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| Thirty-three die in Siberia after drinking bath oil for alcoholic kicks | | | By Peter Hobson MOSCOW (Reuters) - At least 33 residents of the Siberian city of Irkutsk have died after drinking bath oil, hoping it would give them the same sensation as alcohol, Russian investigators said on Monday. Use of counterfeit or surrogate alcohol is rife in Russia's regions, where two years of economic pain have pushed more people below the poverty line, though the death toll from this latest incident is unusually high. "It is a terrible tragedy," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on a conference call. |
| Banks may be able to sue EU if denied transitional deal - document | |  By Andrew MacAskill and Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Banks in Britain are being advised they may be able to sue the European Union if it fails to grant them a staggered departure from the trading bloc using rights from an arcane treaty that usually governs international law. The advice was given in a document drawn up by some of Britain's largest law firms for banks lobbying to retain so-called passporting rights that allow them to operate across all the EU out of their London bases. The document says there are a number of laws giving them rights for a deal, including the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, that gives them "acquired rights" under a treaty that cannot be suddenly withdrawn.
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| Trump's infrastructure splurge would collide with U.S. skilled labor crunch | |  By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump's drive to rebuild U.S. roads, bridges, ports and other public works projects with a $1 trillion infrastructure investment plan would come as the country faces a shortage of skilled laborers. Before any dirt can be moved, Trump would have to get approval from Congress. More than two-thirds of U.S. roads are in less than good condition and nearly 143,000 bridges need repair or improvement, the Transportation Department estimates.
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| New Yorker to be sentenced for 'death ray' plot against Muslims | | | A white supremacist convicted on charges that he planned to use a "death ray" to kill Muslims and President Barack Obama is scheduled to be sentenced on Monday in federal court in Albany, New York. Glendon Scott Crawford, 52, a Navy veteran and a self-proclaimed member of the Ku Klux Klan, was found guilty at trial in August 2015 of conspiring with another man to build a radiation dispersal device, dubbed a "death ray" by tabloids. Crawford is the first person to be convicted of attempting to acquire or use a radiological dispersal device, a statute passed by Congress in 2004 to punish individuals who try to set off a so-called "dirty bomb," which combines radioactive material with conventional explosives. |
| Poland's political standoff continues into fourth day | |  By Marcin Goclowski WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish opposition lawmakers who accuse the ruling PiS party of undermining democracy and the constitution occupied the main hall of parliament for a fourth day on Monday as efforts to defuse the country's biggest political standoff in years continued. President Andrzej Duda will meet later with the speaker of parliament Marek Kuchcinski and Law and Justice (PiS) party chief Jaroslaw Kaczynski to discuss the situation. Duda, a PiS ally, held a meeting with opposition leaders on Sunday.
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| Friend of South Korea's Park denies charges as trial begins | |  By Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - A friend of South Korean President Park Geun-hye at the centre of a corruption scandal that led to Park's impeachment in parliament denied charges of fraud and abuse of power on Monday on the first day of her trial. The friend, Choi Soon-sil, 60, who had not appeared in public since arriving at a prosecutors' office on Oct. 31, was led into court by two correctional officers, her head down, wearing a bulky grey prison suit with a number on her chest. Prosecutors have named Park as an accomplice, although she has immunity from prosecution while in office.
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| North Korea diplomat defector says he was disenchanted with Kim regime | |  North Korea's former deputy ambassador to Britain said on Monday he defected to South Korea after becoming disenchanted with the North's regime under Kim Jong Un, a South Korean member of parliament said. Thae Yong Ho became the highest-ranking North Korean diplomat to flee the isolated country when he defected to the South in August, in an embarrassing blow to the North. Thae, speaking to some members of South Korean parliament's Intelligence Committee on Monday, denied that he had defected to the South out of fear of punishment after committing a crime, as alleged by North Korea's state media, saying he had anticipated such accusations.
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| China says discussing return of undersea drone with U.S. military | |  By Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - The Chinese and U.S. militaries are having "unimpeded" talks about the return of U.S. underwater drone taken by a Chinese naval vessel in the South China Sea last week, China's foreign ministry said on Monday. The drone, known as an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV), was taken on Thursday in waters off the coast of the Philippines, the first seizure of its kind in recent memory. The Pentagon went public with its complaint about the incident and said on Saturday it had secured a deal to get the drone back.
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| India indicts Pakistan-based militants over Pathankot air base attack | |  By Rupam Jain NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's top counter-terrorism agency on Monday charged Pakistan-based militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), and its top leader, with perpetrating a deadly attack on an Indian air force base in January. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) stated that all four gunmen who stormed the air base on Jan. 2 were Pakistani nationals and that Maulana Masood Azhar, the top leader of JeM, was the mastermind behind the attack. "All the terrorists are accused of waging war against India.
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| Malaysia calls for ASEAN to coordinate aid for Myanmar's Rohingya | |  By Simon Lewis YANGON (Reuters) - Malaysia said on Monday the plight of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar was a regional concern and called for the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) to coordinate humanitarian aid and investigate alleged atrocities committed against them. Malaysian Foreign Minister Anifah Aman was speaking at a meeting of the 10-nation bloc in Yangon called by Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi after weeks of reports that the army has killed, raped and arbitrarily arrested Rohingya civilians. Myanmar has denied the accusations, saying many of the reports are fabricated and it insists the strife in Rakhine State, where many Rohingya live, is an internal matter.
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| Singapore says deported close to 70 suspected radicals in past two years | | | Singapore has deported the majority of the 70-odd foreigners it has investigated for suspected radicalism in the past two years, although none planned to carry out attacks in the city-state, the ministry of home affairs said on Monday. Singapore, which has never seen a successful attack by Islamist militants, has been on heightened alert in recent months, with authorities telling the population that such an event was a matter of "when" not "if". Earlier this year, Indonesian police arrested six suspected militants believed to be linked to the Islamic State group and plotting an attack on Singapore. |
| Militia attacks east Congo as President Kabila's term expires | |  By Aaron Ross and Tim Cocks KINSHASA (Reuters) - Militiamen in eastern Congo attacked a prison on Monday, engaging in a gun battle with security forces amid heightened tensions as President Joseph Kabila's last term in office ends. No election has been held to choose a successor to Kabila, whose mandate expires on Monday, and popular anger is growing over what opponents say is an attempt to cling to power in defiance of the constitution. "Since this morning, there have been incursions by the Mai Mai (militia).
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| Militiamen attack prison in east Congo, sparking gun battle | | | Militiamen in the eastern Congo city of Butembo attacked a prison on Monday, local residents said, sparking a gun battle with security forces amid heightened tensions on the last day of President Joseph Kabila's mandate. "Since this morning, there have been incursions by the Mai Mai (militia). "They want to take advantage of the day to liberate prisoners." A police spokesman said that the militiamen were trying to loot but were pushed back by security forces. |
| Filipinos fear extrajudicial killings, but approve of drugs war - survey | |  Eight out of 10 Filipinos worry they or someone they know might become a victim of extrajudicial killings, an opinion poll published on Monday found, although a majority also gave President Rodrigo Duterte's drug war an "excellent" rating. More than 2,000 people have been killed by police in anti-narcotics operations in the Philippines since Duterte took office on July 1. Social Weather Stations (SWS), an independent pollster, asked 1,500 Filipinos nationwide if they were concerned that either they or someone they knew could fall victim to an extrajudicial killing, and 78 percent said they were either very worried or somewhat worried.
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| U.S. electors expected to officially confirm Trump victory | |  By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Electoral College is expected on Monday to officially select Republican Donald Trump as the next president in a vote that is usually routine but takes place this year amid allegations of Russian hacking to try to influence the election. At meetings scheduled in every state and the District of Columbia, the institution's 538 electors, generally chosen by state parties, will cast official ballots for president and vice president. It is highly unlikely the vote will change the outcome of the Nov. 8 election, which gave the White House to Trump after he won a majority of Electoral College votes.
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