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| Gulf Cooperation Council condemns 'barbaric shelling' of Aleppo | |  The Arab states of the Gulf, including regional powerhouse Saudi Arabia, condemned on Tuesday what they described as "the barbaric shelling" of Aleppo and called on the United Nations to move quickly to provide relief to the Syrian people. As resistance crumbled, reports emerged that Syrian soldiers and allied Iraqi fighters had shot dead 82 civilians in recaptured Aleppo districts, the U.N. said. "The Gulf Cooperation Council states strongly denounce the killing, siege and starvation that the ancient and historic city of Aleppo is subjected to as a violation of all humanitarian rights guaranteed by international law," the GCC said in a statement issued by its secretary-general, Abdullatif al-Zayani.
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| 'Get us out of here' - desperate Aleppo residents fear arrest, death | |  By Laila Bassam and Lisa Barrington ALEPPO, Syria / BEIRUT (Reuters) - As the four-month siege of eastern Aleppo neared its end, some survivors trudged in the rain past dead bodies to the government-held west or the few districts still in rebel hands. The United Nations said it had reports that Syrian government troops and their Iraqi militia allies had killed civilians in eastern Aleppo, including 82 people in four different neighbourhoods in the last few days. Speaking from a small area still under rebel control, father of five Abu Ibrahim, said he knew of two families executed by the advancing militias that have formed the vanguard of the assault on Syria's second city.
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| ICRC says ready to help in east Aleppo evacuation | |  The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) stands ready to act as a neutral intermediary in an evacuation from eastern Aleppo being negotiated by various parties, a spokeswoman told Reuters on Tuesday. ICRC spokeswoman Krista Armstrong said in Geneva: "At the moment, the different parties are still discussing the details of this agreement and how it will be implemented. "If the basic humanitarian principles are met, and if the parties are all in favour, we stand ready to act as a neutral humanitarian intermediary and to assist civilians who are in need.
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| New Italian PM wins first confidence vote, pledges to support banks | |  By Gavin Jones and Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni won an initial vote of confidence in the lower house of parliament on Tuesday after laying out a limited programme for his new government, which might only survive a few months. Gentiloni has taken over from former premier Matteo Renzi, who resigned last week after Italians rejected his proposed reform of the constitution in a referendum. Making his maiden speech to parliament in his new role, the softly spoken Gentiloni said he was prepared to support Italy's ailing banks and demanded more help from the European Union in coping with an influx of migrants.
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| North Korea rejects U.N. report on abductions, separated families | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - North Korea protested on Tuesday against a U.N. report on alleged abductions of foreign nationals by Pyongyang and the many Korean families forcibly separated across the divided peninsula since the 1950s war. "This is not fair and also not impartial, it is just against the (U.N.) office's mission in principle," he said. The report, issued last week by Zeid's office, referred to international abductions as a "well-documented practice" by the North, targeting nationals of South Korea and Japan.
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| Corruption probe into Peru's president reopened | |  The office of Peru's attorney general has reopened a corruption inquiry into whether President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski helped a Brazilian company win public work contracts while he was prime minister a decade ago, legal documents showed on Tuesday. The anti-corruption unit in the attorney general's office ordered prosecutors to broaden a preliminary investigation into Kuczynski, ex-president Alejandro Toledo, and engineering conglomerate Odebrecht after concluding it had been prematurely closed in September, according to a decision signed by a leading prosecutor and seen by Reuters. Kuczynski is currently facing the worst political crisis so far in his five-month old government as the opposition-controlled Congress prepares to oust his education minister.
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| Brazil Senate passes spending cap in win for Temer | |  By Anthony Boadle and Marcela Ayres BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian senators on Tuesday passed a 20-year public spending ceiling proposed by President Michel Temer to control a ballooning budget deficit, a crucial step in an austerity drive to rescue Brazil's stalled economy. Approval of the centrepiece of his fiscal plan handed a welcome victory to Temer's scandal-plagued government, which is threatened by corruption accusations and citizens' deep frustration with economic malaise. The Senate approved the cap by a 53-16 margin, though leftist opponents sought to delay the vote as long as possible.
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| White House - Iran's nuclear vessel order does not violate atomic deal | | | The White House said on Tuesday that Iran's ordering of its scientists to develop systems for nuclear powered marine vessels does not violate the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. "Such an announcement does not run counter to the JCPOA," a senior Obama administration official said on condition of anonymity, in reference to the nuclear deal. Iran said the order was in response to what it considers a U.S. violation of the deal. |
| Court says Colombia can speed peace laws through Congress | |  Colombia's government can move laws needed to carry out the country's peace deal with the Marxist FARC rebels through Congress more quickly than usual, the Constitutional Court ruled on Tuesday. Both the Senate and the lower house backed the accord with the FARC, or Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, in recent votes, giving necessary legislative approval to the deal to end 52 years of war that has killed more than 220,000 people and displaced millions. The coalition of President Juan Manuel Santos, who received the Nobel Peace Prize on Saturday, has a majority in Congress, where the peace-related laws are likely to pass easily.
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| Gambia's ruling party appeals Jammeh's poll defeat in court | |  DAKAR (Reuters) - Gambia's ruling APRC party on Tuesday filed a petition to the Supreme Court challenging the outcome of Dec. 1 polls which its candidate, incumbent President Yahya Jammeh, narrowly lost, court documents showed. "...The non compliance mentioned in this petition seriously affected the credibility of the result of the said Presidential elections and necessarily render them invalid," the document said. (Reporting by Emma Farge; Editing by Louise Ireland)
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| Argentine firm reaches $112.8 million deal with U.S. in FIFA probe | |  By Mica Rosenberg and Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - An Argentine sports media company has agreed to pay about $112.8 million as part of a deal resolving U.S. charges stemming a wide-ranging bribery probe involving FIFA, soccer's world governing body, according to court documents filed on Tuesday. The deferred prosecution agreement with Torneos y Competencias SA, whose former chief executive pleaded guilty last year to engaging in schemes to bribe soccer officials, was disclosed in court papers filed in federal court in Brooklyn. Prosecutors charged it with one count of wire fraud conspiracy, which will be dropped if it abides by the deferred prosecution agreement's terms for four years.
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| Military court jails 141 Brotherhood supporters over 2013 unrest | | | A military court sentenced 141 supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood to up to 15 years in prison on Tuesday for ransacking public facilities and rioting, the defendants' lawyers told Reuters. The Assiut military court sentenced 96 of them to 15 years in absentia. The case dealt with events in August 2013 in the city of Malawi in the Province of Minya which were among a wave of unrest after the army removed elected Islamist president Mohamed Mursi from power, following mass protests against his rule. |
| Syria's Ahrar al Sham rebel group says 'everyone' to be evacuated tonight to Aleppo countryside | | | The powerful Syrian Islamist rebel group Ahrar al Sham group said on Tuesday all of the fighters and civilians trapped in a tiny rebel enclave in eastern Aleppo would be evacuated this evening to rebel-held parts of its countryside. Spokesperson Ahmad Ali Qura said "everyone" would first go to the western and then northern Aleppo countryside "this evening". |
| West African leaders press Gambia's Jammeh to quit | |  By Edward McAllister BANJUL (Reuters) - Nigeria said on Tuesday Gambia's veteran ruler seemed receptive to a message from West African leaders that he accept his election defeat and step down, even as Gambian soldiers took over the offices of the electoral commission. Yahya Jammeh, who seized power in a coup in 1994 and has earned a reputation as a repressive leader, has refused to proceed with a handover of power despite initially conceding his loss to opponent Adama Barrow in the election on Dec. 1. Jammeh cited irregularities in the official results, but his abrupt about-face drew international criticism, and a delegation of West African presidents under the auspices of the regional body ECOWAS arrived in the capital Banjul early on Tuesday on a mission to resolve the crisis.
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| Deal struck for Syria rebels to leave Aleppo as U.N. meets | |  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A deal was struck to allow rebel fighters in the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo to leave as government forces close in, Russian U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said on Tuesday, just as a Security Council meeting began on the fighting and western accusations of the killing of civilians. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was briefing the Council at the request of Britain and France. "My latest information is that they indeed have an arrangement achieved on the ground that the fighters are going to leave the city," Russian U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin told reporters.
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| IMF's Lagarde grilled over "punch in the gut" payout to French tycoon | |  By Chine Labbé PARIS (Reuters) - International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde fought negligence charges in a Paris court on Tuesday, arguing she had approved a 2008 French state payout of 400 million euro ($425 million) to a business tycoon only to end a costly legal battle. Aggressive grilling from the top judge put Lagarde on the defensive during the second day of the trial into her approval as finance minister of the rare out-of-court settlement with Bernard Tapie in a dispute over the sale of a stake in a company. Lagarde, 60, faces up to a year in jail and a fine of 15,000 euros ($16,000) if convicted.
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| Russian opposition leader Navalny plans to run for president in 2018 | | | By Maria Tsvetkova and Denis Pinchuk MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian opposition figure and anti-graft campaigner Alexei Navalny announced on Tuesday he plans to run for president in 2018, causing a potential headache for the Kremlin. Navalny is very unlikely to pose a serious threat to President Vladimir Putin, who will be overwhelming favourite to win re-election if, as expected, he decides to seek another term. "There have not been competitive elections in Russia for 20 years," Navalny, 40, the founder of Russia's Anti-Corruption Foundation, said in his statement. |
| Cosby's lawyers, prosecutors clash in court over female accusers | |  By Joseph Ax NORRISTOWN, Pa. (Reuters) - Lawyers for Bill Cosby and Pennsylvania prosecutors clashed angrily in court on Tuesday over whether the defense team is deliberately trying to intimidate women who have accused the entertainer of sexual assault. The hearing in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, is focused on whether prosecutors can call 13 female accusers as witnesses at Cosby's criminal sexual assault trial next year. Cosby's reputation as a family-friendly comedian has been shredded by sexual assault accusations from around 50 women going back decades.
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| IMF's Lagarde says she was not negligent in payout to French magnate | |  By Chine Labbé PARIS (Reuters) - International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde sought on Tuesday to convince judges she was not negligent in signing off on a 400 million euro ($425 million) French state payout to a business tycoon in 2008. Lagarde, 60, is fighting charges of negligence leading to the misuse of public funds when she approved, while finance minister, a rare out-of-court settlement with magnate Bernard Tapie in a long-running dispute. The head judge, Martine Ract Madoux, quizzed Lagarde about why in particular she did not ask more questions about 45 million euros in damages included in the settlement while the original approval to seek arbitration did not cover damages.
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| Turkey detains hundreds over PKK links after Istanbul blasts | | | Turkey has detained 568 people over alleged links to Kurdish militants in raids over the last two days, the interior ministry said on Tuesday, intensifying a crackdown after twin bombings killed 44 people outside an Istanbul soccer stadium. The operation was launched at around dawn on Monday and detentions made in 28 provinces across Turkey, the ministry said in a statement. An offshoot off the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has claimed responsibility for the attacks on Saturday night, which also wounded more than 150 people. |
| Italy convicts Tunisian over sinking that killed almost 700 migrants | |  Only 28 people survived the disaster in April last year, when the small fishing boat capsized off the coast of Libya, with hundreds trapped in the hold. Mohammed Ali Malek, 28, was one of those rescued and denied being the captain, saying he had paid for passage like everyone else, but a court in the city of Catania dismissed his defence. The court also sentenced 26-year-old Syrian Mahmud Bikhit to five years in prison on charges of people-smuggling.
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| UAE student killed by Ohio police on December 4 was unarmed - official | | | A college student from the United Arab Emirates was unarmed when an Ohio police officer shot him to death this month after a traffic accident, a spokeswoman for the state attorney general said on Tuesday. Saif Nasser Mubarak Alameri, a 26-year-old student at Cleveland's Case Western Reserve University, was shot in the head on December 4 in a struggle with a Hudson, Ohio, police officer. "No weapon," Jill Del Greco, a spokeswoman for Attorney General Mike DeWine, replied when asked if Alameri was armed. |
| Gambia military takes over offices of electoral commission | | | BANJUL (Reuters) - Gambia's security forces entered the building of the Independent Electoral Commission on Tuesday morning, instructed its chairman to leave and have since barred other employees from entering, the chairman, Alieu Momarr Njai, told Reuters. "The military came to my office and said I am not to touch anything and told me to leave," he said. "I am worried for my safety." West African heads of state began arriving in the country on Tuesday to try to convince long-ruling President Yahya Jammeh to relinquish power after losing an election this month. ... |
| Focused global strategy needed to end child slavery by 2025 - Jeffrey Sachs | |  By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Countries can end child slavery within the next decade if there is a focused global strategy that includes modernising laws, getting companies to clean their supply chains and breaking trafficking networks, said economist Jeffrey Sachs. While 193 countries have committed to ending child labour and slavery by 2025 under the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Sachs said there now needs to be a targeted plan of action in place in order to meet the deadline. "We have agreed globally to end child labour and to end trafficking and all forms of modern slavery, but we have to do it now," Sachs, a top adviser to the U.N. on the SDGs, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in an interview over the weekend.
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| Syrian army, Iraqi militia accused of "slaughter" of civilians in Aleppo | | | By Stephanie Nebehay and Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Tuesday it had reports that Syrian government troops and an allied Iraqi militia had deliberately shot dead scores of men, women and children in eastern Aleppo, and warned the same "slaughter" could happen elsewhere. The U.N. human rights office cited reports that at least 82 people had been killed on the streets while fleeing or in their homes in four different neighbourhoods in the last few days. "The crushing of Aleppo, the immeasurably terrifying toll on its people, the bloodshed, the wanton slaughter of men, women and children, the destruction – and we are nowhere near the end of this cruel conflict," U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein said in a statement. |
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