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| First police trial in Freddie Gray killing begins with jury selection | |  By Ian Simpson BALTIMORE (Reuters) - Jury selection began on Monday for the trial of the first of six police officers charged in the April death of a black man in police custody that set off rioting in Baltimore and inflamed a U.S. debate on race and justice. The death of Freddie Gray, 25, followed police killings of black men in other cities, including New York and Ferguson, Missouri, that gave rise to the Black Lives Matter movement, which has staged more than year of mostly peaceful protests across the United States. Some 20 protesters assembled outside the downtown courthouse where jury selection was underway and their cries of "No justice, no peace, no killer police," and "We won't stop until killer cops are in cell blocks" could be heard in the courtroom.
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| Syria's Assad says terrorists among Syrian refugees - Czech Television | |  There are terrorists among the Syrian refugees making their way to Europe, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told Czech Television in an interview, excerpts of which were broadcast on Monday. Asked whether Europeans should fear refugees from Syria, Assad said: "It's a mixture. The majority, they are good Syrians, they are patriots... But of course you have infiltration of terrorists among them, that is true." Czech Television said it had interviewed Assad in Damascus and would air the piece in full on Tuesday.
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| U.S. tightens visa waiver programme in wake of Paris attacks | |  By Roberta Rampton and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House announced changes to the U.S. visa waiver programme on Monday so that security officials can more closely screen travellers from 38 countries allowed to enter the United States without obtaining visas before they travel. Under the new measures, which were prompted by the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris by Islamic State militants, the Department of Homeland Security would immediately start to collect more information from travellers about past visits to "countries constituting a terrorist safe haven," the White House said. The DHS would also look at pilot programs for collecting biometric information such as fingerprints from visa waiver travellers, a White House statement said.
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| Bond set for Chicago police officer charged with killing black teen | |  By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - A judge on Monday set a $1.5 million bond for a white Chicago police officer charged with murder after a dashboard camera video showed him shooting a black teenager 16 times. There have been several days of protests in Chicago following the release last Tuesday of the video, which showed Officer Jason Van Dyke gunning down 17-year-old Laquan McDonald in the middle of the street on Oct. 20, 2014 as he was walking away from police who had confronted him.
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| U.S. Republican sees no government shutdown over Planned Parenthood funding | |  By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Monday said he expects lawmakers to debate federal funding this month for Planned Parenthood as they consider spending legislation for the current fiscal year, but he did not expect a government shutdown over funding for the women's health group. McCarthy, responding to questions about whether the deadly shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado would affect Republican opposition to funding the group, told reporters he expected a "healthy debate" before the bill is passed to fund the government through next September. Robert Lewis Dear, 57, was expected to face multiple counts of murder and attempted murder in the attack.
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| Obama to meet Turkey's Erdogan in Paris -White House | |  PARIS (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will meet Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday at the international climate talks in Paris, the White House said on Monday. Obama earlier on Monday met with Russian President Vladimir Putin as Ankara and Moscow remain locked in a dispute over the downing of a Russian jet last week. (Reporting by Jeff Mason; Writing by Julia Edwards; Editing by Susan Heavey)
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| Four men charged in shooting of Minnesota protesters | |  By David Bailey and Kristoffer Tigue MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - Minnesota prosecutors on Monday filed felony charges against four men in connection with the wounding of protesters near a demonstration that has continued outside a Minneapolis police station since the fatal police shooting of a black man. Allen Scarsella, 23, who prosecutors said in a complaint had admitted to shooting five protesters, was charged with one count of second-degree riot while armed and five counts of second-degree assault.
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| Brazil's BTG Pactual looks to new leadership; Esteves quits amid graft probe | |  By Guillermo Parra-Bernal and Tatiana Bautzer SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's Grupo BTG Pactual SA looked to new leadership to steer it out of crisis on Monday after controlling shareholder André Esteves resigned as CEO and chairman following his jailing as part of the country's sweeping corruption probe. Shares and bonds in Latin America's largest independent investment bank plummeted, reflecting concerns about the impact of the investigation on operations after the Supreme Court extended the financier's detention indefinitely. Esteves, jailed since last Wednesday, quit as head of the bank late on Sunday, as prosecutors prepared to file charges against him.
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| UK's Labour to let its lawmakers vote with their consciences on Syria strikes | |  By William James LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's opposition Labour Party said on Monday its lawmakers could vote according to their consciences on air strikes against militants in Syria, a move that may give Prime Minister David Cameron the parliamentary majority he needs. Cameron believes it is time to join other Western powers in bombing Islamic State, saying Britain could not subcontract its security to other countries after the militant group claimed responsibility for killing 130 people in Paris this month.
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| Thailand knew deported Chinese were refugees awaiting resettlement in Canada: U.N. document | | | By Aubrey Belford and Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - The Thai junta knew that two Chinese men it detained were refugees awaiting resettlement in Canada but still deported them to China, according to a United Nations letter seen by Reuters. The letter, sent by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to the Thai foreign ministry, contradicts Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha's statement last week that Thailand "did not know" that the men were under UNHCR protection. Military-ruled Thailand has been criticised for deporting the two dissidents, Jiang Yefei and Dong Guangping, at Beijing's request in mid-November, despite both being recognised as refugees. |
| Two French men stopped on way to Islamic State in Libya - official | | | Two French nationals suspected of wanting to join Islamic State training camps in Libya before heading to Syria were arrested in Tunisia in mid-November, according to an official at the Paris prosecutor's office. It is the first case made public of potential French Islamic State recruits travelling to Libya instead of Syria, where hundreds of French citizens have already joined the ranks of the hardline group. According to the official, the two men, aged 19 and 20, were arrested near Tunisia's southern border with Libya. |
| At NATO, Turkey remains defiant over Russian jet | |  By Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Turkey's prime minister dismissed on Monday any suggestion Ankara should apologise for downing a Russian warplane in its airspace last week, after winning strong NATO support for the right to defend itself. Six days after NATO member Turkey shot down the Russian bomber in the first known incident of its kind since the Cold War, calls for calm have gone largely unheeded as Ankara refuses to back down and Russia responds with sanctions. "No country should ask us to apologise," Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told reporters following a meeting with NATO's secretary general at alliance headquarters in Brussels.
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| Hours after EU deal, Turkey rounds up 1,300 migrants bound for Greece | |  Turkish authorities rounded up some 1,300 migrants on Monday that they said were planning to sail to Greece from hideouts near secluded Aegean beaches and forests, hours after striking a deal with the European Union on stemming refugee flows. In the largest operation of its kind in recent months, the migrants were sent to a repatriation centre where some could face deportation, the officials said. Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Sunday struck a deal with EU leaders to prevent migrants from travelling to Europe in return for 3 billion euros (dollars) in cash, a deal on visas and renewed talks on joining the 28-nation bloc.
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| Insight: Decades after Nigeria's war, new Biafra movement grows | |  By Alexis Akwagyiram ENUGU, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nearly half a century after a civil war in which a million people died, 27-year-old Okoli Ikedi is part of a new protest movement in southeastern Nigeria calling for an independent state of Biafra. Such calls have become common since the leader of the group Ikedi represents in Enugu, the region's main city, was arrested in October, prompting thousands in the oil-producing southeast to join demonstrations in recent weeks calling for his release. It's another challenge for President Muhammadu Buhari, who is grappling with a sharp slowdown in Africa's biggest economy, the bloody Boko Haram insurgency in the northeast and fears that militancy may resume in the oil-rich southern Delta region when an amnesty ends in December.
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| Seven hacked to death in Congo hospital, dozens killed in clashes with Ugandan rebels | | | By Aaron Ross KINSHASA (Reuters) - Seven people hacked to death in a hospital were among at least 30 people killed in fighting at the weekend between the army, backed by U.N. troops, and Islamist Ugandan rebels in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo, local sources said on Monday. Intelligence gaps, poor coordination and insufficient resources have rendered the Congolese army and the U.N. peacekeeping force ineffective against the armed ADF group that is estimated to have only a few hundred fighters. The ADF has operated in the area since the 1990s and funds itself by illicitly trading timber and gold. |
| Tunisia forces seize bomb cache, arrest militants | | | Tunisian security forces have arrested two Islamist militants accused in last week's bombing in Tunis and seized a cache of weapons and explosives they were planning to use for more attacks, the interior ministry said. In a late Sunday raid in Medenine in the south of the country, officials found Kalashnikov rifles, a suicide bomb belt, explosive materials for making car bombs, grenades and detonators, the statement said. Tunisia is under a state of emergency since Tuesday when a suicide bomber killed 12 people aboard a bus carrying presidential guards in the capital Tunis. |
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