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| Thailand's crown prince becomes country's new king | |  Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn, 64, became Thailand's new king on Thursday after he accepted an invitation from parliament to succeed his father, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who died in October. King Bhumibol, 88, was widely loved and regarded as a pillar of stability during decades of political turbulence and rapid development in the Southeast Asian nation. Prince Vajiralongkorn, who will be known as King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun, according to a statement released by parliament's public relations department, met Pornpetch Wichitcholchai, president of the National Legislative Assembly, at Bangkok's Dusit Palace.
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| National Olympic committees paid Irishman Hickey's bail | |  The umbrella body representing national Olympic committees paid Patrick Hickey's bail to allow him to return home after he was arrested in a probe into an illegal ticket-scalping ring during the Rio de Janeiro Games. The former head of the Olympic Council of Ireland and the European Olympic Committee, who was released from prison in August, has maintained he is innocent of all charges. Irishman Hickey, 71, was allowed to leave Brazil in November on condition he paid 1.5 million reais ($432,201) in bail.
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| Extension of Iran Sanctions Act passes U.S. Congress | |  By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate passed a 10-year extension of sanctions against Iran on Thursday, sending the measure to the White House for President Barack Obama to sign into law and delaying any potentially tougher actions until next year. It passed the House of Representatives nearly unanimously in November, and congressional aides said they expected Obama would sign it. The ISA will expire on Dec. 31 if not renewed.
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| Brazil Senate boss Calheiros indicted for embezzlement | |  By Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's Supreme Court indicted the president of the Senate, Renan Calheiros, on Thursday for embezzlement, a ruling that is expected to fan growing tensions between the judiciary and Congress over corruption cases. The top court voted 8-3 to try the senator charges of misusing public funds in a nine-year-old case involving the payment of child support for a daughter Calheiros had in an extramarital affair. Calheiros was indicted for billing the Senate for car rentals with false contracts.
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| Shamoon virus returns in Saudi computer attacks after four-year hiatus | | | Shamoon, the destructive computer virus that four years ago crippled tens of thousands of computers at Middle Eastern energy companies, was used two weeks ago to attack computers in Saudi Arabia, according to several U.S. cyber security firms. CrowdStrike, FireEye Inc , Intel Corp's McAfee security unit, Palo Alto Networks Inc and Symantec Corp warned of the attacks, though they did not name any victims. |
| Namibia will stay in ICC - if United States joins, says president | |  By Claire Milhench LONDON (Reuters) - Namibia would remain a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC) if the United States joined, Namibia's president Hage Geingob told Reuters in London on Thursday. Namibia said in March that it would withdraw from the ICC, which sits in The Hague and has the jurisdiction to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. Whilst parliament still needs to debate Namibia's withdrawal, Geingob said his feeling was it would go ahead.
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| Russia ban to run into 2017 | |  By Mitch Phillips MONACO (Reuters) - Russia's athletics ban will run into 2017 and may include the August world championships after a Task Force monitoring the nation's anti-doping programme refused on Thursday to put any dates on a "road map" for a return. Rune Andersen, the Norwegian heading the independent Task Force, reported to the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Council that there had been areas of progress but many issues still needed clarifying in the new year. IAAF president Sebastian Coe said the Council felt "comforted" the changes had come about as a result of the decision to ban the Russians but recognised that athletics still had work to do to regain the trust of the public.
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| French police intercept over tonne of cocaine from Colombia | | | French police have intercepted over a tonne of cocaine that had arrived by plane from Colombia, a public prosecutor said on Thursday. The drug, worth about 100 million euros ($100 million dollars), was seized in a warehouse in the southwest France town of Bayonne on Wednesday, the Bordeaux prosecutor said in a statement. |
| Battle for Iraq's Mosul could take months - ICRC | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The Iraqi government's assault to retake the city of Mosul could take months, prompting more and more civilians to try to flee to avoid being trapped between frontlines, a senior official of the International Committee of the Red Cross told Reuters. A growing number of wounded, more than 100 on some days, are emerging from rural areas surrounding the city of one million that is held by Islamic State forces, said Dominik Stillhart, director of ICRC operations worldwide. "What we see now on the ground is indeed that the fight in Mosul is not just going to stop anytime soon because the resistance is very strong," Stillhart, back from visiting Iraq, said in an interview on Thursday at ICRC headquarters in Geneva.
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| Newsmaker: Daunting task faces Thailand's new king | |  Thailand's new monarch, who will be known as King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun, faces a daunting task after his father gained semi-divine status in a kingdom that underwent profound changes during his 70-year reign. Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn was invited to ascend the throne by parliament on Tuesday and formally accepted the invitation on Thursday, when he was proclaimed king. Thailand has been without a monarch since the death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej on Oct. 13 plunged the Southeast Asian nation into mourning.
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| Executive of Turkey's Dogan faces inquiry as Erdogan vows to 'cleanse' | | | By Daren Butler and Birsen Altayli ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish authorities are investigating an executive at Dogan Holding, the conglomerate said on Thursday, heightening concern President Tayyip Erdogan's crackdown after a failed coup may now spread to the country's top companies. Companies with longstanding ties to the exiled Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Erdogan has accused of masterminding the failed coup, have also been targeted in the crackdown. Until now, Turkey's leading firms, mostly Istanbul-based and affiliated with the secular elite, have been largely untouched. |
| Islamist mole in German spy agency had been gay porn actor - report | | | The Bundesverfassungsschutz (BfV) intelligence agency declined to comment on the report because of the ongoing investigation. It has said the man was arrested after making Islamist statements on the Internet and offering to share sensitive data about the spy agency's work in chatrooms.. The BfV defended its security checks after the arrest, saying that the man had behaved completely inconspicuously. Conservative politicians demanded more frequent security checks to avoid similar problems in future. |
| Ethnic cleansing going on in South Sudan - U.N. commission | | | By Tom Miles and Ed Cropley GENEVA/JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Ethnic cleansing is taking place in some areas of South Sudan and the stage is set for a repeat of the Rwandan genocide, the head of the U.N. commission of human rights in the country said on Thursday at the end of a 10-day visit. "The stage is being set for a repeat of what happened in Rwanda and the international community is under an obligation to prevent it," she said, referring to Rwanda's 1994 genocide in which 800,000 people died. |
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