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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. |
| 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) |
| California massacre shooter may be linked to Islamic State - sources | |  By Mark Hosenball and Yasmeen Abutaleb WASHINGTON/SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (Reuters) - A woman who joined her husband in killing 14 people in California apparently pledged allegiance to a leader of the militant group Islamic State, two U.S. government sources said on Friday, as intelligence officials in her native Pakistan pressed the investigation overseas. Tashfeen Malik, 27, and her 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. U.S. investigators are evaluating evidence that Malik, a Pakistani native who had been living in Saudi Arabia when she married Farook, had pledged allegiance to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, two U.S. officials told Reuters.
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| 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) |
| Guatemalan soccer official arrested on cruise ship off Florida | | | By Nate Raymond 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. A FBI spokeswoman said that Héctor Trujillo, 62, was arrested when officials of U.S. Customs and Border Protection went to his cabin door. Trujillo was scheduled to appear for a hearing in federal court in Orlando, Florida, at 3:30 p.m. ET (2030 GMT), a court official said. |
| 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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| 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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| Danish PM calls on EU to strike new balance after voter rejection | |  Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen called on the European Union to find a new balance between what should be decided in Brussels and what member states can decide on their own after Danes voted against adopting more EU laws. Together with Britain and Ireland, Danes have long enjoyed several exemptions from EU legislation dating from the 1990s when the modern foundation of the 28-member bloc was laid. Now, like Britain, the Danish leader is questioning the balance of responsibilities between the EU and its member states.
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| UK Maoist cult leader raped followers, kept daughter a prisoner for 30 years | |  By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - A Maoist cult leader was found guilty on Friday of raping and beating his brainwashed female followers, while keeping his own daughter a fearful prisoner for more than 30 years in homes across south London. Aravindan Balakrishnan, 75, known as Comrade Bala, used sexual degradation and physical and mental violence to keep the women under his control, turning his commune based on Communist teachings into his own personal cult with members who believed him to be a god, prosecutors said.
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| European clubs attack proposed FIFA reforms | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - A package of reforms proposed by FIFA to clean up the scandal-plagued governing body of soccer was angrily criticised on Friday by Europe's powerful clubs, who said it would increase frustration among the sport's stakeholders. The European Club Association (ECA), which represents more than 200 clubs including top sides like Real Madrid, Barcelona and Bayern Munich, said its members were "not prepared to be further ignored" and were leaving "all options open." FIFA is in the throes of an unprecedented crisis, with criminal investigations into the sport under way in the United States and Switzerland.
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| Argentina cabinet chief wants FIFA probe "to cut to the bone" | |  Argentina's Cabinet Chief Anibal Fernandez said on Friday he wants the investigation into the FIFA corruption scandal to "cut to the bone" in order to track alleged bribe money that should have been taxed. Soccer bosses from across South and Central America were among 16 people charged Thursday with multi million-dollar bribery schemes to win marketing and broadcast rights, in a dismantling of a Latin American soccer network by U.S. prosecutors. Argentine nationals Jose Luis Meiszner and Eduardo Deluca,former secretaries general of South America's soccer confederation, were among those charged.
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| Three killed in failed attack on senior Burundi police officer | | | Police in Burundi said they shot dead three attackers and arrested three others on Friday when they foiled an attempt to ambush and assassinate a top police officer in the capital. Bujumbura police chief Domitien Niyonkuru said the attackers were wearing police uniforms, and weapons including rocket-propelled grenades and rifles were recovered. Burundi, which emerged from a 12-year civil war a decade ago, began spiralling into chaos in April when President Pierre Nkurunziza announced he would seek a third term, sparking months of protests and a failed coup. |
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