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| Berlin market attack suspect killed in police shootout in Italy | |  By Emilio Parodi and Antonella Cinelli MILAN (Reuters) - Italian police shot dead the man believed to be 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. A police chief said his men had no idea they might be dealing with Amri when they approached him at around 3 a.m. (0200 GMT) outside a station in Sesto San Giovanni, a suburb of the northern city of Milan. Amri is suspected of driving a truck that smashed through a Berlin market on Monday killing 12 people, and security forces across Europe have been trying to track him down.
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| Trump on nuclear weapons tweet: 'Let it be an arms race' - MSNBC | |  U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, asked to clarify his comments about expanding U.S. nuclear weapons capability, said, "Let it be an arms race," and that the United States would win it, MSNBC reported on Friday. Trump had alarmed non-proliferation experts on Thursday with a Twitter post that said the United States "must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes." MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski spoke with Trump on the phone and asked him to expand on his tweet.
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| Two hijackers with grenades aboard hijacked plane in Malta - Libyan MP | | | Two hijackers on board the Afriqiyah Airways flight that landed in Malta on Friday are carrying hand grenades but it was not clear what their demands are, a Libyan member of parliament who spoke to a colleague on board the flight said. Hadi al-Saghir said that Abdusalem Mrabit, a fellow member of Libya's House of Representatives, had told him that the two hijackers were in their mid 20s and were from the Tebu, an ethnic group present in southern Libya from where the plane departed. |
| Russian envoy's killer remembered as lonely boy, not angry jihadist | |  By Tuvan Gumrukcu SOKE, Turkey (Reuters) - Those in the small Turkish town of Soke who knew Mevlut Altintas, the smartly dressed, clean-shaven young man who shot dead Russia's ambassador this week, recall a lonely taciturn boy twice rejected by university before leaving home and joining the police. Altintas was 22 when he shot Andrei Karlov in the back at an Ankara art gallery before being himself gunned down by police. Few in Soke would have recognised the figure in black suit and tie who stood over the diplomat's body screaming jihadi slogans.
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| Putin says U.S. Democrats sore losers, praises Trump | |  By Vladimir Soldatkin and Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) - Vladimir Putin praised U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Friday, saying he had his finger on the pulse of U.S. society, and launched a scathing attack on the Democrats, saying they had forgotten the meaning of their own name and were sore losers. Speaking at his annual news conference in Moscow, Russia's president said that only Russia had believed that Trump would become the next president of the United States, but that did not mean the Democrats had the right to blame him for their defeat.
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| Petra Kvitova determined to play again after knife attack | |  Twice Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova said on Friday she would do everything she could to return to tennis after suffering a hand injury in a knife attack that will keep her out of the sport for at least six months. Kvitova was wounded on Tuesday when she fought off an intruder at her home in the Czech Republic, damaging all the fingers on her left playing hand. The world number 11 addressed the media directly for the first time on Friday after an operation to repair the tendons in her hand and was determined to get back to playing.
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| Jaitley faces hurdles for biggest tax reform launch | |  By Manoj Kumar NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The prospects of introducing a goods and services tax (GST) in India next April, its biggest tax reform, faded on Friday after central and state finance officials postponed talks on how to administer the tax after a two-day meeting. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who aims to push the tax reform to replace various central and state levies with one tax, is facing resistance from states after his surprise decision last month to scrap high-value currency notes. Many states including West Bengal and Kerala have said Modi's decision to scrap 86 percent of the cash in circulation had hit their revenue collections, as they collect value-added tax on goods and other duties.
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| Philippine police arrest 6 during massive Manila meth seizure | | | Philippine authorities arrested six people and seized $67 million worth of methamphetamine on Friday, in one of the biggest narcotics hauls of a nationwide drugs war that has focused heavily on eliminating street-level dealers. Agents from the National Bureau of Investigation swooped down on a quiet neighbourhood in San Juan City in the capital Manila and found 560 kg of what they believe was "shabu" stored in 56 bags. Police said officers were still compiling an inventory of the drugs. |
| IOC investigates 28 Russian athletes over Sochi samples | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - Twenty-eight Russian athletes who took part in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi face disciplinary proceedings over possible manipulation of their urine samples, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Friday. The global skiing body (FIS) later announced that it had suspended six Russian cross-country skiers who were among those being investigated and said Russia had pulled out of hosting the final meeting of the sport's World Cup season. The moves follow publication earlier this month of the second and final part of the World Anti-Doping Agency's independent McLaren report into Russian doping.
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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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| Some passengers walk down steps from hijacked plane in Malta | | | VALLETTA (Reuters) - Several passengers descended steps from a hijacked plane at Malta International Airport on Friday, and Malta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat tweeted that women and children were being freed. The aircraft had been on an internal flight in Libya when it was diverted to Malta, 500 km (300 miles) north of the Libyan coast, after a hijacker told crew he had a hand grenade. More than 100 passengers and crew were reported to be on board. (Reporting by Chris Scicluna; editing by Andrew Roche) |
| Fathers in rural India to be targeted to help stop sex trade in young girls | |  By Roli Srivastava MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Fathers in rural India are the target of a new campaign to stop traffickers ensnaring young girls into the sex trade as research on Friday showed the average age of girls forced into prostitution had dropped with some as young as eight. An 18-month study, led by the My Choices Foundation in partnership with major anti-trafficking groups across India, found the average age of girls being trafficked had fallen to age 10 to 14 in recent years from 14 to 16 in the past. "Girls aged 14, 12, and sometimes even eight have been trafficked," Vivian Isaac, program director with My Choices Foundation told the Thomson Reuters Foundation, as announcing the launch of "The Good Father Campaign" next year.
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| Italy police say had no idea Berlin truck attacker was in Milan | |  The Milan policemen who shot dead the suspect in the Berlin Christmas market truck attack were carrying out a routine patrol and had no information that he was in Milan, the city's police chief said on Friday. The suspect, Tunisian Anis Amri, was shot at around 3 am (0200 GMT) by two officers who spotted him standing near a train station in a Milan suburb. "We had no intelligence that he could be in Milan," police chief Antonio De Iesu said at a news conference.
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| Opposition says Congo politicians agree Kabila transition deal | |  By Aaron Ross 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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| Asia on Christmas alert as police foil two suspected bomb plots | |  By Fransiska Nangoy and Panarat Thepgumpanat JAKARTA/BANGKOK (Reuters) - Security forces across Asia were on alert on Friday ahead of the Christmas and New Year holidays, as police in Australia and Indonesia said they had foiled bomb plots and Malaysian security forces arrested suspected militants. Australian police said they had prevented attacks on prominent sites in Melbourne on Christmas Day that authorities described as "an imminent terrorist event" inspired by Islamic State. The announcement came after an attack in Berlin in which a truck smashed through a Christmas market on Monday, killing 12 people.
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| Pilot told Tripoli airport that Afriqiyah Airways flight was hijacked | | | The pilot of an Afriqiyah Airways plane that was due to land at Tripoli's Mitiga airport on Friday told the control tower there that the aircraft had been hijacked, a senior security official at the airport said. "The pilot reported to the control tower in Tripoli that they were being hijacked, then they lost communication with him," the official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity. "The pilot tried very hard to have them land at the correct destination but they refused." Large numbers of security officials could be seen at Mitiga airport after news of the hijacking. |
| Malta PM says 111 passengers on board Libyan plane, including infant | |  The hijacked Libyan airliner that has landed in Malta has 111 passengers on board, including an infant, Malta's prime minister said on Twitter. "It has been established that Afriqiyah flight has 111 passengers on board. 82 males, 28 females, 1 infant," Joseph Muscat said.
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| India arrests highlight impact of "sand mining mafia" on local communities | | | By Rina Chandran Chennai, INDIA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The arrests of several businessmen and sacking of a senior bureaucrat in southern India have highlighted the power of the so-called "sand mining mafia", accused of damaging the coastline and destroying livelihoods of impoverished communities. India's main agency for investigating corruption, the Central Bureau of Investigation, this week arrested sand mining baron Shekhar Reddy and several associates after seizing large amounts of cash and gold from his home in Tamil Nadu state. Tamil Nadu's Chief Secretary P. Rama Mohana Rao was removed from his job a day after his home was raided. |
| How Deutsche's big bet on Wall Street turned toxic | |  By Edward Taylor FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank's pursuit of success on Wall Street has come at a high price, a $7 billion plus penalty illustrating the extent of its decline since 2008 when its then chief executive claimed it was one of the "strongest banks in the world". Expanding from its roots in Germany dating back to 1870, Deutsche transformed itself into a major player on Wall Street over the past two decades, often taking extravagant bets to do so. "The strategic options open to Deutsche Bank in the U.S.A. are clearly restricted because the profitability of the business will be weakened," said Ingo Speich, a fund manager at Union Investment, a shareholder in Deutsche.
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| Congo forces killed 40, arrested 460 in Kabila protests - U.N | | | GENEVA (Reuters) - The head of the U.N. human rights agency said on Friday that Congolese security forces had killed at least 40 people and arrested 460 in protests against President Joseph Kabila this week. "Such high casualty figures suggest a serious disregard ... of the need to exercise restraint in policing demonstrations," U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein said in a statement. Protests erupted against Kabila when he failed to step down despite his mandate expiring on Tuesday. ... |
| Putin says there is no state-supported doping system in Russia | |  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday there were some problems with sports doping in Russia, but that there was no state-sponsored doping system as critics have alleged. Speaking at an annual end-of-year news conference, Putin said that sports should not be politicised. (Reporting by Katya Golubkova, Vladimir Soldatkin and Denis Pinchuk; Writing by Polina Devitt; Editing by Andrew Osborn)
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| Fighting back: How Indonesia's elite police turned the tide on militants | |  By Tom Allard and Kanupriya Kapoor JAKARTA (Reuters) - As the world battles a spike in assaults and plots by Islamist militants, Indonesia's anti-terrorism unit is drawing praise for stemming a wave of bloody attacks in the sprawling Muslim-majority nation. Indonesia has foiled at least 14 attacks this year alone and made more than 150 arrests, disrupting plots ranging from suicide attacks in Jakarta to a rocket attack from Indonesia's Batam island targeting Singapore. Going back to 2010, a Reuters analysis of data shows the elite unit, Special Detachment 88 (Densus 88), has prevented at last 54 plots or attacks in the nation of 250 million people, the world's fourth largest.
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| Berlin lorry suspect shot at Italian police before being killed - police source | | | A man believed to be the suspect in the Berlin Christmas market truck attack was shot dead in the early hours of Friday after he pulled a gun on police who had asked for his I.D. papers, a police source said. The source said the 24-year-old Tunisian Anis Amri was stopped by a regular patrol near the railway station of Sesto San Giovanni at around 3.30 a.m. (0230 GMT). A justice source said Italian police had information he might be in the area. |
| West Africa regional bloc says forces "on alert" for Gambia | |  West Africa's regional bloc has put standby forces "on alert" in case Gambian president Yahya Jammeh does not step down when his mandate ends on Jan. 19, president of the ECOWAS commission Marcel de Souza said late on Thursday. Jammeh has vowed to stay in power despite losing a Dec. 1 election to rival Adama Barrow. ECOWAS has previously warned him that it would take "all necessary actions" to resolve the impasse.
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| Israeli-Arab lawmaker held on suspicion of smuggling phones to Palestinian prisoners | |  Israeli police have arrested an Arab-Israeli lawmaker on suspicion of smuggling mobile phones for Palestinian security convicts in an Israeli jail, a police spokesman said on Friday. Basel Ghattas, a member of Israel's parliament, or Knesset, was arrested late on Thursday and a magistrate's court extended his detention by four days, the spokesman said. "He is suspected of offences of conspiracy, fraud and breach of trust," spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.
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| German prosecutors in contact with Italy over Berlin attack case | |  BERLIN (Reuters) - German investigators are in contact with Italian authorities over the Berlin Christmas market attack, a spokesman for the Chief Federal Prosecutor's office said on Friday. A man believed to be the suspect in the Berlin truck attack was killed in a shoot-out in a suburb of the northern Italian city of Milan on Friday, a security source told Reuters. (Reporting by Michael Nienaber; editing by Joseph Nasr)
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| China detains legal activist on suspicion of subversion | | | Chinese authorities have confirmed prominent legal activist Jiang Tianyong has been detained on suspicion of inciting subversion of state power, his lawyer said on Friday, setting the stage for possible formal charges. Disbarred lawyer Jiang, 45, has spoken out about a government crackdown on legal defenders and has been involved in high-profile cases of dissidents who have angered authorities, including blind activist Chen Guangcheng, who left China after he fled to the U.S. embassy in 2012. Jiang's family had been unable to locate him despite police saying he was released on Dec. 1 after spending nine days in detention. |
| Berlin market attack suspect killed in shootout in Italy - security source | | | ROME (Reuters) - A man believed to be the suspect in the Berlin Christmas market truck attack was killed in a shoot-out in a suburb of the northern Italian city of Milan on Friday, a security source told Reuters. The Italian interior minister will hold a news conference at 10.45 a.m. (0945 GMT), the ministry said. (Reporting by Emilio Parodi; Editing by Robin Pomeroy) |
| Man matching Berlin market attacker description seen in Denmark | | | COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - A man matching the description of the man suspected of killing 12 people with a truck at a Berlin Christmas market on Tuesday has been seen in Aalborg in northern Denmark, the Danish police tweeted on Friday. The police said people should keep away from the area as it had an ongoing operation there. (Reporting by Teis Jensen; Editing by Robin Pomeroy) |
| As alliance wavers, U.S. says gave Philippines big annual defence aid boost | |  By Manuel Mogato MANILA (Reuters) - The United States provided the Philippines with $127 million in security assistance in the 12 months ended in September, the biggest sum in about 15 years, overlapping with a stream of angry threats from President Rodrigo Duterte to sever their defence alliance. The U.S. embassy in Manila on Friday confirmed its longtime Asian ally had received a 154 percent increase in military assistance from the 2014-2015 period, the biggest sum since American forces returned to the Philippines in 2002. The aid boost went mostly into items such as communications equipment, small arms, replacement parts for hardware and coastal radar for maritime security.
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| Turkey detains 31 in operation targeting Islamic State - NTV | | | Turkish authorities detained 31 people on Friday suspected of links to Islamic State, broadcaster NTV said, as clashes between Turkish soldiers and the jihadist group intensified in northern Syria. Turkey issued arrest warrants for 41 people in Istanbul for "being members of an armed terrorist organisation", NTV said. Turkey launched a military incursion into Syria on Aug. 24 in support of Syrian rebels to try to push Islamic State away from the border area, and has frequently carried out raids on suspected jihadist safe-houses in Istanbul and other cities. |
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