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| Top German court rejects bid to outlaw far-right NPD party | |  By Madeline Chambers and Ursula Knapp BERLIN/KARLSRUHE (Reuters) - Germany's Constitutional Court on Tuesday said the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) resembled Adolf Hitler's Nazi party, but ruled against banning it because it was too weak to endanger democracy. Germany's 16 federal states had pressed for the ban amid rising support for right-wing groups that has been stoked by popular resentment over the influx of large numbers of migrants. While the court said the NPD's aims, viewed by Germany's intelligence agency as racist, anti-Semitic and revisionist, violated the constitution, it said there was insufficient evidence that it could succeed and this made a ban impossible.
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| Rejection of Brexit deal by UK parliament won't stop EU exit - minister | |  Britain will still leave the European Union even if parliament votes against the final terms of the deal, Brexit minister David Davis told parliament on Tuesday. During a speech setting out her Brexit priorities earlier on Tuesday, Prime Minister Theresa May said she would put the final agreement on Britain's exit from the European Union to a vote in parliament.
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| Turkey seeking decades in jail for heads of pro-Kurdish opposition | |  Turkish prosecutors are seeking jail sentences of up to 142 years for the two leaders of the main pro-Kurdish opposition party on charges including managing a terrorist organisation, according to the court indictment seen by Reuters on Tuesday. Turkish authorities in November arrested the two leaders of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) as part of a terrorism investigation, drawing strong international condemnation over what rights groups say is a widening crackdown on dissent under President Tayyip Erdogan. Prosecutors are seeking up to 142 years in jail for Selahattin Demirtas and up to 83 years for his co-leader, Figen Yuksekdag.
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| Turkey says captures nightclub attacker who acted for Islamic State | |  By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish authorities have captured the gunman who killed 39 people in an Istanbul nightclub on New Year's Day, an Uzbek national they said was trained in Afghanistan and had clearly acted on behalf of Islamic State. The suspect, named by Istanbul Governor Vasip Sahin as Abdulgadir Masharipov, was caught in a police raid late on Monday in a hideout in an outlying Istanbul suburb after a two-week manhunt. Masharipov, who was captured with four others, had admitted his guilt and his fingerprints matched those at the scene, Sahin told a news conference.
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| Nearly 200 more child workers freed as crackdown continues in south India | | | By Roli Srivastava MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nearly 200 child workers, some as young as eight, were rescued from bangle factories in Hyderabad in southern India over the last week, as part of a crackdown that will continue until the end of the month, police said on Tuesday. Most children rescued were aged between 8 and 14 and came from the poor states of Bihar, West Bengal and Assam, said officials who are part of "Operation Smile", a national movement to tackle child labour and missing children. "We are investigating the nexus between the employers and the traffickers," said Swathi Lakra, additional commissioner of police in Hyderabad, who is monitoring the rescue operations. |
| Uganda minister says Congo's former M23 rebels not welcome | |  By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) - Former Congolese rebels who have lived in disarmament camps in Uganda since 2013 are not welcome in the country and are not Uganda's problem, a state minister told Reuters on Tuesday. Okello Oryem, state minister for international affairs, said he didn't know and didn't care if rebels were missing from the camps following reports that some fighters may have crossed the border into neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) this weekend. "The responsibility for M23 lies squarely with the government of the DRC and the U.N., squarely with them, not the government of Uganda." The reports of rebel movements come at a time of mounting opposition to Congolese President Joseph Kabila after he decided to stay in office beyond his mandate, which expired last month.
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| Conservative leads in vote for EU parliament speaker | |  By Francesco Guarascio STRASBOURG (Reuters) - Italian conservative Antonio Tajani established a strong lead in a first round of voting for European Parliament president on Tuesday following a coalition deal with the liberals. Tajani won 274 of the 683 valid votes cast, opening up a strong lead over centre-left candidate and fellow Italian Gianni Pittella who had 183. If no candidate in the 751-seat chamber has a majority after two afternoon ballots, the top two will contest a decisive fourth round on Tuesday evening.
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| "Draconian" EU security laws target Muslims - Amnesty International | | | By Alissa de Carbonnel BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A raft of new counterterrorism laws across Europe discriminate against Muslims and refugees, spreading fear and alienation, Amnesty International said in a report on Tuesday. The human rights group sounded the alarm over security measures adopted over the past two years in 14 EU nations, including expanded surveillance powers. During that period, militant attacks have killed some 280 people in France, Belgium and Germany. |
| Former Yara legal chief sentenced to 7 years for corruption | | | A Norwegian appeals court sentenced the former chief legal officer of fertiliser-maker Yara International, Kendrick Wallace, to seven years in prison in a bribery case, it said on Tuesday. The Borgarting Appeal Courts, a regional court in southeast Norway, upheld 71-year-old Wallace's guilt in December. Wallace, an American, had originally been convicted to 2-1/2 years in prison by a lower court. |
| Norwegians shun Breivik hearing; killer's only visitor is paid "friend" | |  By Alister Doyle OSLO (Reuters) - Anders Behring Breivik's massacre of 77 people still haunts Norwegians, yet ever fewer care about the neo-Nazi locked in a cell where his only "friend" is paid to visit. Most of the 10 seats in an Oslo court for the public to watch a case about his prison conditions have been empty as Breivik sits glumly in a black suit, the first flecks of grey in his beard, appearing by video-link from a high-security jail. The Norwegian state is appealing against a lower court ruling in 2015 that it breached a ban on "inhuman and degrading treatment" under the European Convention on Human Rights by keeping Breivik, 37, in near-isolation since the 2011 killings.
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| UK's May says final EU exit deal will be put to a vote in parliament | |  LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Tuesday she would put the final agreement on Britain's exit from the European Union to a vote in parliament. May said there would have to compromises in the negotiations but it was important to provide "as much certainty as possible" and there would be proper scrutiny. "When it comes to parliament, there is one other way I would like to provide certainty," she said in a speech in London. ...
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| Ivory Coast gendarmes fire into the air in several cities | | | Gendarmes fired shots into the air inside their camps in the Ivory Coast cities of Daloa, Man and the capital Yamoussoukro on Tuesday, witnesses said, raising fears of renewed unrest just as it seemed the government had settled a mutiny in the army. While Yamoussoukro is officially Ivory Coast's capital, the title is mainly ceremonial and all government ministries as well as parliament are located in the main commercial city, Abidjan. Cars aren't circulating." Ivory Coast has emerged from a 2002-2011 crisis marked by two civil wars as one of the world's fastest-growing economies under the leadership of President Alassane Ouattara. |
| UK court to approve Rolls-Royce settlement with fraud office | | | A UK court said it would approve a proposed agreement between Britain's Serious Fraud Office and Rolls-Royce which will allow the British aero-engine company to pay to settle a bribery probe. The court said on Tuesday that it planned to approve the deal, known as a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) which was announced on Monday, in a written judgement at 1600 GMT. Rolls-Royce's agreement to pay around 671 million pounds ($827 million) to British, U.S. and Brazilian authorities, helps to remove a cloud which has hung over the company since 2013, although the penalties involved were bigger than analysts had expected. |
| Air India says women-only seats for comfort after reported in-flight sex attacks | |  By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Air India will introduce women-only seats on its domestic flights to give female passengers more choice and comfort, said a senior official from the national carrier, rejecting claims the move was linked to reports of in-flight sex attacks. From Wednesday, Air India will allocate six seats in the third row of its economy class cabin for solo women travellers - making it the only airline in India, and possibly the world, to take this step, said the official. India already has policies which segregate women from men on public transport to avoid sexual harassment and molestation.
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| Homeless in wintry northern India shiver in buses, portable cabins | |  By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Buses and portable cabins are doubling up as shelters for the homeless in northern India amidst a cold snap that has killed at least a dozen people, highlighting a critical lack of affordable housing, campaigners said on Tuesday. There are nearly 1 million urban homeless in India, according to official data, although charities estimate the actual number to be three times higher. "Shelters are important, and we must ensure there are enough of them, but they are only a temporary solution," said Shivani Chaudhry, head of advocacy group Housing and Land Rights Network in Delhi.
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| Samsung chief faces long day as S.Korean court weighs arrest warrant | |  By Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - The head of South Korea's giant Samsung Group faces a long day in court on Wednesday as a judge decides whether he should be arrested for bribery in a corruption scandal that has engulfed President Park Geun-hye's administration. Investigators questioned Jay Y. Lee for 22 hours last week as a suspect in the scandal which led to parliament impeaching Park in December and throwing the country into crisis. The prosecutor's office has accused Lee, 48, of paying bribes totalling 43 billion won ($36.55 million) to organisations linked to Choi Soon-sil, a friend of the president who is at the centre of the scandal, to secure the 2015 merger of two affiliates and cement his control of the family business.
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| UK top court says ex-Libyan rebel commander can sue former minister | |  By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - A former Libyan Islamist commander, who says he suffered years of torture by Muammar Gaddafi's henchmen after British and U.S. spies handed him over to Libya, was given permission on Tuesday to sue the British government and its former foreign secretary. Abdel Hakim Belhadj, a rebel leader who helped topple Gaddafi in 2011 and is now a politician, says he and his pregnant wife Fatima were abducted by U.S. CIA agents in Thailand in 2004 and then illegally transferred to Tripoli with the help of British spies. Britain's Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed an appeal by the government to stop him taking legal action, paving the way for Belhadj and his wife to seek damages against former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, the domestic and foreign spy agencies MI5 and MI6, a senior former intelligence chief and relevant government departments.
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| In U.N. lawsuit, Ukraine demands Russia end support for separatists | |  Ukraine filed a lawsuit at the United Nations' highest court demanding that Russia immediately halt its support for pro-Moscow separatists fighting in eastern Ukraine. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry accused Russia of "acts of terrorism and discrimination in the course of its unlawful aggression" in the filing to the International Court of Justice, according to a ministry statement issued on Monday evening. Russia has repeatedly denied sending troops or military equipment to eastern Ukraine.
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| Macron momentum threatens French election frontrunners | |  By Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) - In May last year, then French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron sat down with Socialist lawmaker Christophe Sirugue in the steel town of Le Creusot and asked him to join his new political movement. A political outsider who has never run for office and hopes to transcend the classic Left-Right divide, Macron suddenly seems to have a fighting chance of winning the keys to the Elysee Palace and becoming president before he turns 40. The latest polls show him breathing down the necks of conservative frontrunner Francois Fillon and the far right's Marine Le Pen and he is drawing larger crowds than both at rallies across France.
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| European anti-corruption body tells Georgia well done, but do more | |  The Council of Europe on Tuesday called on Georgia to do more to reduce corruption while at the same time acknowledging it had made considerable progress. The Council's anti-corruption body, the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO), welcomed positive developments in the South Caucasus country of 3.7 million such as the introduction of a monitoring mechanism for submitting asset declarations by public officials including parliamentarians, judges and high-level prosecutors. GRECO said that continuation of the reform of the judiciary was of prime importance and welcomed the recently launched reform of the prosecution service with the view of de-politicising it.
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| Rolls-Royce jumps on profit upgrade and bribery settlement | |  By Sarah Young LONDON (Reuters) - Shares in Rolls-Royce jumped 6 percent on Tuesday after the British maker of engines for planes and ships settled a long-running bribery probe and said 2016 profit would beat expectations. Rolls has undergone 18 months of cost-cutting and restructuring under CEO Warren East, who was brought in to stabilise the company in mid-2015 after a series of profit warnings. Rolls's settlement of bribery investigations with British, U.S. and Brazilian authorities also helped to remove a cloud which has hung over the company since 2013, even though the penalty was bigger than analysts had expected.
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| Lavrov says allegations of Russian cyber attacks are fabricated | |  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Allegations of Russian cyber attacks are fabricated, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday. Lavrov said at a news conference that U.S. intelligence agencies who had tried to prove that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump had links to Russia have drawn a blank and should be fired. The Russian minister also described as a charlatan the former British spy who wrote a dossier on Trump's alleged links to Russia. (Reporting by Andrew Osborn and Vladimir Soldatkin; Writing by Alexander Winning and Katya Golubkova; Editing by Christian Lowe)
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| EU parliament votes on speaker, pro-EU bloc forms | |  By Francesco Guarascio STRASBOURG (Reuters) - The European liberal party ALDE withdrew its candidate from Tuesday's ballot to elect a new speaker of the European Parliament and backed the centre-right favourite, seeking a new pro-EU coalition. The surprise withdrawal of centrist Guy Verhofstadt, a former Belgian prime minister, before voting began, appeared to strengthen the hand of Italian conservative Antonio Tajani and underlined how mainstream, pro-EU parties are trying to keep a grip on the legislature against a vocal eurosceptic minority. Verhofstadt, a leading European federalist who is also the parliament's point man on the Brexit negotiations, highlighted the challenges the Union faces, including hostility from Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.
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| Germany's top court rejects ban for far-right NPD party | | | Germany's Constitutional Court on Tuesday rejected an attempt by the country's 16 federal states to ban the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD), described by the intelligence agency as racist and anti-Semitic, saying it was too weak to pose a threat. In the closely-watched ruling, which comes amid concern over rising support for right-wing groups due to resentment about an influx of migrants, court President Andreas Vosskuhle said, however, that the party was anti-constitutional in nature. The federal states started exploring a legal ban after the chance discovery of the National Socialist Underground (NSU) in 2011, blamed for killing nine immigrants and a police woman between 2000 and 2007. |
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