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| Trump aide plays down prospect of upending 'one China' policy | |  By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump's incoming White House chief of staff on Sunday played down the prospect that Trump would revisit Washington's decades-old "one China" policy, even though he suggested as much a week ago. Since 1979, the United States has acknowledged Taiwan as part of "one China" but Trump prompted a diplomatic protest from Beijing after he accepted a congratulatory phone call on his election win from President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan on Dec. 2. "We are not suggesting that we're revisiting 'one China' policy right now," Trump aide Reince Priebus said on "Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace." "He is not president right now and he's respectful to the current president," Priebus said.
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| Jordanian police storm besieged castle, free tourists - security source | | | AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordanian security forces freed tourists trapped inside a medieval castle on Sunday after storming the building where armed men had taken shelter following a shootout with police, security sources said. A Canadian woman, two other civilians and four police officers were killed during the exchange of gunfire between the assailants and security forces. At least 29 people were taken to hospital, some with serious injuries, the sources said. (Reporting by Suleiman Al-Khalidi; Editing by Robin Pomeroy) |
| Ivorian opposition seeks return to political mainstream in polls | |  Voters in Ivory Coast cast their ballots in parliamentary polls on Sunday as the main opposition party sought to break President Alassane Ouattara's near monopoly of the legislature in the West African nation. The Ivorian Popular Front (FPI), the largest opposition party, has largely boycotted politics since a 2011 war which saw then President Laurent Gbagbo, its founder, ousted and many of its leaders jailed. "We are confident that after this legislative vote, the FPI will make a remarkable and important return with a parliamentary majority," FPI President Pascal Affi N'Guessan told Reuters.
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| Ten policemen in Egypt charged with torturing man to death | | | Ten policemen in Egypt have been charged with torturing a man to death at a police station in Cairo in November, a judicial source and the victim's lawyer said on Sunday. Rights groups say police brutality is widespread in Egypt, enabled by a culture of impunity, and a string of incidents have triggered protests and riots in the past year. Anger at police was also major factor in setting off the 2011 uprising that ended President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule. |
| Under threat in Washington, first lady's food legacy may live on elsewhere | |  By Chris Prentice NEW YORK (Reuters) - Michelle Obama will be ceding the title of first lady to Melania Trump next month, but she may hold for some time the other distinction she earned during her time in the White House: America's best known advocate for healthy food. The non-profit organization she helped create as first lady, Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA), where she is honorary chair, will continue its work convincing food companies to improve nutrition content and labeling of products, the group said. ...
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| Israeli settlers agree to government deal to leave illegal outpost | |  By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Settlers due to be evicted from an outpost in the occupied West Bank under an Israeli court order accepted a government-proposed deal on Sunday to head off a forced evacuation and confrontation with troops. The Supreme Court had ruled that the Amona outpost, where 330 settlers live, must be evacuated by Dec. 25. The court found that Amona was built illegally on privately-owned Palestinian land.
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| Russian police shoot dead four militants in Chechnya | | | Russian special forces shot dead at least four militants in Chechnya in southern Russia on Sunday after an attack on police officers the previous night, Russian news agencies reported. Agencies cited authorities as saying the militants had attacked a policeman on Saturday night, seized his car, and run over another policeman who tried to stop the vehicle. The Interfax agency said the militants had opened fired on police when confronted on Sunday. |
| Canadian killed in shootout at Jordanian castle, other tourists held hostage | | | By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - A Canadian woman was killed and several other tourists were taken hostage by gunmen who holed themselves up in a medieval castle in southern Jordan on Sunday after killing at least four police officers in a shooting spree. Police in the mountainous city of Karak freed 10 people, including foreign tourists, but some were still being held in the Crusader-era castle from where the gunmen shot at security forces who were surrounding it, a security source said. Prime Minister Hani al Mulki told parliament "a number of security personnel" had been killed and that security forces were laying siege to the castle. |
| Some foreign tourists rescued from Jordanian castle siege, others still held | | | AMMAN (Reuters) - At least 10 people, including foreign tourists, were rescued from a besieged medieval fortress in Jordan on Sunday, but others were still being held by the gunmen who took refuge there after a shooting spree on police, two security source said. A Canadian woman and four police officers were killed, police said. The security sources said the number of tourists remaining in the castle in the southern town of Karak, which has been surrounded by security forces, was unknown. (Reporting by Suleiman Al-Khalidi; Editing by Robin Pomeroy) |
| Egyptian court suspends author's jail sentence over sexually explicit book - lawyer | | | Egypt's highest court on Sunday ordered the freeing of an author who was jailed for public indecency when extracts from his sexually explicit novel were published in a literary newspaper, his lawyer said. A chapter from Ahmed Naji's novel Istikhdam al-Hayat, or Using Life, was serialised in a state-owned literary publication and a case was brought against him last year by a private citizen who claimed it had caused him distress including heart palpitations. |
| Former Israeli president set for early release after years in jail for rape | |  Disgraced former Israeli president Moshe Katsav, who has been serving a seven-year prison sentence for rape, was on Sunday set for early release after five years behind bars, a parole board order said. Katsav left office in 2007 and was convicted of raping an aide when he was a cabinet minister in the late 1990s. Katsav, a former member of the right-wing Likud party, was jailed in 2011.
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| At least five killed in shooting in Jordanian city - security sources | | | AMMAN (Reuters) - At least five people were killed and several wounded during an attack on Sunday by armed gunmen in the southern Jordanian city of Karak, security sources said. They said security forces were laying siege to a Crusader-era castle in the mountainous city where the gunmen had taken refuge and were firing at police, who had sent reinforcements from surrounding areas. The identity of the assailants was not immediately clear. (Reporting by Suleiman Al-Khalidi; editing by John Stonestreet) |
| Afghan migrants taken to hospital as Croatia arrests Bulgarians over trafficking | | | Dozens of migrants, mainly from Afghanistan, have been taken to hospital in Croatia after police stopped a van carrying 67 people, and arrested two Bulgarian citizens suspected of human trafficking, the police said. Forty-two migrants were taken immediately to hospital and some were treated for carbon monoxide poisoning, health minister Milan Kujundzic was quoted by the Hina news agency as saying. "They were in serious condition, dehydrated and apparently have not eaten for five days." Some 650,000 people passed through Croatia from September 2015 to March this year on the so-called Balkan route used by migrants, mainly from Syria, heading towards western Europe, especially Germany. |
| Suicide bombing kills soldiers in Yemen, claimed by Islamic State | | | A suicide bomber killed at least 49 soldiers gathered to receive their monthly pay in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden on Sunday, officials said, as Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack. Officials said at least 60 other troops were wounded in the attack, which occurred near al-Sawlaban military base in Aden's Khor Maksar district, where another Islamic State suicide bomber blew himself up a week ago killing 50 soldiers. Aden is the temporary capital of Yemen's internationally recognised government in exile in neighbouring Saudi Arabia. |
| Polish opposition extends parliamentary protest after media access row | |  By Lidia Kelly and Pawel Florkiewicz WARSAW (Reuters) - Around two dozen members of Poland's main opposition party extended their sit-in protest in parliament on Sunday after talks to resolve a dispute over proposed restrictions on media access failed to produce an agreement. New rules for journalists in parliament put forward by the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party have led to the biggest political standoff in years in the European Union state, with protests spreading across the country on Saturday. President Andrzej Duda was planning talks on Sunday to try to defuse the row, while powerful PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski also intervened to try to broker a resolution.
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| German courts should go after fake news on Facebook now - minister | |  By Erik Kirschbaum BERLIN (Reuters) - German judges and state prosecutors need to crack down straight away on fake news disseminated through social media platforms such as Facebook, Germany's Justice Minister Heiko Maas said in an interview published on Sunday. Maas, a Social Democrat in conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition, has repeatedly warned the U.S. technology company to respect laws against defamation in Germany that are more rigid than in the United States. "Defamation and malicious gossip are not covered under freedom of speech," Maas said, just days after other top government officials called for legislation to tackle "hate speech" and fake news on Facebook and other social media platforms.
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| Islamic State claims Yemen suicide attack that killed 49 - statement | | | CAIRO (Reuters) - Islamic State claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing on Sunday that killed up to 49 Yemeni soldiers in the southern port city of Aden, the group said in a statement. Islamic State said more than 70 "apostates" were killed in the attack carried out by a suicide bomber it identified as Abu Hashem al-Radfani. (Reporting by Omar Fahmy in Cairo, writing by Sami Aboudi, editing by Elaine Hardcastle) |
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