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| South Africa's Supreme Court finds Oscar Pistorius guilty of murder | |  By Zandi Shabalala BLOEMFONTEIN (Reuters) - Paralympian Oscar Pistorius' conviction for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp has been scaled up to murder from culpable homicide by South Africa's top appeals court. "Blade Runner" Pistorius could now be sent back to jail for at least 15 years for shooting Steenkamp dead on Valentine's Day 2013. The athlete is expected to be sentenced for the new murder conviction by a lower court at a date still to be determined.
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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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| 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 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, 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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| 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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| Swiss arrest two more FIFA officials in corruption scandal | |  By Joshua Franklin and David Ingram ZURICH/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Law enforcement officials on Thursday arrested two more FIFA officials suspected of taking millions of dollars in bribes, Swiss authorities said, as part of an ongoing investigation of graft at soccer's world governing body. The two unnamed officials were taken into custody on arrest requests submitted by the U.S. Department of Justice, Switzerland's Federal Office of Justice (FOJ) said. "According to the U.S. arrest requests, they are suspected of accepting bribes of millions of dollars." The FOJ said it would issue another statement with the names of those arrested later on Thursday.
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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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| 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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