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| Burundi starts trial of May coup plotters, days after fighting | |  More than two dozen generals and senior army officers accused of being behind a failed coup went on trial in Burundi on Monday amid heightened tensions in the capital after attacks last week by insurgents in which about 90 people were killed. Former defence minister Cyrille Ndayirukiye and five other generals are among the 28 people standing trial for their role in the attempted coup in May, launched when President Pierre Nkurunziza was abroad.
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| Former Honduran president travels to U.S. to face charges in FIFA case | |  Rafael Callejas, the former president of Honduras, on Monday flew to the United States where he has been indicted for alleged links to a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme at the world soccer governing body FIFA. Callejas, 72, who was named in an indictment earlier in December, is accused of taking bribes for marketing and broadcasting rights alongside 15 other high-ranking world football officials. "Former president Rafael Callejas decided to present himself to U.S. authorities and will now travel on a private plane to the United States," Foreign Minister Arturo Corrales said on local radio.
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| Forces armed with guns and arrows kill girl bombers in Cameroon - sources | | | By Josiane Kouagheu DOUALA (Reuters) - Security forces armed with guns and arrows killed two young women wearing explosive vests in a north Cameroon town on Monday, the second raid there in days by suspected Boko Haram militants from neighbouring Nigeria, witnesses said. The would-be suicide bombers, described as adolescent girls, entered Kolofata just before dawn, residents and officials told Reuters. "The first kamikaze (suicide bomber) exploded near my house ... When she entered, the local vigilance committee fired an arrow at her head and she set off her bomb," said resident Bahoua, who declined to give his full name. |
| Touring play says Germany no paradise for migrants | | | By Michelle Martin STRALSUND, Germany (Reuters) - A satirical play touring Germany aims to debunk any suggestion that the million migrants who entered Germany this year have made it to paradise. Heiko Ostendorf, director of "Asylant im Wunderland" ("Asylum Seeker in Wonderland"), said many Germans harboured the suspicion that the new arrivals were living the high life here at their expense. "They think the refugees who come to Germany had nothing back home, lived in corrugated iron huts and should be thankful to have running water here. |
| Turkey could hold separate referenda on constitution, presidential system - PM | |  ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey may hold two separate referenda on whether to adopt a new constitution, and a proposed move to an executive presidential system, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Monday. Speaking on A Haber TV, Davutoglu said he would begin talks with the opposition next week on a new constitution and a possible move away from the current parliamentary system, and that the government would provide a peaceful environment for discussions. ...
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| From Snowpocalypse to trigger-happy dog, no shortage of American oddness in 2015 | |  By Barbara Goldberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wacky weather, animal antics and outrageous human behavior made headlines in 2015, with America's quirky tales ranging from a Florida man arrested for landing a small helicopter on the U.S. Capitol grounds to a dog named Trigger who shot his owner in Indiana. While there were many tragic instances of gun violence in 2015 in the United States, with the highest gun ownership rate in the world, firearms also played a leading role in the year's oddest stories. In neighboring Arkansas, a hungry dog known to enjoy illicit snacks including a television remote, a lawn-mower gas filter and bras, feasted on 23 rounds of ammunition in May. The hound named Trigger was simply stretching his legs during an October waterfowl hunt when he stepped on his owner's 12-gauge shotgun and shot her in the foot.
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| Swiss examine 133 suspicious transactions linked to 2018 and 2022 World Cups | | | Swiss authorities are reviewing 133 reports of suspicious financial activity linked to the decisions by soccer's ruling body to let Russia and Qatar host the 2018 and 2022 World Cup finals, the Swiss Office of the Attorney General (OAG) said on Monday. Russia and Qatar, a small desert country with no real soccer tradition and where daytime temperatures can top 40 degrees Celsius (104F), have denied wrongdoing. An OAG spokeswoman said by email in response to a Reuters query that the suspicious activity reports came from a Swiss financial intelligence unit called the Money Laundering Reporting Office Switzerland (MROS). |
| French teacher attacked by man claiming Islamic State link | | | A hooded man claiming to be acting for Islamic State attacked a nursery school teacher with a knife-like weapon as he prepared for classes in a school north of Paris, French officials said on Monday. According to one judiciary official, the assailant slashed at the teacher's neck and said the act was a signal from the Islamic State group, also referred to in France by the name Daesh. "This is Daesh, it's a warning," the attacker told his victim, the official said, adding the victim's life was apparently not in danger. |
| Participant in China Xinjiang attack was brainwashed - report | | | A participant in a September attack on a coal mine in China's far western region of Xinjiang that killed 16 people said he had been brainwashed to believe he was going to heaven, a state-run paper reported on Monday. Hundreds of people have been killed in the past few years in the region, which is home to the mainly Muslim Uighur people, in violence blamed by the government on Islamist militants seeking an independent state called East Turkestan. China only admitted last month the mine attack had happened, when it said its security forces had killed 28 of the "terrorists" involved. |
| Thai activists urge release of man detained over Facebook post | | | By Aukkarapon Niyomyat and Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai activists on Monday demanded the release of a man arrested for sharing an infographic on Facebook detailing alleged graft in an army-built park, saying plainclothes security officers took him by force. Since taking power in a military coup in May 2014, Thailand's ruling junta has issued directives that have largely stifled dissent, including barring political discussions and debate. On Sunday, a 25-year-old student, Thanet Anantawong, was taken from a hospital while he awaited an operation, said prominent anti-junta activist, Siriwat Serithiwat. |
| Iraqi state oil firm official shot dead in Kirkuk city - police | | | Gunmen shot dead a senior employee of Iraq's state-run North Oil Company (NOC) on Monday, the third company official to be killed in the past four months, police and sources within the company said. Deputy inspector-general Hassan Salim and three other employees were driving to their office in the northern oil city of Kirkuk when assailants in a speeding car sprayed their minibus with bullets. Salim and another employee were killed instantly and the two other passengers were seriously wounded, police sources said. |
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