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| U.S. sanctions companies, people over Russia actions in Ukraine | |  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. 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 Chief Executive Officer Rex Tillerson, has opposed U.S. sanctions on Russia, which awarded him a friendship medal in 2013.
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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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| Former Flint emergency managers, others charged in water crisis | |  By Steve Friess FLINT, Mich. (Reuters) - Michigan prosecutors on Tuesday charged four former government officials, including two city emergency managers, with conspiring to violate safety rules in connection with the Flint water crisis, which 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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| Search warrant materials used in Clinton email probe unsealed | |  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. court on Tuesday released a copy of the application used to obtain a search warrant that allowed the FBI to gain access to emails related to a probe of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's private server before the Nov. 8 election. The filings involving a search warrant issued after Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey informed Congress of newly discovered emails on Oct. 28 were released following an order on Monday by U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel in Manhattan. Comey's letter drew new attention to the use of the server by Clinton 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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| 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 Orhan Coskun and Daren Butler ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish police have detained six people over the killing of Russia's ambassador, security sources said, widening an investigation to relatives of the off-duty policeman who shouted "Don't forget Aleppo!" as he gunned the envoy down. Both countries cast Monday's attack at an art gallery in the capital Ankara as an attempt to undermine a recent thawing of ties that have been strained by civil war in Syria, where they back opposing sides. The war, which has killed more than 300,000 people and created a power vacuum exploited by Islamic State, reached a potential turning point last week when Syrian forces ended rebel resistance in the northern city of Aleppo.
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| German police say arrested man may not be Christmas market attacker | |  By Michelle Martin and Sabine Siebold BERLIN (Reuters) - A Pakistani asylum-seeker arrested on suspicion of killing 12 people by mowing through a Berlin Christmas market in a truck may not be the attacker and the real perpetrator could still be on the run, German police and prosecutors said on Tuesday. News of the arrest of the 23-year-old Pakistani led politicians in Germany and beyond to demand a crackdown on immigration, but others warned against jumping to conclusions. Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters: "There is much we still do not know with sufficient certainty but we must, as things stand now, assume it was a terrorist attack." "I know it would be especially hard for us all to bear if it were confirmed that the person who committed this act was someone who sought protection and asylum," she added.
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| Four Jordanian policemen killed in clashes with gunmen near Karak - security source | | | By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Four Jordanian policemen were killed in clashes with Islamist militants during a raid on a village near the southern city of Karak on Tuesday, a security source said. The violence occurred two days after a shootout between police and gunmen holed up inside a Crusader castle near Karak. Islamic State militants claimed responsibility for the violence. |
| 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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| Petra Kvitova undergoes hand surgery after knife attack | |  By Robert Muller and Jason Hovet PRAGUE (Reuters) - The tennis career of twice Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova was under threat after she suffered severe injuries to her playing hand defending herself from a knife-wielding intruder in her apartment on Tuesday. The Czech world number 11 said before undergoing surgery that the attack had left her "shaken, but fortunate to be alive". "In my attempt to defend myself, I was badly injured on my left hand," Kvitova said on Twitter.
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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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| Malaysia arrests seven for suspected links to militant groups | | | Malaysian police said on Tuesday they have arrested seven people, including four foreigners, for suspected links to the Islamic State (IS) militant group and for planning attacks in Malaysia and abroad. Authorities in Muslim-majority Malaysia have revoked the passports of scores of citizens identified as having left the country to join Islamic State and police reported this year that 18 Malaysians had been killed fighting for the group in Syria, and another seven were killed carrying out suicide attacks. A grenade attack on a bar on the outskirts of the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, in June was the Islamist group's first successful assault in the country. |
| Islamic State claims responsibility for shootout at Jordanian castle - statement | |  Islamic State militants claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a shootout at a Crusader castle in the southern Jordanian city of Karak in which at least nine people including a Canadian tourist were killed. An Islamic State statement said four IS fighters undertook the operation on Sunday that ended in their deaths. Jordanian police said late on Sunday that they had killed four "terrorist outlaws" after flushing them out of the castle where they were holed up after an exchange of fire that lasted several hours.
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| Defiant mourners in Berlin defend multicultural city | |  By Emma Thomasson BERLIN (Reuters) - Residents of Berlin warned on Tuesday against making hasty judgements about asylum-seekers after a 23-year-old Pakistani man was arrested in connection with a truck attack on a Christmas market that killed 12 people. Oliver Horn, a German architect, put up a poster in French next to a pile of flowers near the attack site in West Berlin reading "Meme pas peur" (Not even scared!), a slogan that was used to show solidarity after the Paris attacks last year. "I am afraid that people will become even more intolerant with this whole question of asylum-seekers in Germany," he added.
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| Zurich mosque gunman was Swiss, no Islamist link - police | |  By Silke Koltrowitz ZURICH (Reuters) - A gunman who shot three worshippers in a Zurich mosque on Monday evening was a 24-year-old Swiss man with Ghanaian roots and no apparent links to Islamist radicalism, police said on Tuesday. The suspect, whom they did not identify by name, is thought to have killed another man in Zurich on Sunday. "He is Swiss and we don't know anything about the motives," Christiane Lentjes Meili, head of criminal investigations for the Zurich cantonal police, told a news conference.
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| Even as the centre holds, Europe's minority governments struggle | |  By Padraic Halpin and Julien Toyer DUBLIN/MADRID (Reuters) - Europe's growing number of shaky minority and coalition governments mostly managed to muddle through 2016 but their lack of political strength suggests they will not be pursuing many major policy initiatives in 2017. Opposition threats to flagship labour reforms in Spain and difficulties passing new residential rental laws in Ireland last week exposed the fragility of incumbents who returned to power this year but in a much weakened form. Bulgaria is braced for months of uncertainty and threats to necessary economic reforms by the fall of its centre-right minority government, while weeks of policy battles almost toppled minority administrations in Norway and Denmark.
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| Guinea soldier wanted for stadium massacre arrested in Senegal | |  By Saliou Samb CONAKRY (Reuters) - Senegal authorities have arrested a Guinean soldier linked to a 2009 massacre in Conakry where at least 150 people were killed and dozens of women raped, a Senegalese security source said on Tuesday. The Sept. 28, 2009, incident in Guinea's capital is seen as one of the worst acts of repression in West Africa's recent history and Human Rights Watch called the arrest a breakthrough in the bid to bring justice. In that incident, security forces opened fire on pro-democracy protestors who had gathered at the stadium to put pressure on then junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara not to stand at an election the following year.
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| EU agrees new gun rules after militant attacks | |  The European Union agreed stricter gun rules on Tuesday but balked at a proposal for a complete ban on the most lethal semi-automatic weapons such as the Kalashnikov. The measure is part of an overall tightening of EU rules that govern the purchase and sale of such weapons since two Islamist gunmen shot dead 12 people in the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in January 2015. "We have fought hard for an ambitious deal that reduces the risk of shootings in schools, summer camps or terrorist attacks with legally held firearms," European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said in statement.
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| Berlin Christmas market attack threatens European tourism again | |  By Victoria Bryan BERLIN (Reuters) - The truck attack on a Christmas market in Berlin on Monday evening is the latest blow for Europe's tourism industry, hitting a city that had been attracting more and more visitors in recent years. The truck ploughed into a crowd enjoying mulled wine and festive food at a popular tourist location in former West Berlin, killing 12 people and injuring 48 in what German authorities said seemed to be a deliberate attack. "Christmas markets are a big attraction for German cities, including Berlin, and this attack will no doubt impact the amount of visitors for the remainder of this year," Wouter Geerts, travel analyst at Euromonitor, said.
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| Austria arrests Moroccan on suspicion of planning attack in Salzburg | | | Austria has arrested a 25-year-old asylum seeker from Morocco on suspicion of planning an attack during the holiday season in the city of Salzburg, prosecutors said on Tuesday. A search on Monday of an accommodation centre for asylum seekers in the town of Fuschl am See, where the man was living, found "no materials clearly required for the execution of an attack", the Salzburg prosecutors' office said in a statement. Independently of the arrest, Austria is deploying more police at busy public places and tightening other security measures in response to Monday's attack on a Christmas market in Berlin in which 12 people were killed. |
| Remains of slain Russian diplomat sent home from Ankara airport | |  The remains of Russian envoy Andrey Karlov were sent back to Moscow from Turkey on Tuesday, a day after he was shot dead by an off-duty police officer in the Turkish capital. The white, red and blue Russian flag was draped on the casket as a Russian Orthodox priest recited prayers in a ceremony at the Ankara airport. Top ministers from the Turkish government also made spoke in memorial to Karlov.
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| Refugees plead with Germans not to tar them with suspicion | |  By Joseph Nasr BERLIN (Reuters) - Refugees in Berlin pleaded with their host nation to avoid placing migrants under a blanket of suspicion after police commandos raided their shelter, which had been home to a man arrested over a truck attack on a crowded Christmas market. "We are of course worried," said Ibrahim Sufi, a 26-year-old Syrian living in Hangar 7 at the former Tempelhof airport, an imposing structure built by Hitler to showcase Nazi might and now being used to house migrants.
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| Gunmen and security forces exchange heavy gunfire near city of Karak - security forces | | | Jordanian security forces clashed with unidentified gunmen after a raid on a house in a village on the outskirts of the southern city of Karak where suspected militants were believed to be hiding, security sources said. Jordan has launched a manhunt in search of suspects who may have had links to four militants who attacked police in the city of Karak in a shootout in which at least nine people were killed. The militant group Islamic State on Tuesday claimed responsibility for the operation, in which the four assailants were later killed. |
| Bulgaria faces early parliamentary election next spring | |  By Tsvetelia Tsolova SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria is heading towards an early parliamentary election next spring after talks to form a new government under the mandate of a small right-wing party failed on Tuesday, officials said. The Balkan country has been in political limbo since centre-right Prime Minister Boiko Borisov resigned last month following the victory of Rumen Radev, a Russia-friendly candidate backed by the opposition Socialists, in the presidential election. The current parliament is unable to form a government and we are heading towards early elections," Tsvetan Tsvetanov, deputy chief of Borisov's GERB party, told reporters.
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| Polish truck driver dropped out of contact four hours before Berlin attack | |  By Jakub Iglewski and Pawel Florkiewicz WARSAW (Reuters) - The Polish truck driver whose vehicle was used in an attack on a Berlin Christmas market on Monday had arrived hours earlier in the German capital and spoken to his wife about 3 p.m., according to his cousin. "At 3.45 p.m. you can see the movement on the GPS (Global Positioning System). As if someone was learning to drive it," Zurawski told Polish public broadcaster TVP Info on Tuesday.
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| Cyrus Mistry launches legal battle against Tata Sons - sources | |  By Promit Mukherjee and Euan Rocha MUMBAI (Reuters) - Tata Sons' ousted chairman Cyrus Mistry ratcheted up his battle against the $100 billion software-to-salt conglomerate by launching legal proceedings on Tuesday, two sources familiar with the matter said. Mistry made a surprise move on Monday to resign from the boards of all listed Tata companies. Mistry has cited the Act's sections 241 and 242, which deal with shareholder oppression and mismanagement, one of the sources said.
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| 'Santa Claus isn't coming,' recession-hit Venezuelans tell kids | |  By Andreina Aponte CARACAS (Reuters) - As a harrowing economic crisis makes food scarce for millions of Venezuelans, many families cannot buy their children Christmas presents, decorate their home, or even host a holiday dinner. With a recent currency depreciation pumping up prices even higher, some parents are simply canceling Christmas. "Last year I bought everything for my daughter," said Dileida Palacios, a 40-year-old hairdresser dressed in black to mourn her son killed in crime-rife Venezuela a few weeks ago.
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| Tata Sons says will contest allegations of former chairman Mistry | |  India's Tata Sons, which is entangled in a pitched battle against its former chairman Cyrus Mistry, has said that it is consulting its lawyers and will contest the allegations leveled by the former top boss. The statement issued by Tata Sons was in response to the legal proceedings launched by Mistry on Tuesday accusing the $100 billion conglomerate of "oppression and mismanagement." Tata Sons said Mistry's assertions has been a "personal issue" and reflects his deep animosity towards the group patriarch Ratan Tata. "Mistry has not been able to graciously accept the decision of the very same Board that appointed him," the company said in a statement.
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| Renzi plots path back to Italian power from Tuscan basement | |  By Steve Scherer ROME (Reuters) - Three days after resigning as Italian prime minister and before his successor took office, Matteo Renzi typed a late-night Facebook post from his family home near Florence that seemed to cast doubt on his future. Since stepping down on Dec. 7 after a crushing referendum defeat over his flagship constitutional reform, newspapers have conjured up images of Renzi sitting in rush-hour traffic while driving his three kids to school, writing his memoirs and entertaining lucrative job offers outside politics. Renzi staked his government on the plan designed to make Italy more governable but which almost 20 million voters rejected in the referendum.
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