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| New York City is sued over salt warnings on restaurant menus | | Friday, December 04, 2015 1:08 AM | |
|  By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A restaurant industry trade group is suing New York City's Board of Health to stop it from enforcing a new rule requiring many chain restaurants to post warnings on menu items that are high in sodium. The National Restaurant Association said on Thursday the Board of Health unfairly burdened restaurant owners and usurped the power of the popularly elected City Council by forcing restaurants with more than 15 locations nationwide to warn diners about salty foods. Backed by Mayor Bill de Blasio, the rule, believed the first of its kind nationally, requires restaurants to post a salt shaker encased in a black triangle as a warning symbol next to any menu item with more than 2,300 milligrams (0.08 ounce) of sodium, the daily limit many nutritionists recommend.
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| U.S. authorities look for militant links to shooters in California mass slaying | | Friday, December 04, 2015 12:43 AM | |
|  By Tim Reid and Yasmeen Abutaleb 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 Tashfeen Malik, 27, his wife and mother of his 6-month-old daughter, 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. Twenty-one people were wounded in the shooting, which ranks as the deadliest instance of U.S. gun violence in three years.
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| Brazil speaker and government fan impeachment fire | | Friday, December 04, 2015 12:37 AM | |
|  By Leonardo Goy and Alonso Soto BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's presidential chief of staff traded barbs with the speaker of the lower house of Congress on Thursday as President Dilma Rousseff's government marshaled its defense for the impeachment proceedings launched against her on Wednesday. Rousseff is expected to narrowly survive the proceedings because her party and allies, for now, appear to control enough seats to defeat those who support impeachment. The government estimated conservatively that it already had firm support from 140 lawmakers in the lower house - shy of the 172 votes needed to block the process - and was seeking more, an aide to Rousseff said.
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| Coroner releases names of 14 victims in California shooting | | Friday, December 04, 2015 12:15 AM | |
| | (Reuters) - The San Bernardino County Coroner on Thursday released the names of the 14 victims, ranging in age from 26 to 60, of Wednesday's shooting rampage in California. "This shooting has caused each victims family, friends and co-workers, along with the first responders, to suffer an enormous personal tragedy. We must stand strong and offer support to each individual affected by this senseless attack", said Sheriff John McMahon. The victims were listed as living in the area around San Bernardino. ... |
| Honda, Takata settle airbag suits, lose round in class action case | | Friday, December 04, 2015 12:08 AM | |
|  By David Shepardson NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge has rejected a bid by air bag manufacturer Takata Corp and automaker Honda Motor Co to toss out a class-action lawsuit on behalf of millions of owners with potentially faulty airbag inflators, even as the firms are moving to quickly settle death claims. Litigation arising from four of the six U.S. deaths has been settled, Honda spokesman Chris Martin said. Honda has been working to settle claims quickly, Martin said.
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| Leaving behind baby, couple launched deadliest U.S. assault in years | |  By Tim Reid, Dan Whitcomb and Angela Moon SAN BERNARDINO, Calif./NEW YORK (Reuters) - At age 28, Syed Rizwan Farook inspected restaurants and public pools. A U.S. citizen born in Illinois, Farook worked as a county environmental health specialist, inspecting restaurants and swimming pools for health violations, according to authorities and a website that tracks public employees. While he appeared not to have profiles on such popular social media sites as Facebook and LinkedIn, Farook was registered on at least three online dating sites.
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| Israel says suspects arrested over fatal torching of Palestinian home | |  Members of a "Jewish terror group" have been arrested over a July arson attack on a Palestinian home in the Israeli-occupied West Bank that killed a toddler and his parents, Israeli police said on Thursday. A police statement did not say how many suspects were in custody. Eighteen-month-old Ali Dawabsheh was killed in the July 31 blaze in Duma, a village outside Nablus.
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| U.S. asks Honduras to extradite ex-president over alleged FIFA ties | |  The United States government has made a formal extradition request to Honduras for the country's former President Rafael Callejas over his suspected links to the FIFA corruption scandal, the Honduran government said on Thursday. The government said in a brief statement it had received the extradition request for Callejas, who was named on Thursday in a U.S. indictment over alleged multimillion-dollar bribery schemes for marketing and broadcast rights. Callejas, who later served as head of the Honduran football federation, told a news conference he bore no responsibility for any of the accusations, adding that he was ready to defend himself against the charges.
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| Brazil's del Nero asks for temporary leave - football federation | |  SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's football federation said President Marco Polo del Nero had asked for a leave of absence on Thursday in order to focus on defending himself from accusations made in an indictment by U.S. authorities. Del Nero appointed the federation's vice-president, Marcus Antonio Vicente, to take over as interim president. (Reporting by Caroline Stauffer; Editing by Dan Grebler)
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| Denmark rejects more EU laws in blow to integration | |  By Sabina Zawadzki and Alexander Tange COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - The European Union, strained by a refugee crisis, security fears and popular disenchantment after years of economic doldrums, suffered another blow on Thursday when Danes voted to reject just a small step to further integrate with the bloc. Together with Britain and Ireland, Danes have long enjoyed several exemptions from EU laws dating from the 1990s when the modern foundation of the 28-member bloc was laid.
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| Alleged San Bernardino shooter attended services in Riverside mosque | | | SAN BERNARDINO (Reuters) - Syed Farook, the alleged shooter in Wednesday's San Bernardino rampage, attended daily services and celebrated his wedding reception at the Islamic Center of Riverside, Center Director Mustafa Kuko said on Thursday. Farook attended morning and evening services from 2012 to 2014, Kuko said. In 2013, Farook asked for Kuko's blessing to marry a Pakistani woman living in Saudi Arabia. Kuko said he felt betrayed by Farook's alleged actions, which contradict the teachings of Islam. (Reporting by Yasmeen Abutaleb; Writing by Robin Respaut; Editing by Chris Reese) |
| Female attacker stands out in California mass shooting | |  Of all the shocking details emerging after Wednesday's mass shooting in California, one stands out as highly unusual: one of the two attackers who shot dead 14 and wounded 21 others at a holiday party was a woman. Tashfeen Malik, 27, and her husband Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, who had a 6-month-old daughter together, were killed in a shootout with police after the massacre at the Inland Regional Center social services agency in the city of San Bernardino. Research conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the New York Police Department and others show that mass shooters in recent decades are overwhelmingly male.
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| Russian Taliban fighter sentenced to life in prison in U.S. | | | By Gary Robertson RICHMOND, Va. (Reuters) - A former Soviet army tank officer convicted for his role in a 2009 attack on U.S. and Afghan soldiers, was sentenced in federal court on Thursday to life in prison plus 30 years. Irek Hamidullin, 55, was the first enemy combatant from Afghanistan to be tried in a U.S. federal court of charges related to helping Taliban fighters. U.S. District Court Judge Henry Hudson handed down the sentence after Hamidullin, a convert to Islam, delivered a defense of his actions that lasted more than half an hour and cited Jesus Christ and Allah. |
| Chicago to release video in police shooting of second black man | | | By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - A video of a 2014 Chicago police shooting of a black man will be released next week, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said on Thursday after days of controversy over another fatal police shooting caught on tape. Emanuel said the city would release police squad car dashboard video of the shooting of 25-year-old Ronald Johnson III, who was killed by police on Oct. 12, 2014, a week before the shooting death of Laquan McDonald, 17. Details of when the video would be released were not available from the mayor's office. |
| South American soccer bosses charged in latest FIFA graft probe | |  By Mark Hosenball and Joshua Franklin WASHINGTON/ZURICH (Reuters) - Soccer bosses from across South and Central America were among 16 people charged on Thursday with multimillion-dollar bribery schemes for marketing and broadcast rights, in a dismantling of a Latin American soccer network by U.S. prosecutors. Court documents showed that the heads of the CONMEBOL and CONCACAF associations that run soccer in the Western Hemisphere and others with top jobs in the world governing body FIFA were charged along with current and former chiefs of the Brazil Football Confederation (CBF), which hosted the 2014 FIFA World Cup finals. A former president of Honduras, Rafael Callejas, and a judge on Guatemala's constitutional court, Héctor Trujillo, were named in the indictment.
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| U.S. military opens all combat roles to women | |  By David Alexander and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military will let women serve in all combat roles, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Thursday in a historic move striking down gender barriers in the armed forces. "As long as they qualify and meet the standards, women will now be able to contribute to our mission in ways they could not before," Carter told a Pentagon news conference. President Barack Obama called the move a "historic step forward," saying it would "make our military even stronger." "Our armed forces will draw on an even wider pool of talent.
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| Air strikes alone won't defeat Islamic State, Kerry warns | |  By Arshad Mohammed BELGRADE (Reuters) - Syrian and other Arab ground forces must be found to take on Islamic State, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday, saying the militant group would not be defeated by air strikes alone. Kerry was speaking hours after Britain began bombing Islamic State targets in Syria, joining forces with France and the United States, nearly three weeks after the jihadist group killed 130 people in attacks across Paris. British Prime Minister David Cameron says there are as many as 70,000 moderate opposition fighters in Syria ready to take on Islamic State with the help of foreign air strikes, an assertion opponents of the bombing campaign have questioned.
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| Ex-girlfriend sues Charlie Sheen in first known lawsuit over HIV status | |  (Reuters) - A former girlfriend of Charlie Sheen on Thursday sued the actor for assault, negligence and emotional distress, saying they had sex at least five times before he revealed he was HIV-positive. Scottine Ross, 26, who said she met Sheen while she was working as a porn actress and later became engaged to him, also claimed the actor forced her to have an abortion after she became pregnant in 2014, and had kicked and choked her on numerous occasions during their one-year relationship. The lawsuit, filed in California Superior Court, is the first known legal action against Sheen since he revealed in a TV interview in November that he had been diagnosed HIV-positive four years ago.
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| Man's hoard of nearly 5,000 guns shows ease of amassing arms in U.S | |  By Peter Eisler PAGELAND, South Carolina (Reuters) - As sheriff's investigators threaded past the battered cars, cast-off tires and rusted farm equipment cluttering Brent Nicholson's front yard, there was no hint of the sinister stockpile hidden behind his windowless front door. "This has completely changed our definition of an ass-load of guns," said Chesterfield County Sheriff Jay Brooks. Six weeks after the discovery, officers are still cataloguing the weapons, many of which have proved stolen, and the final tally is expected to be close to 5,000.
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| Brazil speaker and government fan impeachment fire with exchange of barbs | | By Leonardo Goy and Alonso Soto BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's presidential chief of staff traded barbs with the speaker of the lower house of Congress on Thursday, as President Dilma Rousseff's government marshalled its defence for the impeachment proceedings launched against her on Wednesday. Rousseff is expected to narrowly survive the proceedings because her party and allies appear to control enough seats to defeat those who support impeachment. The government estimated conservatively that it already had firm support from 140 lawmakers in the lower house - shy of the 172 votes needed to block the process - and was seeking more, an aide to Rousseff said.
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| With Schengen under threat, Greece accepts EU help | |  By Alastair Macdonald and Alexandros Avramidis BRUSSELS/IDOMENI (Reuters) - Greece asked for European help on Thursday to secure its borders and care for crowds of migrants, defusing threats from EU allies to bar it from the passport-free Schengen zone if it failed to get a grip. Hours before EU interior ministers are to meet on Friday to consider what to do about Greece's inability to stem the flow of refugees and others streaming toward Europe's rich north, the Athens government finally heeded calls from Brussels and agreed to accept European aid and foreign border guards. Its acceptance of three offers -- EU staff to help on its northern frontier, foreign border guards on its Aegean islands and tents and supplies to house stranded migrants -- was quickly welcomed by the EU executive and Migration Commissioner Dmitris Avramopoulos, a Greek himself, called for EU states to help.
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| Dutch suspect Syrian asylum seeker of radical ties | | | An 18-year-old Syrian asylum seeker was arrested by police in the Netherlands on suspicion of membership of a terrorist organisation, prosecutors said in a statement on Thursday. The man, who was not identified by authorities, reportedly told other asylum seekers he had fought alongside Islamic State and al Qaeda militants. |
| Pain but no gain: Indonesia's corruption crackdown | | | By Randy Fabi and Kanupriya Kapoor JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian bureaucrats are holding off spending billions of dollars on everything from schools and clinics to garbage trucks and parking meters, fearful that any major expenditure could come under the scanner of fervent anti-corruption fighters. The paralysis is so bad that President Joko Widodo, desperate to pull Southeast Asia's largest economy out of a slump, is considering a decree that would shield civil servants from graft busters until big-ticket projects are completed. "There are concerns of criminalisation," Boediarso Teguh Widodo, the finance ministry's director general of regional budgetary spending, told Reuters. |
| Muslim Americans fear demonisation of Islam after mass shooting | | | By Ben Klayman DEARBORN, Mich. (Reuters) - Muslim Americans fear their religion will be demonized and Islamophobia will spread after a young Muslim couple was accused of carrying out one of the bloodiest mass killings in the United States. Across the country, Muslim Americans responded with shock and outrage after a shooting in which authorities said Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, stormed a holiday party attended by San Bernardino County employees in California on Wednesday, killing 14 people and wounding 21. "I was at the gym yesterday while the shooting was taking place and all the TVs were showing that footage and all I could keep thinking to myself is 'God, I hope they don't have any Eastern descent, not just Middle Eastern, anything we'd associate with a Muslim'," said Adam Hashem, 32, in Dearborn, a Detroit suburb with one of the country's largest Muslim populations. |
| Major shootings in the United States | | | (Reuters) - Fourteen people were killed and 14 were wounded on Wednesday when at least one person opened fire at a social services agency in the Southern California city of San Bernardino, the latest of many deadly rampages in the United States. Below are some of the worst shooting incidents in recent years, ranked by the number of dead, including the gunman: Virginia Tech April 16, 2007 - A gunman slaughters 32 people and kills himself at Virginia Tech, a university in Blacksburg, Virginia. Columbine April 20, 1999 - Two heavily armed teenagers go on a rampage at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, shooting 12 students and a teacher to death and wounding more than 20 others before taking their own lives. |
| Saudi backs deal that would make Assad ally Lebanon's president | |  By Tom Perry BEIRUT (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia lent its backing on Thursday to a power-sharing plan that would make a family friend of Syria's Bashar al-Assad president of Lebanon, saying it hoped it would happen within weeks. The proposal tabled by Sunni politician Saad al-Hariri would see him return to Lebanon as prime minister, and make Maronite Christian politician Suleiman Franjieh president. Hariri is backed by Saudi Arabia.
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| California shooter Farook visited Saudi Arabia in 2014 - embassy | |  Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the alleged shooters in the California rampage that left 14 dead, visited Saudi Arabia in the summer of 2014, the Saudi Embassy in Washington said on Thursday. "Syed Rizwan Farook travelled to Saudi Arabia in the summer of 2014 for a total of 9 days," the embassy said in a statement.
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| Refugee bill would delay entry of Iraqis who supported U.S. troops | | | By Julia Edwards and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Saad Danno spent six years helping Americans in Iraq during the U.S.-led occupation of his country, first as an aid worker and later as a translator. After the U.S. mission ended in 2012, "all the translators were threatened," said Danno, 38. There are about 58,000 Iraqis, including former allies of the U.S. military like Danno and their relatives, living in potential danger and now seeking U.S. refugee status. |
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