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| Syria chemical arms probe found signs of sarin gas exposure - U.N. | | Tuesday, January 05, 2016 2:41 AM | |
|  By Louis Charbonneau and Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A fact-finding mission of the global anti-chemical weapons watchdog has found indications that some people in Syria were exposed to deadly sarin gas, or a compound like it, according to a report the United Nations released on Monday. The findings come in the latest monthly report on Syria from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) chief Ahmet Uzumcu. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon attached it in a Dec. 29 letter to the 15-nation Security Council.
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| Iraqi Sunni mosques attacked in apparent retaliation for Saudi execution | | Tuesday, January 05, 2016 2:35 AM | |
| | By Stephen Kalin and Saif Hameed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least two Sunni Muslim mosques have been attacked in Iraq and two people killed in apparent retaliation for the execution of a senior Shi'ite cleric in Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia, officials and police said on Monday. Iraqi Shi'ites protesting the Jan. 2 execution of Saudi Shi'ite cleric Nimr al-Nimr separately marched in Baghdad and southern cities, while a powerful Iranian-backed Shi'ite militia group pressured the government to sever ties with Riyadh. Iraq's Interior Ministry confirmed the attacks on Sunni mosques late Sunday in Hilla, around 100 km (60 miles) south of Baghdad. |
| Police search for vandal who left bacon at Florida mosque | | Tuesday, January 05, 2016 2:31 AM | |
| | By Barbara Liston ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Florida police were trying on Monday to identify a man with a shaved head and wearing camouflage clothing who was caught on surveillance camera breaking windows, cameras and lights with a machete at a mosque and leaving bacon on the doorstep. The footage showed the man entering the carport of the Masjid Al-Munin mosque in Titusville near Cape Canaveral in central Florida late Friday night and vandalizing it, Titusville police spokeswoman Amy Matthews said. |
| Oregon activists picked the wrong battle, militia leaders say | | Tuesday, January 05, 2016 1:29 AM | |
| | Self-styled militia members who seized federal property in rural Oregon in an effort to galvanise opposition to the U.S. government appear to have made a tactical error - potential allies say they picked the wrong battle. As armed anti-government activists occupied a snowy wildlife refuge for a third day to call attention to a land-use dispute, militia leaders from similar groups across the country criticized the seizure of federal land and a building. The protesters have said they aim "to restore and defend the Constitution" to protect the rights of ranchers and ignite a national debate about states' rights and federal land-use policy they hope could ultimately force the federal government to release tracts of Western land. |
| U.S. says Venezuelan government interfering in new National Assembly | | Tuesday, January 05, 2016 1:21 AM | |
|  The United States expressed concern on Monday that the Venezuelan government is trying to obstruct the actions of the country's National Assembly, which convenes on Tuesday for its first session with an opposition majority in more than 16 years. "We are concerned by the Venezuelan government's efforts to interfere with the newly elected National Assembly exercising its constitutionally mandated duties," State Department spokesman John Kirby told reporters, without giving details. President Nicolas Maduro responded saying that Venezuela would "not accept imperialism." "Why does the State Department and the U.S. government care about the installation of the National Assembly?" Maduro said during a television address on Monday evening.
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| Obama tightens gun rules, requires more background checks | | Tuesday, January 05, 2016 12:52 AM | |
|  By Jeff Mason and Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House unveiled gun control measures on Monday that require more gun sellers to get licenses and more gun buyers to undergo background checks, moves President Barack Obama said were well within his authority to implement without congressional approval. The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives now will require that people who sell guns at stores, at gun shows or over the Internet be licensed and conduct checks, officials said. The ATF was finalising a rule requiring background checks for buyers of dangerous weapons from a trust, corporation or other legal entity as well.
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| Locals distance themselves from Oregon refuge occupiers | | Tuesday, January 05, 2016 12:14 AM | |
|  By Jim Urquhart and Jonathan Allen BURNS, Ore. (Reuters) - Many residents of a small Oregon town distanced themselves on Monday from self-styled militiamen who occupied a remote U.S. wildlife refuge centre over the weekend to protest the federal government's role in managing millions of acres of wild lands. The anti-government occupation, which began on Saturday at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, 30 miles (50 km) south of the small town of Burns, was the latest skirmish over federal land management in large tracts of the West. Many in Burns, home to 3,000 people, said they viewed the occupation as mostly, if not entirely, the work of outsiders - a sentiment echoed by Harney County Sheriff David Ward.
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| India mulls options on Pakistan talks after air base attack - source | |  NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India is mulling its options on whether to go ahead with foreign secretary-level talks with Pakistan scheduled for later this month after militants attacked an Indian Air Force base over the weekend, a government official said on Monday. A final decision on the talks, scheduled for Jan. 15, is expected to be taken after security forces have completed their operation at the Pathankot air base, near the Pakistan border, the source said, requesting anonymity. (Reporting by Paritosh Bansal; Editing by Douglas Busvine)
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| Republican presidential hopefuls tread lightly on Oregon militia news | | | By Ginger Gibson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Several Republican presidential hopefuls responded on Monday with a careful balance of defence and condemnation to news that armed militia members had taken over a remote wildlife refuge centre in Oregon. Saturday's seizure of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, 30 miles (50 km) south of the small town of Burns, Oregon, poses a tricky balance for Republican candidates, who do not want to upset voters who may hold sympathetic views towards the anti-federal government arguments of the militia members. The occupation is led by Ammon Bundy, whose father, Clive Bundy, gained conservative praise in 2014 after a stand-off with the federal government over a Nevada land dispute. |
| Oregon wildlife refuge occupiers denounce U.S. government | | By Jim Urquhart and Jonathan Allen PRINCETON, Ore. (Reuters) - The leaders of a group of self-styled militiamen who took over a remote U.S. wildlife refuge centre in Oregon over the weekend said on Monday they acted to protest the federal government's role in managing millions of acres of wild lands. The anti-government occupation, which began on Saturday at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, 30 miles (50 km) south of the small town of Burns, was the latest skirmish over federal land management in large tracts of the West. A protest leader, Ammon Bundy, told reporters outside the occupied facility on Monday that his group had named itself "Citizens for Constitutional Freedom" and was trying to restore individual rights.
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| Cosby lawyers ask to delay Camille Cosby's deposition | |  Lawyers for Bill Cosby and his wife, Camille, asked a federal judge on Monday to delay a deposition by her scheduled for Wednesday in a defamation lawsuit brought by seven women who allege the entertainer sexually abused them. The lawyers said in papers filed in U.S. district court in Massachusetts that the sworn interview should be delayed pending an appeal on whether Camille Cosby could be required to testify at all. On Dec. 31, a federal magistrate judge in Massachusetts rejected arguments by Camille Cosby, the comedian's wife of almost 52 years and his business manager, that the deposition would represent an "undue burden." Cosby lawyers argued the intimate nature of the questions expected during the deposition justified a delay, noting that their ability to object to such evidence at trial would not spare their client embarrassment.
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| Hezbollah targets Israeli forces with bomb, Israel shells south Lebanon | |  By John Davison and Suleiman Al-Khalidi BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hezbollah set off a bomb targeting Israeli forces at the Lebanese border on Monday in an apparent response to the killing in Syria last month of a prominent commander, triggering Israeli shelling of southern Lebanon. Israel has struck its Iran-backed Shi'ite enemy Hezbollah in Syria several times, killing a number of fighters and destroying weapons it believes were destined for the group, whose support for President Bashar al-Assad has been crucial in the country's civil war. Israel's army said Monday's blast, targeting military vehicles in the Shebaa farms area, prompted Israeli forces to respond with artillery fire.
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