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| U.S.-Iranian, wife in Iran jail, no charges since July - rights group | | | An American-Iranian dual national and his wife have been in detention in Iran without charge or access to lawyers since their arrest by elite Revolutionary Guards in July, a New York-based rights group said on Friday. The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran (ICHRI) said Karan Vafadari and his wife Afarin Niasari, who run an art gallery in Tehran, were being held in Tehran's Evin Prison. The Islamic Republic does not recognise dual nationality, a position that prevents Western embassy officials from visiting such detainees. |
| Asics to take over from Adidas as IAAF sponsor | | | By Mitch Phillips MONACO (Reuters) - Japanese sportswear giant Asics Corp will take over from Adidas as the official sponsor of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), a source with knowledge of the deal told Reuters on Friday. The IAAF is expected to announce the deal on Saturday. Adidas , who had signed an 11-year sponsorship deal with the IAAF that was set to run until 2019, said on Friday it was ending the deal three years early. |
| Contenders, picks for key jobs in Trump's administration | | | (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said in an interview aired on Friday that he expected to have most members of his Cabinet announced next week. Trump takes office on Jan. 20. Below are people mentioned as contenders for senior roles as Trump works to form his administration before taking office on Jan. 20, according to Reuters sources and media reports. See the end of list for posts already filled. ... |
| Trump moves to quickly fill his top Cabinet ranks | |  By Emily Stephenson NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said he expected to have most members of his Cabinet announced next week, interviewing more candidates at Trump Tower for top jobs in his administration as he prepares to take office on Jan. 20. Trump is still weighing who to choose as secretary of state. The Republican president-elect said on Thursday he had chosen retired Marine Corps General James Mattis as defence secretary and would make a formal announcement on that on Monday.
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| I could have won more if I'd got serious - Bolt | |  By Mitch Phillips MONACO (Reuters) - Looking back at his astonishing career on the night he was named Athlete of the Year for the sixth time, Usain Bolt said his only real regret was not taking his sport more seriously at an earlier age. "Maybe I would have been at four Olympics," the superstar Jamaican sprinter told reporters on Friday before being crowned IAAF male Athlete of the Year again on the back of his amazing Rio de Janeiro Games sprint triple-triple in August.
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| 'Big Short' adviser loses appeal in SEC case | |  By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - An investment adviser featured in best-seller "The Big Short" failed to persuade a federal appeals court to shut down a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission fraud case on the ground that the agency sued him in the wrong forum. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan on Friday said federal judges lacked jurisdiction to decide whether the SEC deprived Wing Chau and his firm Harding Advisory LLC of equal protection by pursuing an in-house administrative proceeding instead of suing in federal court. Chau was accused of concealing how he had let a hedge fund choose assets to back Octans I CDO Ltd, a collateralised debt obligation it eventually shorted, and whose April 2008 failure stuck investors with roughly $1.1 billion of losses.
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| Police search for gunman after attempted travel agency robbery | | | Police are searching for a gunman who tried to rob a travel agency in southern Paris, the mayor of the local district said on Friday. Police initially believed the man had taken about half a dozen people hostage, but when they entered the property they found no trace of him, Jerome Coumet told reporters. The travel agency, which is used in particular by Asian customers who deal in cash, has been held up in the past, a police source told Reuters. |
| Bolt and Ayana win IAAF awards | |  By Mitch Phillips MONACO (Reuters) - Jamaica's Usain Bolt and Ethiopian distance runner Almaz Ayana were crowned as the IAAF's athletes of the year on Friday. Bolt completed his amazing Olympic "triple triple" of 100metres, 200metres and 4x100m relay golds at the Rio Games in August despite missing much of the season through injury and took the award for the sixth time. Ayana produced a stunning run on the first day of athletics in Rio when she shattered the 10,000-metres world record that had stood for 23 years.
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| Russian central bank loses $31 million in cyber attack | |  Hackers stole more than 2 billion roubles ($31 million) from correspondent accounts at the Russian central bank, the bank said on Friday, the latest example of an escalation of cyber attacks on financial institutions around the globe. Central bank official Artyom Sychyov discussed the losses at a briefing, saying that the hackers had attempted to steal about 5 billion roubles. Sychyov was commenting on a central bank report released earlier in the day, that told about hackers breaking into accounts there by faking a client's credentials.
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| One year later, San Bernardino marks shooting that killed 14 | |  By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Police in Southern California who dealt with the carnage of a mass shooting by Islamic militants that left 14 people dead marked its one-year anniversary on Friday by riding on bicycles toward the scene of the attack, with placards honouring the victims. It was one of a day-long series of events in San Bernardino, California, scene of one of the deadliest acts of violence by militants in the United States since the Sept. 11, 2001, hijacked plane attacks. The group of more than three dozen bicyclists, mostly law enforcement officers, set off from the city's police department toward the Inland Regional Center, where the attack took place.
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| Former head of Peru football body extradited to U.S. in bribe case | |  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former head of the Peruvian football federation is expected to appear in court on Friday after being extradited from Peru to face U.S. charges stemming from a wide-ranging bribery investigation involving FIFA, the sport's world governing body. Manuel Burga, who led the Peruvian Football Federation from 2002 to 2014, is expected to be arraigned later on Friday in federal court in Brooklyn, a spokeswoman for the prosecution said. Burga's extradition was approved by Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski in a resolution published on Nov. 24 in the official gazette, El Peruano, five months after a Peruvian court found that the U.S. request was substantiated.
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| Trump supporters try to block vote recounts in three states | | | By David Ingram and Susan Heavey NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Supporters of President-elect Donald Trump moved on Friday to maintain his narrow victories in three states, pursuing legal challenges aimed at halting the Green Party's requests for long-shot recounts of the presidential votes there. Lawsuits were pending in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, three "Rust Belt" states which bucked their history of supporting Democrats and gave Trump, a Republican, thin wins in the Nov. 8 election. The Green Party has said its requests for recounts in those states are focused on ensuring the integrity of the U.S. voting system and not on changing the result of the election. |
| EXCLUSIVE - Banks to Britain: stagger Brexit over years or we could leave | |  By Huw Jones, Anjuli Davies and Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) - Britain must negotiate a staggered departure from the European Union over several years or risk banks leaving the country, the biggest banking lobby group will warn the government in coming weeks, according to sources familiar with the matter. The British Bankers' Association will argue its case in a report to Prime Minister Theresa May's government, outlining the risks for the country if she does not secure a "transition" phase beyond the two-year withdrawal period that will begin when she invokes Article 50 of the EU's Lisbon Treaty. The document also calls for a clear message from the government about its vision of Brexit, following perceived mixed messages from ministers about the importance they place on retaining access to the EU single market.
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| Iran urges Kenya to free two Iranians facing terrorism charges - Tasnim | | | Iran urged Kenya on Friday to immediately release two Iranians charged with collecting information for a terrorist act after filming the Israeli Embassy in Nairobi, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported. The diplomatic status of the two Iranians was unclear. Tasnim said the Kenyan ambassador to Tehran was summoned on Thursday by the Iranian Foreign Ministry over the arrest and that the "necessity for the immediate release of the two Iranians was underlined during the meeting". |
| U.S. 'shoe bomber' asks judge to drop fine, pleads poverty | |  Richard Reid, the man who admitted to trying to blow up a jumbo jet in late 2001 with explosives in his shoes, has asked a federal judge to waive the $250,000 fine he faces, saying that he will never be able to pay it while serving life in prison. In a court filing earlier this week Reid, who is imprisoned in the United States "Supermax" prison in Florence, Colorado, made the request to U.S. District Judge William Young in Massachusetts.
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| Myanmar's Suu Kyi says international attention fuelling divisions in north | |  By Aradhana Aravindan and Yimou Lee SINGAPORE/SITTWE, Myanmar (Reuters) - Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi accused the international community on Friday of stoking resentment between Buddhists and Muslims in the country's northwest, where an army crackdown has killed at least 86 people and sent 10,000 fleeing to Bangladesh. Suu Kyi appealed for understanding of her nation's ethnic complexities, and said the world should not forget the military operation was launched in response to attacks on security forces that the government has blamed on Muslim insurgents. "I would appreciate it so much if the international community would help us to maintain peace and stability, and to make progress in building better relations between the two communities, instead of always drumming up cause for bigger fires of resentment," Suu Kyi told Singapore state-owned broadcaster Channel News Asia during a visit to the city-state.
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| Pro-EU party wins parliament seat in Brexit 'shockwave' | | | By Sarah Young and Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's pro-European Union Liberal Democrats won a parliamentary seat previously held by the ruling Conservatives on Friday and said the surprise win was a rejection of a "hard Brexit" that would pull Britain out of the EU's single market. It also underscored the risks faced by Prime Minister Theresa May as she plots Britain's EU divorce. May spooked markets in October by suggesting she would take a hard line on Brexit by prioritising border controls, but her government has shown signs of softening its stance since then. |
| In Sudan, austerity and protest as economy crumbles | |  By Khalid Abdel Aziz KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Mohamed Yassin's minimarket occupies a prime spot in Khartoum but its shelves are largely empty as a plummeting currency and slew of subsidy cuts pushes prices up and customers away. "Prices rise daily after the government decisions and what we sell, we can no longer completely replace because our capital is losing value," 44-year-old Yassin told Reuters. Protests have so far been small but, mindful of popular anger that swept away several Arab autocrats in 2011, the government of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has been quick to silence media criticism over its handling of the crisis.
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| Trump team considering new non-nuclear sanctions on Iran - FT | |  Donald Trump's transition team is examining proposals for new non-nuclear sanctions on Iran, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing congressional sources who have been in contact with the president-elect's team. Officials with Trump's team have been in touch with fellow Republicans in Congress, where they hold the majority, to discuss possible sanctions separate from last year's Iran nuclear deal that could focus on its ballistic missile program or human rights, the sources told the FT. The deal that was reached last year between Iran, the United States and five other world powers lifted some sanctions against Tehran in return for restrictions on its nuclear program.
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