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| Brazil gang kills 33, many hacked to death, as prison violence explodes | |  By Pedro Fonseca and Brad Brooks RIO DE JANEIRO/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Jailed members of Brazil's most powerful drug gang killed 33 inmates at a penitentiary on Friday, decapitating and cutting out the hearts of most of them, in revenge for a separate prison massacre that left 56 dead this week. The massacre in the Monte Cristo prison in the Amazonian state of Roraima carried out by members of the First Capital Command (PCC) gang sparked concerns that months of violence between criminal groups controlling Brazil's prisons was spiralling out of control. The PCC itself was targeted on Sunday in neighbouring Amazonas state in Brazil's worst prison slaughter for more than two decades.
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| Turkey dismisses 6,000 more workers in post-coup purge -Hurriyet | | | Turkey dismissed more than 6,000 more police, civil servants and academics in decrees issued under emergency rule on Friday, continuing a purge in the wake of a failed coup attempt last July, the Hurriyet newspaper said. The three decrees ordered the dismissal of 2,687 police officers, 1,699 officials from the justice ministry, 838 from the health ministry, 649 academics and 135 officials from the religious affairs directorate, Hurriyet said. Parliament, dominated by the ruling AK Party, voted this week to extend emergency rule by another three months in a move the government said was needed to sustain a purge of supporters of U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen. |
| Trump says hacking did not affect U.S. election outcome | |  By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump said on Friday that the outcome of the 2016 U.S. election was not affected by cyber attacks after intelligence agencies briefed him on their conclusion that Russia had staged cyber attacks during the campaign. Having hours earlier dismissed the controversy as a "political witch hunt," Republican Trump later issued a statement whose main aim appeared to be to deflect questions about the legitimacy of his Nov. 8 victory over Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton. Trump said that "Russia, China, other countries, outside groups and people" seek to attack U.S. institutions including the Democratic National Committee.
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| Trump says hacking did not affect U.S. election outcome | |  By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump said on Friday that the outcome of the 2016 U.S. election was not affected by cyber attacks after intelligence agencies briefed him on their conclusion that Russia had staged cyber attacks during the campaign. Having hours earlier dismissed the controversy as a "political witch hunt," Republican Trump later issued a statement whose main aim appeared to be to deflect questions about the legitimacy of his Nov. 8 victory over Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton. Trump said that "Russia, China, other countries, outside groups and people" seek to attack U.S. institutions including the Democratic National Committee.
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| Gunman opens fire at Ft. Lauderdale airport, killing 5 | | | By Zachary Fagenson FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Reuters) - A gunman wearing a "Star Wars" T-shirt opened fire at a baggage carousel at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Friday, killing at least five people before being taken into custody, officials and witnesses said. The Florida attack was the latest in a series of mass shootings that have plagued the United States in recent years, some inspired by militants with an extreme view of Islam, others carried out by loners or the mentally disturbed who have easy access to weapons under U.S. gun laws. About 90 minutes after the attack, panic broke out anew with passengers and police running frantically about the airport. |
| Anarchists threaten to disrupt Trump inauguration, police say ready | |  By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Anarchist groups have threatened to shut down Republican Donald Trump's swearing-in as U.S. president, but police in Washington said on Friday they believe the thousands of security officers assigned to the event will be able to head off any disruption. Dozens of activist groups plan to protest the Jan. 20 inauguration of the New York real estate developer, whose supporters are counting on him to fulfil a host of controversial campaign promises including building a wall on the Mexican border and deporting millions of illegal immigrants. Police expect some 900,000 people to flood Washington for the inauguration ceremony, which includes a parade from the U.S. Capitol to the White House along streets thronged with onlookers.
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| Uprising of disgruntled soldiers spreads in Ivory Coast | | | By Ange Aboa and Loucoumane Coulibaly BOUAKE, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - Disgruntled soldiers demanding salary increases and the payment of bonuses seized control of Ivory Coast's second-largest city, Bouake, on Friday, in an uprising that spread to at least two other cities. A statement from Defence Minister Alain-Richard Donwahi read out on state television said a group of soldiers had used their weapons to force their way into the military headquarters in Bouake soon after midnight and then made their demands. Ivory Coast - French-speaking West Africa's largest economy - has emerged from a 2002-2011 political crisis as one of the continent's rising economic stars. |
| Trump to order anti-hacking plan within 90 days of taking office - statement | |  President-elect Donald Trump said he had a "constructive" meeting with members of U.S. intelligence agencies on Friday and plans to appoint a team to give him a plan to combat cyber attacks within 90 days of taking office on Jan. 20. "While Russia, China, other countries, outside groups and people are consistently trying to break through the cyber infrastructure of our governmental institutions, businesses and organizations including the Democrat National Committee, there was absolutely no effect on the outcome of the election including the fact that there was no tampering whatsoever with voting machines," Trump said in a statement after the briefing from spy chiefs who have accused Russia of hacking to interfere in the 2016 U.S. election.
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| U.S. Congress certifies Trump's Electoral College victory | |  By Doina Chiacu and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress on Friday certified the Electoral College vote that gave Republican Donald Trump his victory in the contentious 2016 presidential election after a raucous half-hour joint session punctuated by Democratic challenges. The Republican businessman, whose presidential campaign was his first bid for public office, garnered 304 electoral votes, compared with 227 won by his Democratic challenger, Hillary Clinton, according to the vote tally read by Vice President Joe Biden. The electoral votes were opened before a joint session of Congress in what is considered a formality for most presidential elections.
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| Trump says Mexico would repay U.S. funds spent on border wall | |  By Julia Edwards Ainsley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Friday Mexico ultimately will pay for his planned border wall, a day after news emerged that his transition team had asked fellow Republicans in Congress to vote to approve the funding. Trump told the New York Times he would most likely seek repayment through renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which groups the United States, Mexico and Canada. Sean Spicer, a spokesman for Trump, said on Friday the incoming administration is seeking to fund the wall through the appropriations process and that Trump said in October Mexico's payment would be a reimbursement.
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| Trump to seek probe of secret report he says was given to NBC | |  President-elect Donald Trump said on Friday that he would ask congressional committees to investigate NBC's receipt of top secret information, apparently referring to a report on Russian hacking to influence the 2016 U.S. election. "I am asking the chairs of the House and Senate committees to investigate top secret intelligence shared with NBC prior to me seeing it," Trump said in a post on Twitter. The report was delivered to President Barack Obama earlier in the day.
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| Kosovo to review ties with Serbia after ex-PM arrest - foreign minister | |  By Fatos Bytyci PRISTINA (Reuters) - Kosovo Foreign Minister Enver Hoxhaj said on Friday his country had retaliated against neighbouring Serbia and would do so again after an ex-prime minister was arrested in France on a warrant issued by Belgrade. The arrest on Wednesday of Ramush Haradinaj, a guerrilla commander in the 1998-99 war against Serbian rule who served briefly as prime minister in 2004 and 2005, has heightened tensions between the Balkan neighbours. Kosovo seceded from Serbia in 2008.
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| FACTBOX: Trump to meet with intel chiefs, Kentucky lt. governor, media | |  REUTERS - Republican U.S. President-elect Donald Trump continued holding meetings on Friday in New York as he prepares to take over the White House from Democrat Barack Obama on Jan. 20. Below is a list of meetings for Friday, according to Trump's transition team. U.S. INTELLIGENCE AGENCY DIRECTORS * Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan * Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey * Director of National Intelligence James Clapper * A briefing on the U.S. intelligence agencies' final report on the subject of Russian hacking of U.S. ...
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| In Istanbul district, horror but scant surprise at links to nightclub shooter | |  By Humeyra Pamuk ISTANBUL (Reuters) - In a working-class Istanbul neighbourhood that Central Asian migrants have called home for decades, there is horror but scant surprise that a gunman who killed 39 people in a nightclub on New Year's Day may have spent time in their community. Just beyond the ancient walls on Istanbul's historic peninsula, Zeytinburnu could not be farther removed from the upscale Ortakoy district on the shores of the Bosphorus where the gunman opened fire with an automatic rifle last Sunday. The gunman, whom Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak has said is thought to be an ethnic Uighur, is believed to have travelled by taxi from Zeytinburnu before the shooting and to have returned to a restaurant there afterwards, asking to borrow money to pay the driver.
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| Abused housemaid's death in New Delhi raises trafficking concerns | | | By Anuradha Nagaraj CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The death of a housemaid who said she was abused by her New Delhi employers after being lured to the city with the promise of a job has raised new concerns over those trapped in domestic servitude in India. Campaigners are demanding a renewed crackdown on unregulated employment agencies that profit from workers from impoverished states attracted to cities hoping to earn money to support their families back home. The 24-year-old housemaid died in hospital on Wednesday, two weeks after she was admitted with multiple fractures and injuries, police said. |
| Bieber, Usher win dismissal of copyright lawsuit | |  A federal judge has dismissed a $10 million lawsuit accusing Justin Bieber and Usher of illegally copying parts of their song "Somebody to Love" from an identically titled song by two Virginia songwriters. In an order on Thursday, U.S. District Judge Arenda Wright Allen in Norfolk, Virginia adopted a federal magistrate judge's finding that Devin Copeland and his cousin Mareio Overton failed to show that Bieber and Usher had access to their 2008 song before creating their own work in early 2010. Duncan Byers, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, did not immediately respond on Friday to requests for comment.
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