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| Insight: Modi's camp seeks support from unlikely quarter: Muslim women | | Monday, December 19, 2016 2:26 AM | |
|  By Rupam Jain and Tom Lasseter DEOBAND, India (Reuters) - When Narendra Modi stood before faithful followers in October, on a stage swathed in the saffron colours of his Hindu nationalist movement, the leader made an unexpected overture. "It is the responsibility of the government and people of the country to give justice to Muslim women," the prime minister declared. Modi denies involvement in the 2002 riots, but his rise to national power in 2014 was accompanied by groups of hardline Hindus attempting mass conversions of Muslims and cases of beating and whipping of Muslim men in broad daylight.
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| Hickey returns to Ireland, vows to clear name | | Monday, December 19, 2016 2:23 AM | |
| | Ireland's former Olympic chief Pat Hickey returned to Dublin on Sunday and said he will continue to fight to clear his name after being charged in Brazil in August over an alleged scheme to sell Olympic tickets illegally. The 71-year-old said in a statement he was innocent of the charges and that he would continue to cooperate with the Brazilian authorities. "I have returned to Ireland where I will undergo ongoing medical treatment under the care of my medical consultant," Hickey said. |
| Jordanian police storm castle, free tourists, operation continuing - security source | |  By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordanian security forces freed tourists trapped inside a medieval castle on Sunday after storming the building where armed men had taken shelter following a shoot-out with police that killed at least nine people, security sources said. A Canadian woman, three other civilians and five police officers were among the nine killed during the exchange of gunfire between the assailants and security forces. Police in the mountainous city of Karak had earlier freed 10 people, including foreign tourists, but some were still being held in the Crusader-era castle from where the gunmen shot at security forces who were surrounding it, a security source said.
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| Trump aide plays down prospect of upending 'one China' policy | |  President-elect Donald Trump's incoming White House chief of staff on Sunday played down the prospect that Trump would revisit Washington's decades-old "one China" policy, even though he suggested as much a week ago. Since 1979, the United States has acknowledged Taiwan as part of "one China" but Trump prompted a diplomatic protest from Beijing after he accepted a congratulatory phone call on his election win from President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan on Dec. 2. "We are not suggesting that we're revisiting 'one China' policy right now," Trump aide Reince Priebus said on "Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace." "He is not president right now and he's respectful to the current president," Priebus said.
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| U.S. Senators call for panel to investigate Russian hacking | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four Senators on Sunday called for the creation of a bipartisan investigative panel that would investigate U.S. government allegations that Russia and other foreign countries tried to hack the U.S. elections. U.S. Senator Charles Schumer of New York, the incoming Senate Minority Leader, said that he and Democrat Jack Reed of Rhode Island, Republicans John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina would be issuing a joint letter about creating the committee. (Reporting By Sarah N. Lynch and Julia Harte; editing by Grant McCool) |
| Trump team collusion with Russia an 'open question,' says Clinton aide | |  By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top aide to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign said on Sunday it was an "open question" whether President-elect Donald Trump's advisers colluded with Russia to hack into Democratic Party emails to try to sway the Nov. 8 election. Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta said there was evidence that Trump associates had contact with a Russian intelligence official and the website Wikileaks before U.S. intelligence agencies accused Russia of being behind computer attacks of Democratic emails, including Podesta's. "It's very much unknown whether there was collusion.
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| Russia to veto French draft U.N. resolution on Aleppo evacuation | |  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia said on Sunday it would veto a French-drafted Security Council resolution aimed at ensuring that U.N. officials can monitor evacuations from besieged parts of the Syrian city of Aleppo and instead proposed a rival text it believes could achieve the same goal. Russian U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin raised concerns that the French-drafted resolution does not account for the preparation needed for U.N. officials to be able to monitor evacuations and the protection of civilians who remain. "But the idea that they should be told to go to wander around the ruins of eastern Aleppo without proper preparation and without informing everybody about what is going to happen, this has disaster written all over it," Churkin said.
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| Russian police shoot dead seven militants in Chechnya | | | Russian special forces shot dead seven militants in Chechnya in southern Russia after an attack on police officers the previous night, Russian news agencies reported on Sunday. Such shoot-outs have become relatively rare in Chechnya, but the wider North Caucasus region remains volatile with unemployment and corruption pushing some young men to embrace radical Islam. Agencies cited Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov as saying seven militants had been killed during a special operation on the edge of Grozny, the capital. |
| Jordanian police storm besieged castle, free tourists - security source | | | AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordanian security forces freed tourists trapped inside a medieval castle on Sunday after storming the building where armed men had taken shelter following a shootout with police, security sources said. A Canadian woman, two other civilians and four police officers were killed during the exchange of gunfire between the assailants and security forces. At least 29 people were taken to hospital, some with serious injuries, the sources said. (Reporting by Suleiman Al-Khalidi; Editing by Robin Pomeroy) |
| Ivorian opposition seeks return to political mainstream in polls | |  Voters in Ivory Coast cast their ballots in parliamentary polls on Sunday as the main opposition party sought to break President Alassane Ouattara's near monopoly of the legislature in the West African nation. The Ivorian Popular Front (FPI), the largest opposition party, has largely boycotted politics since a 2011 war which saw then President Laurent Gbagbo, its founder, ousted and many of its leaders jailed. "We are confident that after this legislative vote, the FPI will make a remarkable and important return with a parliamentary majority," FPI President Pascal Affi N'Guessan told Reuters.
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| Ten policemen in Egypt charged with torturing man to death | | | Ten policemen in Egypt have been charged with torturing a man to death at a police station in Cairo in November, a judicial source and the victim's lawyer said on Sunday. Rights groups say police brutality is widespread in Egypt, enabled by a culture of impunity, and a string of incidents have triggered protests and riots in the past year. Anger at police was also major factor in setting off the 2011 uprising that ended President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule. |
| Under threat in Washington, first lady's food legacy may live on elsewhere | |  By Chris Prentice NEW YORK (Reuters) - Michelle Obama will be ceding the title of first lady to Melania Trump next month, but she may hold for some time the other distinction she earned during her time in the White House: America's best known advocate for healthy food. The non-profit organization she helped create as first lady, Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA), where she is honorary chair, will continue its work convincing food companies to improve nutrition content and labeling of products, the group said. ...
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| Israeli settlers agree to government deal to leave illegal outpost | |  By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Settlers due to be evicted from an outpost in the occupied West Bank under an Israeli court order accepted a government-proposed deal on Sunday to head off a forced evacuation and confrontation with troops. The Supreme Court had ruled that the Amona outpost, where 330 settlers live, must be evacuated by Dec. 25. The court found that Amona was built illegally on privately-owned Palestinian land.
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| Some foreign tourists rescued from Jordanian castle siege, others still held | | | AMMAN (Reuters) - At least 10 people, including foreign tourists, were rescued from a besieged medieval fortress in Jordan on Sunday, but others were still being held by the gunmen who took refuge there after a shooting spree on police, two security source said. A Canadian woman and four police officers were killed, police said. The security sources said the number of tourists remaining in the castle in the southern town of Karak, which has been surrounded by security forces, was unknown. (Reporting by Suleiman Al-Khalidi; Editing by Robin Pomeroy) |
| Egyptian court suspends author's jail sentence over sexually explicit book - lawyer | | | Egypt's highest court on Sunday ordered the freeing of an author who was jailed for public indecency when extracts from his sexually explicit novel were published in a literary newspaper, his lawyer said. A chapter from Ahmed Naji's novel Istikhdam al-Hayat, or Using Life, was serialised in a state-owned literary publication and a case was brought against him last year by a private citizen who claimed it had caused him distress including heart palpitations. |
| Former Israeli president set for early release after years in jail for rape | |  Disgraced former Israeli president Moshe Katsav, who has been serving a seven-year prison sentence for rape, was on Sunday set for early release after five years behind bars, a parole board order said. Katsav left office in 2007 and was convicted of raping an aide when he was a cabinet minister in the late 1990s. Katsav, a former member of the right-wing Likud party, was jailed in 2011.
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