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| Australia assures fans over Boxing Day security fears | |  Cricket Australia has assured fans over security arrangements for the Boxing Day (Dec. 26) test against Pakistan on Friday after police foiled a plot to attack prominent sites in Melbourne with a series of bombs on Christmas Day. About 400 police and members of Australia's domestic spy agency conducted overnight raids on homes in the suburbs of Melbourne and arrested six men and a woman, all Australian citizens in their 20s. "Our security team is in contact with the relevant authorities to ensure we have the appropriate level of security at the Boxing Day test and other cricket matches being held around the country," CA chief executive James Sutherland said.
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| Southeast Asia on Christmas alert after foiled bomb plots | |  By Fransiska Nangoy and Panarat Thepgumpanat JAKARTA/BANGKOK (Reuters) - Southeast Asian security forces were on alert on Friday ahead of the Christmas and New Year holidays after two bomb plots were foiled in Australia and Indonesia and the arrest of suspected militants in Malaysia. Australian police said on Friday they had prevented attacks on prominent sites in Melbourne on Christmas Day that authorities described as "an imminent terrorist event" inspired by Islamic State. The announcement came after an attack in Berlin in which a Tunisian suspect smashed through a Christmas market in a truck on Monday, killing 12 people.
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| Deutsche Bank agrees to $7.2 billion mortgage settlement with U.S. | |  By Karen Freifeld, Arno Schuetze and Kathrin Jones NEW YORK/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank has agreed to a $7.2 billion settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice over its sale and pooling of toxic mortgage securities in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis. The agreement in principle, announced by Deutsche Bank's Frankfurt headquarters early Friday morning, offers some relief to the German lender, whose stock was hit hard in September after it acknowledged the Justice Department had been seeking nearly twice as much. It also highlights the Justice Department's recent efforts to hold European banks accountable for shoddy securities that contributed to the U.S. housing market collapse.
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| Credit Suisse agrees $5.3 billion U.S. deal on mortgages | |  Credit Suisse had agreed in principle to pay U.S. authorities $2.48 billion to settle claims it misled investors in residential mortgage-backed securities it sold in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis, the Swiss bank said on Friday. Credit Suisse will also provide $2.8 billion in consumer relief over five years from the settlement, it said in a statement, adding the deal was subject to negotiation of final documentation and approval by its board of directors. "Credit Suisse will take a pre-tax charge of approximately $2 billion in addition to its existing reserves against these matters.
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| Swiss Raiffeisen group pays no penalty in talks with U.S. DOJ | |  ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss cooperative banking group Raiffeisen has wrapped up talks with U.S. justice officials on whether it helped wealthy Americans dodge taxes and does not have to pay a fine, it said on Friday. Raiffeisen, Switzerland's third-biggest bank, three years ago decided to qualify itself as one of the Swiss financial institutions that had not committed any offenses under U.S. tax law. An accord with the U.S. Department of Justice this week "creates legal certainty and ends the tax conflict without payment of a penalty", it said in a statement. (Reporting by Michael Shields)
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| Australia makes arrests over 'imminent threat' of Christmas Day attacks | |  By Tom Westbrook SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian police said on Friday they had foiled a plot to attack prominent sites in the city of Melbourne with a series of bombs on Christmas Day that authorities described as "an imminent terrorist event" inspired by Islamic State. Police laid terrorism charges against one man, and were expected to charge at least three others, after authorities conducted overnight raids on homes in the suburbs of Australia's second-largest city. Six men and a woman, all Australian citizens in their 20s, were arrested during the raids, which were conducted by about 400 police and members of Australia's domestic spy agency.
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| Racist rant at Kentucky mall prompts ban, apology from mayor | | | A racist, expletive-filled rant caught on camera at a Louisville, Kentucky, mall has led to a permanent ban for a shopper and prompted an apology from the city's mayor. The video shows a white woman standing in a checkout line at a JCPenney department store in the Jefferson Mall and berating two women who shopper Renee Buckner, who posted the footage on Facebook on Tuesday, said were Hispanic. |
| Video of Texas mother's arrest starts social media storm | | | By Lisa Maria Garza DALLAS (Reuters) - A video showing a white Fort Worth police officer in an escalating argument with a black woman he took into custody along with the woman's daughters touched off a social media storm on Thursday, stoking a debate on race and U.S. policing. The woman identified by relatives as Jacqueline Craig, 46, was put on the ground and the officer held a stun gun to her back after they argued about a man she said had choked her 7-year-old son for throwing paper on the ground. "The initial appearance of the video may raise serious questions," Fort Worth police said in a statement. |
| German police arrest two men suspected of planning shopping mall attack | | | BERLIN (Reuters) - Police special forces arrested two men suspected of planning an attack on a shopping mall in Oberhausen in the West German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, police said on Friday. The suspects, two brothers aged 28 and 31 who were born in Kosovo, were arrested in the city of Duisburg after information provided by security sources, police said in a statement. It was not clear if there was any connection with Monday's attack on a Berlin Christmas market that killed 12 people. Police are searching for a Tunisian suspect whose fingerprints were found inside the truck. ... |
| U.S. sues Barclays, ex-execs for mortgage securities fraud | |  By Karen Freifeld NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday sued Barclays Plc and two former executives on civil charges of fraud in the sale of mortgage-backed securities during the run-up to the 2008-09 financial crisis. The lawsuit was filed after Barclays resisted a penalty the U.S. government had sought in settlement negotiations, a person familiar with the matter said. Major U.S. banks, including JPMorgan Chase & Co and Bank of America Corp, have paid tens of millions of dollars to settle similar claims over misconduct in the sale and pooling of mortgage securities, which helped to cause the financial crisis.
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| Mistrial declared in corruption case against ex-Los Angeles sheriff | |  By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A federal judge declared a mistrial on Thursday in the obstruction of justice case against former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, ruling that jurors were hopelessly deadlocked, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office said. Baca, aged 74 and suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, was standing trial on charges of trying to thwart a federal corruption probe that overshadowed the final years of his tenure as chief custodian of the nation's largest county jail system. U.S. District Judge Percy Anderson's determination of a hung jury came during the fourth day of deliberations following a series of confidential "sidebar" talks between Anderson and the attorneys, joined at times by Baca and one of the jurors.
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| Australia police charge man in 20-year plus serial killings | | | By Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian police on Friday charged a 48-year-old man with the murder of two women more than 20 years ago in the city of Perth, ending the country's longest continuous investigation into a serial killing. Bradley Edwards was charged with murdering Jane Rimmer, a 23-year-old whose body was found in August 1996, and Ciara Glennon, a 27-year-old lawyer. Edwards was not charged in relation to the disappearance of a third woman, Sarah Spiers, 18, who also vanished in the Perth suburb of Claremont in January 1996. |
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