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| Israeli troops kill West Bank protester in arrest raid -Palestinians | |  Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian protester while they were carrying out an arrest raid in the occupied West Bank town of Bethlehem on Tuesday, Palestinian medical sources said. Residents of the Deheishe Refugee Camp said Malek Shahin, 19, was among a group of people protesting against the soldiers who had come to arrest two men. The Israeli military said violence erupted during "routine activity" when its troops encountered a barrage of "pipe bombs, Molotov cocktails and rolling burning tires and fired warning shots in the air to disperse the mob and prevent an escalation".
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| Oscar Pistorius - bailed, tagged and free to roam | |  By TJ Strydom PRETORIA (Reuters) - Oscar Pistorius, who murdered his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day 2013, was granted bail on Tuesday and has the freedom of South Africa's capital Pretoria as he waits to appeal his conviction in April. The Paralympic champion, nicknamed "Blade Runner" because of the prosthetic legs he uses to race, was granted bail of 10,000 rand ($686), after spending the last two months under house arrest at his uncle's home in a wealthy Pretoria suburb. Pistorius had been meant to serve the rest of a five-year sentence there but the Supreme Court upgraded the 29-year-old's conviction to murder from culpable homicide last week.
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| Wartime Bosnian commander arrested for crimes by Islamic fighters | | | Bosnian police arrested a wartime Muslim army commander on Tuesday on charges of failing to prevent crimes committed by foreign Islamic fighters against captive Bosnian Serb soldiers during a 1992-1995 war. The arrest of 63-year-old retiree Sakib Mahmuljin was carried out on orders of the state war crimes prosecutor, the prosecutor's office said in a statement. "The suspect is under investigation for acting in contravention of international humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions while serving as a commander of the 3rd Corps of the Army of BiH," it said. |
| 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. |
| 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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| 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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| Sport scandals an opportunity for change - IOC's Bach | | | By Karolos Grohmann LAUSANNE, Switzerland (Reuters) - The global corruption and doping scandals engulfing sports this year are an opportunity for organisations to undergo change and earn back lost credibility, the president of the International Olympic Committee said on Tuesday. On the first anniversary of the IOC's Agenda 2020 reforms aimed at making the Games a more attractive and transparent prospect, Bach said transparency was necessary for all sports organisations as was the need for stronger national government involvement in catching and punishing doping cheats. Bach's comments in an Op-ed published on Tuesday comes days after Hamburg's 2024 Olympic bid spectacularly failed in a city referendum, marking the latest withdrawal of a Games candidate. |
| Machine guns, no-fly zone guard pope's opening of Holy Year | |  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Roman Catholics backed up for blocks at the Vatican on Tuesday for the strictest security checks in living memory as Pope Francis began a Holy Year with a call to set aside "fear and dread". Francis launched the year-long religious event, also known as a Jubilee, by pushing open the usually bricked up bronze Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica and passing through it, following a Mass attended by about 70,000 people in the square outside, according to a Vatican estimate. Holy Year has long been expected to draw millions to Rome but is opening in the immediate aftermath of attacks in Paris and California.
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| Congress stalls parliament over government's Gandhi "vendetta" | |  By Aditya Kalra and Nigam Prusty NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Congress party on Tuesday held hostage Prime Minister Narendra Modi's hopes of passing a crucial tax reform, stalling parliament and accusing his government of running a "vendetta" against the Nehru-Gandhi family. The government wants to introduce a nationwide goods and services tax (GST) to 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. Despite having a substantial majority in the Lok Sabha, Modi needs the support of opposition parties to get the bill through the Rajya Sabha.
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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. |
| 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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