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| Fingerprints of Tunisian suspect in Berlin attack found on truck door - media | |  BERLIN (Reuters) - Fingerprints of Anis Amri, the Tunisian suspect in the attack on a Berlin Christmas market, have been found on the door of the truck that ploughed through the crowds gathered there, killing 12, several German media said on Thursday. The media did not name their source. (Reporting by Michelle Martin; Editing by Michael Nienaber)
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| China court exonerates four in latest overturned sentence | | | A court in China on Thursday exonerated four men who had been originally sentenced to death for rape and murder, in the latest case of courts overturning dubious verdicts. The four had been given death sentences in 2003, which they appealed. In 2006, the verdict was reduced to a death sentence suspended for two years, which in practice is often commuted to life in jail. |
| Four people arrested in connection with Berlin attack suspect - media | |  By Michelle Martin and Michael Nienaber BERLIN (Reuters) - German police arrested four people who had been in contact with A Tunisian suspect in the Berlin Christmas market attack that killed 12 people, media reports said on Thursday, as a nationwide manhunt for the migrant was underway. A spokesman for the German chief federal prosecutor denied the media reports and said he would give no further details on the operation to avoid jeopardising it. Bild newspaper cited an anti-terrorism investigator as saying that it was clear in spring that the Tunisian suspect - 24-year-old Anis Amri - was looking for accomplices for an attack and was interested in weapons.
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| Bahrain questions activist over criticism of Gulf states | | | Bahraini authorities have questioned detained activist Nabeel Rajab about an article under his name in France's Le Monde daily containing what they called misinformation and "false rumours" about Gulf Arab states. An interior ministry statement announcing this on Thursday also said it had referred its case against Rajab, one of the Arab world's most prominent human rights activists, to the kingdom's public prosecutors. Rajab is already on trial on charges of spreading false information about Bahrain and "disseminating rumours at a time of war," a reference to Yemen, where a coalition of Arab countries including Bahrain is fighting the Iranian-allied Houthi group. |
| Russia lays to rest murdered Turkey envoy with full honours | |  By Peter Hobson MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia staged a sombre memorial ceremony on Thursday for Andrei Karlov, the Russian ambassador to Turkey gunned down in Ankara on Monday by a man shouting "Allahu Akbar" and "Don't forget Aleppo". Russia and Turkey have branded the assassination a failed attempt to derail a rapprochement between Moscow and Ankara which has seen them cooperate more closely over Syria, where they have backed different sides in the conflict. Diplomats and family members gathered at the Russian Foreign Ministry, a looming Stalin-era skyscraper in central Moscow, to bid farewell to Karlov, who was 62.
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| German prosecutor denies report of arrests in Berlin attack case | | | BERLIN (Reuters) - A spokesman for the German chief federal prosecutor on Thursday denied a media report saying that there had been four arrests of people who had contact with the Tunisian suspect in the Berlin Christmas market attack. "No, that's not the case," the spokesman said when asked about the report. "We do not know of any arrest," he added. (Reporting by Ursula Knapp; Writing by Michelle Martin; Editing by Michael Nienaber) |
| Ex-BSI banker jailed for 30 months in 1MDB-linked case | |  By Fathin Ungku SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A Singapore court jailed a former wealth manager for Swiss bank BSI for 30 months on Thursday on charges of perverting the course of justice in a case linked to a money-laundering investigation involving Malaysian fund 1MDB. Prosecutors said Yeo Jiawei, the third BSI banker sentenced in the city-state this year, urged witnesses to lie to police and destroy evidence during the investigation of illicitly transferred funds linked to the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund, 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB). "There was planning and premeditation for the commission of the offence," District Judge Ng Peng Hong said.
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| Philippines' Duterte wants to give bank governor 'a whack', charge staff | |  By Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte lashed out at the country's central bank on Thursday, telling its governor "I will give you a whack" and threatening criminal charges against the country's anti-money laundering body for supporting graft. Duterte vented his fury during a speech announcing next year's 3.35 trillion pesos ($67 billion) state budget and accused the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) of failing to support his war on drugs by tracking the flow of drug money. "I am going to charge all of you there criminally ... and count 1-2-3 and if you don't resign I will treat you as drug addicts," he said of the AMLC.
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| U.S. drone pilots defend tactics as Afghans question civilian toll | |  By Josh Smith KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - They are speaking about the same deadly drone war that the United States has been waging this year, but talk to the U.S. military and Afghan civilians and their conclusions about who is targeted are often starkly different. To the Americans, only enemy combatants were killed by missiles fired from unmanned aircraft in Afghanistan in 2016. Eyewitness accounts, however, along with United Nations reports, suggest dozens of civilians were among the casualties.
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| Four people arrested in connection with Berlin attack suspect - Bild | |  BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's chief federal prosecutor has confirmed the arrests of four people who had contact with the Tunisian suspect in the Berlin Christmas market attack that killed 12 people, German newspaper Bild said on Thursday. The chief federal prosecutor was not immediately available for comment. (Reporting by Michelle Martin and Thorsten Severin; Editing by Michael Nienaber)
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| Can technology stop another truck attack? | |  By Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) - The attack on a Berlin Christmas market showed the devastation that can be wrought by the simple act of driving a truck into crowds, and the problems in preventing another massacre. The attack in Germany on Monday, in which 11 people were killed by the truck in addition to the murder of the Polish driver, mirrored a militant raid in the French city of Nice in July that killed 86. Hauliers increasingly track their vehicles in real time but security experts say the technology cannot be used to stop an attack if a lorry has been hijacked to be used as a weapon.
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| Chinese court jails former coal group chiefs for bribery | | | A Chinese court has jailed two former chiefs of state-owned Shanxi Coking Coal Group for bribery, the court said on Thursday, the latest in a series of company chiefs brought down by China's crackdown on corruption. Shanxi Coking Coal Group is the largest coking coal producer in China, with annual coal production of over 100 million tonnes. The court in Jiangsu, in the eastern province of Jiangsu, jailed Bai Peizhong, former group chairman, for 13 years and six months for taking and offering bribes, it said in a statement after Wednesday's trial. |
| U.N. council to vote Thursday on end to Israeli settlements | |  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council is due to vote on Thursday on a draft resolution that would demand that Israel "immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem." Egypt circulated the draft on Wednesday evening and the 15-member council is due to vote at 3 p.m. (2000 GMT) on Thursday, diplomats said. The White House declined to comment. Some council diplomats hope President Barack Obama, who has had a rocky relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, may allow Security Council action by abstaining on the vote.
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| Afghan police search house of parliament member after attack | |  Afghan police and security officials combed through the wreckage of a member of parliament's house in Kabul on Thursday after an attack by Taliban gunmen in which at least seven people were killed. Broken glass and spent bullet cartridges lay on the bloodstained ground of the heavily fortified house in the district of Khushal Khan belonging to Mir Wali, a member of parliament from the volatile southern province of Helmand. It was really horrible and we couldn't sleep whole the night." The Taliban said 20 people, including senior security officials from Helmand, had been killed in the attack but government officials put the death toll at seven.
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| South Korean court holds first hearing on Park's impeachment case | |  By Joyce Lee SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's Constitutional Court on Thursday began its deliberations on a parliamentary impeachment vote against President Park Geun-hye, who could become the first elected South Korean leader to be thrown out of office. Park was indicted in a December 9 parliamentary vote by a wider-than-expected margin after being accused of colluding with a friend to pressure big businesses to make contributions to non-profit foundations backing presidential initiatives. Park, whose father ruled the country for 18 years after seizing power in a 1961 coup, has denied wrongdoing but apologised for carelessness in her ties with the friend, Choi Soon-sil, who is facing her own trial.
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| From a former sex slave to a climate poet: five unsung heroes of 2016 | |  By Zoe Tabary LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Thousands of people around the world work tirelessly to defend human rights – often risking their lives to expose abuses against women, children, minority groups and landless farmers amongst others. * Biram Dah Abeid, anti-slavery activist The leading Mauritanian campaigner was born to slaves and should have faced a life of servitude in the desert nation which straddles the Arab Maghreb and black sub-Saharan Africa. Abeid has spent much of his life campaigning for the end of slavery in Mauritania where some 43,000 people, or about 1 percent of the population, live as slaves, according to the 2016 Global Slavery Index, although others put it at 20 percent.
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| China details operating areas for foreign NGOs under new law | | | China's Ministry of Public Security has unveiled a list of areas where foreign non-governmental organisations (NGO) are allowed to operate, from legal advice to equality of the sexes, ahead of the enforcement of a new law. President Xi Jinping's administration has made sweeping changes to the law in the name of boosting national security, including a cyber security law passed last month and another targeting foreign NGOs, slated for Jan. 1. Potentially sensitive services such as legal aid and legal education will be allowed, but NGOs will have to be supervised by the Justice Ministry, the Public Security Ministry said on Tuesday. |
| Russian hackers tracked Ukrainian artillery units using Android implant - report | | | By Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A hacking group linked to the Russian government and high-profile cyber attacks against Democrats during the U.S. presidential election likely used a malware implant on Android devices to track and target Ukrainian artillery units from late 2014 through 2016, according to a new report released Thursday. The malware was able to retrieve communications and some locational data from infected devices, intelligence that would have likely been used to strike against the artillery in support of pro-Russian separatists fighting in eastern Ukraine, the report from cyber security firm CrowdStrike found. The hacking group, known commonly as Fancy Bear or APT 28, is believed by U.S. intelligence officials to work primarily on behalf of the GRU, Russia's military intelligence agency. |
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