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| Berlin police assume truck was deliberately driven into Christmas market | |  Berlin police said on Twitter on Tuesday that investigators assume that the driver of a truck that ploughed into a crowd at a Berlin Christmas market, killing 12 people and injuring 48 others, did so intentionally. "Our investigators assume that the truck was deliberately steered into the crowd at the Christmas market at Breitscheidplatz," police said.
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| South Korean court to hold first impeachment hearing on Thursday | |  SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's Constitutional Court will hold its first hearing in the impeachment case of President Park Geun-hye on Thursday, Yonhap news agency said on Tuesday. The court is reviewing the impeachment vote passed by parliament on Dec. 9. Park is accused of colluding with a friend to pressure big businesses into making financial contributions to non-profit foundations and violating her constitutional duty. (Reporting by Jack Kim; Editing by Paul Tait)
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| Russia, Turkey pledge need for more efforts to "fight terrorism" | | | Russian and Turkish foreign ministers have underlined the need to put more effort into effectively fighting terrorism, the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement on Tuesday after a phone call between the two ministers overnight. Sergei Lavrov and Mevlut Cavusoglu also underlined the need to exclude the possibility of provocations aimed at undermining bilateral relations, as well their cooperation in fighting militants in Syria and Iraq. |
| Lagarde keeps IMF job, escapes penalty after negligence conviction in France | |  By Chine Labbé and David Lawder PARIS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde escaped punishment and kept her job on Monday despite a conviction on negligence charges over a state payout made while she served as France's finance minister in 2008. The executive board representing the IMF's 189 member countries reaffirmed its full confidence in Lagarde's ability to lead the crisis lender, hours after the verdict was issued by a panel of judges in Paris with no fine or jail term. Lagarde told reporters at IMF headquarters that she would not appeal the decision after vigorously fighting the charge since she took the IMF's helm in 2011.
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| Peru's president, opposition leader vow cooperation after political tension | |  Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and right-wing opposition leader Keiko Fujimori promised on Monday to work together for the good of the country following their first meeting since facing off in a divisive election in June. The hour-long meeting, proposed and mediated by Catholic Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani, aimed at seeking a political truce after Fujimori's party pushed a motion through Congress last week ousting Kuczynski's education minister despite his pleas to spare him. Kuczynski's defeat in that battle so early in his government spotlighted the power that Fujimori wields as the president of the Popular Force party that holds an absolute majority of seats in the single-chamber Congress.
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| Gunman wounds three in Zurich mosque rampage, motive unclear | |  By Michael Shields and Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi ZURICH (Reuters) - A man stormed into a Zurich mosque on Monday evening and opened fire on people praying, injuring three, Swiss police said. Two of the three men -- aged 30, 35 and 56 -- were seriously injured in the attack shortly after 5:30 p.m. local time (1630 GMT) near the main train station in Switzerland's financial capital, Zurich police said. People at the scene told Reuters the Islamic Centre on Zurich's Eisgasse was used as a mosque, often by Somalis.
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| China fines firms for using BMW-like trademark - media | | | A court in Shanghai ordered two Chinese firms and the founder of one of them to pay automaker BMW 3 million yuan ($431,617.41) for registering trademarks similar to that of the German firm, the Shanghai Daily reported on Tuesday. The ruling is the latest win for a large foreign firm in China, a sign that courts are taking trademark infringement more seriously in a country dogged with fakes of everything from clothing brands to entire shops. Zhou Leqin, one of the accused, registered Deguo Baoma Group (Int'l) Holdings Limited, which translates as German BMW Group (Int'l) Holdings Limited, in China in 2008, the paper reported the Shanghai Intellectual Property Court as saying. |
| Trump wins U.S. Electoral College vote; a few electors break ranks | |  By Eric M. Johnson and Jon Herskovitz SEATTLE/AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Republican Donald Trump prevailed in U.S. Electoral College voting on Monday to officially win election as the next president, easily dashing a long-shot push by a small movement of detractors to try to block him from gaining the White House. Trump, who is set to take office on Jan. 20, garnered more than the 270 electoral votes required to win, even as at least half a dozen U.S. electors broke with tradition to vote against their own state's directives, the largest number of "faithless electors" seen in more than a century. The Electoral College vote is normally a formality but took on extra prominence this year after a group of Democratic activists sought to persuade Republicans to cross lines and vote for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
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| Death toll rises to 12 after truck ploughs into German Christmas market | | | BERLIN (Reuters) - The number of people who were killed when a truck ploughed into a Christmas market in Berlin on Monday has risen to 12, German police said on Tuesday. Police said that 48 people were injured, some of them badly. (Reporting by Michael Nienaber; Editing by Paul Carrel) |
| Gunfire erupts in Kinshasa as Congolese protest Kabila's power | | | By Tim Cocks and Aaron Ross KINSHASA (Reuters) - Gunfire could be heard in several districts of Kinshasa early on Tuesday as demonstrators demanded that President Joseph Kabila step down after his mandate expired at midnight, and measures to curb dissent fanned fears of more violence. Reuters witnesses in various parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital city heard repeated gunshots, and one saw youths burning tires in the street. Demonstrators in the districts of Kalamu, Matete and Lingwala as well as at Kinshasa University blew whistles to signal to Kabila that it was time to leave. |
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