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| Anonymous hackers declare war on Islamic State after Paris attacks | |  The Anonymous hackers collective is preparing to unleash waves of cyberattacks on Islamic State following the attacks in Paris last week that killed 129 people, it said in a video posted online. A man wearing a Guy Fawkes mask said the Islamic State militants who claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks were "vermin" and Anonymous would hunt them down. Expect many cyberattacks.
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| French police make arrests, seize arms and drugs in overnight raids | |  French police made 23 arrests and seized assault rifles and drugs in a nationwide overnight sweep on suspected Islamist militants following Friday's attacks, the government said. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said 168 homes were raided in France's major cities and elsewhere, and 104 people had been put under house arrest in the last 48 hours. Police seized 31 firearms as well as computer hard drives and telephones, and illegal drugs were found in 18 of the raids, Cazeneuve told journalists.
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| Belgian national Abaaoud could be commander of Paris attacks - source | |  A Belgian national currently in Syria and believed to be one of Islamic State's most active operators is suspected of being behind Friday's attacks in Paris, acccording to a source close to the French investigation. "He appears to be the brains behind several planned attacks in Europe," the source told Reuters of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, adding he was investigators' best lead as the person likely behind the killing of at least 129 people in Paris on Friday. According to RTL Radio, Abaaoud is a 27 year-old from the Molenbeek suburb of Brussels, home to other members of the militant Islamist cell that carried out the attacks.
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| FIFA ethics committee bans executives from Nepal, Laos | | | World soccer body FIFA announced on Monday it had banned two officials from Nepal and Laos for taking cash during FIFA elections, extending moves to root out corruption that has shaken the international game. Ganesh Thapa, president of the All-Nepal Football Association (ANFA), was banned for 10 years and fined 20,000 Swiss francs ($19,870), while Viphet Sihachakr, president of the Laotian Football Federation, received a two-year ban and 40,000 franc fine. FIFA was thrown into turmoil in May by U.S. indictments of 14 football officials, including two FIFA vice-presidents and sports marketing executives, for alleged corruption. |
| France police raid homes, vow it's "just the beginning" | |  By Chine Labbé and Crispian Balmer PARIS (Reuters) - Police raided homes of suspected Islamist militants across France overnight following the Paris attacks, and a source close to the investigation said a Belgian national in Syria was suspected of orchestrating Friday's mayhem. Prosecutors said one of the killers had been stopped and fingerprinted in Greece last month, fuelling speculation the Islamic State had taken advantage of the recent influx of refugees fleeing the Middle East to slip militants into Europe. The Paris carnage, which killed 129 people, has led to calls for the European Union to close its borders to asylum seekers.
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| GDP to exceed 7.3 pct this fiscal year - Jaitley | |  By Manoj Kumar DUBAI (Reuters) - India's economic growth is expected to exceed 7.3 percent in the current fiscal year and the government will try to convince opposition parties to pass a blocked tax reform, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Monday. "The Indian economy is expected to grow better than 7.3 percent - the level achieved last fiscal year - and even at a higher level next year," Jaitley told investors at an Arab-India Economic Forum meeting in Dubai. Economic growth, Jaitley said, will come despite weakness in rural demand due to poor rainfall in the last two years.
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| Turkey says notified France twice about Paris attacker - senior official | |  By Orhan Coskun and Humeyra Pamuk BELEK, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkey notified France twice in December 2014 and June 2015 about one of the attackers in suicide bombings and shootings in Paris that killed more than 130 people, a senior Turkish government official said on Monday. Turkey only received an information request from France about Ismael Omar Mostefai after Friday's attacks, the Turkish official said. Mostefai entered Turkey in 2013 but there was no record of him leaving again, the official said.
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| French police make 23 arrests in series of raids over attacks | |  PARIS (Reuters) - French police have arrested 23 people and seized arms including rocket launchers during wave of overnight raids as part of an investigation into the attacks on Paris, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Monday. Over the last 48 hours, 104 people were put under house arrest and police conducted 168 raids last night, Cazeneuve told journalists. "Let this be clear to everyone, this is just the beginning, these actions are going to continue," Cazeneuve said. (Reporting by Leigh Thomas; editing by Geert De Clercq)
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| Fingerprints from Paris bomber match man registered in Greece - prosecutor | |  Fingerprints from one of the suicide bombers behind the attacks at the Stade de France in Paris matched the prints of a man registered in Greece in October, a French prosecutor said on Monday. "At this stage, while the authenticity of a passport in the name of Ahmad al Mohammad, born Sept. 10 1990 in Idlib, Syria needs to be verified, there are similarities between the fingerprints of the suicide bomber and those taken during a control in Greece in October," the Paris prosecutor said in a statement. The prosecutor named him as 28-year old Samy Ammour from Drancy, north of Paris and said he was known to counter-terrorism units after being placed under investigation and judicial control for attempting to go to Yemen.
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| Paris attacks have no bearing on 2024 bid - IOC chief | |  The deadly attacks on Paris will not hurt the French capital's chances of hosting the 2024 Summer Games, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach said on Monday. The host city of the 2024 Games will be designated in 2017 but Bach believes the atrocity that struck Paris, announced as one of five candidate cities in September, will have no bearing on the outcome of the IOC vote. "We are talking about the Olympic Games that will be held in nine years and terrorism is global, it is not just about a country or a city," Bach told French sports daily L'Equipe.
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| Nakhid appeals ban from FIFA presidential race | |  By Brian Homewood BERNE (Reuters) - Former Trinidad and Tobago international David Nakhid has appealed to global sport's highest tribunal over a decision to bar him from the race for the presidency of soccer's scandal-plagued governing body FIFA. Under FIFA's electoral rules, Nakhid needed written backing from five national football associations to be eligible for the Feb. 26 election to replace Sepp Blatter. On Monday, the Swiss-based Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) said Nakhid had appealed to it against the ruling.
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| Myanmar's persecuted Rohingya see glimmer of hope in Suu Kyi victory | |  By Timothy Mclaughlin SITTWE, Myanmar (Reuters) - Noor Bagum would have liked to have voted for Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) but, like the majority of Myanmar's persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority, she took no part in the historic election the Nobel laureate won by a landslide. Stripped of their right to cast ballots by the current government, many Rohingya now hope that, with the NLD able to rule largely on its own, a Suu Kyi-led government will work to restore their lives and many of the rights they have lost. "I hope that things will get a little bit better," said Noor Bagum, a 28-year-old mother-of-five, whose village was destroyed during violence between Buddhists and Muslims that swept through Myanmar's western Rakhine State in 2012.
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| Myanmar parliament chief asks losing lawmakers to play fair | |  By Hnin Yadana Zaw and Antoni Slodkowski NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (Reuters) - Myanmar's parliament chairman on Monday urged lawmakers from the ruling party thrashed at the polls to play fair in the outgoing legislature's remaining debates, which could determine the budget a new opposition-led government will inherit next year. The National League for Democracy (NLD) won an outright majority in the Nov. 8 election and its leader Aung San Suu Kyi met reformist house speaker Shwe Mann on Sunday to ask for help in a drawn-out transition expected to be concluded in late March. Former junta heavyweight Shwe Mann has become an unlikely ally for Suu Kyi, and the loss of his seat and signs of estrangement from the army and his ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) have left his political future uncertain.
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| French PM warns of more attacks as police raid suspected Islamist homes | |  French police raided homes of suspected Islamist militants across the country overnight in the aftermath of the Paris shootings, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Monday as he warned of potential further attacks. Valls said that since this summer, French intelligence services had prevented five attacks. "We know that more attacks are being prepared, not just against France but also against other European countries," Valls said on RTL radio.
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| Farmer sues Pakistan's government to demand action on climate change | |  By Anam Gill LAHORE, Pakistan (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Asghar Leghari had had enough. The farmer was tired of watching his family fight against the unpredictable weather that threatened their crops in Rahim Yar Khan District, in Pakistan's South Punjab region. In August, Leghari, 25, filed a petition with the Lahore High Court claiming that the government of Pakistan was violating his fundamental rights by neglecting to tackle the impacts of climate change.
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| Bahrain jails 12 convicted bombers for life, revokes citizenship | | | A Bahraini criminal court sentenced 12 people for life and revoked their citizenship after finding them guilty of carrying out bomb attacks on police, a senior judicial official said in a statement late on Sunday. Evidence showed that the defendants, tried at the High Criminal Court, were "directly linked" to six bombings carried out between 2013 and 2014, advocate general Ahmed Al-Hammadi said in a statement carried by Bahrain News Agency. The official said formal charges were made against the defendants after evidence gathered including fingerprints, "which directly matched five of the suspects to explosives and bomb-making materials found in a house in Saar," the statement said. |
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