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With landmark climate accord, world marks turn from fossil fuels
Saudi women vote for the first time, testing boundaries
Exclusive: Trump lead among Republicans undiminished in first poll after Muslim comments
Malls in three U.S. states evacuated on busy holiday shopping day
California arson arrest connected to mosque fire: paper
Historic pact to slow global warming is celebrated in Paris
Meaning behind Islamic State's Twitter memes

With landmark climate accord, world marks turn from fossil fuels

Posted: 12 Dec 2015 03:50 PM PST

By Alister Doyle and Barbara Lewis PARIS (Reuters) - The global climate summit in Paris forged a landmark agreement on Saturday, setting the course for a historic transformation of the world's fossil fuel-driven economy within decades in a bid to arrest global warming. After four years of fraught U.N. talks often pitting the interests of rich nations against poor, imperiled island states against rising economic powerhouses, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius declared the pact adopted, to the standing applause and whistles of delegates from almost 200 nations. "With a small hammer you can achieve great things," Fabius said as he gaveled the agreement, capping two weeks of tense negotiations at the summit on the outskirts of the French capital.

Saudi women vote for the first time, testing boundaries

Posted: 12 Dec 2015 12:13 PM PST

Women across Saudi Arabia marked a historic milestone on Saturday, both voting and running as candidates in government elections for the first time, but just outside polling stations they waited for male ...

Exclusive: Trump lead among Republicans undiminished in first poll after Muslim comments

Posted: 12 Dec 2015 02:30 AM PST

By Emily Stephenson and Chris Kahn WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump held onto his commanding lead in the Republican race for the White House after his call for a ban on Muslims entering the United States was condemned worldwide, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll, the first national survey conducted entirely after the billionaire's remarks. Trump led the pack of candidates seeking the Republican Party's nomination in the 2016 election with 35 percent of support from Republican voters, the opinion poll released on Friday found, the same lead he held before Monday, when he said Muslim immigrants, students and other travelers should be barred from entering the country. Most Republican voters said they were not bothered by his remarks, though many said the comments could still hurt Trump's chances of becoming president.

Malls in three U.S. states evacuated on busy holiday shopping day

Posted: 12 Dec 2015 03:15 PM PST

The evacuations come at a time of heightened vigilance in public places across the country, a week after a husband and wife gunned down 14 people at a holiday party in San Bernardino, California, in what the FBI considers an act of terror. To the north, the Shops at Riverside, a two-story shopping mall in Hackensack, New Jersey, was evacuated after authorities learned of a bomb threat scrawled on the wall of a bathroom, according to the Bergen County Sheriff's Department.

California arson arrest connected to mosque fire: paper

Posted: 12 Dec 2015 12:56 PM PST

A 23-year-old man was in jail on Saturday on suspicion of arson and carrying out a hate crime, online jail records showed, an arrest that the Los Angeles Times reported was in connection with a fire at a Southern California mosque. The Times, citing jail records and anonymous law enforcement sources, said the arrest on Friday was tied to a blaze at Islamic Society of the Coachella Valley in Riverside County. It identified the suspect as Carl Dial.