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| At least 30 dead in Paris shootings - French media | | | At least 30 people were killed in attacks in Paris and a hostage situation was under way at a concert hall in the French capital, French media reported on Friday. Several explosions were heard near a stadium where a friendly France-Germany football match was being held, attended by President Francois Hollande. Police helicopters circled the stadium north of Paris as Hollande rushed back to the interior ministry to deal with the situation. |
| IAAF votes overwhelmingly to suspend Russia | |  By Mitch Phillips LONDON (Reuters) - Athletics' world governing body voted overwhelmingly on Friday to provisionally suspend the Russian federation and the country's athletes from the sport following revelations of widespread, state-sponsored doping. The International Association of Athletics Federations' (IAAF) council voted 22-1 in favour of the sanction, with the Russian representative not able to vote. The decision came after the IAAF held a three-hour teleconference, hosted by president Sebastian Coe, to discuss Monday's report by the independent commission of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), which recommended the punishment.
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| Lebanon parliament endorses money laundry, combating terrorism laws | | | Lebanon's parliament passed more financial laws on Friday to keep the politically paralysed country afloat, including a money laundering law. The parliament held its first legislative session in a year on Thursday after pressure from international bodies and the central bank. Lebanon, which hosts more than a million refugees from the Syrian war, risks losing millions of dollars in World Bank development loans which parliament needs to approve by year-end. |
| U.S. 'reasonably certain' that British Islamic State militant Jihadi John killed in strike | |  By Phil Stewart and Mariam Karouny WASHINGTON/BEIRUT (Reuters) - The United States announced on Friday it was "reasonably certain" a drone strike in Syria had killed Jihadi John, a British citizen who became the public face of Islamic State and a symbol of its brutality after appearing in hostage execution videos. U.S. and British officials welcomed the apparent success of the operation targeting Mohammed Emwazi, saying his death, if confirmed, would be a big blow to Islamic State's image and prestige even though Emwazi was not a significant tactical or operational figure in the militant group. "If this strike was successful - and we still await confirmation of that - it will be a strike at the heart of ISIL (Islamic State)," British Prime Minister David Cameron said in a statement outside his official London residence.
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| U.S. military aid for Egypt seen continuing despite rights concerns | | | By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress looks set to approve another $1.3 billion in military aid to Egypt despite concerns expressed by some lawmakers over its crackdown on dissent while fighting religious militants. Senate and House of Representatives staffers are engaged in feverish negotiations on what should be in a trillion-plus-dollar spending bill that they must complete by Dec. 11 to avoid a government shutdown. Egypt's aid package is in focus because of growing unease among both Republicans and Democrats that the government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is exploiting security concerns to crack down on dissent and arresting journalists. |
| '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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| Grim relief in Britain and U.S. over 'Jihadi John' strike | | | By Estelle Shirbon and Laila Kearney LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - News that the Islamic State militant known as "Jihadi John" had apparently died in a U.S. air strike brought relief mingled with fresh grief on Friday to the loved ones of the Western aid workers and journalists he allegedly killed on video. Emwazi was described as Islamic State's "lead executioner" by British Prime Minister David Cameron following the strike, which came a year after U.S. President Barack Obama promised justice after the deaths of American hostages. John and Diane Foley, the parents of American journalist James Foley, repeated criticism they aimed at the U.S. government after their 40-year-old son was killed in August 2014. |
| Red Bull F1 trophy thieves jailed | | | Four members of a gang whose ram-raid robberies in southern England included the theft of Formula One trophies won by former champions Red Bull were sentenced to jail terms on Friday. Surrey Police said the four men were sentenced at Guildford Crown Court to terms of between two and seven years for conspiracy to commit burglary and steal. The gang hit the headlines when they smashed a car through the front doors of the Red Bull Racing factory in Milton Keynes in December last year, seizing more than 60 trophies from a display cabinet in the atrium. |
| 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. |
| 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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