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| Militant network behind Paris attack has links to people in Britain - WSJ | |  (Reuters) - The militant network behind last month's attacks in Paris has links to people in Britain, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing 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 reported. The officials told the Journal those people, including some of Moroccan heritage, are based in the Birmingham area, about 120 miles (190 km) northeast of London.
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| Facebook removed suspect profile after California shooting | | | (Reuters) - A Facebook profile established under an alias by Tashfeen Malik, one of the suspects in the California shooting, was removed by the company for violating its community standards, which prohibit praise or promotion of "acts of terror," a spokesman said Friday. Content celebrating leaders of the Islamic State would be removed under the company's standards, said a Facebook Inc spokesman, who asked not to be named. Law enforcement sources have said that material on the Facebook page included praise of the Islamic State. |
| 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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| 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 in which a married couple killed 14 people in California as an "act of terrorism," an official said on Friday, saying 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 massacre 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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| 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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| Guatemalan judge arrested on Disney cruise ship on football bribery charges | | | 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. Another law enforcement source said Trujillo was on a Disney cruise ship docked at Port Canaveral, Florida when he was arrested. |
| Czech MEP arrested in Switzerland in 350 million euros fraud | | | PRAGUE/BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - A Czech communist member of the European Parliament and three Slovak nationals were arrested by Swiss police in a fraud case involving 350 million euros ($380 million), Czech and Slovak officials said on Friday. "Three Slovak citizens were detained together with the Czech MEP Ransdorf after trying to withdraw 350 million euros at a Swiss bank with fake IDs," Slovak interior ministry spokesman Ivan Netik said. Czech Minister of Interior Milan Chovanec confirmed the arrest of the four men, but he did not comment on the details. |
| 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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| 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 young 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, 25, 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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| 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) |
| Exclusive - California shooter Malik lived in Saudi Arabia for years | |  Malik, 27, and her husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, the U.S.-born son of Pakistani immigrants, were killed in a shootout with police on Wednesday, hours after the mass shooting in San Bernardino in which 14 people died. U.S. government sources said Malik apparently had pledged allegiance to a leader of Islamic State, the Islamist militant group that controls large watches of territory in Syria and Iraq and claimed responsibility for the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris that killed 130 people. The investigation into the California carnage has spread to Pakistan, where intelligence officials questioned members of Malik's family, including her uncle, Javed Rabbani, the brother of her father, Gulzar.
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| 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) |
| Eastern Congo militias test U.N. peace enforcement | |  By Ed Cropley GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - As the battered pickup lurched down the road from Mount Nyiragongo, Lieutenant Bongani Mndebele took a closer look at its passengers, six men in faded camouflage fatigues with AK-47s over their shoulders. "Government forces - I think," the South African peace-keeper said.
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| Court ruling, minister exit complicate Rousseff battle in Brazil | |  By Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA (Reuters) - President Dilma Rousseff suffered two setbacks on Friday to her fight against impeachment, as a minister from her main coalition ally resigned and the Supreme Court quashed appeals from supporters seeking to stop the impeachment process. Aviation Minister Eliseu Padilha, an ally of Vice President Michel Temer and part of the fractious party that is Rousseff's main coalition partner, submitted his resignation on Friday, according to two people familiar with the decision from within the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, or PMDB.
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| Georgia strips ex-president Saakashvili of citizenship | |  Georgia on Friday stripped former president Mikheil Saakashvili of his citizenship, in a move one of his supporters described as part of a settling of political scores. Georgian President Georgy Margvelashvili signed a decree removing his predecessor's citizenship on the grounds that Saakashvili, now governor of Ukraine's Odessa region, became a Ukrainian national in May. Saakashvili came to power in a bloodless "Rose Revolution" in 2003 and steered Georgia on a pro-Western course that antagonised Moscow and culminated in a five-day war in 2008 in which Georgia was crushed by Russian forces. Friday's decree is "yet another example of employing legal instruments for political persecution," said Nugzar Tsiklauri, an opposition member of parliament.
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| Bangladesh police arrest 10 on suspicion of militant activity | | | Security forces in Bangladesh arrested six people on Friday on suspicion of human trafficking and currency smuggling and possible involvement in militant activity, a spokesman for the special forces Rapid Action Battalion said. Some 10 million counterfeit Indian rupees and 624,000 Bangladeshi taka ($8,000) were also found, along with large amounts of foreign currency including U.S. dollars, Pakistani rupees, UAE dirhams and Saudi riyals. "We are investigating whether they were mobilising funds for militant activities in Bangladesh and or planning to carry out destructive action in the country," said Khan. |
| Israel says too early to try suspects over torching of Palestinian home | |  Israel is still trying to gather evidence against far-right Jews arrested for a lethal arson attack in July on a Palestinian home in the occupied West Bank, the public security minister said on Friday, playing down prospects of an imminent trial. A police announcement on Thursday that several "youths belonging to a Jewish terror group" were in custody stirred speculation of a breakthrough in the killing of three members of the Dawabsheh family, which raised Israeli-Palestinian tensions. Palestinian anger over the attack in Duma village has been a factor fuelling a wave of street assaults since Oct. 1.
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| Investigators believe female California shooter pledged allegiance to ISIS - CNN | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tashfeen Malik, the female shooter in the California rampage that left 14 dead, is believed to have pledged allegiance to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, CNN reported on Friday, citing three U.S. officials. One of the officials said Malik had pledged allegiance to al-Baghdadi in a posting on Facebook under an account that used a different name, CNN said. (Reporting by Timothy Ahmann; Editing by Doina Chiacu)
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| Guatemalan soccer official arrested on cruise ship off Florida | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - A top Guatemalan soccer official and judge on the Central American country's constitutional court was arrested on a cruise ship at Port Canaveral, Florida, on Friday a day after being charged in a U.S. probe of corruption in the sport, the FBI said. A FBI spokeswoman said that Héctor Trujillo, 62, was arrested when officials of U.S. Customs and Border Protection went to his cabin door. (Reporting by Nate Raymond in New York; editing by Grant McCool) |
| Arrested officials banned from soccer for 90 days | |  ZURICH (Reuters) - FIFA executive committee members Juan Angel Napout and Alfredo Hawit have been suspended from soccer for 90 days after they were arrested in Switzerland, the ethics committee of the sport's governing body said on Friday. The two were arrested at a Zurich hotel on Thursday morning after an indictment was issued by the United States Department of Justice for charges of racketeering, conspiracy and corruption. (Writing by Brian Homewood)
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| Prospects for India's landmark tax reform brighten as panel backs lower rate | |  By Manoj Kumar and Rajesh Kumar Singh NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's proposed sales tax edged closer to approval on Friday after a government-appointed panel backed the lower rate and simpler structure that the opposition Congress party had demanded. Aimed at creating a customs union for India's 1.2 billion people, the Goods and Service Tax (GST) is the biggest revenue shake-up since independence from Britain in 1947. Supporters say it will add up to two percentage points to economic growth by replacing multiple federal and state tax levies, a chaotic structure that inflates costs for businesses.
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