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| 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. |
| Muslims in Asia denounce Trump's "U.S. ban" call | |  By Katharine Houreld ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Some Muslims in Pakistan 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 the 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 radicalized, 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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| 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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| China vows to change negative perception of domestic game | |  China is working hard to overcome soccer's negative image following years of corruption scandals and a stagnation in player development, a leading sports official said on Tuesday. "There have been major efforts made in Chinese soccer in recent years and while there have been some positive results, the people are still not satisfied," Deputy Sports Minister Feng Jianzhong told reporters at a briefing. As well as looking to improve matters on the domestic front, a consortium led by state-backed China Media Capital recently took a $400 million stake in English side Manchester City, making it Beijing's biggest investment in the sport overseas.
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| 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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| FBI says California shooters were radicalized for 'some time' | |  By Dan Whitcomb SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (Reuters) - Investigators believe the married couple who massacred 14 people in California last week - a U.S.-born husband and his Pakistani wife - had been radicalized "for quite some time," but no clues pointing to an international plot have yet emerged, the FBI said on Monday. Authorities also have evidence that Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his spouse Tashfeen Malik, 29, had engaged in firearms target practice near their Southern California home within days of last week's deadly shooting rampage, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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| Key ally of Brazil's president divided over her impeachment | |  By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - Impeachment proceedings against Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff were delayed on Monday by a fight between supporters and opponents trying to stack a lower house committee that will report on whether she committed an impeachable offence. Rousseff's main ally, the fractious Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB), split over her impeachment, resulting in separate lists of lawmakers to sit on the 65-member committee. The division was a rocky start for Rousseff who is counting on PMDB votes to save her presidency from opposition lawmakers accusing her of breaking budget laws as she ramped up economic stimulus during her re-election campaign last year.
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| Triumphant Venezuela opposition looks to boost economy, free prisoners | |  By Andrew Cawthorne and Eyanir Chinea CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's opposition vowed on Monday to revive the OPEC nation's troubled economy and free jailed political activists after winning control of the legislature for the first time in 16 years of Socialist rule. By Monday evening, some results from Sunday's election were not yet in, but the Democratic Unity coalition had already won a commanding majority in the 167-member National Assembly, opening a new chapter in the polarized country's politics. Opposition leaders said final tallies showed they won a two-thirds majority, or at least 112 seats.
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