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| Muslims in Asia denounce Trump's call for "U.S. ban" | |  By Katharine Houreld ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Muslims in Pakistan and Indonesia on Tuesday denounced Donald Trump's call for a ban on Muslims entering the United States, dismissing the U.S. Republican presidential front-runner as a bigot who promoted violence. Trump's statement on "preventing Muslim immigration" drew swift and fierce criticism from many directions at home, including from the White House and rivals for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. Trump, responding to last week's California shooting spree by two Muslims who the Federal Bureau of Investigation said had been radicalised, called for a complete block on Muslims entering the United States "until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on".
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| Donald Trump urges ban on Muslims entering United States | |  By Steve Holland and Emily Stephenson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Monday called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States in the most dramatic response by a candidate yet to last week's shooting spree by two Muslims who the FBI said had been radicalized. "We have no choice," Trump said at a rally in South Carolina, warning of more Sept. 11-style attacks if stern measures are not taken. Trump's statement on "preventing Muslim immigration" drew swift and fierce blowback from many directions, including the White House, rivals for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton and Republican former Vice President Dick Cheney, who said the idea "goes against everything we stand for and believe in." "Donald Trump is unhinged.
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| Grappling with attacks, U.S. leaders ask Muslim Americans to fight back | | | By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facing what President Barack Obama has called a new phase of terrorism, U.S. officials appealed to Muslim Americans on Monday to fight harder against extremist ideology. The Obama administration has defended Muslim Americans after attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California, and the inflammatory rhetoric that came in its wake, while a parallel message to Islamic communities is gaining urgency: please help. As Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump suggested banning all Muslims from entering the country on Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson stood in solidarity with an imam and leaders of other faiths at a northern Virginia Islamic center. |
| Congress threatens tax reform over government's Gandhi "vendetta" | |  By Aditya Kalra and Nigam Prusty NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Leaders of India's opposition Congress party held hostage Prime Minister Narendra Modi's hopes of passing a crucial tax reform, as they accused his government on Tuesday of using the courts to run a "vendetta" against the Nehru-Gandhi family. The government wants to introduce a nationwide goods and services tax to revive its stalled reform programme. The tax would replace a long list of state levies, raising hopes that it would boost investment by making it easier to do business in India's vast internal market.
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| South African court grants Pistorius bail after murder conviction | |  A South African court on Tuesday granted bail to paralympian Oscar Pistorius after he was convicted of murder for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day 2013, with the judge saying the athlete did not pose a flight risk. The Supreme Court last 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. Known as "Blade Runner" because of the carbon fibre prosthetic blades he used to race, Pistorius now faces a minimum 15-year jail sentence for murdering his girlfriend.
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| Thai Interpol head says no credible threat of IS attack | | | By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's Interpol director said on Tuesday there was "no credible" threat of an attack by suspected members of Islamic State following a warning by the Russian intelligence service that 10 Syrians linked to Islamic State had entered the country. A document from Thai Special Branch police leaked to social media showed it had been warned by Russia's Federal Security Service that 10 Syrians linked to Islamic State had entered Thailand between Oct. 15 and Oct. 31 to target Russian interests. Confirmation on Friday that the document was real prompted Thailand to step up security around potential targets including the cities of Pattaya and Phuket, home to large Russian communities. |
| Machine guns, no-fly zone surround Pope's opening of Holy Year | |  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Thousands of the faithful backed up for several blocks at the Vatican on Tuesday, huddled under umbrellas and some undergoing two body and bag searches along the way as security dominated Pope Francis's opening of Holy Year. The Catholic Holy Year, or Jubilee, is expected to draw millions to Rome and is prompting the strictest security in living memory following recent attacks in Paris and California. "The risk of terrorism will never be zero, we cannot provide absolute security, but we are working to attain the level of security that people rightly ask for," Rome police chief Franco Gabrielli said.
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| CONCACAF decide against selecting new president | | | CONCACAF, the crisis-hit governing body for soccer in North and Central America and the Caribbean, whose acting president Alfredo Hawit was arrested last week, have decided not to appoint a new interim leader. Hawit was arrested in Zurich on Thursday and was indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice on corruption charges as part of their investigation into world governing body FIFA. The Honduran had taken over the helm of CONCACAF following the May arrest of previous president Jeffrey Webb, also on corruption charges, in Zurich before a FIFA meeting. |
| The brothers Farook: one a decorated veteran, the other a killer | |  Syed Raheel Farook and his younger brother Syed Rizwan Farook grew up in the same house, attended the same high school two years apart and, as teenagers, often socialized in the same groups. In court filings, Rafia cited multiple instances of domestic abuse, asserting that her husband was "mentally ill" and threatened "to kill himself on a daily basis." During one violent incident, she said, her son came between them "to save me." Gasser Shehata, a friend of Rizwan's from a San Bernardino mosque, said that Rizwan talked to him in recent years about his religious issues with his dad while growing up, and how he came to side with his mother in their disputes.
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| Anti-graft watchdog censures 137 at China's biggest bank ICBC | | | China's anti-graft watchdog said on Tuesday it censured 137 bankers at the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), the country's largest lender, the latest move in a campaign against corruption in the financial sector. The announcement comes just weeks after anti-graft agents probed two of China's largest brokerages and censured four executives at a leading insurer. On Tuesday, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), in a statement on its official website, said an investigation uncovered 25 instances of violations of Chinese Communist Party discipline at ICBC involving 47 people. |
| Yemen president confirms proposed 7-day ceasefire for peace talks | |  By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Yemen's president told the United Nations on Monday that he has asked the Saudi-led coalition to begin a 7-day ceasefire on Dec. 15 to coincide with U.N.-sponsored peace talks aimed at ending months of fighting that has killed nearly 6,000 people. "I have notified the leadership of the Coalition of our intention to cease fire for a period of seven days, starting December 15 until December 21," President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi said in a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Hadi's letter, which it said was also sent to the U.N. Security Council, confirmed remarks made earlier on Monday by U.N. special envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, who said Hadi's Saudi-backed exiled government and the Houthis were committed to the peace process laid down by the Security Council in April.
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| China vows to change negative perception of domestic game | |  China is working hard to overcome soccer's negative image following years of corruption scandals and a stagnation in player development, a leading sports official said on Tuesday. "There have been major efforts made in Chinese soccer in recent years and while there have been some positive results, the people are still not satisfied," Deputy Sports Minister Feng Jianzhong told reporters at a briefing. As well as looking to improve matters on the domestic front, a consortium led by state-backed China Media Capital recently took a $400 million stake in English side Manchester City, making it Beijing's biggest investment in the sport overseas.
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| FBI says California shooters were radicalized for 'some time' | |  By Dan Whitcomb SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (Reuters) - Investigators believe the married couple who massacred 14 people in California last week - a U.S.-born husband and his Pakistani wife - had been radicalized "for quite some time," but no clues pointing to an international plot have yet emerged, the FBI said on Monday. Authorities also have evidence that Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his spouse Tashfeen Malik, 29, had engaged in firearms target practice near their Southern California home within days of last week's deadly shooting rampage, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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