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| France to urge EU to tighten passport checks | | | By Alastair Macdonald BRUSSELS (Reuters) - France wants the EU to tighten rules on passport checks on EU citizens entering and leaving the Schengen free-travel zone in the wake of the attacks in Paris, to make it harder for European jihadists to return from Syria unnoticed. The proposal, seen by Reuters on Thursday, is among several to be presented by France to a crisis meeting of EU interior ministers on Friday. It reflects impatience with progress since EU leaders agreed in February after the attack on the French magazine Charlie Hebdo that the passports of all EU travellers routinely be checked against criminal and security databases. |
| Brussels district rallies against home-grown jihadists | |  By Miranda Alexander-Webber and Yvonne Bell BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Molenbeek, the Brussels district that was home to leaders of Friday's Islamist attacks in Paris, staged a candlelit vigil on Wednesday to honour the victims and show the world their borough offers more than violence. Molenbeek gives much more than that," organiser Yannick Bochem told Reuters Television as more than 2,000 people crowded the square in front of the local town hall. "We want to show our respects because we're also shocked by the events, and we're also shocked that it's linked with Molenbeek.
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| Israeli policeman given community service for beating Palestinian-American boy | |  An Israeli policeman was spared jail and sentenced to community service on Wednesday for beating an American teenager of Palestinian descent during disturbances in Jerusalem last year, an incident that had prompted U.S. concern. Tariq Khdeir was visiting from Tampa, Florida, as protests erupted over the abduction and killing on July 2, 2014, of his 16-year-old cousin, Mohammed Abu Khudeir, allegedly by three Israeli Jews. Amateur video showed two Israeli riot policemen setting upon Tariq Khdeir, who was 15 at the time.
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| China denies having political prisoners, says does not allow torture | | | By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - China denied that it held political prisoners and said its government prohibited use of torture when it faced a United Nations' review of its record on Wednesday, evoking derision from exiled dissidents. Winding up a two-day scrutiny of China's human rights performance, senior Chinese officials evaded questions about the number of police or prison guards prosecuted for torture and the treatment of high-profile prisoners, including several of whom died in custody. "The Chinese government prohibits torture and prosecutes any personnel or state organs for torture activities," Li Wensheng, deputy director-general of the legal affairs department in the ministry of public security, told the U.N. Committee against Torture. |
| Beijing vows justice after Islamic State executes Chinese captive | | | By Ben Blanchard and Joseph Campbell BEIJING (Reuters) - China vowed on Thursday to bring to justice those responsible for executing one of its citizens after Islamic State said it had killed a Chinese captive, the only known Chinese hostage to have been held by the group. Islamic State said it had killed a Chinese and Norwegian captive, showing pictures of what appeared to be the dead men under a banner reading "Executed" in the latest edition of its English-language online magazine, Dabiq. In a brief statement, China's Foreign Ministry confirmed the man's identify for the first time, naming him as Fan Jinghui, saying he had been "cruelly murdered". |
| FBI, New York police aware of Islamic State video, say no specific threat | |  There is no "specific and credible threat" against New York City, despite a newly released Islamic State video suggesting America's most populous city is a potential target of attacks such as those in Paris, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Wednesday. Police Commissioner William Bratton agreed with the mayor during an evening news conference by both men in Times Square, adding that there was nothing new about the video, which he called "hastily produced." "There is no credible and specific threat against New York City," de Blasio said, encouraging New Yorkers to "go about their business" as normal, while remaining watchful.
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| Islamic State makes Telegram messaging app a major marketing tool | |  The mobile messaging service Telegram, created by the exiled founder of Russia's most popular social network site, has emerged as an important new promotional and recruitment platform for Islamic State. A new feature of Telegram that was introduced in September has become the preferred method for Islamic State to broadcast news and share videos of military victories or sermons, according to security researchers. The group used Telegram to claim responsibility for the Paris attacks, which left 129 people dead, and the bombing of a Russian airliner over Egypt last month, which killed 224.
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| Pfizer-Allergan talks accelerate amid new inversion clamp-down | |  By Greg Roumeliotis and Kevin Drawbaugh NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc's talks to acquire Allergan Plc in a $150 billion deal that would see the U.S. drug giant redomicile in Ireland accelerated on Wednesday, as the U.S. Treasury prepared to clamp down further on such tax inversions. Pfizer is negotiating a price of $370 to $380 for each Allergan share, a person familiar with the discussions said, asking not to be identified because the talks are confidential. Allergan shares ended trading on Wednesday at $310.8 per share.
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| Australian law firm files $72-million class action against Volkswagen | |  Law firm Maurice Blackburn will launch a class action lawsuit on Thursday on behalf of Australian owners of scam-tainted Volkswagen AG seeking total damages "well north" of A$100 million ($71.59 million). Volkswagen is embroiled in a global recall scandal, and faces several class action lawsuits, after tests showed that thousands of vehicles had been fitted with devices designed to mask the level of emissions. More than 10,000 Australian owners have already registered for the class action that targets the German parent companies involved in the emissions scam, not just the local subsidiaries, Maurice Blackburn said.
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| Honduras detains Syrians bound for U.S. with doctored Greek passports | |  By Gustavo Palencia TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduran authorities said on Wednesday they had intercepted six Syrian nationals traveling on doctored Greek passports in the past week, including five who had been trying to reach the United States. Police said there were no signs of any links to last week's deadly attacks in Paris that killed 129 people. Anibal Baca, a Honduras police spokesman, said the five were trying to reach the United States.
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| At least two die in police raid on group planning new Paris attack | |  By Emmanuel Jarry and Antony Paone SAINT DENIS, France (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew herself up in a police raid on Wednesday that sources said had foiled a jihadi plan to hit Paris's business district, days after a wave of attacks killed 129 across the French capital. Police stormed an apartment in the Paris suburb of St. Denis before dawn in a hunt for Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian militant accused of masterminding the bombings and shootings, but it was unclear whether he had died in the assault. "A new team of terrorists has been neutralised," Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins told reporters on Wednesday evening, saying police fired 5,000 rounds of munitions into the apartment, which was left shredded by the raid, its windows blown out and the facade riddled with bullet impacts.
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| U.N. committee rebukes Myanmar over treatment of Muslim minority | |  By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations General Assembly's human rights committee on Wednesday criticized Myanmar for its treatment of the nation's Muslim minority and urged the Southeast Asian country to change its citizenship rules to make Rohingya full citizens. Although many have lived in Myanmar for generations, the Rohingya minority in the country also known as Burma is not one of the 135 ethnic groups recognised under the country's 1982 citizenship law and are thus entitled to only limited rights. The non-binding draft resolution, co-sponsored by European nations, the United States and other Western states, was adopted by consensus during a meeting of the 193-nation assembly's Third Committee, which focuses on human rights.
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| Islamic State says it has executed two captives from Norway and China | |  Islamic State said it had killed a Norwegian and a Chinese captive, showing what appeared to be pictures of the dead men under a banner reading "Executed" in the latest edition of its English language magazine. It did not give any details in the online Dabiq magazine, published on Wednesday, about how, when or where the men were killed. Norway's Prime Minister Erna Solberg told a news conference in Oslo that the Norwegian man, named by the foreign ministry as Ole Johan Grimsgaard-Ofstad, had most likely been killed.
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| For Syrian refugees in U.S., fear gives way to hope | |  By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - They share a small two-bedroom apartment in Sacramento with few possessions, but for Syrian refugee Mohammad Abd Rabboh, his wife and two daughters, there is finally freedom from fear. Just six weeks after arriving in the United States, the girls are in school and no longer screaming in the night. "You walk in the street and someone falls dead right in front of you." Theirs is a story that could be easily lost in the U.S. political backlash against Syrian refugees that has been stirred by reports one of the militants involved in last Friday's deadly attacks in Paris may have hidden among the migrant flow.
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| WADA flexes muscles with Russian doping agency ban | | | By Steve Keating COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (Reuters) - Russia's sporting reputation was in tatters and drug cheats around the world put on notice on Wednesday as an emboldened World Anti-Doping Agency vowed to step up the war on performance-enhancing drugs. WADA capped a big fortnight for their cause, and a miserable one for Russia, by suspending the country's anti-doping agency on the back of an independent commission report that uncovered evidence of state-sponsored doping and cover-ups. The suspension of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) completed a non-compliance hat-trick. |
| Chad extends state of emergency over Boko Haram attacks | | | N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Chad's national assembly extended a state of emergency in the western Lake Chad region by four months on Wednesday following a double attack by Boko Haram militants that killed some 12 people. "The state of emergency is prolonged by 147 unanimous votes by the parliament for four months. Chad helped force Boko Haram to cede territory earlier this year, undermining the Islamist group's six-year campaign to carve out a Nigerian caliphate. |
| Sarajevo gunman commits suicide after killing two soldiers | |  A gunman who shot and killed two Bosnian soldiers and wounded another committed suicide on Wednesday after police surrounded his house on the outskirts of Sarajevo, authorities said. The attacker, identified as Enes Omeragic, opened fire with an automatic weapon at a betting shop near the army barracks in the Rajlovac neighbourhood of the capital, killing two Bosnian armed forces servicemen. "A shot fired at a member of the armed forces is a shot at Bosnia-Herzegovina," said Denis Zvizdic, the Balkan country's prime minister, after an emergency government meeting.
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