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• Trump voices new doubts about Russian efforts to sway U.S. vote
• UK's May taps career diplomat to replace EU envoy after scathing resignation
• U.S. to transfer four Guantanamo Bay detainees to Saudi Arabia
• Israeli soldier convicted of manslaughter in killing of wounded Palestinian assailant
• Germany detains Tunisian man linked to Berlin truck attacker
• After disparaging United Nations, Trump and new U.N. chief talk
• 3 girl suicide bombers gunned down in northeastern Nigeria
• Sheriff offers to send inmates to build Trump's border wall
• Who hacked? Trump challenges intel agencies he'll oversee
• EPA seeks to ban Genscape from verifying renewable fuel credits
• Trump Organization cancels business talks in 3 countries
• US tops Russia 4-3 in world junior hockey semifinal shootout
• Deutsche Bank settles New York lawsuit with $95M payment
• Mexican president defends gas price hike as protests spread
• Top Asian News 12:17 a.m. GMT
• Tired of the cold wait, Nepal quake survivors rebuild
• Gunmen slay 6 vendors at pop-up market in Mexico's Acapulco
• Venezuela president names new potential successor
• Insurer: 2016 saw highest natural disaster losses in 4 years
• James Rodriguez comes through for Madrid in Copa del Rey win
• UN presses DR Congo for rapid action on crisis deal
• Venezuela names economy czar, oil minister in cabinet shuffle
• Judge keeps man in jail until trial on aiding terror charge
• Tottenham beats Chelsea 2-0 to end 13-match EPL winning run
• Venezuela's Maduro names new vice president
• Taiwan's military may be first casualty in pension crisis
• Abdennour, Khazri and Sliti lead Tunisia challenge
• Mexico brings back adviser who quit because of Trump meeting
• French farmer faces risk of prison for helping migrants
• Losers in Haitian election cry foul
• US-led coalition boosts Mosul military advisors to 450: official
• US auto sales hit a record 17.55M in 2016, led by SUVs
• Spieth gets his revenge on 12th at Augusta 8 months later
• Kosovo says French police have detained its former premier
• Puerto Rico files bill in quest to obtain statehood by 2025
• No apology from Charleston church shooter as sentencing phase begins
• Scuttled Ford plant has Mexico fearing more under Trump
• Hiding, feigning death: Surviving Turkish nightclub massacre
• Alcoa Corp. to permanently close Suriname refinery and mines

Trump voices new doubts about Russian efforts to sway U.S. vote Posted: 04 Jan 2017 12:55 PM PST By David Alexander and Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump voiced new doubts on Wednesday that Russian hackers attempted to influence the U.S. election on his behalf, saying WikiLeaks had denied Moscow was behind documents it made public during the campaign. Trump, writing on Twitter, continued to raise questions about the findings by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia was behind a series of leaks that embarrassed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton's campaign before the Nov. 8 vote. The tweets prompted White House spokesman Josh Earnest to ask, "Who are you going to believe?" Documents stolen from the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta, Clinton's campaign manager, were leaked to the media in advance of the election.

UK's May taps career diplomat to replace EU envoy after scathing resignation Posted: 04 Jan 2017 12:17 PM PST By Elizabeth Piper and Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May appointed a senior career diplomat as envoy to the European Union on Wednesday to replace an ambassador who quit with a scathing resignation letter that exposed frustration among officials over her strategy. Tim Barrow, political director at the Foreign Office, will take up the post next week following the abrupt departure of Ivan Rogers, who told staff in his resignation letter they should "speak the truth to those in power". The implicit criticism of the government's approach in Rogers' letter put rare strain on rules that shield the politically neutral civil service from elected leaders.

U.S. to transfer four Guantanamo Bay detainees to Saudi Arabia Posted: 04 Jan 2017 04:49 PM PST By Matt Spetalnick and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will transfer four detainees to Saudi Arabia from the Guantanamo Bay military prison in the next 24 hours, U.S. officials said on Wednesday, in President Barack Obama's final push to shrink the inmate population there despite pressure from the president-elect to halt such releases. It will be the first in Obama's final flurry of transfers aimed at sending as many as 19 prisoners to at least four countries, including Italy, Oman and the United Arab Emirates, before Donald Trump is sworn in on Jan. 20. If the final transfers go according to plan, only about 40 prisoners will remain at Guantanamo, despite Obama's pledge to close the controversial facility at the U.S. naval base in Cuba.

Israeli soldier convicted of manslaughter in killing of wounded Palestinian assailant Posted: 04 Jan 2017 10:56 AM PST By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A young Israeli soldier who shot dead a Palestinian assailant lying wounded and motionless on the ground in the occupied West Bank was convicted of manslaughter on Wednesday in one of the most polarizing cases in Israel's history. The decision to court-martial Sergeant Elor Azaria, who shot the Palestinian after the assailant stabbed another Israeli soldier last March, stirred public controversy in Israel from the start, with right-wing politicians calling after the verdict on President Reuven Rivlin to pardon the 20-year-old defendant. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he supported pardoning Azaria in a post on his Facebook page.

Germany detains Tunisian man linked to Berlin truck attacker Posted: 04 Jan 2017 10:31 AM PST German police have detained a 26-year-old Tunisian man over links with the perpetrator of an Islamist truck attack on a Berlin Christmas market that killed 12 people, a federal prosecutors' spokeswoman said on Wednesday. Police on Tuesday evening searched the living quarters of the man identified as Bilel A. after he was found to have had dinner with Anis Amri a day before Amri steered a truck through the market on Dec. 19, spokeswoman Frauke Koehler said. Islamic State militants claimed responsibility for the Berlin attack.

After disparaging United Nations, Trump and new U.N. chief talk Posted: 04 Jan 2017 10:53 AM PST By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - New United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres spoke with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday, and the two had "a very positive discussion on U.S./U.N. relations," said a U.N. spokesman, a week after Trump slammed the world body on Twitter. Guterres, a former Portuguese prime minister and U.N. refugee chief who began his five-year term on Sunday, spoke by phone with Trump, who will take office on Jan. 20, said U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq.

3 girl suicide bombers gunned down in northeastern Nigeria Posted: 04 Jan 2017 05:29 PM PST YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — Self-defense fighters Wednesday killed three girl suicide bombers targeting a bustling market in northeastern Nigeria, civilian and military officials said. They blamed the Boko Haram Islamic extremist group for the attempted bombing.

Sheriff offers to send inmates to build Trump's border wall Posted: 04 Jan 2017 05:29 PM PST FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) — A sheriff who runs a Massachusetts jail is offering to send inmates to the U.S.-Mexico border to help Republican President-elect Donald Trump build a wall there.

Who hacked? Trump challenges intel agencies he'll oversee Posted: 04 Jan 2017 05:09 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday escalated his blunt public challenge to the U.S. intelligence agencies he will soon oversee, appearing to embrace WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's contention that Russia did not provide his group with the hacked Democratic emails that roiled the 2016 election.

EPA seeks to ban Genscape from verifying renewable fuel credits Posted: 04 Jan 2017 05:05 PM PST The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants to revoke Genscape's ability to verify biofuels compliance credits after regulators say it failed to detect a massive fraud perpetrated by companies it was monitoring. The announcement, made Wednesday, will likely bolster calls to reform the U.S. biofuels programs from critics such as investor Carl Icahn, who was recently named as a special adviser to President-elect Donald Trump. Icahn owns a large stake in CVR Energy Inc, which runs two U.S. refineries.

Trump Organization cancels business talks in 3 countries Posted: 04 Jan 2017 05:04 PM PST NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump Organization has canceled talks over possible projects in Brazil, Argentina and India as the president-elect pulls back from deal-making less than three weeks before taking office.

US tops Russia 4-3 in world junior hockey semifinal shootout Posted: 04 Jan 2017 05:02 PM PST MONTREAL (AP) — Troy Terry scored on all three of his shootout attempts, the last in the seventh round to give the United States a 4-3 victory over Russia on Wednesday in the world junior hockey semifinals.

Deutsche Bank settles New York lawsuit with $95M payment Posted: 04 Jan 2017 04:42 PM PST NEW YORK (AP) — Deutsche (DOY'-chuh) Bank will pay $95 million to resolve a New York civil lawsuit accusing it of evading tens of millions of dollars in federal taxes through shifty financial moves.

Mexican president defends gas price hike as protests spread Posted: 04 Jan 2017 04:33 PM PST MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's president defended his unpopular move to hike gasoline prices 20 percent as highway blockades and protests continued Wednesday across the country.

Top Asian News 12:17 a.m. GMT Posted: 04 Jan 2017 04:18 PM PST KIDAPAWAN, Philippines (AP) — More than 100 suspected Muslim rebels stormed a jail in the southern Philippines before dawn Wednesday, allowing 158 inmates to escape in what officials said was the biggest jailbreak in the country. Six of the inmates were killed in firefights with pursuing police and army troops, while eight others have been caught and were being returned to the facility, said Senior Inspector Xavier Solda, spokesman for the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology. Solda said the heavily armed gunmen emerged from a forest and attacked the North Cotabato District Jail in Kidapawan under the cover of darkness.

Tired of the cold wait, Nepal quake survivors rebuild Posted: 04 Jan 2017 04:17 PM PST KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — People who lost their homes in the devastating earthquake that hit Nepal nearly two years ago are tired of waiting for help to rebuild.

Gunmen slay 6 vendors at pop-up market in Mexico's Acapulco Posted: 04 Jan 2017 03:52 PM PST ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Attackers shot six vendors to death at an informal market Wednesday in the troubled Mexican resort city of Acapulco.

Venezuela president names new potential successor Posted: 04 Jan 2017 03:48 PM PST Venezuela's leader Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday named a new vice-president, who would take over as head of state if Maduro were removed from office this year as the opposition demands. Maduro told a televised cabinet meeting that he had named Tareck El Aissami, 42, a powerful state governor, to the post. El Assaimi is governor of the violent northern state of Aragua and served as interior and justice minister under Maduro's late predecessor Hugo Chavez.

Insurer: 2016 saw highest natural disaster losses in 4 years Posted: 04 Jan 2017 03:44 PM PST BERLIN (AP) — Last year saw the highest costs from natural disasters since 2012, with a pair of earthquakes in Japan in April accounting for the heaviest losses, a leading insurer said Wednesday.

James Rodriguez comes through for Madrid in Copa del Rey win Posted: 04 Jan 2017 03:35 PM PST MADRID (AP) — James Rodriguez made the most of a rare start for Real Madrid on Wednesday, scoring twice in a convincing 3-0 win over Sevilla in a first-leg match in the Copa del Rey's Round of 16.

UN presses DR Congo for rapid action on crisis deal Posted: 04 Jan 2017 03:33 PM PST The UN Security Council called Wednesday for the rapid and complete implementation of a deal to end the political crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. "The Security Council is encouraged by the spirit of flexibility and compromise demonstrated by Congolese political leaders in reaching this agreement, for the stability, peace, development and consolidation of constitutional democracy in the DRC, and calls on all Congolese actors to preserve this spirit in the discussions to come in order to swiftly resolve all pending issues, especially the practical modalities of the inclusive management of the executive during the pre-electoral and electoral period," the UNSC said in a statement. "The Security Council encourages the political parties which didn't sign the agreement to do so," it added.

Venezuela names economy czar, oil minister in cabinet shuffle Posted: 04 Jan 2017 03:29 PM PST By Brian Ellsworth CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday shuffled his cabinet by naming a new economy czar to oversee the OPEC country's decaying socialist system and a new oil minister to confront the economic difficulties caused by low oil prices. The country is suffering from triple-digit inflation, Soviet-style production shortages and increasing street protests as a combination of dysfunctional state controls and low oil prices. Maduro says he is the victim of an "economic war." Economist Ramon Lobo, who has been serving as a legislator for the ruling Socialist Party, will assume the dual roles of finance minister and economy vice president - making him the country's top economic authority.

Judge keeps man in jail until trial on aiding terror charge Posted: 04 Jan 2017 03:23 PM PST NOFOLK, Va. (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday ruled that a Virginia man must remain in jail until trial on a charge that he tried to aid a terrorist group in Iraq, while his public defender argued that he was "entrapped" by undercover FBI agents over "bravado and talk."

Tottenham beats Chelsea 2-0 to end 13-match EPL winning run Posted: 04 Jan 2017 03:20 PM PST LONDON (AP) — Dele Alli underlined his growing reputation by single-handedly ending Chelsea's 13-match winning run Wednesday, scoring two headed goals to give Tottenham a 2-0 victory over the Premier League leaders.

Venezuela's Maduro names new vice president Posted: 04 Jan 2017 03:12 PM PST CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's embattled socialist president has reshuffled his Cabinet and named a former interior minister as vice president.

Taiwan's military may be first casualty in pension crisis Posted: 04 Jan 2017 03:04 PM PST By Faith Hung and Umesh Desai TAIPEI/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Taiwan's military pension fund may be in default by 2020 after years of widening deficits, raising alarm about the island's defense stability when tensions are heating up with political foe China. The government says an urgent overhaul of the pension system is needed as large payouts are no longer sustainable for the export-reliant economy, with contributions crimped by slower economic growth since the 1990s and a rapidly aging population. Some 120,000 on military pension benefits and another 200,000 in the civil service are nervous about pension reform, a priority of President Tsai Ing-wen.

Abdennour, Khazri and Sliti lead Tunisia challenge Posted: 04 Jan 2017 03:04 PM PST Tunis (AFP) - Tunisia named their 23-man squad for the Africa Cup of Nations on Wednesday with Europe-based stars Aymen Abdennour, Wahbi Khazri and Naim Sliti poised to be the key men at the January 14-February 5 tournament in Gabon.

Mexico brings back adviser who quit because of Trump meeting Posted: 04 Jan 2017 02:53 PM PST MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Enrique Pena Nieto on Wednesday brought back a close adviser and Cabinet secretary who had stepped down after arranging a presidential meeting with Donald Trump, a move that angered Mexicans upset by the then-Republican candidate's comments about migrants.

French farmer faces risk of prison for helping migrants Posted: 04 Jan 2017 02:44 PM PST NICE, France (AP) — A French activist farmer facing potential prison time defended his aid to illegal African migrants in court Wednesday, calling it an act of humanity and not a crime.

Losers in Haitian election cry foul Posted: 04 Jan 2017 02:44 PM PST Port-au-Prince (AFP) - The losers in Haiti's presidential election insisted Wednesday they will not recognise political neophyte Jovenel Moise as the winner, calling the officially declared result a political coup. Moise was declared winner of the November 20 first round Tuesday night by the Provisional Electoral Council, with 55.6 percent of the votes. To check against fraud -- the reason for the scrapping of the election the first time Haiti tried in 2015 -- the council said right after the election that 12 percent of the ballots must be verified.

US-led coalition boosts Mosul military advisors to 450: official Posted: 04 Jan 2017 02:31 PM PST The US-led coalition said Wednesday it has doubled to about 450 the number of military advisors assisting Iraqi troops engaged in the fight to retake Mosul from Islamic State fighters. "We have increased the number of advise and assist forces that are there with the ISF (Iraqi Security Forces) command elements to help advise them as they move forward and to synchronize operations," coalition spokesman Colonel John Dorrian said in a video conference from Baghdad. While military advisors are behind the frontlines, they have already entered the city several times, he added.

US auto sales hit a record 17.55M in 2016, led by SUVs Posted: 04 Jan 2017 02:21 PM PST DETROIT (AP) — U.S. consumers bought a record number of new cars and trucks in 2016. A repeat performance in 2017 could be a tall order.

Spieth gets his revenge on 12th at Augusta 8 months later Posted: 04 Jan 2017 02:11 PM PST KAPALUA, Hawaii (AP) — Jordan Spieth hit 8-iron over the bunker on the 12th hole at Augusta National. He watched his 15-foot birdie putt tumble into the cup on the last turn, and he raised his arms in celebration.

Kosovo says French police have detained its former premier Posted: 04 Jan 2017 02:09 PM PST PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — French police have detained Kosovo's former prime minister based on an arrest warrant issued by Serbia the Kosovo foreign ministry said Wednesday.

Puerto Rico files bill in quest to obtain statehood by 2025 Posted: 04 Jan 2017 02:07 PM PST SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico's new representative to the U.S. Congress filed a bill Wednesday that would turn the island into the 51st U.S. state by 2025.

No apology from Charleston church shooter as sentencing phase begins Posted: 04 Jan 2017 02:02 PM PST Dylann Roof, the self-described white supremacist who gunned down nine black churchgoers in a Charleston church, offered no apology or motive for his actions Wednesday as a jury began considering whether to sentence him to death. The same federal jury that found Roof guilty last month of all 33 federal hate crime charges in connection with the June 2015 killings is now tasked with deciding whether he will face execution or life in prison. "There's nothing wrong with me psychologically," insisted Roof, who has chosen to represent himself in the proceedings, rebuffing advice from his lawyers and the presiding federal judge.

Scuttled Ford plant has Mexico fearing more under Trump Posted: 04 Jan 2017 01:57 PM PST MEXICO CITY (AP) — Ford Motor Co.'s cancellation of plans to build a $1.6 billion auto manufacturing plant in San Luis Potosi has sounded alarms across Mexico.

Hiding, feigning death: Surviving Turkish nightclub massacre Posted: 04 Jan 2017 01:56 PM PST ISTANBUL (AP) — The survivors huddled atop a giant industrial freezer in terrified silence as the Islamic State gunman entered the nightclub kitchen. Wiping his Kalashnikov free of fingerprints, he didn't see them as he changed clothes and put on a Santa hat.

Alcoa Corp. to permanently close Suriname refinery and mines Posted: 04 Jan 2017 01:53 PM PST PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) — Alcoa Corp. said Wednesday that it will permanently close the alumina refinery and bauxite mines in Suriname that were pillars of the economy in the South American nation until the company halted operations there in November 2015.

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