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| Two Lebanese killed in Istanbul attack, families say | | | Two Lebanese citizens were killed in the attack in a nightclub in Istanbul on Sunday that left at least 39 people dead, relatives said. The family of Elias Wardini told Lebanon's New TV that they had been officially informed of his death. Haykal Mousallem, another Lebanese man, was confirmed dead a short while later, his family told Reuters. |
| China jails 67 people for involvement in mafia-style gang | | | A court in the eastern Chinese province of Anhui has handed out sentences of up to 20 years in jail for 67 people involved in a mafia-style gang that engaged in gambling, extortion and violence, state news agency Xinhua reported on Sunday. The leader of the gang, 37-year-old Xing Zhaogang, was released from jail in 2012 after serving time for violent assault, but then returned to a life of crime and became a "gambling lord" in Anhui, Xinhua said, citing the court. Gambling is illegal in mainland China. |
| Gambia leader accuses West African bloc of declaring war | |  By Lamin Jahateh BANJUL (Reuters) - Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh accused West African regional body ECOWAS of declaring war, after it said it was putting forces on alert in case he refused to step down at the end of his mandate this month. Jammeh, who has vowed to stay in power despite losing a Dec. 1 election to rival Adama Barrow, also promised to defend Gambia against any outside aggression, in a New Year's speech broadcast on state TV. Marcel de Souza, commission president for the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), said last week it had put standby forces on alert.
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| No clarity yet on responsibility for Istanbul attack - Turkish PM | |  ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish authorities are starting to uncover evidence about a gun attack on an Istanbul nightclub which killed 39 people on Sunday but there is no clarity yet on who was responsible, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said. "Some details have started emerging, but the authorities are working towards a concrete result," Yildirim told reporters, when asked about who might have been behind the attack. "Police and security officials will share information as it becomes available during the investigation," he said. (Reporting by Tuvan Gumrukcu; Writing by Nick Tattersall)
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| Shooter kills at least 11 and himself at Brazil New Year's party | | | A gunman stormed a house party and killed at least 11 people and himself during New Year celebrations in the southeastern Brazilian city of Campinas late on Saturday. Local media reports said the couple's 8-year-old son also died. |
| Parcel bomb at far-right bookshop wounds Italian policeman | | | A parcel bomb with a timer exploded early Sunday morning in front of a Florence bookstore run by a neo-fascist group, seriously wounding a policeman trying defuse the device, authorities said. Anti-terrorism police discovered the package while patrolling sensitive sites and called in the bomb squad, Florence police chief Alberto Intini told RAI state television. The package detonated as a police expert was approaching it at about 5:30 a.m. (04:30 GMT), Intini said. |
| Gunman kills 39 in Istanbul nightclub attack, manhunt under way | |  By Nick Tattersall and Humeyra Pamuk ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A gunman opened fire on New Year revellers at a packed nightclub on the shores of Istanbul's Bosphorus waterway on Sunday killing at least 39 people, including many foreigners, then fled the scene. The attack shook NATO member Turkey as it tries to recover from a failed July coup and a series of deadly bombings in cities including Istanbul and the capital Ankara, some blamed on Islamic State and others claimed by Kurdish militants. My husband was hit in three places," one club-goer, Sinem Uyanik, told the newspaper.
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| Policeman killed, inmates freed in attack on Bahrain prison | | | A policeman was killed on Sunday when armed men attacked a prison in Bahrain, freeing several convicted inmates, the interior ministry said, in what it described as a terrorist act. Thousands of mainly Shi'ite Muslim Bahrainis are in jail on charges ranging from participating in anti-government protests to armed attacks on security forces in the Western-allied Gulf kingdom, where the U.S. Fifth Fleet is based. |
| Pope says terrorism casts bloodstain over world, condemns Istanbul attack | |  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis urged leaders to work together to fight the "plague of terrorism", saying in his New Year's address on Sunday that a bloodstain was covering the world as it started 2017. Speaking to some 50,000 people in St. Peter's Square for his traditional noon address, Francis departed from his prepared text to condemn the Istanbul nightclub attack that killed at least 39 people.
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| Citizens of several Arab nations among Istanbul attack victims - minister | | | ANKARA (Reuters) - Nationals of Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Lebanon and Libya were among those killed in a gun attack at a packed nightclub in Istanbul on Sunday, Turkish Family Minister Fatma Betul Sayan Kaya was quoted by the state-run Anadolu news agency as saying. At least 39 people, many of them foreigners, were killed in the attack, in which the gunman opened fire at random in the Reina nightclub just over an hour into the new year. (Reporting by Ece Toksabay; Writing by Nick Tattersall) |
| UK minister sees threat of Islamic State chemical attack in Britain | |  Islamic State militants have aspirations to launch mass-casualty chemical attacks on targets in Britain and elsewhere in Europe, the British security minister said in a newspaper interview published on Sunday. Ben Wallace also said British authorities feared that as the militant group was driven out of strongholds in the Middle East such as the Iraqi city of Mosul, Britons fighting for the group would return home and pose a growing domestic threat. "The ambition of IS or Daesh is definitely mass-casualty attacks," Wallace told the Sunday Times newspaper.
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| Sudan's Bashir announces one-month ceasefire extension | |  Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has announced a one-month extension of his unilateral ceasefire in fighting with rebels in the country's war zones. The announcement, in an independence day speech on Saturday, comes after earlier short-term truces in June and October 2016, which were followed by a fall-off in fighting in the southern Blue Nile and Kordofan regions but continued clashes in Darfur. The latest outbreak of fighting between the army and rebels in Kordofan and Blue Nile broke out in 2011, when adjacent South Sudan declared independence.
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| South Korea's Park emerges from seclusion, denies wrongdoing in scandal | |  By Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's impeached President Park Geun-hye on Sunday broke a month-long silence over her alleged role in a corruption scandal, publicly denying charges of wrongdoing and saying that the accusations against her were "fabrication and falsehood." Park also said that she was set up over allegations that she ordered the government to support a 2015 merger of two affiliates of South Korean conglomerate Samsung, a deal which has become central to the investigation. Park is being investigated over accusations that she gave favours to big businesses in return for financial contributions to entities controlled by her friend, Choi Soon-sil. On Sunday, Park denied Choi was allowed to wield undue and wide-reaching influence over state affairs.
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| Erdogan says Turkey will fight to end against terror attacks | |  President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Turkey would fight to the end against all forms of attack by terror groups and their backers after a gunman killed 39 people in a shooting spree at an Istanbul nightclub. "As a nation, we will fight to the end against not just the armed attacks of terror groups and the forces behind them, but also against their economic, political and social attacks," Erdogan said in a written statement.
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| Burundi minister shot dead in capital - police | | | A gunman killed Burundi's environment minister early on Sunday, police said, the first murder of a senior government figure in nearly two years of political violence. Emmanuel Niyonkuru, 54, was attacked as he travelled home in the central African nation's capital Bujumbura, police spokesman Pierre Nkurikiye said in a tweet. Violent protests erupted early in 2015 after President Pierre Nkurunziza said he would seek a third term - a move opponents said violated the constitution and a peace deal that ended an ethnically charged civil war. |
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