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| Germany says Tunisian's fingerprints found in Christmas market crash truck | |  By Paul Carrel and Joseph Nasr BERLIN (Reuters) - Fingerprints from a Tunisian suspect have been found inside the truck that smashed through a Berlin Christmas market on Monday in an attack that killed 12 people, and investigators assume the migrant was at the wheel, officials said. A hunt is under way across Europe for Anis Amri, 24, as Germany reels from its worst attack in decades. Frauke Koehler, a spokeswoman for the federal prosecutor's office, told reporters: "At this point in the investigation, we assume Anis Amri drove the truck." Police had carried out searches across Germany on Thursday but made no arrests, she said.
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| Volkswagen reaches compensation deal with 80,000 U.S. owners | |  A federal judge said on Thursday that Volkswagen AG has reached an agreement in principle to provide "substantial compensation" to the owners of about 80,000 3.0 litre polluting diesel vehicles, a key hurdle to resolve the German automaker's emissions scandal. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer didn't disclose the amount of the owner compensation, which is not included in an earlier $1 billion settlement. Half of the compensation will be paid at the time Breyer grants final approval of the settlement.
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| U.S. government cancels 9/11-era registry for foreigners | |  By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government is cancelling 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 Department of Homeland Security is formally ending the National Security Entry-Exit Registration Systems program, known as NSEERS, by removing outdated regulations, spokesman Neema Hakim said on Thursday. "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.
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| Snowden still has contacts with Russian intelligence - U.S. House 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 a newly declassified U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee report released on Thursday. The Pentagon found 13 undisclosed "high risk" security issues caused by Snowden's release to media outlets of tens of thousands of the U.S. eavesdropping agency's most sensitive documents, the report said. Snowden criticized the report on Twitter, saying it was "rifled with obvious falsehoods" and presented no evidence that his disclosures were made "with harmful intent, foreign influence, or harm.
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| Evidence suggests suspect drove Berlin crash truck - prosecutor's office | |  Forensic evidence from the truck that ploughed into a Berlin Christmas market on Monday, killing 12, suggests that Tunisian suspect Anis Amri was at the wheel of the vehicle, a spokeswoman for Germany's federal prosecutor's office said on Thursday. "Today we carried out searches in various locations in North Rhine-Westphalia and Berlin. Anis Amri is believed to have been at those places previously," Frauke Koehler, spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office told reporters.
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| 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. |
| 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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| 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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| 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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