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| British bombers make first air strikes on Syria after UK parliament vote | |  By Michele Kambas and Guy Faulconbridge AKROTIRI, Cyprus/LONDON (Reuters) - British bombers made their first strikes on Syria on Thursday, just hours after Britain's parliament voted to target Islamic State targets in Syria, a government source said. Tornado bombers took off from the RAF Akrotiri air base in Cyprus and made strikes on targets in Syria, the source said. The bombers are back at base. "A strike was made from over Syria," said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. ...
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| California massacre differs from lone-wolf shootings | |  By Sharon Bernstein (Reuters) - 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. ...
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| Malaysia's PM Najib to meet anti-graft agency over 1MDB scandal | |  KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak will give a statement to an anti-graft agency on Thursday over funds worth 2.6 billion ringgit ($611.48 million) that were transferred into his bank accounts, a source aware of the meeting said. 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. ...
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| Two suspects dead after 14 killed in shooting rampage in California | |  By Tim Reid and Dan Whitcomb SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (Reuters) - A man and a woman suspected of taking part in a shooting attack that killed 14 people and wounded 17 at a Southern California social services agency on Wednesday died in a shootout with police hours later, authorities said. One police officer was injured in the gunfight with the two suspects, who were confronted in their getaway vehicle after fleeing the scene of the shooting in San Bernardino, about 60 miles (100 km) east of Los Angeles, according to police. The shooting rampage marked the deadliest U.S. ...
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| Impeachment proceedings opened against Brazil's president | |  By Lisandra Paraguassu and Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - The speaker of the lower house of Brazil's Congress opened impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff on Wednesday, deepening a political crisis as the economy nosedives. Opposition parties filed a request to impeach Rousseff in September, accusing the unpopular president of violating Brazil's fiscal laws and manipulating government finances to help her re-election last year. Lower house speaker Eduardo Cunha said he had agreed to open proceedings.
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| Factbox - Political reactions to deadly shooting in San Bernardino, California | |  (Reuters) - Fourteen people were dead and 17 others wounded after gunfire erupted at a holiday party at a social services agency in San Bernardino, California, on Wednesday, sparking an intense manhunt for up to three suspects, authorities said. REACTIONS FROM POLITICAL LEADERS: U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, A DEMOCRAT: "The one thing we do know is that we have a pattern now of mass shootings in this country that has no parallel anywhere else in the world, and there's some steps we could take, not to eliminate every one of these mass shootings, but to improve the odds that they don't happen as frequently. Common sense gun safety laws, stronger background checks and you know, for those who are concerned about terrorism of, you know, some may be aware of the fact that we have a no-fly list where people can't get on planes but those same people who we don't allow to fly could go into a store right now in the United States and buy a firearm and there's nothing that we can do to stop them.
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| Texas sues U.S., relief agency, to block Syrian refugees | | Wednesday, December 02, 2015 11:50 PM | |
| | By Jon Herskovitz and Lisa Maria Garza AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A Texas state agency sued the U.S. State Department, a relief agency and others in federal court on Wednesday seeking to block the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the state, where a relief agency plans to bring Syrians within a week. The International Rescue Committee is set to relocate two Syrian refugee families to Texas in the coming days despite a threat from state officials that such a move would be reckless and would be met with a cut in funding for the agency. |
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