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| Exclusive - Televisa affiliate surfaces in widening FIFA bribery probe | | | By Mica Rosenberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - An unnamed company described in a sweeping probe of corruption in soccer's world governing body FIFA matches the description of a close affiliate of Grupo Televisa , the largest broadcaster in Latin America, according to a Reuters review of U.S. and Swiss government documents. In court papers filed on Tuesday, U.S. prosecutors said an affiliate of a major broadcasting company headquartered in Latin America helped to pay millions of dollars in bribes to obtain the rights for the next four World Cup tournaments in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. Reuters has determined that the affiliate is Mountrigi Management Group Ltd., a Swiss company formed by Televisa that obtained the rights to broadcast the 2018 and 2022 games in those countries and across the region. |
| Obama defends U.S. approach toward war in Syria | |  By Roberta Rampton and Julia Harte WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday defended the U.S. approach toward the civil war in Syria, saying he understood the desire for action to end the conflict but it would have been impossible to do "on the cheap" without a full U.S. military intervention. "Unless we were all in and willing to take over Syria, we were going to have problems," Obama told a news conference, noting that it would have required "putting large numbers of U.S. troops on the ground, uninvited, without any international law mandate." Obama's remarks came as efforts to evacuate civilians from the last opposition-held areas of the Syrian city of Aleppo ground to a halt on Friday after weeks of bombardments by the Syrian army that have deprived insurgents of nearly all their territory in the city, a divided zone during the nearly six-year civil war.
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| Obama points finger at Putin for cyber attacks on U.S. election | |  By Roberta Rampton and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday strongly suggested that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally oversaw the computer hacks of Democratic Party emails that American intelligence officials say were aimed at helping Republican Donald Trump win the Nov. 8 election. At a pre-Christmas press conference, Obama levelled a fierce attack against Russia, calling it a smaller and weaker country than the United States that "does not produce anything that others want to buy, except oil and gas and arms." His remark underscored what Obama called the "sadly deteriorated" relationship between Washington and Moscow, which are also at odds over the civil war in Syria. Asked whether Putin was personally involved in the hacks, Obama said: "This happened at the highest levels of the Russian government" and that "not much happens in Russia without Vladimir Putin." But Obama fell short of directly blaming Putin and added that he also wanted to give U.S. intelligence officials more time to produce a report that is due before he leaves office on Jan. 20 and Trump is sworn in as his successor.
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| Philippines' Duterte - 'bye-bye America' and we don't need your money | |  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte told the United States on Saturday to prepare for repeal of an agreement on deployment of troops and equipment for exercises, declaring that America's money could be replaced. Duterte, however, suggested relations could improve under President-elect Donald Trump. "We do not need you," Duterte said in a news conference after arriving from visits to Cambodia and Singapore.
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| U.S. intelligence agencies feud with Republicans over Russian hacking | |  By Mark Hosenball Republican members of Congress are complaining that U.S. intelligence agencies are refusing to brief them widely on a classified CIA report that concluded Russia hacked Democratic Party data in an effort to help Donald Trump win the presidency. The Republicans said Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has refused their requests for full briefings of Congress' two intelligence committees.
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| Obama says made specific suggestions to Trump during 'cordial' conversations | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Friday his conversations with President-elect Donald Trump have been cordial and in some cases he made specific suggestions and offered thoughts about maintaining the integrity of democratic institutions. "He has listened. I can't say that he will end up implementing, but the conversations themselves have been cordial," Obama said at a White House news conference. (Reporting by Roberta Rampton and Jeff Mason; Writing by Mohammad Zargham; Editing by Bernard Orr)
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| FBI kept tabs on Muhammad Ali in 1966 during Nation of Islam probe | |  The FBI kept a close watch on the activities of Muhammad Ali in 1966, with a particular focus on his links to the Nation of Islam, a black movement that the agency viewed as subversive, according to archival documents posted on the FBI website. The Federal Bureau of Investigation released the documents in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by the conservative group Judicial Watch. Ali, one of the world's most famous celebrities and a revered role model for African-Americans, died in June at age 74.
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| Obama says has 'great confidence' that Russia was behind hacks | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday he had "great confidence" that the hacking of Democratic Party officials and institutions were carried out by Russia and at the behest of high-level Russian officials. "The intelligence that I've seen gives me great confidence in their assessment that the Russians carried out this hack," Obama said at a White House news conference. (Reporting by Roberta Rampton and Jeff Mason, writing by Mohammad Zargham, editing by G Crosse)
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| Former Rio governor Cabral to stand trial on corruption charges | |  A former governor of Rio de Janeiro state will face trial on corruption and money laundering charges, a crusading anti-graft judge ruled on Friday. Sergio Cabral, his wife and five other defendants will be tried by Judge Sergio Moro in southern Brazil. Prosecutors last month accused Cabral of leading a criminal organisation that took 224 million reais ($66 million) in bribes from construction firms in exchange for infrastructure contracts from 2007 to 2014, when he was serving as governor.
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| Obama says Russian U.S. election tampering ended after warning to Putin | |  U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday that once he confronted Russian leader Vladimir Putin in September about Moscow's efforts to influence the U.S. presidential election, he saw no further evidence of Russian tampering. Obama told a news conference he spoke to Putin about U.S. concerns during the G20 summit in China in September, telling him to "cut it out" and warning of consequences if it continued. Obama said he has had similar conversations in the past with Chinese leader Xi Jinping about hacking U.S. companies.
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| FBI backs CIA assessment on Russian motives in U.S. hacking - official | | | The FBI backs the CIA's view that Russia intervened to help Donald Trump win the U.S. presidential election, two senior government officials told Reuters on Friday. The FBI, CIA and the Office of Director of National Intelligence now all agree that Russia was behind computer hacks into U.S. political institutions during the election, officials have said. The FBI had originally declined to endorse the CIA's conclusion that Russia intervened specifically to help Trump. |
| Obama says world 'united in horror' at bloodshed in Aleppo by Assad, allies | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday the world is "united in horror" at the fighting in Syria's Aleppo and that President Bashar al-Assad and his allies were responsible for atrocities including reported massacres of civilians. "Responsibility for this brutality lies in one place alone: with the Assad regime and its allies Russia and Iran. And this blood and these atrocities are on their hands," Obama said at a White House news conference. (Reporting by Roberta Rampton and Jeff Mason; Writing by Mohammad Zargham; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
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| Italy's top court orders retrial of ex-Finmeccanica executives in India bribery case | |  Italy's highest court on Friday ordered a re-trial of former top executives at defence group Leonardo Finmeccanica over allegations of bribery in a 2010 contract to provide a dozen helicopters to the Indian government. In April a Milan appeals court sentenced former Finmeccanica CEO Giuseppe Orsi to four and a half years in prison for corruption and falsifying invoices, overturning a previous lower court ruling. Bruno Spagnolini, former head of the group's helicopter unit AgustaWestland, was sentenced to four years in jail over the 560 million euro ($585 million) contract.
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| Inmates take over prison wings in UK jail disturbance | |  By Peter Nicholls BIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) - Hundreds of rioting prisoners took control of at least two wings of an English jail on Friday, authorities said, in the latest and most serious disturbance at a British prison this year. The trouble erupted at HMP Birmingham in central England, which can hold 1,450 male prisoners, shortly after 0900 GMT, forcing staff to withdraw, according to G4S , the private firm that runs the prison. ...
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| Canadian diplomats visit pastor imprisoned in North Korea | |  (This December 15 story deletes reference in second paragraph to Lim being only Western citizen known to be held currently in North Korea) OTTAWA (Reuters) - Diplomats from Canada this week paid a rare visit to North Korea and were able to see a Canadian pastor serving a life sentence for subversion, a foreign ministry official said on Thursday. Hyeon Soo Lim, who served at one of Canada's largest churches, was sentenced to hard labour for life in December 2015 for what North Korea says was an attempt to overthrow the regime. Chantal Gagnon, a spokeswoman for Canadian Foreign Minister Stephane Dion, confirmed a report by North Korea's KCNA news agency that said the diplomats visited the country from Tuesday until Thursday and saw Lim.
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| No progress as Colombia's president, rival meet with pope | |  VATICAN CITY/BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and opposition leader Alvaro Uribe were unable to find common ground on a peace accord with Marxist FARC rebels, even with the mediation of Pope Francis when they met at the Vatican on Friday. On his third visit to the Vatican, Santos appealed to Francis for support in ending a 52-year war that has killed more than 220,000 people and displaced millions. Francis, an Argentine who has helped broker diplomatic efforts in Cuba and Venezuela, then received Uribe, a right-wing senator and former president who has been one of the harshest critics of the new peace deal.
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| Deutsche Bank to pay more than $40 million to settle dark pool cases | | | By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A unit of Deutsche Bank AG conceded that it misled investors and violated securities laws and will pay more than $40 million to settle charges that it misinformed clients about how it routed orders to anonymous trading platforms known as dark pools, regulators said on Friday. The bank agreed to pay $37 million to settle charges from federal and New York state regulators, and an additional $3.25 million to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), Wall Street's self-funded regulator. In settling with both the New York Attorney General and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Deutsche Bank also admitted that its marketing materials about how it routed orders to various dark pools were misleading. |
| Orange CEO under fire at Tapie affair trial of IMF's Lagarde | |  By Chine Labbé PARIS (Reuters) - French telecoms boss Stephane Richard was sharply criticised by one of the judges and by a witness during the negligence trial of IMF chief Christine Lagarde in Paris this week. Richard, the chief executive of Orange , is a target of investigators in a related inquiry which has yet to conclude. Richard and five others are under formal judicial investigation on suspicion of embezzlement linked to the Tapie case.
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| U.S. intelligence agencies feuding with Republicans over Russian hacking | | | By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican members of Congress are complaining that U.S. intelligence agencies are refusing to brief them widely on a classified CIA report that concluded Russia hacked Democratic Party data in an effort to help Donald Trump win the presidency. The Republicans said Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has refused their requests for full briefings of Congress' two intelligence committees. |
| Twelve soldiers killed in attack on Burkina Faso army post | | | A dozen soldiers were killed in northern Burkina Faso when unidentified gunmen attacked a military post near the border with Mali, President Roch Marc Christian Kabore said on Friday, calling the assailants "forces of evil". Attacks in Burkina Faso were relatively rare before a major attack by al Qaeda-linked fighters on a hotel in the capital, Ouagadougou, that 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. |
| Catalan parliament speaker in court for holding independence vote | | | By albert gea BARCELONA, Spain (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 hearing, to which speaker Carme Forcadell had been summoned as part of a pre-trial investigation 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. |
| Germany plans tougher measures against hate speech, fake news | |  Top officials in Germany's ruling coalition said on Friday they planned legislation to crack down on "hate speech" and fake news on Facebook and other social media platforms, and impose stiff penalties if such messages were not quickly removed. Politicians are worried about how hate speech and fake news could sway public opinion ahead of elections next year in which Merkel will be running for a fourth term and facing an increasingly popular far right. Now we in the coalition will take action at the beginning of next year," Volker Kauder, a senior member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU), said in a statement.
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| Opposition lawmakers occupy podium of Polish parliament | | | A protest by opposition lawmakers against a plan to curb media access to the Polish parliament brought the chamber to a halt and forced the postponement of a key budget vote on Friday. The demonstration began when a lone MP ascended the parliamentary podium with a placard reading "free media" and was excluded from further debate or votes by the speaker, who is from the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party. Other opposition members then joined him on the podium, chanting "free media" and "no censorship". |
| FIFA panel upholds one-year ban on ex-German FA head Niersbach | |  FIFA officials have rejected an appeal by former German Football Association (DFB) president Wolfgang Niersbach, thereby 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 2006 World Cup hosting rights to Germany. "The Appeals Committee determined that a one-year ban from taking part in any football-related activity at national and international level was adequate in this case," the FIFA committee said in a statement on Friday.
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| U.S. election agency breached by hackers after November vote | |  The U.S. agency charged with ensuring that voting machines meet security standards was itself penetrated by a hacker after the November elections, according to a security firm working with law enforcement on the matter. The security firm, Recorded Future, was monitoring underground electronic markets where hackers buy and sell wares and discovered someone offering log-on credentials for access to computers at the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, company executives said. Posing as a potential buyer, the researchers engaged in a conversation with the hacker, said Levi Gundert, vice president of intelligence at the company, and Andrei Barysevich, director of advanced collection.
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