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| Threat of New Year attack in U.S. low but 'undeniable' - agencies | |  U.S. defence and security agencies said they believed the threat of militant attacks inside the United States was low during this New Year's holiday, yet some chance of an attack was "undeniable," according to security assessments reviewed on Friday. "There are no indications of specific threats to the U.S. Homeland," said a "situational awareness" bulletin issued to U.S. Army personnel this week by the Army's Training and Doctrine Command. "However the threat from homegrown violent extremists (HVEs) in the United States is undeniable," the bulletin added.
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| Brazil policeman confesses to killing Greek ambassador - TV report | |  A Rio de Janeiro police officer confessed to murdering Greece's ambassador to Brazil, possibly at the direction of the diplomat's Brazilian wife with whom the policeman was romantically involved, Globo TV reported on Friday, citing police sources. Greek Ambassador Kyriakos Amiridis, 59, was missing since Monday night. Globo TV reported on Friday afternoon that officer Sergio Moreira, 29, confessed to killing the ambassador on Monday night in the Rio de Janeiro home the Amiridis owned in Nova Iguaçu, a hardscrabble neighbourhood in Rio's sprawling and violent northern outskirts.
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| Iceland's Benediktsson to make new attempt to form government | |  The Independence Party leader Bjarni Benediktsson said on Friday he had been asked to try to form a new Icelandic government, after three failed attempts since the Oct. 29 election. Benediktsson, with a mandate from President Gudni Johannesson, will try to reach agreement on a centre-right coalition with Bright Future and the Reform Party. "We all know that this is the smallest possible majority you can have in Althingi (parliament) and so it is important to go thoroughly through the matters upfront and that is why this has taken time," Benediktsson said.
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| Turkish journalist held, accused of spreading propaganda - lawyer | | | A Turkish court remanded journalist Ahmet Sik in custody pending trial on Friday after he was accused of spreading the propaganda of various groups, an opposition lawmaker and a lawyer said. Sik works for Cumhuriyet, one of the few newspapers still critical of the government after Turkey purged tens of thousands of people, largely from the state apparatus, in the wake of a coup attempt last July. Ahmet Sik has been remanded in custody," lawmaker Sezgin Tanrikulu, from the main opposition party CHP, tweeted. |
| European cities ramp up security for New Year after Berlin attack | |  By Oliver Denzer and Geert De Clercq BERLIN/PARIS (Reuters) - European capitals tightened security on Friday ahead of New Year's celebrations, erecting concrete barriers in city centres and boosting police numbers after the Islamic State attack in Berlin last week that killed 12 people. In the German capital, police closed the Pariser Platz square in front of the Brandenburg Gate and prepared to deploy 1,700 extra officers, many along a party strip where armoured cars will flank concrete barriers blocking off the area. "Every measure is being taken to prevent a possible attack," Berlin police spokesman Thomas Neuendorf told Reuters TV.
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| Trump has no talks scheduled with Russian president - transition team | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has no immediate plans to talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the American expulsion of Russian diplomats over spying and interference in the November elections, a spokesman said on Friday. "There is nothing scheduled at this time. The priority right now is for the president-elect to get an update next week from the intelligence community," spokesman Sean Spicer said at a daily briefing. (Reporting by Doina Chiacu; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
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| Finnish neo-Nazi jailed after death of man he attacked | |  A Finnish member of a neo-Nazi group was sentenced on Friday to two years in jail after the death of a 28-year-old man he had assaulted during a demonstration in Helsinki. The Finnish national had stopped in front of the group in September and spat on the ground. A member of the group, Jesse Torniainen, kicked the man in the chest and he fell to the ground and hit his head.
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| A waterside retreat: Russian compound closed in U.S. hack response | |  By Yeganeh Torbati and Joel Schectman CENTREVILLE, Md. (Reuters) - When Soviet officials bought a sprawling waterfront estate in Centreville to be used as a country retreat for diplomats posted to Washington, it rattled residents of this bayside Maryland town. People were suspicious of the Soviets and "thought they were spies ... It was the folklore of Centreville," said Joe Dawkins, who works locally in agriculture. When U.S. tensions were at their highest with the Soviet Union, the Federal Bureau of Investigation kept an office in Centreville, residents said.
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| Hundreds attend funeral of Polish truck driver killed in Berlin | |  By Jakub Iglewski WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish President Andrzej Duda and hundreds of mourners on Friday attended the funeral of Lukasz Urban, the Polish truck driver who was killed and his vehicle used to crash into a Berlin Christmas market last week. Germany's Federal Prosecutor's Office said on Thursday Urban had died shortly before the attack and forensic tests were needed to determine whether he had been shot with a gun later found on the attacker in Milan. Mourners packed a small church in Banie, the driver's home village, for mass, while several trucks parked nearby honked their horns to honour the driver, private television channel TVN24 showed.
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| Romania's Grindeanu named PM-designate, to quickly form cabinet | |  By Radu-Sorin Marinas BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's president accepted Sorin Grindeanu for the post of prime minister on Friday after rejecting the Social Democrat Party's (PSD) previous nominee, clearing the way for a new leftist government to be formed next week. Grindeanu, 43, a mathematician and former deputy mayor of the city of Timisoara, will seek a vote of confidence on Jan. 4 in parliament, where the PSD and a junior ally have a majority. The PSD returns to power after being ousted just over a year ago when a deadly fire in a Bucharest nightclub brought public anger and protests over corruption and public administration failings.
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| Russia will not expel anyone in response to U.S. sanctions, Putin says | |  By Polina Devitt and Polina Nikolskaya MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said Moscow would not expel anyone in response to Washington's decision to throw out 35 suspected Russian spies and sanction intelligence agencies it believes were involved in computer hacking in the 2016 presidential election. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov earlier proposed expelling 35 U.S. diplomats after outgoing U.S. President Barack Obama ordered the expulsions and sanctions on Thursday.
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| Moscow says 96 Russians expected to leave United States due to expulsions | | | MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Friday that a total of 96 Russians, including expelled diplomats and their families, were expected to leave the United States due to the latest sanctions on Moscow, TASS news agency reported. Washington earlier said it was expelling 35 suspected Russian spies and imposing sanctions on intelligence agencies it believes were involved in hacking during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. (Reporting by Polina Devitt; Editing by Andrew Heavens) |
| Catalan referendum on independence 'not possible' says Spain PM | |  By Sarah White and Sonya Dowsett MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Friday flatly rejected the possibility of any referendum in the northeastern region of Catalonia on a split from Spain, telling local leaders to desist from attempts to hold one next year. "It is not possible to hold a referendum that will do away with national sovereignty and the equality of Spaniards," Rajoy told a year-end news conference, adding he was always open to talks over other issues but the law was clear that a referendum was illegal. "This is not going anywhere, I'm offering something which is a lot more reasonable, dialogue," Rajoy said.
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| Modi defends bank note move as Indians line up for cash | |  By Mayank Bhardwaj NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday defended his decision to withdraw high denomination bank notes from circulation, as a deadline to end severe cash shortages passed with Indians still queuing at banks to deposit savings and withdraw money. Modi abolished 500 and 1,000 rupee bills on Nov. 8, taking out 86 percent of cash in circulation, in a bid to fight corruption, end terror financing and turn India into a cashless society. The move, however, caused a major cash crunch as the government struggled to replace old notes with new 500 and 2,000 rupee bills.
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| Ukraine police arrest man suspected of planning Berlin copycat attack | | | Ukrainian police arrested a 31-year-old man on Friday accused of killing a woman and her daughter, and who they also suspect was planning to mow down citizens with a truck, like the attacks on the Berlin Christmas market and in Nice. Police said the man had murdered two people in a village in the southern Odessa region before setting fire to two houses and then escaping in a stolen truck and hiding in an abandoned home before officers caught him. The attack in the German capital days before Christmas killed a dozen people and injured 56, while a similar incident in Nice, France, on Bastille Day killed 86 people and injured more than 400. |
| Netanyahu says wrongdoing allegations will turn out to be fiction | |  Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday denied allegations of wrongdoing published by local media outlets, who say the attorney-general will launch a criminal investigation against the prime minister next week. A statement issued by a Netanyahu spokesman said the probe would fail to uncover any evidence against him. "All the supposed affairs will turn out to be fiction, as will be the claims currently being published in the media... Nothing will be found because there is nothing to uncover," Netanyahu's spokesman said.
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| India's cash crunch making some in Modi's party anxious | |  By Rupam Jain NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Cash shortages weeks after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's decision to abolish large currency notes are making allies and members of his ruling party anxious, with some distancing themselves from the move ahead of a series of state elections. Modi removed 500 and 1,000 rupee notes, worth around $7.50 and $15 respectively, on Nov. 8, billing it as an attempt to root out corruption, end terror financing and move the country into the age of digital payments. Nearly 90 percent of transactions in India used to be in cash.
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| Myanmar says will take back 2,415 citizens from Bangladesh | |  By Shwe Yee Saw Myint YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar said on Friday it will take back 2,415 citizens from Bangladesh, only a tiny fraction of the 300,000 people who Bangladesh says are Myanmar citizens taking refuge there and should go home. Tension has been rising between the neighbours over Myanmar's treatment of ethnic minority Rohingya Muslims, about 50,000 of whom Bangladesh says have fled there since the Myanmar army launched a crackdown on its side of their border in October. Myanmar has for decades said Rohingyas are illegal immigrants from Bangladesh and it has declined to grant them citizenship.
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