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| Feuds and factions: no easy road to implementing Libya peace deal | |  By Patrick Markey and Ahmed Elumami ALGIERS/TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Fresh from a Rome summit on Libya's crisis, American, European and U.N. officials are confidently backing a proposed peace deal between the country's warring factions to end chaos that has allowed Islamic State to flourish. Libyan delegates from different groups plan to sign up on Wednesday to the agreement to form a unity government and seek a ceasefire - a decision Western powers hope will create the momentum to pull recalcitrant opponents along. With Libya having no real national army, at least seven armed brigades are entrenched in the city, under semi-official control of the defence or interior ministries, some supporting the U.N. accord, others allied to political leaders opposing it.
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| UK government warns Sports Direct it will act if wage laws flouted | | | Sports Direct , the British sportswear retailer controlled by high profile businessman Mike Ashley, came under fire in the British parliament on Monday over allegations it has not been paying the minimum wage. The FTSE 100 company has been in the spotlight after the Guardian newspaper reported last Thursday that lengthy and unpaid security checks of staff at its main warehouse in Shirebrook, central England, meant that some workers effectively earned less than legal levels. Sports Direct said on Monday it believed it was in compliance with minimum wage regulations and took its responsibilities extremely seriously. |
| At least 60 killed as Nigerian army raids Shi'ite sect, hospital says | | | At least 60 people were killed this weekend when the Nigerian army raided a Shi'ite sect and arrested its leader in the northern city of Zaria, the director of a local hospital said on Monday. The army said the Islamic Movement was trying to assassinate the chief of army staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, when members of the sect blocked his convoy in Zaria on Saturday. On Sunday, the army raided several buildings connected to the sect and the home of its leader, Ibrahim Zakzaky. |
| Germany launches plan to protect migrant women, children from attacks | |  Germany launched a programme on Monday to improve the safety of asylum-seeking women and the roughly 300,000 refugee children who have arrived here this year, saying these vulnerable groups were not being given sufficient protection in refugee homes. Almost a million refugees fleeing war, violence and poverty in countries like Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan flocked to Germany in the first 11 months of this year and the authorities have had difficulty finding sufficient accommodation for them all. In assessing the situation, the German government and United Nations children's agency (UNICEF) agreed that children living in refugee shelters were at risk of becoming victims of violence, misuse and exploitation, especially in temporary accommodation and reception centres.
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| French teacher "invented" story about Islamist attack | | | A report from a French schoolteacher that he had been assaulted by a self-styled Islamist militant on Monday, causing classes to be cancelled and an anti-terrorism investigation, turned out to be "invented", investigators said. The incident occurred with the nation still on edge a month after gunmen and suicide bombers killed 130 people in Paris in an attack claimed by Islamic State, the jihadist group that has seized large areas of Syria and Iraq and is now the target of air strikes by a U.S.-led coalition including France. "(The teacher) is being interviewed with a view to establishing the reasons for this invented story," said an official from the Paris prosecutor's office. |
| Italian police seize 3,500 fake parchments with papal blessings | | | Italian police have confiscated about 3,500 counterfeit parchments bearing blessings by Pope Francis and being sold to pilgrims in Rome, authorities said on Monday. The bogus parchments, with elaborate lettering and pictures of the pope, were found in the printing shop of a souvenir store near the Vatican, and the proprietor was charged with producing counterfeit goods, a police statement said. It said the parchments were printed in Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and English and had an overall value of about 70,000 euros ($77,168). |
| French teacher "invented" story about Islamist attack - judicial source | | | A teacher who had claimed he was assaulted in a school north of Paris by a man acting for Islamic State was making the story up, the Paris prosecutor's office told Reuters on Monday. Earlier on Monday, other French officials told how the teacher had reported that a hooded man claiming a link to the militant Islamist group had attacked him with a knife-like weapon as he prepared for classes in a school north of Paris. |
| Militancy threatens Bangladesh economic growth - World Bank economist Kaushik Basu | |  By Serajul Quadir DHAKA (Reuters) - Political and religious militancy threaten to upset an economic growth record that could lift Bangladesh into the middle income country category in the next few years, according to World Bank's chief economist Kaushik Basu. The country's economy could grow at 6.5 percent in this fiscal year to end June 2016 and that rate might rise to 6.7 percent in next fiscal year, Basu, who is also a senior vice president of the Bank, told Reuters on Monday. "It may even hit 7 percent if Bangladesh can efficiently address some of its (economic) weaknesses and also handle properly its political issues and militancy," he said.
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| Colombia, rebels to sign pact on reparations for war victims | | | By Nelson Acosta HAVANA (Reuters) - The Colombian government and leftist FARC rebels have reached a deal on reparations for war victims and could be near a pact on the terms of confinement for ex-combatants who would be tried in special tribunals once a definitive peace agreement is reached. Any partial accords would help put peace talks back on track toward reaching a March 23 deadline for a comprehensive plan to end Latin America's longest war, which has killed 220,000 people and displaced millions since 1964. "We are very pleased with this agreement (on victims) which no doubt is transcendental for what we are doing in this process," government spokeswoman Marcela Duran told reporters in Havana, site of the peace talks for three years. |
| On Sandy Hook anniversary, U.S. activists call for gun restrictions | |  U.S. gun control activists called for expanded background checks for firearms purchasers and for a ban on sales to people on federal watch lists on Monday, in a protest marking the third anniversary of the massacre at a Connecticut elementary school. Speakers including U.S. Representative Gerry Connolly, a Virginia Democrat, and survivors of recent U.S. mass shootings made their call outside the Fairfax, Virginia, headquarters of the National Rifle Association lobbying group. On Dec. 14, 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot and killed 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, an attack that stands as one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history.
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| Obama calls Xi to praise China's role in climate talks - White House | |  U.S. President Barack Obama spoke by telephone Sunday night with Chinese President Xi Jinping to express appreciation for the important role China played in securing a historic climate agreement in Paris, the White House said. "The president emphasized the importance of continuing close U.S.-China cooperation on climate change issues into the future," the White House said.
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| Decision to bar Nakhid from FIFA election is upheld | | | Former Trinidad and Tobago player David Nakhid cannot run for the presidency of football's scandal-plagued governing body FIFA, said the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). CAS explained in a statement on Monday that it had dismissed his appeal against a decision taken by FIFA's electoral committee on Oct. 28 during which his candidacy was refused. The Trinidadian was barred from registering by FIFA's electoral committee because one association had signed letters of support for Nakhid and a rival candidate. |
| 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. |
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