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| Charleston church gunman found guilty of federal hate crimes | |  By Greg Lacour CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - A jury on Thursday found avowed white supremacist Dylann Roof guilty of federal hate crimes resulting in the deaths of nine black parishioners at a historic church in Charleston, South Carolina, last year. Jurors also said Roof, 22, was guilty of firearms violations and obstructing the exercise of religion for those he shot and killed during a Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on June 17, 2015. Roof showed no emotion as the verdicts were read.
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| Traces of explosives found in Egyptair crash - investigators | |  CAIRO/PARIS (Reuters) - Egyptian air accident investigators said on Thursday traces of explosives had been found on the remains of victims of an Egyptair flight that crashed en route from Paris to Cairo. Egypt's investigation committee issued a statement saying the coroner had found traces of explosives on the remains of some victims. "The technical investigation committee ... places itself and its expertise at the disposal of prosecutors," it said.
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| Peace can transform Colombia into breadbasket for world, president says | |  By Alex Whiting ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Curbing poverty and hunger in rural areas is crucial to building lasting peace in Colombia and in turn will help the nation become a breadbasket for the world, President Juan Manuel Santos said on Thursday. Rural reforms to address unequal land distribution and boost development are key to the peace agreement signed last month by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and Santos, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to reach an accord. "We are all aware that there is no peace where hunger exists, and also that conflict creates an environment of scarcity," Santos told government representatives gathered at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
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| Factbox - Contenders for senior jobs in Trump's administration | |  (Reuters) - The following people are mentioned as contenders for senior roles as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump puts together his administration before taking office on Jan. 20, according to Reuters sources and other media reports. Trump already has named a number of people for other top jobs in his administration. AGRICULTURE SECRETARY * Chuck Conner, a former acting secretary of the U.S. Agriculture Department and current head of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives * Tim Huelskamp, Republican U.S. ...
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| French investigators say not possible yet to say what caused Egyptair crash | |  French investigators said on Thursday that it was not possible at this stage to draw conclusions on what might have caused the crash of an Egyptair flight in May with the deaths of all 66 people on board. "In the absence of detailed information on the conditions and ways in which samples were taken leading to the detection of traces of explosives, the BEA considers that it is not possible at this stage to draw conclusions on the origin of the accident," a spokeswoman for the agency said in an emailed statement.
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| Putin supervised Russia cyber attacks in U.S. election - officials | |  Russian President Vladimir Putin supervised his intelligence agencies' hacking of the U.S. presidential election and turned it from a general effort to discredit the process to a specific attempt to support Donald Trump, three U.S. officials said on Thursday. Accusations that Russia tried to influence the election by hacking people and institutions, including Democratic Party bodies, has angered President-elect Trump who says he won the Nov. 8 vote fairly. Russian officials have denied all accusations of interference in the U.S. election.
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| Canadian diplomats visit pastor imprisoned in North Korea | |  Diplomats from Canada this week paid a rare visit to North Korea and were able to see a Canadian pastor serving a life sentence for subversion, a foreign ministry official said on Thursday. Hyeon Soo Lim, who served at one of the largest churches in Canada, was sentenced to hard labour for life in December 2015 for what North Korea says was an attempt to overthrow the regime. Chantal Gagnon, a spokeswoman for Canadian Foreign Minister Stephane Dion, confirmed a report by North Korea's KCNA news agency that said the diplomats visited the country from Tuesday until Thursday and saw Lim.
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| Verizon considers changing Yahoo deal after latest breach | |  Verizon Communications Inc is looking at ways to modify its $4.8 billion deal to buy Yahoo Inc's core internet business after the technology company disclosed a second massive data breach, sources told Reuters on Thursday. Yahoo Inc shares fell almost 5 percent after the breach of data belonging to more than 1 billion users was disclosed, following another large hack reported in September. Verizon is seeking to persuade Yahoo to amend the terms of the acquisition agreement made in July to reflect the economic impact of the data breaches, according to people familiar with the matter.
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| EU agrees to extend Russia sanctions until mid-2017 | | | By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders agreed on Thursday to extend the bloc's main economic sanctions against Russia over the turmoil in Ukraine for six months until mid-2017, diplomats said. The decision was expected and the formal process to extend the sanctions on Russia's defence, energy and financial sectors will take place early next week, they said. "We welcome unanimous decision by the EU to extend economic and sectoral sanctions against Russia," Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko said in a statement. |
| Trump taps Montana Congressman Zinke to lead Interior Department | |  By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday named U.S. Representative Ryan Zinke of Montana, a former Navy SEAL commander who questions whether humans are largely the cause of climate change, as his choice for secretary of the interior. If the Senate confirms Zinke, a Republican, to lead the Interior Department, he will head an agency that employs more than 70,000 people across the country and oversees more than 20 percent of federal land, including national parks such as Yellowstone and Yosemite. As a one-term U.S. congressman, Zinke took several stances favouring coal, which is high in carbon emissions when burned.
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| French prosecutor calls for IMF's Lagarde to be acquitted | |  By Chine Labbé PARIS (Reuters) - The chief prosecutor in the negligence trial of IMF chief Christine Lagarde in Paris called for her acquittal on Thursday, saying the hearing had failed to support the "very weak" case against her. Lagarde, 60, faces charges, which she denies, of being negligent when, as French finance minister, she approved in 2008 a payout to businessman Bernard Tapie in an out-of-court settlement which cost the French taxpayer 400 million euros ($425 million). The trial has gone ahead at a special court in Paris even though the state prosecutor's office said, after the conclusion of the investigation of Lagarde, that the case should be dropped.
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| Canada's Trudeau to face ethics questions over party fundraisers | |  By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, dogged by accusations that rich donors to his Liberal Party gained privileged access, will be questioned by the ethics commissioner to see whether he broke conflict of interest rules, an official said on Thursday. The development marks a new low for Trudeau, who came to power in November 2015 vowing to run an open and ethical government but faces relentless accusations that the Liberals are running a cash-for-access scheme. "I will follow up with Mr. Trudeau regarding his involvement with the fundraising events," Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson said in a letter to Rona Ambrose, interim leader of the opposition Conservative Party, who had filed a complaint.
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| White House: FBI is probing Yahoo hack, cannot yet provide scope | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Thursday said it could not address the potential scope of vulnerable material from Yahoo Inc's most recently disclosed hack, adding that the FBI is investigating the breach. Speaking to reporters at a daily briefing, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said that U.S. investigators would have to ensure that releasing any public information about those behind the attack would not compromise the probe. (Reporting by Roberta Rampton and Susan Heavey; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
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| Milwaukee ex-cop charged with black man's shooting death | | | Ex-officer Dominique Heaggan-Brown, 24, was charged by District Attorney John Chisholm with first-degree reckless homicide, according to an online filing in Milwaukee County Circuit Court. The filing says that Heaggan-Brown is scheduled for an initial appearance on Friday. Two nights of rioting erupted in August after Heaggan-Brown, who is also African-American, fatally shot Sylville Smith, 23, after a traffic stop. |
| Colorado school district votes to allow employees to carry guns | | | A tiny school district in central Colorado has voted to allow teachers or other employees at its two schools to carry concealed handguns on the job if they volunteer to serve double duty as security officers in case of an emergency. The Board of Education for Hanover School District #28 voted 3-2 to approve the resolution on Wednesday night, said Mark McPherson, board president. The written resolution, however, says in part that it was drafted "in light of recent events nationally," apparently in reference to a string of shootings on school campuses. |
| Brazil prosecutors hit ex-president Lula with more corruption charges | |  By Brad Brooks SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Prosecutors on Thursday charged former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, his wife and a former finance minister with more corruption charges in the investigation of graft at state-run oil company Petrobras. It is now up to federal judge Sergio Moro to decide if the new charges will result in another trial for Lula, who is already accused in Moro's court in southern Brazil with separate corruption charges, with a ruling not expected before late January or early February. Lula, an extremely popular two-term president who left office in January 2011, faces another trial on graft charges in a Brasilia court, but a start date has not been set.
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| U.S. FCC chairman to step down, handing GOP a majority | |  By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler plans to step down on Jan. 20, he said on Thursday, a move expected to hand Republicans a 2-1 majority on the panel when Donald Trump takes office as president. Wheeler could have kept the commission at 2-2 until Trump names a new member who needs to be confirmed by the Senate. Last week, two Republican FCC commissioners said the Trump administration should quickly reverse many significant policies set by the telecommunications and cable regulatory body under Democratic President Barack Obama.
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| Trump ordered to give deposition in Washington restaurant suit | | | By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Washington judge has ordered Republican President-elect Donald Trump to give a deposition in a lawsuit against celebrity chef Jose Andres stemming from Trump's disparaging remarks about Mexican immigrants. District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Jennifer Di Toro ruled on Wednesday that Trump must testify in New York about Andres' restaurant deal at Trump's luxury Washington hotel. |
| Dozens of Afghans deported from Germany as Merkel takes firmer line | |  By Mohammad Aziz and Madeline Chambers KABUL/BERLIN (Reuters) - A group of 34 rejected Afghan asylum-seekers arrived in Kabul from Germany on Thursday, the German interior ministry said, the first to be deported under an agreement reached between the two countries this year. "It was early morning and I was sleeping when four policemen came to my home and arrested me," said Ali Madad Nasiri, one of the men on board a charter plane that landed in the Afghan capital from Frankfurt. "I didn't have a chance to take my clothes, cellphone and laptop - all left behind," added Nasiri, who said he had been living in Germany for three years.
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| Police say Muslim woman made up story about attack on NYC subway | | | By David Ingram NEW YORK (Reuters) - A woman has been arrested and charged with filing a false report after telling police that three white men yelling President-elect Donald Trump's name had attacked her on a New York City subway for wearing a traditional Muslim head scarf, police said. Yasmin Seweid, 18, was also charged with obstructing governmental administration, a police spokesman said on Thursday. The false report comes as U.S. civil rights advocates have voiced alarm over a rise in attacks on Muslims and other minorities since Trump won the Nov. 8 presidential election. |
| U.S. sues to recover ancient Syrian artifacts looted by Islamic State | | | By Yeganeh Torbati WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government is suing to recover four ancient Syrian artifacts it believes were trafficked by Islamic State, U.S. officials said on Thursday, a tiny fraction of the plundered antiquities likely to have passed through the jihadist group's hands. Islamic State used the mayhem of war to establish a lucrative trade in stolen relics dug up from the territory it controlled in Syria and Iraq, which includes remnants of some of the world's oldest and most culturally rich civilizations, according to archaeological experts. U.S. Department of Justice officials filed a complaint in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday seeking the forfeiture of the antiquities, including a gold ring with a carved gemstone, two gold coins, and a neo-Assyrian stone stela, together worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. |
| Philippine government says can live with less aid from U.S. | | | The Philippines government said on Thursday it could live with less aid from the United States after an agency put on hold a decision to fund a second anti-poverty programme. The Millennium Challenge Corp (MCC), a U.S. poverty reduction agency, said on its website that its board had "deferred a vote on the reselection of the Philippines for compact development, subject to further review of concerns around rule of law and civil liberties". U.S. embassy press attache Molly Koscina said the MCC would continue to monitor unfolding events in the Philippines, but like all country partners, it needed to demonstrate "commitment to the rule of law, due process and respect for human rights". |
| Yahoo says one billion accounts exposed in newly discovered security breach | |  Yahoo Inc warned on Wednesday that it had uncovered yet another massive cyber attack, saying data from more than 1 billion user accounts was compromised in August 2013, making it the largest breach in history. The number of affected accounts was double the number implicated in a 2014 breach that the internet company disclosed in September and blamed on hackers working on behalf of a government. News of that attack, which affected at least 500 million accounts, prompted Verizon Communication Inc to say in October that it might withdraw from an agreement to buy Yahoo's core internet business for $4.83 billion.
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| Crime wave worsens Venezuela's already shaky telecoms service | |  By Diego Oré CARACAS (Reuters) - The clanging sound of collapsing metal shook awake the residents of Guayabal, an industrial zone in the outskirts of Venezuela's capital, last October. Then they watched a 40-meter (131 feet) telecoms tower tumble after thieves had stripped even the screws holding up the installation, which was owned by state telecoms provider CANTV and rented out to private operator Movistar. The theft, which also included copper cables and a generator, was the latest of six at that station this year and one of hundreds worsening crime-rife Venezuela's already shaky telecoms.
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