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| 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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| German police hunt Tunisian asylum-seeker over Christmas market attack | |  By Paul Carrel 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. Ralf Jaeger, interior minister of the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), said the man appeared to have arrived in Germany in July 2015 and his asylum application had been rejected. The man had mainly lived in Berlin since February, but was recently in NRW, Jaeger said.
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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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| EU to boost border checks on cash, gold to tackle "terrorism financing" | |  By Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission proposed tightening controls on cash and precious metals transfers from outside the EU on Wednesday, in a bid to shut down one route for funding of militant attacks on the continent. Under the new proposals, customs officials in European Union states will be able to step up checks on cash and prepaid payment cards transferred via the post or through freight shipments. Authorities will also be given the power to seize cash or precious metals carried by suspect individuals entering the EU.
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| Only a new law will guarantee Indian women have rights to land - M.S. Swaminathan | |  By Rina Chandran CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India must pass a law granting women equal rights to land as men if the country is to ensure more food is grown for its more than 1 billion people and greater respect for the environment, a leading scientist said. M.S. Swaminathan is known as the father of India's 'Green Revolution' for developing high-yielding varieties of wheat in the 1960s that helped make the country self-sufficient in food. As a member of the upper house of parliament he drafted a bill in 2011 to protect the rights of women farmers.
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| Kvitova is "feeling good" after hand surgery - spokesman | |  Two-time Wimbledon tennis champion Petra Kvitova is "feeling good" following surgery on her playing hand after she was attacked in her apartment by a knife wielding intruder, her spokesman said on Wednesday. "Petra is feeling good after the surgery, a routine check confirmed that the operation was successful," Karel Tejkal said in an emailed statement. Kvitova was not expected to make any further comments herself on Wednesday, Tejkal said.
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| Pakistani cleric-turned-politician Jhangvi says sectarianism in his past | |  By Drazen Jorgic JHANG, Pakistan (Reuters) - Masroor Nawaz Jhangvi, a Muslim cleric whose father was one of Pakistan's most infamous sectarian figures, said he has become more moderate and distanced himself from his previous anti-Shia rhetoric after winning a regional assembly seat. Jhangvi's December election to the Punjab provincial assembly caused a stir in Pakistan due to fears his political ascent would increase sectarian divides in Jhang, a dusty town with a history of violence between Shia and Sunni communities. Jhangvi's assassinated father, Haq Nawaz Jhangvi, was a fierce anti-Shia cleric who founded a feared Sunni sectarian group, Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan.
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| Fake suicide vest sparks terror scare in foiled Paris heist | | | PARIS (Reuters) - Would-be bank robbers in Paris on Wednesday fitted their victim with what he and police arriving on the scene thought was a suicide vest, sparking a brief terror scare, police sources said. Two individuals who planned to steal the cash delivery fled empty-handed when the man managed to raise the alarm. But police took fright on arrival at the scene and called in bomb-squad reinforcements, before confirming that he was in fact the victim of a foiled heist and the vest was fake. ... |
| Indonesian police kill 3 militant suspects in gunfight, find bombs | | | By Agustinus Beo Da Costa and Gayatri Suroyo JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian anti-terrorism police killed three suspects in a gunfight on the outskirts of the capital, Jakarta, on Wednesday and foiled a suicide bomb plot, a police spokesman said. Police said this week that at least 14 people were being interrogated over suicide bomb plots targeting the presidential palace in Jakarta and an another undisclosed location. After Wednesday's raid, police said the suspects, who authorities believe are supporters of the Islamic State militant group, had planned to stab officers at a traffic post, and then detonate a "large, homemade" bomb as crowds gathered. |
| Putin demands curbs on surrogate alcohol after 62 die in Siberia | |  President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday demanded restrictions on the sale of surrogate alcohol after at least 62 people died in Siberia from drinking bath oil laced with methylated spirit in search of alcoholic highs. The mass poisoning in Irkutsk, a hard scrabble city around 2,600 miles (4,000 km) east of Moscow, is the worst of its kind in recent years and has prompted nationwide soul-searching and condemnation. Putin asked ministers to draft tighter rules for the production and sale of drinks, perfumes and other liquids with more than 25 percent alcohol content as well as medicines containing ethanol.
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| Philippines publisher killed after article on island drugs lab | | | A Philippine provincial newspaper publisher has been shot dead after writing a column alleging official negligence over a recently discovered methamphetamine laboratory, in the first killing of a journalist during the country's war on drugs. The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) condemned Monday's murder of Larry Que, publisher of a news site on the island of Catanduanes, and said it "challenged" President Rodrigo Duterte to find the perpetrators and utilise a special task force he set up to protect media. The Philippines enjoys one of Asia's most liberal media environments, and one of the most dangerous for journalists. |
| Robert Durst of 'The Jinx' to appear in L.A. court on murder charge | |  By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Wealthy real estate scion Robert Durst, whose ties to several slayings were chronicled in HBO's documentary "The Jinx," was due back in court on Wednesday for a hearing on documents seized in the investigation of a murder case pending against him in Los Angeles. Durst, 73, is charged with fatally shooting writer and longtime confidante Susan Berman in December 2000, a murder prosecutors say he committed because of what she knew about the unsolved demise of his wife in New York two decades earlier. Prosecutors say Durst waived his attorney-client privilege over those documents when he allowed "The Jinx" producers to comb through them.
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