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| South American football bosses charged in latest FIFA probe sweep | |  By Mark Hosenball and Joshua Franklin WASHINGTON/ZURICH (Reuters) - Football bosses from across South and Central America were among 16 people charged by U.S. prosecutors on Thursday with multimillion-dollar bribery schemes for marketing and broadcast rights to tournaments and matches, a widening of a corruption probe into the sport. Court documents showed that the heads of the CONMEBOL and CONCACAF associations running football in the Western Hemisphere were charged along with current and former chiefs of the Brazil Football Confederation (CBF), which hosted the 2014 FIFA World Cup finals. CONCACAF acting president Alfredo Hawit of Honduras, a vice president of world football's governing body FIFA, and CONMEBOL head Juan Angel Napout of Paraguay were arrested in a pre-dawn raid by Swiss police at a hotel in Zurich near the headquarters of FIFA, which has been in turmoil since a first round of indictments and arrests last May. The new indictment identified Brazil Football Confederation chief Marco Polo del Nero and former CBF head Ricardo Teixeira in the list of defendants, both former FIFA executive committee members.
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| Leaving behind baby, couple launched deadliest U.S. assault in years | |  By Tim Reid, Dan Whitcomb and Angela Moon SAN BERNARDINO, Calif./NEW YORK (Reuters) - At age 28, Syed Rizwan Farook inspected restaurants and public pools. A U.S. citizen born in Illinois, Farook worked as a county environmental health specialist, inspecting restaurants and swimming pools for health violations, according to authorities and a website that tracks public employees. While he appeared not to have profiles on such popular social media sites as Facebook and LinkedIn, Farook was registered on at least three online dating sites.
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| Authorities seek motive for couple's California rampage that killed 14 | |  By Tim Reid SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (Reuters) - Authorities sought on Thursday to determine if a couple accused of killing 14 people in a mass shooting at a workplace holiday party in Southern California had links to Islamic militant groups abroad, U.S. officials familiar with the investigation said. Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, who had a 6-month-old daughter together, were killed in a shootout with police after Wednesday's massacre at the Inland Regional Center social services agency in the city of San Bernardino. Officials in Washington familiar with the investigation said so far there was no hard evidence of a direct connection between the shooters and any militant group abroad.
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| U.S. press conference on FIFA delayed - Justice Dept | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch's press conference on enforcement action on FIFA will now begin at 2 p.m. ET (1900 GMT), the U.S. Department Of Justice said in a statement on the delay. (Reporting by Susan Heavey; Editing by Chris Reese)
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| FBI says 'premature' to say California shooting an act of terrorism | | | SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (Reuters) - The head of the FBI's Los Angeles Field Office said on Thursday it would be "irresponsible and premature" to say that terrorism was the motive behind the California shooting that left 14 dead. "It would be irresponsible and premature for me to call this terrorism," David Bowdich told a news conference. (Reporting by Lisa Baertlein; Writing by Tim Ahmann; Editing by Chris Reese) |
| Israel says suspects arrested over fatal torching of Palestinian home | |  A police statement did not say how many suspects were in custody. Eighteen-month-old Ali Dawabsheh was killed in the July 31 blaze in Duma, a village outside Nablus. The police statement said "youths belonging to a Jewish terror group" suspected of carrying out attacks on Palestinians were arrested over the past few days, and there were "solid suspicions" linking them to the arson at the Dawabshehs' home.
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| California suspects had hundreds of rounds of ammunition when killed - police | |  The two suspects who shot dead 14 people in San Bernardino, California, had more than 1,600 rounds of ammunitions in their sport utility vehicle when they were killed in a shootout with officers, police said on Thursday. Police recovered bomb-making material and additional ammunition in a search of a house related to the suspects and the suspects' motive in Wednesday's shooting is still not known, San Bernardino police chief Jarrod Burguan told reporters.
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| Britain joins Syria air war; Putin vows more sanctions on Turkey | |  By Guy Faulconbridge and Andrew Osborn LONDON/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Britain joined U.S.-led air strikes against Islamic State in Syria on Thursday, but Vladimir Putin issued bitter new denunciations of Turkey for shooting down a Russian plane, demonstrating the limits to international solidarity. British Tornado jets took off from the Royal Air Force base at Akrotiri in Cyprus before dawn, hours after parliament in London voted 397-223 to support Prime Minister David Cameron's plan to extend air strikes from Iraq to Syria.
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| White House urges not to jump to conclusions on California shooting | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Thursday that it urges people not to jump to conclusions on the motives of the shooters who killed 14 people and injured 21 in San Bernardino, California on Wednesday. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the facts the FBI will unveil should guide the investigation. (Reporting by Julia Edwards; Editing by Chris Reese)
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| Saudi backs deal that would make Assad ally Lebanon's president | |  By Tom Perry BEIRUT (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia lent its backing on Thursday to a power-sharing plan that would make a family friend of Syria's Bashar al-Assad president of Lebanon, saying it hoped it would happen within weeks. The proposal tabled by Sunni politician Saad al-Hariri would see him return to Lebanon as prime minister, and make Maronite Christian politician Suleiman Franjieh president. Hariri is backed by Saudi Arabia.
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| Religious leaders in India - home to half world's slaves - vow to end slavery | |  By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indian religious leaders vowed on Thursday to use their influence to end modern slavery, saying the exploitation, abuse and confinement of millions of men, women and children around the world was a "crime against God". Hindu, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, Jain and Baha'i leaders and representatives signed a declaration, organised by the Australia-based Global Freedom Network, pledging to help eradicate slavery and human trafficking by 2020. Some 16 million slaves - nearly half the global total of around 36 million - live in India, according to a survey by the Walk Free Foundation, a sister organisation of the Network.
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| Ex-soccer official from Panama among new FIFA defendants - sources | | | U.S. prosecutors are charging ex-soccer official Ariel Alvarado of Panama in the next stage of their sweeping criminal case over allegations of corruption in the sport, sources familiar with the matter said. Alvarado led Panama's soccer federation from 2000 to 2011 and served on the executive committee of CONCACAF, which administers soccer in North and Central America and the Caribbean. U.S. authorities will name 16 new defendants in an indictment set to be unveiled on Thursday by the U.S. Department of Justice, a law enforcement source said. |
| Obama says motive for California shooting not yet clear | |  By Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Thursday that investigators do not yet know why two suspects killed 14 people and wounded 17 others in a mass shooting in Southern California, but vowed that the FBI and law enforcement would "get to the bottom of this." "It is possible that this was terrorist-related. It is also possible that this was workplace-related," said Obama, who ordered flags flown at half-staff after the tragedy. The San Bernardino shooting is the latest in a long series of U.S. mass shootings during Obama's seven years in office, and is the deadliest since the December 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, which he has said was his toughest day as president.
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| Saudi execution of poet would be unlawful - U.N. experts | | | Saudi Arabia must not put Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh to death for apostasy this month as it would be "an arbitrary and thus unlawful execution" based on unreliable evidence, U.N. human rights experts said on Thursday. Saudi Arabia's justice system is based on Sharia Islamic law. In the Wahhabi interpretation of Sharia, religious crimes including blasphemy and apostasy, abandoning the Muslim faith, incur the death penalty. |
| New U.S. indictment in FIFA probe will name 16 people - source | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. authorities will name 16 new defendants in an indictment set to be unveiled on Thursday by the U.S. Department of Justice, a law enforcement source said. The source said the individuals were mainly from the Western Hemisphere and that the indictment deals in part with allegations of corruption in the award of broadcast rights for soccer. (Reporting by Mark Hosenball and Mica Rosenberg; editing by Grant McCool)
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| The hunt for the Paris attackers | |  France and Belgium are hunting suspects after the shootings and bombings on Nov. 13 that killed 130 people and injured hundreds at a concert hall, soccer stadium, bars and restaurants across Paris. Investigations are centred on fugitive Salah Abdeslam, who police think may be an assailant referred to in an Islamic State statement claiming responsibility for the attacks. Seven assailants died during the attacks: three at the Bataclan concert hall, three outside the Stade de France stadium and one of three gunmen involved in the cafe shootings.
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