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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. |
| Russia lays to rest murdered Turkey envoy with full honours | |  By Peter Hobson MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia staged a sombre memorial ceremony on Thursday for Andrei Karlov, the Russian ambassador to Turkey gunned down in Ankara on Monday by a man shouting "Allahu Akbar" and "Don't forget Aleppo". Russia and Turkey have branded the assassination a failed attempt to derail a rapprochement between Moscow and Ankara which has seen them cooperate more closely over Syria, where they have backed different sides in the conflict. Diplomats and family members gathered at the Russian Foreign Ministry, a looming Stalin-era skyscraper in central Moscow, to bid farewell to Karlov, who was 62.
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| German prosecutor denies report of arrests in Berlin attack case | | | BERLIN (Reuters) - A spokesman for the German chief federal prosecutor on Thursday denied a media report saying that there had been four arrests of people who had contact with the Tunisian suspect in the Berlin Christmas market attack. "No, that's not the case," the spokesman said when asked about the report. "We do not know of any arrest," he added. (Reporting by Ursula Knapp; Writing by Michelle Martin; Editing by Michael Nienaber) |
| Ex-BSI banker jailed for 30 months in 1MDB-linked case | |  By Fathin Ungku SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A Singapore court jailed a former wealth manager for Swiss bank BSI for 30 months on Thursday on charges of perverting the course of justice in a case linked to a money-laundering investigation involving Malaysian fund 1MDB. Prosecutors said Yeo Jiawei, the third BSI banker sentenced in the city-state this year, urged witnesses to lie to police and destroy evidence during the investigation of illicitly transferred funds linked to the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund, 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB). "There was planning and premeditation for the commission of the offence," District Judge Ng Peng Hong said.
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| Philippines' Duterte wants to give bank governor 'a whack', charge staff | |  By Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte lashed out at the country's central bank on Thursday, telling its governor "I will give you a whack" and threatening criminal charges against the country's anti-money laundering body for supporting graft. Duterte vented his fury during a speech announcing next year's 3.35 trillion pesos ($67 billion) state budget and accused the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) of failing to support his war on drugs by tracking the flow of drug money. "I am going to charge all of you there criminally ... and count 1-2-3 and if you don't resign I will treat you as drug addicts," he said of the AMLC.
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| U.S. drone pilots defend tactics as Afghans question civilian toll | |  By Josh Smith KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - They are speaking about the same deadly drone war that the United States has been waging this year, but talk to the U.S. military and Afghan civilians and their conclusions about who is targeted are often starkly different. To the Americans, only enemy combatants were killed by missiles fired from unmanned aircraft in Afghanistan in 2016. Eyewitness accounts, however, along with United Nations reports, suggest dozens of civilians were among the casualties.
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| Four people arrested in connection with Berlin attack suspect - Bild | |  BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's chief federal prosecutor has confirmed the arrests of four people who had contact with the Tunisian suspect in the Berlin Christmas market attack that killed 12 people, German newspaper Bild said on Thursday. The chief federal prosecutor was not immediately available for comment. (Reporting by Michelle Martin and Thorsten Severin; Editing by Michael Nienaber)
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| Can technology stop another truck attack? | |  By Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) - The attack on a Berlin Christmas market showed the devastation that can be wrought by the simple act of driving a truck into crowds, and the problems in preventing another massacre. The attack in Germany on Monday, in which 11 people were killed by the truck in addition to the murder of the Polish driver, mirrored a militant raid in the French city of Nice in July that killed 86. Hauliers increasingly track their vehicles in real time but security experts say the technology cannot be used to stop an attack if a lorry has been hijacked to be used as a weapon.
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| Chinese court jails former coal group chiefs for bribery | | | A Chinese court has jailed two former chiefs of state-owned Shanxi Coking Coal Group for bribery, the court said on Thursday, the latest in a series of company chiefs brought down by China's crackdown on corruption. Shanxi Coking Coal Group is the largest coking coal producer in China, with annual coal production of over 100 million tonnes. The court in Jiangsu, in the eastern province of Jiangsu, jailed Bai Peizhong, former group chairman, for 13 years and six months for taking and offering bribes, it said in a statement after Wednesday's trial. |
| U.N. council to vote Thursday on end to Israeli settlements | |  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council is due to vote on Thursday on a draft resolution that would demand that Israel "immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem." Egypt circulated the draft on Wednesday evening and the 15-member council is due to vote at 3 p.m. (2000 GMT) on Thursday, diplomats said. The White House declined to comment. Some council diplomats hope President Barack Obama, who has had a rocky relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, may allow Security Council action by abstaining on the vote.
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