News Headlines - 13 December 2016

▽UK inflation at two-year high as clothing prices rise - BBC News

The biggest rise in clothing prices in six years helped to drive the UK's inflation rate up to 1.2% in November, up from 0.9% in October.
November's Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation rate was the highest since October 2014, when it stood at 1.3%.

▽Reid: FBI director's letter cost Democrats the election, Senate - CNNPolitics.com

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said Monday FBI Director James Comey was "heavily involved as a partisan" in the weeks leading up to the election and that Comey's actions handed the presidency to Donald Trump.

▽Treachery killed USSR, Russia's Gorbachev tells BBC - BBC News

In a rare interview marking 25 years since the demise of the Soviet Union, he told the BBC's Steve Rosenberg he resigned to avoid a bloody civil war.

▽Philippines: 5,900 die in 'war on drugs' since July - CNN.com

There have been 5,927 deaths linked to the "war on drugs" in the Philippines since July 1 according to statistics released by the national police on Monday.

▽Apple Held Talks to Invest in SoftBank Technology Fund - WSJ

Apple Inc. has held talks about investing in a $100 billion fund being raised by Japanese internet and telecommunications giant SoftBank Group Corp., a move that would put Silicon Valley cash—and cachet—into what would be the world’s largest technology fund.