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| Deutsche Bank to pay more than $37 mln to settle dark pool cases | | | By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A unit of Deutsche Bank AG will pay more than $37 million to settle charges that the bank misled clients about how it routed orders to anonymous trading platforms known as dark pools, regulators said on Friday. The bank agreed to pay $37 million to settle charges with federal and New York state regulators, and an additional $3.25 million to Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), Wall Street's self-funded regulator. In settling with both the New York Attorney General and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Deutsche Bank also admitted that its marketing materials were misleading. |
| Philippines' Duterte tells U.S. to prepare to leave the country | |  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte told the United States on Saturday to prepare for the eventual repeal of a military deal that allows Washington to deploy troops and equipment for exercises in the country. Duterte also said the Philippines can survive "without American money" after a U.S. aid agency put on hold a decision to fund anti-poverty programmes in the country. "We do not need you," Duterte said in a news conference after arriving from visits to Cambodia and Singapore.
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| Inmates take over prison wings in UK jail disturbance | | | Rioting prisoners took control of two wings of an English jail on Friday, prison bosses said, in the latest serious incident of trouble at a British jail this year. The disturbance began at HMP Birmingham in central England, which can hold 1,450 male prisoners, shortly after 0900 GMT, forcing staff to withdraw, according to G4S, the private firm that runs the prison. The BBC reported the incident began after a prison officer was overpowered by inmates who stole his keys. |
| Germany arrests Turkish man suspected of spying for Turkey | | | German police have arrested a 31-year-old Turkish man who is suspected of providing information on Kurds living in Germany to Turkish intelligence agencies, the German federal prosecutor's office announced on Friday. The arrest could exacerbate tensions between NATO partners Germany and Turkey, which has accused Berlin of harboring militants from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) - fighting a three-decade-old armed campaign for autonomy - and far-leftists of the DHKP-C, which has carried out attacks in Turkey. The prosecutor's office said in a statement police had arrested the man, identified only by the initials M.S., in Hamburg on Thursday and searched his home. |
| Assad's Aleppo victory dashes Syrians' hopes of return | |  By John Davison BEIRUT (Reuters) - They fled Aleppo from different districts and at different stages of Syria's civil war, seeking refuge abroad. Now, for refugees who supported the opposition, President Bashar al-Assad's victory has dashed hopes of ever going home. "If I go back, I'll be executed," said Abdulhamid Zughbi, a 30-year-old who fled besieged eastern rebel-held Aleppo earlier this year for Turkey, seeking medical treatment for his wife and infant son.
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| Catalan parliament speaker in court for holding independence vote | | | (Corrects headline, text to clarify that court appearance was part of an investigation, not a trial) By albert gea BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) - - The speaker of the Catalan parliament denied in court on Friday she had committed a crime by letting the assembly vote on whether to pursue independence, and said no court could stop the separatist movement. Hundreds of supporters massed outside the Barcelona court to protest against the hearing to which speaker Carme Forcadell was summoned as part of a pre-trial investigation on charges of contempt of court and neglect of duty. The parliament voted in July to continue with its plan to detach Catalonia from Spain, in defiance of a ruling by the Spanish Constitutional Court annulling an earlier resolution to form an independent state with or without Madrid's consent. |
| Accused Washington 'fake news' gunman pleads not guilty | | | A North Carolina man pleaded not guilty on Friday to weapons and assault charges after he allegedly fired an assault rifle in a crowded Washington pizzeria that fake news stories on the internet claimed was a front for a child sex ring. Edgar Maddison Welch, 28, of Salisbury, entered the plea during a brief preliminary hearing in U.S. District Court. Welch had planned his raid for days and tried to recruit an accomplice to come along on his ad-hoc investigation of the nonexistent pedophilia ring, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. |
| Philippines' president says he killed criminals to protect country | |  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Friday killings he maintains he committed while mayor of a southern city, sometimes cruising the streets on a motor bike looking for "encounters to kill", were part of legitimate operations against drug pushers. Speaking to Filipino journalists traveling with him in Singapore, Duterte said he had killed three men during a hostage-taking incident in Davao City where he was mayor for more than 20 years. Senators have warned Duterte risks impeachment because of his statements about personally killing criminals in Davao.
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| Mayoral offices in Milan and Rome come under investigation | |  The governments of Italy's two biggest cities came under judicial scrutiny on Friday, with Milan's mayor suspending himself from his duties and a top aide in Rome's administration put under arrest. Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala said late on Thursday he had learned from the media that he was under investigation in a case involving tender bids at last year's Expo world fair. "While I have not the slightest idea of the investigative allegations, I have decided to suspend myself from my position as mayor," Sala said, six months after taking over at Milan's city hall.
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| Temer warns Brazil could go broke without reforms | |  BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Michel Temer warned on Friday that without the unpopular austerity measures he is pushing through to cut public spending and balance the budget, the government will become insolvent. "There is no more room for witchcraft, printing money, cosmetic accounting or price controls," Temer said in a speech to armed forces generals. "If we do not do the reforms, the state will go broke, and we sill be stuck in a quagmire of fiscal irresponsibility." (Reporting by Lisandra Parfaguassú; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn)
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| Romanian president sends law to scrap 102 taxes back to parliament | | | Romania's president on Friday sent new legislation scrapping 102 small taxes - including radio and television license fees - back to parliament for reconsideration after its top court threw out his claim that the measure was unconstitutional. The Social Democrats (PSD), who sponsored the legislation, said it would ease tax burdens and reduce red tape in the European Union's second poorest country. President Klaus Iohannis and other opponents said it was enacted without an impact assessment or provisions for how it would be financed. |
| Thai PM reshuffles cabinet for the fourth time since coup | |  Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has reshuffled his cabinet, a statement published in the Royal Gazette said on Friday, the fourth change in his administration since he took power in 2014. Prayuth, a former army chief, seized control of government following a bloodless May 2014 coup. Prayuth switched or appointed 12 ministers and deputy ministers late on Friday, according to a list published in the Royal Gazette.
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| U.N. says it gets reports daily of killings and rapes in Myanmar | |  The United Nations is getting daily reports of rapes and killings of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar and independent monitors are being barred from investigating, the U.N. human rights office said on Friday. U.N. human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein said in a statement that the government, led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, had taken a "short-sighted, counterproductive, even callous" approach to the crisis, risking grave long-term repercussions for the region.
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| UK regulator says banks not liable for customers' losses from transfer scams | |  By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Banks are under no obligation to reimburse the tens of thousands of people who have lost money totalling hundreds of millions of pounds (dollars) by making transfers from their bank accounts to fraudsters, a British regulator ruled on Friday. The Payment Systems Regulator, part of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), was responding to a complaint from consumer rights campaign group Which? APP scams involve bank customers being tricked by phone or email into transferring money to a person or organisation they believe to be legitimate.
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| Brazilian President Temer's popularity falls on scandals, recession | |  Embattled Brazilian President Michel Temer's popularity is sinking as the approval rating of his scandal-plagued government drops amid corruption allegations and a prolonged recession, a poll published Friday showed. Temer took over from impeached leftist Dilma Rousseff in May, vowing to clean up government and revive a stalled economy. Pollster Ibope said the number of people who consider Temer's government "bad" or "terrible" rose to 46 percent from 39 percent in the previous survey carried out in early October, six weeks after he formally replaced Rousseff.
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| Brussels upbeat as Swiss skirt clash with EU on immigration | |  By Michael Shields and Philip Blenkinsop ZURICH/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The Swiss parliament passed a law on Friday aimed at curbing immigration by giving local people first crack at open jobs, skirting voters' demand for outright quotas, which it feared could disrupt close ties with the European Union. The European Commission offered a cautious welcome while it checks with members on how to handle non-member Switzerland, knowing that its treatment will be scrutinised for hints on what Britain might expect as it negotiates its EU divorce. A Commission spokesman said the Swiss law "appears to go in the right direction" by not setting quotas of EU citizens able to work there.
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| Neo-Nazi group becomes first UK far-right organisation to be banned under terrorism law | |  A neo-Nazi organisation that praised the murderer of lawmaker Jo Cox has become the first far-right group in Britain to be banned as a terrorist organization, the Home Office said on Friday. National Action was banned under the Terrorism Act 2000 meaning that to be a member or open supporter of the group is now a criminal offence, punishable by up to 10 years' imprisonment. "National Action is a racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic organization which stirs up hatred, glorifies violence and promotes a vile ideology," said Home Secretary Amber Rudd in a statement.
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| India's cash crackdown linked to drop in child trafficking | |  By Roli Srivastava and Nita Bhalla MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Business has been slow at the Thakkar Bappa Colony shoe manufacturing hub in eastern Mumbai since the Indian government withdrew high-value bank notes last month in an attempt to curb tax evasion and counterfeit currency. Orders to the numerous shoemakers lining the slum's narrow streets have almost dried up due to a dearth of bank notes in circulation, say the businesses which mainly rely on cash transactions. "Children came from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Rajasthan to work here," said Sugandha Patade from the charity Pratham which rescues and rehabilitates child workers in the area.
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| Child sex-abuser, 101, becomes Britain's oldest convict | | | A 101-year-old man became the oldest Briton ever to be convicted of a criminal offence when he was found guilty on Friday of a string of historical sex crimes against young girls. Ralph Clarke, a retired truck driver, was convicted of abusing and raping two young sisters in the 1970s and early 80s, having earlier admitted indecently assaulting their brother and attempting to rape him when he was an infant schoolboy. "Clarke subjected innocent children to truly shocking abuse over a prolonged period," said Det. |
| Colombia's president and opposition rival meet Pope Francis | |  Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and opposition leader Alvaro Uribe met Pope Francis at the Vatican on Friday, as the government looked to build consensus for a peace deal with Marxist rebels. On his third visit to the Vatican, Santos appealed to Francis for support in ending a 52-year war which has killed more than 220,000 people and displaced millions. "We need your help," said Santos, who signed a modified peace deal in November after a previous pact was rejected in a plebiscite.
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| Syrian arrested in Saudi Arabia over pro-Assad Facebook photo | | | Saudi police arrested a Syrian resident in Riyadh after he posted a photo of himself on Facebook praising the recapture of his home city of Aleppo by government forces, according to a report in al-Riyadh newspaper on Friday. A photo published with the report showed a man with his hand raised and his fingers pointed in a victory sign. Saudi Arabia is a major regional backer of the rebel brigades fighting to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. |
| One dead in fire at migrant workers centre near Paris - police | | | A fire swept through a centre for migrant workers near Paris early on Friday, killing one person and injuring several, and French police said they were not discounting the possibility that arsonists caused the blaze. A police source said traces of flammable material had been found at the scene and criminal action had not been ruled out. |
| Eleven killed in attack on Burkina Faso military post | | | Ten soldiers and a gendarme in northern Burkina Faso were killed on Friday in an attack by unidentified gunmen on a military post, the army said. Attacks in Burkina Faso were rare before a major strike by al Qaeda-linked fighters on a hotel in the capital Ouagadougou killed 29 people in January. Islamic militants are active in Burkina Faso's northern neighbour Mali and Burkinabe authorities are concerned the long desert border between the two countries could become a transit point for militants. |
| 12-year old boy tried to detonate bomb at German Christmas market | | | A 12-year old German-Iraqi boy tried to detonate a bomb at a Christmas market in the western town of Ludwigshafen last month and planted another explosive device near the town hall a couple of days later, German prosecutors said on Friday. Focus magazine cited security and judicial sources as saying the boy was "strongly radicalised" and apparently instructed by an unknown member of the militant group Islamic State. A spokesman at the Federal Public Prosecutor Office in Karlsruhe confirmed that officials were investigating the case but declined to comment on any possible Islamic State link. |
| Elderly French couple convicted over Picasso works kept in garage for decades | |  By Jean-Francois Rosnoblet AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France (Reuters) - An elderly French electrician and his wife were convicted on Friday of illicitly procuring hundreds of Picasso artworks that they kept for almost 40 years in the garage of their home. An appeals court in the southern city of Aix-en-Provence gave a two-year suspended sentence to Pierre Le Guennec, who carried out electrical work at the home of Pablo Picasso's last wife in the early 1970s, along with his wife, Danielle. The two were also ordered to hand the works over to Picasso's heirs and to pay legal and other related costs.
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| EU says Swiss immigration law seems to go in right direction | | | Switzerland's new law intended to curb immigration appears to "go in the right direction" by not setting quotas of EU citizens able to work there, the European Commission said on Friday. At first sight, we say the law appears to go in the right direction," European Commission spokesman Margaritis Schinas told a news conference. "It is a good sign that the law is not intended to impose quotas on the free circulation of EU citizens and does not envisage restricting their access to employment in Switzerland, contrary to what was in the initial draft of the text," he continued. |
| Placenta shots and fake names - South Korean president's treatments raise eyebrows | |  By Jack Kim and Nataly Pak SEOUL (Reuters) - At the start of President Park Geun-hye's term, physician Kim Sang-man was a frequent guest at Seoul's Blue House, exempt from thorough security checks, giving injections derived from human placenta to South Korea's most important patient. Park's frequent medical and cosmetic treatments, including shots administered without the supervision of her official doctors, have been revealed in detail during investigations into a sweeping corruption scandal that is poised to cost her the presidency, raising questions over their safety and efficacy. It has also fuelled criticism that doctors not appointed by the presidential office treated her over an extended period and continued to do so even after medical staff at her official Blue House residence became aware.
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| FIFA panel upholds one-year ban on ex-German FA head Niersbach | |  FIFA's Appeals Committee on Friday rejected an appeal by former German Football Association (DFB) President Wolfgang Niersbach, maintaining a one-year ban on him imposed in July. Niersbach was suspended by world soccer's ruling body for failing to report potential misconduct surrounding the award of the 2006 soccer World Cup to Germany. "The Appeal Committee determined that a one-year ban from taking part in any football-related activity (administrative, sports or other) at national and international level was adequate in this case," the committee said in a statement.
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| Senseless selfies, creepy clowns and Trump's triumph make year of odd news | |  By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - Searches for selfies led to many bad decisions, an outbreak of creepy clown sightings chilled even horror maestro Stephen King, and a hard-fought campaign ended with the election of former reality TV star Donald Trump as president of the United States. New York's Museum of Modern Art rolled out an exhibit of emojis this month. In September, the Satanic Temple, which says it promotes separation of church and state rather than devil worship, found a new home in Salem, Massachusetts, best known for the 17th-century witch trials.
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| Congo gold mine innovates to solve illegal mining dilemma | | | By Aaron Ross MONGBWALU, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - When Guy Robert Lukama looked out at thousands of illegal gold diggers hacking away at the verdant hills in remote northeastern Congo, he glimpsed opportunity where previous owners saw only an intractable problem. Lukama's former employer, South Africa's AngloGold Ashanti, had for years sought to develop the 3,260 square kilometre Mongbwalu concession but pulled out partly due to concern over the sprawling blue-tented camps full of miners. When he led a buyout of AngloGold's 86 percent stake in the Mongbwalu Gold Mine (MGM) last year, Lukama knew he couldn't chase them away if he was to succeed in mining any of the 2.5 million ounces of gold estimated to lie trapped in the earth. |
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