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| Trump calls remarks on video by Berlin attacker 'a purely religious threat' | |  (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, referring to a video in which a Tunisian man suspected in a Berlin truck attack vowed to "slaughter you pigs," said on Friday it was "a purely religious threat, which turned into reality." "Such hatred! When will the U.S., and all countries, fight back?" Trump tweeted. (Reporting by Eric Beech in Washington; Editing by David Alexander)
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| White House defends decision to abstain in U.N. vote on settlements | | | The White House on Friday defended its decision to abstain from a U.N. Security Council vote on Israeli settlements, allowing the resolution to pass, saying the rapid expansion of settlement activity put a two-state solution at risk. Ben Rhodes, the White House's deputy national security adviser, also dismissed criticism by President-elect Donald Trump of the U.S. decision saying President Barack Obama was president of the United States until Jan. 20. |
| Nusli Wadia sues Tata Sons, board members for defamation | |  Nusli Wadia, a former independent director on the boards of Tata Motors Ltd , Tata Steel Ltd and Tata Chemicals Ltd , has filed a defamation case against holding company Tata Sons and 11 of its board members and executives. Wadia said Tata Sons and the individuals cited, including patriarch Ratan Tata, had defamed him "by printing, publishing and circulating per se false, frivolous, baseless, incorrect, libellous and defamatory material concerning the Complainant." The former director added the actions had tarnished his reputation and "caused distress, hurt and humiliation, as well as pecuniary loss, social disadvantages, injury to feelings, mental pain and suffering to the Complainant." Wadia said he would pursue criminal charges of defamation, as well as abatement and "criminal action with common intention" violations that could be punishable by imprisonment for up to two years, or a fine, or both.
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| Sudan extradites senior Tunisian Islamic State suspect - state media | | | Authorities in Tunisia said on Friday that Sudan had handed over a Tunisian suspect accused of being a senior figure within Islamic State and helping plan a 2015 attack on the Bardo museum in Tunis, state media reported. The suspect, Moez Fezzani, was a point of contact for Tunisian militants who travelled to Syria or Libya, sometimes returning to their home country to carry out attacks, Sofiane Sliti, a senior Tunisian judicial official, told state news agency TAP. |
| Exclusive - FBI probes FDIC hack linked to China's military: sources | |  By Dustin Volz and Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI is investigating how hackers infiltrated computers at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation for several years beginning in 2010 in a breach senior FDIC officials believe was sponsored by China's military, people with knowledge of the matter said. The security breach, in which hackers gained access to dozens of computers including the workstation for former FDIC Chairwoman Sheila Bair, has also been the target of a probe by a congressional committee. The FDIC is one of three federal agencies that regulate commercial banks in the United States.
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| Malta hijack ends peacefully as Gaddafi loyalists surrender | |  By Chris Scicluna VALLETTA (Reuters) - Hijackers armed with what were probably replica weapons forced an airliner to land in Malta on Friday before freeing all their hostages unharmed and surrendering, having declared loyalty to Libya's late leader Muammar Gaddafi. The prime minister of the tiny Mediterranean island, Joseph Muscat, tweeted: "Hijackers surrendered, searched and taken in custody". The Airbus A320 had been on an internal flight in Libya on Friday morning when it was diverted to Malta, 500 km (300 miles) north of the Libyan coast, after a man told the crew he had a hand grenade.
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| Corruption probe clouds survival of Brazil's transition leader | |  By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - Corruption allegations implicating Brazilian President Michel Temer and his party are casting doubt on his ability to remain in office and causing the first cracks in his coalition amid growing calls for early elections. Allegations that Temer and members of his inner circle solicited illegal funds for his 2014 vice presidential campaign threaten to undermine a solid majority in Congress that put him in office by impeaching leftist Dilma Rousseff in August. Losing that majority would dismantle the two goals Temer set himself as caretaker president through 2018: to restore fiscal discipline and revive Brazil's flailing economy.
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| Russian athletics coach Mokhnev banned for 10 years | | | By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - Vladimir Mokhnev, former athletics coach of Russian whistleblower Yuliya Stepanova, has been banned for 10 years for offences involving banned substances, said the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). In the same ruling Anastasiya Bazdyreva, an 800 metres runner, was suspended for two years for the "use or attempted use by an athlete of a prohibited substance or a prohibited method". CAS said it was acting as the decision-making authority instead of the All Russia Athletics Federation (ARAF), banned by the global athletics body IAAF last year following allegations of widespread and state-sponsored doping. |
| Trump 'arms race' comment sows more doubt on nuclear policy | |  By Melissa Fares WEST PALM BEACH (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump sowed more doubt about his position on nuclear proliferation on Friday, reportedly welcoming an arms race even as his spokesman insisted that an atomic weapons build-up was not likely to happen. Trump, who takes office on Jan. 20, caused alarm on Thursday on Twitter, saying the United States "must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes." On Friday, he had an off-air phone conversation about the tweet with MSNBC TV host Mika Brzezinski, who said Trump told her: "Let it be an arms race.
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| U.S. hits Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank with toxic debt penalties | |  By Michael Shields and Arno Schuetze ZURICH/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank have been hit with a combined penalty of more than $12 billion over the sale of U.S. toxic debt, further hampering two of Europe's leading investment banks as they struggle with weak earnings. The penalties stem from an initiative launched by U.S. President Barack Obama to pursue banks for selling sub-prime debt without warning of the risks, a practice that led to the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Credit Suisse agreed to pay more than $5.2 billion in a deal with U.S. authorities and the penalty is likely to push it to a second consecutive annual loss.
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| Berlin truck attack suspect shot dead by police in Italy | |  By Emilio Parodi and Antonella Cinelli MILAN (Reuters) - Italian police shot dead the man believed responsible for this week's Berlin Christmas market truck attack, killing him after he pulled a gun on them during a routine check in the early hours of Friday. The suspect - 24-year-old Tunisian Anis Amri - travelled to Italy from Germany via France, taking advantage of Europe's open-border Schengen pact to cross the continent undetected. As anger grew over the fact that Amri had escaped expulsion twice in 18 months thanks to bureaucratic loopholes, eurosceptic parties called for the reintroduction of border controls, while Germany said deportations had to be made easier.
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| Putin shrugs off Trump's nuclear plans, says Democrats sore losers | |  By Andrew Osborn and Vladimir Soldatkin MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Vladimir Putin said on Friday he was unfazed by President-elect Donald Trump's plans to boost the U.S. nuclear arsenal, praising Trump for being in touch with U.S. public opinion while branding the Democrats sore election losers. Speaking at his annual news conference in Moscow, the Russian president said earlier comments he had made about his country's own military modernisation had been misunderstood in the United States and that he accepted that the U.S. military, not Russia's, was the most powerful in the world.
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| Opposition says Congo politicians agree Kabila transition deal | |  By Aaron Ross and Tim Cocks KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congolese politicians have agreed in principle to a deal under which President Joseph Kabila leaves office by the end of 2017, opposition leaders said on Friday, an unexpected breakthrough after dozens were killed in anti-government protests this week. If the deal does succeed, it would be a major achievement for the Catholic church, which has been mediating talks in an attempt to prevent Democratic Republic of Congo sliding back into years of anarchy and civil war. Pope Francis has heaped pressured on Kabila and the opposition to find a peaceful solution to the crisis in Congo.
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| Court verdicts show Suu Kyi's uphill battle on Myanmar land disputes | |  By Wa Lone and Simon Lewis YANGON (Reuters) - Before entering the courthouse in the capital of eastern Myanmar's Shan State, Maw Maw Oo said it was ominous that several blue police vans were already waiting in the parking lot. Hours later she was jailed for a month for trespassing on what she had insisted was her own land, in a case that starkly illuminates the challenge facing Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi, whose National League for Democracy (NLD) took power almost nine months ago pledging to solve the country's land disputes. Maw Maw Oo, 45, is a leader among the farmers from Ye Bu village, where Myanmar's powerful military had sued 96 residents for trespassing after they continued to work land they say was taken from them by the army.
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| Libyan plane hijack ends in surrender at Maltese airport | |  VALLETTA (Reuters) - Hijackers who took over a domestic Libyan flight on Friday and forced it to land in Malta have surrendered, Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said. The hijackers were searched and taken into custody, Muscat said on his Twitter feed. They had earlier freed all passengers on board the Airbus A320. (Reporting by John Stonestreet; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)
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