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- Man arrested in student shooting caught on video in New Orleans
- Reputed gang member gets life in prison for New York mother's murder
- Indiana teenager charged with planning to blow up high school
- California city to pay $4.9 million over fatal beating of homeless man
- Brussels stays on top alert as manhunt goes on
- France finds explosive belt, detects Paris suspect's phone
- Suspected explosive belt found south of Paris
- Chicago mayor, community leaders to discuss police shooting video
- EU, Turkey leaders to meet on migration on Nov. 29
- Turkish police, pro-Kurdish party at odds over alleged attack on leader
- French jets strike Islamic State as Britain offers help
- U.N. urges deployment of more peacekeepers to South Sudan
- New York prepares for Thanksgiving parade as Islamic State threat looms
- White House - European partners should improve information sharing
- Belgium keeps highest security alert, schools, metro to reopen on Wednesday
- Insight - 'Rambo' appeal, not the mosque, lures Brussels youths to IS
- U2 sets December dates for Paris concerts postponed by attacks
- Pair charged in Wal-Mart killing targeted women across U.S. South
- Suspected Paris attacker Abdeslam was in Italy in August
- Mali state TV shows photos of "authors" of hotel attack
- Kerry calls for calm as Palestinian attacks on Israelis surge
- Police seek motive after 17 hurt in New Orleans park shooting
- U.S. to sanction four in Burundi over violence
- Italy expels four Moroccan suspected jihadists
- Brussels security lockdown hurts tourism, business
- Blatter, Platini face December ruling from ethics judges
- French jets strike IS targets in Iraq from Charles de Gaulle warship
- Somali pirates hijack Iranian fishing vessel with 15 crew, says official
- UK wife who poisoned husband is foiled by spelling mistake
- Factbox: Security alert levels in Europe
- Poland to seek review of EU refugee deal after Paris attacks
- Egypt's remaining Islamist party cries foul as it flops in election
- Armed vigilantes in Burundi's capital expose deepening crisis
- Spain arrests man accused of recruiting inmates for Islamic State
- OSCE urges Vatican to withdraw charges against journalists
| Man arrested in student shooting caught on video in New Orleans | | | By Kathy Finn NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - A man suspected in the shooting of a Tulane University medical student that was recorded on video was captured on Monday after a manhunt, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said. Euric Cain, 21, has been charged with first-degree attempted murder and second-degree kidnapping and armed robbery after police said he shot a student who intervened when he saw the suspect dragging a woman to his sports utility vehicle early on Friday. Peter Gold, 25, a fourth-year medical student at Tulane, remained hospitalized in a "guarded condition" on Monday, according to his family, meaning that the outcome is still uncertain. |
| Reputed gang member gets life in prison for New York mother's murder | | | An accused gang member was sentenced to life in prison on Monday for his role in the 2010 killing of his girlfriend and her toddler son on New York's Long Island, federal authorities said. Juan Elias "Cruzito" Garcia, 22, a reputed member of the murderous international gang known as MS-13, was convicted in March 2013 of murdering Vanessa Argueta, 19, and her son, Diego Torres, 2, the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York said in a press release. Garcia and fellow gang members plotted the killing because they believed the young mother had disrespected the gang by sending rivals to attack Garcia, prosecutors said. |
| Indiana teenager charged with planning to blow up high school | | | (Reuters) - A central Indiana teenager was charged on Monday with plotting to blow up his high school with several pipe bombs that he planned to construct at his home, according to a local prosecutor. Jahnathan Dooley, 18, faces charges of possession of a destructive device and intimidation, after investigators found bomb-making materials in his bedroom in Mooresville, Indiana, about 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Indianapolis, according to a probable cause document filed in Morgan County Circuit Court. Authorities began investigating the possible plot after a counsellor at Mooresville High School told police that Dooley threatened to blow up the building because he was upset with recently being kicked out of school for making sexual advances towards another student, according to the document. |
| California city to pay $4.9 million over fatal beating of homeless man | | | By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The city of Fullerton, California agreed on Monday to pay $4.9 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the father of a homeless man beaten to death by two then-policemen, an incident that sparked protests in the Los Angeles suburb, the plaintiff's attorney said. The settlement was reached on the same day that trial was scheduled to begin in the wrongful death action filed by Ron Thomas against the city, police department and two ex-officers over the beating of his 37-year-old son, Kelly Thomas, in July 2011. Fullerton City Attorney Richard Jones said in a written statement that the final settlement amount was still pending final approval by insurers and that no taxpayer funds were involved in the agreement. |
| Brussels stays on top alert as manhunt goes on | |  By Philip Blenkinsop and Alastair Macdonald BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium extended a maximum security alert in Brussels for a week on Monday as a manhunt went on for Islamic State suspects in the Paris attacks, but the usually bustling city's metro and schools could reopen from Wednesday. The threat of Paris-style attacks on crowds and gatherings remained imminent, Prime Minister Charles Michel told a news conference after a near four-hour meeting with security advisers. "The threat is the same as yesterday," said Michel, who on Saturday raised the alert level to the highest of four grades.
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| France finds explosive belt, detects Paris suspect's phone | |  By Chine Labbé and Gabriela Baczynska PARIS/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A suspected explosive belt was found dumped near Paris on Monday and the mobile phone of a fugitive believed to have taken part in the attacks on Nov. 13 was detected in two locations in the city, a source close to the investigation said. France and Belgium have launched a manhunt following the attacks that killed 130 people, with a focus on Brussels barkeeper Salah Abdeslam, 26, who returned to the city from Paris hours after the attacks and is still at large. Abdeslam's mobile phone was detected after the attacks in the 18th district in the north of Paris, near an abandoned car that he had rented, and then later in Chatillon in the south, the source said on Monday.
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| Suspected explosive belt found south of Paris | |  An object believed to be an explosive belt was found on Monday in a town south of Paris, near where a phone used by suspected assailant Salah Abdeslam was detected on the night of the attacks, a source close to the investigation said. Abdeslam, whose brother blew himself up in the Paris attacks, has been on the run since the assault that killed 130 people in the French capital on Nov. 13 and is the focus of a massive manhunt. French investigators initially believed Abdeslam had been in a black Seat Leon car that was used in the shootings at restaurants and cafes in the 10th and 11th districts of the capital.
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| Chicago mayor, community leaders to discuss police shooting video | |  By Fiona Ortiz CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel was scheduled to meet on Monday with community and religious leaders to prepare them for the release of a disturbing video of an October 2014 fatal police shooting of a black teenager. The city has until Wednesday to release the video from a police patrol car dashboard camera, on a judicial order stemming from a lawsuit brought by a freelance journalist. The video shows Laquan McDonald, 17, being shot 16 times on Oct. 20 last year by police officer Jason Van Dyke, who is white.
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| EU, Turkey leaders to meet on migration on Nov. 29 | |  European Union and Turkish leaders will meet in Brussels on Sunday to discuss migration issues and improving relations between the EU and Ankara, the chairman of the summit Donald Tusk said on Twitter on Monday. The EU badly needs Turkey's cooperation to stem the flow of migrants to the 28-nation bloc as wars in Syria, Iraq and Africa have triggered a flood of an estimated 1 million refugees seeking a safer and better life in the rich EU only this year. Purpose: Re-energise our relations & stem migration flow," Tusk said.
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| Turkish police, pro-Kurdish party at odds over alleged attack on leader | |  By Seyhmus Cakan DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Pro-Kurdish opposition leader Selahattin Demirtas asked Turkish prosecutors on Monday to investigate what he described as an assassination attempt on him, and his party rejected a police statement asserting damage to his car was not caused by gunfire. Demirtas filed a criminal complaint with the state prosecutor in the city of Diyarbakir, asking it to investigate the alleged attempt on his life on Sunday when the car he was riding in was fired upon, according to a copy of the filing e-mailed by his Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP). "According to intelligence, as well as information that has reached police, there is concrete information that different groups were preparing an assassination," Demirtas, 42, told the DIHA news agency.
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| French jets strike Islamic State as Britain offers help | |  By Leigh Thomas PARIS (Reuters) - French jets from the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier struck Islamic State targets in Iraq on Monday while Britain offered France the use of an air base in Cyprus to hit the militants behind the Paris attacks. French President Francois Hollande met British Prime Minister David Cameron in Paris on Monday as part of efforts to rally support for the fight against Islamic State and Hollande is also due to visit Washington and Moscow this week.
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| U.N. urges deployment of more peacekeepers to South Sudan | |  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - South Sudan is at risk of sinking into a cycle of revenge killings on a large scale, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said as he recommended an extra 1,100 peacekeepers be deployed to the world's youngest nation. In a Nov. 20 report to the U.N. Security Council on the world body's peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, seen by Reuters on Monday, Ban questioned the commitment by the warring parties to a peace deal signed in August.
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| New York prepares for Thanksgiving parade as Islamic State threat looms | |  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - David Huddle and his daughter Megan, a flute player for the North Hardin High School marching band in Kentucky, have been preparing for more than a year for the band's performance in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York. "The main goal of a terrorist attack is to create terror," David Huddle said in a phone interview. You can't dwell on it or you'll never be happy." Millions of New Yorkers and tourists are expected to line the streets on Thursday for the parade, more than a week after Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, released a video showing images of New York juxtaposed with a scene depicting a suicide bomber preparing for an attack.
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| White House - European partners should improve information sharing | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Monday that the United States is committed to helping with the Belgian investigation into Islamic State militants after the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris. The White House said it believes there is more that its European partners can do to improve the quality and quantity of information they share with each other, and with the United States, White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters at a briefing. (Reporting by Roberta Rampton, Julia Edwards and Doina Chiacu; Editing by Susan Heavey) |
| Belgium keeps highest security alert, schools, metro to reopen on Wednesday | |  Belgium maintained the highest security alert for Brussels on Monday with the metro system and schools to re-open only on Wednesday after authorities said there was an imminent threat of a Paris-style attack in the Belgian capital. The alert level for Brussels would remain at the highest level four while in the rest of the country it would stay at three. "We are still confronted with the threat we were facing yesterday," Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel told a news conference.
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| Insight - 'Rambo' appeal, not the mosque, lures Brussels youths to IS | |  By Alissa de Carbonnel BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Khalid Ben Larbi lived a hedonistic lifestyle similar to other European youths and rarely went to the mosque in Molenbeek, the mainly Muslim Moroccan immigrant area where he and three of the suspected Paris attackers grew up in Brussels. It was the same inner-city disenchantment that leads other youths to drugs and crime, not the preachings of a radical imam, that neighbours, local social workers and imams say changed Ben Larbi from raucous adolescent to Islamic State foot soldier, drawn by the promise of adventure and glory. The families in Molenbeek and other areas are often shocked to discover their children have been recruited by a mix of back street preachers, social media and a growing network of hometown jihadists spreading tales of derring-do in Syria.
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| U2 sets December dates for Paris concerts postponed by attacks | |  (Reuters) - Irish rock band U2 set early December dates for concerts in Paris on Monday, after cancelling two earlier performances following the attacks by Islamic State militants that took 130 lives. U2 said they hoped to reflect the indomitable spirit of the city with their "iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE LIVE IN PARIS" special, which will be filmed live and broadcast by cable TV channel HBO. The band was originally scheduled to perform in Paris on Nov. 14 and Nov. 15, immediately after the Nov. 13 attacks on bars, restaurants, a football stadium and the Bataclan concert hall.
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| Pair charged in Wal-Mart killing targeted women across U.S. South | | | By David Beasley ATLANTA (Reuters) - A man and woman facing murder charges for running over a 65-year-old woman outside a Wal-Mart in suburban Atlanta are suspected in 10 purse snatchings and a kidnapping in parking lots in five Southern states, authorities said on Monday. Brandon Shawn Smith, 27, and Stephanie Marie Rodriguez, 37, were arrested during the weekend in central Tennessee, according to police in Covington, Georgia, where the Wal-Mart death occurred. Authorities say Smith and Rodriguez may have been involved in at least 10 purse snatchings and one kidnapping in recent weeks in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Florida. |
| Suspected Paris attacker Abdeslam was in Italy in August | |  Suspected Paris attacker Salah Abdeslam travelled through Italy in August with a companion, but his presence caused no alarm because he was not a wanted man at the time, an investigative source said on Monday. Separately, prosecutors in the southern Italian city of Bari have opened an investigation into suspected Islamist militants who passed through the port on about five different occasions between February and August on their way to Greece, another investigative source said. This investigation has no apparent connection to the Paris attacks, the source said.
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| Mali state TV shows photos of "authors" of hotel attack | |  By Tiemoko Diallo BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali state television showed images on Monday of two men, apparently dead, that it said were the "authors" of an attack by Islamist militants on a luxury hotel in the capital Bamako and appealed for information as to their identity. Jihadist group Al Mourabitoun and al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) declared they had carried out the attack in a joint operation against the hotel, a favourite of foreign businessmen and diplomats. The pictures on state television were of two young black men, one of them lying on a metal gurney, a trickle of blood running from beneath his left shoulder.
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| Kerry calls for calm as Palestinian attacks on Israelis surge | |  By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A Palestinian knifed an Israeli soldier to death in the occupied West Bank on Monday and in Jerusalem two Palestinian girls stabbed an elderly man with scissors before a policeman shot them both, killing one, attacks that stirred U.S. consternation. In a day of rapidly unfolding violence, the latest in an eight-week wave of stabbings, shootings and car rammings, a Palestinian was also shot dead near the West Bank city of Nablus after he approached Israeli troops with a knife, the army said. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, scheduled to meet on Tuesday with Israeli and Palestinian leaders at loggerheads since their peace negotiations under his auspices stalled in April 2014, sounded circumspect about his latest mission.
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| Police seek motive after 17 hurt in New Orleans park shooting | | | By Kathy Finn NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Police in New Orleans searched on Monday for a motive and suspect or suspects in a shooting that wounded 17 people in a crowd of several hundred who had gathered for a weekend block party and music video filming. It was too soon to say whether there were multiple gunmen who opened fire Sunday evening at a playground in the city's Upper 9th Ward, said New Orleans Police Department spokesman Frank Robertson. The initial 16 people reported as injured suffered either a "direct gunshot wound" or a "graze wound" and had all been listed in stable condition. |
| U.S. to sanction four in Burundi over violence | | | The United States will sanction four current and former Burundi government officials, including the minister of public security, over ongoing violence in the country, the White House said on Monday. The White House said it has received multiple reports of targeted killings, arbitrary arrests, torture and political repression by security forces in Burundi. The White House said Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza's pursuit of a third term in office has precipitated the crisis. |
| Italy expels four Moroccan suspected jihadists | | | Italy said on Monday it is expelling four Bologna-based Moroccans suspected of promoting jihadism, days after raising its security alert level following the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris. Interior Minister Angelino Alfano signed expulsion warrants for the four, who he said had been under surveillance for some time. Countries across Europe have ramped up security after the attacks in Paris, which killed 130 - France's worst civilian death toll since World War Two. |
| Brussels security lockdown hurts tourism, business | |  By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) - At the end of what usually is a busy lunchtime with customers from nearby offices flocking to his leather goods store in one of Brussels' main shopping streets, manager Karen Arkelyan planned to close early on Monday. Some tourists, especially from the United States, were calling off visits planned as long ago as February, he said.
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| Blatter, Platini face December ruling from ethics judges | |  FIFA's ethics judges said on Monday they were aiming to decide the fate of suspended president Sepp Blatter and the man who hopes to succeed him, Michel Platini, by the end of December, following an investigation into graft allegations. The pair were provisionally banned for 90 days by FIFA on October 8, pending the full investigation by FIFA's Ethics investigators which concluded on Friday.
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| French jets strike IS targets in Iraq from Charles de Gaulle warship | | | French jets struck Islamic State targets in Iraq on Monday, taking off from the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier for the first time, the military said on Twitter on Monday. France's defence minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, had told Europe 1 radio on Sunday the flagship of the French Navy, deployed to the eastern Mediterranean to back France's involvement in air strikes in Iraq and Syria, would be fully operational from Monday. French President Francois Hollande also said last week France would step up its attacks against Islamic State targets in Syria. |
| Somali pirates hijack Iranian fishing vessel with 15 crew, says official | | | By Abdiqani Hassan BOSASSO, Somalia (Reuters) - Somali pirates have hijacked an Iranian fishing vessel with 15 crew members, a Somali official and a maritime expert said on Monday amid warnings that piracy might be making a comeback in the Indian Ocean. Although there are still occasional cases of sea attacks, piracy near Somalia's coast had largely subsided in the past three years, mainly due to shipping firms hiring private security details and the presence of international warships. The Iranian ship was taken on Sunday evening in waters off northern Somali city of Eyl, said Abdirizak Mohamed Dirir, director of the anti-piracy and seaport ministry in Puntland, a semi-autonomous region in Somalia. |
| UK wife who poisoned husband is foiled by spelling mistake | | | A British woman who tried to kill her husband by poisoning his Christmas drink of sparkling fruit wine with anti-freeze was jailed for 15 years on Monday after being undone by a spelling mistake and a trail of text messages. Following family arguments, Jacqueline Patrick, 55, twice tried to kill her husband Douglas, 70, in October and on Christmas Day 2013, by spiking his cherry Lambrini, a drink favoured by teenagers looking to get drunk on a low budget. "Perhaps most shocking of all was the note she gave to the London Ambulance Service purporting to be from her husband, stating that he did not wish to be resuscitated," said Detective Inspector Tracey Miller, of London's Metropolitan Police, in a statement. |
| Factbox: Security alert levels in Europe | |  (Reuters) - The Belgian government has imposed the highest state of alert on the capital as police hunt suspects in the Nov. 13 attacks on Paris and say there are threats to Brussels. BELGIUM Belgium raised the alert status for the region around its capital Brussels to four, the highest level, on Nov. 21, warning of a "serious and imminent" threat. The threat level for the whole country was raised to level three on Nov. 14, indicating "a possible or probable threat".
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| Poland to seek review of EU refugee deal after Paris attacks | | | Poland's new government said on Monday the attacks on Paris showed the need for a review of a European Union agreement struck earlier this year to take in refugees under a quota system. Hundreds of thousands of people have reached Europe as Syrian refugees in recent months, including at least one person using a passport found at the scene of the attacks. Poland's previous centre-right pro-EU government backed the deal in September but the new government, formed earlier this month by the conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party, appeared to be revising the Polish position. |
| Egypt's remaining Islamist party cries foul as it flops in election | |  By Mahmoud Mourad CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Nour Party, the only Islamist group to escape a crackdown on dissent after the Muslim Brotherhood's overthrow two years ago, is now blaming state tactics for its dismal performance in parliamentary elections. Nour has accused the government of arresting members, orchestrating a media campaign against it and curbing its ability to campaign for Egypt's first parliamentary election in three years, which began in October and ends this week. In the first round, the party won just nine seats out of the 286 contested, in sharp contrast to its second place overall behind the Muslim Brotherhood in the 2012 contest.
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| Armed vigilantes in Burundi's capital expose deepening crisis | | | By Goran Tomasevic BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - As darkness falls, vigilantes armed with automatic rifles emerge to patrol the streets of Bujumbura, a city plagued by killings and violence as Burundi's crisis deepens. For months, the trill of cicadas in the tropical night has been interrupted by sporadic gunfire and explosions across the capital, centre of the turmoil sparked by President Pierre Nkurunziza's bid for a third term in office. Now some have formed vigilante units, coming out at night in tracksuits and jeans, clutching AK-47 rifles as they patrol. |
| Spain arrests man accused of recruiting inmates for Islamic State | | | Spanish police on Monday arrested a prisoner accused of trying to radicalise and recruit fellow inmates to join Islamic State. The man was originally from Morocco and was already serving time in a prison in Segovia, near Madrid, for crimes linked to violence against women, the police said in a statement. Spain has stepped up efforts to stop citizens joining Islamic State this year, fearing people recruited to fight in Syria and Iraq could return to launch attacks at home. |
| OSCE urges Vatican to withdraw charges against journalists | |  The Vatican should withdraw criminal charges against two journalists who wrote books accusing it of corruption, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said on Monday, invoking press freedom. The Vatican on Saturday ordered five people, including two Italian journalists, to stand trial for leaking and publishing secret documents, in the latest development in a scandal which is rocking the papacy. Causing embarrassment and anger in the Vatican, the two journalists, Gianluigi Nuzzi and Emiliano Fittipaldi, used the leaks by Vatican officials in their books, which the Holy See described as giving a "partial and tendentious" version of events.
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