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• Russia says it has proof Turkey involved in Islamic State oil trade
• Islamic State video purportedly shows killing of Russian spy: monitoring group
• British parliament votes to bomb Islamic State in Syria
• Satellite photos show North Korea digging new nuclear tunnel: report
• Taliban leader Mullah Mansour wounded in shootout: sources
• New U.S. force for Iraq to number around 100: U.S. military
• Impeachment proceedings opened against Brazil's president
• Brazil's Rousseff says 'indignant' at impeachment proceedings
• Peru to deport American after 20-year terror sentence
• Spieth's big lesson on closing paid big dividends
• Study finds problems in detecting fraud among asylum seekers
• South Sudan wants civilians to leave protected UN bases
• Top Asian News 12:19 a.m. GMT
• Australia says new analysis backs search area for Flight 370
• British bombers take off from Cyprus base after UK parliament vote
• Record-breaking Queensland coach Meninga gets national job
• UN believes Iran worked on developing nuclear weapons
• Australians vanished in Mexico's 'Bermuda Triangle'
• UN team investigating chemical attacks to visit Syria soon
• Impeachment proceedings opened against Brazil's Rousseff
• Burkina president-elect's party tops legislative poll, no majority
• Brazil speaker launches impeachment procedure against president
• At least three dead, 20 wounded in San Bernardino, California shooting
• What next in Brazilian impeachment proceedings
• Britain to join Syria air strikes against IS after vote
• Iran did work 'relevant' to nuclear bomb, says UN watchdog
• 'Loss and damage' creeps in from the cold at U.N. climate talks
• Texas sues US to block resettlement of 6 Syrian refugees
• The Latest: Obama applauds Britain vote
• Putin makes surprise visit to Crimea after power shortages
• At least 14 dead in California mass shooting
• Coca-Cola pulls Mexico ad deemed offensive to indigenous
• Stranded migrants clash with police on Greek-Macedonian border
• Brazil's Rousseff, an ex-guerrilla fighting for political life
• UK vote to join Syria air strikes is 'right decision': Cameron
• EU presses Greece over migrants, weighs Schengen threat
• Tesla's Elon Musk says transition from fossil fuels inevitable
• Shooting rampage at California social services agency leaves 14 dead, 14 wounded
• Indiana governor, archbishop meet amid refugee dispute

Russia says it has proof Turkey involved in Islamic State oil trade Posted: 02 Dec 2015 12:27 PM PST By 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 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.

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 By 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 A 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 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.

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 An 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 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 South 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 VIENNA (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 The 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 RIO 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 The 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 Brasília (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 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 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 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 By 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 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 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 As 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 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 Macedonian 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 When 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 Prime 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 By 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 By 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 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.

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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