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| Governor of Turkey's Izmir says PKK suspected after car bomb kills two | | | Initial findings suggest the Kurdish PKK militant group was behind a car bombing outside a courthouse in the western Turkish city of Izmir on Thursday which killed two people, provincial governor Erol Ayyildiz said. "A clash erupted after our police officers wanted to stop a vehicle at a police check point in front of Bayrakli courthouse. A police officer and a courthouse employee were killed in the attack, he said. |
| Massachusetts sheriff offers prison inmates to build Trump's wall | |  By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - A Massachusetts county sheriff has proposed sending prison inmates from around the United States to build the proposed wall along the Mexican border that is one of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's most prominent campaign promises. "I can think of no other project that would have such a positive impact on our inmates and our country than building this wall," Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson said at his swearing-in ceremony for a fourth term in office late Wednesday. Hodgson, who like Trump is a Republican, said inmates from around the country could build the proposed wall, described by Trump as a powerful deterrent to illegal immigration.
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| Four arrested over New Year attack on woman in Bengaluru | |  By Aby Jose Koilparambil and Brijesh Patel BENGALURU (Reuters) - Police have arrested four men accused of attacking a woman in the technology hub city of Bengaluru on New Year's Day, a case that has sparked a national debate about women's safety. Police made the arrests after examining closed-circuit camera footage of the attack as the woman walked down a secluded lane in a residential area in the early hours of Jan. 1, Police Commissioner Praveen Sood told reporters on Thursday.
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| Charlie Hebdo tribute marks two years of Islamist attacks on France | |  France paid tribute on Thursday to the journalists, police officers and shoppers at a kosher store killed two years ago by Islamist gunmen, the first of a wave of militant attacks that has left more than 230 dead and triggered a state of emergency. On a cold day in Paris, uniformed police, ministers and the city's mayor stood in silence outside the old office of the Charlie Hebdo magazine and other sites as floral wreaths tied in blue-white-and-red ribbons were laid to mark the anniversary. The killing spree shocked the world and preceded further attacks that did little for the declining popularity of President Francois Hollande and deepened tensions between France's secular state and its large Muslim minority.
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| Congress begins Russia hacking probe, Trump defends comments on U.S. intelligence | |  By Dustin Volz and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top U.S. intelligence officials will testify in Congress on Thursday on Russia's alleged cyber attacks during the 2016 election, as President-elect Donald Trump described himself as a "big fan" of intelligence agencies despite casting doubt on their findings that Moscow orchestrated the hacks. Trump is due to be briefed by intelligence agency chiefs on Friday on hacks that targeted the Democratic Party.
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| Trump presses Democrats on Obamacare, urges bipartisan fix | |  U.S. Republican President-elect Donald Trump kept up his attacks on Democrats and Obamacare on Thursday while calling for a bipartisan congressional effort to come up with a healthcare alternative that would lower costs and improve care. In a series of tweets, Trump, who takes office on Jan. 20, blasted Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer and his fellow Democrats, who have vowed to preserve President Barack Obama's legacy-defining healthcare law even as Republicans move ahead with their long-running bid to scrap it. Taunting Schumer as "head clown," Trump said on Twitter that Democrats are doing "the typical political thing" and casting blame.
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| Turkey jails two commanders for life in first ruling over coup attempt | | | Two senior Turkish military officers were jailed for life on Thursday for involvement in July's failed coup attempt that killed almost 250 people, marking the first conviction related to the putsch, news agencies said. The court found that a colonel and a major had been assigned duties as provincial commanders after the intended overthrow of President Tayyip Erdogan. It described them as members of a network headed by U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, accused of orchestrating the failed coup, media reports said. |
| Prominent Egyptian activist Ahmed Maher freed from jail on probation | |  Egyptian activist Ahmed Maher, a symbol of the popular uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak in 2011, has been released after three years in prison for breaking a law that bans unapproved protests, his lawyer said on Thursday. Maher, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee and a founder of the April 6 movement, broke the 2013 law that is seen by activists as unconstitutional and designed to prevent a repeat of the mass protests that have toppled two presidents in five years. The 36-year-old civil engineer now starts three years of probation and will have to stay in a police station every night between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m., his lawyer, Mohamed Gaheen, said.
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| U.S., European weapons used to commit war crimes in Iraq - Amnesty | | | Militias fighting alongside Iraqi troops against Islamic State are committing war crimes using weapons provided to the Iraqi military by the United States, Europe, Russia and Iran, Amnesty International said on Thursday. The rights group said that the predominantly Shi'ite Muslim militias, known collective as the Hashid Shaabi, were using weapons from Iraqi military stockpiles to commit war crimes including enforced disappearances, torture and summary killings. |
| Rights groups oppose German EU Commissioner's promotion over "racist" remarks | |  Human rights and transparency groups on Thursday urged European Union lawmakers to reject the promotion of Germany's Commissioner to head of human resources at the EU executive over remarks they view as "racist, sexist and homophobic". The campaign groups protested after Guenther Oettinger, the current Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, called Chinese people "slit-eyes" and joked about "compulsory gay marriage" - comments for which he has apologised. Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker announced Oettinger's appointment to a new role as Commissioner for the Budget and Human Resources in October and his confirmation hearing is due in the European Parliament on Jan. 9.
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| Pakistan to release 218 Indian fishermen | |  Pakistan began releasing 218 Indian fishermen on Thursday, police said, the second such gesture in a month that could begin to ease tension between the neighbours. India is also holding Pakistani fishermen for the same reason, and Pakistan hopes its release will be reciprocated. "They are being released by the orders of the federal government," said Ali Hassan Setho, a superintendent of police in the port city of Karachi, where the men are being held.
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| Greek police arrest fugitive militant | | | Greek police early on Thursday arrested a militant who was in hiding with her child and whose Revolutionary Struggle group has carried out more than a dozen armed attacks, including one on the U.S. embassy in Athens in 2007. Police said Panagiota Roupa, 48, on the run since 2014, was involved in many of the attacks by Revolutionary Struggle, a group which declared war on all forms of government in 2003. Roupa is the partner of Nikos Maziotis who is in jail for attacks claimed by the group, including a car bomb that damaged the Athens stock exchange in 2009. |
| Turkey orders detention of 380 businessmen in Gulen investigation - AA | | | ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish prosecutors issued arrest warrants for 380 businessmen accused of providing financial support to the network of U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who is accused of orchestrating July's failed coup, media reports said on Thursday. State-run Anadolu news agency said prosecutors had also issued demands for searches of the suspects' homes and offices. Gulen denies accusations of involvement in the attempted putsch, in which more than 240 people were killed. (Reporting by Ece Toksabay; Writing by Daren Butler; Editing by Nick Tattersall) |
| Sweden says it will be some weeks before decision on Assange inquiry | |  Sweden will not decide for several weeks whether to drop or proceed with an investigation into allegations of rape against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, its Prosecution Authority said on Thursday. Prosecutors said they have now received a transcript of an interview conducted with Assange, 45, in November at Ecuador's embassy in London. "The documentation is in Spanish and consists of several hundred pages, which now will be translated," the Prosecution Authority said in a statement.
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| Executives from top Turkish conglomerate held in post-coup probe | | | By Ceyda Caglayan ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Police detained the top legal advisor and a former chief executive of Dogan Holding, one of Turkey's biggest conglomerates, on Thursday in an investigation into the network of the U.S.-based cleric blamed for a failed coup. Companies with ties to the Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom President Tayyip Erdogan and the government accuse of orchestrating the coup attempt, have also been targeted in the crackdown. Dogan - which has interests in media, finance, energy and tourism and owns newspaper Hurriyet and broadcaster CNN Turk - said the raids were on the personal offices and homes of the two individuals and that its operations were unaffected. |
| Romanian ombudsman challenges law banning convicted officials from govt | | | Romania's ombudsman asked the Constitutional Court on Thursday to strike down a law that bars people convicted of a criminal offence from joining the government, a move that could help the leader of the ruling party to become prime minister. The 2001 law prevented Liviu Dragnea, leader of the leftist Social Democrats (PSD), from becoming premier after his party won a Dec. 11 parliamentary election as he is serving a two-year suspended jail sentence over a 2012 vote-rigging case. President Klaus Iohannis, a former centre-right leader and opponent of the PSD, has made clear he would refuse to appoint as prime minister any candidate with a criminal record. |
| Philippines kills leader of Islamic State-linked militant group in clash | | | Philippine security forces killed the leader of a militant group supporting Islamic State in a clash early on Thursday, the country's police chief said, warning against possible retaliation. President Rodrigo Duterte recently cautioned against Islamic State taking root in the southeast Asian country, saying it needed to avoid "contamination". "I strongly believe that we have effectively broken the backbone of the militant Ansar Al-Khilafah Philippines (AKP)," Ronald Dela Rosa told a news conference to announce the death of the group's leader, Mohammad Jaafar Maguid. |
| Wife of U.S. author missing in Afghanistan makes appeal | | | The wife of an American author who disappeared on a research trip in Afghanistan more than two years ago appealed for his freedom on Thursday in a Pakistani newspaper. Paul Overby, 74, went missing in Afghanistan's eastern Khost province shortly after May 17, 2014, the last contact he had with his family. Sources in the Taliban and the Haqqani network, however, told the News they were not holding Overby and it was unclear what happened to him. |
| VW must face U.S. investor lawsuit in emissions scandal | |  By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Volkswagen AG and former Chief Executive Officer Martin Winterkorn must defend an investor lawsuit in California over the company's diesel emissions cheating scandal, a U.S. judge has ruled. The plaintiffs, mostly U.S. municipal pension funds, have accused VW of not having informed the market in a timely fashion about the issue as well as understating possible financial liabilities, according to the 41-court document seen by Reuters. The pension funds include those representing Arkansas State Highway Employees and Miami Police.
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| Chicago's gang violence catches highway drivers in crossfire | |  By Timothy Mclaughlin CHICAGO (Reuters) - Jonathan Ortiz and other members of his rap group, No Nights Off, stepped onto the stage at Chicago's House of Blues in mid-September for a concert they hoped would propel their young, promising careers. Less than two weeks later, the 22-year-old Ortiz, who forebodingly rapped under the stage name "John Doe," was fatally shot as he drove on an expressway in Chicago. Ortiz and Garcia were victims of the 38th shooting on Chicago-area expressways in 2016, a record-high number for a city stung by a murder rate not seen in two decades.
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| Factbox: Germany mulls new security measures after Islamist truck attack | |  German Chancellor Angela Merkel's government has proposed new security measures in response to an Islamist truck attack on a Berlin Christmas market last month which killed 12 people, triggering fierce debate in an election year. Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere has floated ideas that go some way to meeting demands from conservative coalition allies in Bavaria, the Christian Social Union (CSU). CENTRALISING INTELLIGENCE De Maiziere wants to consider centralising intelligence operations at the federal level.
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| Turkey told U.S. support in Islamic State fight insufficient - Erdogan spokesman | | | Turkey has told U.S. officials it has not received sufficient support in its fight against Islamic State in the last month-and-a-half and expects full support in its bid to drive the jihadists out of Syria's al-Bab, President Tayyip Erdogan's spokesman said on Thursday. Ibrahim Kalin told broadcaster Kanal 24 he had the impression U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's administration would take greater account of Turkey's "sensitivities". Turkey launched an incursion into Syria in August to push Islamic State from its border and prevent Kurdish militia fighters taking ground in their wake. |
| Man phones police from roof of speeding car to thwart thief | | | A man clung onto the roof of his father's stolen car and called police on his mobile phone during a 130 km per hour (80 miles per hour) motorway chase before the thief was arrested. Osama Aoukili, who was largely unscathed after the late-night chase near France's border with Switzerland on Sunday, told French media his reaction was spontaneous. "I told myself this was my father's car and that it meant a lot to him," Aoukili told BFM TV. |
| Friend of South Korea's Park facing "much unfairness" amid graft scandal | |  By Christine Kim and Joyce Lee SEOUL (Reuters) - The friend of impeached South Korean President Park Geun-hye at the centre of a corruption scandal engulfing the administration told a court on Thursday that she faces "much unfairness" and again denied criminal charges against her. Choi Soon-sil, 60, wearing a beige prison suit, held her head up and glanced around as she was led by two corrections officers into the court where she is on trial charged with pressuring big businesses to pay money to two foundations that backed the president's policy initiatives.
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| Turkey says Istanbul nightclub attacker probably Uighur | |  By Daren Butler and Tulay Karadeniz ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) - The man who killed 39 people in an attack on an Istanbul nightclub on New Year's Day is probably an ethnic Uighur and Turkish security services now know where he might be hiding, Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak said on Thursday. Kaynak described the man as a "specially trained" member of a cell who carried out the attack alone and said that while the possibility of him fleeing abroad could not be ruled out, security operations inside Turkey were more likely to find him. Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was revenge for Turkish military involvement in Syria.
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| Two arrested in Israel for threatening judges who convicted soldier - police | | | By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli police said on Thursday they arrested two people for inciting violence on social media against three military judges who convicted a soldier of manslaughter over his fatal shooting of a wounded Palestinian attacker. The judges found Sergeant Elor Azaria, 20, guilty of the charge on Wednesday, and supporters have set up several Facebook pages urging Israel's president to pardon him. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has also called for a pardon on his own Facebook page. |
| Little precedent, wide latitude for South Korea court in impeachment trial | |  By Joyce Lee SEOUL (Reuters) - The South Korean court that will rule on the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye has only one precedent and little in the law books to go by, and several legal experts said it will have wide discretion in deciding if she is fit to remain in office. Seven of nine experts interviewed by Reuters said they believed the Constitutional Court's yardstick in deciding whether Park should remain in office would be less than the "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard for criminal trials, making it more difficult for her to win the case. South Korean law does not specify the standard needed by the Constitutional Court to reach a ruling.
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| Istanbul nightclub attacker probably Uighur, links established - deputy PM | |  ANKARA (Reuters) - The gunman who killed 39 people in an attack on an Istanbul nightclub on New Year's Day is probably Uighur and Turkey has established his possible locations and links, Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak said on Thursday. In an interview with broadcaster A Haber, Kaynak said he could not rule out the possibility of the attacker fleeing abroad but that operations within Turkey were more likely to achieve a result. He said the gunman acted alone but may have been helped by others. (Reporting by Tulay Karadeniz; Writing by Daren Butler; Editing by Nick Tattersall)
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| China investigates party officials in restive Xinjiang for "discipline breaches" | | | China is investigating two Communist Party officials in the restive western region of Xinjiang on suspicion of "serious disciplinary breaches", the graft watchdog said on Thursday, using a common euphemism for corruption. The Xinjiang Discipline Inspection Commission announced the investigation into Hu Jun, 49, party secretary of Karakax county in south Xinjiang, and Zhang Jinbiao, 53, party secretary of Hotan, the prefecture where Karakax is located. The pair are just the latest in a long line of party officials to be investigated for graft since President Xi Jinping waged war on corruption in the party after assuming power four years ago. |
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