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| Islamic State makes Telegram messaging app a major marketing tool | | Thursday, November 19, 2015 12:07 AM | |
|  The mobile messaging service Telegram, created by the exiled founder of Russia's most popular social network site, has emerged as an important new promotional and recruitment platform for Islamic State. A new feature of Telegram that was introduced in September has become the preferred method for Islamic State to broadcast news and share videos of military victories or sermons, according to security researchers. The group used Telegram to claim responsibility for the Paris attacks, which left 129 people dead, and the bombing of a Russian airliner over Egypt last month, which killed 224.
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| Suicide bombers in Nigerian city of Kano kill at least 14, wound over 100 | |  By Nnekule Ikemfuna KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) - Two female suicide bombers blew themselves up at a mobile phone market in the northern Nigerian city of Kano on Wednesday, killing at least 14 people and wounding more than 100 others, the country's emergency response agency said. The explosions occurred around 4 p.m. local time (1500 GMT) at the Farm Centre phone market, near the centre of Nigeria's second biggest city, and come a 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.
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| Bullets, bombs and body parts fly in violent French raid | | | By Crispian Balmer PARIS (Reuters) - French police commandos fired more than 5,000 shots into an apartment near Paris on Wednesday during a raid against a heavily armed jihadist group that lasted seven hours and turned the area into a war zone. The fighting was so intense that not only were the police unable to identify the bodies of the militants after they had finally entered the apartment, but they could not even determine whether two or three people had died during the assault. With forensic experts still scouring the building in the St. Denis suburb north of the capital, the Paris chief prosecutor and the police chief who leads the crack RAID commandos spoke of a complex operation that ran into problems from the word 'go'. |
| 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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| Sweden raises terrorism threat level, hunts for suspect | |  By Johan Ahlander and Anna Ringstrom STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's security police raised their terrorist threat assessment to its highest ever level on Wednesday, saying they were hunting a suspect and had "concrete information" of a possible attack only 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. "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.
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| U.N. committee rebukes Myanmar over treatment of Muslim minority | |  By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations General Assembly's human rights committee on Wednesday criticized Myanmar for its treatment of the nation's Muslim minority and urged the Southeast Asian country to change its citizenship rules to make Rohingya full citizens. Although many have lived in Myanmar for generations, the Rohingya minority in the country also known as Burma is not one of the 135 ethnic groups recognised under the country's 1982 citizenship law and are thus entitled to only limited rights. The non-binding draft resolution, co-sponsored by European nations, the United States and other Western states, was adopted by consensus during a meeting of the 193-nation assembly's Third Committee, which focuses on human rights.
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| Stranded at Nicaragua border, Cuban migrants' American dream in peril | |  By Dave Graham PENAS BLANCAS, Costa Rica (Reuters) - In the week Cuban migrant Lenin Rivacoba has slept rough on Costa Rica's border with Nicaragua, he was briefly blinded by tear gas, lost hearing in one ear and is now almost out of money. "It's get there, or die," said Rivacoba, a 30-year-old teacher and father of two whose grandmother sold her house for $5,000 to pay for his passage to the United States.
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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 fight Islamic State militants, shifting to a more hawkish stance in response to the Paris attacks. Bush's decision, which will inevitably lead to comparisons with the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq ordered by his brother, then-President George W. Bush, was reached after the attacks in Paris, where 129 people were killed by gunfire and bombs. |
| Chile football chief resigns, heads to U.S. to meet FBI - media | |  By Anthony Esposito SANTIAGO (Reuters) - The president of Chile's ANFP national football association Sergio Jadue has resigned from his post and gone to the United States to talk to the FBI about corruption at soccer governing body FIFA, local media reported on Wednesday. Chile's investigative police had served Jadue a subpoena on Friday, hours after he announced he would take a 30-day leave for medical reasons, as part of what the ANFP said was an investigation into how it allocates salaries. The ANFP said Wednesday evening that it had accepted Jadue's resignation as president of the association.
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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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| 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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