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| Japan to recall envoy from South Korea over 'comfort women' statue | | Friday, January 06, 2017 4:01 AM | |
|  By Kaori Kaneko and Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan said on Friday it was recalling its ambassador to South Korea over a statue commemorating Korean women forced to work in Japanese wartime military brothels during World War Two. Chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga said the statue in the southern city of Busan was "extremely regrettable" and that Japan asked for its removal.
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| U.S. spy chief 'resolute' on Russia cyber attack, differs with Trump | | Friday, January 06, 2017 3:15 AM | |
|  By Patricia Zengerle and Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. intelligence official said on Thursday he was "even more resolute" in his belief that Russia staged cyber attacks on Democrats during the 2016 election campaign, rebuking persistent skepticism from Republican President-elect Donald Trump about whether Moscow was involved. James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, said he had a very high level of confidence that Russia hacked Democratic Party and campaign staff email, and disseminated propaganda and fake news aimed at the November 8 election.
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| Sri Lanka divided as panel backs foreign judges to probe war crimes | | Friday, January 06, 2017 3:08 AM | |
|  By Shihar Aneez COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka should bring in international prosecutors and judges to help investigate alleged atrocities in the civil war that ended in 2009, a task force said on Thursday in recommendations that were welcomed by the United Nations. The Consultation Task Force (CTF), appointed by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, said foreign involvement was needed because of a lack of confidence in the local judiciary, which it said did not have the expertise and capacity to prosecute war crimes. The war crimes issue is highly divisive, seven years after the end of the 26-year conflict between government forces and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
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| South Korea court convicts ex-Reckitt Benckiser unit chief in sterilizer case | | Friday, January 06, 2017 3:02 AM | |
| | A South Korean court convicted on Friday a former head of the local unit of the British consumer goods maker Reckitt Benckiser over the sale of humidifier sterilizers linked to deadly lung injuries, sentencing him to seven years in prison, Yonhap news agency said. The Seoul Central District Court found the former executive, Shin Hyun-woo, guilty of criminal negligence for failing to inspect the safety of the product and allowing its sale, Yonhap reported. The South Korean government said in 2015 that 92 people were believed to have died from causes related to humidifier sterilizer products, not all of them made by the Reckitt Benckiser unit. |
| Republicans act to curb U.S. regulation; Democrats poised for fight | | Friday, January 06, 2017 2:55 AM | |
|  By Lisa Lambert and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans lawmakers on Thursday pressed ahead in trying to strip down U.S. regulations, with the House of Representatives passing a bill that requires Congressional approval of major rulemakings that could affect areas ranging from the environment to education. "Excessive regulation means higher prices, lower wages, fewer jobs, less economic growth and a less competitive America," House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte said before the vote, echoing the anti-regulation sentiment popular in his party. President-elect Donald Trump has promised to roll back regulation, saying it would boost economic growth.
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| Former Haitian coup leader arrested on drug trafficking charge | | Friday, January 06, 2017 2:49 AM | |
|  PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - A Haitian politician and former coup leader wanted for alleged drug trafficking and money laundering in the United States was arrested on Thursday, authorities said, days before he was to take up a Senate seat. Guy Philippe was arrested on an international warrant for drug trafficking, said Joris Mergelus, head of the country's anti-drug unit. The arrest of Philippe, who was elected senator from the southwestern Grand Anse region on November 20, came after a radio interview in Petionville, near the capital, Port-au-Prince. Garry Desrosiers, spokesman for the Haitian national police, said that while agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration did not participate in the operation, they were at the police station where Philippe was taken.
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| U.S. intel report identifies Russians who gave emails to WikiLeaks - officials | | Friday, January 06, 2017 2:46 AM | |
|  The CIA has identified Russian officials who fed material hacked from the Democratic National Committee and party leaders to WikiLeaks at the direction of Russian President Vladimir Putin through third parties, according to a new U.S. intelligence report, senior U.S. officials said on Thursday. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the Central Intelligence Agency and others have concluded that the Russian government escalated its efforts from discrediting the U.S. election process to assisting President-elect Donald Trump's campaign. The intelligence assessment was presented to President Barack Obama on Thursday and will be briefed to Trump on Friday.
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| U.S. arrests Brazilian in fraud probe, seizes $20 mln under mattress | | Friday, January 06, 2017 2:43 AM | |
| | By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Thursday announced that about $20 million found under a mattress in a Massachusetts apartment had been seized after a Brazilian man was arrested for laundering money linked to a multi-billion-dollar global fraud. Federal prosecutors in Boston charged Cleber Rene Rizerio Rocha, 28, with conspiring to commit money laundering in a case connected to the investigation of TelexFree Inc, which promoted itself as an internet telecom company but prosecutors say was actually a pyramid scheme. The arrest stemmed from an investigation into TelexFree, a Marlborough, Massachusetts-based company that sold voice-over-internet telephone service and was founded by James Merrill, a U.S. citizen, and Carlos Wanzeler, a Brazilian. |
| U.S. intercepts show Russian officials celebrating Trump win - Washington Post | |  Senior Russian officials celebrated Donald Trump's election victory as a geopolitical win for Moscow, the Washington Post reported on Thursday, citing U.S. officials who said intercepted communications showed the Russians congratulating themselves on the outcome. The ebullient reaction among high-ranking Russian officials - including some who U.S. officials believe had knowledge of the country's cyber campaign to interfere in the U.S. election - contributed to the U.S. intelligence community's assessment that Moscow's efforts were aimed at least in part at helping Trump win the White House, the Post reported.
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| Four Yemeni detainees transferred from Guantanamo to Saudi Arabia | | | By Katie Paul and Matt Spetalnick RIYADH/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon sent four Yemeni detainees from the Guantanamo Bay military prison to Saudi Arabia on Thursday, launching President Barack Obama's final flurry of prisoner transfers despite Donald Trump's demand for a freeze. It was the first phase of Obama's plan to move as many as 19 prisoners to four countries - Oman, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and possibly Italy - to shrink Guantanamo's inmate population as much as possible before the Republican president-elect is sworn in on Jan. 20. |
| Former Haitian coup leader arrested after Senate seat win - source | | | PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - A Haitian politician and former coup leader wanted for alleged drug trafficking and money laundering in the United States was arrested on Thursday, a police source said, days before he was slated to take up a Senate seat. Guy Philippe, who was elected senator from the southwestern Grand Anse region in a second-round election on Nov. 20, was arrested after a radio interview in Petionville, near the capital, Port-au-Prince. Philippe, who led a coup that drove Jean-Bertrand Aristide from the presidency in 2004, was suspected in 2015 of involvement in an attack on a police headquarters in the southern city of Les Cayes in which at least six people were killed. Haitian officials issued a warrant for Philippe's arrest over the incident, but his lawyers said it was invalid because he was a candidate. Philippe would enjoy immunity in some criminal proceedings once in office. |
| Brazil prosecutors eye contract corruption at massacre prison | |  By Ueslei Marcelino and Alonso Soto MANAUS/BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian prosecutors on Thursday demanded a multi-million dollar private prison contract in Amazonas state be axed due to signs of corruption as the government blamed mismanagement for the country's bloodiest prison massacre in decades. Amazonas' accounting court prosecutor, Carlos Almeida, said he found signs of payment irregularities in a contract the state signed with the Pamas consortium to manage all its prisons, including the Anisio Jobim penitentiary where 56 inmates died in an uprising this week. The killings have raised questions about whether private companies should be running prisons in Brazil, especially in Amazonas where the inmate population has more than doubled since 2010.
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| U.S. loses bid to overturn AmEx antitrust decision | |  By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected the U.S. government's request that it reconsider its decision allowing American Express Co to stop merchants from encouraging customers to use rival cards that charge lower fees. Without comment, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals let stand its Sept. 26 reversal of a lower court ruling that had struck down AmEx's "anti-steering" rules.
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| South Carolina church gunman objects to tearful testimony | |  By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - Convicted murderer Dylann Roof said on Thursday tearful testimony by family members of those slain in the South Carolina church massacre was excessive and would prejudice jurors who will decide whether he should be sentenced to death. The 22-year-old white supremacist, found guilty last month of killing nine black people at Charleston's Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in 2015, said in written motions it was unfair for federal prosecutors to pile on given he does not plan to present any mitigating evidence. Roof is serving as his own lawyer during the penalty phase of his capital trial.
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| U.S. sues D-Link, alleges lax security in routers, cameras | |  By Diane Bartz and Jim Finkle WASHINGTON/BOSTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against D-Link Corp on Thursday, accusing the Taiwan-based manufacturer of failing to take reasonable steps to protect its routers and internet-linked security cameras from hackers. The FTC brought the charges as part of a broader effort to improve security of internet-connected devices, including routers, webcams, digital video recorders and other widely used consumer electronics devices. "The security of our products and protection of our customers private data is always our top priority." Concerns about security of internet-connected devices, which are sometimes referred to collectively as the internet of things, or IoT, have surged since last year when hackers used armies of compromised routers, webcams and other electronic devices to launch a series of increasingly powerful attacks that severed access to some of the world's biggest websites.
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| Tennis - Australian Boys champion Anderson charged with match fixing: local media | |  (Reuters) - Australian teenager Oliver Anderson, one of the brightest young talents in tennis, has been charged by police with involvement in match fixing following an investigation, local media reported on Thursday. Police in Victoria said in a statement that an unnamed 18-year-old Queensland man had been charged. Australian media identified Anderson and quoted a family statement saying the teenager from Brisbane was cooperating fully with authorities.
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| Investigators return to question Netanyahu over alleged receipt of gifts | |  By Ori Lewis JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli police officers on Thursday questioned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu under caution for a second time this week on suspicion of taking gifts from businessmen in breach of his role as a public servant. Police said the session, which lasted some five hours, was held at Netanyahu's official residence in Jerusalem. "The investigation under caution of (Netanyahu's) alleged receipt of benefits continued today and involved questioning about another affair ... due to a fear of disrupting the investigation, no further details can be revealed at the moment," a police statement said.
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