Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says there is nothing to a second police investigation into corruption charges.
Netanyahu has been questioned twice already about allegations that he improperly accepted lavish gifts from high-profile figures in international business and Hollywood. Local media have reported that the second affair involves Netanyahu being caught on tape negotiating mutual benefits with a high-powered media mogul.
Netanyahu has repeatedly denied wrongdoing, portraying the accusations as a witch hunt against him and his family by a hostile media. Netanyahu told ministers from his Likud Party Sunday that “there will be nothing, because there is nothing. ”
While the probe is still in its infancy, a mounting investigation could imperil Netanyahu’s lengthy rule. Should Israel’s attorney general decide to indict him, Netanyahu could be forced to step down.

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The Golden Globes kick off this year’s awards season this weekend.
Sunday night’s ceremony will honour both film and television makers, with nominations for movies like La Land and Manchester by the Sea and TV series like The Night Manager.

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At least four people are dead after a Palestinian rammed a truck into a group of soldiers Sunday in Jerusalem.
The soldiers were getting off a bus at a popular tourist spot in the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood when the man rammed into the crowd. The bus driver told Times of Israel that the man in question plowed through the crowd before reversing over them when soldiers opened fire. The attacker was “neutralized” at the scene of the attack.
Three women and one man, all in their twenties, are confirmed dead. At least 15 soldiers were injured, some of them seriously.
Police immediately ruled it a terror attack .
“To our dismay, there is no limit to the cruelty of the terrorists who are willing to use any means possible to murder Jews and to damage the daily life of Israel’s capital,” said Nir Barkat, Jerusalem’s mayor, according to Jerusalem Post . “Those who incite and fan the flames and those who support terror must pay a heavy price. I call on the residents of Jerusalem and the country at large to be alert and, despite this difficult terror attack, to carry on with your daily routines and do not let terror win.”
Islamic State has been calling on its supporters to carry out truck attacks in recent years. (RELATED: Reminder: ISIS Has Been Calling For Truck Attacks For Years)
Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a Tunisian man, killed 86 people July 14 when he drove a truck through a crowd in Nice.
Anis Amri, a Tunisian refugee in Germany, killed 12 when he attacked a Christmas market Dec. 19 in Berlin.
Thirty-five Israelis have been killed in knife, gun and car attacks by Palestinians since October 2015, according to BBC .
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Iraqi forces have pushed IS out of much of the territory the group once held, but a wave of recent bombings have highlighted the danger the jihadists pose to civilians even as they lose ground.
Sunday’s first attack took place at Jamila, the main wholesale vegetable market in Baghdad’s Sadr City, a vast, mostly Shiite neighbourhood in the northeast of the capital that has been targeted repeatedly.
“A soldier at the gate of Jamila market opened fire on a suicide car bomb after noticing a suspect vehicle but the terrorist blew up his car,” interior ministry spokesman Saad Maan said.
A police colonel and a medical official said at least 12 people were killed and 39 wounded. Maan said the soldier who opened fire on the attacker was among the wounded.
The second attack saw a suicide bomber detonate explosives at a market in the Baladiyat area of east Baghdad, killing at least six people and wounding at least 16, officials said.
IS issued an online statement claiming the Jamila attack, saying it targeted members of Iraq’s Shiite Muslim majority, whom the jihadists consider heretics.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the Baladiyat bombing, but it had the hallmarks of an attack carried out by IS.
Another explosive charge went off when the body of the Jamila bomber was at the morgue, the hospital in Sadr City where his remains were brought said in a statement.
The statement said the explosion occurred when an employee moved the remains while searching for identity papers.
It did not cause any damage or injuries, the statement said, but a photograph of the scene sent by a hospital official indicated that the blast had blown a door off its hinges.
IS claimed an attack on January 2 — also in Sadr City — when a suicide bomber blew up a vehicle packed with explosives among a crowd of day labourers waiting for work, killing 35 people.
The jihadists overran large areas north and west of Baghdad in a swift 2014 offensive that swept through security forces unprepared for the assault.
The number of bombings in the capital declined following the June 2014 offensive, apparently because the jihadists were occupied with holding territory they seized and later defending against government attacks.
Federal forces and units from Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region have since pushed IS back in a series of battles over a period of more than two years.
On October 17, Iraqi forces launched a massive operation to recapture Mosul, the country’s last city in which IS still holds significant ground.
Iraqi forces punched into the city from the east, retook a series of neighbourhoods and are now approaching the Tigris River, which divides the city into its eastern and western sides.
The western side, which is the smaller but more densely populated of the two, remains entirely under IS control.
Iraqi forces have also launched an operation to recapture IS-held towns near the Syrian border that along with Mosul and the northern town of Tal Afar are among the last populated areas under jihadist control.
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said in late December that three months were needed to eliminate IS in the country.
But even if the jihadists no longer openly hold territory, they can still strike at Iraqi civilians and security forces with bombings and hit-and-run attacks.

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London – Prime Minister Theresa May said on Sunday she would announce details of Britain’s European Union exit plans in the next few weeks and denied a former diplomat’s claim that the government was “muddled” about Brexit.
In her first interview of 2017, May also said Donald Trump had made “unacceptable” comments about women – but stressed she’s had “good” conversations with the US president-elect about the vital trans-Atlantic relationship.
May has said for months that she will invoke Article 50 of the EU’s key treaty, triggering two years of EU exit talks, by March 31. But she has refused to reveal details of Britain’s goals or negotiating strategy.
May argues that to do so would weaken Britain’s hand, but the lack of detail has fuelled allegations that government plans for Brexit are in disarray.
Free movement
Ivan Rogers, who resigned as Britain’s EU envoy last week, criticised politicians’ “ill-founded arguments and muddled thinking” about the EU exit.
In an interview with Sky News, May insisted the government is “not at all” muddled.
“I will be setting out some more details in the coming weeks,” she said.
She signaled the UK is likely to leave the bloc’s single market in goods and services, saying Britain won’t try to keep “bits of membership” once it leaves.
Many UK businesses – especially in London’s huge financial-services sector – argue that access to the single market is vital. But EU leaders say membership is impossible unless Britain continues to allow the free movement of workers from other EU countries.
May said free movement would end because Britain has voted to take control of its borders. But she also said she did not see immigration and trade as “a binary issue” or “a zero-sum game. ”
She said Britain would seek an “ambitious trade deal… that allows our companies to trade in and operate in the European single market. ”
May, who took office in July, also faces the challenge in 2017 of forging a relationship with a new US president.
Benefit both
The prime minister, a long-time campaigner for women’s equality, was asked about Trump’s vulgar 2005 remark that his celebrity allowed him to grope women and “grab them by the p—-. ”
“I think that’s unacceptable,” she said. “In fact, Donald Trump himself has said that and has apologised for it.
“But the relationship that the UK has with the United States is about something much bigger than just the relationship between the two individuals as president and prime minister,” she added.
May said she has had two “very good, positive” phone calls with Trump since the November 8 US election.
“From the conversations I’ve had, I think we are going to look to build on that relationship, for the benefit of both the US and the UK,” she said.
Trump tweeted on Sunday that “I look very much forward to meeting Prime Minister Theresa May in Washington in the Spring. Britain, a longtime US ally, is very special! ”
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