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| South Korea's NPS says prosecutors raid its headquarters | | Wednesday, November 23, 2016 1:01 AM | |
|  SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean prosecutors have raided the headquarters of the country's National Pension Service (NPS), the world's third-largest pension fund, the NPS said on Wednesday. An NPS spokeswoman confirmed prosecutors were searching the fund's offices, but declined to give details. Local media reports said earlier that prosecutors were probing any irregularities involving the fund's backing of Cheil Industries Inc's bid to acquire Samsung C&T Corp last year. Yonhap News Agency reported that prosecutors also raided the office of Samsung Group senior executive Choi Gee-sung. ...
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| New Zealand foreign minister discusses South China Sea with 'charming' Duterte | | Wednesday, November 23, 2016 12:42 AM | |
|  New Zealand's foreign minister Murray McCully said he discussed the disputed South China Sea with a "charming" Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte during an informal meeting. McCully said the pair had a wide ranging discussion late on Tuesday but declined to comment on whether Duterte's controversial drugs crackdown was discussed.
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| South Korea prosecutors raid Samsung Group offices - Yonhap | | Wednesday, November 23, 2016 12:30 AM | |
|  SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean prosecutors raided the offices of Samsung Group, Yonhap News reports on Wednesday, over its alleged link with Choi Soon-sil, President Park Geun-hye's longtime confidant who has been indicted for criminal acts. A Samsung Group spokeswoman confirmed prosecution officials had visited the group's headquarters, but could give no further details. Prosecutors in Seoul could not be immediately reached for comment. (Reporting by Cynthia Kim and Yun Hwan Chae, additional reporting by Jumin Park; Editing by Richard Pullin)
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| Conservatives bristle as Trump backs off Clinton prosecution | | Wednesday, November 23, 2016 12:27 AM | |
|  Some of Donald Trump's strongest conservative supporters are voicing anger and disappointment at the president-elect's comments on Tuesday that he might back off his campaign pledge of pursuing a prosecution of former rival Hillary Clinton. Trump, in an interview with the New York Times, took a more compassionate tone toward the Democratic presidential nominee than during his campaign, when he talked about a possible criminal investigation of the opponent he dubbed "Crooked Hillary" if he won the White House.
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| Colombia, FARC rebels to sign new peace deal on Thursday | | Wednesday, November 23, 2016 12:23 AM | |
|  A new peace accord between Colombia's government and Marxist FARC rebels will be signed on Thursday and sent to Congress for approval, President Juan Manuel Santos said on Tuesday, bringing a formal end to the 52-year civil war ever closer. The revised document will be signed in Bogota between FARC leader Rodrigo Londono and Santos, who won the Nobel Peace Prize last month for his efforts to end the conflict with the insurgent group. The government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have been in talks in Havana, Cuba for the last four years, hammering out a deal to end a conflict that has killed more than 220,000 and displaced millions in the Andean country.
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| U.S.-Iranian citizen convicted in U.S. for trying to buy missiles for Iran | | Wednesday, November 23, 2016 12:14 AM | |
| | By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - A dual citizen of Iran and the United States was found guilty on Tuesday on charges that he tried to help acquire surface-to-air missiles and aircraft components for the government of Iran in violation of U.S. sanctions. Reza Olangian, 56, was convicted by a federal jury in Manhattan on all four counts he faced, including conspiring to acquire and transfer anti-aircraft missiles, prosecutors said. Lee Ginsberg, Olangian's lawyer, said the verdict "was very disappointing and we do plan to appeal." Olangian, who became a U.S. citizen in 1999, was arrested in Estonia in October 2012 and subsequently extradited to the United States following a sting operation orchestrated by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. |
| Macau billionaire faces new U.S. charges in U.N. bribe case | |  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday brought new charges against a billionaire from Macau accused of engaging in a scheme to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to a former United Nations General Assembly president. A revised indictment filed in Manhattan federal court against Ng Lap Seng, a real estate developer from the Chinese territory, and his assistant, Jeff Yin, included new charges that both men violated the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The indictment said he took steps to evade paying income taxes and helped a diplomat from the Dominican Republic involved in the scheme conceal portions of his income from U.S. tax authorities.
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| On JFK anniversary, Zapruder relative says assassination film hovers over family | |  By Marice Richter DALLAS (Reuters) - Alexandra Zapruder was not born when her grandfather trained his home-movie camera on President John F. Kennedy's motorcade rolling through downtown Dallas 53 years ago on Tuesday, but that 26-second film has become a difficult family legacy. On Nov. 22, 1963, Abraham Zapruder, a devoted supporter of Kennedy and his vision for America, shot a home movie on 8 mm film that became the best-known moving image of the Kennedy assassination. ...
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| Contenders for key jobs in Trump's administration | | | (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump held additional meetings in New York on Tuesday as he worked to fill administration positions ahead of his inauguration on Jan. 20. Below are people mentioned as contenders for senior roles. See end of list for posts already filled. TREASURY SECRETARY * Steven Mnuchin, former Goldman Sachs Group Inc executive and Trump's campaign finance chairman * Jeb Hensarling, Republican U.S. ... |
| Trump keeping 'open mind' on pulling out of climate accord | |  By Roberta Rampton NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday he was keeping an open mind on whether to pull out of a landmark international accord to fight climate change, in a softening of his stance toward global warming. Trump told the New York Times in an interview that he thinks there is "some connectivity" between human activity and global warming, despite previously describing climate change as a hoax. A source on Trump's transition team told Reuters earlier this month that the New York businessman was seeking quick ways to withdraw the United States from the 2015 Paris Agreement to combat climate change.
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| Summary of Trump's comments in New York Times interview | | | (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump spoke on a wide range of issues with New York Times editors and reporters on Tuesday. * CLINTON INVESTIGATION Trump said prosecuting Democratic rival Hillary Clinton for her handing of classified information while secretary of state or the dealings of the Clinton Foundation was "not something that I feel very strongly about." "I don't want to hurt the Clintons, I really don't," Trump said. "She went through a lot and suffered greatly in many different ways." "I think it would be very very divisive for the country," he said, referring to prosecuting Clinton or her husband, former President Bill Clinton. |
| U.S. grants second Airbus license to sell planes to Iran | |  By Yeganeh Torbati WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Tuesday it had issued a second license to France's Airbus to sell commercial planes to Iran Air, bringing Iran's flag carrier a step closer to receiving new Western jets under last year's deal to ease sanctions. The move in the waning months of Democratic President Barack Obama's administration to further unlock jetliner sales to Iran prompted complaints from Republicans in Congress and is likely to raise the ire of President-elect Donald Trump. Trump has said he would dismantle the 2015 international nuclear deal with Iran, which includes a measure allowing U.S. and European companies to sell Iran civilian aircraft.
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