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| America's Muslims object to Obama's push for more self-surveillance | |  By Tim Reid WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama's request to American Muslims that they must help "root out" extremists in their midst received an angry response inside mosques in a part of California where four men were recently arrested for conspiring to aid Islamist militants. At the West Coast Islamic Society in Anaheim, southern California, where two 24-year-old men arrested in May accused of conspiring to aid Islamic State had worshipped, the message was clear: there is no trust of the Federal Bureau of Investigation or the U.S. government. Imams and workers at mosques also described the arrested Islamic State sympathizers as victims of over-zealous law enforcement, illustrating the difficulty the Obama administration may face in convincing some Muslim leaders to identify and report radicals in their midst to U.S. authorities.
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| Guantanamo judge hears arguments on no-touch order for female guards | | | By Lacey Johnson FORT MEADE, Md. (Reuters) - A former Guantanamo Bay commander at a section of the U.S. prison that houses five alleged Sept. 11 conspirators defended in military court on Tuesday the right to use female guards amid objections that contact with the women violates their religion. Judge Army Colonel James Pohl issued a temporary order barring female guards from touching or transporting prisoners in January. Testifying under a pseudonym, a former commander of Camp Seven, the secret part of the prison in Cuba where the United States keeps former Central Intelligence Agency captives, said it was tough to run the section without female guards. |
| FBI looking into $28,500 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. Authorities have said Farook, 28, and wife Tashfeen Malik, 29, were radicalised Muslims. The FBI has said that the December 2 attack is being investigated as an "act of terrorism." While investigations into such attacks often focus on how they were financed, U.S. government officials said the Federal Bureau of Investigation's examination of the couple's finances has not linked them with any foreign group.
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| Greek court extradites Syrian to U.S. over fake passports | | | Greece's top court on Tuesday ordered the extradition of a Syrian man to the United States where he faces charges of producing fake passports and identity theft. The United States had issued an international arrest warrant for the man, identified only as H.K. U.S. judicial authorities said he had held meetings in Athens earlier this year with a U.S. secret service agent and had agreed to produce four fake passports in exchange for 10,000 euros. According to court officials, the Syrian had argued that he would not have a fair trial if extradited. |
| Suspended Platini hopes to be at Euro draw on Saturday | |  By Cecile Mantovani LAUSANNE, Switzerland (Reuters) - Suspended FIFA presidential candidate Michel Platini hopes his 90-day suspension will be lifted in time for him to attend the Euro 2016 draw in Paris on Saturday, he said on Tuesday. Platini, head of European football's governing body UEFA, said he did not like "injustices" as he spoke to reporters at a hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), where he has appealed against his ban. Platini, who until recently was seen as the man to lead FIFA out of its worst ever graft crisis, was suspended by FIFA's ethics committee on Oct. 8 pending a full FIFA ethics investigation into his conduct.
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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. The White House called on Republicans to say they would not support Trump, currently the party's front-runner for the November 2016 election. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said his comments could undermine U.S. security.
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| French judge drops warrant against Ivory Coast parliament head | |  By Bate Felix PARIS (Reuters) - Lawyers for Ivory Coast's parliament speaker Guillaume Soro said on Tuesday that a warrant issued by a French judge in a case brought against him by the former Ivorian president's son had been withdrawn. Held in detention until 2013, Michel Gbagbo, who possesses both French and Ivorian citizenship, filed a complaint in France against Soro and other former rebel chiefs alleging "kidnapping, false imprisonment and inhumane and degrading treatment".
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| Mercedes sue Ferrari-bound engineer over F1 data | |  By Alan Baldwin LONDON (Reuters) - The Mercedes Formula One team is taking legal action against an engineer alleged to have downloaded sensitive performance data before he was due to join rivals Ferrari. "A legal action is underway involving Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains (HPP) Limited and an employee who is due to leave the company at the end of the year," said a team spokesman on Tuesday. "The company has taken the appropriate legal steps to protect its intellectual property." The BBC identified the employee as Benjamin Hoyle.
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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. ... |
| 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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| 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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