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| Affordable housing ideas: City tents and roofs to dry chillies on | | | By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Hasit Ganatra was brainstorming modular housing ideas for Indian slums four years ago, he did not realise that what residents wanted most were good roofs: durable and leak proof that could also be used to store water and dry chillies. Ganatra, who studied engineering at the University of Southern California, had worked with start-ups in solar power and affordable housing. Most live in makeshift homes and shacks built with bricks, mud, plastic and tin, and roofs of cement or corrugated metal, usually covered with tarpaulin. |
| South Korea Park's lawyers say no legal grounds for impeachment | |  SEOUL (Reuters) - The impeachment of South Korean President Park Geun-hye by parliament has no legal basis and should be struck down by the Constitutional Court, lawyers representing the embattled leader engulfed in a corruption scandal said on Friday. Park is unlikely to appear in the Constitutional Court for hearings, one of her lawyers told reporters. Parliament passed an impeachment vote on Dec. 9 and her powers have been suspended until the court reviews and rules on the motion, which can take up to 180 days. (Reporting by Christine Kim; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)
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| Thailand charges 19 'red shirt' leaders with violating junta ban | | | Thailand's military-appointed attorney-general on Friday charged 19 leaders of the opposition "red shirt" group with violating a junta ban on political gatherings. The United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship, known as the "red shirts", led street rallies in 2009 and 2010 in support of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a 2006 coup, and staged rallies in 2014 when his sister, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was toppled in a coup. Since taking power in the May 2014 coup the junta has moved to root out Thaksin's influence and has cracked down on activists, journalists and dissidents. |
| Aurobindo shares hit 9-month low on U.S. price fixing lawsuit | |  Drugmaker Aurobindo Pharma Ltd's shares hit their lowest in more than nine months on Friday after it was named in a lawsuit alleging it colluded with other drugmakers to fix prices of two commonly-used drugs in the United States. A spokeswoman for Hyderabad-based Aurobindo did not respond to a request for comment on Friday. Others named in the suit include the world's largest generic drugs maker Teva Pharmaceuticals, Mylan NV, Citron Pharma LLC, and Australia's Mayne Pharma.
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| South Korea's presidential office denies access to investigators | |  By Christine Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean parliamentary investigators looking into an influence-peddling scandal that led to President Park Geun-hye's impeachment will not get access to her official residence, a Blue House official said on Friday, citing national security. Later on Friday, the Blue House is due to submit to the country's Constitutional Court the president's response to last week's impeachment vote in parliament, which the court has up to 180 days to decide whether to uphold or overturn. "They can't come inside," a Blue House official told reporters, declining to be identified.
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| Russian hackers hit Pentagon email system in 2015 - CBS | |  Russian hackers seized control last year of the unclassified email system used by the U.S. military's Joint Chiefs of Staff, CBS News reported on Thursday, citing an interview with then-Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Martin Dempsey. Dempsey, who did not appear on camera, said he was alerted to the August 2015 attack by an early morning phone call from the director of the National Security Agency, Admiral Mike Rogers, according to CBS. The email system is used by the Pentagon's Joint Staff, an organization of some 3,500 military officers and civilians who work for the chairman.
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| Putin turned Russia election hacks in Trump's favour - U.S. officials | |  Russian President Vladimir Putin supervised his intelligence agencies' hacking of the U.S. presidential election and turned it from a general attempt to discredit American democracy to an effort to help Donald Trump, three U.S. officials said on Thursday. U.S. intelligence agencies' conclusion that Russia tried to influence the election by hacking people and institutions, including Democratic Party bodies, has angered President-elect Trump, who says he won the Nov. 8 vote fairly.
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| Obamacare repeal could take months; replacement, years - Republican aides | |  By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Repealing Obamacare could take months and developing replacement health insurance plans could take years, senior Republican aides in the U.S. Congress said on Thursday, discouraging talk of a quick end to the program after President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20. Trump has promised to repeal Obamacare, and Republican lawmakers have said repealing President Barack Obama's signature domestic initiative will be the first thing they take up in the new year, saying it should be rushed to Trump's desk for signing into law. "We are talking a matter of weeks, in two months - but not a matter of many months" for Congress to pass a repeal, one aide said, adding that Republicans "certainly" hope Trump will sign the repeal into law in the first half of 2017.
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| Syria's White Helmets accuse Russia of Aleppo war crimes - letter | |  Russian air strikes in the Aleppo, Syria, region have killed some 1,207 civilians, 380 of them children, the Syrian White Helmets civil defence group told United Nations war crimes investigators in a letter seen by Reuters on Thursday. The White Helmets, the Syrian Network for Human Rights, Independent Doctors Association and the Violations Documentation Center outlined their accusations against Russia in a 39-page document submitted to the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria.
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