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- U.S. tightens sanctions against North Korea's U.N. diplomats
- Analysis - U.S. government loses to Russia's disinformation campaign: advisers
- FBI search warrant stirs renewed focus on revived Clinton probe
- Japan resisting frustrated U.S. lobbying for South Sudan arms embargo
- VW will fix, buy back more polluting U.S. diesel vehicles
- Kvitova undergoes hand surgery following knife attack, full recovery expected
- Former Flint emergency managers, others charged in water crisis
- Vatican asks Beijing for positive signs to help dialogue
- Kvitova after hand surgery following knife attack, recovery expected - spokesman
- Jordanian policemen killed fighting gunmen near Karak - security source
- U.S. EPA estimates new VW diesel settlement worth about $1 billion
- Bolivia says airline, pilot responsible for plane crash
- 'The Jinx' finale motivated quick arrest of murder suspect Durst -prosecutors
- Germany frees suspect in market attack, says perpetrator maybe still at large
- U.S. sanctions companies, people over Russia actions in Ukraine
- German minister - Investigators following several leads in Berlin attack
- Sirius XM wins New York appeal over older songs
- Perpetrator of Berlin truck attack probably still at large - minister
- New York's Woodstock festival site nominated as historic landmark
- Turkey tells U.S. that cleric Gulen was behind Russian diplomat's killing
- European leaders express condolences after Berlin attack
- Analysis - Legal pot growers to drive up California warehouse rates
- New armed group emerges as threat in Central African Republic
- German prosecutors release suspected Christmas market attacker
- Several killed in protests calling for Congo's Kabila to step down
- Mali's Tuareg rebels withdraw from committee implementing peace deal
- Turkish police detain six after Russian ambassador shot dead
- Russia alleges Deutsche employee manipulated markets with $5 billion of trades
- U.S. Democrats seek Trump's cooperation on drug price reform
- Berlin Christmas markets shut, others tighten security
- AMC wins U.S. antitrust approval to buy Carmike Cinemas with conditions
- Killer of Russian ambassador took sick leave on day of attack
- Polish parliament lifts media ban, opposition demands more to ease crisis
- Accused bomber Rahimi pleads not guilty to New Jersey charges
- Venezuela reopens Colombia border after crackdown
- France says EU ties with Congo must be reviewed, fears escalation
| U.S. tightens sanctions against North Korea's U.N. diplomats | |  By Joel Schectman and John Walcott WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department tightened sanctions against North Korean diplomats to the United Nations, requiring banks to get special permission before granting them accounts, the agency said in a notice posted online Tuesday. The United States removed an exemption in the broad economic sanctions against Pyongyang that had allowed U.S. banks to service North Korean diplomats without getting specific permission from the Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).
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| Analysis - U.S. government loses to Russia's disinformation campaign: advisers | |  The U.S. government spent more than a decade preparing responses to malicious hacking by a foreign power but had no clear strategy when Russia launched a disinformation campaign over the internet during the U.S. election campaign, current and former White House cyber security advisers said. Over the last several years, U.S. intelligence agencies tracked Russia's use of coordinated hacking and disinformation in Ukraine and elsewhere, the advisers and intelligence experts said, but there was little sustained, high-level government conversation about the risk of the propaganda coming to the United States.
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| FBI search warrant stirs renewed focus on revived Clinton probe | |  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - Search warrant documents released on Tuesday related to the probe of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's private email setup stirred fresh controversy about the FBI's decision to revive the investigation days before the Nov. 8 election. The materials, which related to a search warrant issued after Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey on Oct. 28 informed Congress of the emails, were ordered released on Monday by U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel in Manhattan. Comey's letter drew new attention to Clinton's use of the server while she was secretary of state from 2009 to 2013 and roiled the campaign 11 days before the election, which Republican Donald Trump won.
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| Japan resisting frustrated U.S. lobbying for South Sudan arms embargo | | | By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - After threatening South Sudan with a U.N. arms embargo to encourage steps toward peace, the United States wants to impose the measure, but the 15-member Security Council is split and Washington cannot even convince ally Japan. U.S. frustration with Tokyo's resistance to an embargo and additional targeted sanctions spilled over on Monday when Samantha Power, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, publicly questioned the reluctance of Japan, which last month deployed troops to a U.N. peacekeeping mission in South Sudan. |
| VW will fix, buy back more polluting U.S. diesel vehicles | |  By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Volkswagen AG has reached an agreement for a mix of buybacks and fixes for about 80,000 polluting 3.0-liter diesel VW, Porsche and Audi vehicles, a U.S. federal judge said on Tuesday, as the German automaker took another step to put a diesel emissions cheating scandal behind it. During a hearing in San Francisco, U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer also said German engineering company Robert Bosch GmbH, which produced the software for the VW diesels, has agreed in principle to settle civil allegations made by U.S. diesel vehicle owners.
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| Kvitova undergoes hand surgery following knife attack, full recovery expected | |  By Robert Muller and Jason Hovet PRAGUE (Reuters) - Two-time Wimbledon tennis champion Petra Kvitova underwent nearly four hours of surgery on her playing hand on Tuesday after she was stabbed by a knife-wielding intruder in her home in the Czech Republic. Early indications showed the Czech world number 11 could well make a recovery and return to tennis, where she has been a mainstay in the top rankings for the past five years. "The scale of the injury is serious, but Petra is young and strong, according to the surgeon, who sees no reason why she could not return to playing tennis," Karel Tejkal, spokesman for the Czech Fed Cup team, said.
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| Former Flint emergency managers, others charged in water crisis | |  By Steve Friess FLINT, Mich. (Reuters) - Michigan prosecutors on Tuesday charged four former government officials in Flint, including two city emergency managers, with conspiring to violate safety rules in connection with the city's water crisis that exposed residents to dangerous levels of lead. Former state-appointed emergency managers Darnell Earley and Gerald Ambrose and former city employees Howard Croft, a public works superintendent, and Daugherty Johnson, a utilities manager, were the latest to be charged in the case, Attorney General Bill Schuette said. The defendants conspired to operate the city's water treatment plant when it was not safe to do so, he told a news conference in Flint.
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| Vatican asks Beijing for positive signs to help dialogue | |  The Vatican said on Tuesday it hoped China's communist government would give Catholics there "positive signs" that would help them have faith in a push by Pope Francis to heal a decades-old rift with Beijing. Chinese Catholics are divided between those who are loyal to the pope and those who are members of a government-controlled official church. The Vatican has been seeking a compromise with Beijing on the appointment of bishops but some see that as selling out those who have remained loyal to the pope.
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| Kvitova after hand surgery following knife attack, recovery expected - spokesman | |  Two-time Wimbledon tennis champion Petra Kvitova underwent nearly four hours of surgery on her playing hand on Tuesday after she was stabbed by a knife-wielding intruder in her home in the Czech Republic on Tuesday. "The scale of the injury is serious, but Petra is young and strong, according to the surgeon, who sees no reason why she could not return to playing tennis," Karel Tejkal, spokesman for the Czech Fed Cup team, said.
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| Jordanian policemen killed fighting gunmen near Karak - security source | |  By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Four Jordanian policemen were killed in clashes with Islamist militants near the southern city of Karak on Tuesday as the authorities hunted militants who killed 10 people on Sunday, security officials said. Two days earlier police tackled gunmen holed up inside a Crusader castle in Karak. Islamic State militants claimed responsibility for the violence.
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| U.S. EPA estimates new VW diesel settlement worth about $1 billion | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday the cost of a settlement with Volkswagen AG covering 80,000 polluting 3.0-liter vehicles is about $1 billion, but does not include expected additional compensation for owners. Cynthia Giles, EPA assistant administrator, estimated that the costs of buybacks, fixes and diesel offsets were about $1 billion, including $225 million going into a trust fund to offset excess diesel emissions. ... |
| Bolivia says airline, pilot responsible for plane crash | |  A Bolivian government investigation into the plane crash that killed dozens of Brazilian soccer players last month concluded that a Bolivian airline and pilot were directly responsible, Public Works Minister Milton Claros said on Tuesday. The pilot, Miguel Quiroga, was one of 71 people killed when a plane operated by the Bolivia-based charter apparently ran out of fuel and crashed on a wooded hillside near the Colombian city Medellin. Quiroga was also a co-owner of the airline.
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| 'The Jinx' finale motivated quick arrest of murder suspect Durst -prosecutors | |  By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Authorities moved quickly to arrest wealthy real estate scion Robert Durst last year because they feared he would flee after his confession to multiple killings was aired in the chilling HBO documentary "The Jinx," Los Angeles prosecutors said. Prosecutors made the disclosure in court papers filed on Monday ahead of a hearing Durst is scheduled to attend on Wednesday in Los Angeles, where he has been charged with the 2000 murder of writer Susan Berman. Durst, 73, who has pleaded not guilty, is charged with shooting Berman, his longtime friend, in Los Angeles because of what she might have known about the disappearance of his wife, Kathleen, in 1982 when the Dursts lived in New York City.
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| Germany frees suspect in market attack, says perpetrator maybe still at large | |  By Michelle Martin and Sabine Siebold BERLIN (Reuters) - German authorities on Tuesday released a Pakistani asylum-seeker suspected of driving a truck into a Berlin Christmas market and killing 12 people due to a lack of evidence and the interior minister said the real perpetrator may still be on the run. Islamic State claimed responsibility the attack, saying the perpetrator was a "soldier" of the militant group.
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| U.S. sanctions companies, people over Russia actions in Ukraine | |  By Yeganeh Torbati WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday blacklisted seven Russian businessmen and eight companies and government enterprises over Russia's annexation of Crimea and the conflict in Ukraine, the U.S. Treasury said in a statement, moves Moscow called "hostile acts." The sanctions come a month before U.S. President Barack Obama hands over power to President-elect Donald Trump, who has praised Russian President Vladimir Putin and said it would be good if the two countries could get along. Trump's nominee for U.S. Secretary of State, Exxon Mobil Corp Chief Executive Officer Rex Tillerson, has opposed U.S. sanctions on Russia, which awarded him a friendship medal in 2013.
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| German minister - Investigators following several leads in Berlin attack | | | German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said on Tuesday that investigators are following several leads on the Berlin Christmas market attack that killed 12 people. "We just heard about the supposed claim of responsibility by this so-called Islamic State that is in fact a gang of terrorists," de Maiziere told ARD broadcaster. "There are several leads that investigators are following now," the minister added. |
| Sirius XM wins New York appeal over older songs | | | By Andrew Chung NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York's top court handed Sirius XM Holdings Inc a major victory on Tuesday in a closely watched copyright battle with the founders of the 1960s' band The Turtles, a decision that will reduce a settlement both sides reached just weeks ago. In a 4-2 ruling, the New York Court of Appeals agreed with Sirius that New York common law does not protect the public performance of songs made before 1972. Sirius had been playing the oldies without paying royalties. |
| Perpetrator of Berlin truck attack probably still at large - minister | |  German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said on Tuesday the perpetrator of the truck attack on a Berlin Christmas market was probably still on the run and that a suspect arrested in connection with the crime was released due to lack of evidence. "That's why it is true that one cannot rule out that the perpetrator is still at large," De Maiziere told ZDF television.
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| New York's Woodstock festival site nominated as historic landmark | | | By Gina Cherelus NEW YORK (Reuters) - The site of the Woodstock music festival, a defining moment for rock 'n' roll and hippie culture in the late 1960s, was among more than two dozen locations in New York nominated on Tuesday for historic landmark status. The state's Board for Historic Preservation recommended 26 properties, resources and districts to be added to the State and National Registers of Historic Places, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said. "New York's history is this nation's history, and we are leading the way to preserve the sites of significant events for future generations," Cuomo said in a statement. |
| Turkey tells U.S. that cleric Gulen was behind Russian diplomat's killing | |  ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's foreign minister has told U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry that Ankara and Moscow believe followers of Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen were behind the killing of Russian ambassador Andrei Karlov, ministry sources said on Tuesday. Ankara has also accused Gulen of orchestrating a failed coup in July, a charge the cleric denies. (Reporting by Ece Toksabay; Editing by Angus MacSwan)
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| European leaders express condolences after Berlin attack | |  German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday spoke to the leaders of France, Turkey, Italy, Greece, Poland, Sweden and Spain on the phone about the deadly attack on a Berlin Christmas market, a German government spokesman said. "In light of the victims of yesterday's attack on the Christmas market at Breitscheidplatz in Berlin, the heads of state and government expressed their heartfelt condolences," government spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a statement.
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| Analysis - Legal pot growers to drive up California warehouse rates | | | Legalizing recreational marijuana in California is creating a gold rush for a decidedly less intoxicating sector: warehouses in which to grow the plants. Investors have few options to cash in directly on the state's recent decision to legalize the drug, as there are no publicly traded cannabis producing companies and marijuana remains illegal under federal law. Shares of industrial warehouse companies such as Prologis Inc , Rexford Industrial Realty Inc and Terreno Realty Corp that have significant exposure to the California market should benefit even if they do not lease to marijuana companies directly, fund managers and analysts say. |
| New armed group emerges as threat in Central African Republic | | | By Nellie Peyton DAKAR (Reuters) - A new armed group in Central African Republic has killed at least 50 civilians and displaced around 17,000 in a growing campaign to control parts of the country's northwest, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report on Tuesday. The emergence of "Return, Reclamation, Rehabilitation", or 3R, underlines problems facing President Faustin-Archange Touadera, who came to power in March hoping to promote reconciliation, extend the government's writ across the country and persuade militias to disarm. It now has hundreds of well-armed fighters who control territory near Cameroon's border, HRW said. |
| German prosecutors release suspected Christmas market attacker | |  A man arrested on suspicion of killing 12 people by mowing through a Berlin Christmas market in a truck has been released, the Chief Federal Prosecutor's Office said on Tuesday. "The investigation up to now did not yield any urgent suspicion against the accused," the prosecutor's office said in a statement. The prosecutor's office said the suspect had made extensive statements during a police hearing, but had denied the offence.
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| Several killed in protests calling for Congo's Kabila to step down | |  By Tim Cocks and Aaron Ross KINSHASA (Reuters) - Security forces shot dead several protesters who had gathered in the streets of Kinshasa on Tuesday to demand that Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila step down after his mandate expired overnight. Scattered protests started on Tuesday, and opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi called on the Congolese people to peacefully resist Kabila, who has remained in power beyond his constitutional mandate with no election to pick a successor. Gunfire crackled in several districts of the capital Kinshasa, a city of 12 million, as measures to thwart dissent raised fears of bloody repression.
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| Mali's Tuareg rebels withdraw from committee implementing peace deal | | | The main separatist group in northern Mali, the Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA), has suspended its participation in a committee charged with implementing a 2015 peace accord, according to a statement seen by Reuters on Tuesday. The document, dated Dec. 19 and signed by CMA President Alghabass Ag Intalla, an elder of the Tuareg ethnic group cited rising violence and a lack of progress on reforms among other reasons for its decision. A Tuareg rebellion in 2012 that sought to create a new state called Azawad was hijacked by al Qaeda-linked militants who seized major towns in Mali's north and established sharia law. |
| Turkish police detain six after Russian ambassador shot dead | |  By Umit Bektas and Orhan Coskun ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish police have detained six people over the killing of the Russian ambassador, state media said, who was shot in the back as he gave a speech in Ankara on Monday by an off-duty police officer shouting "Don't forget Aleppo" and "Allahu Akbar". The state-run Anadolu agency said on Tuesday the attacker's mother, father, sister and two other relatives were held in the western province of Aydin, while his flatmate in Ankara was also detained. Police paced up and down behind a cordon on Tuesday morning outside the art gallery where the ambassador, Andrey Karlov, was shot.
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| Russia alleges Deutsche employee manipulated markets with $5 billion of trades | |  By Yelena Orekhova and Alexander Winning MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's central bank alleged that a banker for Deutsche Bank's Russian operation had manipulated markets by conducting 300 billion roubles ($4.87 billion) of trades with relatives over two and a half years. The central bank said the trades, made between January 2013 and July 2015, generated a profit of 255 million roubles for former Deutsche Bank equity trader Yuri Khilov and three relatives.
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| U.S. Democrats seek Trump's cooperation on drug price reform | |  A group of Democratic senators took their plans to tackle rising drug costs to President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday, asking him to work with them and Republicans on the issue. In a letter dated Tuesday, the 19 senators named five areas for cooperation: allowing the Medicare program to negotiate prescription prices, increasing transparency, stopping abusive pricing, passing reform on incentives for innovation and supporting generic competition for branded drugs. Trump's focus during the presidential election campaign was not on drug prices but on his promise to "repeal and replace" Obamacare, President Barack Obama's signature health reform law passed by Democrats in 2010.
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| Berlin Christmas markets shut, others tighten security | |  By Caroline Copley BERLIN (Reuters) - Christmas markets in Berlin stayed shut on Tuesday as the city mourned the victims of the previous evening's truck rampage, while security measures were stepped up at similar events elsewhere in Germany and abroad. Germany's interior ministry said other Christmas markets and large gatherings would not be called off, and appropriate steps to increase security should be decided at each location. Flags flew at half-mast out of respect for those killed when a truck ploughed into a crowd at a market by Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm memorial church on Monday.
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| AMC wins U.S. antitrust approval to buy Carmike Cinemas with conditions | | | AMC Entertainment Holdings on Tuesday won U.S. antitrust approval with conditions to buy smaller competitor Carmike Cinemas Inc in a $1.2 billion deal that would create the biggest U.S. movie theater chain. The Justice Department said it approved the deal on condition that AMC and Carmike divest theaters in 15 markets and take steps to ensure that National Cinemedia and Screenvision, the two companies that make and sell pre-show advertising entertainment, remain viable. |
| Killer of Russian ambassador took sick leave on day of attack | |  By Orhan Coskun and David Dolan ANKARA (Reuters) - The 22-year-old Turkish policeman who gunned down the Russian ambassador in Ankara called in sick on the day of the attack and promised to bring a doctor's note for his supervisors, a senior security official told Reuters. The government has identified Mevlut Mert Altintas as the gunman who shouted "Don't forget Aleppo!" and "Allahu Akbar" as he opened fire repeatedly on envoy Andrey Karlov while he was giving a speech at an art gallery in the Turkish capital. On Monday morning, Altintas called the division of the Ankara riot police where he had worked for 2-1/2 years and said he was unwell and would bring a doctor's note upon his return, the official said.
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| Polish parliament lifts media ban, opposition demands more to ease crisis | |  By Marcin Goettig WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's lower house of parliament lifted a temporary ban on media access on Tuesday in an effort to defuse anti-government protests that have paralysed the assembly, but the opposition said more still needed to be done. The clampdown on media access planned by the ruling right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party is among a raft of measures its critics say have eroded the independence of the media and the judiciary. Fears of an authoritarian drift in Poland have brought thousands of protesters onto the streets in the past year and alarmed the country's European Union partners, though the government remains broadly popular among Polish voters.
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| Accused bomber Rahimi pleads not guilty to New Jersey charges | |  By Daniel Trotta ELIZABETH, N.J. (Reuters) - An Afghan-born U.S. citizen accused of planting bombs in New York and New Jersey pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to New Jersey state charges, including attempted murder of police officers wounded in a shootout upon his arrest. Ahmad Khan Rahimi, 28, appeared in the Union County Courthouse handcuffed in front with a protective vest, white skullcap and beard. Rahimi also faces a host of federal charges in New York and New Jersey and a life sentence if convicted of setting off bombs in coastal New Jersey and in New York City in September and leaving behind others that failed to detonate.
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| Venezuela reopens Colombia border after crackdown | |  By Deisy Buitrago CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela began reopening its border with Colombia on Tuesday earlier than expected after shutting it last week amid a crackdown on smugglers and criminal gangs. President Nicolas Maduro had said crossings along the 2,200-kilometer (1,400-mile) frontier between the South American neighbors would remain closed until Jan. 2. Maduro and Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos spoke by telephone and decided to gradually reopen border posts "with strict vigilance and security", Information Minister Ernesto Villegas said via Twitter.
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| France says EU ties with Congo must be reviewed, fears escalation | |  France called on the European Union to re-examine its relations with Democratic Republic of Congo, fearing that President Joseph Kabila's decision not to step down after his mandate expired could stoke conflict. Security forces shot dead several protesters who had gathered in the streets of the capital Kinshasa on Tuesday to demand that Kabila step down after his mandate expired overnight. "Everything has been done and done again these last days and hours to encourage dialogue," Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault told reporters alongside new Italian Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano.
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