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| Grim relief, mixed feelings in Britain over "Jihadi John" strike | | | By Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - News that the Islamic State militant known as "Jihadi John" may have died in a U.S. air strike brought relief mingled with grief and vengeful thoughts on Friday to the loved ones of the two British aid workers he killed on video. Emwazi was described as Islamic State's "lead executioner" by Prime Minister David Cameron, who praised the two British victims, Alan Henning and David Haines, as "the best of British". "After seeing the news that 'Jihadi John' was killed I felt an instant sense of relief, knowing he wouldn't appear in any more horrific videos," Bethany Haines, teenage daughter of David, told ITV News. |
| Suspected British associate of "Jihadi John" detained in Turkey - Turkish officials | | | A suspected associate of British Islamic State leader "Jihadi John" is being held by authorities in Turkey, two senior Turkish officials said on Friday, a day after the United States targeted the militant in an air strike in northern Syria. A man thought to be Aine Lesley Davis, one of a group of British Islamists believed to have been assigned to guard foreign prisoners in Syria, was detained in Istanbul, the officials said. British Prime Minister David Cameron said he could not yet confirm the death of Mohammed Emwazi, who was dubbed Jihadi John after appearing in videos showing the killings of U.S. and British hostages, and the Pentagon said it was still assessing the effectiveness of Thursday's strike. |
| 'NCIS' actress Pauley Perrette assaulted in Hollywood | |  By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pauley Perrette, an actress on the popular U.S. television show "NCIS," was attacked in Los Angeles by a homeless man who punched her repeatedly in the face and made her fear for her life, she said in a social media post. Perrette wrote that on Thursday night she was walking on the street near her home when the man grabbed her and struck her on the nose and forehead while threatening to kill her. "There was an empty garage behind me and I knew if he got me in there I was dead," Perrette wrote in an emotional account of the incident that she shared via Twitter.
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| U.S. reasonably certain British IS leader Jihadi John killed in Syria | |  By Idrees Ali and Mariam Karouny WASHINGTON/BEIRUT (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Friday it was "reasonably certain" a drone strike had killed Jihadi John, Islamic State's "lead executioner" and a symbol of the militant group's brutality. British Prime Minister David Cameron said he could not yet confirm the death of Mohammed Emwazi, who had become known as Jihadi John after appearing in videos showing the killings of U.S. and British hostages. "If this strike was successful -- and we still await confirmation of that -- it will be a strike at the heart of ISIL (Islamic State)," Cameron said in a statement broadcast live on British television from outside his London residence.
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| Palestinian gunman kills two Israelis in West Bank - army | |  A Palestinian gunman killed two Israelis in the southern West Bank on Friday, the military said, while in the nearby city of Hebron Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian involved in stone-throwing clashes, medics said. The gunman opened fire on a family travelling near the Jewish settlement of Otneil, which is close to Hebron, Israel medics and media reported. Israel's Channel 2 said a Palestinian vehicle overtook two Israeli cars on a main road and fired at the first, a people carrier, in which a man in his 40s and an 18-year-old youth, thought to be his son, were killed.
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| Lebanon PM holds emergency meeting as nation mourns bomb victims | |  By John Davison BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam held an emergency meeting with his security cabinet and military chiefs on Friday as the nation mourned 44 people killed in a double suicide bombing claimed by Islamic State. The blasts late on Thursday hit a residential and commercial area in a southern suburb of Beirut, a stronghold of Shi'ite Muslim group Hezbollah, in the latest spillover of violence from the war in neighbouring Syria. The first attacks in more than a year on a Hezbollah bastion inside Lebanon came at time when the group is stepping up its involvement in Syria's civil war, now in its fifth year.
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| World leaders laud Myanmar election as Suu Kyi secures majority | |  By Antoni Slodkowski YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party on Friday clinched enough seats in parliament to elect a president and form a government when incoming lawmakers convene next year. Results from the country's election commission confirmed the thumping victory that Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) had claimed after the first free nationwide election in 25 years on Sunday. The confirmation came five years to the day since the junta released Suu Kyi from house arrest.
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| Marion Le Pen, heiress to France's far-right in quest for power | |  By Ingrid Melander CARPENTRAS, France (Reuters) - A huge 1990s election poster of Marion Marechal-Le Pen as a blonde toddler with her grandfather, founder of France's far-right National Front party, greets visitors at her campaign headquarters. Now a 25-year-old rising political star and France's youngest lawmaker, she wants to win a December local election in southern France, to put the anti-immigration, anti-Europe party started by the maverick Jean-Marie Le Pen on a firmer footing for the 2017 presidential vote. Like her aunt, National Front (FN) leader Marine Le Pen, she hopes to bring the party into the mainstream, distancing it from the patriarch's shock tactics, including comments playing down the Holocaust that Marine expelled him for this summer.
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| Spanish football chief fined over conduct during FIFA investigation | |  By Brian Homewood BERNE (Reuters) - FIFA's ethics committee said on Friday it had fined and warned Spanish football chief and veteran FIFA official Angel Maria Villar over his conduct during its investigation into the contest to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. The Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) said Villar had been penalised for a late reply to correspondence and for using the phrase "My God, you've got balls" during an interview with Michael Garcia, FIFA's chief investigator into the World Cup bids. Villar himself, who was on a committee pushing Spain and Portugal's joint bid to host the 2018 tournament, said a phrase he had used at the time had been misunderstood and insisted his conduct had never been "unruly".
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| BJP frets over growing dissent against Modi | |  By Rupam Jain Nair and Andrew MacAskill NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Senior leaders from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are growing uneasy about an internal rebellion against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership style, which has punctured his aura of invincibility and threatens to weaken him further. One is a revolt among a handful of senior members of his nationalist BJP, the first time allies have openly questioned the direction of a leader who captured power to a degree last seen when Indira Gandhi ruled India with a firm hand.A cabinet minister and two BJP leaders told Reuters they agreed with comments made by party elders earlier this week questioning Modi's stewardship, after a second straight regional election setback. Tuesday's statement by four party elders zeroed in on the centralised leadership style of Modi.
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