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| U.N. creates team to prepare cases on Syria war crimes | |  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday voted to establish a special team to "collect, consolidate, preserve and analyse evidence" as well as to prepare cases on war crimes and human rights abuses committed during the conflict in Syria. The General Assembly adopted a Liechtenstein-drafted resolution to establish the independent team with 105 in favour, 15 against and 52 abstentions. The team will work in coordination with the U.N. Syria Commission of Inquiry.
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| Cause of deadly Mexico fireworks blasts still unknown | |  By Natalie Schachar and Noe Torres TULTEPEC, Mexico (Reuters) - Forensic investigators scoured the charred remains of a fireworks market outside Mexico City on Wednesday for clues to what caused a series of massive blasts that killed at least 32 people, the third fiery accident there in 11 years. Soldiers with dogs appeared to be looking for human remains. Alejandro Gomez, the state attorney general, told Mexican television it was unclear what caused the explosions, adding he could not corroborate accounts pointing to a detonation at one stall that may have begun a chain reaction.
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| India's crackdown on cash imperils pivotal national tax reform | |  By Rajesh Kumar Singh NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's crackdown on the cash economy has shattered the consensus needed for a new national sales tax, plunging his boldest reform into limbo and threatening to entrench an economic slowdown. Modi's government already had its work cut out to finalise a deal with India's 29 federal states to launch a Goods and Services Tax (GST) on April 1 that would transform Asia's third largest economy into a single market for the first time. A slump in business activity stemming from the cash crunch has caused the revenue of state governments, which collect value-added tax on goods and other duties, to slump by 25-40 percent.
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| Trump after Berlin, Turkey attacks - 'I've been proven to be right' | |  By Melissa Fares PALM BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Wednesday that attacks this week in Berlin and Ankara proved he was correct to propose curbing Muslim immigration to the United States. "What's going on is terrible, terrible," Trump told reporters, when asked about the truck attack that killed 12 people at a Christmas market in Berlin and the killing of Russia's ambassador to Turkey. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the Berlin killings though U.S. officials say they had seen no evidence that the militant group had directed the attack. ...
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| Tempers flare outside court over detained Argentine social leader | | | By Hugh Bronstein BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Protesters and police clashed on Wednesday outside a courthouse in northern Argentina where a social activist is on trial for offences including corruption, while her lawyers asked the Supreme Court to free her on human rights grounds. Fists flew as supporters of Milagro Sala, leader of the Tupac Amaru social welfare group in Jujuy province, tried to push past police who used choke holds to keep the crowd at bay. It was part of a series of hearings on charges ranging from intimidation to corruption. |
| Witnesses fearful in wealthy heir Durst's L.A. murder case - prosecutor | |  By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Witnesses expected to testify in the Los Angeles murder trial of real estate scion Robert Durst are concerned for their safety, a prosecutor told a judge on Tuesday, citing the heir's vast wealth and the deaths of people close to him. Durst, 73, whose ties to several slayings were chronicled last year in the HBO documentary "The Jinx," is charged with fatally shooting writer and longtime confidante Susan Berman in December 2000. Prosecutors say he killed her because of what she knew about the death of Durst's wife in New York two decades earlier.
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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 offered 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. German police commandos raided two apartments in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg late on Wednesday but did not find Amri, Die Welt newspaper reported, citing investigators.
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| German police raid two apartments in Berlin, attack suspect not found | | | BERLIN (Reuters) - German police commandos raided two apartments in Berlin's neighbourhood of Kreuzberg on Wednesday but did not find a Tunisian man suspected of involvement in a deadly truck attack, Die Welt newspaper reported, citing investigators. It said investigators believed that Anis Amri may have been in one of the two apartments. Police forces had to overpower a man at one of the apartments, the paper said. It gave no further information. (Reporting by Joseph Nasr; Editing by Catherine Evans) |
| Taliban claim attack on house of Afghan member of parliament | | | By Mirwais Harooni KABUL (Reuters) - Tha Taliban claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on the house of an Afghan member of parliament on Wednesday night that officials said killed at least five people and wounded a number of others. A security official said one attacker blew himself up at the house of Mir Wali, a member of parliament from the volatile southern province of Helmand, killing three security guards and allowing two other gunmen to get into the compound, where a meeting was underway. Mir Wali was wounded by shattered glass and other guests were also hurt in the attack, in which at least two civilians were killed. |
| Kvitova out for six months after surgery | |  Two-time Wimbledon tennis champion Petra Kvitova, whose hand was wounded in a knife attack, will not play again for at least six months and it is too early to say when she can return to competition, her publicist said on Wednesday. Kvitova was injured on Tuesday when she fought off an intruder in her home in the Czech Republic, damaging all the fingers on her playing hand. Following a successful operation, the world number 11 will begin her rehabilitation in about six to eight weeks and hopes to be able to grip a racket again after three months, publicist Katie Spellman said.
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| Germany monitored truck suspect over weapons purchase plan - source | |  BERLIN (Reuters) - German authorities observed Tunisian truck attack suspect Anis Amri over a period this year to try to determine whether he had planned a robbery to fund the purchase of automatic weapons for a possible attack with accomplices, a judicial source in Berlin told Reuters on Wednesday. The source, confirming an online report by the mass-selling Bild newspaper, said authorities stopped their monitoring activities after they could not prove the suspicions. Bild said Amri was monitored between March and September. The source declined to specify the observation period. ...
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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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| 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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