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| Man remanded over "hideous" knife attack at London station | |  By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - A man appeared in court in London on Monday after being charged by counter-terrorism officers with attempted murder in what British Prime Minister David Cameron said was a "hideous attack" at an underground station in the British capital last weekend. Wearing a grey t-shirt and grey track suit bottoms, Muhaydin Mire, 29, of east London spoke only to confirm his name, age and address at Westminster Magistrates' Court. A 56-year-old unnamed man suffered serious but not life-threatening injuries in the alleged knife attack at Leytonstone underground station, about six miles (10 km) east of central London, while a second person suffered minor injuries.
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| German court declares 93-year-old Auschwitz SS guard fit for trial | | | The trial of a 93-year-old former SS guard accused of being an accessory to the murder of at least 170,000 people at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau will open in mid-February, a court spokeswoman said on Monday. The court in the western town of Detmold took the case against the man known as Reinhold H. who lives in the neighbouring village of Lippe. The news came after a German court last week permitted the trial of another German man, aged 95, accused of being an accessory to the murder of at least 3,681 people at Auschwitz-Birkenau. |
| Joyous Venezuela opposition shatters Socialists' hegemony | |  By Andrew Cawthorne and Girish Gupta CARACAS (Reuters) - Ecstatic opposition leaders vowed on Monday to use their new majority in Venezuela's legislature to free jailed opponents of the Socialist government but also said they would not move to dismantle popular welfare policies. The opposition Democratic Unity coalition won more than twice the number of National Assembly seats as the Socialists in elections on Sunday that punished President Nicolas Maduro's government for the country's deep economic and social crisis. It was the first time in 16 years the "Chavismo" movement, named for former socialist President Hugo Chavez, lost its majority in the 167-member assembly, and gives the opposition a platform to further erode Maduro's power in the OPEC nation.
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| Stolen Dutch paintings found in Ukraine after 10 years | | | A collection of stolen Dutch masterpieces dating from the country's 17th-century Golden Age has been discovered in a villa in rebel-held eastern Ukraine 10 years after they were stolen, a museum said on Monday. The 24 paintings, valued at 10 million euros ($10.8 million)when they went missing in 2005, reappeared in July when two men approached the Dutch embassy in the Ukrainian capital Kiev offering to sell them back. De Telegraaf newspaper said two Dutch stolen art investigators had found out they were in the hands of an "ultra-nationalist militia" in eastern Ukraine that wanted five million euros for them. |
| No explosives found on German plane grounded in Budapest | |  Police said they found no explosives on a German passenger plane after it diverted to Budapest on Monday following a bomb threat. The jet operated by Condor airlines , heading from Berlin to Hurghada in Egypt, had turned back from Serbian airspace after the alert. "Police have finished the search and have not found any explosives or explosive devices," Hungarian police spokeswoman Viktoria Csiszer-Kovacs said.
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| Pistorius to apply for bail in South African court on Tuesday | |  Disgraced Olympic and Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius will appear in court on Tuesday to apply for bail following his conviction for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, the justice department said. "The bail application hearing for Oscar Pistorius has been set down for tomorrow at 9.30 am (0730 GMT) at the Pretoria High Court," the department said on Monday. The future date for Pistorius' sentencing will also be announced on Tuesday, the department said.
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| No explosives found on German plane grounded in Budapest - police | | | BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Police said they found no explosives on a German passenger plane after it diverted to Budapest on Monday following a bomb threat. The jet operated by Condor airlines, heading from Berlin to Hurghada in Egypt, turned back from Serbian airspace after the alert. "Police have finished the search and have not found any explosives or explosive devices," police spokeswoman Viktoria Csiszer-Kovacs said. (Reporting by Krisztina Than and Gergely Szakacs) |
| "You ain't no Muslim, bruv": Britons defiant over "terrorist" knife attack | |  By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) - The stabbing of a man in the London metro in what police described as a terrorist attack provoked a defiant riposte from a bystander that has struck a chord in Britain: "You ain't no Muslim, bruv". The 29-year-old assailant shouted "This is for Syria" as he attacked a 56-year-old man and threatened others before being detained by police who used a stun gun, witnesses said. An onlooker standing near a pool of blood shouted the colloquial phrase that has swiftly become a popular Twitter hashtag #YouAintNoMuslimBruv and is intended to deny that such an attack could have anything to do with Islam.
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| Merkel preaches benefits of migration at 'guest worker' party | |  By Paul Carrel BERLIN (Reuters) - Immigration can enrich Germany and even jog Germans to learn more about Christianity, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday, shrugging aside the growing unease in her coalition over the influx of nearly a million migrants this year. Speaking a day after the far-right National Front pulled off a historic win in neighbouring France, Merkel lauded the contribution to Germany's economy and society of the "Gastarbeiter" (guest workers) who came in the postwar decades. "Many of you have experiences that we can't offer," she told the Gastarbeiter and their descendants, many of whom came from Muslim Turkey and the Balkans, at an event marking the 60th anniversary of a programme that boosted then-West Germany's economy while turning it into a more multi-ethnic society.
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| Italy arrests man suspected of helping jihadists enter country | | | Police in the southern Italian city of Bari have arrested an Iraqi man suspected of helping 11 foreign Islamist militants come to Italy, from where they had moved on to France, Belgium and other European countries. Special operations police named the man as Majid Muhamad, 45, who they said had obtained false passports to enable the suspected militants to enter Italy between March and September this year. |
| Sonia, Rahul Gandhi ordered to appear in court | |  The Delhi High Court ordered the torchbearers of the Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty to appear in court over alleged misuse of party funds, in a new blow for the family that lost power to Prime Minister Narendra Modi last year. Sonia Gandhi, president of the opposition Congress party, and her son, Rahul, face accusations they used $13.5 million of party funds to pay debts accrued by a newspaper business. A spokesman for their Congress party, Abhishek Manu Singhvi, who is also a lawyer representing the Gandhis, said they would challenge the order legally, a move that will likely take the case to the Supreme Court.
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| Iran arrests 53 people for running pro-Islamic State websites - Tasnim | | | Iran's cyber police chief said on Monday officers had arrested 53 people for running websites supporting the Islamic State militant group (IS), Tasnim news agency reported. Shi'ite Muslim power Iran said last month it had broken up a cell recruiting fighters for the hardline Sunni Muslim group in Kermanshah, a western province close to the Iraqi border. The area has a large Sunni Kurdish population that has risen up against Tehran in the past The cyber police chief, Kamal Hadianfar, said most of those arrested had been based "in provinces near border areas", without specifying where. |
| Renault to pay Lotus debts by end of year | | | By Alan Baldwin LONDON (Reuters) - French carmaker Renault aims to complete its takeover of the Lotus Formula One team on Dec. 16 and pay creditors, including Britain's tax authorities, by the end of the year, the High Court heard on Monday. All parties in a protracted case brought against struggling Lotus by the Revenue and Customs authority over unpaid tax, with other creditors also represented, agreed to a further adjournment to Dec. 21. The alternative would have been to put Lotus into administration. |
| Venezuela opposition thrashes "Chavismo" to win legislature | |  By Girish Gupta and Alexandra Ulmer CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's opposition trounced the ruling Socialists on Sunday to win the legislature for the first time in 16 years and gain a long-sought platform to challenge President Nicolas Maduro's rule of the OPEC nation. The opposition Democratic Unity coalition won 99 seats to the Socialists' 46 in the 167-national National Assembly, the election board said, with some districts still to be counted. Maduro, 53, quickly acknowledged the defeat, the worst for the ruling "Chavismo" movement since its founder Hugo Chavez took power in 1999.
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| Yemen humanitarian ceasefire expected in days, ahead of peace talks - official | |  Yemen's warring parties are expected to announce a humanitarian ceasefire within days before U.N.-sponsored talks to end a civil war that has killed nearly 6,000 people, an official from President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's government said on Monday. The United Nations special envoy to Yemen has met Hadi in Aden and Houthi officials in the Omani capital Muscat with a proposed agenda for the talks, which Hadi's foreign minister Abdel-Malek al-Mekhlafi said would start on Dec. 15. "Within days a humanitarian ceasefire will be declared and steps to free prisoners and lifting the siege on the cities would begin." Forces loyal to Hadi, backed by air strikes and ground forces from a mainly Gulf Arab coalition, have been locked for nine months in a civil war with the Houthis, who rule the capital Sanaa and other cities.
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| Austrian police baffled by tens of thousands of euros scattered in Danube | | | Mystified police in Austria are trying to find out how more than 100,000 euros ($108,230) in 100 and 500 euro notes came to be floating down an arm of the River Danube. "The boy said he wanted to bring it to the police, but the question is whether the police found it or the boy," the police spokesman said. In Austria, anyone who finds cash and brings it to the police can claim between 5-10 percent of the sum and has the right to receive the whole amount if its rightful owner cannot be identified within a year. |
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