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| Trump team disavows survey seeking names of climate workers | |  By Timothy Gardner and Emily Stephenson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump's transition team on Wednesday disavowed a survey sent to the U.S. Department of Energy that requested the names of people working on climate change in the agency. "The questionnaire was not authorized or part of our standard protocol," Trump spokesman Sean Spicer said. The survey of 74 questions, which the Energy Department received last Tuesday, asked for the names of workers and contractors who had attended U.N. climate meetings.
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| Ashley Madison owner to pay $1.66 million to settle FTC case | |  By Alastair Sharp and Diane Bartz TORONTO (Reuters) - The owner of hacked infidelity website Ashley Madison will pay a sharply discounted $1.66 million penalty to settle an investigation by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and several U.S. states into lax data security and deceptive practices, the company and authorities said on Wednesday. The remainder of a $17.5 million settlement was suspended based on privately-held Ruby Corp.'s inability to pay. "I recognise that it was a far lower number frankly than I would have liked," FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez said on a call with reporters.
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| Trump meets Silicon Valley elite after mutual mistrust in campaign | |  By Gina Cherelus NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and Silicon Valley executives met at his Manhattan tower on Wednesday to smooth over frictions after both sides made no secret of their disdain for each other during the presidential campaign. The meeting may skirt the numerous disagreements the tech industry has with Trump -- including on immigration, the trade relationship with China and digital privacy -- in favour of a focus on shared priorities, sources said. "There's nobody like the people in this room, and anything we can do to help this go along we're going to do that for you," Trump told the executives gathered in a conference room on the 25th floor of Trump Tower.
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| Trump Hotels pulls out of Rio hotel named in criminal probe | |  The Trump Organization Inc said on Wednesday it has pulled out of a hotel venture in Rio de Janeiro that is part of a criminal investigation in Brazil, with a Trump Hotels spokeswoman citing construction delays and differences in vision. The Trump Hotel Rio de Janeiro, a beachfront property with 170 rooms near where the Olympic Park was located, was managed by the real estate company of President-elect Donald Trump, although no money from the Trump Organization was invested in the project. "Unfortunately, the developers of the Rio de Janeiro hotel are significantly behind on the completion of the property, and their vision for the hotel no longer aligns with the Trump Hotels brand," Jennifer Rodstrom, a spokesperson for Trump Hotels, said in an emailed statement on Wednesday.
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| Had a war like Syria's started in Europe, refugees would be treated better - Jordan's Prince Ali | |  By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - If the war in Syria had taken place in Europe, the world would have reacted more quickly to foster peace and treated millions of refugees fleeing the protracted conflict more humanely, said Jordan's Prince Ali Bin Al-Hussein. Jordan has been overwhelmed by the influx of refugees since the conflict in neighbouring Syria began almost six years ago. Around one-fifth of Jordan's 10 million population are Syrian refugees - making it the largest host of refugees per capita.
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| Egypt freezes assets of media company chairman | | | The chairman of two independent Egyptian newspapers, including one of the country's only English-language papers, said on Wednesday that the company's assets were frozen for alleged ties to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, a charge he denied. The Muslim Brotherhood's activities were banned in 2013 after the army ousted President Mohamed Mursi of the Brotherhood following mass protests against his rule. The government formed a committee shortly thereafter to manage the Brotherhood's funds and properties. |
| Witness tells of gunman sparing her at South Carolina church massacre | |  By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - A 72-year-old woman testified on Wednesday that she cowered under a table as Dylann Roof killed nine fellow worshippers at a historic black church in South Carolina and that he told her she was being spared so she could share the story of the massacre. Polly Sheppard was the last witness to testify for the prosecution. Immediately after she recounted the bloodshed at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Roof told the judge he did not want to testify and the defense rested its case.
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| Trump's Washington hotel a conflict of interest - Democratic lawmakers | |  By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump must divest his luxury Washington hotel in a building leased from the federal government because the arrangement violates conflict-of-interest rules, congressional Democrats said on Wednesday. The General Services Administration, which manages property owned by the federal government, including the Old Post Office housing the Trump International Hotel, has said the lease would violate federal conflict-of-interest rules once the Republican businessman is sworn in on Jan. 20, according to a letter to the agency from lawmakers. The letter referred to a Dec. 8 briefing to congressional staffers by a GSA official whom the letter did not name.
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| Philippines' Duterte "in the pink of health", ministers say | |  Ministers in Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's cabinet on Wednesday said he was in good health, after the leader talked about ailments afflicting him and said he might not live to complete his six-year term. Duterte told a gathering of business leaders on Monday that he suffered from back pains, migraines and Buerger's disease, a cause of blockages in the blood vessels, associated with smoking in his youth. The 71-year-old president stirred further questions about his health by telling a crowd of a few thousand expatriate Filipinos in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, where he is on a visit, that he might not "be around" until the end of his term.
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| EU to propose tax evasion legislation following "Football Leaks" | | | PARIS (Reuters) - The European Commission will propose new anti tax-evasion legislation next year following media reports accusing soccer stars of having used tax havens to handle tens of millions of euros in earnings, a top EU official said on Wednesday. Earlier this month, a group of 12 European news outlets began publishing the results of months of investigations into a vast trove of millions of financial documents, obtained by the German magazine Der Spiegel and dubbed the "Football Leaks". ... |
| Video evidence used for first time to award penalty in FIFA competition | |  Video evidence was used to award a penalty for the first time in a FIFA competition at the Club World Cup on Wednesday and there was controversy over the decision itself and the time taken to reach a verdict. Japanese champions Kashima Antlers were the beneficiaries after an off-field official known as a video assistant referee (VAR) called Hungarian referee Viktor Kassai's attention to an infringement by Atletico Nacional's Orlando Berrio. Kassai indicated that he would review the incident which he watched on a computer screen at the side of the pitch before deciding to award a penalty.
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| London's unused water cannon for sale in humiliation for Boris Johnson | |  By Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - London Mayor Sadiq Khan has put up for sale three water cannon that were bought in 2014 by his predecessor Boris Johnson but never used, because the government refused permission for police to use them. The decision to sell the cannon, which cost in total over 322,800 pounds ($410,000) to buy, refit and maintain, prolongs a humiliation originally inflicted on Johnson, now foreign secretary, by fellow Conservative Theresa May, now prime minister. Johnson bought the second-hand cannon from Germany arguing they could help prevent a repeat of riots that broke out in London in 2011, but May, then interior minister, refused to allow their use anywhere in England or Wales.
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| Italian PM wins Senate confidence vote as new referendum looms | |  By Crispian Balmer and Giselda Vagnoni ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni won the backing of the fragmented Senate on Wednesday, allowing his government to formally take office as a new threat emerged to the legacy of predecessor Matteo Renzi. Renzi resigned last week when he lost a referendum on his proposed reform of the constitution. After winning an initial vote of confidence in the lower chamber of parliament on Tuesday, Gentiloni secured victory in the upper house Senate and promised to push ahead with Renzi's reform agenda.
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| Poland's respect for rule of law has not improved, could worsen - EU's Timmermans | |  Poland has not addressed the European Commission's concerns about the independence of the judiciary and new Polish laws threaten to deepen the rule of law crisis even further, European Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans said on Wednesday. Timmermans spoke in the European Parliament in Strasbourg to update lawmakers on the state of the rule-of-law monitoring procedure launched against Poland a year ago. The unprecedented procedure can end in Poland losing its voting right in the 28-nation European Union if all other EU leaders agree to that.
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| Gambia's Jammeh must leave power when term ends - United Nations | |  By Emma Farge and Edward McAllister DAKAR/BANJUL (Reuters) - Gambian President Yahya Jammeh will not be allowed to remain head of state if he refuses to go after his elected term ends next month, and will face strong sanctions if he clings to power, the top U.N. official in West Africa said on Wednesday. Jammeh, who took power in a coup in 1994, initially conceded defeat in the Dec. 1 election to little-known challenger Adama Barrow, raising the prospect of an end to 22 years of autocratic rule tainted by allegations of widespread human rights abuses. "For Mr. Jammeh, the end is here and under no circumstances can he continue to be president.
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| U.N. rights chief says Aleppo bombardment most likely a war crime | |  Syria's government forces and their allies have almost certainly violated international law and probably committed war crimes by the latest bombardment of civilians hoping to be evacuated from eastern Aleppo, the U.N. human rights chief said on Wednesday. "The Syrian Government has a clear responsibility to ensure its people are safe, and is palpably failing to take this opportunity to do so," U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein said in a statement. "The Government of Syria is also obliged under international law to provide medical assistance to all sick and wounded people – civilians and fighters alike," he said.
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| Japan legalises casinos, sets stage for large-scale investment | |  By Thomas Wilson TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's parliament passed a law on Thursday to legalise casinos, ending 15 years of political argument and opening the way for projects that combine high-stakes gambling with hotels, shopping and conference space. As few as three casinos could generate nearly $10 billion in net profit annually, Daiwa Research Institute estimated, equivalent to 0.2 percent of Japan's gross domestic product. Fresh legislation is needed within a year to set out details on regulation, tax rates and dealing with social ills such as gambling addiction and organised crime.
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| Arms seized by Islamic State in Syria pose threat to U.S.-led forces - general | |  The head of U.S. forces fighting Islamic State said on Wednesday that weapons seized by the group when they captured the Syrian city of Palmyra posed a danger to U.S.-led coalition in the region, but he said that threat could be managed. Army Lieutenant General Stephen Townsend told a Pentagon video briefing that the weapons seized by Islamic State when it captured Palmyra recently included armored vehicles and air defense equipment.
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| Factbox - Contenders for senior jobs in Trump's administration | |  REUTERS - The following are people 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. DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE * Navy Admiral Mike Rogers, director of the National Security Agency * Ronald Burgess, retired U.S. ...
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| Colombia's FARC rebels expel five commanders opposed to peace deal | |  Colombia's FARC rebels have expelled five commanders for refusing to demobilize and join a peace process with the government aimed at ending more than five decades of war, guerrilla leadership said. The five commanders, all from units in the country's southeast jungle, include one former participant in four-year-long peace talks in Cuba. "This decision is motivated by their recent conduct, which contradicts our political-military line," leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) said in statement late on Tuesday.
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| Corruption, caste keep poor from owning land in northern India | |  By Rina Chandran KACHHIDIH (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For decades, Kunta lived in a hut outside Kachhidih village in Uttar Pradesh, enduring the insults of higher-caste villagers who claimed her land - which she did not legally own - for grazing cattle. Six months ago, Kunta got her wish when the state allocated her family and eight others small plots of land a few kilometres (miles) away from their old home, after months of delays.
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| Syrian government must prevent reprisals in Aleppo - U.N. | |  GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. war crimes investigators said on Wednesday the Syrian government bore the main responsibility for preventing any attacks and reprisals in eastern Aleppo and that it must hold to account any troops or allied forces committing violations. In a statement, the United Nations Commission of Inquiry said "numerous reports" of violations by pro-government forces continued to emerge, including summary executions, arbitrary arrests and enforced disappearances. ...
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| Troops and court needed fast to avert South Sudan genocide - U.N. | |  By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - World powers can stop a "Rwanda-like" genocide in South Sudan if they immediately deploy a 4,000-strong protection force across the country and set up a court to prosecute atrocities, the head of a U.N. human rights commission said on Wednesday. "South Sudan stands on the brink of an all-out ethnic civil war, which could destabilise the entire region," commission chief Yasmin Sooka told an emergency session of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. Gang rape was happening on an "epic" scale, she added, citing cases of women being raped at a U.N. site in the capital Juba within sight of U.N. peacekeepers.
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| Spain's Constitutional Court blocks Catalan referendum plans | |  Spain's Constitutional Court blocked on Wednesday a resolution by the Catalan parliament to hold an independence referendum next September, in another setback for the region's efforts to break away from Madrid's rule. Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's conservative government had asked the court to stall any separatist push by Catalonia, a wealthy region of northeastern Spain and home to about a sixth of the population. The court also warned Catalonia's President Carles Puigdemont and assembly speaker Carme Forcadell to obey its ruling or face criminal charges.
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| Syrian leader Assad's Shi'ite allies helped him win in Aleppo | |  By Tom Perry, Laila Bassam, Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Tom Miles BEIRUT/AMMAN/GENEVA (Reuters) - When rebel fighters launched a last desperate attempt to break the siege of Aleppo in October, they were beaten back - not by the Syrian army but by the Lebanese Shi'ite group Hezbollah fighting on its behalf, a senior official in the pro-government alliance said. In the build-up to the final battle for Syria's second city, scores of fighters from a single Iraqi Shi'ite militia were killed in just two days of combat this summer, said a commander of another group fighting for President Bashar al-Assad. The U.N. human rights office said it had reports that the Syrian army and an allied Iraqi militia had killed at least 82 civilians in captured city districts - allegations denied by the army and militia in question.
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