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| Swiss make more arrests in FIFA corruption scandal | |  ZURICH/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Law enforcement officials made more arrests on Thursday in the ongoing investigation of soccer's world governing body FIFA, at least some of them in a pre-dawn raid on a hotel in Zurich, Swiss authorities and the New York Times said. Zurich police, asked by Reuters about more arrests in the FIFA case, said they took action at the request of Swiss federal justice authorities, but gave no other details. The Baur au Lac hotel in Zurich closed its gates after a group of four people, believed to be plainclothes police, went in shortly before 6 a.m., a Reuters witness said.
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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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| Couple identified as suspects in California mass shooting | |  By Tim Reid and Dan Whitcomb SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (Reuters) - A couple who were suspected of killing 14 people in a mass shooting in California and were later slain in a shootout with police were identified by authorities on Wednesday as Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, described as possibly married or engaged. Armed with assault-style weapons, the two are believed to have opened fire Wednesday morning at a social services agency holiday event in San Bernardino, California. Farook was a employee of San Bernardino County who attended a holiday party at the Inland Regional Center, stormed out and later returned to fire on the celebration, said Jarrod Burguan, police chief in the city of San Bernardino, 60 miles (100 km) east of Los Angeles.
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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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| 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. "A strike was made from over Syria," said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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| Police identify two suspects in deadly mass shooting in California | |  The armed couple who were suspected of killing 14 people in a mass shooting in California and were later slain in a shootout with police were identified by authorities on Wednesday as Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, described as a possibly married or engaged. San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said Farook was a U.S.-born county employee who had attended a holiday party at the Inland Regional Center, a social services agency, and later returned to open fire on the celebration. The chief said Farook and Malik were believed to be the only shooters involved in the rampage, which ranks as the deadliest burst of U.S. gun violence since the December 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
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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 his sister was married to 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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| Malaysia's PM Najib to meet anti-graft agency over 1MDB scandal | |  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. The source said the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) would record a statement in connection with its investigation into graft allegations at 1MDB and its subsidiary, SRC International.
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