January, 2017

• 17 January

  Trurkish police capture Istanbul gunman after 2 weeks on run

  

    Istanbul / AP Turkish police captured the gunman who carried out the deadly New Year’s nightclub attack in Istanbul, with officials saying on Tuesday that he’s an Uzbekistan national who trained in Afghanistan and confessed to the massacre. The man was being questioned by police, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim told reporters in Ankara. Yildirim expressed hope that the interrogation would ...

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• 17 January

  Nigeria mistakenly bombs camp, kills more than 100

    MAIDUGURI / AP A Nigerian Air Force fighter jet on a mission against Boko Haram extremists mistakenly bombed a refugee camp Tuesday, killing more than 100 refugees and wounding aid workers, a Borno state official said. The state government official was helping to coordinate the evacuation of wounded. The official spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because ...

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• 17 January

  Number of ‘dead’ climbs from shipwreck off Libya

    ROME / AP Aid groups have revised to at least 170 the number of suspected dead from a weekend migrant shipwreck off Libya. The International Organization of Migration and UN refugee agency increased the estimate after interviewing the four survivors of the shipwreck who arrived in Trapani, Sicily, on Monday aboard the Norwegian rescue ship Siem Pilot. IOM spokesman ...

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• 17 January

  Rights group says Europe’s anti-terror powers pose danger

    PARIS / AP Amnesty International says European counterterrorism measures in the past two years are rapidly — and potentially permanently — eroding basic human rights throughout the continent. France, which has been hit with more recent deadly attacks than any other country in Europe, has extended its state of emergency three times, and the human rights group said in ...

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• 17 January

  Britain’s PM signals clean break with EU

  

    LONDON / AP British Prime Minister Theresa May has made it clear: the UK will make a clean break from the European Union and leave its single market of some 500 million people. In her most direct remarks since the June 23 vote, May said on Tuesday that Britain must regain control of its laws and borders, even as she ...

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• 17 January

  German supreme court rejects bid to outlaw far-right party

    BERLIN / AP Germany’s supreme court on Tuesday rejected a bid by lawmakers to outlaw a far-right party accused of promoting a racist and anti-Semitic agenda. Andreas Vosskuhle, chief justice of the Federal Constitutional Court, said that even though the party had unconstitutional goals, “there are currently no concrete indications … that its actions will lead to success.” The German ...

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• 17 January

  Growing list of Democrats boycotting Trump inauguration

  

    WASHINGTON / AP More than 40 House Democrats plan to boycott President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Friday, casting the Republican businessman as a threat to democracy. Reps. Steve Cohen of Tennessee, Jerrold Nadler of New York and Don Beyer of Virginia on Monday joined a growing list of lawmakers who will not attend Trump’s swearing-in at the US Capitol. The ...

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• 17 January

  May’s Brexit was always going to be hard

  

    In February 2015, economists at HSBC Holdings in London coined the terms “hard” and “soft” Brexit. The latter would maintain “much of the status quo” if the UK voted to quit the European Union; the former entailed “huge risk and would be operationally complicated.” Even just after the Brexit vote, you could be forgiven for seeing the hard option ...

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• 17 January

  This crazy Indian tax on foreign funds will backfire

  

    How do you celebrate the fifth anniversary of a colossal mistake? For India’s tax department, the answer has to be: Make a new one that’s a thousand times worse, then sit back and enjoy the fun. There can be no other explanation for the “clarifications” the authorities issued before Christmas, instructing fund managers to withhold and pay taxes when ...

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• 17 January

  Trump’s trade plan is a looming disaster

    Even by his standards, President-elect Donald Trump’s statements on trade have been stunning in their recklessness. His proposals essentially amount to the repudiation of a system that has fostered global stability and lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty over the last several decades — and if he actually intends to execute his radical agenda, there’s little ...

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