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| Almost 300 arrested as anti-president protests subside in Congo | |  By Aaron Ross and Tim Cocks KINSHASA (Reuters) - Police said they had arrested 275 people across Democratic Republic of Congo as two days of protests against President Joseph Kabila appeared to subside on Wednesday. Sporadic gunfire rang out over the capital and witnesses reported clashes in the southeastern mining hub of Lubumbashi, but nothing on the scale of the violence when youths took to the streets on Tuesday accusing Kabila of trying to cling to power. Police said 21 civilians and one officer had been killed in the protests that erupted as Kabila's mandate expired without any elections in place to pick a successor.
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| Turkish prosecutors probing why Russian envoy's killer not taken alive - state media | |  By Ece Toksabay ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish prosecutors are investigating why the off-duty policeman who shot dead Russia's ambassador to Turkey was not captured alive, state media said on Wednesday, as the number of people arrested over the killing rose to 11. Ambassador Andrei Karlov was gunned down from behind while delivering a speech in an Ankara art gallery on Monday. Russian and Turkey both cast the attack as an attempt to ruin a recent thawing of relations chilled by the civil war in Syria, where they back opposing sides.
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| Germany police hunt Tunisian asylum-seeker over Christmas market attack | |  By Michael Nienaber and Matthias Inverardi BERLIN/DUESSELDORF (Reuters) - German police are looking for an asylum-seeker from Tunisia after finding an identity document under the driver's seat of a truck that ploughed into a Berlin Christmas market and killed 12 people, officials and security sources said on Wednesday. The federal prosecutor's office said it was offering a reward of up to 100,000 euros ($104,000) for information leading to the capture of the suspect, whom it identified as 24-year-old Anis Amri. Amri's father and security sources told Tunisia's Radio Mosaique that he had left Tunisia seven years ago as an illegal immigrant and had spent time in prison in Italy.
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| German market attack suspect left Tunisia seven years ago - Tunisian radio | |  A Tunisian man suspected in the Berlin Christmas market attack left Tunisia seven years ago as an illegal immigrant and spent time in prison in Italy, his father and security sources told Tunisia's Radio Mosaique on Wednesday. The radio reported on its website that security sources had named the suspect as Anis Amri from Oueslatia in rural central Tunisia. The father told the radio station that his son had left for Germany a year ago.
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| Clashes between police, militia in northwest Congo kill 18 | | | Clashes between police and a militia led by a Christian pastor in northwestern Congo's Mongala province killed 15 militiamen and three policemen, the former deputy commissioner of Mongala said on Wednesday. Police battled the militia loyal to the pastor from the Kimbanguist church, an offshoot of Christianity in Democratic Republic of Congo, on Tuesday, after he kidnapped numerous local residents, Michael Sakombi told Reuters. |
| Kvitova won't return for 6 months, surgeon says | |  Two-time Wimbledon tennis champion Petra Kvitova faces around six months out of the sport while her playing hand, wounded in a knife attack, recovers its strength, the surgeon who operated on her said on Wednesday. Kvitova was injured on Tuesday when she fought off an intruder in her apartment in the Czech Republic. "When we talk about (competitive) pressure on the hand, we are talking about a period of around six months (before that is possible)," Radek Kebrle said in a televised news conference.
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| Turkey's Erdogan says 'no doubt' assassin of Russian envoy was Gulenist | |  Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday there is "no doubt" that the assassin who gunned down the Russian ambassador in Ankara was a member of the network of Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen. "There is no reason to hide that he's a member of the FETO network. All his connections, from where he was educated to his links, point to FETO," he said.
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| Moroccan man arrested in Germany, accused of links to 2015 Paris attacks | | | A Moroccan man has been arrested in Germany and charged with being a member of the Islamic State cell that carried out deadly attacks in Paris last year, the Federal Prosecutor's Office said on Wednesday. Redouane S. was detained in Lower Saxony on Tuesday, prosecutors said. By convention, suspects in Germany are identified by the first name and initial. |
| Rahul Gandhi accuses Narendra Modi of taking cash payments | |  By Rupam Jain NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party denied allegations by Congress politician Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday that Modi had accepted $6 million in suspicious cash payments in the months before winning a 2014 general election. Gandhi, heir apparent to the leadership of the Congress party that has governed India for most of its seven decades of independence, levelled the allegations at a rally in Modi's home state of Gujarat.
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| Kvitova faces around 6 months away from competition - Czech news website, citing surgeon | |  Two-times Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova will not be able to play competitive tennis for around six months, a Czech news website said, citing the surgeon who operated on Kvitova's playing hand after it was injured in a knife-attack. "When we talk about (competitive) pressure on the hand, we are talking about a period of around six months (before that would be possible)," Radek Kebrle was quoted by aktualne.cz website as saying.
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| Former Israeli president Katsav, convicted rapist, freed early from jail | |  Disgraced former president Moshe Katsav was released on parole on Wednesday after serving five years of a seven-year jail sentence for rape, in a case that stirred deep emotions in Israel and touched off a national debate on sexual harassment. Katsav, 71, had been turned down for early release twice after refusing to meet the parole board's demands to recognise his crimes and express regret for them. After serving as president, a largely ceremonial role, from 2000 to 2007, Katsav was convicted in December 2010 of raping an aide while he was a cabinet minister in the 1990s and of sexually harrassing two other women during his time as head of state.
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| German player injured in shooting which killed family member | | | A footballer who plays for German second-tier side Dynamo Dresden was injured in a shooting which killed one family member and injured another, the club said in a statement on Wednesday. Marc Wachs, 21, was "seriously injured" and had to undergo an emergency operation following the incident at a corner shop in the town of Wiesbaden although his condition is not life-threatening, the club said. Wiesbaden police, without naming the victims, said a 59-year-old woman was killed in an incident on Tuesday at a shop where she worked and that her husband and 21-year-old nephew were hurt. |
| Suspect in Berlin attack was known to German security agencies - minister | |  A Tunisian man suspected of involvement in a truck attack in Berlin was in contact with Islamist militants in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and was known to German security agencies, the state's Interior Minister said on Wednesday. "Security agencies exchanged their findings and information about this person with the Joint Counter-Terrorism Centre in November 2016," NRW Interior Minister Ralf Jaeger told a news conference.
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| Norway slightly eases mass killer Breivik's jail isolation | |  By Alister Doyle and Stine Jacobsen OSLO (Reuters) - Norway has slightly relaxed the jail isolation of mass killer Anders Behring Breivik since an April court ruling that it had violated his human rights by keeping him in a "locked world", legal documents showed on Wednesday. The Norwegian state, preparing an appeal against the ruling starting on Jan. 10, said Breivik's still-draconian jail conditions were fully justified. The April ruling that Norway violated Breivik's human rights by keeping him isolated stunned survivors and relatives of the dead.
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| France checks on security at Christmas markets after Berlin attack | |  France is carrying out "preventive arrests" and checking on deployment of concrete barriers at Christmas markets amid fears of a strike by Islamist militants following Monday's Berlin attack. A government spokesman said organisers of Christmas markets had been contacted to verify all security measures, including baggage checks, in the light of Monday's Berlin attack when a truck careered into a market killing 12 people. Fears of attacks by Islamist militants are running high in France, where more than 230 people have been killed in assaults in the past two years and emergency rule has been in place for over a year.
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| German police search migrant shelter near Netherlands border - media | | | BERLIN (Reuters) - German police have begun searching a shelter for migrants in western Germany where a Tunisian man suspected of involvement in the truck attack in Berlin is believed to have lived, a newspaper said on Wednesday. Rheinische Post said the shelter is in the town of Emmerich, which lies some 140 kilometres (87 miles) north of the city of Cologne, near the border with the Netherlands. (Reporting by Paul Carrel; Writing by Joseph Nasr) |
| Congo forces kill 8 in mining hub during anti-govt protests, NGO says | | | KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congolese security forces killed eight civilians and wounded 35 others in the southeastern mining hub of Lubumbashi on Tuesday and Wednesday during protests against President Joseph Kabila, a local NGO said. King Kasongo, a lawyer and activist for Humanism and Human Rights (HDH), said the killings took place in the Katuba district of the city. Several local government offices, health centres and gas stations were also attacked by demonstrators, he said, and one policeman was wounded. ... |
| China details operating areas for foreign NGOs under new law | | | China's Ministry of Public Security on Wednesday unveiled a list of areas where foreign non-governmental organisations (NGO) are allowed to operate, from legal advice to equality of the sexes, ahead of the enforcement of a new law. President Xi Jinping's administration has made sweeping changes to the law in the name of boosting national security, including a cyber security law passed last month and another targeting foreign NGOs, slated for Jan. 1. |
| German attack suspect had been in contact with Islamist network - paper | |  BERLIN (Reuters) - A Tunisian man who German police suspect of involvement in Monday's attack on a Berlin Christmas market had been in contact with the network of a leading Islamist ideologist known as Abu Walaa, Germany's Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported. The newspaper, which did not cite a source in its report, added the Tunisian had applied for asylum and been granted a residency permit. He had gone into hiding this month, the paper added. (Writing by Paul Carrel; Editing by Joseph Nasr)
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| Trauma of Islamic State rule follows Iraqi women out of Mosul | |  By Stephen Kalin KHAZIR, Iraq (Reuters) - One wrong word to an Islamic State fighter in Mosul last year was all it took to set in motion a harrowing chain of events for an Iraqi woman who became so traumatised that she trembled in fear even after escaping the group's control. "I made the mistake of telling them my husband had been a victim of terrorism," she said in an interview on Tuesday at a government-run camp in Khazir, east of Mosul. Islamic State, which is putting up fierce resistance to a U.S.-backed offensive to retake Mosul, the group's last major stronghold in Iraq, has been accused of massacre, enslavement and rape since it swept across large swathes of the country's north and west in 2014.
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| Germany to allow increased security video surveillance | |  Germany will allow more video surveillance in public places, under a draft law passed by the cabinet on Wednesday, reflecting growing security fears in a country that has for decades been wary of police intrusion. The bill was agreed in principle by the parties in Angela Merkel's coalition last month, well before Monday's deadly truck attack on a Christmas market in Berlin that was claimed by Islamic State. Germany suffered two smaller attacks by Islamists over the summer, one on a train, the other at a music festival.
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