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| China punishes more officials after environmental inspections - Xinhua | | Wednesday, December 14, 2016 2:59 AM | |
| | China has punished nearly 700 more regional officials for inadequately protecting the environment in the latest round of rolling inspections, the state news agency Xinhua reported. The central government sent seven teams to areas including Beijing, Shanghai and southern Guangdong province in November, following a first round of inspections into official efforts to protect the environment elsewhere in China. The latest inspection teams looked into 1,893 cases and imposed fines of 66 million yuan ($9.56 million) in 1,479 cases, Xinhua said in a report late on Tuesday, quoting the Ministry of Environmental Protection. |
| Trump chooses congressman Zinke for interior secretary - reports | | Wednesday, December 14, 2016 2:41 AM | |
|  (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump will name first-term Republican U.S. Representative Ryan Zinke of Montana, a former Navy SEAL commander, as his interior secretary, according to media reports on Tuesday. A senior transition official who spoke to Reuters described Zinke, 55, as a leading candidate for the job. Zinke will be nominated to head the Interior Department, which employs more than 70,000 people across the United States and oversees more than 20 percent of federal land, including national parks like Yellowstone and Yosemite.
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| New accusations against former Fox News head Ailes in lawsuit | | Wednesday, December 14, 2016 1:14 AM | |
|  (Reuters) - New sexual harassment accusations against former Fox News network chief Roger Ailes were revealed in a lawsuit filed against 21st Century Fox on Monday. The lawsuit comes just months after Fox News agreed to pay $20 million to settle separate allegations of sexual harassment of female staff at Fox News by Ailes. The federal discrimination lawsuit filed in New York alleges that Ailes offered Lidia Curanaj, whose legal name is Lidija Ujkic, an interview to join the Fox News Network after meeting her at a dinner in 2011.
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| Obama to press Trump to preserve Cuba detente - White House | | Wednesday, December 14, 2016 1:11 AM | |
|  By Matt Spetalnick and Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will make his case directly to President-elect Donald Trump not to derail the recent U.S.-Cuba detente, the White House said on Tuesday, insisting that "turning back the clock" would be damaging to American interests and the Cuban people. Ben Rhodes, Obama's deputy national security adviser, said the outgoing administration hopes to persuade the incoming Trump administration to preserve Obama's policy of engagement despite the president-elect's threat to roll back the opening with the communist-ruled island. Just weeks before Trump takes office, Obama and his aides are seeking to further cement one of his top foreign policy legacy initiatives, a breakthrough between former Cold War foes announced two years ago.
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| Tech employees vow not to help Trump surveil Muslims, deport immigrants | |  By Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 200 employees of technology companies including Alphabet Inc's Google, Twitter Inc and Salesforce pledged on Tuesday to not help U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's administration build a data registry to track people based on their religion or assist in mass deportations. Drawing comparisons to the Holocaust and the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, the employees signed an open letter at neveragain.tech rebuking ideas floated by Trump during the campaign trail. The protest, which began with about 60 signatures but had more than tripled within hours of publication, comes a day before several technology company executives are due to meet with the real-estate developer in New York City.
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| White House - Reversing U.S. opening to Cuba would be harmful | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Tuesday it would be "very damaging" to both Cubans as well as the United States' standing in Latin America if the next administration reverses President Barack Obama's normalization of relations with Cuba. "We're seeing real progress that is making life better for Cubans right now. Sustaining this policy will allow for further opening ... further U.S. business opportunities," Ben Rhodes, the U.S. deputy national security adviser, said in a call with reporters. ...
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| Argentine firm reaches $112.8 million deal with U.S. in FIFA probe | |  By Mica Rosenberg and Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday announced an agreement allowing Argentine sports media Torneos y Competencias SA to pay about $112.8 million to settle charges stemming from a sweeping bribery probe targeting FIFA, soccer's world governing body. The deferred prosecution agreement with Torneos, whose former chief executive pleaded guilty last year to engaging in schemes to bribe soccer officials, was approved by U.S. District Judge Pamela Chen at a hearing in federal court in Brooklyn. Outside of court, Ignacio Galarza, the company's general manager, said he welcomed the agreement, which is the first with a company in the FIFA corruption probe.
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| U.S. judge to review FBI's Clinton emails search warrant | |  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Tuesday directed federal prosecutors to show him the search warrant application used to enable the FBI to access emails related to Hillary Clinton's private server that were discovered shortly before the Nov. 8 presidential election. U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel in Manhattan ordered prosecutors by Thursday to turn over the application, which investigators obtained shortly after FBI Director James Comey informed Congress of newly discovered emails on Oct. 28, 11 days before the election won by her Republican opponent Donald Trump. Castel made the order as he considered whether any portion of the search warrant materials could be made public in response to a lawsuit filed by Randol Schoenberg, a Los Angeles-based lawyer who specializes in cases to recover artwork stolen by the Nazis, seeking to force the release of the documents.
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| Afghan First Vice President denies abusing rival, West urges investigation | |  Afghanistan's First Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum denied on Tuesday accusations that he had beaten and abducted a political rival and threatened him with sexual violence, in a case that sparked Western calls for a full and fair investigation. Dostum, a former warring faction commander with a fearsome reputation and a lingering power base in northern Afghanistan, was witnessed by hundreds of people, according to The New York Times, beating and then ordering his men to detain Ahmad Ishchi at a public sporting event in late November. Ishchi was once a member of the same political faction as Dostum but later fell out with him.
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| Cosby's lawyers, prosecutors clash in court over female accusers | |  By Joseph Ax NORRISTOWN, Pa. (Reuters) - Lawyers for Bill Cosby and Pennsylvania prosecutors clashed angrily in court on Tuesday over whether the defence team was deliberately trying to intimidate women who have accused the entertainer of sexual assault. Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele contended defence attorneys were trying to "manipulate" Cosby's upcoming criminal trial by publicly naming the 13 accusers prosecutors want to call to prove Cosby was a serial abuser of women. Cosby's reputation as a family-friendly entertainer has suffered from allegations by about 50 women that he sexually assaulted them in a series of alleged attacks dating back decades.
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| Islamic State claims Cairo cathedral bombing | |  By Lin Noueihed and Ahmed Mohammed Hassan CAIRO (Reuters) - Islamic State claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a suicide bombing at Cairo's main Coptic cathedral on Sunday that killed at least 25 people. The militant group said in a statement carried by its news agency Amaq that a suicide bomber whom it identified as Abu Abdallah al-Masri had detonated his explosive belt inside the church. "Every infidel and apostate in Egypt and everywhere should know that our war ... continues," it said.
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