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| South Korea's embattled president offers to relinquish power | |  SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's embattled President Park Geun-hye on Tuesday asked parliament to come up with a way for her to relinquish power, including when she should step down from the presidency. "I will leave to parliament everything about my future including shortening of my term," she said in a televised speech amid mounting calls for her to resign over an influence scandal that has engulfed her presidency. (Reporting by Ju-min Park and Jack Kim; Editing by Tony Munroe)
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| Trump set to roll out his 'dream team' for health care reforms | |  By Steve Holland NEW YORK (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump will roll out two top members of what he will cast as a "dream team" on Tuesday to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system, a transition official told Reuters on Monday. Trump is set to name Georgia congressman Tom Price as Health and Human Services secretary and Indiana consultant Seema Verma to lead the powerful Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency that oversees government health programs and insurance standards. If confirmed by the Senate, Price and Verma will play a central role in overhauling the health care insurance law better known as Obamacare, the signature domestic legislative achievement of President Barack Obama, once the Trump administration takes office on Jan. 20.
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| South Africa's Zuma survives no-confidence motion by own party - newspaper | |  JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's scandal-plagued President Jacob Zuma has survived a motion of no confidence by his own party, Beeld, an Afrikaans-language daily reported on Tuesday without naming its sources. No formal vote took place at the three-day long conference of the ANC's national executive committee meeting in Pretoria that ended late on Monday, the paper said. The ANC will hold a media briefing at 1200 GMT on Tuesday. (Reporting by TJ Strydom; Editing by Nick Macfie)
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| Thailand's parliament to invite crown prince to become new king | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Patpicha Tanakasempipat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Parliament will invite Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn to become the new king following the death of revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej last month, the president of the legislative body said on Tuesday. Pornpetch Wichitcholchai, president of the National Legislative Assembly, said in a televised session the prince would be invited to ascend the throne after the cabinet earlier on Tuesday formally asked parliament to begin the process of installing a new monarch. Members of the assembly stood up during a short parliamentary session and shouted: "Long live the king!" The prince will have to accept parliament's invitation in order for him to be proclaimed king, according to established procedure.
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| Insight: Fewer North Korean workers come to China as border trade tightens | |  By Sue-Lin Wong DANDONG, China (Reuters) - A labour agent sat in his bus on a recent frigid morning, waiting to cross the "Friendship Bridge" at China's main border post with North Korea. "I used to bring at least 40-50 North Korean factory workers and waiters across at least once a month but it's less frequent now," said Liu, the labour agent, who did not want to give his full name. "I don't think China wants them to come and work here anymore." Their numbers have, indeed, been dropping of late, said Lu Chao, Director of the Border Study Institute at the Liaoning Academy of Social Sciences, a Chinese government think-tank.
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| Cuba detains dissident artist for celebrating Castro's death | | | By Nicole Martinez MIAMI (Reuters) - Cuban police have detained dissident artist Danilo "El Sexto" Maldonado, once declared a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International, after he made a video celebrating the death of Fidel Castro, a dissident human rights group and the artist's girlfriend said on Monday. Castro died on Friday at age 90, a decade after he had retired due to poor health and ceded power to his brother, current President Raul Castro. Maldonado posted a video on social media on Saturday in which he rants against Castro and calls him a "mare," a Cuban pejorative. |
| Car, knife attack at Ohio State injures 11; suspect's background probed | |  A car and knife attack by an Ohio State University student that injured 11 people on Monday before the suspect was shot dead by a police officer is being investigated as a possible terror attack, a U.S. congressman and another government source said. The suspect, Abdul Razak Ali Artan, was shot and killed by a police officer with less than two years on the force after driving into a group of people and then jumping out of the vehicle and stabbing people with a butcher knife at the school's Columbus campus, said Monica Moll, director of public safety for Ohio State University. Ohio State University Police Chief Craig Stone told a news conference that Artan might have been as old as 20.
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| U.S. companies hope Trump will stick to business roots, back Cuba ties | | | By Patricia Zengerle and Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. companies are looking for ways to persuade President-elect Donald Trump to soften his threats to cancel the Obama administration's opening to Cuba, a reversal they fear could cost them hundreds of millions of dollars. During his campaign, Trump said he thought restoring diplomatic ties with Cuba was fine, but that Democratic President Barack Obama should have pushed harder for concessions from Havana before easing restrictions on travel and trade. On Monday, three days after the death of revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, the Republican president-elect said in a Twitter post that he would end what he referred to as Obama's "deal" if Cuba did not do more for its people. |
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