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| Spy chief adds to warnings of Russian cyber attacks on Germany | |  By Caroline Copley BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's spy chief has warned that Russian hackers are pelting his country with disinformation that could undermine the democratic process, echoing concerns already voiced by his domestic intelligence counterpart. Bruno Kahl, the new head of Germany's BND foreign intelligence service, compared the campaign in an interview published on Tuesday to misleading reports on social media before Donald Trump's election as United States president. The interview appeared in Munich's Sueddeutsche Zeitung as German officials puzzled over the source of a major disruption on Monday of internet traffic on Deutsche Telekom, the country's largest telecoms operator.
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| Dutch parliament votes to ban burqas, niqabs in some public places | | | AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch Parliament's lower house voted on Tuesday to ban the wearing of face-covering clothes - such as burqas and niqabs - in some public places, making the Netherlands the latest European country to restrict garments worn by some Muslim women. The legislation, which still needs to be passed by the senate, bans the veils in settings where identifying the wearer is considered essential, such as in government buildings, on public transport, at schools and in hospitals. ... |
| Exclusive: Jailed Islamic State suspects recall path to jihad in Iraq | |  By Michael Georgy ERBIL (Reuters) - When Kurdish forces began firing rockets at a suspected Islamic State hideout in northern Iraq, one of those inside, former bakery worker Walid Ismail, said he tried to persuade the others to surrender. Ismail said the others were then killed by the Kurds and he only made it out by shouting that he had no bombs. An online video shows him looking terrified as he emerges from the house in the town of Bashiqa near Mosul with an injured hand, to be arrested by Kurdish peshmerga fighters.
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| Turkish PM says finalising constitutional change to bolster Erdogan powers | | | Turkey's ruling AK Party is finalising plans to formally cement President Tayyip Erdogan's powers by creation of an executive presidency and will meet the nationalist opposition to iron out details, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Tuesday. Erdogan has long sought constitional change to strengthen what had been in the past a largely ceremonial position. "We will meet one more time with (MHP leader Devlet) Bahceli and give this (constitutional) change its final shape," Yildirim told a parliamentary meeting of his party. |
| Q&A: Likely fallout from the Italian referendum | |  Italy holds a referendum on Dec. 4 on the government's plan for a comprehensive reform of the constitution. Opinion polls are banned in the last two weeks of campaigning. The vote is on Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's plans to abolish the elected upper house Senate and replace it with a chamber of regional representatives which will have much reduced powers.
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| Corrected: Cuba detains dissident artist for celebrating Castro's death | |  (Corrects paragraph 5 to show girlfriend spoke to Maldonado before arrest, not while in jail) 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.
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| Trump looks to Obamacare critic to overhaul healthcare | |  By Steve Holland NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump named a vociferous critic of Obamacare and a policy consultant on Tuesday to help him overhaul the healthcare system that Republicans have targeted since Democrats enacted sweeping reforms in 2010. Republican Representative Tom Price, an orthopedic surgeon from Georgia, will be Trump's Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary, and consultant Seema Verma will lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a powerful agency that oversees government health programs and insurance standards. Trump cast Price and Verma as a "dream team" to help him once he takes office on Jan. 20 with his campaign pledge to repeal Obamacare, Democratic President Barack Obama's signature health law formally known as the Affordable Care Act.
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| Senior Chinese official calls for Hong Kong to oppose independence | |  China's government hopes Hong Kong will oppose independence, a top Communist Party official said on Tuesday in a meeting with a pro-Beijing group from the southern financial hub. The comments by Zhang Dejiang, the most senior Chinese official responsible for Hong Kong affairs, come after Beijing staged a rare interpretation of Hong Kong's mini-constitution, the Basic Law, this month to effectively bar pro-independence city lawmakers from taking office there. China's central government "hopes Hong Kong compatriots can clearly oppose Hong Kong independence, jointly safeguard Hong Kong's social and political stability" and "amass popular sentiment to seek development and promote harmony", Zhang told a delegation from a group called Silent Majority for Hong Kong.
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| France says lifting sanctions on Russia would be counterproductive | |  French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said on Tuesday that lifting European Union sanctions on Russia would weaken efforts to resolve the Ukraine crisis and hand a victory to Moscow. "It would weaken the objective of resolving this conflict and would be a victory to those who endangered the security of a country," Ayrault told Reuters, speaking before talks between Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany in Minsk on implementing a ceasefire accord in eastern Ukraine.
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| Exclusive: Arrested Russian minister wanted state to cede control over Rosneft: sources | |  By Alexander Winning MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's former Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev privately argued to colleagues in government that the state should give up control over oil giant Rosneft, before he was arrested two weeks ago in a sting inside the company's offices, according to two sources. A source familiar with Ulyukayev's thinking, speaking before Ulyukayev was arrested on bribery charges on Nov. 15, told Reuters that the minister had been promoting the idea of reducing the government's stake in Rosneft, Russia's biggest oil company, to below 50 percent. The second source, a government official, confirmed that Ulyukayev had discussed this idea with other officials before he was detained.
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| Drones are mapping Indian cities - where they're allowed | | | By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Officials in one of India's fastest growing cities are using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to update land records in a pilot project that could be rolled out across the country if rules governing the use of drones were simpler, authorities said. Haryana state's Project Udaan, or flight, is mapping the technology hub of Gurgaon, a satellite town of Delhi, and the towns of Sohna and Manesar in northern India. The drone images are being used to update decades-old land records, check encroachments and resolve disputes over land and property. |
| Shamed by scandal, South Korea's Park asks for exit plan | |  By Ju-min Park and Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Tuesday asked parliament to decide how and when she can give up power over an influence-peddling scandal, taking the country's political crisis deeper into uncharted terrain. The main opposition Democratic Party rejected Park's offer, calling it a ploy to escape being impeached, and said it would continue efforts to bring an impeachment motion in parliament, which it has sought to do as soon as Friday. No South Korean president has failed to complete a single five-year term since the current democratic system was introduced in 1987.
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| Philippine bank at centre of $81 million heist says will not compensate Bangladesh | |  Philippine lender RCBC is not liable to compensate Bangladesh for tens of millions of stolen dollars that went missing in Manila, RCBC's lawyer said on Tuesday, pinning the blame on the central bank in Dhaka for being "negligent". Unknown cyber criminals tried to steal nearly $1 billion from the Bangladesh Bank in February, one of the biggest bank frauds ever. RCBC external counsel Thea Daep urged Bangladesh Bank to be transparent and produce the results of its own investigation to shed light on who was behind the heist, saying it was the least Bangladesh's central bank could do.
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| Colombian plane crash killed 76, police say | | | BOGOTA (Reuters) - An airplane crash in Colombia has killed 76 people, the vast majority of the 81 passengers and crew who were on board the plane, the Colombian police said early on Tuesday. The plane was carrying players, coaches and staff from the Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense, as well as journalists set to covering the team's match in the Sudamericana final, South America's equivalent of the Europa League. (Reporting by Luis Jaime Acosta; Writing by Julia Symmes Cobb; Editing by Alison Williams) |
| South Africa's Zuma survives move to oust him - media | |  South Africa's scandal-plagued President Jacob Zuma has survived a move by some members of his party to hold a no-confidence motion against him, local media reported on Tuesday without naming sources. Tourism Minister Derek Hanekom had proposed holding the vote to effectively oust Zuma at a meeting of the African National Congress's (ANC's) governing committee over the weekend, Beeld, an Afrikaans-language daily had reported. It was not immediately clear if the committee had actively decided to keep Zuma through a less formal decision-making process, or if it had just dropped the matter all together.
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