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- Gunfire erupts in Kinshasa as Congolese protest Kabila's power
- Lagarde keeps IMF job, escapes penalty after negligence conviction in France
- IMF's Lagarde keeps job, escapes penalty after negligence conviction in France
- Protests erupt in Congo as Kabila's mandate expires
- U.S. sees China returning drone as early as Tuesday in South China Sea
- Russian ambassador shot dead in Ankara gallery
- Trump condemns assassination of Russian ambassador to Turkey
- France increases security at Christmas markets after Berlin truck incident
- Protests erupt in Congo capital, police fire tear gas
- Exclusive - U.S. proposed $5 billion-7 billion penalty on Credit Suisse on toxic debt: source
- IMF board reaffirms confidence in Lagarde after negligence verdict
- Truck crash in Berlin could be accident or attack - official
- Gunman wounds three in Zurich mosque rampage, motive unclear
- Turkish official links Russian envoy killer to exiled cleric
- U.S. charges Platinum Partners executives with $1 billion fraud
- Truck ploughs into crowd at Berlin Christmas market, nine dead
- Berlin police arrest suspected truck attacker - police
- U.S.-based cleric's movement not involved in Russia envoy killing - Gulen adviser
- Turkey foreign minister says common sense prevailing in Turkey, Russia
- Unknown man opened fire in Zurich mosque, wounds three - police
- Erdogan says agrees with Putin on stronger fight against terrorism
- Turkey's Erdogan says Putin agrees shooting of ambassador was provocation
- N.Y. Klansman gets 30 years in prison for plot versus Muslims, Obama
- Factbox - Contenders for senior jobs in Trump's administration
- Gunman who killed Russian ambassador was Turkish riot police, minister says
- Cyrus Mistry quits Tata group company boards, but vows to fight on
- U.S. ready to help Russia, Turkey investigate diplomat's killing - Kerry
| Gunfire erupts in Kinshasa as Congolese protest Kabila's power | | Tuesday, December 20, 2016 12:53 AM | |
| | By Tim Cocks and Aaron Ross KINSHASA (Reuters) - Gunfire could be heard in several districts of Kinshasa early on Tuesday as demonstrators demanded that President Joseph 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 city heard repeated gunshots, and one saw youths burning tires in the street. Demonstrators in the districts of Kalamu, Matete and Lingwala as well as at Kinshasa University blew whistles to signal to Kabila that it was time to leave. |
| Lagarde keeps IMF job, escapes penalty after negligence conviction in France | | Tuesday, December 20, 2016 12:41 AM | |
|  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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| IMF's Lagarde keeps job, escapes penalty after negligence conviction in France | | By Chine Labbé and David Lawder PARIS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde kept her job and escaped punishment on Monday despite a conviction on negligence charges by French judges over a state payout made while she served as France's finance minister in 2008. The Washington-based IMF executive board reaffirmed its full confidence in Lagarde's abilities to perform her duties leading the Fund, hours after the verdict was issued in Paris. 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.
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| Protests erupt in Congo as Kabila's mandate expires | |  By Aaron Ross and Tim Cocks KINSHASA (Reuters) - Protests erupted in several neighbourhoods of the Congolese capital Kinshasa late on Monday and police fired tear gas to disperse them, witnesses said, just before President Joseph Kabila's mandate expires at midnight. Demonstrators in the districts of Kalamu, Matete and Lingwala and at Kinshasa University blew whistles to signal to Kabila that it was time to leave, and students at the university burned tires, multiple witnesses said. Hundreds of anti-Kabila demonstrators earlier defied a ban on marches against the president's plans to stay in office past the end of his term, and security forces faced off against groups waving red cards saying "Bye, bye Kabila." Opposition activists have accused Kabila of trying to cling to power by letting his term run out without an election to chose the next leader of Congo, which has not witnessed a peaceful change of power since independence in 1960.
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| U.S. sees China returning drone as early as Tuesday in South China Sea | |  By Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali and Ben Blanchard WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) - The United States expects China to return soon an underwater U.S. drone seized by a Chinese naval vessel last week, with one U.S. official telling Reuters the exchange could happen as early as Tuesday at an agreed location in the South China Sea. China's seizure of the unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) triggered a diplomatic protest and speculation about whether it will strengthen U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's hand as he seeks 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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| Russian ambassador shot dead in Ankara gallery | |  By Umit Bektas, Orhan Coskun and Tuvan Gumrukcu ANKARA (Reuters) - The Russian ambassador to Turkey was shot in the back and killed as he gave a speech at an Ankara art gallery on Monday by an off-duty police officer who shouted "Don't forget Aleppo" and "Allahu Akbar" as he opened fire. President Tayyip Erdogan, in a video message to the nation, cast the attack as an attempt to undermine NATO-member Turkey's relations with Russia - ties long tested by the war in Syria.
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| Trump condemns assassination of Russian ambassador to Turkey | |  (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump condemned the assassination of the Russian ambassador to Turkey on Monday, saying the killing was carried out by a "radical Islamic terrorist" and violated "all rules of civilized order." Trump, in a statement issued by his transition team, offered condolences to the family of Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov, who was fatally shot while attending an event at an art gallery in Ankara. (Reporting by Roberta Rampton in Washington; Writing by David Alexander; Editing by Mohammad Zargham)
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| France increases security at Christmas markets after Berlin truck incident | |  PARIS (Reuters) - France will increase security at Christmas markets across the country after a truck ploughed into people at a seasonal market in Berlin on Monday, killing at least nine people, the Interior Ministry said. "Franco-German cooperation will continue with no respite so that democracies win the war against those who want to strike at our values and freedoms," the ministry said in a statement. "All security forces will keep to a maximum level of vigilance. Security at Christmas markets will be reinforced with immediate effect." (Reporting by John Irish, editing by G Crosse)
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| Protests erupt in Congo capital, police fire tear gas | | | KINSHASA (Reuters) - Protests erupted in several neighbourhoods of the Congolese capital Kinshasa late on Monday, and police fired tear gas to disperse them, witnesses said, just before President Joseph Kabila's mandate expires at midnight. Demonstrators blew whistles to signal to Kabila that it was to leave in the communes of Kalamu, Matete, Lingwala, and at Kinshasa University, multiple witnesses said. A spokesman for the police did not immediately respond to a request for comment. (Reporting by Amedee Mwarabu and Aaron Ross; writing by Tim Cocks, editing by G Crosse) |
| Exclusive - U.S. proposed $5 billion-7 billion penalty on Credit Suisse on toxic debt: source | |  By Joshua Franklin, Oliver Hirt and Karen Freifeld ZURICH/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice has asked Credit Suisse to pay between $5 billion and $7 billion to settle a probe over its sale of toxic mortgage securities in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis, a source with knowledge of the matter said, but the bank has resisted settling for that amount. "Credit Suisse is confident of reaching a better solution," said the second person. In a sign that negotiations may be reaching their final stages, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch last week met with Credit Suisse chief executive Tidjane Thiam, another person familiar with the matter said.
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| IMF board reaffirms confidence in Lagarde after negligence verdict | |  The International Monetary Fund said on Monday its executive board reaffirmed its full confidence in Managing Director Christine Lagarde despite her conviction by a French court on a negligence charge. "The Executive Board took all relevant factors into account in its discussions, including the Managing Director's outstanding leadership of the Fund and the wide respect and trust for her leadership globally," the executive board said in a statement.
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| Truck crash in Berlin could be accident or attack - official | |  BERLIN (Reuters) - The circumstances of Monday's deadly truck crash at a Christmas market in Berlin is still unclear, a senior German official said, dismissing as speculation reports that the lorry could have been hijacked by militants. "The sequence of events point to either an accident or an attack," Berlin State Interior Minister Andreas Geisel said. German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said in a statement it was still unclear exactly what had happened. Security officials are trying to secure the site and find those responsible, he said. ...
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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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| Turkish official links Russian envoy killer to exiled cleric | |  By Orhan Coskun ANKARA (Reuters) - A Turkish security official said Ankara saw "very strong signs" the gunman who killed Russia's ambassador there on Monday was a follower of a U.S.-based Muslim cleric blamed for orchestrating a failed coup in July. A representative of cleric Fethullah Gulen, Alp Aslandogan, denied any link and said the exiled cleric condemned the murder as a "heinous act". The Turkish official, who declined to be identified, said the current investigation was focused on the gunman's links to the network of Gulen's followers, which the government calls the "Gulenist Terrorist Organisation" or "FETO".
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| U.S. charges Platinum Partners executives 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 a $1 billion fraud that federal prosecutors said became "like a Ponzi scheme" as its largest investments lost much of their value. Led by Mark Nordlicht, Platinum was known for years for producing exceptionally high returns -- about 17 percent annually in its largest fund -- by taking an unusually aggressive approach to investing and fund management, as detailed by a Reuters Special Report in April.
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| Truck ploughs into crowd at Berlin Christmas market, nine dead | |  By Michael Nienaber BERLIN (Reuters) - A truck ploughed into a crowded Christmas market in central Berlin on Monday evening, killing nine people and injuring up to 50 others, police said, in what appeared to be one of the deadliest attacks in Germany in decades. Police said on Twitter that they had taken one suspect into custody and that another passenger from the truck had died as it crashed into people gathered around the wooden huts serving mulled wine and sausages at the foot of the Kaiser Wilhelm memorial church in the heart of west Berlin. "We heard a loud bang," Emma Rushton, a tourist, told CNN.
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| Berlin police arrest suspected truck attacker - police | |  German police have arrested a suspect near the scene of the Berlin Christmas market where a truck ploughed into a crowd, and are investigating whether he was the driver, the police said on Twitter. German Chancellor Angela Merkel was being briefed on the incident by Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere and the mayor of Berlin, a government spokesman said.
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| U.S.-based cleric's movement not involved in Russia envoy killing - Gulen adviser | | | U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen's movement had no connection to the assassination of Russia's ambassador to Turkey on Monday, and he strongly condemns the killing, according to an official who advises Gulen on media issues. Allegations by an unnamed senior Turkish security official of "very strong signs" that the gunman who killed the ambassador belonged to Gulen's network are "laughable" and intended to cover up for lax security, the adviser, Alp Aslandogan told Reuters. "Mr. Gulen categorically condemns this heinous act," Aslandogan said. |
| Turkey foreign minister says common sense prevailing in Turkey, Russia | | | Turkey's foreign minister on Monday said common sense was prevailing in both Russia and Turkey following the assassination of Moscow's ambassador in Ankara, and the two countries would work together to investigate. Mevlut Cavusgolu was speaking in Moscow, where he was due to meet his Russian and Iranian counterparts to discuss the situation in Syria. In comments carried live on Turkish television, he praised the Russian ambassador as a "great man" and a "great diplomat". |
| Unknown man opened fire in Zurich mosque, wounds three - police | |  A man stormed into a Zurich mosque and opened fire on people praying on Monday evening, injuring three people, police said. Two of the three men - aged 30, 35 and 56 years - were seriously injured, Zurich city police said.
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| Erdogan says agrees with Putin on stronger fight against terrorism | | | ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday he had agreed in a telephone call with Russia's Vladimir Putin that their cooperation and solidarity in fighting terrorism should be even stronger after the killing of the Russian ambassador in Turkey. Erdogan called the killing a clear provocation aimed at damaging relations between Turkey and Russia at a time of normalisation. (Reporting by Ece Toksabay and Humeyra Pamuk; Writing by Daren Butler; Editing by David Dolan) |
| Turkey's Erdogan says Putin agrees shooting of ambassador was provocation | | | Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday he spoke to Russia's Vladimir Putin and they both agreed the assassination of Russia's ambassador to Ankara by a gunman was an act of provocation by those looking to harm relations their countries. In a video message broadcast on Turkish television, Erdogan said Turkey-Russia relations were vital for the region and those who aimed to harm ties were not going to achieve their goals. |
| N.Y. Klansman gets 30 years in prison for plot versus Muslims, Obama | | | A self-proclaimed white supremacist convicted on charges he planned to use a "death ray" to kill Muslims and President Barack Obama was sentenced on Monday to 30 years in prison, federal prosecutors in New York said. Glendon Scott Crawford, 52, a Navy veteran and a member of the Ku Klux Klan, was found guilty in August 2015 of conspiring with another man to build a radiation dispersal device, dubbed a "death ray" by tabloids. Crawford is the first person to be convicted under a law barring attempts to acquire or use a radiological dispersal device, which combines conventional explosives, such as dynamite, with radioactive material. |
| Factbox - Contenders for senior jobs in Trump's administration | |  (Reuters) - The following people are mentioned as contenders for senior roles as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump assembles his administration before taking office on Jan. 20, according to Reuters sources and other media reports. Trump already has named a number of people for other top jobs in his administration. [nL1N1EE0X0] AGRICULTURE SECRETARY * Chuck Conner, a former acting secretary of the U.S. Agriculture Department and current head of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives * Tim Huelskamp, Republican U.S. ...
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| Gunman who killed Russian ambassador was Turkish riot police, minister says | | | ANKARA (Reuters) - The gunman who killed the Russian ambassador to Turkey in an attack at an art gallery on Monday evening was a police officer who worked for the Ankara riot police, Turkey's interior minister said. Suleyman Soylu told reporters that the assassination "has deeply" saddened the Turkish nation, saying it came at a time when Turkey and Russia had improved relations. Soylu also said that three other people were wounded in the attack, none seriously, and that one had been released already. (Reporting by Tuvan Gumrukcu; Writing by David Dolan; Editing by Humeyra Pamuk) |
| Cyrus Mistry quits Tata group company boards, but vows to fight on | |  By Promit Mukherjee and Abhirup Roy MUMBAI (Reuters) - Tata Sons' [TATAS.UL] ousted chairman Cyrus Mistry in a surprise move late on Monday said he was resigning from the boards of all listed Tata companies, but he vowed to keep fighting to improve governance within the $100 billion software-to-salt conglomerate. In a letter to all shareholders, Mistry hinted that he plans to continue his battle against Tata Sons in court. Mistry has for weeks waged a war of words against Tata Sons and Tata family patriarch Ratan Tata, who is back at the helm of the conglomerate on an interim basis.
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| U.S. ready to help Russia, Turkey investigate diplomat's killing - Kerry | |  U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry condemned the killing of the Russian ambassador to Turkey on Monday, and said the United States was ready to help Russia and Turkey investigate the attack. Ambassador Andrei Karlov was shot in the back and killed while giving a speech at an art gallery in the Turkish capital Ankara. "The United States condemns the assassination today in Ankara of Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov," Kerry said in a statement.
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