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| Small blast in central Moscow injures three - agencies | | | A small explosion at a bus stop in central Moscow injured three people on Monday night, and investigators were treating it as an act of hooliganism, Russian news agencies reported. The blast occurred on Pokrovka street in the Chistiye Prudy part of Moscow, an area that has numerous bars and cafes, possibly after a home-made explosive was thrown from a passing car or nearby building, said Interior Minister spokesman Andrei Galiakberov. Currently, a Moscow police investigative team is working at the scene," Tass news agency quoted Galiakberov as saying. |
| FBI says California shooters were radicalised for 'some time' | |  By Dan Whitcomb SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (Reuters) - Investigators believe the married couple who massacred 14 people in Southern California last week - the U.S.-born husband and his Pakistani wife - had been radicalised "for some time," but no evidence has yet emerged of an international plot, the FBI said on Monday. The latest disclosures in the FBI-led investigation came as San Bernardino County employees began returning to work under tighter security, five days after a co-worker, Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his spouse opened fire with assault-style rifles on a holiday gathering of his colleagues. The couple were killed in a shootout with police several hours after their attack on Wednesday morning in a conference room at the Inland Regional Center social services agency in San Bernardino, about 60 miles (100 km) east of Los Angeles.
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| Triumphant Venezuela opposition looks to boost economy, free prisoners | |  By Andrew Cawthorne and Eyanir Chinea CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's opposition vowed on Monday to revive the OPEC nation's troubled economy and free jailed political activists after winning control of the legislature for the first time in 16 years of Socialist rule. By afternoon, some results from Sunday's election were not yet in, but the Democratic Unity coalition had already won a commanding majority in the 167-member National Assembly. Opposition leaders said final tallies showed they reached the crucial bar of two-thirds.
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| Immediate medical help would have prevented death of Baltimore man - prosecution witness | |  By Ian Simpson BALTIMORE (Reuters) - A defence lawyer for a Baltimore police officer charged in the death of a young black man in police custody on Monday attacked the findings of the medical examiner who ruled the death a homicide. Officer William Porter, 26, is accused of manslaughter in the April death of Freddie Gray from a spinal injury. Assistant Medical Examiner Dr. Carol Allan, who conducted Gray's autopsy, testified in Baltimore City Circuit Court that she would not have classified Gray's death a homicide had Porter called a medic when Gray asked for one.
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| California shooters radicalised but no sign of international plot - FBI | |  (Reuters) - The couple who carried out an attack on a San Bernardino County employee party last week that killed 14 people had been radicalised "for some time" but there was no evidence so far of an international plot, an FBI official said on Monday. Investigators were working to determine when and why U.S.-born Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his Pakistani wife, Tashfeen Malik, 29, began plotting the Dec. 2 attack, FBI Assistant Director in Charge David Bowdich told reporters. (Reporting by Laila Kearney)
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| U.S. citizen who fought for Islamist group surrenders in Somalia - official | | | By Feisal Omar MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A U.S. citizen who fought for the Somali Islamist group al Shabaab surrendered to authorities in the Horn of Africa country after he defected from the militants, a Somali official said on Monday. Colonel Ali Dalel Hirsi, a military officer, said U.S. citizen Malik John had surrendered to officials on the edge of Barawe, about 220km (135 miles) southwest from the capital Mogadishu. Al Shabaab wants to topple Somalia's Western-backed government and has staged frequent bomb and gun attacks in the capital Mogadishu. |
| U.S. DOJ to examine Chicago Police Department's use of force | |  By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said on Monday it will investigate Chicago's police department following protests over the 2014 police shooting death of a black teenager, on the same day local prosecutors said they would not seek charges in another police shooting case. U.S. authorities will look at the department's use of force, including deadly force, among other issues, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said at a news briefing. "Our goal in this investigation ... is not to focus on individuals but to improve systems," the United States' top law enforcement official said.
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| U.S. Homeland Security chief to revamp terrorism alert system | |  By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said on Monday he would soon announce changes to the national alert system to warn the public about terrorism risks. The changes come amid fresh concerns about terrorism in the United States after last Wednesday's shooting in San Bernardino, California, although they were not specifically prompted by it. President Barack Obama has called the shooting, in which 14 people were killed, an act of terrorism.
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| Armenian vote boosts prime minister's powers, opposition cries foul | |  By Hasmik Mkrtchyan YEREVAN (Reuters) - Armenians voted in a referendum to boost the prime minister's powers, results showed on Monday, a move supporters say will bolster stability but opponents warn will entrench the ruling party's control over the ex-Soviet state. Observers from the Council of Europe rights group reported problems with the voting lists and other irregularities, and said that the low turnout suggested many voters saw Sunday's referendum as a piece of political manoeuvring. The ruling Republican party, which called the vote, said minor violations could not affect the result.
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| Venezuela opposition savours long-craved triumph, unity now key | | | By Alexandra Ulmer CARACAS (Reuters) - In a side room of an affluent Caracas hotel, the wife of jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez locked hands with the spouses of other detained politicians on Sunday night as they waited for the results of Venezuela's legislative elections. Defeated at the polls time and again during 17 years of "Chavismo," the leftist movement founded by late leader Hugo Chavez, the opposition now hopes the days of Socialist rule are numbered. "Finally we've glimpsed the light," beamed student Yelimar Bayona, 22, as gleeful supporters hugged in the heavily-guarded hotel. |
| Twelve Syrian refugees to arrive in Texas despite effort to block them | | | By Lisa Maria Garza DALLAS (Reuters) - Two families of Syrian refugees are due to arrive in Texas on Monday despite efforts by the state to bar their resettlement, including a lawsuit Texas filed last week in federal court. A family of six, comprised of the parents, two children under age 6 and the children's grandparents, are scheduled to arrive in Dallas. The results of the case filed in U.S. District Court in Dallas could determine whether the governors of about 30 states will be able to go through with plans to bar the local resettlement of Syrian refugees. |
| Arrested CONMEBOL head agrees to U.S. extradition - Paraguay media | | | Paraguay's Juan Angel Napout, president of the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL), has agreed to be extradited to the United States after being arrested in Zurich on charges of involvement in bribery schemes for marketing and broadcast rights, the ABC daily reported on Monday. Napout was among 16 football officials charged by U.S. prosecutors on Thursday following a first wave of arrests last May in its investigation of world football's governing body FIFA. Napout and fellow FIFA executive committee member Alfredo Hawit of Honduras were suspended from football by the FIFA ethics committee for 90 days after their arrests. |
| White House says Venezuelan election shows 'overwhelming desire' for change | | | The White House said on Monday results of the election for Venezuela's National Assembly showed a clear desire for change and were "encouraging." "The people of Venezuela have expressed their overwhelming desire for a change in direction," White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters, noting it was too soon to tell whether the results would lead to a change in the nation's relationship with the United States. |
| Top tribunal to consider temporarily lifting Platini ban | |  By Brian Homewood BERNE (Reuters) - Sport's highest tribunal will meet on Tuesday to consider temporarily lifting the 90-day suspension on Michel Platini barring him from seeking the presidency of football's scandal-plagued governing body FIFA. Platini, the European football boss 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 investigation into his conduct. Sepp Blatter, who has been FIFA president since 1998, was also suspended after being swept up by a crisis that has led to criminal investigations into the sport in both Switzerland and the United States.
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| Florida man tied to hacking case involving JPMorgan indicted | |  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Florida man has been indicted for scheming to make illicit payments to an official at a credit union that prosecutors say facilitated an illegal bitcoin exchange owned by an Israeli linked to cyber attacks on companies including JPMorgan Chase & Co . Yuri Lebedev, 37, pleaded not guilty on Friday to a one-count indictment filed last week in Manhattan federal court, a spokeswoman for Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said on Monday. Lebedev was arrested in July along with a Florida man, Anthony Murgio, for engaging in a conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business.
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| UK's long-delayed Heathrow decision likely to slip again - source | |  By Kate Holton and Sarah Young LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron is unlikely to give final approval for expanding Heathrow Airport as expected this month, further delaying the politically charged decision which has been 25 years in the making, an industry source said. Cameron had promised a decision on whether to back the 23 billion-pound ($35 billion) expansion programme by the end of the year but the person familiar with the process said this was now likely to come next year, possibly only after London's mayoral election in May. "We now expect the final decision next year," said the source, speaking on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the issue. The debate over a third runway at the airport has pitted environmentalists and voters in affluent west London against the country's biggest businesses and some politicians who see expansion as vital for economic growth.
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| Swedish legal watchdog rejects proposal for border controls | |  The top legal watchdog in Sweden, a major destination for migrants flocking to Europe this year, on Monday rejected a government request for the right to impose tighter border controls and shut a bridge to Denmark. The Swedish Council on Legislation said the centre-left government's plan resembled martial law and would violate refugees' right to seek asylum in Sweden. Stockholm imposed temporary border controls in early November, the first in over two decades and a turn-around in its open-doors policy.
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| Suspect carried out 'hideous' London knife attack for Syria, British court hears | |  By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - A man accused of attacking a commuter with a knife at an east London underground train station said he was acting for Syria, a prosecutor told a London court on Monday. Muhaydin Mire, 29, of east London, was charged with attempted murder in attacking a 56-year-old commuter from behind at the ticket gates of Leytonstone underground station on Saturday evening, Westminster Magistrates' Court heard. Police are treating the incident as a terrorist attack.
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| Corrected - Yemen peace talks to start Dec 15 alongside ceasefire - U.N. | |  (Corrects first paragraph and quote in fourth paragraph to remove mention of "humanitarian" ceasefire) By Stephanie Nebehay and Mohammed Ghobari GENEVA/DUBAI (Reuters) - Yemen's warring parties are expected to observe a ceasefire and start U.N.-sponsored peace talks in Switzerland from Dec. 15 in a bid to end months of fighting that have killed nearly 6,000 people, the United Nations said on Monday. Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, U.N. special envoy to Yemen, said that the exiled Yemen government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and Iran-backed Houthis were committed to the peace process laid down by the Security Council last April. "I have been strongly encouraging the parties to work on confidence-building measures including implementing a ceasefire, the releasing of prisoners and facilitating the delivery of humanitarian supplies," Ould Cheikh Ahmed told reporters in Geneva where he announced the talks.
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| After Paris, Balkans considers regional fight against arms smuggling | | | By Daria Sito-Sucic SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Western Balkan governments are looking at creating a network of experts to help tackle the illicit trade in weapons from the region, officials said on Monday, amid concerns after the Paris attacks about guns falling into the hands of militant Islamists. Some of the assault rifles used by the perpetrators of the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris, claimed by Islamic State and in which 130 people died, were traced to the former Yugoslavia. Former Yugoslavia, which collapsed in turmoil and war in the 1990s, has long been a rich source of illicit weapons for criminal gangs in Europe. |
| Brazil's Rousseff seeks speedy vote on impeachment bid | |  By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff urged Congress on Monday to cancel its summer recess in January and deal swiftly with a request for her impeachment to nip in the bud an attempt to unseat her that she called undemocratic and legally flawed. Rousseff's opponents are seeking to impeach her for allegedly breaking budget laws as she ramped up economic stimulus during her re-election campaign last year. Rousseff's aides have said she has enough votes to block impeachment in the lower house, but that could change as her opponents whip up anti-government sentiment.
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| French parties scramble to halt rise of far-right National Front | |  By Michel Rose and Leigh Thomas PARIS (Reuters) - France's mainstream political parties were scrambling for a way to stop the rise of the far-right National Front (FN) on Monday after its historic first-round lead in regional elections. Boosted by fears over the Islamic State attacks that killed 130 people in Paris on Nov. 13, Marine Le Pen's party secured 27.7 percent of the vote nationally. Riding a wave of euroscepticism and anti-immigrant feeling which has brought far-right parties to prominence across Europe, the breakthrough bolsters Le Pen's position as a serious contender for the 2017 presidential election.
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| Austrian police file terrorism charges against Swedish teen | | | Austrian police have filed terrorism charges against a 17-year-old Swedish girl of Somali background, suspecting she wanted to travel via Vienna to Syria to join jihadi militants, a spokesman said on Monday. The parents of the girl, who has no previous link with Syria, had informed Swedish police of their daughter's travel plans and their concerns about the possibility of her joining Islamic State militants. Austrian police detained the girl, who is a Swedish citizen but only speaks broken Swedish, at a train station in Vienna on Saturday. |
| Pakistan woman in California shooting attended troubled university | |  By Mehreen Zahra-Malik MULTAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Security officials have been closely monitoring a university in east Pakistan attended by Tashfeen Malik, the woman involved in last's week's mass shooting in California, because of concerns that Islamist militancy was taking hold there. Malik, a Pakistani, attended the sprawling Bahauddin Zakariya University to study pharmacy between 2007 and 2012, after she had lived most of her life in Saudi Arabia.
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| Ukraine still has work to do on reforms, U.S. VP Biden says | |  U.S Vice President Joe Biden said on Monday Ukraine still had a lot of hard work to do on reforms, as he announced new financial aid of $190 million to help the country fight corruption and streamline its bureaucracy. Ukraine's Western backers have repeatedly urged Kiev authorities to stick to reform promises made under a $40 billion international bailout programme aimed at shoring up the country's war-torn economy, which was brought close to bankruptcy by years of corruption and economic mismanagement. "It is absolutely critical for Ukraine to root out the cancer of corruption ... Ukraine is on the cusp -- what happens in the next year is likely to determine the fate of the country for generations," Biden told a joint briefing with President Petro Poroshenko following bilateral talks.
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