocks and Aaron Ross KINSHASA (Reuters) - Security forces shot dead several protesters who had gathered in the streets of Kinshasa on Tuesday to demand that Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila step down after his mandate expired overnight. Scattered protests started on Tuesday, and opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi called on the Congolese people to peacefully resist Kabila, who has remained in power beyond his constitutional mandate with no election to pick a successor. Gunfire crackled in several districts of the capital Kinshasa, a city of 12 million, as measures to thwart dissent raised fears of bloody repression.
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| Berlin Christmas market attack threatens European tourism again | |  By Victoria Bryan BERLIN (Reuters) - The truck attack on a Christmas market in Berlin on Monday evening is the latest blow for Europe's tourism industry, hitting a city that had been attracting more and more visitors in recent years. The truck ploughed into a crowd enjoying mulled wine and festive food at a popular tourist location in former West Berlin, killing 12 people and injuring 48 in what German authorities said seemed to be a deliberate attack. "Christmas markets are a big attraction for German cities, including Berlin, and this attack will no doubt impact the amount of visitors for the remainder of this year," Wouter Geerts, travel analyst at Euromonitor, said.
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| Austria arrests Moroccan on suspicion of planning attack in Salzburg | | | Austria has arrested a 25-year-old asylum seeker from Morocco on suspicion of planning an attack during the holiday season in the city of Salzburg, prosecutors said on Tuesday. A search on Monday of an accommodation centre for asylum seekers in the town of Fuschl am See, where the man was living, found "no materials clearly required for the execution of an attack", the Salzburg prosecutors' office said in a statement. Independently of the arrest, Austria is deploying more police at busy public places and tightening other security measures in response to Monday's attack on a Christmas market in Berlin in which 12 people were killed. |
| Berlin Christmas markets shut, others tighten security | |  By Caroline Copley BERLIN (Reuters) - Christmas markets in Berlin stayed shut on Tuesday as the city mourned the victims of the previous evening's truck rampage, while security measures were stepped up at similar events elsewhere in Germany and abroad. Germany's interior ministry said other Christmas markets and large gatherings would not be called off, and appropriate steps to increase security should be decided at each location. Flags flew at half mast out of respect for those killed when a truck ploughed into a crowd at a market by Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm memorial church on Monday.
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| Remains of slain Russian diplomat sent home from Ankara airport | |  The remains of Russian envoy Andrey Karlov were sent back to Moscow from Turkey on Tuesday, a day after he was shot dead by an off-duty police officer in the Turkish capital. The white, red and blue Russian flag was draped on the casket as a Russian Orthodox priest recited prayers in a ceremony at the Ankara airport. Top ministers from the Turkish government also made spoke in memorial to Karlov.
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| Refugees plead with Germans not to tar them with suspicion | |  By Joseph Nasr BERLIN (Reuters) - Refugees in Berlin pleaded with their host nation to avoid placing migrants under a blanket of suspicion after police commandos raided their shelter, which had been home to a man arrested over a truck attack on a crowded Christmas market. "We are of course worried," said Ibrahim Sufi, a 26-year-old Syrian living in Hangar 7 at the former Tempelhof airport, an imposing structure built by Hitler to showcase Nazi might and now being used to house migrants.
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| Gunmen and security forces exchange heavy gunfire near city of Karak - security forces | | | Jordanian security forces clashed with unidentified gunmen after a raid on a house in a village on the outskirts of the southern city of Karak where suspected militants were believed to be hiding, security sources said. Jordan has launched a manhunt in search of suspects who may have had links to four militants who attacked police in the city of Karak in a shootout in which at least nine people were killed. The militant group Islamic State on Tuesday claimed responsibility for the operation, in which the four assailants were later killed. |
| Bulgaria faces early parliamentary election next spring | |  By Tsvetelia Tsolova SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria is heading towards an early parliamentary election next spring after talks to form a new government under the mandate of a small right-wing party failed on Tuesday, officials said. The Balkan country has been in political limbo since centre-right Prime Minister Boiko Borisov resigned last month following the victory of Rumen Radev, a Russia-friendly candidate backed by the opposition Socialists, in the presidential election. The current parliament is unable to form a government and we are heading towards early elections," Tsvetan Tsvetanov, deputy chief of Borisov's GERB party, told reporters.
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| Polish truck driver dropped out of contact four hours before Berlin attack | |  By Jakub Iglewski and Pawel Florkiewicz WARSAW (Reuters) - The Polish truck driver whose vehicle was used in an attack on a Berlin Christmas market on Monday had arrived hours earlier in the German capital and spoken to his wife about 3 p.m., according to his cousin. "At 3.45 p.m. you can see the movement on the GPS (Global Positioning System). As if someone was learning to drive it," Zurawski told Polish public broadcaster TVP Info on Tuesday.
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| Cyrus Mistry launches legal battle against Tata Sons - sources | |  By Promit Mukherjee and Euan Rocha MUMBAI (Reuters) - Tata Sons' ousted chairman Cyrus Mistry ratcheted up his battle against the $100 billion software-to-salt conglomerate by launching legal proceedings on Tuesday, two sources familiar with the matter said. Mistry made a surprise move on Monday to resign from the boards of all listed Tata companies. Mistry has cited the Act's sections 241 and 242, which deal with shareholder oppression and mismanagement, one of the sources said.
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| Tennis champ Petra Kvitova suffers knife attack, injures playing hand | |  By Robert Muller PRAGUE (Reuters) - Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova suffered severe injuries to her playing hand on Tuesday defending herself from a knife-wielding intruder in her apartment, an attack she said left her "fortunate to be alive". The tennis world number 11 said she would need to consult specialists about the injury, and gave no indication when she might be able to play again. "The injury is severe and I will need to see specialists, but if you know anything about me I am strong and I will fight this." Kvitova was attacked in her flat in the city of Prostejov, about 260 km (160 miles) southeast of Prague, the site of a tennis club where she, men's world number 10 Tomas Berdych and other top-ranked Czech tennis players train.
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| 'Santa Claus isn't coming,' recession-hit Venezuelans tell kids | |  By Andreina Aponte CARACAS (Reuters) - As a harrowing economic crisis makes food scarce for millions of Venezuelans, many families cannot buy their children Christmas presents, decorate their home, or even host a holiday dinner. With a recent currency depreciation pumping up prices even higher, some parents are simply canceling Christmas. "Last year I bought everything for my daughter," said Dileida Palacios, a 40-year-old hairdresser dressed in black to mourn her son killed in crime-rife Venezuela a few weeks ago.
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| Tata Sons says will contest allegations of former chairman Mistry | |  India's Tata Sons, which is entangled in a pitched battle against its former chairman Cyrus Mistry, has said that it is consulting its lawyers and will contest the allegations leveled by the former top boss. The statement issued by Tata Sons was in response to the legal proceedings launched by Mistry on Tuesday accusing the $100 billion conglomerate of "oppression and mismanagement." Tata Sons said Mistry's assertions has been a "personal issue" and reflects his deep animosity towards the group patriarch Ratan Tata. "Mistry has not been able to graciously accept the decision of the very same Board that appointed him," the company said in a statement.
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| German police say arrested man may not be Christmas market attacker | |  By Michelle Martin and Sabine Siebold BERLIN (Reuters) - A Pakistani asylum-seeker arrested on suspicion of killing 12 people by mowing through a Berlin Christmas market in a truck may not be the attacker, and the real perpetrator could still be on the run, German police said on Tuesday. News of the arrest of the 23-year-old Pakistani led politicians in Germany and beyond to demand a crackdown on immigration. Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters: "There is much we still do not know with sufficient certainty but we must, as things stand now, assume it was a terrorist attack." She added: "I know it would be especially hard for us all to bear if it were confirmed that the person who committed this act was someone who sought protection and asylum." In a dramatic twist, police later said the suspect had denied the offence and might not be the right man.
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| Renzi plots path back to Italian power from Tuscan basement | |  By Steve Scherer ROME (Reuters) - Three days after resigning as Italian prime minister and before his successor took office, Matteo Renzi typed a late-night Facebook post from his family home near Florence that seemed to cast doubt on his future. Since stepping down on Dec. 7 after a crushing referendum defeat over his flagship constitutional reform, newspapers have conjured up images of Renzi sitting in rush-hour traffic while driving his three kids to school, writing his memoirs and entertaining lucrative job offers outside politics. Renzi staked his government on the plan designed to make Italy more governable but which almost 20 million voters rejected in the referendum.
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| UK PM and Murdoch did not discuss Sky bid at September meeting - minister | |  Prime Minister Theresa May did not discuss with Rupert Murdoch the proposed takeover of UK pay-TV group Sky by the tycoon's Twenty-First Century Fox at a September meeting, Britain's media minister said on Tuesday. May had met Murdoch during a meeting in New York, three months before Fox launched its approach for Sky earlier in December. "She (May) had a pre-arranged meeting with Wall Street Journal editors," Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Karen Bradley told parliament in reply to a question from a lawmaker.
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| Tennis champion Kvitova "badly injured" on playing hand, to see specialists | |  Two-time Wimbledon tennis champion Petra Kvitova said on Tuesday she had been "badly injured" on her left playing hand after being attacked by a knife-wielding intruder in her apartment and would need to see specialists about the injury.
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| Berlin police uncertain arrested Pakistani was truck driver | |  The Berlin police chief said on Tuesday it was not clear if the Pakistani man arrested after a deadly trunk rampage at a Christmas market was the driver of the vehicle. "As far as I know it is in fact uncertain whether that really was the driver," said Berlin Police President Klaus Kandt. Berlin police said on Twitter that they were being vigilant as the suspect had denied involvement in the incident, which police have said was a deliberate attack.
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| Berlin police to boost security in coming days after attack | |  BERLIN (Reuters) - Police in Berlin will significantly increase security measures in the coming days, with steps such as erecting barriers, after the attack on a Christmas market on Monday evening which killed 12 people, the president of the city's police said. Berlin city's interior senator also said that plans for New Year's Eve will go ahead but security steps will be reviewed. (Reporting by Michelle Martin and Paul Carrel; Writing by Madeline Chambers)
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| Deadly attacks in Western Europe since 2014 | |  Following are some of the deadly attacks in Western Europe over the past two years: Dec. 19, 2016 - A truck ploughs into a crowded Christmas market in central Berlin, killing 12 people and injuring 48. German Chancellor Angela Merkel says authorities are assuming it was a terrorist attack. French President Francois Hollande says the two hostage-takers had pledged allegiance to Islamic State.
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| China publishes supervisory list for foreign NGOs | | | China's Ministry of Public Security published on Tuesday a list of government bodies that will act as a go-between with the ministry and foreign non-governmental organisations (NGO), ahead of the enforcement of a controversial new law. President Xi Jinping's administration has made sweeping changes to the law in the name of boosting national security, including a controversial cyber security law passed last month and another targeting foreign NGOs, slated for Jan. 1. A main concern had been the failure to publish a list of "supervisory units" to be government middleman with the Ministry of Public Security, which has ultimate responsibility for registration and management. |
| Former senior Chinese official jailed for life for graft | | | A Chinese court on Tuesday jailed for life a former deputy governor of the province of Shanxi for corruption, state television said, as the government presses on with its crackdown on deeply engrained graft. The court found that Du Shanxue, who was put under investigation in 2014, abused his position and took bribes worth 80 million yuan ($11.52 million) between 2003 and 2013, state television said. Du had also given 100,000 euros to another former senior politician called Ling Zhengce, the report added, without giving details. |
| British shale gas gets boost from court ruling on permit | | | By Karolin Schaps LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's High Court ruled on Tuesday that a fracking permit awarded by a local council to developer Third Energy was legal, after it was challenged by environmental campaigners, opening the way to shale gas extraction in the UK. Substantial amounts of shale gas are estimated to be trapped in underground rocks and the British government wants to exploit it to help offset declining North Sea oil and gas output, create some 64,000 jobs and help economic growth. The contested permit in Yorkshire, in the north of England, was the first approval for shale gas fracking since a moratorium was lifted in 2012. |
| Merkel says asylum-seeker may have carried out Christmas market attack | |  By Michelle Martin and Sabine Siebold BERLIN (Reuters) - Investigators said they suspect the driver of a truck that ploughed into a crowd at a Berlin Christmas market, killing 12 people and injuring 48, did so in a deliberate terrorist attack, and Chancellor Angela Merkel said he may have been an asylum-seeker. Merkel told reporters: "There is much we still do not know with sufficient certainty but we must, as things stand now, assume it was a terrorist attack." She added: "I know it would be especially hard for us all to bear if it were confirmed that the person who committed this act was someone who sought protection and asylum." The incident evoked memories of an attack in Nice, France in July when a Tunisian-born man drove a 19-tonne truck along the beach front, mowing down people who had gathered to watch the fireworks on Bastille Day, killing 86 people.
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| Polish police force protesters away from parliament, put up barriers | |  Polish police erected metal barriers around parliament early on Tuesday, forcing demonstrators away from the building where they were protesting against government plans to restrict media access to the debating chamber. The protesters had earlier set up a few tents on the other side of the street. The measures have brought hundreds of thousands of protesters onto the streets over the past year and raised concerns among Poland's European partners.
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| France seeks to reassure on Christmas festivities after Berlin attack | |  By Brian Love PARIS (Reuters) - France's government sought on Tuesday to reassure the public about safety during year-end festivities after a suspected militant attack on a Christmas market in Berlin, saying security forces were working round the clock to prevent such violence. French Interior Minister Bruno Le Roux met his German counterpart in Berlin hours before a truck mowed into crowds at a Christmas market there on Monday evening, killing 12 and injuring dozens more in what police say was a suspected terrorist attack.] The Berlin incident revived memories of the attack last July 14 in which a man drove a large truck into crowds of people celebrating the Bastille Day national holiday in the French Riviera city of Nice, killing 86.
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| Belgium says will "re-examine" relations with former colony Congo | |  KINSHASA (Reuters) - Former colonial power Belgium said on Tuesday that it will "re-examine" its relations with Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila after he failed to step down when his mandate expired on Monday. Kabila, who has ruled since 2001, was required by constitutional term limits to leave office but his government says the presidential election to replace him cannot take place until 2018. ...
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