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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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| White House, China discuss cyber commitments in meeting | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two top advisers to U.S. President Barack Obama met on Wednesday with Chinese State Councilor Guo Shengkun to discuss cyber issues and the threat posed by Islamic State militants, the White House said. Susan Rice, Obama's national security adviser, and Lisa Monaco, his counterterrorism adviser, met Guo "to underscore the importance of full adherence" to commitments made during Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to the White House in September, the White House said in a statement. (Reporting by Roberta Rampton; Editing by Eric Beech) |
| Eleven killed in attack on two Ivory Coast military camps | | | Eleven people, including seven soldiers, were killed on Wednesday in clashes with 15 unidentified gunmen in two military camps in Ivory Coast near the border with Liberia, a U.N. source with knowledge of the events said. The West African nation has been attacked by unidentified armed men near its border with Liberia on at least three previous occasions in the past two years, including one assault in January in which two soldiers were killed. The United Nations deployed helicopters for reconnaissance of the clashes that injured 10 Ivory Coast soldiers, four seriously. |
| Appeals court to decide whether 'Blade Runner' Pistorius guilty of murder | |  By Zandi Shabalala BLOEMFONTEIN (Reuters) - South Africa's top appeals court could send "Blade Runner" Oscar Pistorius back to jail on Thursday for at least 15 years for killing his girlfriend on Valentine's Day 2013 in a sensational case that continues to fascinate and divide the nation. Last year a judge gave the disgraced Olympic and Paralympic gold medallist a five-year jail sentence for "culpable homicide" of Reeva Steenkamp, but prosecutors say he should be convicted of murder for firing four shots through a locked toilet door. The athlete left jail on parole in October and is meant to serve the rest of his sentence under house arrest, but the Supreme Court of Appeals could now overrule the original verdict and find him guilty of murder or order a retrial.
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| Chicago police force needs a cultural change - mayor | |  By Fiona Ortiz CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago's 12,000-member police force, one of the biggest in the country and one of the most prone to use lethal force, needs a cultural change that will take time, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said on Wednesday in an interview with Politico. Emanuel fired Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy on Tuesday and has launched a search for a replacement, following protests over the police killing of Laquan McDonald, a 17-year-old African-American teenager, which was caught on video. Jason Van Dyke, the white police officer who shot McDonald on Oct. 20, 2014, has been charged with murder and is out on bail.
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| Civic leaders look to internal candidate for Chicago's next top cop | | | By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - The perceived failings of the two most recent police chiefs - both selected from outside the city's insular police force - is leading Chicago politicians and activists to push for a current member of the department to be the next superintendent. Some protesters of the videotaped police killing last year of an African-American teenager have called for an outsider to replace Garry McCarthy, who was fired on Tuesday. A nine-citizen police board will winnow a candidates list to a final three from which Mayor Rahm Emanuel will choose. |
| Former U.S. national security adviser Sandy Berger dies | |  Samuel "Sandy" Berger, a U.S. national security adviser to President Bill Clinton whose reputation was later marred by his theft of classified documents after leaving office, died early on Wednesday. Berger, who was 70, had been suffering from cancer, according to a statement from Albright Stonebridge Group, the consulting firm where he worked. "Sandy was a consummate national security adviser because he embraced our common humanity and advanced our national interests," Clinton said in a statement.
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| U.S. court rejects Sequenom bid to restore prenatal DNA test patent | | | By Andrew Chung NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court refused on Wednesday to reconsider its decision invalidating a Sequenom Inc prenatal DNA test patent, a decision that could put in doubt the validity of a wide range of medical and biotechnology patents. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington said in June the patent was not eligible for legal protection because it fell under the U.S. Supreme Court's rule against patenting natural phenomena. Sequenom shares fell 9.5 percent to $1.62 on Wednesday. |
| Obama calls for bipartisan effort to address shootings | |  U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday called for a bipartisan effort "at every level of government" to address mass shootings, such as the one that injured as many as 20 people in San Bernardino, California. "We don't yet know what the motives of the shooters are, but what we do know is there are steps we can take to make Americans safer and that we should come together in a bipartisan basis at every level of government to make these rare as opposed to normal," he told CBS News.
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| Baltimore officer was negligent in black man's death - prosecutor | |  By Ian Simpson BALTIMORE (Reuters) - A Baltimore policeman on trial for the death of a black man from a spinal injury while in custody failed to secure him in the back of a van and ignored his request for medical aid, a prosecutor said in opening statements on Wednesday. Gray's death in April triggered rioting, arson and protests in the largely black city and fuelled a national debate over police tactics and relations with minorities. Porter, 26, faces charges in Baltimore City Circuit Court that include manslaughter, second-degree assault and misconduct.
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| Venezuela says opposition activist killing was gang-related | | | By Brian Ellsworth and Girish Gupta CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan police have determined that the Nov. 25 murder of an opposition activist during a campaign rally for the upcoming congressional vote was the result of a gang dispute and not linked to politics, the interior minister said on Wednesday. Luis Diaz, a local leader of opposition party Democratic Action, was gunned down in the central state of Guarico. "We are demonstrating the truth of what happened," Interior Minister Gustavo Gonzalez told a news conference, "... a death among criminals and mafia members disputing territory." "It is up to the political leaders to explain why this sort of person was in this position." Opposition leaders have been denouncing what they say is hostility against their candidates, including several incidents of shooting in the air during campaign events. |
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