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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 woman 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 by evening it was still unclear if 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 had 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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| UK peers back lowering EU referendum voting age to 16 | | | By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - The British parliament's unelected upper house backed on Wednesday lowering the voting age to 16 in a planned referendum on Britain's continued membership of the European Union, a move that could delay the timing of the crucial vote. Britons can usually vote from the age of 18, but 16- and 17-year-olds were allowed to vote in last year's Scottish independence referendum, prompting calls for a similar lowering of the threshold for the EU referendum that Prime Minister David Cameron has promised to hold by the end of 2017. "Young people are the future of this nation, this is their one chance to have a say in this country's relationship with the European Union," said Labour peer Eluned Morgan, one of those who proposed the change. |
| France bans massive marches planned during Paris climate talks | | | France will not allow planned marches to go ahead on Nov. 29 and Dec. 12 during international climate talks in Paris because of security concerns, the government said on Wednesday. "In order to avoid additional risks, the government has decided not to authorise climate marches planned in public places in Paris and other French cities on Nov. 29 and Dec. 12," the statement said. Environmental activists have hoped the marches would attract perhaps 200,000 people to put pressure on governments to cut greenhouse gas emissions. |
| FIFA candidate Sexwale wants shirt sponsors for national teams | |  By Simon Evans ZURICH (Reuters) - FIFA presidential candidate Tokyo Sexwale says he wants national teams to be able to wear sponsors' names on their shirts at an expanded World Cup tournament. South African Sexwale, a prisoner under apartheid who became a politician and businessman, unveiled his election manifesto on Wednesday as he bids to replace Sepp Blatter at the helm of world football's governing body in the Feb. 26 vote. Sexwale said the current crisis at FIFA, which faces investigations from the U.S. Department of Justice and Swiss authorities and was hit by the indictment of 14 soccer officials and sports marketing executives in May, can be "utilised to turn things around and renew FIFA".
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| Prince Ali confident he can win open FIFA election | |  By Mike Collett LONDON (Reuters) - The Jordanian prince beaten in May's FIFA presidential election says he can win the race to become president next February because the old order which led world soccer's governing body into crisis is being swept away. Prince Ali Bin Al-Hussein of Jordan is one of five men seeking to replace Sepp Blatter in February's special elective vote. "I am confident that I can win the election because I believe I have the best ideas for what the future of FIFA should be and I have full faith and confidence in our national associations.
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| Presidential candidate Bush wants increased U.S. presence on ground in Iraq | | | By Steve Holland CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush called for an increased U.S. troop presence on the ground in Iraq as part of a global coalition to take on Islamic State militants, shifting to a more hawkish stance in response to the Paris attacks. Bush's decision, which will inevitably lead to comparisons to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq ordered by his brother, former President George W. Bush, was reached after the attacks in Paris, where 129 people were killed by gunfire and bombs. |
| Islamic State attack on 'Crusader France' also killed Muslims | |  By Tom Heneghan PARIS (Reuters) - Among the dead in last week's Paris attacks were two sisters celebrating a birthday, a promising architect, a talented musician and a woman shot while out doing some late shopping. What they had in common was that they were Muslims killed in the random slaughter carried out by Islamic State. Most victims of violence by Islamic State and other jihadist groups are Muslims, since they fight mostly in majority Muslim countries and often attack less radical Islamic communities such as Shi'ites and Sufis that they consider to be heretics.
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| Sweden raises threat level, citing "concrete information" | |  By Johan Ahlander and Anna Ringstrom STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's security police raised on Wednesday their terrorist threat assessment by one step, to four on a scale of five, issuing an arrest warrant for one person and saying there was "concrete information" of a possible attack in Sweden days after the Paris killing spree. Security police (SAPO) chief Anders Thornberg said one arrest had been made "in absentia" for terrorism crimes for an unnamed suspect. Swedish police said they had increased their presence in "strategic and public places", including foreign embassies, following the raising of the threat assessment level.
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| Suicide bombers kill at least 12 and injure dozens in Nigerian city of Kano | | | Two female suicide bombers blew themselves up at a mobile phone market in the northern Nigerian city of Kano on Wednesday, killing at least 12 people and wounding around 60 others, a Red Cross official and police said. The explosions occurred around 4 p.m. (1500 GMT) at the Farm Centre phone market, near the centre of Nigeria's second biggest city, and come the day after a blast in the northeastern city of Yola killed 32 people and wounded 80 others. The attacks bear the hallmarks of Boko Haram, suggesting that the militant Islamist group, which has killed thousands over the last six years in its bid to create a state adhering to strict Sharia or Islamic law in the northeast, is stepping up its operations. |
| Suspected architect of Paris attacks dead - Washington Post | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Suspected architect of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, is dead, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing two intelligence officials. The Post did not provide details, including the intelligence officials' nationalities, and Reuters could not immediately confirm the report. (Reporting by Lisa Lambert; Editing by Mohammad Zargham)
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| Riots in Kosovo deepen crisis over Serbia accord | |  By Fatos Bytyci PRISTINA (Reuters) - Riots erupted in Kosovo on Wednesday in a deepening crisis over relations with former ruler Serbia, with protesters setting fire to garbage containers and government vehicles in the capital Pristina. A hardcore of several hundred protesters fought running battles with police, who used tear gas and armoured vehicles to try to disperse them. ...
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| California rock band returns home, suspends all shows, after Paris attack | |  By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - 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, and three executives from the band's parent record label, Universal Music Group, were 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 on the Bataclan concert hall in Paris while the band was playing there.
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| Suspects had planned attack on Paris business district - sources | |  By Emmanuel Jarry PARIS (Reuters) - Suspected Islamist militants flushed out of a Paris suburb by police in a shootout on Wednesday were planning to attack the French capital's La Defense business district, three sources told Reuters. A source close to the investigation source said the attack was being prepared for Thursday in the district that is home to some of France's biggest companies such as the oil major Total and the main trading room of Societe Generale bank. Several police sources said the targets were the Quatre Temps shopping centre and the main square of the district of high-rise office buildings on the western edge of Paris.
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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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| 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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| 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. "The trip is confirmed. ...
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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. |
| Islamic State says two captives from Norway, China executed | | | CAIRO (Reuters) - 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. She said Norway did not intend to pay a ransom for his release. ... |
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