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| Corrected - California massacre shooter may be linked to Islamic State - sources | |  (Corrects death toll in Paris attacks in paragraph 7)) By Mark Hosenball and Mehreen Zahra-Malik WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A woman accused of joining her husband in killing 14 people in California apparently pledged allegiance to a leader of the militant group Islamic State, two U.S. government sources said on Friday, as intelligence officials in her native Pakistan pressed the investigation overseas. Tashfeen Malik, 27, and her husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, were killed in a shootout with police hours after the Wednesday massacre during a holiday party 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.
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| Exclusive: Accused California shooter lived in Saudi Arabia for years - Pakistani sources | |  By Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - Tashfeen Malik, one of the two accused shooters in the massacre in San Bernardino, California, moved with her family 25 years ago from Pakistan to Saudi Arabia, where her father became "conservative and hard-line," a family member told Reuters on Friday. Malik, 27, and her American husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, were killed in a shootout with police hours on Wednesday, hours after the mass shooting in San Bernardino in which 14 people died. Two Pakistani officials said Malik was from the Layyah district in southern Punjab province, but moved to Saudi Arabia with her father 25 years ago.
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| Guatemalan soccer official arrested on cruise ship off Florida | | | By Nate Raymond 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. A FBI spokeswoman said that Héctor Trujillo, 62, was arrested when officials of U.S. Customs and Border Protection went to his cabin door. Trujillo was scheduled to appear for a hearing in federal court in Orlando, Florida, at 3:30 p.m. ET (2030 GMT), a court official said. |
| Eastern Congo militias test 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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| 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. Aviation Minister Eliseu Padilha, an ally of Vice President Michel Temer and part of the fractious party that is Rousseff's main coalition partner, submitted his resignation on Friday, according to two people familiar with the decision from within the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, or PMDB.
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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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| 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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| Arrested officials banned from soccer for 90 days | |  ZURICH (Reuters) - FIFA executive committee members Juan Angel Napout and Alfredo Hawit have been suspended from soccer for 90 days after they were arrested in Switzerland, the ethics committee of the sport's governing body said on Friday. The two were arrested at a Zurich hotel on Thursday morning after an indictment was issued by the United States Department of Justice for charges of racketeering, conspiracy and corruption. (Writing by Brian Homewood)
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| 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. |
| 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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