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| In pattern, gun maker shares surge after California shooting | | Wednesday, December 09, 2015 12:22 AM | |
| | By Noel Randewich SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Shares of U.S. gun makers have surged after the massacre of 14 people in California last week, following a pattern that has grown more common in recent years as high-profile mass shootings spur firearms sales as well as calls for gun control measures. Since last Thursday's shooting in San Bernardino, California, the deadliest burst of U.S. gun violence in three years, Smith & Wesson shares have surged about 17 percent, compared to the S&P 500's 1 percent loss. Sturm Ruger shares have gained about 10 percent. |
| California shooters borrowed $28,000 before attack - source | | Wednesday, December 09, 2015 12:20 AM | |
|  By Mark Hosenball and Michael Erman WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - A married couple who killed 14 people in a California shooting rampage the FBI is investigating as an act of terrorism borrowed about $28,000 from an online lender, a sum deposited into their bank account about two weeks before the attack, a source said on Tuesday. Disclosure of the unsecured loan the husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, took out from San Francisco-based Prosper, a peer-to-peer lending service, offered a new glimpse into the money trail under scrutiny by investigators of last week's mass shooting. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has described Farook, the U.S.-born son of Pakistani immigrants, and his Pakistani-born wife, Tashfeen Malik, 29, as a couple "radicalised" by Islamic extremist ideology.
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| Gun supplier in Calif. attack connected to shooters' family by marriage -documents | | Wednesday, December 09, 2015 12:18 AM | |
| | By Edward McAllister RIVERSIDE, Calif. (Reuters) - The man who supplied guns to the couple who killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California, last week is connected to the shooters' family by marriage, state documents show. Enrique Marquez, whose home was raided over the weekend and who is being questioned by federal investigators, was married last year to Mariya Chernykh, whose sister is the wife of Raheel Farook, brother of one of the shooters, Syed Rizwan Farook. The family connection, revealed in marriage documents seen by Reuters, adds another element to the relationship between Farook and Marquez. |
| Loan to California shooter puts online lenders under the spotlight | | Wednesday, December 09, 2015 12:06 AM | |
| | By Michael Erman and Suzanne Barlyn NEW YORK (Reuters) - Prosper Marketplace's $28,500 loan to the husband of the couple that killed 14 people in California last week risks drawing regulatory scrutiny of the online lending industry's "fast and easy" business model. Online lenders such as privately held Prosper and market leader Lending Club Corp are part of a small, but fast-growing industry. Shooter Syed Rizwan Farook took out the loan from Prosper around the middle of last month, according to a source familiar with the matter. |
| Brazil's Congress names impeachment panel stacked against Rousseff | | Wednesday, December 09, 2015 12:00 AM | |
|  By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - The lower house of Brazil's Congress voted on Tuesday to appoint a committee stacked with opponents of President Dilma Rousseff to study whether to impeach her for breaking budget rules, a blow to the leftist leader battling for political survival. In a secret ballot, lawmakers voted 272-199 for a list of committee members drawn up by the opposition and pro-impeachment members of the centrist Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB), the biggest party in Rousseff's governing coalition. It was a clear defeat for Rousseff in the first battle of an impeachment process started last week that threatens to paralyse Congress for months, distracting policymakers from Brazil's worst recession in decades.
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| Trump to visit Jordan at end of month, after anti-Muslim comments - AP | | Wednesday, December 09, 2015 12:00 AM | |
|  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will visit the majority-Muslim kingdom of Jordan at the end of December, after he called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday. Trump, currently the party's front-runner for the November 2016 election, came under criticism from around the world after he proposed the ban on Monday. The AP did not provide a source for its report. (Reporting by Eric Beech; Editing by Eric Walsh)
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| Cuba returns U.S. fugitive in sign of renewed diplomacy | | | By Zachary Fagenson MIAMI (Reuters) - An American man wanted on firearms charges was brought back from Cuba on Tuesday, marking the first fugitive returned since the two nations restored diplomatic ties this year, the U.S. Marshals Service said. Shawn Wegmann, 38, of Indiana removed an electronic monitoring bracelet in October and attempted to enter Cuba on board a 13-foot Boston Whaler boat that was reported stolen from a Florida marina, according to officials. While Cuba has returned fugitives before the normalization of relations between the two countries, U.S. authorities hope for further cooperation. |
| Trump defends proposed Muslim ban from U.S. as outrage mounts | |  By Emily Stephenson and Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Tuesday defended his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States, comparing his plan to the World War Two detainment of Japanese-Americans and others in dismissing growing outrage from around the world. The White House called on Republicans to say they would not support Trump, currently the party's front-runner for the November 2016 election. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said his comments could undermine U.S. security.
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| Countering extremists online remains elusive in U.S. Congress | | | By Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fighting violent extremism online will be the focus of private briefings this week for members of the U.S. Congress from law enforcement officials and Silicon Valley executives, as Washington struggles to formulate a coherent strategy. The classified briefings, scheduled weeks ago, come as Washington policymakers grow increasingly alarmed at how the Islamic State militant group uses technology to recruit online and evade surveillance detection. Figuring out what to do about it within the boundaries of U.S. privacy law is a puzzle that has baffled authorities for years. |
| Volkswagen diesel civil suits to be heard in California | |  More than 500 civil lawsuits filed against Volkswagen AG over the use of software to evade emissions limits will be heard by a federal judge in California, a U.S. judicial panel responsible for consolidating related lawsuits said on Tuesday. The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation said the cases will be heard by U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in the Northern District of California. Volkswagen and the U.S. Department of Justice had both urged the panel to send the cases to Detroit, while plaintiffs' lawyers from across the country suggested a range of venues, from Illinois and Ohio to New Jersey and Massachusetts.
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| California shooters communicated with extremists in L.A. area: MSNBC | |  (Reuters) - The couple who killed 14 people in an attack in San Bernardino, California, last week had communicated with "people with extremist views" in the Los Angeles area, MSNBC reported on Tuesday. Police have confirmed that through ... electronic communications," it said. U.S. government sources have told Reuters that Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik had been in contact with suspected Islamists in Europe and the United States who were under FBI investigation.
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| Artifacts from 1708 Spanish shipwreck are Colombian heritage - president | |  The 307-year-old remains of a sunken Spanish galleon found off Colombia's Caribbean coast are the heritage of Colombians, President Juan Manuel Santos said on Tuesday, after Spanish officials expressed interest in the artifacts. Since the discovery, Spanish authorities have said they want to explore their rights to the ship's remains in negotiations with Colombia. Colombia plans to build a museum to house finds from the wreck in nearby Cartagena, a popular tourist destination.
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| Brazil lower house names impeachment committee stacked against Rousseff | | The lower house of Brazil's Congress voted on Tuesday to appoint a committee stacked with opponents of President Dilma Rousseff to report on whether to impeach her, a setback for the leftist leader who is battling for political survival. In a secret ballot, lawmakers voted 272-199 for a list of committee members drawn up by the opposition and pro-impeachment members of the centrist Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB), Rousseff's main ally in her governing coalition. While the result was a hard blow for Rousseff, the fact that 199 lawmakers voted for the pro-government list was an indication that she may still have the more than one-third of support needed to block an eventual impeachment vote before the full house.
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| America's Muslims object to Obama's push for more self-surveillance | |  By Tim Reid LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama's request to American Muslims that they must help "root out" extremists in their midst received an angry response inside mosques in a part of California where four men were recently arrested for conspiring to aid Islamist militants. At the West Coast Islamic Society in Anaheim, southern California, where two 24-year-old men arrested in May accused of conspiring to aid Islamic State had worshipped, the message was clear: there is no trust of the Federal Bureau of Investigation or the U.S. government. Imams and workers at mosques also described the arrested Islamic State sympathizers as victims of over-zealous law enforcement, illustrating the difficulty the Obama administration may face in convincing some Muslim leaders to identify and report radicals in their midst to U.S. authorities.
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| Sweden drops plans for closing bridge from Denmark in emergency | | | Sweden's government has dropped a plan to tighten control over the influx of migrants by halting road traffic on a main bridge from Denmark in an emergency after a top legal watchdog and the opposition objected, the interior minister said on Tuesday. The minority centre-left government said in November it would widen ID checks to include all public transport to Sweden and tighten asylum rules in a bid to reduce the number of asylum seekers. Last week it said the plans included a proposal to make it possible for the government to halt road - but not railway - traffic to Sweden on security grounds in an emergency, including on the Oresund bridge to Denmark. |
| Pentagon says anti-Muslim rhetoric undermines U.S. national security | | | By Phil Stewart and Yeganeh Torbati WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon warned on Tuesday against fuelling Islamic State's narrative of a U.S. war with Islam, in a swipe at rhetoric by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump that has triggered outrage around the world. Trump, the Republican front-runner for the November 2016 presidential election, has proposed banning Muslims from entering the United States. Asked about Trump's remarks, Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said Muslims serve in the U.S. armed forces and that America's war strategy to combat Islamic State hinged on support from Muslim countries. |
| Guantanamo judge hears arguments on no-touch order for female guards | | | By Lacey Johnson FORT MEADE, Md. (Reuters) - A former Guantanamo Bay commander at a section of the U.S. prison that houses five alleged Sept. 11 conspirators defended in military court on Tuesday the right to use female guards amid objections that contact with the women violates their religion. Judge Army Colonel James Pohl issued a temporary order barring female guards from touching or transporting prisoners in January. Testifying under a pseudonym, a former commander of Camp Seven, the secret part of the prison in Cuba where the United States keeps former Central Intelligence Agency captives, said it was tough to run the section without female guards. |
| Greek court extradites Syrian to U.S. over fake passports | | | Greece's top court on Tuesday ordered the extradition of a Syrian man to the United States where he faces charges of producing fake passports and identity theft. The United States had issued an international arrest warrant for the man, identified only as H.K. U.S. judicial authorities said he had held meetings in Athens earlier this year with a U.S. secret service agent and had agreed to produce four fake passports in exchange for 10,000 euros. According to court officials, the Syrian had argued that he would not have a fair trial if extradited. |
| Suspended Platini hopes to be at Euro draw on Saturday | |  By Cecile Mantovani LAUSANNE, Switzerland (Reuters) - Suspended FIFA presidential candidate Michel Platini hopes his 90-day suspension will be lifted in time for him to attend the Euro 2016 draw in Paris on Saturday, he said on Tuesday. Platini, head of European football's governing body UEFA, said he did not like "injustices" as he spoke to reporters at a hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), where he has appealed against his ban. Platini, who until recently was seen as the man to lead FIFA out of its worst ever graft crisis, was suspended by FIFA's ethics committee on Oct. 8 pending a full FIFA ethics investigation into his conduct.
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| French judge drops warrant against Ivory Coast parliament head | |  By Bate Felix PARIS (Reuters) - Lawyers for Ivory Coast's parliament speaker Guillaume Soro said on Tuesday that a warrant issued by a French judge in a case brought against him by the former Ivorian president's son had been withdrawn. Held in detention until 2013, Michel Gbagbo, who possesses both French and Ivorian citizenship, filed a complaint in France against Soro and other former rebel chiefs alleging "kidnapping, false imprisonment and inhumane and degrading treatment".
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| Mercedes sue Ferrari-bound engineer over F1 data | |  By Alan Baldwin LONDON (Reuters) - The Mercedes Formula One team is taking legal action against an engineer alleged to have downloaded sensitive performance data before he was due to join rivals Ferrari. "A legal action is underway involving Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains (HPP) Limited and an employee who is due to leave the company at the end of the year," said a team spokesman on Tuesday. "The company has taken the appropriate legal steps to protect its intellectual property." The BBC identified the employee as Benjamin Hoyle.
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| FBI looking into $28,000 deposit in California shooters' account -source | | By Mark Hosenball and Michael Erman WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Syed Rizwan Farook recently took out a $28,500 loan from an online lender, a source said on Tuesday, before he and his wife killed 14 of his co-workers at a holiday party in San Bernardino, California, last week. Authorities have said Farook, 28, and wife Tashfeen Malik, 29, were radicalised Muslims who committed an act of terror.
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| Germany carries out raids linked to planned attack in Berlin | | | German police searched several locations in Berlin and the eastern state of Saxony on Tuesday for three people accused of planning an attack with explosives in the capital, the prosecutor's office said. No arrests were made in the raids, the office said, adding that the three suspects had been charged with founding a terrorist organisation and planning an act of violence against the state. One of the three is suspected of having tried to recruit members for the Islamic State militant group, which controls large parts of Syria and Iraq. |
| Top U.S. officials reject Trump's call to ban Muslims from U.S. | |  The top U.S. security official on Tuesday said Donald Trump's proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States was not only offensive but would undermine national security by thwarting efforts to connect with the Muslim American community. "It is irresponsible to do this and contrary to our national security efforts," U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said in an interview on MSNBC in response to the Republican presidential candidate's proposal to ban Muslims from coming into the country. "We are renouncing and rejecting his remarks," he told the television network, referring to Trump, who on Monday said if he wins his party's nomination in the 2016 race for the White House and is elected president he would not allow Muslims to enter the county.
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