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| Romania's top court upholds leftist-backed scrapping of 102 taxes | | | Romania's top court ruled on Friday that legislation passed in October to scrap 102 taxes including radio and television license fees is constitutional. The ruling Social Democrats (PSD), who sponsored the measure, said it was meant to ease tax burdens and reduce red tape in the European Union's second poorest country. It's not our duty to establish whether this or that tax is valid or not," Court President Valer Dorneanu told reporters. |
| Child sex-abuser, 101, becomes Britain's oldest convict | | | A 101-year-old man became the oldest Briton ever to be convicted of a criminal offence when he was found guilty on Friday of a string of historical sex crimes against young girls. Ralph Clarke, a retired truck driver, was convicted of abusing and raping two young sisters in the 1970s and early 80s, having earlier admitted indecently assaulting their brother and attempting to rape him when he was an infant schoolboy. "Clarke subjected innocent children to truly shocking abuse over a prolonged period," said Det. |
| Swiss skirt clash with EU over immigration, Brussels upbeat | |  By Michael Shields and Philip Blenkinsop ZURICH/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The Swiss parliament passed a law on Friday aimed at curbing immigration by giving local people first crack at open jobs, skirting voters' demand for outright quotas, which it feared could disrupt close ties with the European Union. The European Commission gave the law a cautious welcome while it checks with members on how to handle non-EU member Switzerland, whose treatment will be scrutinised for hints on what Britain might expect as it negotiates its EU divorce. The Swiss legislation "appears to go in the right direction" by not setting quotas of EU citizens able to work there, a Commission spokesman told a news conference in Brussels.
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| Catalan parliament speaker on trial for holding independence vote | | | By albert gea BARCELONA (Reuters) - The speaker of the Catalan parliament denied in court on Friday she had committed a crime by letting the assembly vote on whether to pursue independence, and said no court could stop the separatist movement. Hundreds of supporters massed outside the Barcelona court to protest against the trial of speaker Carme Forcadell on charges of contempt of court and neglect of duty. The parliament voted in July to continue with its plan to detach Catalonia from Spain, in defiance of a ruling by the Spanish Constitutional Court annulling an earlier resolution to form an independent state with or without Madrid's consent. |
| Colombia's president and opposition rival meet Pope Francis | |  Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and opposition leader Alvaro Uribe met Pope Francis at the Vatican on Friday, as the government looked to build consensus for a peace deal with Marxist rebels. On his third visit to the Vatican, Santos appealed to Francis for support in ending a 52-year war which has killed more than 220,000 people and displaced millions. "We need your help," said Santos, who signed a modified peace deal in November after a previous pact was rejected in a plebiscite.
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| Syrian arrested in Saudi Arabia over pro-Assad Facebook photo | | | Saudi police arrested a Syrian resident in Riyadh after he posted a photo of himself on Facebook praising the recapture of his home city of Aleppo by government forces, according to a report in al-Riyadh newspaper on Friday. A photo published with the report showed a man with his hand raised and his fingers pointed in a victory sign. Saudi Arabia is a major regional backer of the rebel brigades fighting to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. |
| One dead in fire at migrant workers centre near Paris - police | | | A fire swept through a centre for migrant workers near Paris early on Friday, killing one person and injuring several, and French police said they were not discounting the possibility that arsonists caused the blaze. A police source said traces of flammable material had been found at the scene and criminal action had not been ruled out. |
| Eleven killed in attack on Burkina Faso military post | | | Ten soldiers and a gendarme in northern Burkina Faso were killed on Friday in an attack by unidentified gunmen on a military post, the army said. Attacks in Burkina Faso were rare before a major strike by al Qaeda-linked fighters on a hotel in the capital Ouagadougou killed 29 people in January. Islamic militants are active in Burkina Faso's northern neighbour Mali and Burkinabe authorities are concerned the long desert border between the two countries could become a transit point for militants. |
| 12-year old boy tried to detonate bomb at German Christmas market | | | A 12-year old German-Iraqi boy tried to detonate a bomb at a Christmas market in the western town of Ludwigshafen last month and planted another explosive device near the town hall a couple of days later, German prosecutors said on Friday. Focus magazine cited security and judicial sources as saying the boy was "strongly radicalised" and apparently instructed by an unknown member of the militant group Islamic State. A spokesman at the Federal Public Prosecutor Office in Karlsruhe confirmed that officials were investigating the case but declined to comment on any possible Islamic State link. |
| Elderly French couple convicted over Picasso works kept in garage for decades | |  By Jean-Francois Rosnoblet AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France (Reuters) - An elderly French electrician and his wife were convicted on Friday of illicitly procuring hundreds of Picasso artworks that they kept for almost 40 years in the garage of their home. An appeals court in the southern city of Aix-en-Provence gave a two-year suspended sentence to Pierre Le Guennec, who carried out electrical work at the home of Pablo Picasso's last wife in the early 1970s, along with his wife, Danielle. The two were also ordered to hand the works over to Picasso's heirs and to pay legal and other related costs.
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| U.N. says it gets reports daily of killings and rapes in Myanmar | |  The United Nations is getting daily reports of rapes and killings of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar and independent monitors are being barred from investigating, the U.N. human rights office said on Friday. U.N. human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein said in a statement that the government, led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, had taken a "short-sighted, counterproductive, even callous" approach to the crisis, risking grave long-term repercussions for the region.
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| EU says Swiss immigration law seems to go in right direction | | | Switzerland's new law intended to curb immigration appears to "go in the right direction" by not setting quotas of EU citizens able to work there, the European Commission said on Friday. At first sight, we say the law appears to go in the right direction," European Commission spokesman Margaritis Schinas told a news conference. "It is a good sign that the law is not intended to impose quotas on the free circulation of EU citizens and does not envisage restricting their access to employment in Switzerland, contrary to what was in the initial draft of the text," he continued. |
| Placenta shots and fake names - South Korean president's treatments raise eyebrows | |  By Jack Kim and Nataly Pak SEOUL (Reuters) - At the start of President Park Geun-hye's term, physician Kim Sang-man was a frequent guest at Seoul's Blue House, exempt from thorough security checks, giving injections derived from human placenta to South Korea's most important patient. Park's frequent medical and cosmetic treatments, including shots administered without the supervision of her official doctors, have been revealed in detail during investigations into a sweeping corruption scandal that is poised to cost her the presidency, raising questions over their safety and efficacy. It has also fuelled criticism that doctors not appointed by the presidential office treated her over an extended period and continued to do so even after medical staff at her official Blue House residence became aware.
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| FIFA panel upholds one-year ban on ex-German FA head Niersbach | |  FIFA's Appeals Committee on Friday rejected an appeal by former German Football Association (DFB) President Wolfgang Niersbach, maintaining a one-year ban on him imposed in July. Niersbach was suspended by world soccer's ruling body for failing to report potential misconduct surrounding the award of the 2006 soccer World Cup to Germany. "The Appeal Committee determined that a one-year ban from taking part in any football-related activity (administrative, sports or other) at national and international level was adequate in this case," the committee said in a statement.
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| Accused 'fake news' gunman faces federal hearing in Washington | | | A 28-year-old North Carolina man charged in a shooting in a Washington pizzeria that fake news reports claimed was a front for a child sex ring is due to appear in federal court on Friday. Edgar Maddison Welch of Salisbury is suspected of firing an AR-15 assault rifle inside the crowded Comet Ping Pong restaurant on Dec. 4. Welch will appear in U.S. District Court for a preliminary hearing on charges of interstate transportation of a firearm with intent to commit an offense, assault with a dangerous weapon and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence. |
| Senseless selfies, creepy clowns and Trump's triumph make year of odd news | |  By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - Searches for selfies led to many bad decisions, an outbreak of creepy clown sightings chilled even horror maestro Stephen King, and a hard-fought campaign ended with the election of former reality TV star Donald Trump as president of the United States. New York's Museum of Modern Art rolled out an exhibit of emojis this month. In September, the Satanic Temple, which says it promotes separation of church and state rather than devil worship, found a new home in Salem, Massachusetts, best known for the 17th-century witch trials.
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| Congo gold mine innovates to solve illegal mining dilemma | | | By Aaron Ross MONGBWALU, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - When Guy Robert Lukama looked out at thousands of illegal gold diggers hacking away at the verdant hills in remote northeastern Congo, he glimpsed opportunity where previous owners saw only an intractable problem. Lukama's former employer, South Africa's AngloGold Ashanti, had for years sought to develop the 3,260 square kilometre Mongbwalu concession but pulled out partly due to concern over the sprawling blue-tented camps full of miners. When he led a buyout of AngloGold's 86 percent stake in the Mongbwalu Gold Mine (MGM) last year, Lukama knew he couldn't chase them away if he was to succeed in mining any of the 2.5 million ounces of gold estimated to lie trapped in the earth. |
| Mayoral offices in Milan and Rome come under investigation | |  The governments of Italy's two biggest cities came under judicial scrutiny on Friday, with Milan's mayor suspending himself from his duties and a top aide in Rome's administration put under arrest. Milan mayor Giuseppe Sala said late on Thursday he had learned from the media that he was under investigation in a case involving tender bids at last year's Expo world fair. "While I have not the slightest idea of the investigative allegations, I have decided to suspend myself from my position as mayor," Sala said, six months after taking over Milan city hall.
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| Chinese legal activist missing after police say they released him - lawyer | | | The family of prominent Chinese legal activist Jiang Tianyong is unable to locate him despite police saying that he had been released on Dec. 1 after spending nine days in detention, his family's lawyer said on Friday. Disbarred lawyer Jiang, 45, has spoken out about a government crackdown on legal defenders and has been involved in high-profile cases of dissidents who have angered authorities, including blind activist Chen Guangcheng, who left China after he fled to the U.S. embassy in 2012. Jiang's wife, Jin Bianling, told Reuters in November that she and his friends had been unable to contact him since Nov. 21 after he travelled to Changsha in Hunan province to visit relatives of an arrested human rights lawyer, Xie Yang. |
| Philippines wants United States to provide aid without conditions | |  The Philippines on Friday appealed to former colonial ruler the United States to reconsider a decision to withhold humanitarian aid, with Manila's foreign minister asking for the assistance to be provided without any conditions. President Rodrigo Duterte told U.S. President Barack Obama to "go to hell" in October, and has alluded to severing ties, after being infuriated by U.S. criticism of his war on drugs, which has claimed 2,000 lives since he took office on July 1. The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), a U.S. poverty reduction agency, said on its website its board had "deferred a vote on the re-selection of the Philippines for compact development, subject to further review of concerns around rule of law and civil liberties".
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| U.N. rights expert urges Duterte to allow Philippines visit | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - A United Nations human rights expert urged Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday to reconsider allowing her to visit to investigate alleged extrajudicial killings in the country's drug war, but on U.N. terms guaranteeing her independence. The Philippines has cancelled a trip scheduled for next year by the U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings to look into the rising death toll in its war on drugs, the foreign minister said on Wednesday. Perfecto Yasay said the U.N. could not pursue its inquiry as special rapporteur Agnes Callamard had declined to accept conditions set by the government.
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| Benzema trial to go ahead, Cisse's case sent back to judge | |  A French court rejected Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema's request to stop a trial over his alleged attempt to blackmail fellow French soccer international Mathieu Valbuena using a sex video, a judicial source said on Friday. The affair involved phone-recorded sex footage that could prove embarrassing for Valbuena, according to sources close to the inquiry. Benzema's name came up during phone taps in relation to the inquiry opened last July, police sources say.
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| Kremlin says Washington must prove hacking accusations or shut up | | | TOKYO (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Friday that the United States should either prove accusations that Russia interfered in the U.S. presidential election by hacking Democratic Party organisations or drop the issue. "Either stop talking about it or finally provide some evidence. Otherwise it looks indecent," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in Tokyo. Russia has repeatedly denied the hacking allegations. (Reporting by Katya Golubkova; Writing by Peter Hobson; Editing by Andrew Osborn) |
| Thailand passes amendment to cyber law despite opposition | | | Thailand's parliament passed legislation amending a cyber crime law on Friday, which rights groups have criticised as likely to lead to more extensive online monitoring by the state. Thailand's military government has ramped up online censorship since it seized power in a 2014 coup, in particular to block perceived insults to the royal family. Thailand has some of the world's toughest laws against royal insult, which has curtailed public discussion about the monarchy's role following the Oct. 13 death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who was seen as a unifying figure. |
| Lawyers for South Korea's Park say impeachment vote is groundless | |  By Christine Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - Lawyers for embattled South Korean President Park Geun-hye struck a defiant note on Friday, saying a parliamentary vote to impeach her had no legal basis and should be overturned by the Constitutional Court. "We see no grounds for impeachment and it should be struck down," Lee Joong-hwan, a former prosecutor who is part of the team representing Park, told reporters at the court building where her fate will be decided. In their first comments since the impeachment vote, Park's lawyers also said it was unlikely she would appear before the court when it begins hearing the case.
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| FBI kept tabs on Muhammad Ali in 1966 during Nation of Islam probe | |  The FBI kept tabs on the late boxer Muhammad Ali in 1966, including his divorce and his speech at a Miami mosque, in its investigation of the religious group Nation of Islam, according to documents released by the agency. The release of the documents, recently posted on the website of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was first reported by the New York Times online on Thursday. Former President Bill Clinton was among the dignitaries at his funeral.
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| Thousands of Filipinos gather to cheer Duterte in Singapore | |  By Fathin Ungku SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Thousands of Filipinos gathered in Singapore on Friday to catch a glimpse of their president, Rodrigo Duterte, in a big show of support for a leader whose bloody war on drugs has horrified global rights groups but won support at home. Duterte retained a "very good" opinion-poll rating after six months in office, with a net satisfaction rating of 63 percent, a Philippine polling agency reported this week.
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| Singapore jails second BSI banker on charges linked to 1MDB probe | |  A Singapore court on Friday jailed a second former banker from Swiss wealth manager BSI on charges stemming from a money laundering investigation linked to state investor 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB). Yvonne Seah, 45, was sentenced to two weeks in prison and a fine of S$10,000 ($6,929), after pleading guilty to three charges including forgery and failure to disclose suspicious transactions involving Malaysian businessman Low Taek Jho. Singapore authorities have described Low, also known as Jho Low, as a key figure in the money-laundering investigation.
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| Factbox: How Switzerland's new immigration law works | | | Swiss efforts to curb immigration from the European Union without provoking a clash with Brussels cleared a final hurdle on Friday when parliament agreed not to adopt outright quotas on newcomers. The law stops far short of the upper limits on immigration that Swiss voters had demanded in a 2014 referendum. |
| Putin gave clear response to U.S. hacking allegations - TASS cites Kremlin | |  The Kremlin said on Friday that President Vladimir Putin had given President Barack Obama "a really clear response" to U.S. allegations that Moscow had interfered in the U.S. presidential election by hacking Democratic Party organisations. Russia's TASS news agency cited Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov as telling reporters in Tokyo that Putin had explained Russia's stance on the issue to Obama on the sidelines of the G20 summit in September.
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| Turkey arrests Dogan executive in Gulen-linked probe - state media | | | Turkey has formally arrested an executive of Dogan Holding, a conglomerate with major media interests, in a widening probe into a U.S.-based cleric Ankara accuses of masterminding July's attempted coup. State-run Anadolu agency said late on Thursday that a court had remanded the executive in custody on an accusation of "aiding a terror group" as part of an investigation into the exiled Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen and his followers. Ankara refers to the group as the "Gulenist Terror Organisation". |
| 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 the company was named in a lawsuit alleging it colluded with other drugmakers to fix prices of two commonly used drugs in the United States. Aurobindo said it was aware of the suit and would comply with authorities. The company's U.S. subsidiary sold about $1.1 million of glyburide in 2016 as per consultancy IMS Health's data, Aurobindo said in a statement, adding that the impact was "not material" to the company.
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