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| Exclusive - California shooter Malik lived in Saudi Arabia for years -Pakistani sources | |  (Reuters) - Accused San Bernardino shooter Tashfeen Malik moved to Saudi Arabia from Pakistan about 25 years ago but returned home to study to become a pharmacist, two Pakistani officials told Reuters. A family member said he had been contacted by Pakistani intelligence as part of the investigation of Wednesday's deadly shooting in San Bernardino, California.
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| California massacre shooter pledged allegiance to Islamic State - sources | |  Tashfeen Malik, 27, and her husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, were killed in a shootout with police hours after the Wednesday massacre at the Inland Regional Center social services agency in San Bernardino, about 60 miles (100 km) east of Los Angeles. U.S. investigators are evaluating evidence that Malik, a Pakistani native who had been living in Saudi Arabia when she married Farook, had pledged allegiance to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, two U.S. officials told Reuters. Malik and Farook had spent time destroying computer hard drives and other electronics before embarking on their rampage Wednesday, a U.S. government source said.
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| Court ruling, minister exit complicate Rousseff battle in Brazil | |  By Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA (Reuters) - President Dilma Rousseff suffered two setbacks on Friday to her fight against impeachment, as a minister from her main coalition ally resigned and the Supreme Court quashed appeals from supporters seeking to stop the impeachment process. Though not momentous enough to reverse the likelihood that Rousseff can stop impeachment proceedings launched against her in Congress on Wednesday, the setbacks show that the Supreme Court and even coalition partners are willing to let the process play out and strategize for what may follow. ...
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| Georgia strips ex-president Saakashvili of citizenship | |  Georgia on Friday stripped former president Mikheil Saakashvili of his citizenship, in a move one of his supporters described as part of a settling of political scores. Georgian President Georgy Margvelashvili signed a decree removing his predecessor's citizenship on the grounds that Saakashvili, now governor of Ukraine's Odessa region, became a Ukrainian national in May. Saakashvili came to power in a bloodless "Rose Revolution" in 2003 and steered Georgia on a pro-Western course that antagonised Moscow and culminated in a five-day war in 2008 in which Georgia was crushed by Russian forces. Friday's decree is "yet another example of employing legal instruments for political persecution," said Nugzar Tsiklauri, an opposition member of parliament.
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| Arrested FIFA officials banned from soccer for 90 days | |  FIFA executive committee members Juan Angel Napout and Alfredo Hawit have been suspended from soccer for 90 days after their arrest in Switzerland, the ethics committee of the soccer's governing body said on Friday. The pair, who are facing extradition to the United States, were among 16 soccer officials charged by U.S. prosecutors on Thursday with taking part in multimillion-dollar bribery schemes for marketing and broadcast rights. FIFA's ethics panel routinely bans officials who are under criminal investigation and the suspensions amount to a formality after their arrest, the latest blow to a global soccer body in turmoil since a first round of indictments in May. Napout is president of the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) and Hawit is head of the CONCACAF confederation that runs the sport in North, Central America and the Caribbean.
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| Bangladesh police arrest 10 on suspicion of militant activity | | | Security forces in Bangladesh arrested six people on Friday on suspicion of human trafficking and currency smuggling and possible involvement in militant activity, a spokesman for the special forces Rapid Action Battalion said. Some 10 million counterfeit Indian rupees and 624,000 Bangladeshi taka ($8,000) were also found, along with large amounts of foreign currency including U.S. dollars, Pakistani rupees, UAE dirhams and Saudi riyals. "We are investigating whether they were mobilising funds for militant activities in Bangladesh and or planning to carry out destructive action in the country," said Khan. |
| Israel says too early to try suspects over torching of Palestinian home | |  Israel is still trying to gather evidence against far-right Jews arrested for a lethal arson attack in July on a Palestinian home in the occupied West Bank, the public security minister said on Friday, playing down prospects of an imminent trial. A police announcement on Thursday that several "youths belonging to a Jewish terror group" were in custody stirred speculation of a breakthrough in the killing of three members of the Dawabsheh family, which raised Israeli-Palestinian tensions. Palestinian anger over the attack in Duma village has been a factor fuelling a wave of street assaults since Oct. 1.
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| Investigators believe female California shooter pledged allegiance to ISIS - CNN | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tashfeen Malik, the female shooter in the California rampage that left 14 dead, is believed to have pledged allegiance to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, CNN reported on Friday, citing three U.S. officials. One of the officials said Malik had pledged allegiance to al-Baghdadi in a posting on Facebook under an account that used a different name, CNN said. (Reporting by Timothy Ahmann; Editing by Doina Chiacu)
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| Guatemalan soccer official arrested on cruise ship off Florida | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - A top Guatemalan soccer official and judge on the Central American country's constitutional court was arrested on a cruise ship at Port Canaveral, Florida, on Friday a day after being charged in a U.S. probe of corruption in the sport, the FBI said. A FBI spokeswoman said that Héctor Trujillo, 62, was arrested when officials of U.S. Customs and Border Protection went to his cabin door. (Reporting by Nate Raymond in New York; editing by Grant McCool) |
| South Africa issues arrest warrant for Pistorius - ENCA TV | |  JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African authorities have issued a warrant of arrest for Oscar Pistorius, a day after the Paralympic champion was convicted on appeal of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, ENCA television reported on Friday. The Supreme Court on Thursday upgraded the 29-year-old athlete's sentence to murder from "culpable homicide", South Africa's equivalent of manslaughter, for which he had received a five-year sentence. A murder conviction normally carries a minimum 15-year jail sentence. South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority issued the arrest warrant, ENCA said. ...
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| Prospects for India's landmark tax reform brighten as panel backs lower rate | |  By Manoj Kumar and Rajesh Kumar Singh NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's proposed sales tax edged closer to approval on Friday after a government-appointed panel backed the lower rate and simpler structure that the opposition Congress party had demanded. Aimed at creating a customs union for India's 1.2 billion people, the Goods and Service Tax (GST) is the biggest revenue shake-up since independence from Britain in 1947. Supporters say it will add up to two percentage points to economic growth by replacing multiple federal and state tax levies, a chaotic structure that inflates costs for businesses.
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| Danish PM calls on EU to strike new balance after voter rejection | |  Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen called on the European Union to find a new balance between what should be decided in Brussels and what member states can decide on their own after Danes voted against adopting more EU laws. Together with Britain and Ireland, Danes have long enjoyed several exemptions from EU legislation dating from the 1990s when the modern foundation of the 28-member bloc was laid. Now, like Britain, the Danish leader is questioning the balance of responsibilities between the EU and its member states.
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| UK Maoist cult leader raped followers, kept daughter a prisoner for 30 years | |  By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - A Maoist cult leader was found guilty on Friday of raping and beating his brainwashed female followers, while keeping his own daughter a fearful prisoner for more than 30 years in homes across south London. Aravindan Balakrishnan, 75, known as Comrade Bala, used sexual degradation and physical and mental violence to keep the women under his control, turning his commune based on Communist teachings into his own personal cult with members who believed him to be a god, prosecutors said.
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| European clubs attack proposed FIFA reforms | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - A package of reforms proposed by FIFA to clean up the scandal-plagued governing body of soccer was angrily criticised on Friday by Europe's powerful clubs, who said it would increase frustration among the sport's stakeholders. The European Club Association (ECA), which represents more than 200 clubs including top sides like Real Madrid, Barcelona and Bayern Munich, said its members were "not prepared to be further ignored" and were leaving "all options open." FIFA is in the throes of an unprecedented crisis, with criminal investigations into the sport under way in the United States and Switzerland.
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| Argentina cabinet chief wants FIFA probe "to cut to the bone" | |  Argentina's Cabinet Chief Anibal Fernandez said on Friday he wants the investigation into the FIFA corruption scandal to "cut to the bone" in order to track alleged bribe money that should have been taxed. Soccer bosses from across South and Central America were among 16 people charged Thursday with multi million-dollar bribery schemes to win marketing and broadcast rights, in a dismantling of a Latin American soccer network by U.S. prosecutors. Argentine nationals Jose Luis Meiszner and Eduardo Deluca,former secretaries general of South America's soccer confederation, were among those charged.
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| Three killed in failed attack on senior Burundi police officer | | | Police in Burundi said they shot dead three attackers and arrested three others on Friday when they foiled an attempt to ambush and assassinate a top police officer in the capital. Bujumbura police chief Domitien Niyonkuru said the attackers were wearing police uniforms, and weapons including rocket-propelled grenades and rifles were recovered. Burundi, which emerged from a 12-year civil war a decade ago, began spiralling into chaos in April when President Pierre Nkurunziza announced he would seek a third term, sparking months of protests and a failed coup. |
| Eastern Congo militias make mockery of U.N. peace 'enforcement' | |  By Ed Cropley GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - As the battered pickup lurched down the road from Mount Nyiragongo, Lieutenant Bongani Mndebele took a closer look at its passengers, six men in faded camouflage fatigues with AK-47s over their shoulders. "Government forces - I think," the South African peace-keeper said.
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| U.S. authorities look for militant links to shooters in California mass slaying | |  By Yasmeen Abutaleb and Lisa Baertlein SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (Reuters) - The couple suspected of killing 14 people at a holiday party in California amassed thousands of rounds of ammunition and a dozen pipe bombs, authorities said on Thursday as they sought clues to the pair's motives and whether they had links to Islamist militants. Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, 27, were killed in a shootout with police five hours after Wednesday's massacre at the Inland Regional Center social services agency in the city of San Bernardino, about 60 miles (100 km) east of Los Angeles. Twenty-one people were wounded in the attack, which ranks as the deadliest instance of U.S. gun violence since the December 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in which 27 people were killed.
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| Thai migrant crisis meeting ends without any solution on offer | |  By Aubrey Belford and Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand called on Friday for concerted action to tackle "irregular" migration in the Indian Ocean, but no substantial solutions emerged from a regional meeting aimed at preventing this year's "boat people" tragedies in which hundreds drowned. Representatives from Southeast Asian countries met in Bangkok to hash out a framework to deal with tens of thousands of migrants, most from Myanmar and Bangladesh, who make perilous voyages across the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea every year. The meeting ended with a plan put forward by Thailand which five directly affected countries, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar and Bangladesh, would consider.
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| U.S. gun control activists newly optimistic, but change may be elusive | |  By Ginger Gibson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After years of thwarted efforts to tighten restrictions on firearms, gun control activists are heralding the 2016 elections as a watershed moment. Everytown for Gun Safety said its membership spiked by 20,000, to 3.5 million, in the hours after the California shooting - in which a young married couple armed with assault-style rifles left their infant daughter in the care of a grandmother before opening fire at a workplace holiday party.
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| Paris bar reopens three weeks after attacks | |  One of the Paris cafes where drinkers died in a hail of bullets on Nov. 13 reopened on Friday, three weeks to the day after the Islamist militant attacks that killed 130 people. Audrey Bily, manager of the first attacked cafe to reopen its doors, said the walls of the premises had been repainted and the "stigmata of this nightmare" removed. Several other eastern Paris cafes and restaurants hit in the attacks hope to reopen sooner as the most visited city in the world seeks to resume normal life.
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| Molotov cocktail kills 16 people at Cairo restaurant after dispute | | | A Molotov cocktail hurled at a Cairo restaurant killed 16 people and wounded two on Friday, Egyptian security officials said. The victims were burned to death or died from smoke inhalation. The interior ministry said an initial investigation indicated that the Molotov was hurled after a dispute erupted between restaurant workers and others. |
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