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Russia says it has proof Turkey involved in Islamic State oil trade

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 12:27 PM PST

Undated still image taken from video made available by Russian Defence Ministry shows Turkish-Syrian border crossingBy Maria Tsvetkova and Lidia Kelly MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's defense 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.


Islamic State video purportedly shows killing of Russian spy: monitoring group

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 10:42 AM PST

A video released online by Islamic State on Wednesday purportedly showed the beheading of a man the group said was a Russian spy its fighters had captured and who had been in Syria and Iraq since last year, the SITE monitoring group reported. The video shows the man sitting in an orange jumpsuit and giving details of his apparent recruitment by Russian intelligence services. Then, in a different outdoor location, an Islamic State fighter, who in Russian threatens Russia and President Vladimir Putin with attacks, appears to cut the man's throat and cut his head off.

British parliament votes to bomb Islamic State in Syria

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 04:22 PM PST

An RAF Tornado lands at RAF Lossiemouth in ScotlandBy 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.


Satellite photos show North Korea digging new nuclear tunnel: report

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 02:32 PM PST

Satellite photographs from October and early November indicate North Korea is digging a new tunnel for nuclear testing, but there are no signs that a such a test is imminent, a U.S. research institute said on Wednesday. A report on 38 North, a North Korea monitoring website run by Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, said the images showed significant construction since April at Punggye-ri, on North Korea's east coast, where three previous nuclear tests were conducted. The commercial images showed excavation of a new tunnel in addition to the three others where North Korea has either conducted nuclear tests or excavated tunnels in the past, the report said.

Taliban leader Mullah Mansour wounded in shootout: sources

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 10:12 AM PST

Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, Taliban militants' new leader, is seen in this undated handout photographBy Jibran Ahmed PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour has been seriously wounded in Pakistan in a shootout between senior members of the Islamist movement, Taliban sources said on Wednesday, but the group's main spokesman dismissed their report as "baseless". The conflicting accounts deepen the confusion over the already opaque leadership situation in the Taliban following the death of the movement's founder Mullah Mohammad Omar and cloud prospects for any resumption of stalled peace talks. Two Taliban commanders said Mansour, whose authority is disputed by rival factions in the Islamist movement, was wounded when fighting broke out over strategic issues in the house of a senior Taliban leader called Mullah Abdullah Sarhadi outside Quetta in western Pakistan.


New U.S. force for Iraq to number around 100: U.S. military

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 11:13 AM PST

U.S. Defense Secretary Carter and Joint Chiefs Chairman Marine Corps General Dunford Jr., testify before House Armed Services Committee in WashingtonA new force of special operations troops being deployed by the United States to Iraq will likely number around 100, U.S. Army Colonel Steve Warren said on Wednesday. "It will be ... probably around 100, maybe a little bit less," said Warren, a spokesman for the U.S.-led military campaign against Islamic State. A cap on the number of U.S. forces authorized to operate in Iraq, currently at 3,550, would be raised by about 100, Warren said.


Impeachment proceedings opened against Brazil's president

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 04:35 PM PST

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff speaks during a news conference at the Planalto Palace, in BrasiliaBy 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.


Brazil's Rousseff says 'indignant' at impeachment proceedings

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 04:35 PM PST

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff said on Wednesday she was "indignant" at the decision from House Speaker Eduardo Cunha to open impeachment proceedings against her and denied committing any illegal acts. Rousseff also said she had not made any deal with lawmakers to shield Cunha, who is under investigation for taking bribes, from an ethics probe in Congress to try to avoid impeachment. (Reporting by Lisandra Paraguassu; Editing by Chris Reese)

Peru to deport American after 20-year terror sentence

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 04:34 PM PST

A photo released by the Peruvian Judiciary shows US citizen Lori Berenson before her speech at a court in Lima on August 16, 2010An American woman jailed for 20 years in Peru on terrorism charges was to be deported late Wednesday after completing her sentence, authorities said. Lori Berenson, a 46-year-old New York native, was arrested in 1995 and convicted of helping the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA), an armed leftist group, in a failed plot to storm the Peruvian legislature. "This is a measure that applies to (convicted) foreigners: once they leave they can never legally return to Peru," he said.


Spieth's big lesson on closing paid big dividends

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 04:33 PM PST

Jordan Spieth speaks during a press conference at the PGA Tour's Hero World Challenge golf tournament in Albany, Bahamas, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Doug Ferguson)NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — Jordan Spieth ends 2015 with two majors, the No. 1 ranking and no doubts about his ability to close out tournaments.


Study finds problems in detecting fraud among asylum seekers

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 04:25 PM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is having trouble detecting fraud in asylum requests from immigrants seeking to stay in the United States for their protection, according to a government study released Wednesday.

South Sudan wants civilians to leave protected UN bases

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 04:21 PM PST

A young woman carries firewood after returning to the United Nations base outside Bentiu, at the end of the day, on September 20, 2015South Sudan's UN ambassador said Wednesday that nearly 180,000 people sheltering in UN bases in his war-torn country should be encouraged to return home despite ongoing fighting. Ambassador Francis Deng told the UN Security Council that the bases were never meant to hold such large numbers of people and that peacekeepers should broaden their protection to areas outside the camps. The UN's six bases in South Sudan have taken in nearly 180,000 unarmed civilians fleeing attacks and horrendous violence since civil war broke out two years ago this month.


Top Asian News 12:19 a.m. GMT

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 04:19 PM PST

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian authorities said Thursday that new analysis confirms they've likely been searching in the right place for a missing Malaysian airliner. Searchers have been combing a 120,000-square-kilometer (46,000-square-mile) part of the Indian Ocean since last year but have yet to turn up any trace of Flight 370. A wing flap was found in July washed up on remote Reunion Island. The new analysis by an agency of the Defence Department confirmed "the highest probability" the final resting place for the plane is within the current search area, the government said in a statement. Australia's Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss said the new analysis pointed to the aircraft most likely coming to rest in the southern part of the current search area, so searchers would focus on that location and slightly widen the boundaries of the search area there.

Australia says new analysis backs search area for Flight 370

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 04:19 PM PST

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian authorities said Thursday that new analysis confirms they've likely been searching in the right place for a missing Malaysian airliner.

British bombers take off from Cyprus base after UK parliament vote

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 04:19 PM PST

Two British fighter jets took off from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus early on Thursday shortly after Britain's parliament voted to bomb Islamic State targets in Syria, a Reuters witness said. The destination of the two jets was not immediately clear and there was no comment from British authorities. RAF Akrotiri has been used as a launchpad for attacks on Islamic State targets in Iraq for just over a year, and late on Wednesday Britain's parliament broadened its scope for targeting targets in Syria.

Record-breaking Queensland coach Meninga gets national job

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 04:16 PM PST

SYDNEY (AP) — Former Kangaroos captain and record-breaking Queensland coach Mal Mengina has been appointed head coach of Australia's national rugby league team.

UN believes Iran worked on developing nuclear weapons

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 04:14 PM PST

UN believes Iran worked on developing nuclear weaponsVIENNA (AP) — Iran did work related to developing nuclear arms in the past, the U.N. atomic agency concluded in a report Wednesday that wraps up a near decade of investigations and opens the way to implementing a landmark deal aimed at reducing any future nuclear threat from Tehran.


Australians vanished in Mexico's 'Bermuda Triangle'

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 04:08 PM PST

Forensic personnel stand by a burned van which two Australian citizens were allegedly travelling in, through the Sinaloa state, near Novolato, Mexico on November 21, 2015The northwestern Mexican region where the burnt-out van of two missing Australian surfers was found last weekend is like a "Bermuda Triangle" of crime, a mayor said Wednesday. The area of Sinaloa state where the van was found with two unidentified and charred bodies inside is known for robberies, murders and kidnappings carried out by criminal groups, said Navolato Mayor Miguel Calderon. "It's like a Bermuda Triangle where criminal acts occur quite frequently, which we must deal with as a government," Calderon said, referring to a region where Navolato meets the municipalities of Mocorito and Angostura.


UN team investigating chemical attacks to visit Syria soon

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 04:07 PM PST

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. expert team seeking to assign blame for chemical attacks in Syria's civil war will make its first trip to Damascus "very soon," an official said Wednesday.

Impeachment proceedings opened against Brazil's Rousseff

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 04:07 PM PST

Impeachment proceedings opened against Brazil's RousseffRIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Impeachment proceedings were opened Wednesday against Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff by the speaker of the lower house of Congress, a sworn enemy of the beleaguered leader.


Burkina president-elect's party tops legislative poll, no majority

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 04:05 PM PST

Burkina Faso's newly elected President Roch Marc Christian Kabore arrives in the Movement of the People of Progress (MPP) party's headquarters in Ouagadougou, on December 2, 2015The party of Burkina Faso's president-elect Roch Marc Christian Kabore came first in the west African country's parliamentary vote but fell short of winning an absolute majority, according to official results announced Wednesday. The outcome marks a second victory for Kabore, a former premier and once a close ally of ex-leader Blaise Compaore, after he won Sunday's presidential election -- the first since a popular revolt last year ended nearly three decades of rule by Compaore. The party led by Kabore's main electoral rival, Zephirin Diabre, came second in the legislative vote with 33 seats, while Compaore's Congress for Democracy and Progress (CDP) party won 18, despite a ban on some 50 of its cadres from running.


Brazil speaker launches impeachment procedure against president

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 04:00 PM PST

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff delivers a speech on December 2, 2015 at Planalto Palace in BrasiliaBrasília (AFP) - Brazil's lower house speaker triggered impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff on Wednesday, plunging Latin America's biggest country into its deepest crisis in decades. Speaker Eduardo Cunha's decision, which now must be approved by a special committee to go any further, could see the country's first female leader forced from office just when Brazil is struggling with a corruption scandal and deepening recession. Rousseff, a leftist guerrilla during Brazil's 1964-1985 military dictatorship and less than a year into her second term as president, said she was confident of surviving.


At least three dead, 20 wounded in San Bernardino, California shooting

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 03:58 PM PST

Police searched on Wednesday for up to three suspects in the shooting of as many as 20 people, some of them fatally, at a social services agency for the developmentally disabled in the Southern California city of San Bernardino, authorities said. San Bernardino Police Lieutenant Richard Lawhead told a local NBC television network affiliate there were multiple fatalities, and a reporter for that channel said he saw the bodies of three victims following the shooting rampage. MSNBC also reported that law enforcement authorities had confirmed the three deaths.

What next in Brazilian impeachment proceedings

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 03:54 PM PST

FILE - In this Aug.21, 2015 file photo, Eduardo Cunha, president of Brazil's Chamber of Deputies, attends a meeting with union workers in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Impeachment proceedings were opened Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015, against Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff by the speaker of the lower house of Congress, a sworn enemy of the beleaguered leader. A special commission in which all political parties are represented must now weigh the decision of speaker Eduardo Cunha, who himself is facing corruption charges before the Supreme Court, to open the proceedings against Brazil's president based on accusations her government broke fiscal responsibility laws. Rousseff sharply disputes the accusations. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File)With the speaker of Brazil's lower house of congress introducing impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff, here's what comes next:


Britain to join Syria air strikes against IS after vote

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 03:54 PM PST

Britain will join the bombing campaign against Islamic State (IS) jihadists in Syria after MPs voted in favour of air strikes by a clear margin despite lingering deep divisionsBritain will join the US-led bombing campaign against Islamic State (IS) jihadists in Syria after MPs voted Wednesday in favour of air strikes. Prime Minister David Cameron secured the strong mandate he had sought with 397 of MPs voting in favour and 223 against, a majority of 174, after over 10 hours of passionate and often angry debate. "I believe the house has taken the right decision to keep the UK safe -- military action in Syria as one part of a broader strategy," Cameron wrote on Twitter.


Iran did work 'relevant' to nuclear bomb, says UN watchdog

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 03:49 PM PST

Iran conducted activities "relevant" to developing nuclear weapons at least until the end of 2003, the UN atomic watchdog said in a major report on Tehran's past activitiesIran conducted work "relevant" to developing nuclear weapons at least until late 2003, the UN watchdog said Wednesday, but it added there was no evidence such activities continued beyond 2009. The long-awaited findings come five months after Tehran and six world powers agreed a landmark deal to end the standoff over Iran's atomic programme. "The agency assesses that a range of activities relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device were conducted in Iran prior to the end of 2003 as a coordinated effort, and some activities took place after 2003," the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a report concluding a lengthy probe.


'Loss and damage' creeps in from the cold at U.N. climate talks

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 03:46 PM PST

Neighborhoods are flooded with oil and water two weeks after Hurricane Katrina went though New OrleansBy Megan Rowling PARIS (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Hurricane Katrina brought storm surges crashing into New Orleans in August 2005, Beverly Wright lost all her family photographs, going back to her great grandparents, in the flood. "You cannot replace all of the memorabilia, or pictures you cherish and pass on from person to person," said the executive director of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice. "There are things that cannot be replaced monetarily." She gave this as an example of "loss and damage" from climate change, and told journalists at the U.N. climate change talks in Paris that experts are still figuring out how to address people's loss of homes, community culture and family stability after they are hit by extreme weather or rising seas.


Texas sues US to block resettlement of 6 Syrian refugees

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 03:44 PM PST

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas on Wednesday sued the U.S. government in an effort to block six Syrian refugees from resettling in Dallas this week.

The Latest: Obama applauds Britain vote

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 03:43 PM PST

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, and Qatar's Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani speak during a ceremony in Doha, Qatar, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015. Erdogan is on a two-day state visit to the Gulf emirate.(AP Photo/Yasin Bulbul, Presidential Press Service, Pool)LONDON (AP) — The latest developments regarding the fight against the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq: All times local:


Putin makes surprise visit to Crimea after power shortages

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 03:43 PM PST

Russian President Vladimir Putin, photographed on November 30, 2015 in Paris, paid a surprise visit December 2 to Crimea, where he inaugurated an undersea cable project that would alleviate power shortages in the recently annexed territoryRussian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday made a surprise visit to Crimea, inaugurating an undersea cable project to bring a new power supply to the strategic Black Sea peninsula. Until late November, Crimea's electricity had mostly been supplied by Ukraine. Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 from Ukraine after a popular revolt overthrew the pro-Moscow government in Kiev and installed pro-EU leaders in its place.


At least 14 dead in California mass shooting

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 03:41 PM PST

A crowd gathers behind police line near the scene of a shooting on December 2, 2015 in San Bernardino, CaliforniaAs many as three gunmen opened fire inside a center for the disabled in San Bernardino, California on Wednesday, killing at least 14 people and wounding 14 others before fleeing the scene, officials said. Police said a massive manhunt was underway for the suspects who reportedly fled in a dark SUV after the late morning shooting at the Inland Regional Center shooting in the city, which is about an hour's drive east of Los Angeles. The deadly incident was the latest in a series of mass shootings in the United States, a spiral of violence that has exasperated President Barack Obama, who once again called on Congress to pass tougher gun control measures.


Coca-Cola pulls Mexico ad deemed offensive to indigenous

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 03:40 PM PST

Representatives of the Alliance for Food Health, a coalition of consumer rights and health groups offer a press conference denouncing the "Open Your Heart" holiday campaign by Coca-Cola Mexico as "faux philanthropy" and an insult to indigenous groups for its portrayal of a truckload of festive, fashion model-looking white people driving into the remote hills of Oaxaca hauling Coke and a Christmas tree as a service project. The alliance said it would formally ask the National Council to Prevent Discrimination to block the ad campaign immediately. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Coca-Cola Mexico spokesman says the company apologizes and has pulled an online ad after it was deemed offensive to the country's indigenous by consumers, media and advocacy groups.


Stranded migrants clash with police on Greek-Macedonian border

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 03:37 PM PST

Stranded migrants shout slogans during a protest demanding to cross the Greek-Macedonian border, near the village of IdomeniMacedonian police fired tear gas at hundreds of mostly Pakistani migrants who tried to storm into the Balkan country from Greece on Wednesday demanding passage to wealthier northern Europe. About 1,500 Pakistanis, Moroccans and Iranians have been stuck in no-man's land between Greece and Macedonia for weeks after non-EU Balkan states began filtering migrants and granting passage only to refugees fleeing Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. Protests have swelled among desperate migrants stranded for days in squalid tent camps on the border near the Greek town of Idomeni in temperatures barely above freezing.


Brazil's Rousseff, an ex-guerrilla fighting for political life

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 03:35 PM PST

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff prepares to deliver a speech on December 2, 2015 at Planalto Palace in Brasilia, after her political nemesis Eduardo Cunha triggered impeachment proceedings against her in the legislatureWhen she was being tortured under Brazil's military dictatorship, Dilma Rousseff could never have imagined becoming the country's first female president. Given the multitude of hurdles before an impeachment trial can actually force a president from office, Brazil's 67-year-old "iron lady" will have plenty of opportunities to put up a fight. Rousseff is widely despised across Latin America's biggest country and often blamed for Brazil's multiple challenges, ranging from a steep recession to corruption and the government's inability to deal with Congress.


UK vote to join Syria air strikes is 'right decision': Cameron

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 03:28 PM PST

British Prime Minister David Cameron leaves 10 Downing Street in central London on December 2, 2015 ahead of a debate and vote in the House of Commons on joining the bombing campaign against the Islamic State group in SyriaPrime Minister David Cameron said a parliamentary vote Wednesday in favour of Britain joining air strikes against Islamic State jihadists in Syria was "the right decision". "I believe the house has taken the right decision to keep the UK safe -- military action in Syria as one part of a broader strategy," he wrote on Twitter.


EU presses Greece over migrants, weighs Schengen threat

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 03:23 PM PST

Stranded migrants cry as they protest next to a border fence, demanding to cross the Greek-Macedonian border, near the village of IdomeniBy Paul Taylor and Alastair Macdonald ATHENS/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Greece hit back on Wednesday at threats from some EU states to suspend it from the Schengen zone of open border travel because of its failure to control large numbers of migrants entering Europe. Diplomats and European Union officials say some governments have raised the possibility informally but it would be a largely symbolic move, with little impact on migration. "It is not said officially, but there is pressure," Greek Migration Minister Yannis Mouzalas told reporters, denying a Financial Times report on Wednesday that Athens had, among other things, refused an EU offer of devices designed to share the identity data of incoming migrants around the bloc.


Tesla's Elon Musk says transition from fossil fuels inevitable

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 03:14 PM PST

Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks about new Autopilot features during a Tesla event in Palo AltoBy Bate Felix PARIS (Reuters) - The switch from fossil fuels to sustainable energies such as wind and solar is inevitable, and the transition could happen within two decades depending on decisions reached at the Paris climate summit, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk said Wednesday. Nearly 200 nations are meeting in the French capital for a two-week United Nations climate conference aimed at reaching an agreement to curb global warming caused by carbon emissions which are partly caused by usage of fuels such as coal and oil. Speaking to students at Paris Sorbonne university campus about climate change, the chief executive of the electric carmaker Tesla, said: "We are going to exit the fossil fuel era.


Shooting rampage at California social services agency leaves 14 dead, 14 wounded

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 03:10 PM PST

Still from video shows rescue crews tending to the injured in the intersection outside the Inland Regional Center in San BernardinoBy 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.


Indiana governor, archbishop meet amid refugee dispute

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 03:07 PM PST

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana's governor said Wednesday he is asking a Roman Catholic archdiocese to not bring a Syrian refugee family to the state.

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