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| Congo opposition leader urges peaceful resistance against Kabila | |  By Tim Cocks and Aaron Ross KINSHASA (Reuters) - Opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi called on the Congolese people to peacefully resist President Joseph Kabila after the latter stayed in power on Tuesday despite the expiration of his constitutional mandate. Gunfire could be heard in several districts of Kinshasa early on Tuesday as demonstrators demanded that Kabila step down after his mandate expired at midnight, and measures to curb dissent fanned fears of more violence. Reuters witnesses in various parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital heard repeated gunshots, and one saw youths burning tires in the street.
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| Berlin police assume truck was deliberately driven into Christmas market | |  By Michelle Martin BERLIN (Reuters) - Berlin police said on Tuesday that investigators assume the driver of a truck that ploughed into a crowd at a Berlin Christmas market, killing 12 people and injuring 48 others, did so intentionally in a suspected terrorist attack. The truck crashed into people gathered around wooden huts serving mulled wine and sausages at the foot of the Kaiser Wilhelm memorial church, which was left as a ruin after World War Two, in the heart of former West Berlin on Monday evening. "Our investigators assume that the truck was deliberately steered into the crowd at the Christmas market at Breitscheidplatz," police said on Twitter.
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| Swiss man linked to 1MDB investigation released from Thai prison | |  Xavier Justo was among 150,000 Thai and foreign inmates who were granted a royal amnesty this month by Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn. Justo was jailed for three years in August 2015 after Thai police said he admitted to blackmail and attempting extortion of his former employer, Petrosaudi International, a Saudi Arabia-based oil and gas company and former joint venture partner of 1MDB. The Malaysian state fund 1MDB, once a pet project of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, who chaired its advisory board, is the subject of money-laundering investigations in at least six countries, including Switzerland, Singapore and the United States.
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| Russia's Lavrov says Syria Moscow meeting to adopt tangible measures | |  Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in a statement that a meeting in Moscow later on Tuesday between the foreign ministers of Iran, Turkey and Russia would adopt tangible measures on Syria. Lavrov also condemned the murder of Russia's ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov on Monday, who was shot in the back and killed as he gave a speech at an Ankara art gallery. The killing looked like it was designed to try to hinder the battle against terrorism in Syria, said Lavrov.
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| U.S. missions in Turkey to be closed on Tuesday after firearm incident - embassy | | | ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The United States embassy in Ankara and its consulates in Istanbul and Adana will be closed for normal operations on Tuesday after an individual approached the embassy and discharged a firearm, the embassy said. The embassy said the individual, who opened fire at 3:50 am (0050 GMT), was in police custody and there were no reported injuries in the incident, which occurred hours after the Russian ambassador was shot dead nearby by an off-duty policeman. (Reporting by Umit Bektas; Writing by Daren Butler; Editing by David Dolan) |
| South Korean court to hold first impeachment hearing on Thursday | |  South Korea's Constitutional Court will hold its first hearing in the impeachment case of President Park Geun-hye on Thursday with initial opinions from both sides, an official said on Tuesday. The court is reviewing the impeachment vote passed by parliament on Dec. 9. The court has up to 180 days from the day of the impeachment vote to decide if Park becomes South Korea's first democratically elected leader to be ousted from office.
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| Lagarde keeps IMF job, escapes penalty after negligence conviction in France | |  By Chine Labbé and David Lawder PARIS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde escaped punishment and kept her job on Monday despite a conviction on negligence charges over a state payout made while she served as France's finance minister in 2008. The executive board representing the IMF's 189 member countries reaffirmed its full confidence in Lagarde's ability to lead the crisis lender, hours after the verdict was issued by a panel of judges in Paris with no fine or jail term. Lagarde told reporters at IMF headquarters that she would not appeal the decision after vigorously fighting the charge since she took the IMF's helm in 2011.
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| Peru's president, opposition leader vow cooperation after political tension | |  Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and right-wing opposition leader Keiko Fujimori promised on Monday to work together for the good of the country following their first meeting since facing off in a divisive election in June. The hour-long meeting, proposed and mediated by Catholic Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani, aimed at seeking a political truce after Fujimori's party pushed a motion through Congress last week ousting Kuczynski's education minister despite his pleas to spare him. Kuczynski's defeat in that battle so early in his government spotlighted the power that Fujimori wields as the president of the Popular Force party that holds an absolute majority of seats in the single-chamber Congress.
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| Gunman wounds three in Zurich mosque rampage, motive unclear | |  By Michael Shields and Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi ZURICH (Reuters) - A man stormed into a Zurich mosque on Monday evening and opened fire on people praying, injuring three, Swiss police said. Two of the three men -- aged 30, 35 and 56 -- were seriously injured in the attack shortly after 5:30 p.m. local time (1630 GMT) near the main train station in Switzerland's financial capital, Zurich police said. People at the scene told Reuters the Islamic Centre on Zurich's Eisgasse was used as a mosque, often by Somalis.
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| China fines firms for using BMW-like trademark - media | | | A court in Shanghai ordered two Chinese firms and the founder of one of them to pay automaker BMW 3 million yuan ($431,617.41) for registering trademarks similar to that of the German firm, the Shanghai Daily reported on Tuesday. The ruling is the latest win for a large foreign firm in China, a sign that courts are taking trademark infringement more seriously in a country dogged with fakes of everything from clothing brands to entire shops. Zhou Leqin, one of the accused, registered Deguo Baoma Group (Int'l) Holdings Limited, which translates as German BMW Group (Int'l) Holdings Limited, in China in 2008, the paper reported the Shanghai Intellectual Property Court as saying. |
| Trump wins U.S. Electoral College vote; a few electors break ranks | |  By Eric M. Johnson and Jon Herskovitz SEATTLE/AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Republican Donald Trump prevailed in U.S. Electoral College voting on Monday to officially win election as the next president, easily dashing a long-shot push by a small movement of detractors to try to block him from gaining the White House. Trump, who is set to take office on Jan. 20, garnered more than the 270 electoral votes required to win, even as at least half a dozen U.S. electors broke with tradition to vote against their own state's directives, the largest number of "faithless electors" seen in more than a century. The Electoral College vote is normally a formality but took on extra prominence this year after a group of Democratic activists sought to persuade Republicans to cross lines and vote for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
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| Death toll rises to 12 after truck ploughs into German Christmas market | | | BERLIN (Reuters) - The number of people who were killed when a truck ploughed into a Christmas market in Berlin on Monday has risen to 12, German police said on Tuesday. Police said that 48 people were injured, some of them badly. (Reporting by Michael Nienaber; Editing by Paul Carrel) |
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