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| Berlin attack suspect emerged from jail with 'totally different mentality' | |  By Mohamed Argouby, Joseph Nasr and Steve Scherer OUESLATIA, Tunisia/BERLIN/ROME (Reuters) - In his impoverished Tunisian hometown, Anis Amri drank alcohol and never prayed, his brothers say. Now he is prime suspect in this week's attack on a Berlin Christmas market and two of his brothers, Walid and Abdelkader, fear the failed asylum seeker may have been radicalised by radical Islamists while he spent almost four years behind bars. "He doesn't represent us or our family," Abdelkader told Sky News Arabia.
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| U.S. formally ends controversial registry program for visitors | | | The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said on Thursday it is canceling an inactive registry program for visitors from countries where extremist groups are operating, a plan similar to a Muslim registry considered by President-elect Donald Trump. The National Security Entry-Exit Registration Systems program, known as NSEERS, was suspended in 2011, DHS spokesman Neema Hakim said in a statement. "The intervening years have shown that NSEERS is not only obsolete but that its use would divert limited personnel and resources from more effective measures," Hakim said. |
| Berlin attack suspect is very likely perpetrator, minister says | |  German investigators believe there is a "high probability" that the Tunisian suspect they are hunting in connection with Monday's attack on a Berlin Christmas market is the perpetrator, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said on Thursday. "We can report today that we have new information that the suspect is with high probability really the perpetrator," de Maiziere told reporters. Chancellor Angela Merkel, appearing alongside de Maiziere at the Federal Office of Criminal Investigation, said she hoped the perpetrator would be arrested soon.
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| Snowden continues contacts with Russian intel services - report | |  By Mark Hosenball and Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden "has had and continues to have contact" with Russian intelligence services, according to newly declassified portions of a House Intelligence Committee report released on Thursday. The Pentagon found 13 undisclosed "high risk" security issues caused by Snowden's disclosure to media outlets of tens of thousands of the U.S. eavesdropping agency's most sensitive documents, according to the new material. "The committee remains concerned that more than three years after the start of the unauthorized disclosures, NSA, and the IC (Intelligence Community) as a whole, have not done enough to minimize the risk of another massive unauthorized disclosure," the report said.
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| Philippine leader calls UN official "idiot" for murder probe call | |  Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte called a top U.N. official an "idiot" and "joker" on Thursday for urging that murder investigations be launched against the president after he admitted personally killing people. Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, on Tuesday said Philippine judicial authorities should probe Duterte's accounts of having carried out killings when he was mayor of Davao City. "This guy (Zeid) is ever the joker or crazy," Duterte said during a televised speech, and repeatedly called him "stupid".
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| Russia lays to rest murdered Turkey envoy with full honours | |  By Peter Hobson MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia staged a sombre funeral ceremony on Thursday for Andrei Karlov, the Russian ambassador to Turkey who was shot dead in Ankara by a man who shouted "Allahu Akbar" and "Don't forget Aleppo". President Vladimir Putin, who promised retribution after Karlov, 62, was killed on Monday, was among mourners, including relatives and fellow diplomats, who gathered at the Foreign Ministry building where the slain envoy's body lay in an open casket in Russian Orthodox tradition. Russia and Turkey say the assassination was a failed attempt to derail a rapprochement between Moscow and Ankara which has seen them cooperate more closely over Syria, even though they have backed different sides in the conflict.
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| Hundreds resist eviction from Delhi slum as new housing falls short | | | By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hundreds of residents in a New Delhi slum are resisting eviction by city officials and police in the third such protest this month in India's capital city, as anger mounts over a shortfall in housing for the urban poor, campaigners said. Evictions began this week in Kathputli Colony, home to 3,500 families of street performers and puppeteers, after authorities marked it for development as part of a plan to upgrade the city. City officials say residents were notified of the plan which involves moving them to a temporary location while a private builder constructs modest high-rise homes for a nominal sum. |
| "Regtech" startups see more business in Trump era | |  By Anna Irrera NEW YORK (Reuters) - President elect Donald Trump is pro-business and anti-red tape. Companies whose technology helps banks and investors cope with the welter of post financial crisis regulations and avoid increasingly hefty fines - a sector known as "regtech" - are sanguine about Trump's pledge to dismantle some of those reforms. "Change is itself a driver of regtech adoption," said David Buxton, the chief executive of compliance startup Arachnys.
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| Mumbai police bust baby trafficking racket amid fears more children at risk | | | By Roli Srivastava MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Mumbai police have arrested a gang of six people accused of stealing babies or convincing single women to sell their children in the latest bust in a series of baby trafficking rackets. A police spokesman said the group, which included five women, sold the infants to childless couples in various states across India. The arrests followed the rescue of five children – four boys and one girl – aged between four months and one year in the states of Goa, Gujarat and Karnataka, and came less than a month after a similar trafficking racket was busted in West Bengal. |
| Philippines' Duterte enlists Mums' army for new front in war on drugs | |  With a son addicted to methamphetamine and dealers and users winding up dead in a spree of killings in the Philippines, Emerciana Ybote was keen to be on the right side of President Rodrigo Duterte's bloody drugs war. The 51-year-old housewife is among 9,000 women in one Philippine province who have formed a "Community Drugs Watch" to keep an eye on families and steer addicted relatives away from the danger zone and towards rehabilitation. More than 6,000 people have been killed since Duterte took office in July and unleashed his promised crackdown, with a third of the deaths at the hands of police and the rest still under investigation.
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| Fingerprints of Tunisian suspect in Berlin attack found on truck door - media | |  By Michelle Martin and Michael Nienaber BERLIN (Reuters) - Investigators found fingerprints of a Tunisian suspect in the Berlin Christmas market attack on the door of the truck that ploughed through the crowds, killing 12, German media said on Thursday, as a nationwide manhunt for the migrant was underway. Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack in which a truck smashed through wooden huts selling gifts, mulled wine and sausages on Monday evening. The media did not name their source for the report about 24-year-old Anis Amri's fingerprints and police declined to comment.
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| At least six killed, 150 wounded in southeast Congo ethnic violence | | | KINSHASA (Reuters) - At least six people were killed and 150 wounded in clashes between Pygmies and Bantus this week in southeastern Congo, a local activist said on Thursday, the latest flare-up in a three-year ethnic conflict that has killed dozens. David Ngoy Luhaka, a priest and member of the Diocesan Commission for Justice and Peace, said fighting broke out on Tuesday when a Pygmy militia attacked the town of Manono, leading to reprisals by Bantu militia. (Reporting by Aaron Ross; Editing by Tim Cocks and Louise Ireland) |
| Romania's President says will appoint PM after Dec. 25 | |  Romanian President Klaus Iohannis said on Thursday he will appoint a prime minister designate after Dec. 25 as he needed time to assess the proposal made by the Social Democrat Party (PSD), the winners of a Dec. 11 parliamentary election. The PSD has formed a ruling coalition with their junior ally ALDE, backed in parliament by the ethnic Hungarian party UDMR. It proposed 52-year-old former development minister Sevil Shhaideh for prime minister during consultations with the president on Wednesday.
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| Britain's Prince Charles says populism risks return to "horrors of the past" | |  Britain's Prince Charles said on Thursday the rise of populist groups across the world had deeply disturbing echoes of the fascism of the 1930s, and warned against a repeat of the "horrors of the past" to prevent religious persecution. The heir to the British throne, who plans to take the title Defender of Faith when he becomes King in an effort to unite all religions, said on BBC Radio there had been a rise in aggression towards those who adhered to a minority faith. "We owe it to those who suffered and died so horribly not to repeat the horrors of the past." The prince's comments follow a warning from Pope Francis, who said in November that an "epidemic of animosity" against people of other races or religions was hurting the weakest in society.
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| China court exonerates four in latest overturned sentence | | | A court in China on Thursday exonerated four men who had been originally sentenced to death for rape and murder, in the latest case of courts overturning dubious verdicts. The four had been given death sentences in 2003, which they appealed. In 2006, the verdict was reduced to a death sentence suspended for two years, which in practice is often commuted to life in jail. |
| Four people arrested in connection with Berlin attack suspect - media | |  By Michelle Martin and Michael Nienaber BERLIN (Reuters) - German police arrested four people who had been in contact with A Tunisian suspect in the Berlin Christmas market attack that killed 12 people, media reports said on Thursday, as a nationwide manhunt for the migrant was underway. A spokesman for the German chief federal prosecutor denied the media reports and said he would give no further details on the operation to avoid jeopardising it. Bild newspaper cited an anti-terrorism investigator as saying that it was clear in spring that the Tunisian suspect - 24-year-old Anis Amri - was looking for accomplices for an attack and was interested in weapons.
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| Bahrain questions activist over criticism of Gulf states | | | Bahraini authorities have questioned detained activist Nabeel Rajab about an article under his name in France's Le Monde daily containing what they called misinformation and "false rumours" about Gulf Arab states. An interior ministry statement announcing this on Thursday also said it had referred its case against Rajab, one of the Arab world's most prominent human rights activists, to the kingdom's public prosecutors. Rajab is already on trial on charges of spreading false information about Bahrain and "disseminating rumours at a time of war," a reference to Yemen, where a coalition of Arab countries including Bahrain is fighting the Iranian-allied Houthi group. |
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