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| U.S. Electoral College meets to formally confirm Trump win | |  By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Electoral College meets on Monday to officially confirm Republican Donald Trump as the next president, a vote that is usually a formality but that has taken on extra prominence after an unusual and particularly acrimonious election campaign. At meetings scheduled in every state capitol and the District of Columbia, the institution's 538 electors, chosen by state parties, will cast official ballots for president and vice president. The votes will be counted during a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6.
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| U.S. charges Platinum Partners execs with $1 billion fraud | | | By Nate Raymond and Lawrence Delevingne NEW YORK (Reuters) - Top executives of New York-based hedge fund manager Platinum Partners were arrested on Monday and charged with running an approximately $1 billion fraud that federal prosecutors said became "like a Ponzi scheme" as its largest investments lost much of their value. Platinum, led by Mark Nordlicht, for years was known for producing exceptionally high and consistent returns by taking an usually aggressive approach to investing and fund management, as outlined by a Reuters Special Report in April. "As alleged, Nordlicht and his cohorts engaged in one of the largest and most brazen investment frauds perpetrated on the investing public," Brooklyn-based U.S. Attorney Robert Capers said in a statement. |
| Three people hurt in shooting at Zurich Islamic centre - paper | | | Three people were hurt in a shooting at an Islamic centre in central Zurich on Monday, the Blick newspaper reported. Zurich police confirmed some people had been hurt in the vicinity of the centre, but gave no more details. |
| U.S. sees China returning drone as early as Tuesday in S.China Sea | |  By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States expects China to soon return an underwater U.S. drone after a Chinese naval vessel seized it last week, with one U.S. official telling Reuters the exchange could happen as early as Tuesday at an agreed spot in the South China Sea. China's seizure of the unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) triggered a diplomatic protest and speculation about whether U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will point to the incident as proof of the need to take a tougher line with Beijing. A Chinese warship took the drone, which the Pentagon says uses unclassified, commercially available technology to collect oceanographic data, on Thursday about 50 nautical miles ]northwest of Subic Bay in the Philippines.
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| U.S. condemns attack on Russian ambassador to Turkey | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States condemns the gun attack on the Russian ambassador to Turkey earlier on Monday, the U.S. State Department said. Ambassador Andrei Karlov died of his gunshot wounds after he was attacked at an art gallery in the Turkish capital Ankara on Monday, the Russian RIA news agency reported. "We condemn this act of violence, whatever its source," said U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby in a statement. "Our thoughts and prayers are with him and his family." (Reporting by Yeganeh Torbati; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama) |
| Further gunfire heard at gallery where Russian ambassador shot - CNN Turk | | | ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Gunfire continued to resound inside an art gallery in the Turkish capital Ankara where the Russian ambassador was shot on Monday, broadcaster CNN Turk reported. It said there were reports that the assailant had entered the gallery with a police ID and had opened fire on the ambassador as he made a speech. A photo broadcast on TV showed two people lying on the ground in the gallery. (Writing by Daren Butler; Editing by Robin Pomeroy) |
| IMF's Lagarde guilty, but not punished, in French negligence trial | |  By Chine Labbé PARIS (Reuters) - French judges convicted IMF chief Christine Lagarde on Monday of negligence for a state payout made while France's finance minister in 2008, but imposed no punishment, citing her preoccupation at the time with the global financial crisis. The executive board of the Washington-based International Monetary Fund was expected to meet shortly to consider the implications of the verdict, an IMF spokesman said. In Monday's ruling, the judges did not find negligence in Lagarde's decision to seek an out-of-court settlement with tycoon Bernard Tapie, but they said her failure to contest the award to him of about 400 million euros ($417 million) was negligent, and led to a misuse of public funds.
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| Jordanian gunmen planned wider attacks - minister | |  By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Four gunmen who shot dead nine people in Jordan on Sunday had stored suicide vests and other weapons that indicated they planned wider attacks across the country, Interior Minister Salamah Hamad said. Jordanian security forces said they had killed four "terrorist outlaws" after flushing them out of a Crusader castle in the southern city of Karak. Authorities have yet to say if the attack, unusual for Jordan, was driven by Islamist militancy, tribal grievances or some other cause.
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| Protesters, military on Congo streets as Kabila's mandate expires | |  Security forces blocked access to Kinshasa University, facing off against groups waving red cards saying "Bye, bye Kabila," as time ticked down to midnight. Militia fighters raided a jail in eastern Congo's Butembo trying to free prisoners, triggering clashes that killed a South African U.N. peacekeeper and a police officer. Seven attackers were also killed, Kabila's chief diplomat Barnabe Kikaya told a news conference in Kinshasa.
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| Murdoch denies pressuring UK prime ministers ahead of Sky submission | |  Rupert Murdoch said on Monday he had never asked a British prime minister for anything, seeking to play down his influence ahead of what is likely to be a politically charged approval process for his $14.6 billion bid for pay-TV group Sky. The 85-year-old's Twenty-First Century Fox made a formal approach to take full control of the British-based Sky last week, reigniting a row over whether the media mogul controls too much of Britain's media and had too much sway over politicians. Murdoch's previous attempt to buy the 61 percent of Sky he did not already own was scuppered in 2011 by a phone-hacking scandal at one of his tabloid newspapers.
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| Deutsche Bank could settle U.S. penalty this week - source | |  By Andreas Kröner and Karen Freifeld FRANKFURT/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank could this week agree a penalty with the U.S. Department of Justice over the sale of toxic mortgage debt, one person with direct knowledge of the matter said on Monday. The penalty stems from a 2012 initiative launched by U.S. President Barack Obama, a Democrat, to penalise banks for allegedly selling sub-prime debt while misleading investors about the risks, a practice that contributed to the worst economic crisis since the 1930s. This would remove the biggest uncertainty facing the bank, which had sought a deal before President-elect Donald Trump, a Republican, takes office on Jan 20.
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| FIFA panel bans two former Honduran soccer officials for life | |  ZURICH (Reuters) - World soccer governing body FIFA's independent ethics committee on Monday imposed life-long bans on two former Honduran officials for involvement in a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme to which both have pled guilty. ...
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| Five men sentenced to death for 2013 Hyderabad bombings | |  Five men were sentenced to death by a court on Monday for their role in two deadly bombings in 2013 in the city of Hyderabad, including the co-founder of an outlawed Islamist group accused of involvement in a series of attacks. The convictions last week of Yasin Bhatkal, founder of Indian Mujahideen, and the others marked the first time members of the group had been found guilty, the National Investigation Agency, India's chief counterterrorism organisation, said after the sentences were handed down. The trial took place in a special court run by the NIA and the five convicted are expected to appeal against the judgment.
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| Forty-one die in Siberia after drinking bath oil for alcoholic kicks | | | By Andrew Osborn and Peter Hobson MOSCOW (Reuters) - At least 41 residents of the Siberian city of Irkutsk have died after drinking scented bath oil in a desperate search for an alcoholic high in one of the deadliest cases of its kind in years, 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. Russian media reported that the victims were poor residents of Irkutsk, a hard scrabble city around 2,600 miles (4,000 km) east of Moscow. |
| Duterte defends China, says unfair to blame Beijing for Philippines' drug problem | |  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's office, responding to a Reuters report, came to China's defence on Monday, saying it was unfair to hold Beijing responsible for the drug problem in the Philippines. "Many of those running the drug trade are Chinese triads, which are criminal syndicates. "China has strict anti-drug laws, which carries even the penalty of execution when caught," the statement from the Presidential Communications Office said.
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| IMF board to consider Lagarde negligence verdict - spokesman | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Monetary's Executive Board is expected to meet shortly to consider the negligence verdict issued against Managing Director Christine Lagarde by a French court, IMF spokesman Gerry Rice said on Monday. "The Executive Board has met on previous occasions to consider developments related to the legal proceedings in France," Rice said in a brief statement. "It is expected that the Board will meet again shortly to consider the most recent developments." (Reporting by David Lawder Editing by W Simon)
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| Cracks deepen in Palestinian politics as Abbas clamps down | |  By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has tightened his grip on power by stripping the parliamentary immunity of five lawmakers seen as opposing him, weeks after being reappointed chairman of the main political party. The move follows a decision by a Palestinian court last week to sentence Mohammed Dahlan, a former Fatah party member and vocal Abbas critic, to three years in prison over the disappearance of $16 million when he was in office several years ago. While Abbas has no immediate challengers, he appears to be at pains to shore up his authority amid criticism over his rule from neighbouring Arab states, from the Hamas Islamist movement and from Israel.
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| Killings in Indian police custody go unpunished, says rights group | | | By Anuradha Nagaraj CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Senthil Kumar's mother saw him being dragged off by policemen on charges of extortion. Standing outside the Vadamadurai police station in Tamil Nadu, she heard him scream for mercy. "He didn't die, he was killed," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation, recalling the events of April 2010. |
| IMF chief Lagarde has left France before trial verdict - lawyer | |  PARIS (Reuters) - International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde has left France for Washington and will not be present for the verdict in her negligence trial, her lawyer told Reuters. The verdict was due later on Monday. The trial relates to a case in which Lagarde, as French finance minister, approved a 400 million euro ($417 million) state payout to a business tycoon in 2008. She denies the negligence charges. (Reporting by Chine Labbe; Writing by Andrew Callus: Editing by Brian Love)
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| 'Uberisation' of India's domestic work market has benefits and risks | | | By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A booming digital market matching Indian domestic workers with employers may offer benefits for some housemaids but won't end low wages and discrimination and may exclude the poorest women who don't have smartphones, according to new research. Domestic help in India is relatively cheap, and demand for cooks, cleaners and babysitters is growing as incomes rise and more women work full-time. Domestic workers, who are generally women, typically have little or no education, and the market is almost entirely unregulated, with no fixed wages or benefits for workers. |
| British FAs fined over poppy displays during internationals | |  The Football Associations of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales have been fined for displaying poppies during World Cup qualifiers last month, world soccer's governing body said on Monday. England were fined 45,000 Swiss francs ($44,000) for what FIFA described as the "display of a political symbol" on players' shirts and around the stadium during the 3-0 win over Scotland at Wembley, plus crowd misconduct. Scotland were fined 20,000 Swiss francs for displaying the same political symbol as well as crowd problems.
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| UK's oldest convict, 101-year-old child-sex offender, jailed for 13 years | | | A 101-year-old man, who last week became the oldest Briton to be convicted of a criminal offence, was jailed for 13 years on Monday for a string of historical sex crimes against two young sisters and their brother. Retired truck driver Ralph Clarke was found guilty of raping and abusing the sisters in the 1970s and early 80s, having earlier admitted indecently assaulting their brother and attempting to rape him when he was a schoolboy. Police said Clarke was the oldest person to have been found guilty of a crime in British legal history and prosecutors said the severity of his offences meant that he should face action despite his age and frail condition. |
| U.S. school an antidote to transgender discrimination complaints | | | The non-profit private Pride School Atlanta is seen as the first school in the American South focused on the LGBT community and one of few addressing similar concerns in the nation. "They don't have to fight for the right to exist here," Christian Zsilavetz, the school's transgender co-founder and director, said in an interview. Court records and data reviewed by Reuters show a 12-fold surge in transgender student-related civil rights complaints lodged with the U.S. Department of Education - from seven in 2014 to 84 in 2016. |
| Poland's political standoff spills into fourth day | |  By Marcin Goclowski and Justyna Pawlak 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, amid efforts to defuse Poland's biggest political standoff in years. President Andrzej Duda was due to discuss the situation with the speaker of parliament and Law and Justice (PiS) party chief Jaroslaw Kaczynski. Duda, a PiS ally, met opposition leaders on Sunday.
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