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| Chicago police charge man in gang-related killing of nine-year-old | |  By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - A man has been arrested and charged in the gang-related murder of a 9-year-old boy who was lured from a park into an alley earlier this month and shot several times, Chicago Police said on Friday. The killing of Tyshawn Lee on Nov. 2 cast a spotlight on a jump in violent crime in the city of 2.7 million people, the third-largest in the United States. Corey Morgan, 27, of Lansing, Illinois, has been charged with first-degree murder, police said.
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| Pope holds private meeting with president of warring South Sudan | |  By Edith Honan KAMPALA (Reuters) - Pope Francis held a private meeting with South Sudan's President Salva Kiir on Friday, pushing for peace in the world's newest nation that has endured nearly two years of civil war, a Vatican spokesman said. "The reason for this meeting, the intention of the pope, was obviously in service of the peace and reconciliation in the land." The meeting at Uganda's State House soon after Francis arrived in the Ugandan capital Kampala on the second leg of his week-long Africa trip was arranged by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, said Lombardi. South Sudan, which gained its independence from Sudan in 2011, descended into civil war in December 2013 when a row between Kiir and his sacked deputy Riek Machar descended into fighting that often ran along ethnic fault lines between Kiir's Dinka and Machar's Nuer people.
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| Man charged with scaling White House fence to undergo psychiatric exam | |  By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Connecticut man charged with scaling the White House fence draped in the U.S. flag was ordered on Friday to undergo a psychiatric evaluation after officials say they found a suicide note and will. The suspect, Joseph Caputo, 23, of Stamford, triggered a lockdown of the White House on Thanksgiving Day with President Barack Obama inside, according to his public schedule. The incident marks at least the third time someone has jumped the White House fence this year.
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| Merkel under pressure from her own ahead of EU migration summit | |  Chancellor Angela Merkel came under renewed pressure from her own conservatives on Friday to stem the flow of refugees into Germany as she heads to a weekend summit of European Union leaders and Turkey's prime minister. Roughly a million refugees and migrants fleeing war and deprivation in the Middle East, Africa and Asia are expected to arrive in Germany this year alone - the majority of those reaching Europe - and local authorities are struggling to cope. Merkel has faced intense pressure from her own conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) and their Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), to change course on her open-door refugee policy.
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| Police respond to report of active shooter in Colorado Springs | | | By Daniel Wallis DENVER (Reuters) - Police on Friday swarmed the scene of an "active shooter" situation they said was unfolding near a Planned Parenthood centre in Colorado Springs, and the Denver Post reported that at least one officer had been wounded by gunfire. The Colorado Springs Police Department said in a Twitter post that a call for assistance referred to a person firing a gun in the city's northwest, on Centennial Boulevard, where the Planned Parenthood office is located. Media do not stage in the area," the police department said in its tweet, adding that the area was "not secure" and urging members of the public in a nearby shopping centre to "shelter in place." No further details were immediately available from official sources, but the Denver Post reported that at least one police officer had been injured in "an ongoing active shooter situation." The Post quoted Colorado Springs police spokeswoman Lieutenant Catherine Buckley as saying the situation was fluid, adding, "We still have a gunman that is out there." Brigette Wolfe, who works across the street from the scene, told CNN she could see law enforcement officers including police SWAT teams deployed in the area. |
| Venezuela lashes U.S., opposition amid blame over activist's slaying | |  By Andrew Cawthorne CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's government on Friday blasted the United States for linking an activist's murder to upcoming legislative elections and said it would sue an opposition leader who blamed the ruling Socialist Party. The killing of Luis Diaz, a leader of opposition Democratic Action party in central Guarico state, has rocked Venezuela days before the vote for a new National Assembly, which the Socialists risk losing for the first time in 16 years. In the emotional aftermath, Henry Ramos, national head of Democratic Action, and Lilian Tintori, wife of jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez and a witness to the shooting, blamed the ruling party.
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| NSA to shut down bulk phone surveillance programme by Sunday | |  By Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. National Security Agency will end its daily vacuuming of millions of Americans' phone records by Sunday and replace the practice with more tightly targeted surveillance methods, the Obama administration said on Friday. As required by law, the NSA will end its wide-ranging surveillance programme by 11:59 p.m. EST Saturday (4:59 a.m. GMT Sunday) and expects to have the new, scaled-back system in place by then, the White House said. The transition is a long-awaited victory for privacy advocates and tech companies wary of broad government surveillance at a time when national security concerns are heightened in the wake of the Paris attacks earlier this month.
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| Insight - Voice of Paris attacks; Did he have bigger role? | |  By Chine Labbé and Marie-Louise Gumuchian PARIS/ALENCON, France (Reuters) - The voice that claimed Islamic State was responsible for the deadly Paris attacks is known to many in the small French provincial town of Alencon. To family, Fabien Clain was a "big teddy bear", to neighbours he was polite and at the local mosque he was a fellow worshipper who came to pray. To the French authorities, he was a veteran jihadi jailed once in the past for recruiting militant fighters and believed by them to have fled to Syria this year.
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| Class action suit against Barclays alleges forex rigging losses | |  A New York-based investment adviser filed a class action lawsuit against Barclays Plc on Friday alleging that rigged foreign exchange trading practices at the bank caused "significant damages" to its trading partners. The suit by Axiom Investment Advisors LLC, filed in a Manhattan federal court, follows a pact on Nov 18 in which Barclays agreed to pay New York State's financial regulator an additional $150 million (£100 million) to settle allegations stemming from allegations about the bank's forex practices. A Barclays spokesman declined to comment.
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| Ringleader of Paris attacks planned more strikes, mocked open borders - sources | |  The ringleader behind the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris had plans to strike Jewish targets and to disrupt schools and the transport system in France, according to sources close to the investigation. Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian national of Moroccan origin, also boasted of the ease with which he had re-entered Europe from Syria via Greece two months earlier, exploiting the confusion of the migrant crisis and the continent's passport-free Schengen system, the sources said on Friday. The witness statement, quoted in the Valeurs Actuelles weekly magazine, describes how Abaaoud approached his cousin Hasna Ait Boulahcen two days after the killing spree asking her to hide him while he prepared further attacks.
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| 'Black Friday' protest of police shooting shuts main Chicago shopping street | |  By Mary Wisniewski and Nick Carey CHICAGO (Reuters) - On one of the busiest U.S. retails days, thousands of people took to Chicago's most prestigious downtown shopping district on Friday to protest last year's shooting death of a black teenager by a white policeman and the city's handling of the case. About 2,000 people with signs reading "Stop Police Terror" gathered in a cold drizzle for the march on Chicago's "Magnificent Mile" on the Black Friday shopping day, which closed the major city street of Michigan Avenue to traffic. Organizers said the rally, led by activist-politician the Rev. Jesse Jackson and several state elected officials, is a show of outrage over the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald, 17, and what they see as racial bias in U.S. policing.
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| Ex-prisoner Gross - Remembering Holocaust eased Cuba imprisonment | | | American former prisoner Alan Gross said remembering how his family survived the Holocaust helped him through five years of imprisonment in Cuba, where he was held on espionage charges, according to interview excerpts released on Friday. Gross, 66, spoke out in what CBS News said was his first interview since his release in December 2014 as part of a historic diplomatic thaw between the United States and the neighbouring communist island nation. Gross, who was an American government contractor when he was jailed in Cuba, said he was threatened with death and torture, according to CBS, which plans to air the full interview on Sunday. |
| Gunman attacks pro-govt MP in Burundi, one police office killed | | | Attackers shot at a lawmaker from Burundi's ruling party as he drove to parliament on Friday, killing one police officer and wounding others, the lawmaker and a witness said. Zénon Ndaruvukanye, a former adviser to President Pierre Nkurunziza, escaped but told Reuters that a police officer was killed in the attack and others were wounded. Burundi, which emerged from an ethnically charged civil war in 2005, was plunged into a deep crisis when Nkurunziz said in April he would run for a third term in office and then won a disputed July election. |
| Modi meets Sonia Gandhi to discuss new indirect tax | |  By Rupam Jain Nair NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted opposition Congress party leader Sonia Gandhi for talks on Friday to try and break a deadlock over launching a new indirect tax, in a bid to put his economic recovery agenda back on track. The face-to-face meeting between the rivals was the first since Modi rose to power 18 months ago, and could herald a long-awaited compromise on the proposed goods and services tax (GST), billed as the biggest tax reform since independence. While there was no immediate breakthrough after the 30-minute meeting, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley told reporters that the Congress party has raised its concerns, and both parties were expected to meet again soon.
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| Pope in Africa rails against corruption, appeals for refugees | |  By Philip Pullella and George Obulutsa NAIROBI (Reuters) - Pope Francis urged young Kenyans on Friday not to yield to the sweet lure of corruption, and urged them to help those tempted by "fanatical" ideologies. The pope made his appeal in unprepared remarks at his last event in the Kenyan capital before flying to Uganda where he started the second leg of his first trip to the continent. Arriving in the Ugandan capital of Kampala on Friday evening, he received a tumultuous welcome from ululating dancers and President Yoweri Musevini, wearing his tradmark wide-brimmed hat.
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| Burkina Faso to choose first new leader in three decades | |  By Nadoun Coulibaly and Joe Penney OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Burkina Faso votes in its first free election in three decades this weekend, choosing a replacement for long-time leader Blaise Compaore, who was ousted a year ago in a military-backed uprising. The polls were pushed back from Oct. 11 after an abortive coup in September by members of the now-disbanded elite presidential guard (RSP), but are expected to pass off peacefully. "This is definitely the most open election since the country's independence," said Cynthia Ohayon, West Africa analyst for the International Crisis Group.
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| Belgium charges sixth suspect over Paris attacks | | | Belgium has charged a sixth suspect with terrorist offences over the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris after a series of house searches in Brussels and southern Belgium on Thursday. Federal prosecutors said on Friday that they had charged a man detained in Brussels with terrorist murders and participation in the activities of a terrorist group. Belgium is still hunting Brussels-based Salah Abdeslam, whose brother blew himself up in Paris and who called up a friend from Paris on the night of the attacks seeking a lift back to Brussels. |
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