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| Pence: Trump will focus fast on tax, healthcare, immigration - WSJ | |  (Reuters) - The Trump administration plans to move quickly on its goals to overhaul taxation, healthcare and immigration laws, Vice President-elect Mike Pence said in an interview published by the Wall Street Journal on Friday. President-elect Donald Trump, who takes office on Jan. 20, is preparing 100-day and 200-day plans aimed at fulfilling his campaign promises and stimulating economic growth, Pence said. Pence was interviewed after introducing Trump at a rally in Cincinnati on Thursday.
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| As South Korean president lawyers up, she turns to her "Bulletproof Vest" | |  By Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - When South Korean President Park Geun-hye turned to a lawyer known as her "Bulletproof Vest" to defend her in a corruption case that could lead to impeachment and criminal prosecution, she may have had little choice. Although Yoo Yeong-ha is not among the country's better-known lawyers, he wears his die-hard loyalty to the embattled president as a badge of honour, a rarity for Park as the scandal around her deepens.
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| Hong Kong officials widen legal attack on city's democrats over oath-taking | |  Hong Kong's leaders on Friday widened their legal fight against the city's pro-democratic camp, targeting four more lawmakers over oaths taken at a legislative council swearing-in ceremony in October. Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying and Justice Secretary Rimsky Yuen began the action two days after a pair of barred pro-independence lawmakers, Baggio Leung and Yau Wai-ching, lost a legal appeal against their disqualification, government radio station RTHK reported. Beijing's Communist Party leaders are alarmed about the spread of independence and self-determination ideas in the former British colony, which returned to Chinese rule in 1997 under a "one country, two systems" formula.
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| Former Yara CEO Thorleif Enger acquitted of corruption, legal chief convicted | |  A Norwegian appeals court acquitted the former chief executive of fertiliser maker Yara, Thorleif Enger, and two other former top executives in a bribery case on Friday, reversing the verdicts of a lower court. The Borgarting Appeals Court, a regional court in southeast Norway, upheld a guilty verdict on former chief legal officer Kendrick Wallace, an American, while Norwegian Enger was acquitted along with compatriot Tor Holba and Daniel Clauw, a French citizen.
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| West Brom's Pulis disappointed with High Court verdict | |  West Bromwich Albion manager Tony Pulis said on Friday he was disappointed to have lost a High Court battle last week after being ordered to pay 3.7 million pounds ($4.66 million) to his former club Crystal Palace in a dispute over the way he left. A Premier League Managers' Arbitration Tribunal decided earlier this year that Pulis should pay the damages. The 58-year-old Welshman challenged the decision but a High Court judge in London ruled against him.
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| Sex crimes in focus at Hague trial of Ugandan rebel commander | | | By Thomas Escritt AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A top lieutenant of Lord's Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony goes on trial in The Hague on Tuesday accused of war crimes ranging from child kidnapping and forced marriage to rape and murder during the rebel group's long rampage in northern Uganda. The trial of Dominic Ongwen opens as the International Criminal Court faces the biggest crisis in its 15-year history, with several member states quitting over claims it unfairly singles out Africans for prosecution. Ongwen was himself a victim of the LRA's child kidnapping campaign in 1988, pressed into service as a young teenager in Kony's war against the government of President Yoweri Museveni, who had seized power two years before. |
| Ai Weiwei joins Amnesty writing campaign to support Snowden, others | |  Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has joined an Amnesty International campaign to encourage people to write messages supporting 11 people, including former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, the rights group said on Friday. In its "Write for Rights" campaign, Amnesty International is asking supporters to write to authorities to highlight human rights cases. Ai, one of China's most high-profile artists and political activists, has created 11 portraits out of Lego for each case.
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| San Bernardino marks one-year anniversary of shooting that killed 14 | |  By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Police and fire officials in Southern California who dealt with the carnage of a mass shooting by Islamic militants that left 14 people dead will mark the one-year anniversary on Friday of the attack that shook even the most hardened emergency responders. The massacre on Dec. 2, 2015, in San Bernardino by a married couple was one of the deadliest attacks by militants in the United States since the Sept. 11, 2001, hijacked plane attacks. Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, 29, opened fire during a party and training session for San Bernardino County employees, who were Farook's co-workers, wounding 22 people in addition to the 14 killed.
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| Indonesia says foiled plot to exploit Muslim protest | |  By Kanupriya Kapoor and Fergus Jensen JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian police on Friday said they had detained eight people before dawn, thwarting a plot hatched to take advantage of a demonstration by tens of thousands of Muslims and lead an uprising against President Joko Widodo's government. The detentions followed weeks of tension, during which Widodo said "political actors" had fanned violence at a Nov. 4 protest and the country's police chief warned that "certain groups" might try to occupy parliament during Friday's rally. Police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar described the plan as attempted subversion of Widodo's government, which has strong support from the military.
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| China exonerates man executed in 1995 for rape and murder | | | China's highest legal body on Friday exonerated a 21-year-old man executed in 1995 following a conviction of rape and murder, saying the evidence against him had been insufficient. Nie Shubin was found guilty 21 years ago of raping and killing a woman in the city of Shijiazhuang in China's northern province of Hebei. The exoneration by the Supreme People's Court followed a second re-examination of the case, that began in June. |
| U.S. military veterans to join North Dakota pipeline protest camp | |  By Terray Sylvester and Alicia Underlee Nelson CANNON BALL/WEST FARGO, N.D. (Reuters) - More than 2,000 U.S. military veterans are expected to join a protest at a camp in North Dakota on Friday where thousands of activists, braving frigid conditions, are demonstrating against a pipeline project near a Native American reservation. Veterans Stand for Standing Rock will spend the day building a barracks at the Oceti Sakowin camp near Cannon Ball and coordinating with protesters who have spent months rallying against plans to route the Dakota Access Pipeline beneath a lake near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, organizers said.
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| Blatter appeal decision to be announced on Monday | |  Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter will discover on Monday whether he has won his appeal against a six-year ban from football imposed for ethics violations amid the biggest corruption scandal ever to shake the world soccer body. Blatter led the global soccer body for 17 years until he resigned in June last year after several dozen football officials, including former FIFA executive committee members and entities, were indicted in the United States on graft-related charges. Blatter, 80, was not among those indicted but himself became embroiled when he was banned from all football-related activity the following December by FIFA's ethics committee, along with the then UEFA president Michel Platini.
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| Pro-EU party wins British local election in Brexit 'shockwave' | | | By Sarah Young and Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's pro-European Union Liberal Democrat party won a parliamentary seat previously held by the ruling Conservatives on Friday in a major upset it hailed as a rejection of a "hard Brexit" that would pull the country out of the single market. Liberal Democrat Sarah Olney's victory in a constituency in southwest London - overturning the Conservatives' 23,000 majority from 2015 - illustrated the deep divisions running through a country that voted 52-48 percent to leave the EU. The affluent Richmond Park and North Kingston area had backed the Remain camp in June's referendum on EU membership. |
| Cambodia's king pardons opposition leader at PM's request | |  Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni on Friday granted a royal pardon to a leader of the main opposition party, at the request of Prime Minister Hun Sen, holding out hope for compromise after a period of rising political tension. Kem Sokha, a leader of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), was sentenced to five months in jail in September after failing to appear in court in connection with a case against two of his party colleagues.
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| Singapore minister sees increased threat of extremist attack | |  By Aradhana Aravindan and Marius Zaharia SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A Singapore minister said on Friday the threat of an extremist attack was higher now than earlier this year as hardline Islamists are increasingly pushing their agenda in neighbouring Indonesia. Law and Home Affairs Minister Kasiviswanathan Shanmugam, speaking to the Foreign Correspondents Association in Singapore, did not specify whether the threat had increased just in the city state or in Southeast Asia generally. "The threat if anything, I think, has increased, compared to last year and earlier this year," said Shanmugam.
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| Three Turkish soldiers killed after clashes with militants - military sources | | | Three Turkish soldiers were killed on Friday after clashing with Kurdish militants in the southeastern province of Hakkari, military sources said. Turkey's southeast has been rocked by violence following the collapse of a 2-1/2-year ceasefire between the state and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in July last year. The PKK has repeatedly targeted security forces since. |
| China's top graft-buster tells party members to give up the ghosts | |  The man in charge of China's war against graft has issued a new warning against Communist Party members believing in "ghosts and supernatural beings" and revealed two top officials had left after systemic corruption was found in their departments. Since assuming office four years ago, President Xi Jinping has waged battle against deep-seated graft, warning, as others have before him, the problem is so bad it could undermine the party's grip on power. In an undated speech to members of a government advisory body and carried in the latest issue of the influential party theoretical journal Qiushi, Wang Qishan said too many party members were weak in their ideological commitment.
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