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| Kremlin says Putin will order appropriate response to U.S. sanctions | |  The spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that a new round of U.S. sanctions against Russia would harm relations between Moscow and Washington. Dmitry Peskov said Putin would order an "appropriate" retaliation to the sanctions, which included the expulsion of 35 diplomats. In a conference call with reporters, Peskov said Moscow doubted the effectiveness of the measures as the current U.S. presidential administration was stepping down in three weeks.
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| Judge orders psychiatric exam for South Carolina church shooter | |  By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday ordered a psychiatric examination for Dylann Roof, days before he is to represent himself as prosecutors make the case that he should be executed for the June 2015 massacre at a Charleston, South Carolina, church. U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel said in an order he was requesting the evaluation and would hold a second competency hearing "in an abundance of caution" after Roof's standby lawyers filed a motion about his mental fitness to stand trial. The motion was sealed, but Gergel said defence lawyers stated it was spurred by facts developed since the judge found Roof competent after a hearing held in November ahead of the guilt phase of his trial.
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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 assembles 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 * Elsa Murano, undersecretary of agriculture for food safety under President George W. Bush and former president of Texas A&M University * Chuck Conner, a former acting secretary of the U.S. ...
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| U.S. imprisonment rate falls to lowest since 1997 - Justice Dept | |  By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. prison population fell the most in almost four decades to 1.53 million inmates in 2015, resulting in the lowest rate of incarceration in a generation, the Department of Justice said on Thursday. The drop has been driven by changes in federal and state corrections policies that include drug treatment programs and the sentencing of fewer nonviolent drug offenders to federal prisons, the department said in its year-end report on prison populations. Roughly one in 37 U.S. ...
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| Trump could reverse effects of Obama order on Russia - official | |  HONOLULU/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump could reverse President Barack Obama's executive order and allow Russian intelligence officials back into the United States once he takes office, but that would be inadvisable, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday. There is no reason to believe Russia will cease interfering in U.S. and other countries' elections, Obama administration officials told reporters on a conference call after the president announced sanctions against Moscow. "We believe these steps are important because Russia is not going to stop," one official said. ...
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| Obama orders Russia expulsions, sanctions for interference in 2016 election | |  By Jeff Mason and Lesley Wroughton HONOLULU/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Thursday ordered the expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats and sanctioned Russian intelligence officials who Washington believes were involved in hacking U.S. political groups in the 2016 presidential election. The measures, taken during the last days of Obama's presidency, mark a new low in U.S.-Russian relations which have deteriorated over serious differences on Ukraine and Syria. "These actions follow repeated private and public warnings that we have issued to the Russian government, and are a necessary and appropriate response to efforts to harm U.S. interests in violation of established international norms of behaviour," Obama said in a statement from vacation in Hawaii.
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| Russian Foreign Ministry says new sanctions will harm restoration of ties | | | MOSCOW (Reuters) - New U.S. sanctions on Russia are counterproductive and will harm a restoration of bilateral ties, Interfax news agency reported on Thursday, citing Konstantin Dolgov, Foreign Ministry commissioner for human rights, democracy and the rule of law. (Reporting by Katya Golubkova; Editing by Kevin Liffey) |
| U.S. House Speaker Ryan says Obama sanctions against Russia overdue | |  U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan said on Thursday Russia "has consistently sought to undermine" U.S. interests and sanctions imposed by the Obama administration on Russia were overdue. "While today's action by the administration is overdue, it is an appropriate way to end eight years of failed policy with Russia," Ryan said in a statement.
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| Obama sanctions Russia for intervening in 2016 election | |  President Barack Obama on Thursday authorized a series of sanctions against Russia for intervening in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and warned of more action to come. "These actions follow repeated private and public warnings that we have issued to the Russian government, and are a necessary and appropriate response to efforts to harm U.S. interests in violation of established international norms of behaviour," Obama said in a statement. "These actions are not the sum total of our response to Russia's aggressive activities.
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| France's constitutional council rules against 'Google tax' | | | France's Constitutional Council has ruled against a fiscal measure dubbed the "Google tax", which was aimed at making it tougher for multinational companies to minimise their tax payments in France. The council's ruling on Thursday comes as the government seeks to make France more attractive for foreign businesses after Britain's decision to leave the European Union. The "Google tax" targeting multinationals that use different countries' tax regimes to reduce tax liabilities had initially been included in France's 2017 budget law, but the government has since said it has reservations about the plans. |
| Gang-ravaged Mexico stuck in weed ban as U.S. opens up | |  By Joanna Zuckerman Bernstein MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican advocates for drug reform are voicing alarm about the country's widening gap with the United States on marijuana legislation, as criminal violence surges again south of the border. Tens of thousands have been killed over the years in Mexico, on the front line of a U.S.-led war on drugs. The country's prohibitionist approach to marijuana is increasingly at odds with the United States, where liberalisation is advancing.
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| Man purporting to be Boko Haram leader denies Sambisa forest defeat | |  By Ahmed Kingimi MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - A man purporting to be the leader of Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, denied the jihadist group has been pushed out of its stronghold in the Sambisa forest, but the army said the base had been captured. President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday said Boko Haram's last enclave in the forest, a former game reserve in northeastern Nigeria, had been captured in the "final crushing" of the group. How many times have you killed us in your bogus death?" he added in the 25-minute video during which he spoke in the Hausa language and Arabic.
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| Egypt's government approves deal to hand two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia | | | Egypt's government has approved a deal to hand over two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia and sent it to parliament for ratification, despite a legal dispute over the plan, according to state television. The deal, announced in April, caused public uproar and rare protests by Egyptians who said the uninhabited islands of Tiran and Sanafir belonged to their country. The controversy has become a source of tension with Saudi Arabia, which has provided billions of dollars of aid to Egypt but recently halted fuel shipments amid deteriorating relations. |
| New PM Gentiloni aims to unite "lacerated" Italy | |  By Giselda Vagnoni ROME (Reuters) - Italy's new prime minister, Paolo Gentiloni, said on Thursday that he aimed to restore unity and cohesion following a divisive referendum, and continue the economic reforms begun by his predecessor, Matteo Renzi. Speaking at the prime minister's traditional year-end news conference, Gentiloni, 62, who took office less than three weeks ago, said he would try "to mend the many lacerations that are threatening our social fabric and our cohesion". The former foreign minister took over when Renzi resigned after almost three years in power after his constitutional reform plan was rejected in a Dec. 4 referendum.
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| Germany releases Tunisian suspect in Berlin truck attack | |  By Joseph Nasr and Isla Binnie BERLIN/ROME (Reuters) - Germany on Thursday released a Tunisian man detained on suspicion of involvement in the truck attack at a Berlin Christmas market last week, and Italian police searched houses in and around Rome where the main suspect may have spent time. Investigators across Europe are trying to determine whether Anis Amri, a failed asylum seeker from Tunisia who was shot dead by police in Milan on Friday after killing 12 people in Berlin in the name of Islamic State, had any accomplices. A spokeswoman for Germany's Federal Prosecutor's Office said the Tunisian man had been detained on Wednesday on suspicion Amri may have sent him a voice message and picture shortly before the attack.
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| Chilean Navy sailors accused of secretly filming female crewmates | |  Chilean authorities said on Thursday they are investigating allegations that female sailors were secretly videotaped in their quarters on a naval vessel and that those images were then shared via social media by other crew members. It said "it roundly rejects these types of actions that insult our personnel and we reiterate our respect for the privacy of those that form part of the institution." Chile's Defense Minister Jose Antonio Gomez said that sanction for these actions would "set an example." After receiving a complaint from a sailor who had seen the recordings of the women shared on a WhatsApp group, Chile's naval prosecutor opened an investigation into at least nine seamen, the Estrella de Valparaiso newspaper reported on Thursday.
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| Argentina to probe Fernandez over alleged bombing cover-up | |  An Argentine appeals court will order the re-opening of a probe of accusations that former President Christina Fernandez covered up Iran's role in the bombing of a Jewish center in 1994, state news agency Telam said on Thursday. Two years earlier the prosecutor who initially made the accusation, Alberto Nisman, was found shot dead in the bathroom of his Buenos Aires apartment. Nisman's body was discovered hours before he was to brief Congress about accusations that Fernandez tried to whitewash Iran's role in the truck bombing of the AMIA Jewish Center in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 people.
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| Photographs of homeless "grave dwellers" shock Iranians | | | Widely distributed images of dozens of homeless Iranians, many of them drug addicts, taking shelter in empty graves outside Tehran in freezing temperatures have prompted a public outcry and criticism from President Hassan Rouhani. "Who can accept ... that fellow human beings who suffer social ills have to take refuge in graves because of homelessness?" Rouhani said in a speech shown live on state TV. Special buses are also provided for addicts to sleep in overnight, when temperatures are often below freezing, the officials said. |
| Italian police search homes connected to Berlin attack suspect | |  Italian police have searched three houses in and around Rome, where the man suspected of killing 12 people last week at a Christmas market in Berlin may have spent time, a judicial source said on Thursday. Anis Amri, a Tunisian, first arrived in Europe by boat to the Italian island of Lampedusa in 2011, and was shot dead by police in Milan four days after the Dec. 19 attack in Berlin. Police are investigating whether he was seeking to stay in Italy or trying to reach another country.
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| Turkish journalist accused of spreading propaganda; leading writer freed | | | By Humeyra Pamuk ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Prominent Turkish journalist Ahmet Sik was detained on Thursday on suspicion of spreading terrorist propaganda, state media and an opposition lawmaker who spoke to the reporter said. Sik works for the daily Cumhuriyet, one of the few dailies still critical of the government as Turkish authorities have purged tens of thousands, largely from the state apparatus, in the wake of a coup attempt last July. Prosecutors could not be reached for comment but Sik himself tweeted that he was being taken to the prosecutor's office. |
| Polish president sends freedom of assembly bill to constitutional court | |  Poland's President Andrzej Duda has declined to sign the government's freedom of assembly bill into law in the first such rejection since the Law and Justice party (PiS) took power in November last year. "President Andrzej Duda believes that the freedom of assembly is an necessary element of democracy and a condition for exercising other freedoms and human rights connected with the public sphere," the statement said.
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