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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. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he supported pardoning Azaria in a post on his Facebook page.
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| Republicans make repealing Obamacare 'first order of business' | |  By Susan Cornwell and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama exhorted fellow Democrats on Wednesday to preserve his legacy-defining healthcare law as Republicans launched their long-desired bid to scrap it in what Vice President-elect Mike Pence called the "first order of business" of Donald Trump's administration. The Senate opened debate on a resolution setting in motion the Republican drive to repeal the Democratic-backed 2010 Affordable Care Act, which has helped upwards of 20 million previously uninsured Americans obtain medical insurance. Obama, who hands over the presidency to Republican Trump on Jan. 20, ventured to Capitol Hill to urge Democratic lawmakers to protect the measure, which is known as Obamacare and is considered his signature domestic policy accomplishment.
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| South Carolina church gunman tells jurors he is not mentally ill | |  By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - White supremacist Dylann Roof, facing the death penalty for the hate-fuelled killings of nine black churchgoers in South Carolina, told jurors at his federal trial on Wednesday that he is not mentally ill but did not say whether he wants to live. The 22-year-old said during a short opening statement that he was representing himself for the penalty phase in Charleston because he did not want the jury to hear any of the mental health evidence his lawyers had sought to introduce in an effort to spare him from execution. "There's nothing wrong with me psychologically," Roof told the jury, making no mention of the crime or the racist ideology prosecutors have said spurred the 2015 massacre at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
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| Mass killer Charles Manson still alive - California prison official | |  (Reuters) - Cult leader and convicted mass murderer Charles Manson, reportedly taken from a California prison where he is serving a life sentence to a hospital for an undisclosed medical issue, "is alive right now," a state prison official said on Wednesday. Celebrity gossip website TMZ reported on Tuesday that Manson was transported to a hospital in Bakersfield, California, about an hour from California State Prison in Corcoran, where he was being held. A spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Krissi Khokhobashvili, declined to confirm the media reports or provide details on Manson's location or specifics on his medical condition.
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| Germany detains Tunisian man linked to Berlin truck attacker | |  German police have detained a 26-year-old Tunisian man over links with the perpetrator of an Islamist truck attack on a Berlin Christmas market that killed 12 people, a federal prosecutors' spokeswoman said on Wednesday. Police on Tuesday evening searched the living quarters of the man identified as Bilel A. after he was found to have had dinner with Anis Amri a day before Amri steered a truck through the market on Dec. 19, spokeswoman Frauke Koehler said. Amri, 24, also a Tunisian and failed asylum seeker, was killed in a shootout with Italian police on Dec. 23 after fleeing Germany and travelling through the Netherlands, Belgium and France.
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| Netanyahu says soldier convicted of manslaughter should be pardoned | |  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday he supported pardoning a young Israeli soldier convicted of manslaughter for shooting dead a Palestinian assailant lying wounded and motionless on the ground in the occupied West Bank. The decision to court-martial Sergeant Elor Azaria, who shot the Palestinian after the assailant stabbed another Israeli soldier last March has 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. "This is a difficult and painful day - first and foremost for Elor, his family, Israel's soldiers, many citizens and parents of soldiers, among them me ... I support granting a pardon to Elor Azaria," Netanyahu said on his Facebook page.
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| California lawmakers hire Holder for fights with Trump | |  Democratic lawmakers in the California legislature said on Wednesday they retained former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to help in any legal battles with President-elect Donald Trump's administration. The move is more evidence 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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| U.S. seeks death for 'heinous' admitted triple murderer | | | By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - A Massachusetts drifter who killed three men in a series of attacks in two states in 2001, refining his murder methods as he went, should be sentenced to death for the crimes he has admitted to, a federal prosecutor told a jury on Wednesday. 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 killing two men, aged 69 and 19, in Massachusetts after hailing them as a hitchhiker and taking them to secluded wooded areas where he tied them up before stabbing them to death, and later strangling a third man, 58, in New Hampshire. |
| Romania's new government wins vote of confidence | |  By Radu-Sorin Marinas and Luiza Ilie BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's Social Democrat-led coalition government won a vote of confidence in parliament on Wednesday, as expected, returning to power after a one-year break. Led by Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu, the new cabinet won by a vote of 295 to 133, parliament's ballot count data showed. The Social Democrats (PSD) were ousted in November 2015, after a deadly fire in a Bucharest nightclub led to nationwide protests over graft and slipshod public administration.
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| Brazil state governor calls for war on drug gangs after massacre | |  By Ueslei Marcelino and Alonso Soto MANAUS/BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) - The governor of the state that saw Brazil's bloodiest prison massacre in decades this week urged federal authorities on Wednesday to step up the fight against drug trafficking, which he blames for a wave of violence in the remote jungle region. Three days after a clash between drug gangs left 56 dead, Amazonas Governor Jose Melo proposed creating a national fund to finance the relocation of 10 percent of the armed forces to the border to stop cocaine flowing into Brazil. "Over the last two years our prison population has doubled because of drug trafficking," Melo told a local radio station.
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| Swiss open criminal proceedings over Berlin Christmas attack | |  Switzerland's Office of the Attorney General (OAG) said on Wednesday it has opened criminal proceedings in connection to the truck attack at a Berlin Christmas market in December which killed 12 people. The proceedings are based on suspected support of a criminal organisation and a violation of Switzerland's ban on Islamic State and al Qaeda, the OAG said in an emailed statement. The investigation is in close cooperation with Switzerland's Federal Office of Police and will also be co-ordinated with foreign authorities, the OAG said.
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| Pakistan arrests 150 Islamists trying to rally in support of blasphemy law | |  Pakistani police said they arrested 150 hardline Muslim activists on Wednesday as they tried to rally in support of the country's tough blasphemy law on the anniversary of a provincial governor's assassination over his call to reform the statute. Security was tight in the eastern city of Lahore throughout the day. Police barricaded many parts of Lahore to prevent demonstrators from gathering, causing massive traffic jams.
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| Austria investigates series of New Year's sexual assaults in Innsbruck | | | Police in the Austrian city of Innsbruck are trying to identify a group of foreign men believed to have sexually assaulted 18 women during New Year's Eve celebrations, a spokesman said on Wednesday. The women have reported that unidentified assailants had groped and tried to kiss them that evening as they stood in or near a crowded central square for a concert and fireworks display. In neighbouring Germany last year, hundreds of women were sexually assaulted and robbed at New Year's celebrations in Cologne and suspects were mainly of North African and Arab appearance. |
| 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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| Chilean midfielder questioned over killing in Argentina - media | |  Chilean midfielder Luciano Cabral, currently playing for Atletico Paranaense in Brazil, turned himself over to Argentine police for questioning about a deadly street fight that took place over the weekend, local media said on Wednesday. Cabral, 21, whose father Jose Cabral has been held by police in connection with the fight, turned himself in late on Tuesday, several local news reports said. A 27-year old man died when his skull was fractured during the street brawl, which took place in the Argentine province of Mendoza, local news outlet UNO reported.
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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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| 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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