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| Romania to publish new criminal bill after protests stop decree | |  BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's Justice Minister Florin Iordache said he would publish the details of a new bill on the criminal code later on Monday, a day after the government scrapped an earlier decree following mass protests and international criticism. Hundreds of thousands of Romanians had protested in capital and other cities against the decree that would have effectively shielded some officials from prosecution on corruption charges. (Reporting by Luiza Ilie; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
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| Thailand says royal insult suspects in Laos made death threats against PM | |  Thai people wanted for breaking a law on insulting the monarchy have issued death threats against the Thai prime minister, from Laos where they have fled to avoid arrest, Thailand's top security officer said on Monday. Last month, Thailand pressed Laos over the extradition of Thai fugitives accused of lese majeste, or royal insult, which carries a jail term of up to 15 years for each offence. Thailand's military government says there are up to six Thai suspects in Laos who it is seeking.
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| Deleted postings about missing Chinese billionaire hint at tensions | |  By Julie Zhu and Venus Wu HONG KONG (Reuters) - Scores of China social media postings about a well-connected billionaire who went missing from a Hong Kong hotel have been deleted, pointing to what appears to be heightened sensitivity in Beijing over the case of Xiao Jianhua. Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of Xiao, one of China's richest men who has close ties to some of its leaders and their relatives. The case has echoes of the disappearance of five Hong Kong booksellers more than a year ago who had published books critical of China's leaders.
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| Legal battles to test Trump and his immigration ban | |  By Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's temporary immigration ban faced on Monday the first of several crucial legal hurdles that could determine whether he can push through the most controversial and far reaching policy of his first two weeks in office. On Monday, the government has a deadline to justify the executive order temporarily barring immigrants from seven mostly Muslim countries and the entry of refugees after a federal judge in Seattle blocked it with a temporary restraining order on Friday. The uncertainty caused by a judge's stay of the ban has opened a window for travelers from the seven affected countries to enter the United States.
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| Samsung Group to disband its corporate strategy office after probe ends | |  Samsung Group said it will disband its corporate strategy office after a special prosecution probe ends, setting a timeline on a pledge to wind up the office that has been criticised for its role in a national graft scandal. The smartphones-to-biopharmaceuticals business empire is currently being investigated by the South Korean special prosecutor's office as part of a wider probe into the scandal that threatens to permanently unseat President Park Geun-hye. Special prosecution has classified Jay Y. Lee, third-generation leader of South Korea's top conglomerate, and head of the corporate strategy office Choi Gee-sung as suspects in its bribery investigation on suspicions that Samsung paid money to organizations linked to Park's confidant, Choi Soon-sil, to pave the way for a 2015 merger of two affiliates.
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| Somalia's al Shabaab executes four men accused of spying | | | Al Shabaab militants in Somalia publicly beheaded four men accused of spying for the country's Western-backed government, the United States and neighbouring Kenya, residents in the south of the Horn of Africa country said. The al Qaeda-linked group confirmed the executions, which took place on Sunday after the men were found guilty by an al Shabaab court in Jamame district of lower Jubba region, some 70 km (43 miles) north of Kismayu. "The court ruled on their cases and four of the men were executed publicly in Jamame District according to the Sharia this (Sunday) afternoon," Mohamed Abu Abdalla, al Shabaab's governor for the Jubba region, told Reuters, without elaborating on the method of execution. |
| Samsung Group says process to disband its corporate strategy office underway | |  SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean conglomerate Samsung Group said on Monday it will disband its corporate strategy office tasked with managing long-term group-related affairs at the conclusion of the current special prosecution probe. Jay Y. Lee, third-generation leader of the country's top conglomerate, said at a December parliament hearing he plans to disband the office but did not give a specific timeline. Samsung said in a statement the process of dismantling the office is already underway but did not elaborate further. (Reporting by Se Young Lee; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)
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| Australian PM under threat from party split as shift to the right grows | |  By Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) - A prominent member of Australia's government is set to defect to form his own conservative party, media reported on Monday, further evidence of a shift towards the right that is weakening Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's already tenuous grip on power. Adding to centre-right leader Turnbull's woes, an opinion poll published on Monday showed that support for his coalition had slipped to its lowest since he took power in a party-room coup 17 months ago and that his Liberal-National coalition would easily fall if an election was held now. Both developments came only days after Turnbull's leadership was questioned after he was berated by U.S. President Donald Trump over a refugee resettlement deal in a tense telephone call that hit international headlines.
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| Romania scraps decree decriminalising graft as mass protests persist | |  By Radu-Sorin Marinas BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's Social Democrat government on Sunday anulled a decree that would decriminalise some graft offences, an embarrassing u-turn for the country's new prime minister in the face of week-long mass protests and international rebuke. The government also declassified the transcript of debates during Tuesday's cabinet meeting when the decree that would have shielded dozens of politicians from prosecution was approved. It said the decree was a bid to relieve pressure on the prison system but Romanians were furious, holding the biggest mass protests in the country since 1989, when the Communist regime of Nicolae Ceausescu was ousted in a bloody revolution.
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| Technology firms to urge Trump to alter U.S. travel ban - sources | |  Several technology companies plan to send a letter to U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday urging his administration to follow through on proposed changes to a travel ban on seven mainly Muslim nations, sources familiar with the letter said Sunday. "We welcome the changes your administration has made in recent days in how the Department of Homeland Security will implement the Executive Order," according to a draft of the letter. The technology companies expected to sign the letter include Apple Inc, Facebook Inc, Alphabet Inc's Google, Twitter Inc, Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc. The sources did not want to be identified because discussions regarding the letter were ongoing.
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| Defying uncaring image, New York subway riders erase swastikas from car | | | By David Ingram NEW YORK (Reuters) - The tale of the strangers aboard a New York subway car who teamed up this weekend to scrub away neo-Nazi graffiti went viral on Sunday, in an incident that highlighted a recent rise in hate and bias crimes reported around the country. Passengers said on social media that when they boarded a subway car on Saturday night they found someone had drawn messages in black marker targeting Jews and Muslims and praising Adolf Hitler, the German leader responsible for the Holocaust. "The train was silent as everyone stared at each other, uncomfortable and unsure what to do," attorney Gregory Locke wrote later in a Facebook post. |
| Peru's Kuczynski says ex-president accused of bribery betrayed country | |  Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski said on Sunday that ex-president Alejandro Toledo, accused of receiving millions in bribes from embattled construction firm Odebrecht S.A., betrayed his country and must return to Peru to face justice. Prosecutors are preparing an arrest warrant for Toledo after discovering evidence that implicates him in $20 million in bribes that Brazil's Odebrecht has acknowledged distributing to win a contract during his 2001-2006 government. According to a source in Peru's prosecutor's office, authorities detected $11 million that was allegedly transferred to an associate of Toledo, leading investigators to raid Toledo's house in Lima on Saturday.
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| Safe on U.S. soil, new arrivals breathe sigh of relief | |  By Ahmed Rasheed and Chris Francescani BAGHDAD/NEW YORK (Reuters) - For Fuad Sharef and his family, the tortuous ordeal of getting from Iraq to Nashville, Tennessee, was nearly over more than a week after it was to begin. The former U.S. development agency subcontractor, his wife and three children landed in New York on Sunday afternoon on their second attempt to reach the United States to begin a long-awaited new life. "We are very happy to be here," Sharef said at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
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| Trump faces uphill battle to overcome court's hold on travel ban | |  U.S. President Donald Trump faces an uphill battle to overcome a federal judge's temporary hold on his travel ban on seven mainly Muslim countries, but the outcome of a ruling on the executive order's ultimate legality is less certain. Any appeals of decisions by U.S. District Court Judge James Robart in Seattle face a regional court dominated by liberal-leaning judges who might not be sympathetic to Trump's rationale for the ban, and a currently shorthanded Supreme Court split 4-4 between liberals and conservatives. The temporary restraining order Robart issued on Friday in Seattle, which applies nationwide, gives him time to consider the case in more detail, but also sends a signal that he is likely to impose a more permanent injunction.
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| Corrected - 'So-called judge' derided by Trump known for fairness, work with youth | | | (Corrects first paragraph to make it "jurist" instead of "justice" as Robart is not a justice) By Mica Rosenberg and Nathan Layne (Reuters) - U.S. Judge James Robart emerged from relative obscurity on Saturday as the first jurist to come under fire from the president since he took office after his temporary order to lift Donald Trump's immigration ban. In a reaction that went viral on Twitter, Trump called the 69-year-old Robart a "so-called judge" whose "ridiculous" opinion "essentially takes law-enforcement away from our country." To those who know Robart, who has been on the federal bench in Seattle for more than a decade after his appointment by another Republican, President George W. Bush, the ensuing drama surrounding the move was a far cry from the judge's standard. |
| Australia seizes record 1.4 tonne of cocaine on yacht | |  Australian law enforcement agencies seized a record 1.4 tonnes of cocaine worth A$312 million ($239.5 million) from an Australia-bound yacht during a covert midnight operation last week, the authorities said on Monday. Six men, including five Australians, have been charged with the conspiracy to import drugs and could face life imprisonment, Justice Minister Michael Keenan and Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said in a joint statement. This is the largest cocaine haul ever seized in a single operation in Australia and is over 400 kgs (880 pounds) greater than the previous record of 938 kgs (2,06 pounds) in Western Australia state in 2001, they said.
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| France's Fillon under pressure to quit presidential bid as fake work row rages | |  By Richard Balmforth PARIS (Reuters) - France faces a week of political uncertainty with Francois Fillon, the rightwing presidential candidate, under mounting pressure to quit the race because of a fake-jobs-for-the-family scandal and divisions over whether, and how, to replace him. As Fillon's two closest rivals, the far-right's Marine Le Pen and independent Emmanuel Macron, began vigorously campaigning, the former prime minister appeared to believe he could ride out the storm engulfing his faltering campaign. Fillon said he would fight to the end to defend his position as the party's nominee.
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