News Headlines - 29 November 2016

South Korean President Park says she will resign after lawmakers act | The Japan Times

South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Tuesday asked parliament to find a way for her to give up power and decide when she should step down amid an influence-peddling scandal, but the opposition said she was just trying to avoid impeachment.

75 killed as Brazilian soccer team's plane crashes near Medellin

Seventy-five people, including most of Brazil’s Chapecoense soccer team, died when their plane crashed just before landing near Colombia’s second largest city Medellin. Six survived the crash.

Donald Trump: Burn the flag, go to jail - CNNPolitics.com

President-elect Donald Trump proposed on Tuesday a penalty -- including possible jail time or loss of citizenship -- for burning the American flag, in spite of two US Supreme Court rulings that protect the act under the First Amendment as a form of free speech.

Kellogg Pulls Ads From Breitbart Amid Hate-Speech Concerns - Bloomberg

Kellogg Co. is pulling its ads from the website Breitbart News, the right-wing news organization whose former chairman Steve Bannon was tapped as a top adviser to President-elect Donald Trump.

German intelligence officer 'arrested over Islamist plot' raising fears the spy agency has been infilitrated

A German intelligence officer has reportedly been arrested over a suspected Islamist plot to bomb the agency's headquarters in Cologne.
The 51-year-old official was said to have made a "partial confession" to the plot, according to Der Spiegel.