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| Trump assails GM over car production in Mexico, threatens tax | |  By Bernie Woodall and David Shepardson DETROIT/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to impose a "big border tax" on General Motors Co for making some of its Chevrolet Cruze compact cars in Mexico, an arrangement the largest U.S. automaker defended as part of its strategy to serve global customers, not sell them in the United States. Trump's comments marked his latest broadside aimed at an American company over jobs, imports and costs before he takes office on Jan. 20, signaling an uncommon degree of intervention for an incoming U.S. president into corporate affairs. "General Motors is sending Mexican made model of Chevy Cruze to U.S. car dealers-tax free across border.
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| New Republican-led U.S. Congress lays groundwork for Trump era | |  By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-led U.S. Congress begins a new session on Tuesday in which it will start laying plans for enacting President-elect Donald Trump's agenda of cutting taxes, repealing Obamacare and rolling back financial and environmental regulations. With Trump set to be sworn in as president on Jan. 20, Republican lawmakers hope to get a quick start on priorities that were blocked during Democratic President Barack Obama's eight years in the White House. "With all that Congress has to work on, do they really have to make the weakening of the Independent Ethics Watchdog, as unfair as it may be, their number one act and priority," he said on Twitter on Tuesday.
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| Trump criticizes Congress's move weakening ethics watchdog - Twitter | |  U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday criticized a congressional move to weaken a nonpartisan ethics watchdog, giving lawmakers greater control over an independent body charged with investigating their behavior. "With all that Congress has to work on, do they really have to make the weakening of the Independent Ethics Watchdog, as unfair as it ... may be, their number one act and priority. Focus on tax reform, healthcare and so many other things of far greater importance! #DTS" Trump said in two Twitter posts, using DTS to stand for his campaign slogan "Drain the Swamp." Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives agreed on Monday to weaken the 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.
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| S.Korea seeks extradition from Denmark of daughter of Park's friend | |  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 told Reuters on Tuesday it was still awaiting a formal request from Seoul to extradite Chung and that it would take up to 30 days to address the issue.
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| Germany charges man with role in Islamic State executions in Syria | | | Germany's chief prosecutor has charged a 28-year-old German citizen with murder, belonging to a terrorist group and committing war crimes for his role in the execution of six detainees by Islamic State militants in Syria in 2015. The man, identified as Harry S. in court documents, has been in custody since returning to Germany in July 2015, shortly after prosecutors said he took part in the executions in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra. A spokeswoman for the Federal Prosecutor's Office in Karlsruhe said on Tuesday the man had travelled to Syria in early April 2015 to join Islamic State. |
| Taiwan objects to deportation of telecom fraud suspects from Vietnam to China | | | Taiwan on Tuesday strongly objected to the deportation from Vietnam to China of four Taiwanese nationals suspected of telecommunications fraud, saying the move was carried out under pressure from Beijing. The latest deportation followed a series of similar cases this year where Taiwanese nationals in Kenya, Malaysia, Armenia and Cambodia have been arrested for alleged involvement in cross-border telecom scam groups and sent to China. The deportations arose from the "one-China" policy of most countries under which they maintain formal relations only with the People's Republic of China rather than Taiwan, a self-ruled island that Beijing regards as a renegade province. |
| Gunman in Istanbul nightclub attack may have trained in Syria | |  By Humeyra Pamuk and Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The gunman who killed 39 people in an Istanbul nightclub on New Year's Day in an attack claimed by Islamic State appears to have been well versed in guerrilla warfare and may have trained in Syria, a newspaper report and a security source said on Tuesday. In a statement claiming the attack on Monday, Islamic State described the club as a gathering point for Christians celebrating their "apostate holiday" and said the shooting was revenge for Turkish military involvement in Syria. "The assailant has experience in combat for sure ... he could have been fighting in Syria for years," one security source told Reuters, saying that he was likely to have been directed in his actions by the jihadist group.
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| Romania's leftist Social Democrats name ministers in new government | | | Romania's ruling Social Democrat Party (PSD), winner of a Dec. 11 parliamentary election, named government ministers on Tuesday, including veteran lawmaker Viorel Stefan for the finance ministry portfolio. The line-up will be rubber-stamped in a vote on Wednesday in parliament, where the PSD and its junior coalition party ALDE have an overall majority. ALDE has four porfolios, including energy. |
| Debate over race and policing roils start of German election year | | | By Erik Kirschbaum BERLIN (Reuters) - A new acronym coined by German police to describe troublemaking migrants from North Africa has sharpened a national debate over immigration and crime as the country recovers from a deadly attack and gears up for a vital election this year. Police in Cologne said this week they had prevented trouble on New Year's Eve by screening some 650 'Nafris' - an abbreviation of 'Nordafrikanische Intensivtaeter' or 'North African Repeat Offenders' - and removing 190 from the city centre. The operation followed intense criticism of the police for failing to protect hundreds of women from being sexually molested, mostly by North African men, at the start of 2016. |
| German minister eyes police overhaul after Christmas market attack | |  By Madeline Chambers BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany must grant federal police more powers to counter threats like terrorism and cyber attacks, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said on Tuesday, two weeks after a failed asylum seeker rammed a truck into a Christmas market and killed 12 people. In his most detailed response yet to the Dec. 19 attack, de Maiziere said Germany lacks laws that other countries have, and police and intelligence bodies are too fragmented. "Our state must be better prepared for difficult times than it has been," de Maiziere said at the start of an election year in which immigration and security will be at the top of the political agenda.
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| Police in Bengaluru urged to investigate New Year attacks on women | |  Reports of sexual assaults on women revellers at New Year's Eve celebrations in Bengaluru have spurred women's rights activists to demand that police investigate. The attacks, reminiscent of those blamed on migrants in German cities last year, shocked many Indians, since Bengaluru, home to many well-educated professionals, is regarded as safer for women than the capital, New Delhi. Several women were groped and assaulted by a mob in the city's central business district on Dec. 31 as they celebrated, according to a Reuters witness and a report in the Bangalore Mirror newspaper.
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| Brazil to transfer gang leaders after prison massacre | |  By Ueslei Marcelino MANAUS, Brazil (Reuters) - The Brazilian government will relocate gang leaders to other federal penitentiaries after the country's deadliest prison massacre in decades left 56 inmates dead in a scene of mutilated and burned bodies this week, officials said on Tuesday. Justice Minister Alexandre de Moraes said authorities would move quickly to identify and transfer the gang bosses out of the crowded jail in the remote jungle state of Amazonas where the riot occurred on Monday. A local drug gang known as North Family, which controls the prison complex in the city of Manaus, attacked inmates from a rival criminal group that encroached on its turf, exchanging fire with police and taking a dozen prison guards hostage, officials said.
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| Two foreign nationals detained at Istanbul airport over nightclub attack - NTV | | | ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish police detained two foreign nationals at Istanbul's main Ataturk Airport in connection with a gun attack which killed 39 people at an Istanbul nightclub on New Year's Day, Turkish broadcaster NTV reported on Tuesday. No further details were immediately available. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack and the assailant remains at large. (Reporting by Can Sezer; Writing by Daren Butler) |
| Women's rights face a daunting new year worldwide, campaigners warn | |  By Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women's rights face enormous challenges worldwide in 2017 with campaigners expecting fights to keep health clinics open, to save programs preventing unwanted pregnancies and to enforce laws protecting women from violence. Globally, women's rights are in the crosshairs of rising isolationism and right-wing politics in Western Europe and the United States, where President-elect Donald Trump has promised to unravel an array of beneficial policies. "There are major challenges facing women's rights coming up, not the least of which is a global cultural understanding ... that women are in essence second-class citizens," said Tarah Demant of Amnesty International USA.
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| Six die in Pune bakery fire, spurs calls for enforcement of labour laws | | | By Roli Srivastava MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Six migrant workers who had been locked inside a bakery by their employer in Pune suffocated to death in a fire, triggering calls for decades-old labour laws to be implemented to crack down on worker exploitation and abuse. A short circuit caused a fire in a bakery in Pune last Friday when the workers were asleep on the mezzanine floor where they also baked cakes and cookies. "When such cases occur, the law enforcement agencies look at the more obvious crime and ignore other sections" of the law, said Chandan Kumar, a core group member on bonded labour with the National Human Rights Commission. |
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