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| Air strikes alone won't defeat Islamic State, Kerry warns | |  By Arshad Mohammed BELGRADE (Reuters) - Syrian and Arab ground forces must be found to take on Islamic State, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday, warning the militant group would not be defeated by air strikes alone. Kerry was speaking hours after Britain launched bombing raids against 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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| Swiss name CONCACAF's Hawit, CONMEBOL's Napout as arrested FIFA officials | |  Switzerland's Federal Office of Justice (FOJ) named Alfredo Hawit of Honduras, acting president of CONCACAF, and Juan Angel Napout of Paraguay, the head of CONMEBOL, as the two FIFA officials arrested in Zurich on Thursday. "The two FIFA officials arrested in Zurich on the instructions of the Federal Office of Justice were today also given hearings by the Zurich cantonal police on the U.S. arrest requests," the FOJ said in a statement.
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| Catalonia to pursue split from Spain despite court block, Mas says | |  Catalonia's government will continue its drive for independence, its acting head said on Thursday, a day after Spain's Constitutional Court annulled a Catalan assembly resolution calling for a republic to be established within 18 months. The court was ruling on an appeal by the Spanish government of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, who has said Catalonian independence is "nonsense" and will never happen. "But politically, it is not, because the will of the parliament cannot be annulled and the will of the parliament reflects the will and the ideas of a significant part of the Catalonian population." The Constitutional Court ruled that the resolution was unconstitutional and said the Catalan assembly could not establish itself as an independent legal and political power above the constitution.
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| UK says seeks release of British-Iranian citizen jailed in Iran | | | Britain's foreign ministry has said it is seeking the release of a British-Iranian citizen from jail in Iran, where he has been held for four years on espionage charges. Kamal Foroughi, 76, was arrested in 2011 while working in Tehran as a business consultant, his son Kamran said. The revelation came amid a renewed crackdown on dissent in Iran, which analysts said has intensified since Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned in September of Western "infiltration" in the Islamic Republic. |
| Couple's motive in California rampage a mystery for police, family | |  By Tim Reid and Dan Whitcomb SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (Reuters) - A man and woman armed with assault-style rifles opened fire on a holiday party of his co-workers in Southern California, killing 14 people and wounding 17 others, and then were slain hours later in a shootout with police, authorities said. The two suspects were identified as Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, who San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said were in a relationship, possibly married or engaged. While the motive remained unclear, Burguan said, "We have not ruled out terrorism." Farook was U.S. born, while Malik's nationality was still undetermined.
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| Swiss police arrest two as FIFA corruption scandal deepens | |  By Joshua Franklin and David Ingram ZURICH/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Swiss police arrested two FIFA officials suspected of taking millions of dollars in bribes linked to football TV rights, widening a graft probe into world soccer's governing body. The unnamed officials were taken into custody pending extradition after pre-dawn raids on Thursday conducted at the behest of the U.S. Department of Justice. "The high-ranking FIFA officials are alleged to have taken the money in return for selling marketing rights in connection with football tournaments in Latin America, as well as World Cup qualifying matches," Switzerland's Federal Office of Justice (FOJ) said.
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| 'Blade Runner' Pistorius found guilty of murder on appeal | |  By Zandi Shabalala BLOEMFONTEIN (Reuters) - South Africa's "Blade Runner" Oscar Pistorius was found guilty on Thursday of murdering his girlfriend, in an appeal court ruling that could see him sent back to prison for up to 15 years. The Supreme Court upgraded the 29-year-old Paralympian's sentence on appeal to murder from "culpable homicide", for which he had received a five-year sentence. Pistorius was released on parole on Oct. 19, having spent one day less than a year in prison for shooting dead model Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day 2013.
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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. |
| Steenkamp's father "relieved" after Pistorius found guilty of murder | |  JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The father of slain model Reeva Steenkamp said on Thursday he felt a sense of "relief" after South Africa's appeal court found that Oscar Pistorius was guilty of murdering Reeva, overturning the original lesser conviction of culpable homicide. "It's a big relief. I feel it's a fair decision that the judge gave," Barry Steenkamp said in a brief interview on local television station ANN7, before breaking down in tears. (Reporting by Tiisetso Motsoeneng; Editing by James Macharia)
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| Malaysia anti-graft agency meets PM Najib's office over 1MDB scandal | |  Malaysia's anti-graft agency said on Thursday it met with officials at Prime Minister Najib Razak's office over investigations into 2.6 billion ringgit ($611.48 million) in funds that were transferred into his bank accounts. Najib is facing calls to step down over a graft scandal surrounding state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) that erupted in July when the Wall Street Journal reported that investigators had found that funds had been transferred into Najib's bank accounts. The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) said in a statement it met the Prime Minister's office to fix an appointment to record Najib's statement in connection with its investigation into graft allegations at 1MDB and its subsidiary, SRC International.
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| Without labour deal, Southeast Asia risks subsidising human smugglers - IOM | |  Southeast Asia needs legal channels of migration to help curb human smuggling, the International Organization of Migration said on Thursday, days after it urged efforts to avoid a repeat of this year's disaster when hundreds of refugees were lost at sea or died in jungle camps. The 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations established an economic community last month to free up capital and trade, but made limited provision for labour movement even though the region has millions of migrant workers. "There needs to be more legal channels of migration, so that we don't end up unintentionally subsidizing the smugglers," IOM Director General William Lacy Swing told reporters.
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| Chechen leader: we'll avenge man beheaded in Islamic State video | |  The president of Russia's Chechnya region, Ramzan Kadyrov, said on Thursday that whoever was responsible for the beheading of a Russian man from Chechnya, purportedly shown on an Islamic State video, will be killed. "Yes, he was Russian-Chechen, he was beheaded .. there are proven facts," Kadyrov told journalists. "Whoever killed that man ... won't live for long." On Wednesday the SITE monitoring group reported there was a video released online by Islamic State that showed the beheading of a man the group said was a Russian spy.
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| FIFA ethics panel opens proceedings against Brazil's Del Nero | |  ZURICH (Reuters) - FIFA's ethics committee has opened formal proceedings against Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) President Marco Polo del Nero, a spokesman said on Thursday. The spokesman for the ethics panel said that proceedings were opened on Nov. 23. Del Nero quit his position on FIFA's executive committee on Nov. 26. (Reporting by Brian Homewood, Editing by Michael Shields)
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| Pistorius family to be guided by lawyers on next steps - spokeswoman | |  The family of South Africa's "Blade Runner" Oscar Pistorius said it would wait for guidance from lawyers after the appeals court ruled on Thursday that he was guilty of murder for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day 2013. Last year a judge convicted Pistorius of "cuplable homicide" for the killing of Steenkamp and gave the Paralympic gold medallist a five-year jail sentence, but prosecutors appealed the verdict, saying he should be convicted of murder.
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| British bombers strike Islamic State oil fields in Syria | |  By Michele Kambas and William James AKROTIRI, Cyprus/LONDON (Reuters) - British bombers made their first strikes on Islamic State in Syria on Thursday, hitting oil fields that Prime Minister David Cameron says are being used to fund attacks on the West. Tornado bombers took off from the RAF Akrotiri air base in Cyprus just hours after British lawmakers voted 397-223 to support Cameron's plan for air strikes, a Reuters witness said. The four bombers used laser-guided bombs to attack six targets in the Omar oil fields in eastern Syria controlled by the Islamist militant group which British officials call Daesh, using an Arabic acronym that the group rejects.
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| Leaving behind baby and bombs, couple sows panic in California | |  By Tim Reid and Dan Whitcomb SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (Reuters) - On Wednesday morning, Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, dropped off their six-month-old baby with Farook's mother, saying they were going to a doctor's appointment. By noon, according to police, the couple had donned assault clothing, armed themselves with rifles and stormed a holiday party attended by San Bernardino County employees, killing 14 people and wounding 17 others. Syed Farook, born in the United States, worked as an environmental health specialist for San Bernardino County, inspecting restaurants for health violations, according to authorities and a website that tracks public employees.
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| The trial of "Blade Runner" Oscar Pistorius | |  (Reuters) - South Africa's Supreme Court found on Thursday that track star Oscar Pistorius was guilty of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp who he shot dead on Valentine's Day 2013, overturning the original lesser conviction of culpable homicide. Judge Thokozile Masipa, who originally found Pistorius guilty of South Africa's equivalent of manslaughter, will re-sentence the Paralympic champion at a later date. In South Africa, a murder conviction usually carries a minimum sentence of 15 years, although Pistorius' lawyers are likely to argue that his physical disability and mental stress should be considered as mitigating circumstances.
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| Man identifying self as relative of California shooting suspect shocked by attack | |  A man identifying himself as the brother-in-law of one of the suspects in a deadly California shooting rampage said on Wednesday he has no idea what might have motivated the attack on a social services agency that left 14 people dead. Farhan Khan, who said he is married to the sister of one of the people suspected of carrying out the massacre in San Bernardino, California, about 60 miles (100 km) east of Los Angeles, offered his condolences to the victims.
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| Unlicensed Cambodian medic jailed for 25 years for spreading HIV | |  A Cambodian court convicted an unlicensed medical practitioner of murder on Thursday and sentenced him to 25 years in prison for spreading HIV among more than 270 villagers, some as young as 2, in Cambodia's remote northwest. Authorities detected an epidemic of human immunodeficiency virus, the virus that causes AIDS, on Dec. 9 when they started testing a community in Battambang province. The case is a blow to Cambodia's so-far successful efforts to cut the rate of HIV infections after the virus spread almost uncontrollably in the impoverished country during the 1990s.
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| Couple identified as suspects in California mass shooting | |  By Tim Reid and Dan Whitcomb SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (Reuters) - A man and woman armed with assault-style rifles opened fire on the holiday party of his co-workers in Southern California, killing 14 people and wounding 17 others, and then were slain hours later in a shootout with police after a manhunt, authorities said. The two suspects were identified as Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, who San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said were in a relationship, possibly married or engaged.
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| Thai police say arrests made abroad in connection with Bangkok bomb | |  Thai police said on Thursday that suspects wanted in connection with a bomb that ripped through a Bangkok shrine, killing 20 people, have been arrested abroad and that Thailand was in the process of requesting their extradition. More than 120 people were wounded in the August blast, the worst peacetime bombing in Thailand's history. "We have caught more people with arrest warrants out for them in connection to this case, including Thais and foreigners, but they are currently abroad and we are in the process of working with the attorney general and foreign affairs ministry to bring them to Thailand," Police Lieutenant General Srivara Rangsibrahmanakul, deputy national police chief, told reporters.
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| U.S., China reach agreement on guidelines for requesting assistance fighting cyber crime | |  By Joseph Menn and Eric Beech WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The United States and China have reached an agreement on guidelines for requesting assistance on cyber crime or other malicious cyber activities, the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday. The agreement was reached in talks in Washington this week among officials including U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and Chinese Public Security Minister Guo Shengkun. The Justice Department said in addition to the agreement, China and the U.S. will conduct "tabletop exercises" in the spring with a number of scenarios designed to improve understanding of the expectations for response and cooperation.
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| California massacre differs from lone-wolf shootings | |  Wednesday's mass shooting at a Southern California center for the developmentally disabled came on the heels of other U.S. massacres but differed from most in key ways, including the involvement of multiple people, including a woman, and an apparently well-planned escape route. In the San Bernardino area near the site of the attack that killed 14, police said a man and a woman dressed in tactical gear died in a gunfight with police, as the FBI said the agency was considering the possibility that the shooting could be a terrorist attack. "These are people that came prepared," San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said in a news conference.
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