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| French police detain 29 people in latest post-attack sweep | |  French police arrested 29 people in searches on Tuesday night as part of broader investigations into suspected Islamist activity in the wake of Friday's Paris attacks, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Wednesday. Overall, there have been 414 police raids in the wake of the attack, with a total 60 in police custody, 118 under house arrest, and 75 weapons seized, Cazeneuve said in a statement, adding that the operation would continue in the days ahead.
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| Two die in police raid on group planning new Paris attack | |  By Antony Paone and Emmanuel Jarry SAINT DENIS, France (Reuters) - A woman suicide bomber blew herself up and another militant died on Wednesday in a police raid that sources said had foiled a jihadi plan to hit Paris's business district, La Defense, days after attacks that killed 129 across the French capital. Police raided an apartment in the Paris suburb of St. Denis in a hunt for Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian Islamist militant accused of masterminding the bombings and shootings, but more than 12 hours later it was still unclear if they had found him. Seven people were arrested in the operation, including three who were pulled from the residence in the heart of St. Denis, which had its windows blown out and its facade scarred by bullets and rocket blasts.
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| Sweden raises threat level, citing "concrete information" | |  Sweden's security police (SAPO) raised on Wednesday their terrorist threat assessment by one step, to four on a scale of five, saying there was "concrete information" of a possible attack only days after the Paris killing spree. "One of the reasons for the increase is that the Security Police have received concrete information and made a judgement that we need to act within the framework of our counter-terrorism operations," SAPO said in a statement. Danish police also said on Wednesday they had increased their security readiness to the second-highest of five levels of readiness, as a consequence of the attacks in Paris last week.
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| Suspected Paris attacks leader boasted of crossing borders | |  By Alastair Macdonald and Robert-Jan Bartunek BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Abdelhamid Abaaoud, suspected planner of the Paris attacks, mocked European frontier controls and boasted of the ease with which he could move between Syria to his Belgian homeland and the rest of Europe. As police piece together how militants mounted Friday's assaults, evidence that some involved had fought in Syria and were on wanted lists, yet slipped back to kill 129 people, will raise a host of questions on how Europe tracks local Islamists and controls the borders it has opened to half a million Syrian refugees. Abaaoud, a 28-year-old of Moroccan origin, was the best known of more than 350 Belgians to fight in Syria -- proportionately the biggest contingent from Europe -- and in particular of dozens of young men from the poor Molenbeek district of Brussels to take up arms for Islamic State.
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| French minister: "maybe more" than two dead at Saint-Denis police raid | |  PARIS (Reuters) - There could be more than two people killed at the scene of Wednesday's police raid on the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis, France's Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said. "There were at least two dead, maybe more," Cazeneuve told lawmakers. (Reporting by John Irish and Ingrid Melander)
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| California rock band returns home, suspends all shows, after Paris attack | |  The California-based rock band Eagles of Death Metal, whose Paris concert was turned into a bloodbath by gunmen opening fire on the audience during their performance, has returned to the United States and suspended all further shows, the group said in a statement on Wednesday. All the musicians in the band survived Friday night's attack unharmed, but the group's merchandise manager, Nick Alexander, 36, a Briton, was among the scores of people killed in the massacre. The statement, posted on social media outlets of the Eagles of Death Metal, was the first official word on the band's whereabouts since the attack by gunmen on the Bataclan concert hall in Paris while the band was playing there.
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| Chile football chief heads to U.S. as FBI informant - media | |  By Anthony Esposito SANTIAGO (Reuters) - The president of Chile's ANFP national football association Sergio Jadue has gone to the United States to talk to the FBI as part of its ongoing probe into corruption at soccer governing body FIFA, local media reported on Wednesday. Local police had served Jadue a subpoena on Friday as part of what the ANFP said was an investigation into how it allocates salaries, hours after he announced he would take a 30-day leave for medical reasons. "He has a special permission for a 30-day medical leave and he continues to be the ANFP's president." The spokesman added that the organization would make an official statement later on Wednesday.
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| Canada may have to cut corners to meet Syrian refugees target | | | By Randall Palmer and Julia Edwards OTTAWA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Canada's government will inevitably have to cut some corners on security screening to achieve its ambitious goal of bringing in 25,000 Syrian refugees by year-end, said current and former security sources. The plan by newly elected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau seeks to complete in six weeks a process that can take up to two years in the United States, where last Friday's attacks in Paris have sparked a political backlash against plans to allow in 10,000 Syrians over the coming year. In Canada, which shares about 5,500 miles (8,850 km) of relatively porous border with the United States, Friday's attacks have prompted calls for Trudeau to push back the Jan. 1 deadline to ensure all the refugees are properly screened. |
| Blatter, Platini lose appeals against provisional FIFA bans | |  By Michael Shields ZURICH (Reuters) - Suspended FIFA president Sepp Blatter and European soccer chief Michel Platini have lost their appeals against provisional 90-days bans by the global soccer body's ethics committee, FIFA said on Wednesday. Blatter and Platini, who had been favourite to take over in February's FIFA presidential election, were suspended on Oct. 8, engulfed by a deepening corruption scandal as the sport faces criminal investigations in Switzerland and the United States. The decision by the FIFA Appeal Committee, which rejected the appeals "in full", was a further blow to Frenchman Platini's hopes of standing on Feb. 26.
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| Islamic State says two captives from Norway, China executed | | | Islamic State said in its magazine on Wednesday that it had killed a Chinese and a Norwegian captive, showing what appeared to be pictures of the dead men under a banner reading "executed." The Norwegian foreign ministry declined to comment on the claim. In September, Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg said a Norwegian man had been held hostage in Syria since January and was believed to be in the hands of Islamic State. Solberg did not name the man but said he was in his 40s and had been held by several groups since he was first captured. |
| 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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| Bundesliga clubs beef up security after attacks, bomb scare | | | By Karolos Grohmann BERLIN (Reuters) - Several German top-flight clubs are beefing up security ahead of Bundesliga matches later this week following the deadly attacks in Paris and a bomb scare that forced the cancellation of an international friendly between Germany and Netherlands on Tuesday. The World Cup-winning national team had to be hustled to safety for a second time in four days on Tuesday after also playing in Paris during Friday's attacks that killed at least 129 people. "We want to be clear that there are at the moment no specific indications that there is any danger for the game against Hanover 96 on Saturday," said Borussia Moenchengladbach CEO Stephan Schippers said in a statement. |
| Exclusive - Suspects had planned attack on Paris business district - sources | |  By Emmanuel Jarry PARIS (Reuters) - Suspected Islamist militants uncovered in a Paris suburb by police were planning an attack on the French capital's La Defense business district, a source close to the investigation and two police sources said on Wednesday. A woman suicide bomber blew herself up and another militant died when police raided the apartment in the St. Denis suburb as part of the investigation into last week's coordinated bombings and shootings. "The police forces were looking for terrorists who were preparing another attack on the basis of information from the (local) counter-terrorism services and overseas," said the source close to the investigation.
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| France had info suspect Abaaoud might have been at St Denis site - prosecutor | |  French authorities who ordered Wednesday's police raid on a building in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis had information that led them to believe the suspected mastermind of Friday's attacks might have been there, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said. "In the context of the inquiry we have had a lot of work done which allowed us to obtain, through telephony, surveillances and witness statements, elements that could allow us to think that Abaaoud might be in an conspirators' apartment in Saint Denis," he said. Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 27, was initially thought to have pulled the strings from Syria for the attacks that killed 129 people in Paris on Friday.
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| Fresh clashes in Kosovo over Serbia accord | |  Police fired tear gas at a crowd of around 150 people lobbing rocks, bottles and petrol bombs outside the government building in central Pristina. Hours earlier, bomb disposal experts detonated a hand grenade thrown near Kosovo's Constitutional Court, which has been asked to rule on a European Union-brokered accord with Serbia that the parliamentary opposition vehemently opposes. On Tuesday, opposition lawmakers fired tear gas and pepper spray in parliament and police clashed with rock-throwing protesters, the latest in months of violence over the accord.
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| Merkel says cancelling soccer match was 'responsible' decision | | | German Chancellor Angela Merkel defended the decision to cancel a soccer match between Germany and Netherlands on Tuesday evening due to security concerns, just four days after Islamist attacks in Paris killed at least 129 people. "I was just as sad as the millions of fans that the match was cancelled. |
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