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| Pakistani in California shooting became hardline in S.Arabia - relatives | |  The estranged relatives of Tashfeen Malik, a Pakistani woman accused of shooting dead 14 people in California, say she and her father seem to have abandoned the family's moderate Islam and became more radicalised during years they spent in Saudi Arabia. Malik, with her husband Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, is accused of storming a gathering in San Bernardino, California, on Wednesday and opening fire in America's worst mass shooting in three years. Investigators are treating Wednesday's attack as an "act of terrorism." On Saturday, the Islamic State (IS) group claimed the couple as their followers. There is no evidence yet that IS directed the attack or even knew the attackers. Malik's killing spree has horrified her Pakistani relatives.
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| Taliban says will issue audio message from Mullah Mansour soon | |  The Taliban's main spokesman said on Saturday that he had received an audio statement from Mullah Akhtar Mansour, the Taliban leader reported to have been wounded or killed in a gunfight in Pakistan this week, and would release it shortly. The statement on Twitter followed days of uncertainty over the fate of Mansour, after multiple reports said he had been badly wounded in the shootout at the home of another Taliban commander in Quetta, western Pakistan, late on Tuesday. "A new message from the leader of Islamic Emirate, Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour has just reached us.
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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. |
| U.N. envoy arrives in Yemen's Aden to advance peace talks | |  The United Nations envoy to Yemen met President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi on Saturday to discuss prospects for peace talks between his embattled Aden-based government and Houthi forces, the president's office said. Forces loyal to Hadi backed by mainly Gulf Arab states have been locked in eight months of civil war with the Iran-allied Houthis who rule the capital Sanaa. Previous U.N.-led efforts to end the conflict through dialogue have failed as battles rage across the country and Saudi-led warplanes bomb positions of Yemen's ascendant Houthi group and its Yemeni army allies.
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| Colombia to build museum to showcase shipwreck discovery | | | By Julia Symmes Cobb BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia will build a museum to showcase artefacts found in the wreckage of a Spanish galleon discovered near the historic Caribbean port city of Cartagena, President Juan Manuel Santos said on Saturday. The San Jose, thought by historians to be laden with emeralds and precious coins, sank in 1708. It was part of the fleet of King Philip V, who fought the English during the War of Spanish Succession. |
| Report links Paris militant group to Britain, police cautious | |  The militant network behind last month's attacks in Paris had links to people in Britain, the Wall Street Journal has said in a report that British police described on Saturday as "speculative". 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 unidentified Western officials the Journal cited late on Friday. 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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| Islamic State broadcast says followers of the group carried out California attacks | |  Islamic State said in an online radio broadcast on Saturday that two followers of the Islamist militant group had carried out Wednesday's attack on a social services agency party in California where 14 people were killed. "Two followers of Islamic State attacked several days ago a centre in San Bernadino in California, opening fire inside the centre, leading to the deaths of 14 people and wounding more than 20 others" the group's daily broadcast al-Bayan said, giving information already widely reported. A news agency that supports Islamic State, which controls large parts of Syria and Iraq, said on Friday the attackers were followers of the group.
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| Islamic State says California killers of 14 were their followers | |  By Yasmeen Abutaleb and Rory Carroll SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (Reuters) - Islamic State said on Saturday that the married couple who killed 14 people in a mass shooting in California which the U.S. authorities are investigating as an act of terrorism were its followers. The militant group made the statement in an online radio broadcast three days after U.S.-born Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his wife Tashfeen Malik, 29, from Pakistan, attacked a holiday party for civil servants in San Bernardino, about 60 miles (100 km) east of Los Angeles.
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| Package addressed to home of California shooters deemed safe: police | |  A package addressed to the Southern California home of the couple who amassed pipe bombs and shot to death 14 people in San Bernardino was inspected on Friday and determined to pose no threat, the local police chief said on Twitter. A United Parcel Service driver noticed the package was addressed to the couple's Redlands home and as a precaution the driver returned to a UPS facility, San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said on Twitter. Police were notified and arrangements were made to have a bomb squad unit inspect the parcel, Burguan said, later adding in a follow-up post, "item was safe, posed no threat." The Redlands couple, Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 29, shot to death 14 people at a county government holiday party in nearby San Bernardino on Wednesday and died hours later in a shootout with police.
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| San Bernardino shooter had contact with al Qaeda-affiliated group - LA Times | |  (Reuters) - San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook had contact with people from at least two militant organizations overseas, including the al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front in Syria, the Los Angeles Times reported on Friday, citing a federal law enforcement official. The official described "some kind" of contact between Farook and people from the Nusra Front and the radical al Shabaab group in Somalia, the Times reported.
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| From 'happy' bride to shooter: mosque members confounded by California massacre | |  By Yasmeen Abutaleb and Rory Carroll SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (Reuters) - Two years ago, Tashfeen Malik was a new bride radiating beauty and happiness at a reception for hundreds at a California mosque to celebrate her marriage to Syed Rizwan Farook. On Friday, people attending prayers at the same mosque struggled to reconcile their memories of that happy event with news that Farook, 28, and Malik, 29, killed 14 people in a shooting rampage Wednesday in the city of San Bernardino. Both died in a later shootout with police, and the FBI is investigating the massacre as an "act of terrorism."| Malik was brought to Southern California from Saudi Arabia by Farook.
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| Liberty University's Falwell urges students to carry concealed weapons | |  Jerry Falwell Jr., president of Christian-based Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, is encouraging students to carry concealed weapons on campus for protection, a local newspaper reported. Falwell made his remarks at the school's weekly convocation on Friday night, according to The News & Advance in Lynchburg. "It just blows my mind when I see that the president of the United States [says] that the answer to circumstances like that is more gun control," Falwell said, according to the newspaper.
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| Chennai staggers back to normalcy, anger grows at lack of relief | | | Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday announced an ex-gratia relief of Rs.2 lakh each to the next of kin of those who lost their lives in the Tamil Nadu floods while relief of Rs.50,000 has also been sanctioned for those seriously injured. The National Crisis Management Committee (NCMC), which met in New Delhi with Cabinet Secretary Pradeep Kumar Sinha presiding, reviewed the situation and announced seven truck loads of dry ready-to-eat food had reached Chennai and 20 trucks were on the way, while the railways will supply two more lakh bottles of drinking water. Sinha directed that necessary steps should be taken to restore telecom services, while the petroleum ministry was taking steps for availability of petroleum products. |
| Blatter to make case to FIFA ethics body in coming weeks - paper | |  Suspended FIFA President Sepp Blatter said in a Swiss newspaper interview published on Saturday that he expects to make his case to the ethics committee of soccer's governing body in the coming weeks. Blatter was suspended in October for 90 days along with European soccer boss Michel Platini amid a deepening corruption scandal as the sport faces criminal investigations in Switzerland and the United States. FIFA's Ethics Committee is investigating their conduct and they could face much longer suspensions when the final verdict in the case is announced later this month.
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| Former Peru soccer chief arrested in FIFA graft probe | |  The former longtime president of Peru's soccer federation, Manuel Burga, has been arrested as part of an ongoing U.S.-led investigation into corruption at the sport's world governing body, FIFA. Burga is among 16 people, including current and former Latin American soccer chiefs, who were charged on Thursday with multimillion-dollar bribery schemes for marketing and broadcast rights. Burga, 58, who was head of the Peruvian Football Federation (FPF) for 12 years until 2014, denied wrongdoing as police arrested him late on Friday outside his home in the Peruvian capital, Lima.
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| Obama says 'We will not be terrorized' after California shooting | |  By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama vowed on Saturday that federal investigators would find out what motivated a married couple in California to shoot and kill 14 people, and he asked Americans to stand united after the attacks. Tashfeen Malik and Syed Rizwan Farook were killed in a shootout with police after the Wednesday attack during a holiday party at a social services agency in San Bernardino, California. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating the massacre as an "act of terrorism" after Malik was believed to have pledged allegiance to a leader of the militant group Islamic State.
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| Chicago police account of 2014 shooting differs from video: newspaper | |  A freshly released Chicago police account from the time of a white officer's 2014 shooting of a black teenager provides a description at odds with a dashboard video, according to the Chicago Tribune. Chicago has been roiled by street protests and political turmoil since the Nov. 24 release of video that showed the officer shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times after he jogged away from police cars. The officer, Jason Van Dyke, on the day of the video's release was charged with first-degree murder in the Oct. 20, 2014, shooting of the teen, who authorities say was carrying a knife.
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| New York Times in rare front-page editorial calls for outlawing some rifles | |  The New York Times, in its first front-page editorial in nearly a century, on Saturday called for outlawing the kinds of rifles used in the California shooting massacre this week that left 14 people dead. The newspaper's editorial comes three days after Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, a married couple, carried out the mass shooting in San Bernardino with legally-purchased, .223 caliber assault-style rifles. "Certain kinds of weapons, like the slightly modified combat rifles used in California, and certain kinds of ammunition, must be outlawed for civilian ownership," the New York Times editorial said.
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| Three killed in Lebanon as Islamist militant blows himself up - security sources | |  A suspected Islamist militant killed himself and two members of his family in northern Lebanon on Saturday when he blew himself up during an army raid on his home, security and medical sources said. The army has carried out a series of raids since two suicide bomb blasts claimed by Islamic State killed 44 people in a crowded commercial and residential area of Beirut last month. The explosion killed the wife and mother of the suspect, whose name was Mohammed Hamzeh, a security source said.
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