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| Hong Kong's 'bow tie Tsang' denies graft related to China penthouse | | Tuesday, January 03, 2017 3:54 AM | |
|  By Venus Wu HONG KONG (Reuters) - Former Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang, the highest-ranking ex-official to be charged in the city's history, on Tuesday denied bribery related to the decoration of a luxury penthouse in the neighbouring Chinese city of Shenzhen. Tsang, 72, pleaded not guilty to one count of "Chief Executive accepting an advantage" and another of misconduct in public office in the high court. The charges allege Tsang accepted refurbishment and redecoration work on the three-storey penthouse in Shenzhen that he'd rented from the Shenzhen East Pacific Group, owned by property tycoon Bill Wong Cho-bau.
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| U.S. House Republicans weaken ethics body as they return to Congress | | Tuesday, January 03, 2017 3:47 AM | |
| | By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives agreed on Monday to weaken a nonpartisan ethics watchdog on the grounds it had grown too intrusive, prompting Democrats to charge they were scaling back independent oversight ahead of a new legislative session. As they returned to Washington following a holiday break, House Republicans voted in a closed-door meeting to place the Office of Congressional Ethics under the oversight of the House Ethics Committee, giving lawmakers greater control over an independent body charged with investigating their behavior. The ethics office was created in 2008 following several corruption scandals, but some lawmakers have charged in recent years that it has been too quick to investigate complaints lodged by outside partisan groups. |
| Dog fight: Start-ups take aim at errant drones | | Tuesday, January 03, 2017 3:45 AM | |
|  A boom in consumer drone sales has spawned a counter-industry of start-ups aiming to stop drones flying where they shouldn't, by disabling them or knocking them out of the sky. Dozens of start-up firms are developing techniques - from deploying birds of prey to firing gas through a bazooka - to take on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that are being used to smuggle drugs, drop bombs, spy on enemy lines or buzz public spaces. The arms race is fed in part by the slow pace of government regulation for drones.
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| U.S. judge rules South Carolina church gunman can act as own lawyer | | Tuesday, January 03, 2017 3:40 AM | |
|  By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday ruled Dylann Roof was mentally fit to serve as his own lawyer in the penalty phase of his trial, when a jury will decide whether to sentence him to be executed for the 2015 massacre at a South Carolina church. Roof, 22, an avowed white supremacist, was found guilty in December on all federal charges in the shooting deaths of nine black parishioners at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Carolina in 2015. The shooting where Roof had waited for members of a Bible study group to close their eyes in prayer before opening fire sent shockwaves across the United States.
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| Investigators question Israel's Netanyahu over alleged receipt of gifts | | Tuesday, January 03, 2017 3:37 AM | |
|  By Luke Baker JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Police questioned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for three hours under caution at his official residence in Jerusalem on Monday on suspicion of receiving gifts from businessmen in breach of his role as a public servant. Part of a police statement issued after the questioning ended said that "investigators questioned PM Benjamin Netanyahu under caution on suspicion of receiving benefits." No additional details were initially given. The move to question the Israeli leader was authorised by Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, who decided after a preliminary inquiry that there was enough evidence to open a criminal investigation.
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| Brazil drug gangs spark prison riot, 56 dead | | Tuesday, January 03, 2017 3:31 AM | |
|  By Alonso Soto BRASILIA (Reuters) - Drug gangs sparked a prison riot that killed 56 people, with decapitated bodies thrown over prison walls in the bloodiest violence in more than two decades in Brazil's overcrowded penitentiary system, officials said on Monday. Sergio Fontes, the security chief for Amazonas state, told reporters several decapitated bodies were thrown over the wall of the prison in the Amazon city of Manaus, with most of those killed coming from the Sao Paulo-based First Capital Command (PCC) drug gang. "This was another chapter in the silent and ruthless war of drug trafficking," he said.
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| Brazil's history of violent prison uprisings | | Tuesday, January 03, 2017 3:31 AM | |
|  About 60 people were killed in a prison riot in the city of Manaus sparked by a war between rival drug gangs, officials said on Monday, in some of the worst violence in years in Brazil's overcrowded penitentiary system. Violent uprisings among Brazil's 600,000-strong prison population are a regular occurrence, fed by chronic overcrowding, degrading conditions and competition between criminal groups that control large swaths of penitentiaries. Following is a list of notable riots: October 2016 - At least 18 inmates were killed in two prisons in remote parts of northern and western Brazil in clashes between Brazil's most powerful drug gang, the Sao Paulo-based First Capital Command, and its closest rival, the Red Command from Rio de Janeiro.
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| Islamic State kills 24 with Baghdad car bomb, attack police stations in Samarra | | Tuesday, January 03, 2017 3:27 AM | |
|  By Kareem Raheem and Ghazwan Hassan BAGHDAD/TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - An Islamic State car bomb killed 24 people in Baghdad's Sadr City district on Monday and the militants also attacked two police stations in the city of Samarra as Iraqi forces fought to oust the group from Mosul, its last major stronghold in Iraq. At least four other attacks across Baghdad, some also claimed by Islamic State, killed nine more people earlier in the day, bringing the total death toll from bombings in the capital over the past three days to more than 60.
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| Murders in notoriously violent El Salvador drop 20 percent in 2016 - police | | Tuesday, January 03, 2017 3:23 AM | |
| | Murders in El Salvador fell by more than a fifth in 2016 after soaring to one of the highest rates anywhere around the globe the previous year, police data in the Central American nation showed on Monday. National police chief Howard Cotto said steps taken by the government to combat El Salvador's violent street gangs, known as Maras, helped to cut the homicide total by 1,378 from the previous year to 5,278, a decline of 20.7 percent. The wave of killings in El Salvador in 2015 pushed the murder rate above 100 for every 100,000 inhabitants, probably the highest in the world for a country not at war. |
| South Korea seeks extradition from Denmark of daughter of Park's friend | | Tuesday, January 03, 2017 3:20 AM | |
|  By Christine Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean authorities said on Tuesday they will proceed with steps to extradite Chung Yoo-ra, the daughter of a central figure in a South Korean political scandal that has led to a parliamentary vote to impeach President Park Geun-hye. Chung is being held in Denmark after police there arrested her on Sunday in the northern city of Aalborg. Denmark's public prosecutor said on Monday that Chung will remain in custody for four weeks after having been charged with committing economic crime in South Korea.
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| Trump says Chicago must seek U.S. help if no progress cutting murders | | Tuesday, January 03, 2017 3:18 AM | |
|  U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said in a Twitter message on Monday that Chicago's mayor must ask for U.S. government help if the city fails to reduce its homicide rate, which hit a 20-year high in 2016. The city responded that Trump and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel had previously spoken and agreed to ways the federal government could help. "Chicago murder rate is record setting - 4,331 shooting victims with 762 murders in 2016.
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| New U.S. Congress prepares to undo Obamacare, weigh Trump personnel picks | | Tuesday, January 03, 2017 3:13 AM | |
|  By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new, Republican-controlled U.S. Congress convenes on Tuesday eager to repeal major portions of President Barack Obama's healthcare law and roll back environmental and financial industry regulations, but could quickly become embroiled in fights over President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet choices. Despite his promise to unite a deeply divided country, Trump will be sworn in on January 20 leading a Republican Party that early on will push legislation through Congress without significant - or any - Democratic support. According to a Gallup poll released on Monday, Trump will take office with less than half of Americans confident in his ability to handle an international crisis, use military force wisely or prevent major ethics lapses in his administration.
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| Christmas message leads to death threats, police case in Pakistan | | Tuesday, January 03, 2017 3:08 AM | |
| | By Kay Johnson and Mubasher Bukhari ISLAMABAD/LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Christmas message calling for prayers for those charged under Pakistan's blasphemy laws has led to death threats against the son of a provincial governor killed five years ago for criticising the same laws. The case highlights the continuing influence in Pakistan of Muslim hardliners who praise violence in the name of defending Islam, despite a government vow to crack down on religious extremism. The hardliners have called for mass protests if police do not charge activist Shaan Taseer with blasphemy against Islam - a crime punishable by death. |
| No proof Russian hacking influenced U.S. election - Trump spokesman | | Tuesday, January 03, 2017 2:58 AM | |
|  No evidence has emerged to suggest Russian hacking influenced the outcome of the U.S. presidential election and it would be irresponsible to jump to conclusions before receiving a final intelligence report, Donald Trump's spokesman said on Monday. "There is zero evidence that they influenced the election," Sean Spicer told Fox News. Due to become White House press secretary when Trump enters the White House on January 20, Spicer told CNN the president-elect would see the intelligence report once it was completed later this week.
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| Italy's 5-Star Movement unveils ethics code; critics cry hypocrisy | | Tuesday, January 03, 2017 2:54 AM | |
|  By Isla Binnie ROME (Reuters) - Italy's anti-establishment 5-Star Movement said on Monday it would not automatically require its politicians to step down if they come under legal investigation, prompting critics to accuse it of hypocrisy. Italy's largest opposition group presents itself as a squeaky-clean counterweight to mainstream parties, which have repeatedly come under corruption probes for almost 25 years. Critics said founder Beppe Grillo was softening his stance now that the movement had taken charge of large towns and cities and was running into legal difficulties.
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