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| Third Paris suicide bomber was in Syria in 2013 - judicial source | |  The third and as-yet unnamed suicide bomber who attacked the Stade de France Football stadium on Nov. 13 went to Syria with a group of other young people at the end of 2013, a judicial source said on Wednesday. The Stade de France suicide bombings were part of a co-ordinated attack that killed 130 people in Paris and which was claimed by Islamic State, the militant group that now controls large parts of Syria and Iraq. The other two Stade de France suicide bombers, among seven attackers who died in the assaults, have been named as Samy Amimour, 28, from Drancy, north east of Paris, and Ismail Omar Mostefai, 29, who lived in Chartres, south west of Paris.
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| South Korea man arrested in connection with Japan shrine blast | |  A South Korean man was arrested on Wednesday in connection with a blast last month at Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine for war dead, an official at Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department said. The shrine is seen in China and South Korea as a symbol of Japan's past military aggression. Police arrested Jeon Changhan, 27, for unlawful entry.
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| Georgia executes man for 1992 killing over forged checks | | | Georgia on Wednesday executed a man convicted in the 1992 murder of a family friend after a dispute over money, state officials said, which takes to 28 the tally of executions in the United States this year. Brian Keith Terrell, 47, was convicted of shooting and beating to death John Watson, 70, after Watson threatened to prosecute him for stealing money out of his bank account by using forged checks, court records showed. Terrell was executed at 12:52 a.m., the Georgia Department of Corrections said, nearly six hours later than scheduled, as his legal team made final attempts to stay his death sentence. |
| Venezuela's Maduro says will veto amnesty laws, reshuffle cabinet | |  By Girish Gupta and Alexandra Ulmer CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced an imminent cabinet reshuffle on Tuesday after his ruling Socialist Party was crushed in legislative elections, but he vowed to veto opposition plans for an amnesty law for jailed politicians. Current National Assembly head Diosdado Cabello added that the government would appoint 12 new supreme court judges, among other "tasks," before Dec 31. The new legislature, two-thirds of which will be made up of opposition politicians, is set to begin work in January.
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| Australia, SE Asia need to "re-double" efforts to avoid Paris-style attacks | | | Australia and Southeast Asia must re-double efforts to share intelligence and make sure Paris-style terror attacks can't be replicated in the region, Australian Justice Minister Michael Keenan said on Wednesday. Hundreds of Indonesian Islamic State sympathisers and some Malaysians and Singaporeans are believed to have gone to fight in Syria and Iraq. Southeast Asia faces the risk of attack when they return, Malaysia has said. |
| California shooters borrowed $28,000 before attack - source | |  By Dan Whitcomb and Edward McAllister SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (Reuters) - A married couple who killed 14 people in a California shooting rampage the FBI is investigating as an act of terrorism borrowed about $28,000 from an online lender, a sum deposited into their bank account about two weeks before the attack, sources said on Tuesday. Disclosure of the unsecured loan the husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, took out from San Francisco-based Prosper, a peer-to-peer lending service, offered a new glimpse into the money trail under scrutiny by investigators of last week's mass shooting. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has described Farook, the U.S.-born son of Pakistani immigrants, and his Pakistani-born wife, Tashfeen Malik, 29, as a couple "radicalized" by Islamic extremist ideology.
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| McCullum 'comfortable' with Cairns trial evidence | |  New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum is "very comfortable" with the evidence he gave against former all-rounder Chris Cairns, who was found not guilty of perjury and perverting the course of justice in a trial last month. Cairns had been accused of falsely claiming he had never cheated at cricket when he won 90,000 pounds ($135,171) in damages from Lalit Modi, the former boss of the Indian Premier League, in a libel action three years ago. McCullum was one of two former team mates, along with self-confessed matchfixer Lou Vincent, who gave evidence against Cairns in the trial, accusing his predecessor as test skipper of twice asking him to fix matches.
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| New York probes sale of 'speculative' Bruce Springsteen tickets on StubHub | |  By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The New York Attorney General is investigating why so-called "speculative" tickets to a series of upcoming Bruce Springsteen concerts were listed for sale on websites owned by eBay and two other companies, according to letters seen by Reuters. The Dec. 7 letters, sent by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office to eBay-owned StubHub Inc., Connecticut-based TicketNetwork Inc. and Illinois-based Vivid Seats Ltd., order them to immediately remove any listings by ticket re-sellers for speculative Springsteen tickets. It also asks company executives to meet with investigators in the Internet bureau to answer questions about how they identify and combat speculative ticket sales.
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