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| Filipinos fear extrajudicial killings, but approve of drugs war - survey | |  Eight out of 10 Filipinos worry they or someone they know might become a victim of extrajudicial killings, an opinion poll published on Monday found, although a majority also gave President Rodrigo Duterte's drug war an "excellent" rating. More than 2,000 people have been killed by police in anti-narcotics operations in the Philippines since Duterte took office on July 1. Social Weather Stations (SWS), an independent pollster, asked 1,500 Filipinos nationwide if they were concerned that either they or someone they knew could fall victim to an extrajudicial killing, and 78 percent said they were either very worried or somewhat worried.
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| Friend of South Korea's Park denies charges on first day of trial | |  A friend of South Korean President Park Geun-hye at the centre of a corruption scandal that led to Park's impeachment in parliament, denied charges of fraud and abuse of power on Monday, the first day of her trial, media reported. The friend, Choi Soon-sil, 60, is charged with pressuring big businesses to pay money to foundations that backed Park's policy initiatives. Prosecutors have named Park as an accomplice, although she has immunity from prosecution while in office.
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| U.S. electors expected to officially confirm Trump victory | |  By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Electoral College is expected on Monday to officially select Republican Donald Trump as the next president in a vote that is usually routine but takes place this year amid allegations of Russian hacking to try to influence the election. At meetings scheduled in every state and the District of Columbia, the institution's 538 electors, generally chosen by state parties, will cast official ballots for president and vice president. It is highly unlikely the vote will change the outcome of the Nov. 8 election, which gave the White House to Trump after he won a majority of Electoral College votes.
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| Malaysia calls for ASEAN to lead push for end to Rohingya crisis | |  YANGON (Reuters) - Malaysia said on Monday the plight of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar was a regional concern and called for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to coordinate humanitarian aid and investigate alleged atrocities committed against them. Malaysian Foreign Minister Anifah Aman said progress in improving the human rights of the Rohingya people in Rakhine state had been "rather slow" and reports of arbitrary arrests, extrajudicial killings, and rape by soldiers were continuing. ...
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| Beijing sees U.S. drone as part of South China Sea spying efforts | |  By Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - An underwater drone taken by a Chinese naval vessel in the South China Sea last week is part of U.S. surveillance efforts in the disputed waterway, but Beijing won't likely make a big fuss about its handover, Chinese state media and experts said. U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, who has vowed to take a more aggressive approach in dealing with China over its economic and military policies, jumped on the unusual drone seizure with a pair of provocative tweets, accusing Beijing of stealing the equipment. The drone, known as an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV), was taken on Thursday, the first seizure of its kind in recent memory.
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| U.S. senators call for probe of cyber attacks by Russia | |  By David Morgan and Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Republican and Democratic senators called on Sunday for a special bipartisan panel to investigate cyber attacks against the United States by foreign countries with a focus on Russia's alleged efforts to influence the U.S. presidential election. Charles Schumer, who will be Senate Democratic leader in the new U.S. Congress in January, and Republican John McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said separately on Sunday a select committee was needed to ensure effective congressional focus on the hacking of Democratic Party emails during the campaign.
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| Polish leaders try to defuse media row on third day of protests | |  By Pawel Florkiewicz and Lidia Kelly WARSAW (Reuters) - Street protests and a sit-in by opposition lawmakers against Poland's ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party over its proposals to curb media access to parliament extended to a third day on Sunday as leading politicians scrambled to defuse the row. Since coming to power in late 2015, Poland's PiS-led government has repeatedly come under fire at home and from Brussels for what critics say are undemocratic moves designed to tighten its grip on power, including taking greater control of state media and changes to the constitutional court. Efforts to find a compromise, including those by powerful PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski, have not been successful.
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| Switzerland unblocks 180 million francs frozen in Egypt probe | | | Blocked assets worth 180 million Swiss francs ($175.52 million)have been unfrozen by the Swiss Office of the Attorney General, the OAG said, after it dropped part of a criminal inquiry related to the Arab Spring in Egypt. The OAG had been investigating "several" unnamed persons in Switzerland on suspicion of money laundering and supporting or participating in a criminal organisation. The Swiss inquiry was launched in 2011 following events related to the Arab Spring protests which led to the downfall of long-time Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak. |
| U.N. council to vote Monday on monitoring Aleppo evacuation | |  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council agreed on a draft resolution aimed at ensuring that U.N. officials can monitor evacuations from the Syrian city of Aleppo and will vote on the text on Monday, diplomats said after several hours of negotiations. The council had been scheduled to vote on Sunday on a French draft, but Russia, an ally of the Syrian government in the civil war, circulated a rival text. Russia raised concerns about sending in U.N. officials unprepared to monitor the protection of civilians who remain in the last rebel-held area of eastern Aleppo, which has been under siege for years.
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| Vatican trial finds three El Salvadoran priests guilty of sex abuse | | | Three El Salvadoran priests have been found guilty of sexual abuse against minors at a Vatican ecclesiastical trial and suspended from their priestly duties, San Salvador's Catholic Church announced Sunday. Archbishop Jose Luis Escobar of San Salvador said Francisco Galvez, Antonio Molina and Jesus Delgado, the biographer and former secretary of murdered Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, were expelled after a criminal trial held at the Vatican found them responsible for sex crimes committed between 1980 and 2000. |
| Jordan declares end of castle siege, says four gunmen killed | |  By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordanian security forces said they killed four "terrorist outlaws" after flushing them out of a castle in the southern city of Karak where they had holed up after a shoot-out that killed nine people. An official statement said the four assailants, who shot at police targets in the town before heading to the Crusader-era castle, carried automatic weapons. It made no mention of their identity or whether they belonged to any militant group, raising speculation they could have been tribal outlaws with a vengeance against the state rather than Islamic State fighters, who control parts of neighbouring Syria and Iraq.
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| Congo's Kabila faces test on streets as his term expires | |  By Aaron Ross and Tim Cocks KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congolese President Joseph Kabila's final term in office expires on Monday, with no election to choose a successor and amid a surge in popular anger over what opponents say is an attempt to cling to power in defiance of the constitution. The election has been postponed until at least April 2018 on the grounds of logistical and financial problems, and Kabila has struck a deal with some opposition leaders that is meant to allow him to remain in place until then. The constitutional court has also ruled that Kabila, president since his father was assassinated in 2001, can stay on.
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| Insight: Modi's camp seeks support from unlikely quarter: Muslim women | |  By Rupam Jain and Tom Lasseter DEOBAND, India (Reuters) - When Narendra Modi stood before faithful followers in October, on a stage swathed in the saffron colours of his Hindu nationalist movement, the leader made an unexpected overture. "It is the responsibility of the government and people of the country to give justice to Muslim women," the prime minister declared. Modi denies involvement in the 2002 riots, but his rise to national power in 2014 was accompanied by groups of hardline Hindus attempting mass conversions of Muslims and cases of beating and whipping of Muslim men in broad daylight.
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| Hickey returns to Ireland, vows to clear name | | | Ireland's former Olympic chief Pat Hickey returned to Dublin on Sunday and said he will continue to fight to clear his name after being charged in Brazil in August over an alleged scheme to sell Olympic tickets illegally. The 71-year-old said in a statement he was innocent of the charges and that he would continue to cooperate with the Brazilian authorities. "I have returned to Ireland where I will undergo ongoing medical treatment under the care of my medical consultant," Hickey said. |
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