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| FBI investigating California massacre as 'act of terrorism' | |  By Dan Whitcomb and Mark Hosenball SAN BERNARDINO, Calif./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI is investigating this week's massacre of 14 people by a married couple in California as an "act of terrorism," officials said on Friday, noting that the female shooter had pledged allegiance to a leader of the militant group Islamic State. Tashfeen Malik, 27, a native of Pakistan who lived in Saudi Arabia for more than 20 years, and her U.S.-born husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, were killed in a shootout with police hours after the Wednesday attack during a holiday party at the Inland Regional Center social services agency in San Bernardino, about 60 miles (100 km) east of Los Angeles.
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| Investigators piece together portrait of Pakistani woman in shooting massacre | |  By Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Tashfeen Malik's path to accused mass killer in California began in a small city on the Indus River in Pakistan's Punjab province. It was from here, when she was a toddler, that she moved with her father Gulzar 25 years ago to Saudi Arabia, where he became more deeply religious, more conservative and more hardline, according to a family member. A picture slowly emerged on Friday of the role and possible motivations of 27-year-old Malik in this week's killing of 14 people in California, including her apparent pledge of allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State militant group, according to U.S. officials.
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| Guatemalan judge arrested on Disney cruise ship on football bribery charges | | | By Barbara Liston ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - Federal agents boarded a Disney cruise ship in Florida on Friday to arrest a Guatemalan judge who is one of dozens of football officials charged by U.S. prosecutors investigating corruption in the sport's world governing body FIFA. A spokeswoman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation said that Héctor Trujillo, 62, was arrested by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents who went to his cabin door. Trujillo was on a Disney cruise ship docked at Port Canaveral, Florida, when he was arrested, another law enforcement source said. |
| Praise for Islamic State posted during shooting to suspect's Facebook page | | | (Reuters) - Comments praising the Islamic State were posted during the California shooting to a Facebook page established by the woman accused of helping to kill 14 people, a Facebook Inc spokesman said on Friday. The Facebook profile, established under an alias by Tashfeen Malik, was removed by the company on Thursday for violating its community standards, which prohibit praise or promotion of "acts of terror," said the spokesman, who asked not to be named. The spokesman said there was pro-Islamic State content on the page but declined to elaborate. |
| Tributes pour in for troubled rocker Scott Weiland, dead at 48 | |  By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Tributes poured in on Friday for rock singer Scott Weiland, the troubled ex-frontman for the band Stone Temple Pilots, who was found dead in Minnesota during a tour stop with his new band, The Wildabouts. Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry called Weiland a "gifted performer" and rocker Alice Cooper tweeted "what a voice we've lost." Singer Ryan Adams tweeted "Universe, please take care of him," while filmmaker Judd Apatow said watching Weiland perform was "some of my favourite concerts of all time." Weiland, 48, died in his sleep while on tour in Bloomington, south of Minneapolis, according to a statement posted to his Facebook page. Bloomington police said, after executing a search warrant, that they had discovered a small amount of a substance that tested positive as cocaine in the bedroom where Weiland was located.
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| Baltimore officer said Freddie Gray asked for help while in van | |  By Donna Owens BALTIMORE (Reuters) - A Baltimore policeman charged with manslaughter in the death of a 25-year-old black man told investigators the man had asked for medical assistance while he was in a police van, according to a taped interview played at the officer's trial on Friday. One of the points at issue in the case of Freddie Gray, who died from an injury sustained while he was in the van, is if Gray asked police for help and his request was disregarded. Officer William Porter, 26, said in the interview played in Baltimore City Circuit Court that he passed along Gray's request for help to the driver of the van and his superior.
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| Police raid Argentina media regulator ahead of power handover | | | Police raided the headquarters of Argentina's media regulator on Friday, prompting the watchdog's head to accuse President-elect Mauricio Macri of involvement in what he called a "mafia plot" designed to force his resignation. Martin Sabbatella said Macri wanted to replace him as president of the Federal Authority of Audiovisual and Communication Services (AFSCA) but that he would stay in his post until the end of his mandate in 2017. The raid was the latest incident pointing to increasingly testy relations between conservative Macri and the outgoing leftist president, Cristina Fernandez, ahead of his Dec. 10 swearing in. |
| Restaurant video missing footage of Chicago police shooting | | | By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago officials on Friday released video from a nearby Burger King restaurant taken on the night a police officer fatally shot a black teen but it was missing the time period when the 2014 shooting occurred. The missing footage has led to allegations of tampering with evidence and of a police cover-up in the case, which have been strongly denied by police and prosecutors. Last week, the city released police car dashboard camera video that showed Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times on Oct. 20, 2014. |
| U.S. yet to agree details on new force's role in Iraq - officials | |  By Warren Strobel, Phil Stewart and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has yet to agree with Baghdad on crucial details governing the role of a new American special forces unit aimed at hunting Islamic State militants in Iraq, U.S. officials said, underlining the difficulties Washington faces dealing with Iraq's weakened leader. Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced on Tuesday the planned deployment of the small force, whose raids against Islamic State targets would be the first sustained military operations by U.S. forces in Iraq since American combat troops left in 2011.
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| Paris militant group had links to Britain - Wall Street Journal | |  The militant network behind last month's attacks in Paris had links to people in Britain, the Wall Street Journal said on Friday, citing unidentified Western officials. Several people suspected of having connections to Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the Islamic State militant and alleged ringleader of the Nov. 13 attacks, are based in Britain, according to two Western officials, the Journal said. The officials told the Journal those people, including some of Moroccan heritage, were based in the Birmingham area, in central England, about 120 miles (190 km) from London.
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| Exclusive - Investigators piece together portrait of Pakistani woman in shooting massacre | |  By Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Tashfeen Malik's path to accused mass killer in California began in a small city on the Indus River in Pakistan's Punjab province. It was from here, when she was a toddler, that she moved with her father Gulzar 25 years ago to Saudi Arabia, where he became more deeply religious, more conservative and more hardline, according to a family member. A picture slowly emerged on Friday of the role and possible motivations of 27-year-old Malik in this week's killing of 14 people in California, including her apparent pledge of allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State militant group, according to U.S. officials.
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| Czech MEP accused of trying to snatch 350 mln euros from Swiss bank | | | PRAGUE/BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Swiss police arrested a Czech communist member of the European Parliament and three Slovak nationals who tried to withdraw 350 million euros ($380 million) from a bank using forged papers, Czech and Slovak officials said on Friday. Czech Interior Minister Milan Chovanec confirmed the arrest of the four men. "Swiss authorities told our ambassador that Mr. Ransdorf was released (from custody), so I assume he could be on his way home now," Lenka Lagronova, a Czech foreign ministry spokeswoman, said on Friday. |
| FBI chief says no sign California shooters were part of larger group | | | The head of the FBI said on Friday that investigators so far had uncovered no evidence that would suggest the alleged shooters in San Bernardino were part of an organised group, even though the rampage may have been an act of terrorism. There is no indication that they are part of a network," FBI Director James Comey told reporters. |
| Al Qaeda group says staged Mali hotel attack in joint operation | |  Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) said it has joined forces with another militant group and together they staged an attack last month on a hotel in Mali's capital in which 20 people were killed, according to an audio message posted online. The leader of AQIM, Abu Musab Abdul Wadud, said in the audio speech his group was joining al Mourabitoun and the Nov. 20 attack on the Radisson Blu hotel was a symbol of their unity. The message was posted on Twitter on Thursday and seen by the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors radical Islamist organizations in the media.
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| Obama, UK's Cameron discuss fight against Islamic State - White House | |  U.S. President Barack Obama spoke on Friday with British Prime Minister David Cameron, a day after British bombers made their first strikes on Islamic State targets in Syria, to discuss the fight against the militant group, the White House said. The leaders "reiterated that all countries are welcome to join the existing coalition, if their political and military objectives in Syria are consistent with those of the coalition," the White House said in a statement. Cameron also expressed his condolences for the shootings in San Bernardino, California, this week, the White House said.
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| Japan's securities watchdog to recommend Toshiba fine on Monday - Nikkei | |  (Reuters) - Recommendation from Japan's securities watchdog to fine Toshiba Corp for accounting violations will be announced on Monday, Nikkei reported. A source told Reuters last month that the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission was likely to recommend the Financial Services Agency to fine Toshiba about 7 billion yen ($57 million), in what would be a record in the country for accounting-related violations. Toshiba, whose business spans household electronics to nuclear power, has said it inflated profits by about 155 billion yen over about seven years.
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| Colombia's FARC captures vacationing soldier, government says | | | Colombia's FARC rebels captured a soldier who was on vacation in the country's southern jungles, an incident that violates the group's unilateral ceasefire but will not affect ongoing peace talks if he is freed, the government said on Friday. Jesus Rojas was seized by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) near San Vicente del Caguan, in Caqueta province, while he was visiting family. The guerrilla group accused him of spying, Defence Minister Luis Carlos Villegas told reporters. |
| FBI investigating California shooting as act of terrorism | | | (Reuters) - Authorities are investigating the San Bernardino, California, shooting as an act of terrorism, Federal Bureau of Investigation assistant director David Bowdich said at a news conference on Friday. (Reporting by Suzannah Gonzales; Editing by Fiona Ortiz) |
| Accused California shooter raised no red flags in Saudi - source | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Accused California shooter Tashfeen Malik did not come to authorities' attention while living in Saudi Arabia, a source close to the Saudi government told Reuters on Friday. The source said Malik, 27, was not on any Saudi law enforcement or terrorism watchlist, and authorities had no reason to believe she was involved with extremist groups. (Reporting by Warren Strobel; Editing by Doina Chiacu and Andrew Hay)
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| No evidence Islamic State knew of San Bernardino shooters - source | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Investigators have no evidence Islamic State knew the two alleged shooters in the San Bernardino, California, rampage and no evidence from their home suggests any substantive connection to a foreign terror organisation, a U.S. government source said on Friday. The source said there was nothing to suggest the militant Islamic group "even knew who they were." (Reporting by Mark Hosenball; Writing by Tim Ahmann; Editing by Andrea Ricci)
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| Texas drops request for restraining order to halt Syrian refugees | | | By Julia Edwards and Jon Herskovitz WASHINGTON/AUSTIN (Reuters) - Texas on Friday withdrew its request for a temporary restraining order to prevent the imminent resettlement of 21 Syrian refugees into the state, saying the U.S. government had provided it with the information it sought on the group. The move came just hours after the U.S. Justice Department filed papers in a federal court in Dallas, saying the state did not have the authority to act on national immigration policy and could not bar the refugees from resettling. The relief agency that plans to resettle the Syrians in the coming days filed a separate motion at the U.S. District Court in Dallas, contending that Texas could not discriminate against refugees on the basis of nationality because that violates U.S. civil rights laws. |
| New Mexico police say million-dollar jewel thief was on probation | | | By Joseph J. Kolb ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (Reuters) - The prime suspect in a $1.3 million jewel heist during a Christmas tree-lighting ceremony at a fashionable New Mexico plaza a week ago has been identified and was on probation for committing a similar crime last year, police said on Friday. A judge has issued an arrest warrant for Luis Villalba Boca-Negra, 45, in connection with the audacious Nov. 27 theft of the jewellery from a boutique in the Santa Fe plaza, said Santa Fe Police Detective Abe Maes. Investigators say security cameras recorded the thief peering into the front windows of the Divas Diamonds and Jewels store during the ceremony, which draws hundreds of visitors to the historic Santa Fe plaza every year. |
| After deaths, Egyptians grow bolder in challenging police abuse | |  By Lin Noueihed TAHANOUB, Egypt (Reuters) - Fathia Hashem was preparing for bed when Egyptian plainclothes police burst into her house, forced her into a van and ordered her to lead them to her son Amr Abushanab's apartment. Three days later, she watched police escort him to be questioned by prosecutors. Unlike the families of scores of other Egyptians that rights groups say die in police custody every year, Abushanab's family has gone public, as have those of two other men who died in police custody in the span of a week.
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| Sri Lankan securities regulator arrested for misappropriation | | | A top securities regulator was arrested on Friday in Sri Lanka on suspicion of financial misappropriation, a police spokesman said. Dhammika Perera, the deputy director of the Sri Lankan Securities and Exchange Commission, is now under compulsory leave. The money was given to a youth organisation, Tharuyata Hetak or "Better Tomorrow for Youth", headed by Namal Rajapaksa, a parliamentarian and the eldest son of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa, police said. |
| News agency says Islamic State followers carried out California attacks | | | CAIRO (Reuters) - The Aamaq news agency, which supports Islamic State, said on its website on Friday that followers of the Islamist militant group had carried out Wednesday's attack on a social services agency in California, in which 14 people were killed. (Reporting by Omar Fahmy; Writing by Michael Georgy; Editing by Kevin Liffey) |
| No charges for California officer in beating of black woman | | | (Reuters) - Los Angeles prosecutors have declined to file criminal charges against a former California Highway Patrol officer who was caught in a cell phone video beating a black, mentally ill, homeless woman beside a freeway last year, officials said. The decision comes amid heightened scrutiny of law enforcement following high-profile killings of unarmed black people across the United States since mid-2014 and protests against systemic racism and police violence under the banner of Black Lives Matter. The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said on Thursday that Officer Daniel Andrew did not use unreasonable or excessive force when he pulled Marlene Pinnock to the ground and punched her around a dozen times about the head and shoulders. |
| South African authorities deny issuing arrest warrant for Pistorius | |  South African authorities on Friday denied issuing an arrest warrant for Oscar Pistorius, who was convicted on appeal of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, rejecting an earlier report by a local television station. "It is not the case," National Prosecuting Authority spokesman Luvuyo Mfaku told Reuters. "No such warrant has been issued." The Supreme Court on Thursday upgraded the 29-year-old athlete's sentence to murder from "culpable homicide", South Africa's equivalent of manslaughter, for which he had received a five-year sentence.
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| No U.S. ground forces involved in Afghan raid to free prisoners - U.S. military | | | No U.S. ground forces were involved in an Afghan raid that freed 60 prisoners held in a Taliban jail, a U.S. military spokesman said on Friday. An earlier statement on Friday by the U.S. military said a joint Afghan-U.S. raid freed 40 members of Afghanistan's security forces from the Taliban jail in the volatile southern province of Helmand. "This was an independent Afghan operation," said Colonel Patrick Ryder, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command, which oversees military operations in Afghanistan. |
| FBI to update on San Bernardino investigation Friday - White House | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Bureau of Investigation will provide an update on Friday on its probe into Wednesday's shooting in San Bernardino, California. "The FBI is leading this investigation because of the possibility that this is a terrorist attack," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said. (Reporting by Julia Edwards and Doina Chiacu) |
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