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| Pence, Republican U.S. lawmakers sharpen plans to scrap Obamacare | |  By Susan Cornwell and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President-elect Mike Pence on Wednesday met with Republican congressional leaders to plot strategy on repealing President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law, a move that could leave tens of millions of Americans without medical insurance. Obama on Wednesday morning was meeting with Democratic legislators, including U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, to discuss how they can protect the 2010 Affordable Care Act, which is known as Obamacare. Republican U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, who takes office on Jan. 20, and his party's congressional leaders have made repealing and replacing the law among their top priorities.
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| Trump voices new doubts about Russian efforts to sway U.S. vote | |  President-elect Donald Trump voiced new doubts on Wednesday that Russian hackers attempted to influence the U.S. election on his behalf, accusing Democrats of lax security and saying WikiLeaks had denied Moscow was behind the documents it made public. Trump, in a spate of notes on Twitter, continued to raise questions about the findings by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia was behind a series of leaks that embarrassed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton's campaign ahead of the Nov. 8 vote. Documents stolen from the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta, Clinton's campaign manager, were leaked to the media in advance of the election.
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| Trump warns Republicans to "be careful" over Obamacare - tweet | |  U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday warned fellow Republicans to "be careful" over their effort to repeal U.S. Democratic President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law, urging conservatives not to let the pressure off Democrats. "Republicans must be careful in that the Dems own the failed ObamaCare disaster, with its poor coverage and massive premium increases," Trump tweeted. "Don't let the Schumer clowns out of this web...," he added, referring to U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, who along with other Democrats is meeting with Obama about the law Wednesday morning.
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| Finnish MP fined for anti-Muslim agitation on Facebook | | | Lawmaker Teuvo Hakkarainen from the nationalist Finns party was fined on Wednesday for a Facebook post calling for a Muslim-free Finland which a district court said amounted to agitation against an ethnic group. Hakkarainen, whose party is part of the country's coalition government, made the call in a comment on the truck attack in France last July that killed 86 people. Central Finland's district court in Jyvaskyla imposed a 1,160 euro ($1,210) fine for Hakkarainen, who accepted the verdict. |
| Turkish police detain 20 suspected Islamic State members in Izmir | | | Turkish police detained 20 suspected Islamic State militants thought to be of Central Asian and North African origin in the Aegean coastal city of Izmir on Wednesday, according to a police statement. The suspects were understood to have travelled to Izmir from the central city of Konya, the statement said. Security forces are hunting for a gunman who killed 39 people in an Istanbul nightclub on New Year's Day, an attack claimed by Islamic State. |
| "We need to talk", Bavarian CSU tells Merkel on migrants | |  Insisting "this is serious", the leader of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Bavarian sister party stood by his demand for a refugee cap and said the conservative allies still have differences to resolve before campaigning for September's election. Horst Seehofer, the leader of the conservative Christian Social Union (CSU), said on Wednesday a "reconciliation summit" he is due to hold with Merkel in Munich in February was still planned but that the programme was not finalised. The CSU has long bristled at Merkel's open-door policies that allowed into Germany about 1.1 million refugees from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere since mid-2015.
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| Turkey says Istanbul attacker's identity established, manhunt goes on | |  By Nick Tattersall and Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey has established the identity of the gunman who killed 39 people in an Istanbul nightclub on New Year's Day, its foreign minister said on Wednesday, as police detained suspected Islamic State members of Central Asian and North African origin. In an interview with the state-run Anadolu news agency, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu gave no further details about the gunman, whom Turkish officials have not named. Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was revenge for Turkish military involvement in Syria.
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| Israeli soldier convicted of manslaughter in killing of wounded Palestinian assailant | |  By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A young Israeli soldier who shot dead a Palestinian assailant lying wounded and motionless on the ground in the occupied West Bank was convicted of manslaughter on Wednesday in one of the most polarising cases in Israel's history. The decision to court-martial Sergeant Elor Azaria, who shot the Palestinian after the assailant stabbed another Israeli soldier last March, stirred public controversy in Israel from the start, with right-wing politicians calling after the verdict on President Reuven Rivlin to pardon the 20-year-old defendant. As the decision was being read at a heavily guarded military court in Tel Aviv, several hundred far-right backers of Azaria - one of them carrying a Donald Trump "Make America Great Again" banner - clashed with police outside the facility.
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| German authorities investigating 2nd suspect in Berlin truck attack | |  German authorities have taken into custody a 26-year-old Tunisian man and are investigating whether he played a role in the truck attack that killed 12 people in the German capital before Christmas, a spokeswoman for the chief federal prosecutor said on Wednesday. Police on Tuesday evening searched the room of the man who had dinner with the Tunisian main suspect Anis Amri, 24, a day before Amri ploughed a truck through a Berlin Christmas market on Dec. 19, the spokeswoman said. The spokeswoman said there was not sufficient evidence at this point to charge the man for any role in the attack.
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| U.S. prosecutor details 'cruelty' of Massachusetts triple murderer | | | By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - A U.S. prosecutor on Wednesday recounted in brutal detail how a Massachusetts man slaughtered three men, including two who had picked him up hitchhiking, in 2001 as he sought to persuade a jury to sentence the confessed killer to die. The admitted triple murderer, Gary Lee Sampson, 57, could be the second person sentenced to death by a federal jury in Massachusetts in two years, a rarity in a state whose laws do not allow the death penalty. Sampson pleaded guilty to murdering two men who picked him up while he was hitchhiking in Massachusetts and a third man in New Hampshire. |
| Nearly 200 children freed from Telangana brick kiln in one of biggest rescues | |  By Anuradha Nagaraj CHENNAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Police rescued nearly 200 children, most of them under the age of 14, who had been found working in a brick kiln in Telangana in one of the biggest operations in the region, officials said on Wednesday. The children were rescued from a brick kiln in Yadadiri district, 40 kilometres (25 miles) from state capital Hyderabad, as part of "Operation Smile", a national campaign to tackle child labour and missing children. The rescued children had moved from Odisha and were living and working with adults presumed to be their parents in the brick kiln, police said.
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| Gambia army chief stands by embattled President Jammeh | |  Gambia's army chief reaffirmed his loyalty to embattled President Yahya Jammeh on Wednesday in the face of a possible regional military intervention to enforce the result of an election that dealt the longtime leader a surprise defeat. Jammeh initially accepted his defeat in the Dec. 1 election but a week later reversed his position, vowing to hang onto power despite a wave of regional and international condemnation. West African regional bloc ECOWAS has placed standby forces on alert in case Jammeh attempts to stay in power after his mandate ends on Jan. 19.
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| Pope says upset by Brazil jail riot, calls for humane prisons | |  Pope Francis appealed on Wednesday for prisoners around the world to be treated humanely following the deadliest jail riot in Brazil for two decades, in which 56 inmates died. Some inmates were decapitated and their bodies tossed over a wall of the penitentiary, which houses more than three times its capacity. "I express my pain and concern for what happened," Pope Francis said at his weekly general audience in the Vatican.
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| Russia offers Philippines arms and close friendship | |  By Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) - Russia is ready to supply the Philippines with sophisticated weapons including aircraft and submarines and aims to become a close friend of the traditional U.S. ally as it diversifies its foreign ties, Russia's ambassador said on Wednesday. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has thrown the future of Philippine-U.S. relations into question with angry outbursts against the former colonial power and some scaling back of military ties while taking steps to boost ties with China and Russia. Illustrating the transformation of Philippine foreign relations since Duterte took office in June, two Russian warships are on four-day visit to Manila this week, the first official navy-to-navy contact between the two countries.
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| Arab separatists in Iran say attacked pipelines in west, Tehran issues denial | | | Arab separatist militants in Iran said on Tuesday they had blown up two oil pipelines in coordinated attacks in the western Khuzestan region two days earlier, though this was subsequently denied by Iran's Interior Ministry. The group, the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of al-Ahwaz, said on its website its armed wing had caused major damage and fuel losses in the attacks on Jan. 3 near the town of Omidiyeh and the port of Deylam. Ahwazi Arabs are a minority in mainly ethnic Persian Iran, and some see themselves as under Persian occupation and want independence or autonomy. |
| Italy says same gun used in hijack of Berlin market truck, Milan shootout | |  A gun fired at Milan police by the man suspected of attacking a Christmas market in Berlin last month was the same one used to kill the driver of the truck that ploughed into revellers in the German capital, Italian police said on Wednesday. Anis Amri, a failed asylum seeker from Tunisia, was shot dead in a gunfight with police in the Milan suburb of Sesto San Giovanni on Dec. 23, days after he allegedly killed 12 people in Berlin.
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| California lawmakers hire Holder for fights with Trump, New York Times reports | |  Democratic lawmakers in the California legislature have retained former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to help in any legal battles with President-elect Donald Trump's administration, the New York Times reported on Wednesday. The move is an indication that lawmakers in the nation's most populous state, where Democrats hold two-thirds majorities in both houses of the legislature, are girding for possible court battles after Trump takes office on Jan. 20. Last month, leaders of both houses introduced bills to protect undocumented immigrants from anticipated efforts by a Trump administration to increase deportations.
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| Germany tries Syrian accused of scoping out targets for Islamic State | | | A 19-year-old Syrian man went on trial in Germany on Wednesday accused of surveying sites in Berlin as possible targets for attacks by Islamic State militants, a court spokeswoman said. The trial came at a time when Germany is debating tougher security laws after a failed asylum seeker drove a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin on Dec. 19, killing 12 people, in an attack claimed by Islamic State. Prosecutors said the Syrian man, identified as Shaas Al M., is believed to have fought for Islamic State in Syria before arriving in Germany in August 2015 and applying for asylum. |
| Knife-wielding man wounds 11 children in south China | | | A man in China's southern region of Guangxi wounded 11 children with a blade at their kindergarten on Wednesday, state television said, in the country's latest mass knifing incident. Violent crime is rare in China, compared to many other countries, but there has been a series of knife and axe attacks in recent years, many targeting children. China Central Television said in a post on its official microblog that a man climbed the wall of the kindergarten in the city of Pingxiang and attacked the students. |
| Kidnapped Iraqi woman journalist released unharmed after a week | | | Iraqi journalist Afrah al-Qaisi, known in her country for criticising the government in satirical articles for local media, has been released unharmed after being kidnapped by unidentified gunmen in Baghdad a week ago. The head of the Iraqi Journalistic Freedoms Observatory, Ziyad al-Ajili, said on Wednesday the kidnappers had returned the car, telephone, laptop and gold jewelry they took when they broke into her home and that she drove back overnight around midnight. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi telephoned Qaisi to check on her well-being after her release, his media office said. |
| South Carolina church gunman to address jurors at sentencing trial | | | By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - Jurors who found white supremacist Dylann Roof guilty of federal crimes tied to the killings of nine black parishioners at a South Carolina church will hear directly from him on Wednesday as the sentencing phase of his death penalty trial begins. U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel ruled on Monday that Roof, 22, was mentally fit to stand trial and act as his own lawyer as prosecutors make the case that he should be executed for the 2015 massacre at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston. Roof's strategy for the sentencing phase is unclear. |
| Feature: Behind fence, Mexico's notorious Juarez is wary of Trump's wall | |  By Frank Jack Daniel CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexicans overwhelmingly say they oppose the wall U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has promised to build along their northern border. After the border got tighter, Cabada said, "the narco traffickers had to battle much harder to cross their drugs into the United States, and a lot ended up staying here." The increased local supply of drugs changed social dynamics in the city and addiction and petty crime soared, he said.
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| Death penalty trial of triple Massachusetts murderer comes to close | | | Lawyers for a Massachusetts man who admitted to murdering three people in a week long 2001 rampage are due in federal court in Boston on Wednesday to make their last arguments to the jury that will determine whether he will be executed. Gary Lee Sampson, 57, could be the second person sentenced to death by a federal jury in Massachusetts in two years, a rarity in a state whose laws do not allow the death penalty for state-level crimes. Sampson pleaded guilty to murdering two men who picked him up while he was hitchhiking in Massachusetts and a third man in New Hampshire more than a decade ago. |
| Erdogan says nightclub attack being exploited to divide Turks | |  Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that linking lifestyle differences with the attack at an Istanbul nightclub on New Year's Day was a deliberate attempt to divide the nation and that the state never meddled in how people lived. "There is no point trying to blame the Ortakoy attack on differences in lifestyles," Erdogan said in a speech to local administrators at the presidential palace in Ankara. "Nobody's lifestyle is under systematic threat in Turkey.
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| French trial of Equatorial Guinea leader's son postponed until June | | | A French court on Wednesday postponed the corruption trial of the son of Equatorial Guinea's president until June 19, bringing proceedings to a halt two days after they had begun. The lawyer for Teodorin Obiang had asked for the hearing to be suspended on the grounds that his client, who was summoned to trial three weeks ago, had not been given enough time to prepare his defence in a complex case. Obiang, eldest son of President Teodoro Obiang and a vice-president of Equatorial Guinea, is accused of buying palatial Parisian properties and exotic cars with money plundered from his country, a small oil-rich state on Africa's west coast. |
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