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| Obama urges Russia to join renewed effort to eliminate Islamic State | | Monday, November 16, 2015 3:19 AM | |
|  By Matt Spetalnick and Dasha Afanasieva BELEK, Turkey (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama vowed on Sunday to step up efforts to eliminate Islamic State and prevent more attacks like those in Paris, while urging Russia's Vladimir Putin to focus on combating the jihadist group in Syria. A White House official said Obama and Putin agreed during a 35-minute meeting on the sidelines of a G20 summit in Turkey on the need for a political transition in Syria, saying events in Paris had made it all the more urgent.
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| Canada sticks to refugee plan but security pressures mount after Paris attacks | | Monday, November 16, 2015 3:16 AM | |
|  "We will be accepting 25,000 Syrian refugees between now and January 1st," Trudeau said in the written text of a speech at the G20 major powers summit in Turkey. The debate has been particularly heated in the mainly French-speaking province of Quebec, which - like France - has a large North African immigrant community and is grappling with concerns about radicalization of Muslim youth. Last year, two Quebec-born Muslim converts staged separate attacks on Canadian soldiers, near Montreal and on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, killing two. BANNER ON OVERPASS An online petition asking the government to suspend the plan to bring in the refugees was launched on Saturday by a Quebec City resident worried about "jihadists infiltrating" the country, according to Le Soleil newspaper.
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| Pentagon says five Guantanamo detainees transferred to United Arab Emirates | | Monday, November 16, 2015 3:11 AM | |
|  Five detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were transferred to the government of the United Arab Emirates, the U.S. Defense Department said on Sunday. The transferred detainees were identified by the Pentagon as Ali Ahmad Muhammad al-Razihi, Khalid Abd-al-Jabbar Muhammad Uthman al-Qadasi, Adil Said al-Hajj Ubayd al-Busays, Sulayman Awad Bin Uqayl al-Nahdi and Fahmi Salem Said al-Asani.
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| Insight - Guns, God and grievances: Belgium's Islamist "airbase" | | Monday, November 16, 2015 3:09 AM | |
|  By Robert-Jan Bartunek and Alastair Macdonald BRUSSELS (Reuters) - "A breeding ground for violence" the mayor of Molenbeek called her borough on Sunday, speaking of unemployment and overcrowding among Arab immigrant families, of youthful despair finding refuge in radical Islam. "That makes Brussels more like a big U.S. city" in mostly gun-free Europe, he said.
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| France launches air strikes in Syria; Paris investigation widens | | Monday, November 16, 2015 3:09 AM | |
|  By Emmanuel Jarry and Robert-Jan Bartunek PARIS/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - French warplanes pounded Islamic State positions in Syria on Sunday as police in Europe widened their investigations into coordinated attacks in Paris that killed more than 130 people. Islamic State has claimed responsibility for Friday's suicide bombings and shootings, which have re-ignited a row over Europe's refugee crisis and drawn calls to block a huge influx of Muslim asylum-seekers. One of the brothers died in the attacks, while the second one is under arrest in Belgium, a judicial source said.
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| China says global war on terror should also target Uighur militants | | Monday, November 16, 2015 3:02 AM | |
|  The struggle against Islamist militants in China's violence-prone far western region of Xinjiang should become an "important part" of the world's war on terror, China's foreign minister said, following the attacks in Paris. Hundreds of people have died in unrest in Xinjiang, home to the mostly Muslim Uighur people, and other parts of China over the past three years. Beijing has blamed the violence on Islamist militants, led by the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), a group it says has ties to al Qaeda.
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| Paris attacks seen causing short-term global markets drop | | Monday, November 16, 2015 2:40 AM | |
|  By Christopher McCall, Hideyuki Sano and Lionel Laurent SYDNEY/TOKYO/PARIS/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks in major markets are set for a short-term sell-off on Monday after suspected Islamist militants launched coordinated attacks across Paris that killed more than 130 people, but few strategists expect a prolonged economic impact or change in prevailing market directions. If anything, any initial damage to economic confidence, tourism and trade within Europe will likely reinforce the European Central Bank's resolve to ease monetary policy further next month, they reckon. French financial markets will be open as usual on Monday, stock and derivatives exchange Euronext said on Saturday.
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| Hundreds flee gathering in central Paris in apparent false alarm | |  PARIS (Reuters) - Hundreds of people who had been gathered at Place de la Republique in central Paris dispersed suddenly on Sunday evening in what police later said seemed to be a false alarm. With Parisians' nerves still on edge after Fridays shootings and suicide bombings, people suddenly all began running away from the square, a Reuters witness at the scene said. "There was crowd movement with apparently with no reason. We hadn't heard anything and all the people we questioned hadn't heard anything either," a police official at the square told Reuters. ...
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| Bavarian ally backs Merkel in row over refugee policy | |  By Michael Nienaber BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's most senior Bavarian ally rushed to her defence in an escalating row over her refugee policy, saying his finance minister's reaction to the attacks in Paris was "totally inappropriate". The coordinated assault in the French capital, in which at least 129 people were killed, has fuelled a debate in Germany over Merkel's welcoming approach to migrants and on how to pin down better intelligence about people entering the country. Bavarian Finance Minister Markus Soeder had cranked up pressure on Merkel to reverse her "open-door" refugee policy, saying the attacks in Paris underlined the need for tougher measures to control the influx of migrants.
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| Bulgaria detains more for illegal entry, urges change in EU policy | | | Bulgaria has detained hundreds more people for entering the EU border country illegally, it said on Sunday, and Prime Minister Boiko Borisov called on Europe to reconsider its policy on migrants after the Paris killings. Bulgaria's security forces have detained 315 people for entering the country illegally and held another 11 accused of people trafficking, the interior ministry said on Sunday. The government tightened its border controls on Saturday after the Paris attacks. |
| Doping threatens Kenya's credibility at Rio Olympics - Rudisha's coach | |  By Drazen Jorgic ELDORET, Kenya (Reuters) - Doping could cast a shadow over Kenya at the 2016 Rio Olympics unless the East African nation implements credible systems to root out drugs cheats, said veteran Kenya-based coach Brother Colm O'Connell. O'Connell, who trains 800m world record holder David Rudisha, has coached more than 30 world champions and five Olympic gold medallists during nearly 40 years in Iten, a small village 8,000 feet above sea level in western Kenya's Rift Valley. O'Connell said elite Kenyan runners - who topped the table at the world championships in Beijing in August with seven gold medals - were concerned their reputations were being tarnished by an international doping scandal and a spate of failed tests by Kenyan athletes.
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| Two more Frenchmen identified as Paris attackers - prosecutor | | | Police have identified two more French nationals who blew themselves up in the coordinated attacks in Paris on Friday, the prosecutor said, and also put out a request for a Belgian-born man they warned was dangerous. "Two more terrorists killed in the night of Nov. 13 were today formally identified through finger prints," the prosecutor said in a statement, adding they were French and living in Belgium. |
| Green groups re-think massive Paris climate march after attacks | |  By Bate Felix PARIS (Reuters) - A massive demonstration planned by environmental activists for the eve of this month's U.N. climate summit in Paris is in doubt as organisers weigh the security risks - and the propriety - of gathering in huge numbers in a city where attacks killed 129 people. Environmental groups will meet on Monday to decide a course of action, with mainstream activists saying they will abide by any ban on public gatherings if the state of emergency decreed by French President Francois Hollande is still in place. Organisers from about 130 non-governmental organisations had hoped to draw 200,000 people to the march on Nov. 29, anticipating a carnival-like atmosphere that would pressure world leaders to take action to combat global warming.
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| Belgium arrests seven as French attacks rekindle refugee row | | By Bate Felix and Robert-Jan Bartunek PARIS/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Two of the attackers who brought carnage to Paris were French nationals living in Belgium, officials said on Sunday, as a row over Europe's refugee crisis re-ignited, with conservatives demanding an end to "the days of uncontrolled immigration". Three jihadist cells staged the co-ordinated hits on Friday night at bars, a concert hall and soccer stadium, killing 129 people and injuring 352, including 99 who were in a serious condition, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said. French authorities said they found the bodies of seven killers but Islamic State, which claimed responsibility as revenge for French military action in Syria and Iraq, said there were eight, raising questions over whether one was on the loose.
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| French Muslims fear repercussions from Paris attacks | |  By Ingrid Melander and Tom Heneghan PARIS (Reuters) - For the second time this year France's Muslims have seen carnage brought to the streets of Paris by a few radical Islamists and fear that they will now suffer as a consequence. Muslim community leaders promptly denounced the massacre and politicians clearly blamed the radical Islamic State movement for the violence. "When you look like a Muslim, it's tough," said Marjan Fouladvind, an Iranian doctoral student in Paris.
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| French attacks cast uncomfortable spotlight on Brussels district | |  By Robert-Jan Bartunek and Barbara Lewis BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Two of the attackers behind Friday's assault on Paris were French nationals who had been in living in Brussels, Belgian officials said on Sunday as Prime Minister Charles Michel declared his nation was no place for "preachers of hatred". One lived in central Brussels and one in Molenbeek, a poor, immigrant quarter of the Belgian capital already viewed as a possible launch pad for Islamist violence due to links with previous attacks in France and elsewhere. Michel said Belgium needed to do more to crack down on radicalisation and said the Molenbeek district's links to violent extremism were a "gigantic problem".
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| British jihadist may have planned Paris-style attack in Istanbul - sources | | | By Orhan Coskun and Humeyra Pamuk BELEK, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkish authorities suspect a high-profile British jihadist detained in Turkey last week may have been planning attacks in Istanbul similar to those in Paris, two security sources told Reuters on Sunday. A man thought to be Aine Lesley Davis, an associate of the Islamic State militant dubbed "Jihadi John", was detained in Istanbul last week, senior Turkish officials said on Friday. Davis was detained with a group of others who could have been planning an attack in Istanbul in parallel with the gun and bomb rampage in the French capital that left at least 129 people dead, a separate source said on Sunday. |
| Myanmar's Suu Kyi meets parliament boss after victory | |  By Hnin Yadana Zaw and Antoni Slodkowski NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (Reuters) - Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi held talks with parliament's powerful chairman on Sunday after an election landslide set to usher in democracy and sweep out much of the military old guard. With only three seats in the bicameral parliament yet to be declared, the victory allows the National League for Democracy (NLD) to form the next government after years of disenfranchisement under the military's 1962-2011 rule. On the eve of what could be the last session of the current parliament, lower house chairman Shwe Mann, who lost his seat in the Nov. 8 vote and was ousted in August as head of the ruling party, said Suu Kyi had sought help in the transition period.
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| Partying on a Friday, many Paris victims were bright young things | |  By Crispian Balmer PARIS (Reuters) - Standing before a makeshift memorial to the dead, strewn with candles, flowers and scribbled notes, Caroline Pallut hid her tears behind dark glasses. Two days after the worst attacks in France since World War Two, the names of many victims are starting to emerge, their smiling faces shining out from an array of social websites -- a cameraman, a foreign exchange student, lawyers, an artist, a journalist, tourists, two sisters at a birthday party. Friends of a young couple from eastern France, Marie Lausch and Mathias Dymarski, announced their deaths on Youtube.
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| Russia's athletics ban stirs fears in doping-hit Kenya | |  By Drazen Jorgic ITEN, Kenya (Reuters) - In Kenya's running heartlands, a spate of failed drug tests has fuelled fears the East African nation could follow Russia in being suspended from world athletics over doping violations, threatening the region's economic lifeline. The unprecedented move to suspend Russia from international track and field competitions follows an explosive report by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) alleging sweeping, state-sponsored use of performance-enhancing drugs. Kenya's lush Rift Valley region, famous for churning out champion runners from high-altitude training camps, was shaken by a warning from a top official that WADA was "seriously considering" banning Kenya for four years, including from 2016 Rio Olympics.
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| At G20, Obama vows renewed effort to eliminate Islamic State | |  By Matt Spetalnick and David Dolan BELEK, Turkey (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama vowed on Sunday to step up efforts to eliminate Islamic State in Syria and prevent it from carrying out attacks like those in Paris, while European leaders urged Russia to focus its military efforts on the radical Islamists. Speaking at a G20 leaders summit in Turkey, Obama described the killings in Paris claimed by Islamic State as an attack on the civilised world and said the United States would work with France to hunt down those responsible.
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| G20 leaders pledge robust fight against patchy economy - draft communique | |  By David Dolan BELEK, Turkey (Reuters) - The heads of the world's 20 largest economies pledged to use all of their policy tools to tackle uneven economic growth that falls short of expectations, according to a draft Group of 20 (G20) communique seen by Reuters on Sunday. As the G20 leaders gathered in Turkey for a two-day meeting on how to boost global growth, the economic discussions were overshadowed by deadly attacks claimed by Islamic State in Paris on Friday that left more than 120 people dead. In a nod to uncertainty in financial markets and worries about lagging output in much of the world, the leaders said they would stick to a target to boost the G20's collective economic output by an additional 2 percent by 2018.
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| U.S. to work with France to intensify air strikes in Syria, Iraq - Rhodes | |  By Dasha Afanasieva BELEK, Turkey (Reuters) - The United States will work with France to intensify air strikes against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, U.S. Deputy National security adviser Ben Rhodes said on Sunday, after attacks in Paris killed 129 people. Rhodes said getting arms directly to fighters on the ground in Syria and Iraq seemed to be working in the fight against Islamic State.
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| Belgian prosecutors say seven people detained following raids in Brussels | | | Belgian prosecutors on Sunday said seven people had been detained following raids in Brussels after the attacks on Friday in Paris and that two of the Paris assailants had been living in Belgium. Belgian police, in cooperation with the French authorities, carried out raids at the weekend after two cars with Belgian number plates were found in Paris, one near the Bataclan concert hall where the deadliest attacks took place, and the other near Pere Lachaise. |
| Oil prices seen under pressure as Paris attacks spark demand worries | |  By Ron Bousso and Libby George LONDON (Reuters) - Prices of oil and other commodities will come under renewed pressure on Monday on fears that Friday night's deadly attacks on Paris will further slow the global economy. Oil is already trading near its six-year lows and healthy demand has been a major factor preventing the prices from sliding any lower amid a worsening global oil glut due to abundant supplies. At least 129 people were killed on Friday evening in a series of coordinated attacks on Paris with Islamist militants claiming responsibility for the carnage. "Currently sentiment is really bearish, so this could be seen as hurting demand, so oil prices could fall further," said Amrita Sen from Energy Aspects.
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