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A statement by US President-elect Donald Trump that Nato is "obsolete" has caused "worry" in the alliance, Germany's foreign minister has said. Frank-Walter Steinmeier said it was a contradiction of comments made days ago by Mr Trump's incoming defence chief. In an interview in New York, Mr Trump also said Germany's Angela Merkel made "a catastrophic mistake" by admitting more than one million migrants. And he threatened German car makers with high import tariffs. Companies including BMW, Volkswagen and Daimler have invested in factories in Mexico, where costs are cheaper, with an eye to exporting into the US market. But Mr Trump said: "I would tell them to not waste their time and money unless they want to sell to other countries. That would be ok, if you want to build in Mexico. "I would tell BMW, if you want to build a factory in Mexico and sell cars to the US without paying a 35% tax, forget it." Mr Trump was giving details of his foreign policy goals in an interview with British and German newspapers, the Times and Bild, at Trump Tower in New York. Donald Trump's comments have caused dismay, concern - but perhaps not surprise - in Berlin. Few expected the new transatlantic relationship to echo the warm and trusting alliance nurtured by Angela Merkel and Barack Obama, who was a vocal supporter of Mrs Merkel's refugee policy. There is anger, too. Germany's outspoken Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel retorted that the migrant crisis was the result of "faulty, interventionist American policies in the Mediterranean and Middle East". That Mr Trump should take aim at Germany's car manufacturers has also raised eyebrows, though few here believe his congress would approve the 35% tax he appears to be threatening to impose on imported vehicles. Germans were largely unimpressed by Mr Trump during his election campaign and now, despite his own German heritage, the president-elect is doing little to endear himself. On Nato, Mr Trump reiterated his criticism that "a lot of" the 28 member states were not paying their fair share. He said the alliance had been forged "many, many years ago", adding: "It's obsolete because it wasn't taking care of terror. "And the other thing is the countries aren't paying their fair share so we're supposed to protect countries. But a lot of these countries aren't paying what they're supposed to be paying, which I think is very unfair to the United States." In an apparent contradiction, Mr Trump then said Nato was "very important" to him. Speaking later in Brussels, Mr Steinmeier said the president-elect's comments had caused "worry and concern". "I've just had a conversation with the Secretary-General of Nato, Jens Stoltenberg, who has expressed concern at the comments made by Donald Trump that Nato is obsolete," he said. "This is in contradiction with what the American defence minister said in his hearing in Washington only some days ago and we have to see what will be the consequences for American policy." At his Senate confirmation hearing last week, Mr Trump's choice for defence secretary, Gen James Mattis, described Nato as central to US defence. And he accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of trying to "break" the alliance. A Kremlin spokesman said on Monday that Russia agreed with Mr Trump's evaluation of Nato, particularly that it had become obsolete, Russian news agency Interfax said. Mr Trump described German Chancellor Angela Merkel as Europe's most important leader, but said that the EU had become a vehicle for Germany. He also said Mrs Merkel had made a "catastrophic mistake" by admitting more than one million migrants and refugees. "I think she made one very catastrophic mistake and that was taking all of these illegals... And nobody even knows where they come from," he added. Asked about Mr Trump's comments, Mrs Merkel told reporters in Berlin that Germany would wait until after his inauguration and then work with the new administration to see what kind of agreements could be achieved. Mr Trump linked the migrant issue with Brexit - the UK referendum vote to leave the EU. He promised a quick trade deal between the US and the UK after he takes office on Friday. However, a European Commission spokeswoman has reiterated that the UK will not be allowed to engage in formal talks involving a trade deal with the US until 2019, when it has finished the process of leaving the EU. A senior figure in Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) said Mr Trump's comments on the EU were creating a false picture. "It seems that some people have the impression that the EU is about to unravel...[that] after Britain, others will leave too," said Jens Sphan

Family members of a Houston-area high school student who killed herself are rallying for tighter laws against cyberbullying. TEXAS CITY, Texas — Family members of a Houston-area high school student who killed herself are rallying for tighter laws against cyberbullying. Brandy Vela’s family says cyberbullying pushed the 18-year-old over the edge, leading her to shoot herself in the chest Tuesday afternoon at the family’s Texas City home as family members watched. Her father, Raul Vela, said she had been receiving abusive text messages for months from bullies using an untraceable smartphone application. Her father said someone made a fake Facebook page of her, creating another cyberbullying medium. “I heard someone crying,” Brandy’s 22-year-old sister, Jacqueline Vela, told KPRC-TV of Houston, “so I ran upstairs and I looked in her room, and she’s against the wall and she has a gun pointed at her chest and she’s just crying and crying and I’m like, ‘Brandy, please don’t. Brandy, no.” Jacqueline Vela said she went to her parents’ room, “and I just heard the shot and my dad just yelled, ‘Help me. Help me. Help me.'” “I was almost certain that I could persuade her to put that gun down. It didn’t work. She pulled the trigger,” Raul Vela said. Her final cellphone text to her family was, “I love you so much just remember that please and I’m so sorry for everything.” Her family said the harassment focused mainly on Brandy’s weight. “They would make dating websites of her, and they would put her number and they would put her picture (on the sites), and lie about her age and say she is giving herself up for sex for free, to call her,” said Jacqueline Vela. The family said they reported the bullying to the Texas City school district and several law enforcement agencies. “School was a safe environment for Brandy,” said school district spokeswoman Melissa Tortorici. “She had a lot of friends and was thought of warmly by her peers and teachers. She did bring it to the school’s attention before Thanksgiving break that she was getting harassing messages to her cellphone outside of school. Our deputy investigated it, and the app that was being used to send the messages was untraceable. We encouraged her to change her phone number.” Brandy Vela changed her number, but bullies always found her, her family said. “We have lots of incident reports, and they always say the same thing: They can’t do anything about it,” Jacqueline Vela said. A Texas City Police Department statement says it continues to investigate the Velas’ complaints. Jacqueline Vela told KPRC that she and her siblings have a good idea who may have been behind some of these attacks and have been assisting in the investigation. The father said that he hopes for stricter laws against cyberbullying and greater awareness of the problem to give some meaning to his daughter’s death.

New York City police stand guard in front of Trump Tower, a residence of President-elect Donald Trump in New York, Sunday, Nov. 13, 2016. New Yorkers are protesting the financial burden of the security costs for the Trump family. A pair of online petitions is demanding that the residents of New York City not be on the hook for President-elect Donald Trump‘s $1 million-per-day security costs. One of the petitions even has some heavyweights behind it — Speaker of the New York City Council Melissa Mark-Viverito, and Counc. Dan Garodnick. Since Trump’s surprise victory, New York City police have increased protection for the president-elect and his family, who residet at Trump Tower in the heart of Manhattan, not far from the Museum of Modern Art and Carnegie Hall. While Trump moves to the White House early next year, his wife Melania and son Barron will stay behind until the school year is over. There have been reports indicating Trump will live part-time in New York. Police have set up barriers and security details at the luxury skyscraper, which has been the headquarters for his transition team as he prepares for his inauguration. One petition lobbies for federal funds to cover the security costs; it is intended to be delivered to Trump. “At an estimated $1 million per day, protecting you, your family and your home at Trump Tower will total over one billion dollars during your four-year term,” the petition states. “This represents an extraordinary financial burden for New York City taxpayers.” The city’s basic services — such as police, sanitation, and schools — would suffer under the financial burden, it states. “Commit the necessary federal funds to reimburse New York for all costs of protecting you and your family— both before and after your inauguration as President of the United States of America. “Make it clear today that New York City is not going to get stuck with the bill.” A second petition takes aim at Melania’s plans to stay in New York after her husband goes to the White House. Signed by roughly 90,000 supporters, it urges Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio to refuse the security costs. “The New York taxpayers refuse to pay over $1 million a day so she can stay. If this decision has been made, between the two of them they should be the ones to pay for it. Not New York taxpayer dollars that could be used on roads, schools, transit, sanitation, new jobs and other expenses that the city has,” it states. “This is what tax dollars should be used for, improvements for the city and all the people of the city, not just one.” De Blasio previously said the cost of protection for Trump and his family was of concern. “We are particularly concerned about overtime costs, and we think it’s a very valid situation to turn to the federal government for the maximum possible reimbursement for those costs,” de Blasio told reporters last month. Trump’s inauguration day is Jan. 20, which is also the day the Obamas will officially make way for the Trumps in the White House.

Canada’s top one per cent of income earners pulled in an average of $466,700 in 2014, and paid more in taxes than the average Canadian household makes in a year. New data from Statistics Canada provides a glimpse of Canada’s wealthiest – the 268,505 Canadians who earn more than $227,100 annually. Canada’s top earners were mostly male, (78.3 per cent), likely to be in a relationship (81.5 per cent), with a median age of 52. In all, the top one per cent pulled in 10.3 per cent of Canada’s total combined income; that was unchanged from 2013. But data showed that while Canada’s rich were doing just fine, as a group their average total income barely budged between 2009 and 2014. Meanwhile, the average of all Canadian tax-filers grew by 4.2 per cent over the same period. The average tax bill for the top earners came in at $159,500 in combined federal and provincial taxes, a 2.7 per cent hike from the year before. The bulk of the high-income earners lived in Ontario (107,200) and increasingly Alberta (68,600). It should be noted that this data is from before the oil crash, which began its tumble in mid-2014, before hitting a 12-year low of US$28.50 in January 2016. The oil crash hammered Alberta, where unemployment rates spiked as energy sector jobs disappeared. Canada’s high earners should expect to pay more in federal taxes for 2016; the Trudeau Liberals bumped the tax bracket for people earning more than $200,000 to 33 per cent, an increase from the 2015 rate of 29 per cent.

A South Carolina man suspected of being a serial killer was formally charged with three additional counts of murder Monday for bodies found buried on his land. The murder warrants against Todd Kohlhepp weren’t a surprise. Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright already said the 45-year-old real estate agent was responsible for those three killings and four more at a motorcycle shop in 2003. Kohlhepp was charged with killing 32-year-old Charlie Carver between Aug. 30 and Sept. 2. Carver went to see Kohlhepp with his girlfriend to check on a cleaning job when he was shot and killed and she was kidnapped, authorities said. Kohlhepp was arrested Nov. 3 after deputies found Carver’s girlfriend chained in a storage container, Wright said. Kohlhepp shot 25-year-old Meagan McCraw-Coxie on Christmas or Dec. 26 after holding her against her will for about a week, according to arrest warrants that include a kidnapping charge. The Coxies were reported missing last December. Coxie was killed a day after his wife was released from jail. McCraw-Coxie had told her mother she needed to be bonded out so she could go to a job, but then her mother lost contact, Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Lt. Kevin Bobo said. Kohlhepp already faces four additional murder charges for killing the owner, service manager, mechanic and bookkeeper at a motorcycle shop in 2003. Kohlhepp waived a bond hearing Monday night, according to media reports.

Ten paramilitary soldiers have been killed in a clash between security forces and Maoist rebels in India’s eastern Bihar state, police say. At least five other soldiers were injured in the battle in Aurangabad district late on Monday. Maoist rebels have carved out strongholds in a number of states in the north, east and centre of India. They say they are fighting for communist rule and greater rights for tribal people and the rural poor. Three rebels were also killed in Monday night’s gunfight in the Dumrinala area, nearly 170km (105 miles) south of Patna, the capital of Bihar, police officer PK Sahu told the Associated Press news agency, The police said the rebels used improvised explosive devices and fired at the soldiers when the latter were conducting anti-rebel operations in the area. India’s Maoist insurgency began in West Bengal state in the late 1960s and has been called the country’s “greatest internal security challenge”. The Maoists control large areas of several states in a “red corridor” stretching from the north-east to central India.

Jakarta. The Confederation of Indonesian Workers’ Unions, or KSPI, announced on Monday (21/11) that a million workers will go on strike across the country on Dec. 2 to demand higher wages and the arrest of inactive Jakarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama. KSPI president Said Iqbal said the strike will be staged in 20 provinces and 250 cities and districts across the country. “In the greater Jakarta area and Karawang, more than 200,000 workers will take to the streets on Dec. 2 and march towards the State Palace from the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle,” Said said in a statement. Workers in other provinces will protest at their respective governors’ offices, he added. The protesters will demand the revocation of Government Regulation No. 78 of 2015 on wages and a 15 percent to 20 percent increase in minimum wages. They will also call for the arrest of Ahok, who has been named a suspect in a blasphemy case. Several Muslim groups also plan to perform Friday prayers at the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle and on Jalan Jend. Sudirman and Jalan M.H. Thamrin in Central Jakarta on Dec. 2 as part of another mass protest rally. According to Said, the workers’ rallies are intentionally scheduled for the same day because of the common interests of the protesters, which include the supremacy of the law, better wages, anger over human rights violations committed during forced evictions in the capital, and rejection of the Jakarta Bay reclamation project. The National Police have officially banned the protest over concerns that it may disturb the public order.

Sky's Ed Conway looks at the most important charts of the Autumn Statement and what they say about Brexit's impact on the economy As Autumn Statements go, this was both thick and thin. Thin in terms of the number of pages in the document itself - a mere 64 of them, which makes it more of a pamphlet than a major fiscal document, about half the length of its predecessors. But in terms of the changes to the official outlook for the economy, and the Government's own plans in the coming years, the Autumn Statement for 2016 was thick with changes. Let's go through them using some of the most important charts of the day. The best place to start is with this chart, showing you just how much Government borrowing is due to increase in the coming years (£122bn in total, compared with the March Budget), and where all that extra borrowing comes from. As you can see, a fair chunk of it is down to the usual stuff: extra spending commitments from the Government (the green bit), forecast changes (red) and reclassifications of where the debt sits in the national accounts (yellow). But as you can see, by far and away the biggest chunk of the increase in the deficit each year is down to Brexit-related effects (blue). In short, the Office for Budget Responsibility (who do these forecasts) thinks the economy will be weaker in the coming years. That, in turn, means less income shared across the country, which means less income tax, which means a higher deficit. In other words, the big story from the Autumn Statement this year is less about the extra money the Government is spending and more about the ginormous fiscal impact of Brexit - a cumulative £58.6bn, or more than half of the total deficit increase. Which raises the question: why does Brexit cause so much fiscal damage? The answer can be found in this chart, put together using some of the figures in the OBR's documents. In short, most of the Brexit weakness is associated with three things: lower migration, weaker productivity (itself partly a consequence of weaker investment) and a likely cyclical economic downturn caused by uncertainty and a squeeze on wages. In other words, all the stuff those economists were warning about before the referendum will mean the UK economy will be significantly weaker (2.4% over the forecast horizon) and households will be left with a major chunk of extra borrowing (£122bn) to pay off in future. Then again, these are still forecasts, so if you're one of those people who's inclined not to believe them, that's your prerogative. That brings us to this chart, which shows you just how unsure economists in the UK are about the potential growth rate in the coming years. As you can see, the OBR has set its own forecast somewhere in the middle, but admits that the room for error is far greater than ever before. Indeed, it revealed today that despite imploring the Government for more detail about the likely path of the negotiations, it knows about as much as the rest of us. Which is to say, not a lot. Still, we are where we are. And with the deficit and the national debt now much higher than before, that means the Treasury has already broken the three fiscal rules set by George Osborne to keep borrowing in check. Philip Hammond's solution? Get another three fiscal rules. His new rules (which, as you can see from this helpful checklist from the OBR) are all being met at the moment. That's not a surprise, since they're so much easier than the previous ones. In fact, by some measures they're easier to meet than those proposed by Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell. Interestingly, despite this sudden fiscal lurch, markets remain relatively sanguine, and while the UK's cost of borrowing increased a touch, it's still well, well below recent levels. Which just about tells you how much they care about missing fiscal rules (or indeed needing them in the first place). Anyway, now for the question you're all no doubt asking: who gets all the money? Well, such as it is (this was not a big rabbit-out-of-hat moment), the vast majority of it will be spent on infrastructure: roads, railway, broadband and all that. That's the grey-blue chunk in this chart from the OBR. It is leavened out by some small tax rises (such as an increase in insurance premium tax (again) and removal of salary sacrifice and other such loopholes) and sits alongside some smallish increases in welfare spending. But - and this is important - Government spending on investment will remain very low in the coming years. Indeed, as this long-run chart shows, public sector net investment (eg with depreciation subtracted) will still, in 2021, be lower than it was in 2010. So not as big as it looks at first. Finally, the Treasury did something welcome and honest in this Autumn Statement (how often can we say that?) and provided a bit of detail about winners and losers. This chart shows you which income groups will benefit and suffer most as a result of the policies both in today's statement but also in the announcements we've had since last year's election. As you can see, the wealthiest 10% of the po[CENSORED]tion are by far and away the biggest losers. However, they are followed by the poorest 10% of the po[CENSORED]tion, who of course will bear the brunt of the benefits freeze introduced by Mr Osborne. And that raises one big unanswered question from today's announcements: why is the Government not addressing the one policy that will cause most pain to the Just About Managing families and reconsidering this freeze? The upshot is that for many people, working and reliant on benefits to keep them financially afloat, the coming winter and spring will be very chilly indeed.

One of the suspects, a school official, is thought to have travelled to Syria during school holidays to learn combat techniques. A theme park was among the targets listed by terror suspects arrested in France at the weekend, according to French media. An area described as having a high number of police officers was also mentioned, iTele reported. The seven suspects - of French, Moroccan and Afghan origin and aged between 29 and 38 - were detained in the southern port city of Marseilles and the eastern city of Strasbourg overnight on Saturday and Sunday. The raids followed an eight-month investigation by French security services. On Monday, interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve told reporters that the arrests prevented "a terrorist act that had been envisaged for a long time on our soil". Bernard Cazeneuve said the arrests had prevented a terrorist attack Two handguns, an automatic pistol, a machine pistol and jihadist propaganda were found during the raids. One of the suspects arrested in Strasbourg, named as Yasin B, 38, was an official at a school who went to Syria via Cyprus in 2015, possibly using school holidays to avoid arousing suspicion, iTele said. During his stay, he and an accomplice, who was also arrested, were taught combat techniques and the art of concealment, the news outlet reported. Meanwhile, two of those arrested in Marseilles were released on Tuesday. They had been suspected of helping to shelter a Moroccan identified as Hicham E, who is thought to have financed the group and is still being held by police. A total of 418 people have been arrested in France for suspected links to terror networks since the start of the year, including 43 people this month alone. The country remains in a state of emergency a year after Islamic State jihadists killed 130 people in Paris in co-ordinated attacks.