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| British bombers conduct first air strikes on Syria - government source | | Thursday, December 03, 2015 4:05 AM | |
|  LONDON (Reuters) - British Tornado bombers conducted their first air strikes on Syria just hours after parliament approved Prime Minister David Cameron's plan to strike at Islamic State militants in Syria, a government source said on Thursday. "A strike was made on Syria," said the government source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The Tornado bombers have returned to base, the source said. No more details were immediately available. (Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge; Editing by Robert Birsel)
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| California massacre differs from lone-wolf shootings | | Thursday, December 03, 2015 3:42 AM | |
|  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 | | Thursday, December 03, 2015 3:17 AM | |
|  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 | | Thursday, December 03, 2015 3:13 AM | |
|  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 | | Thursday, December 03, 2015 12:24 AM | |
|  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 | | Thursday, December 03, 2015 12:21 AM | |
|  (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 | | | 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. |
| Trump calls for targeting Islamic State fighters' families | |  Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said on Wednesday his plan for combating Islamic State militants involves targeting not just the group's fighters but also their families. "When you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families," Trump said on Fox News. "They care about their lives, don't kid yourselves." Trump said if he were president, he would try to avoid civilian deaths in going after the militant group, but he said the Obama administration was "fighting a very politically correct war." Christoph Wilcke of Human Rights Watch said in response to Trump's comments that military forces legally can only target combatants.
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| Shooting rampage at California social services agency leaves 14 dead, 14 wounded | |  By Tim Reid SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (Reuters) - Gunfire erupted at a holiday party at a social services agency in San Bernardino, California, on Wednesday, leaving 14 people dead and wounding 14 others, sparking an intense manhunt for up to three suspects, authorities said. The shooting rampage about 60 miles (100 km) east of Los Angeles marked the deadliest U.S. gun violence since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012, in which 27 people, including the gunman, were killed. San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said in a televised news briefing three hours after Wednesday's shooting that the suspects fled the building and were believed to have made their getaway in a deer-coloured sport utility vehicle.
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| British parliament votes to bomb Islamic State in Syria | |  By Elizabeth Piper and Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's parliament voted on Wednesday to launch bombing raids against Islamic State in Syria, supporting Prime Minister David Cameron's case that the country needs to help destroy militants who are "plotting to kill us". Given Britain's diminished role on the world stage, the victory hands Cameron the chance to restore Britain's standing in global affairs. "Britain is safer tonight because of the decision that the House of Commons has taken," foreign minister Philip Hammond told Sky News.
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| Russia says it has proof Turkey involved in Islamic State oil trade | |  By Maria Tsvetkova and Lidia Kelly MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's defence ministry said on Wednesday it had proof that Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and his family were benefiting from the illegal smuggling of oil from Islamic State-held territory in Syria and Iraq. Moscow and Ankara have been locked in a war of words since last week when a Turkish air force jet shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian-Turkish border, the most serious incident between Russia and a NATO state in half a century. Erdogan responded by saying no one had the right to "slander" Turkey by accusing it of buying oil from Islamic State, and that he would stand down if such allegations were proven to be true.
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