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| South Korea activists protest labour policies, call for Park's apology | |  SEOUL (Reuters) - Anti-government protesters marched through downtown Seoul on Saturday, demanding South Korean President Park Geun-hye's apology for cracking down on a protest last month when farm and labour activists clashed with police. Saturday's rally in the capital drew around 14,000 people, according to police estimates, far fewer than the 60,000 that attended the rally on Nov. 14. ...
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| Islamic State broadcast says followers of the group carried out California attacks | |  Islamic State said in an online radio broadcast on Saturday that two followers of the Islamist militant group had carried out Wednesday's attack on a social services agency party in California where 14 people were killed. "Two followers of Islamic State attacked several days ago a centre in San Bernadino in California, opening fire inside the centre, leading to the deaths of 14 people and wounding more than 20 others" the group's daily broadcast al-Bayan said, giving information already widely reported. A news agency that supports Islamic State, which controls large parts of Syria and Iraq, said on Friday the attackers were followers of the group.
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| From 'happy' bride to shooter: mosque members confounded by California massacre | |  By Yasmeen Abutaleb and Rory Carroll SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (Reuters) - Two years ago, Tashfeen Malik was a new bride radiating beauty and happiness at a reception for hundreds at a California mosque to celebrate her marriage to Syed Rizwan Farook. On Friday, people attending prayers at the same mosque struggled to reconcile their memories of that happy event with news that Farook, 28, and Malik, 29, killed 14 people in a shooting rampage Wednesday in the city of San Bernardino. Both died in a later shootout with police, and the FBI is investigating the massacre as an "act of terrorism."| Malik was brought to Southern California from Saudi Arabia by Farook.
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| Package addressed to home of California shooters deemed safe: police | |  A package addressed to the Southern California home of the couple who amassed pipe bombs and shot to death 14 people in San Bernardino was inspected on Friday and determined to pose no threat, the local police chief said on Twitter. A United Parcel Service driver noticed the package was addressed to the couple's Redlands home and as a precaution the driver returned to a UPS facility, San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said on Twitter. Police were notified and arrangements were made to have a bomb squad unit inspect the parcel, Burguan said, later adding in a follow-up post, "item was safe, posed no threat." The Redlands couple, Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 29, shot to death 14 people at a county government holiday party in nearby San Bernardino on Wednesday and died hours later in a shootout with police.
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| Three killed in Lebanon as militant blows himself up during raid - security sources | |  It was the latest in a series of arrest raids across the country since two suicide bomb blasts claimed by Islamic State killed 44 people in a crowded commercial and residential area of Beirut last month. The explosion killed the wife and mother of the suspect, who was named as Mohammed Hamzeh, a security source said. At least 10 others were wounded, including four security personnel.
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| Malaysia's anti-graft agency questions Najib over multi-million dlr deposits | |  Malaysian anti-corruption officials questioned Prime Minister Najib Razak on Saturday in an investigation into deposits of funds totalling 2.6 billion ringgit ($615.53 million) into his bank accounts that have prompted calls for his resignation. The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) said in a statement that Najib cooperated with its officers during the meeting, which lasted two-and-a-half-hours. A graft scandal erupted around Najib in July when the Wall Street Journal reported that investigators focused on state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) had found that funds had been transferred into Najib's bank accounts.
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| Japan's securities watchdog to recommend $59.8 mln fine for Toshiba - source | |  By Takahiko Wada TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's securities watchdog will recommend that Toshiba Corp should be fined 7.37 billion yen ($59.84 million) for accounting violations, a person familiar with the process told Reuters on Saturday. The source said the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission will make the recommendation, which would be a record fine for accounting violations, to the Financial Services Agency on Monday. Toshiba, whose business spans household electronics to nuclear power, has said it inflated profits by about 155 billion yen ($1.26 billion) in a period spanning about seven years.
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| New York Times in rare front-page editorial calls for outlawing some rifles | |  The New York Times, in its first front-page editorial in nearly a century, on Saturday called for outlawing the kinds of rifles used in the California shooting massacre this week that left 14 people dead. The newspaper's editorial comes three days after Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, a married couple, carried out the mass shooting in San Bernardino with legally-purchased, .223 caliber assault-style rifles. "Certain kinds of weapons, like the slightly modified combat rifles used in California, and certain kinds of ammunition, must be outlawed for civilian ownership," the New York Times editorial said.
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| Six injured in bomb attack on a Hindu gathering in Bangladesh | | | At least six people were injured, with three in a critical condition, after a series of bomb blasts on Saturday at a Hindu religious gathering in northern Bangladesh, a police official said. The attack follows the shooting and wounding of an Italian doctor working in the same region last month, and the earlier murders of an Italian and a Japanese citizen in separate attacks claimed by Islamic State. The latest incident occurred in Dinajpur district, 415 km (260 miles) north of the capital Dhaka when a series of bombs exploded as hundreds of devotees attended a religious ceremony known as "Rushmela", Abdul Mazid, the officer in-charge of Kahalur police station, told Reuters. |
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