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| Pentagon - Anti-Muslim rhetoric undermines U.S. national security | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon warned on Tuesday against feeding into Islamic State's narrative that the United States was at war with Islam, in comments that indirectly criticized remarks by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. "Anything that bolsters ISIL's narrative and pits the United States against the Muslim faith is certainly not only contrary to our values but contrary to our national security," Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook told a news briefing, using an acronym for Islamic State. ... |
| FBI looking into $28,000 deposit in California shooters' account -source | |  By Mark Hosenball and Michael Erman WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Syed Rizwan Farook recently took out a $28,500 loan from an online lender, a source said on Tuesday, before he and his wife killed 14 of his co-workers at a holiday party in San Bernardino, California, last week. Authorities have said Farook, 28, and wife Tashfeen Malik, 29, were radicalised Muslims who committed an act of terror.
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| Germany carries out raids linked to planned attack in Berlin | | | German police searched several locations in Berlin and the eastern state of Saxony on Tuesday for three people accused of planning an attack with explosives in the capital, the prosecutor's office said. No arrests were made in the raids, the office said, adding that the three suspects had been charged with founding a terrorist organisation and planning an act of violence against the state. One of the three is suspected of having tried to recruit members for the Islamic State militant group, which controls large parts of Syria and Iraq. |
| Top U.S. officials reject Trump's call to ban Muslims from U.S. | |  The top U.S. security official on Tuesday said Donald Trump's proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States was not only offensive but would undermine national security by thwarting efforts to connect with the Muslim American community. "It is irresponsible to do this and contrary to our national security efforts," U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said in an interview on MSNBC in response to the Republican presidential candidate's proposal to ban Muslims from coming into the country. "We are renouncing and rejecting his remarks," he told the television network, referring to Trump, who on Monday said if he wins his party's nomination in the 2016 race for the White House and is elected president he would not allow Muslims to enter the county.
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| Senator Cruz introduces bill to let states reject refugees | |  By Alana Wise and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator Ted Cruz, who is seeking the Republican nomination for president in 2016, said on Tuesday that he introduced legislation to give governors the ability to opt out of refugee resettlement programs. Cruz said that if President Barack Obama wanted to send refugees to any state, his legislation would let its governor refuse to participate, "to conclude that the federal government has not done a sufficient job ensuring that the safety and security of the citizens of the state will be protected." The comments came at a news conference with Greg Abbott, the Republican governor of Cruz's home state of Texas. Abbott was one of the first U.S. governors to seek to block the resettlement of refugees from Syria.
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| White House says Trump's Muslim comments disqualify him for president | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Tuesday said Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump's call for the United States to ban Muslims from entering the country disqualified him from becoming president and called on Republicans to reject him immediately. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Trump's campaign had a "dustbin of history" quality to it and said his comments were offensive and toxic. Earnest said other Republican presidential candidates, who have pledged to support the person who eventually wins their party's nomination, should disavow Trump "right now. ...
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| Online lender Prosper made $28,500 loan to California shooter - source | | | By Michael Erman NEW YORK (Reuters) - Online lender Prosper recently made a $28,500 loan to Syed Rizwan Farook who, along with his wife, killed 14 people at a holiday party last week in San Bernardino, California, according to a source familiar with the matter. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is examining financial activity they engaged in before their attack, a U.S. government source said earlier on Tuesday. Authorities have said that Farook, 28, and wife Tashfeen Malik, 29, were radicalised Muslims who committed an act of terror. ... |
| Rock band makes emotional return to Paris hall after attacks | |  By Anca Ulea PARIS (Reuters) - Eagles of Death Metal, the band on stage when the deadliest of the Islamic State attacks in Paris took place on Nov. 13, made an emotional visit on Tuesday to the Bataclan concert hall where the shooting took place. Led by frontman Jesse Hughes, the group laid flowers, shed tears and hugged one another at the tribute site for the victims in front of the concert hall. A Parisian named Corinne said a dull pain remained for those who were touched by the tragic attacks.
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| Trump defends proposed Muslim ban from U.S. as outrage mounts | |  By Susan Heavey and Emily Stephenson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Tuesday defended his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States, comparing his plan to the World War Two detainment of Japanese-Americans and others in dismissing growing outrage from around the world. U.S. leaders from both political parties, the prime ministers of France and the United Kingdom, the United Nations, and Muslim residents of Asian countries all denounced the comments by Trump, the Republican front-runner for the November 2016 presidential election. "What I'm doing is no different than FDR," Trump said on ABC's "Good Morning America" program.
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| Two men charged after pride of lions poisoned in Kenya game park | |  Two Kenyan men have been charged with killing two lions and poisoning at least six others, a Kenyan wildlife official said on Tuesday, in a case involving a pride of lions which starred in a long-running BBC wildlife documentary. Simindei Naurobi and Kulankash Topotat pleaded not guilty to the charges, but could face prison terms and big fines if found guilty. "The dead lions are feared to have consumed poisoned meat," said Paul Udoto, spokesman for Kenya's Wildlife Service (KWS).
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| FIFA official Napout agrees to extradition to U.S. - Swiss | |  FIFA Vice-President Juan Angel Napout, head of the South American football confederation CONMEBOL, has agreed to be extradited to the United States in a soccer corruption probe, the Swiss Federal Office of Justice said on Tuesday. Napout, a citizen of Paraguay, was detained in Zurich last week on a U.S. warrant accusing him of accepting bribes worth millions of dollars in connection with the sale of marketing rights to football tournaments in Latin America. It gave no details on when he would be handed over to U.S. authorities.
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| Congress stalls parliament over case against Gandhis | |  By Aditya Kalra and Nigam Prusty NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Congress party disrupted a parliament session and accused the government of pursuing a "vendetta" against the Gandhi family on Tuesday in a blow to hopes of passing a crucial tax reform. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government wants to introduce a nationwide goods and services tax (GST) to replace a long list of state levies, in a bid to boost investment by making it easier to do business in India's vast internal market. Hopes were raised for the long-delayed legislation to be passed this year after Modi met Congress president Sonia Gandhi last month and both parties showed signs of compromise.
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| U.S. probing California shooters' financial transfers - sources | |  The FBI is examining roughly $28,000 in financial transfers by the couple that shot dead 14 people in California last week, but investigators do not believe any of the money came from overseas, law enforcement sources said on Tuesday. Two sources said U.S. investigators instead believe that Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his spouse Tashfeen Malik, 29, emptied their own bank accounts and maxed out their credit lines ahead of the attack in San Bernardino. The sources said investigators are still looking into the financial transactions the couple conducted in the weeks before the attack, with one confirming a Fox News report that about $28,000 in money transfers were being examined.
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| Deposed former Central African Republic ruler Bozize barred from elections | |  Central African Republic's (CAR) former president Francois Bozize, forced into exile two years ago, was not on the list of eligible candidates for this month's elections, having said in August that he would return to stand.
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| Volkswagen scandal could delay UK airport decision - London mayor hopeful | |  A decision over British airport expansion has taken too long but could legitimately be delayed further due to the impact of the Volkswagen emissions scandal on air quality data, a leading candidate for London Mayor said on Tuesday. Prime Minister David Cameron has promised to say by the end of the year whether the government will back the expansion of Heathrow but is now expected to delay the politically charged decision, already 25 years in the making, possibly until after London's Mayoral election in May. Zac Goldsmith, the Conservative candidate for Mayor whose constituency is not far from Heathrow in west London, is a long-time opponent of expanding the airport and has pledged to step down as a member of parliament if the government approves it.
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| British parliament votes against lowering voting age for EU referendum | |  By Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's lower house of parliament voted on Tuesday against reducing the voting age for a referendum on EU membership, blocking a move that might have boosted the campaign to stay in the 28-member bloc. Lawmakers voted 303 to 253 to reject a move by the upper chamber, the House of Lords, to lower the voting age to 16 from 18 for the referendum which Prime Minister David Cameron has promised by the end of 2017. "The chance to extend the franchise for the EU referendum to 16 and 17 year olds would have led to a more democratic and a more engaging campaign," said Stephen Gethins, the European affairs spokesman for the opposition Scottish National Party.
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| Eagles of Death Metal make powerful return to Paris after attacks | |  By Julien Pretot PARIS (Reuters) - Eagles of Death Metal, the band which was performing when the deadliest of the Islamic State attacks took place in Paris on Nov. 13, made an emotional, powerful appearance at a U2 concert in the city on Monday. Led by frontman Jesse Hughes dressed in a white suit at a packed AccorHotels Arena, the Californian rock band gave a rendition of Patti Smith's "People have the Power" before performing their own "I Love You All The Time." "Nothing left except to introduce you to some people whose lives will be forever part of Paris. The coordinated attacks in the French capital killed 130 people, most of them at the Bataclan concert hall where Eagles of Death Metal, also known as EODM, were performing.
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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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| Saudi to consider appeal against stoning of maid-Sri Lanka foreign ministry | | | By Ranga Sirilal COLOMBO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Saudi authorities have agreed to consider an appeal against the sentence of death by stoning imposed on a 45-year-old Sri Lankan maid for adultery, Sri Lanka's deputy foreign minister said on Tuesday, welcoming the decision as a "big victory". The married woman, who had been working as a domestic helper in Riyadh since 2013, was convicted by a Saudi court in August. Sri Lankan Deputy Foreign Minister Harsha de Silva said Colombo had appealed to Riyadh's central appeal court, which had agreed to send the case back to the provincial court to reconsider the sentence. |
| 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, Thomas 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.
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| Al Qaeda video shows three men purportedly confessing to spying, one shot dead | | | Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) released a video on Monday showing three men purportedly confessing to spying for the Mauritanian and French military and then one being taken out of a pick-up truck in the desert and shot in the head. The 22-minute video, entitled "The Traitors" and released by AQIM's Al Andalus Media Productions, shows the men saying they had been spying in northern Mali since at least 2006. Along with two other militant groups, AQIM, driven out of northern Mali by French troops in 2013, claimed responsibility for an attack on a luxury hotel in Bamako on Nov. 20, in which 20 people were killed. |
| Spanish police arrest two suspected of recruiting for Islamic State | | | Spanish police on Tuesday arrested two people suspected of recruiting fighters for Islamic State in the Canary Islands and the northeastern region of Catalonia, bringing to 100 the number of suspected Islamist militants detained this year. The man and the woman, both with Morrocan nationality, had distributed Islamic State recruiting material through the Internet and had made death threats in Spain and France, the Interior Ministry said. Spain has stepped up its efforts to stop citizens joining Islamic State since the fatal gun attacks at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris at the beginning of the year. |
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