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| Kabul security gates in storage as Afghan officials trade accusations | |  By Hamid Shalizi KABUL (Reuters) - A set of giant security gates financed by China and intended to protect Kabul from large bombs and drug smuggling lie stored in a warehouse more than five months after they arrived, while Afghan authorities bicker over who should install them. Intended for the four main entry points into Kabul, they have been delayed by infighting between departments and by a land dispute, underlining the difficulty of getting things done in a country where conflict and corruption have slowed progress. The hangar-style gates, each weighing around 30 tonnes, are to reinforce the so-called "Ring of Steel" that surrounds Kabul, a city of five million people already protected by blast walls, armed checkpoints and eye-in-the-sky surveillance cameras.
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| U.S. may target weapons seized by Islamic State in Palmyra | |  By Phil Stewart and David Alexander WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of U.S. forces fighting Islamic State said on Wednesday the United States may target weapons seized by the group when it captured the Syrian city of Palmyra, adding the equipment posed a danger to the U.S.-led coalition in the region. Army Lieutenant General Stephen Townsend told a Pentagon video briefing that the weapons seized by Islamic State likely included armoured vehicles, guns and possibly air defence equipment or other heavy weaponry.
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| Cosby's lawyers say prosecutors relying on accuser 'bandwagon' | |  By Joseph Ax NORRISTOWN, Pa. (Reuters) - Pennsylvania prosecutors want a "bandwagon" of unreliable accusers on parade at Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial next year, egged on by a celebrity attorney intent on bringing down an American icon, the comedian's defense lawyers said on Wednesday. Cosby, 79, faces sexual assault claims from about 50 women altogether, though the Pennsylvania case is the only criminal prosecution to result.
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| Colombia's FARC rebels expel five commanders opposed to peace deal | |  Colombia's FARC rebels have expelled five commanders for refusing to demobilize and join a peace process with the government aimed at ending more than five decades of war, guerrilla leadership said. The five commanders, all from units in the country's southeastern jungle, include one former participant in four-year-long peace talks in Cuba. "This decision is motivated by their recent conduct, which contradicts our political-military line," leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) said in statement late on Tuesday.
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| Trump meets Silicon Valley elite after mutual mistrust in campaign | |  By Gina Cherelus and Dustin Volz NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump and some of Silicon Valley's most powerful executives met at his Manhattan tower on Wednesday, a summit convened to smooth over frictions after both sides made no secret of their disdain for each other during the election campaign. The meeting was expected to focus on economic issues and skirt the numerous disagreements the tech industry has with Trump - including on immigration, the trade relationship with China and digital privacy - in favour of a focus on shared priorities, sources said. "There's nobody like the people in this room, and anything we can do to help this go along we're going to do that for you," Trump told the executives gathered in a conference room on the 25th floor of Trump Tower.
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| Woman in U.S. church massacre was spared 'to tell the story,' she testifies | |  By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - A 72-year-old retired nurse recounted for jurors on Wednesday how she cowered under a table while Dylann Roof killed nine of her fellow worshippers at a historic black church but spared her so she could tell the story of what he had done. Polly Sheppard was the last person to testify for the prosecution at Roof's federal hate crimes trial in Charleston, South Carolina. After she detailed the bloodshed at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in June 2015, Roof told the judge he did not want to testify and the defence rested its case without calling any witnesses.
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| Factbox - The 13 Cosby accusers that prosecutors want to testify | |  (Reuters) - Pennsylvania prosecutors are seeking to call 13 women who have accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault at his criminal trial next year. While none is named in court papers, 11 have previously come forward publicly and can be identified based on the accounts, which date back to the 1960s, included in prosecutors' filings. Reuters does not typically identify alleged victims of sexual crimes unless they have chosen to release their names. Cosby, 79, has repeatedly denied the allegations. ...
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| Trump team disavows survey seeking names of climate workers | |  By Timothy Gardner and Emily Stephenson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump's transition team on Wednesday disavowed a survey sent to the U.S. Department of Energy that requested the names of people working on climate change in the agency. "The questionnaire was not authorized or part of our standard protocol," Trump spokesman Sean Spicer said. The survey of 74 questions, which the Energy Department received last Tuesday, asked for the names of workers and contractors who had attended U.N. climate meetings.
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| Ashley Madison owner to pay $1.66 million to settle FTC case | |  By Alastair Sharp and Diane Bartz TORONTO (Reuters) - The owner of hacked infidelity website Ashley Madison will pay a sharply discounted $1.66 million penalty to settle an investigation by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and several U.S. states into lax data security and deceptive practices, the company and authorities said on Wednesday. The remainder of a $17.5 million settlement was suspended based on privately-held Ruby Corp.'s inability to pay. "I recognise that it was a far lower number frankly than I would have liked," FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez said on a call with reporters.
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| Trump Hotels pulls out of Rio hotel named in criminal probe | |  The Trump Organization Inc said on Wednesday it has pulled out of a hotel venture in Rio de Janeiro that is part of a criminal investigation in Brazil, with a Trump Hotels spokeswoman citing construction delays and differences in vision. The Trump Hotel Rio de Janeiro, a beachfront property with 170 rooms near where the Olympic Park was located, was managed by the real estate company of President-elect Donald Trump, although no money from the Trump Organization was invested in the project. "Unfortunately, the developers of the Rio de Janeiro hotel are significantly behind on the completion of the property, and their vision for the hotel no longer aligns with the Trump Hotels brand," Jennifer Rodstrom, a spokesperson for Trump Hotels, said in an emailed statement on Wednesday.
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| Had a war like Syria's started in Europe, refugees would be treated better - Jordan's Prince Ali | |  By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - If the war in Syria had taken place in Europe, the world would have reacted more quickly to foster peace and treated millions of refugees fleeing the protracted conflict more humanely, said Jordan's Prince Ali Bin Al-Hussein. Jordan has been overwhelmed by the influx of refugees since the conflict in neighbouring Syria began almost six years ago. Around one-fifth of Jordan's 10 million population are Syrian refugees - making it the largest host of refugees per capita.
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| Egypt freezes assets of media company chairman | | | The chairman of two independent Egyptian newspapers, including one of the country's only English-language papers, said on Wednesday that the company's assets were frozen for alleged ties to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, a charge he denied. The Muslim Brotherhood's activities were banned in 2013 after the army ousted President Mohamed Mursi of the Brotherhood following mass protests against his rule. The government formed a committee shortly thereafter to manage the Brotherhood's funds and properties. |
| Trump's Washington hotel a conflict of interest - Democratic lawmakers | |  By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump must divest his luxury Washington hotel in a building leased from the federal government because the arrangement violates conflict-of-interest rules, congressional Democrats said on Wednesday. The General Services Administration, which manages property owned by the federal government, including the Old Post Office housing the Trump International Hotel, has said the lease would violate federal conflict-of-interest rules once the Republican businessman is sworn in on Jan. 20, according to a letter to the agency from lawmakers. The letter referred to a Dec. 8 briefing to congressional staffers by a GSA official whom the letter did not name.
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| Philippines' Duterte "in the pink of health", ministers say | |  Ministers in Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's cabinet on Wednesday said he was in good health, after the leader talked about ailments afflicting him and said he might not live to complete his six-year term. Duterte told a gathering of business leaders on Monday that he suffered from back pains, migraines and Buerger's disease, a cause of blockages in the blood vessels, associated with smoking in his youth. The 71-year-old president stirred further questions about his health by telling a crowd of a few thousand expatriate Filipinos in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, where he is on a visit, that he might not "be around" until the end of his term.
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| EU to propose tax evasion legislation following "Football Leaks" | | | PARIS (Reuters) - The European Commission will propose new anti tax-evasion legislation next year following media reports accusing soccer stars of having used tax havens to handle tens of millions of euros in earnings, a top EU official said on Wednesday. Earlier this month, a group of 12 European news outlets began publishing the results of months of investigations into a vast trove of millions of financial documents, obtained by the German magazine Der Spiegel and dubbed the "Football Leaks". ... |
| Video evidence used for first time to award penalty in FIFA competition | |  Video evidence was used to award a penalty for the first time in a FIFA competition at the Club World Cup on Wednesday and there was controversy over the decision itself and the time taken to reach a verdict. Japanese champions Kashima Antlers were the beneficiaries after an off-field official known as a video assistant referee (VAR) called Hungarian referee Viktor Kassai's attention to an infringement by Atletico Nacional's Orlando Berrio. Kassai indicated that he would review the incident which he watched on a computer screen at the side of the pitch before deciding to award a penalty.
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| London's unused water cannon for sale in humiliation for Boris Johnson | |  By Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - London Mayor Sadiq Khan has put up for sale three water cannon that were bought in 2014 by his predecessor Boris Johnson but never used, because the government refused permission for police to use them. The decision to sell the cannon, which cost in total over 322,800 pounds ($410,000) to buy, refit and maintain, prolongs a humiliation originally inflicted on Johnson, now foreign secretary, by fellow Conservative Theresa May, now prime minister. Johnson bought the second-hand cannon from Germany arguing they could help prevent a repeat of riots that broke out in London in 2011, but May, then interior minister, refused to allow their use anywhere in England or Wales.
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| Italian PM wins Senate confidence vote as new referendum looms | |  By Crispian Balmer and Giselda Vagnoni ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni won the backing of the fragmented Senate on Wednesday, allowing his government to formally take office as a new threat emerged to the legacy of predecessor Matteo Renzi. Renzi resigned last week when he lost a referendum on his proposed reform of the constitution. After winning an initial vote of confidence in the lower chamber of parliament on Tuesday, Gentiloni secured victory in the upper house Senate and promised to push ahead with Renzi's reform agenda.
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| Poland's respect for rule of law has not improved, could worsen - EU's Timmermans | |  Poland has not addressed the European Commission's concerns about the independence of the judiciary and new Polish laws threaten to deepen the rule of law crisis even further, European Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans said on Wednesday. Timmermans spoke in the European Parliament in Strasbourg to update lawmakers on the state of the rule-of-law monitoring procedure launched against Poland a year ago. The unprecedented procedure can end in Poland losing its voting right in the 28-nation European Union if all other EU leaders agree to that.
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| Gambia's Jammeh must leave power when term ends - United Nations | |  By Emma Farge and Edward McAllister DAKAR/BANJUL (Reuters) - Gambian President Yahya Jammeh will not be allowed to remain head of state if he refuses to go after his elected term ends next month, and will face strong sanctions if he clings to power, the top U.N. official in West Africa said on Wednesday. Jammeh, who took power in a coup in 1994, initially conceded defeat in the Dec. 1 election to little-known challenger Adama Barrow, raising the prospect of an end to 22 years of autocratic rule tainted by allegations of widespread human rights abuses. "For Mr. Jammeh, the end is here and under no circumstances can he continue to be president.
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| U.N. rights chief says Aleppo bombardment most likely a war crime | |  Syria's government forces and their allies have almost certainly violated international law and probably committed war crimes by the latest bombardment of civilians hoping to be evacuated from eastern Aleppo, the U.N. human rights chief said on Wednesday. "The Syrian Government has a clear responsibility to ensure its people are safe, and is palpably failing to take this opportunity to do so," U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein said in a statement. "The Government of Syria is also obliged under international law to provide medical assistance to all sick and wounded people – civilians and fighters alike," he said.
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| Japan legalises casinos, sets stage for large-scale investment | |  By Thomas Wilson TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's parliament passed a law on Thursday to legalise casinos, ending 15 years of political argument and opening the way for projects that combine high-stakes gambling with hotels, shopping and conference space. As few as three casinos could generate nearly $10 billion in net profit annually, Daiwa Research Institute estimated, equivalent to 0.2 percent of Japan's gross domestic product. Fresh legislation is needed within a year to set out details on regulation, tax rates and dealing with social ills such as gambling addiction and organised crime.
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| Factbox - Contenders for senior jobs in Trump's administration | |  REUTERS - The following are people mentioned as contenders for senior roles as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump puts together 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. DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE * Navy Admiral Mike Rogers, director of the National Security Agency * Ronald Burgess, retired U.S. ...
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