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| Trump looks to Obamacare critic, Indiana expert to overhaul health care | |  By Steve Holland NEW YORK (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump will announce on Tuesday he has chosen a vociferous Obamacare critic and an Indiana policy expert to help him overhaul the U.S. healthcare system, a transition official told Reuters. Trump is set to name Republican Representative Tom Price, an orthopedic surgeon from Georgia, as his Health and Human Services secretary, and consultant Seema Verma to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), a powerful agency that oversees government health programs and insurance standards.
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| Turkey's ruling party set to submit constitution bill within two weeks | | | Turkey's ruling AK Party will submit to parliament within two weeks a draft constitution reform law that will expand presidential powers, the head of the assembly's constitutional commission said on Monday. Dogan news agency cited the AKP's Mustafa Sentop as saying Turkey's constitution and parliamentary system needed to be changed for the sake of Turkey's progress. |
| South Korea's Park asks parliament to find way for her to step down | |  By Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Tuesday asked parliament to find a way for her to give up power and decide when she should step down amid an influence-peddling scandal, but the opposition said she was just trying to avoid impeachment. "I will step down from my position according to the law once a way is formed to pass on the administration in a stable manner that will also minimise political unrest and vacuum after ruling and opposition parties' discussion." The main opposition Democratic Party rejected Park's offer, calling it a ploy to escape being impeached, Yonhap news agency said. Park Kwang-on, a Democratic Party lawmaker, said it looked like she was trying to delay proceedings.
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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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