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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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| 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 that sources said had foiled a jihadi plan to hit Paris's business district, days after attacks that killed 129 across the French capital. Police stormed an apartment in the Paris suburb of St. Denis in a hunt for Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian Islamist militant accused of masterminding the bombings and shootings, but more than 15 hours later it was still unclear if they had found him. "A new team of terrorists has been neutralised," Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins told reporters, saying police had fired 5,000 rounds of munitions into the apartment, which was left shredded by the assault, its windows blown out and the facade riddled with bullet impacts.
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| 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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| 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. ... |
| For Syrian refugees in U.S., fear gives way to hope | |  By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - They share a small two-bedroom apartment in Sacramento with few possessions, but for Syrian refugee Mohammad Abd Rabboh, his wife and two daughters, there is finally freedom from fear. Just six weeks after arriving in the United States, the girls are in school and no longer screaming in the night. "You walk in the street and someone falls dead right in front of you." Theirs is a story that could be easily lost in the U.S. political backlash against Syrian refugees that has been stirred by reports one of the militants involved in last Friday's deadly attacks in Paris may have hidden among the migrant flow.
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| Platini to appeal FIFA ban with Court of Arbitration for Sport | |  European soccer chief Michel Platini will take his case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport after global soccer body FIFA's ethics committee rejected his appeal against a provisional 90-day ban, his spokesman said on Wednesday. "After having exhausted internal procedures at FIFA, (the rejection of the appeal) will allow Michel Platini to take his case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, a serious, independent court that is free of the electoral context and pressures present at FIFA," Platini spokesman Jean-Christophe Alquier said in a statement. "In the meantime, he stays a serene and determined candidate for the presidency of FIFA," he said.
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| Suspected Paris attacks leader boasted of crossing borders | |  By Alastair Macdonald and Robert-Jan Bartunek BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Abdelhamid Abaaoud, suspected planner of the Paris attacks, mocked European frontier controls and boasted of the ease with which he could move between Syria to his Belgian homeland and the rest of Europe. As police piece together how militants mounted Friday's assaults, evidence that some involved had fought in Syria and were on wanted lists, yet slipped back to kill 129 people, will raise a host of questions on how Europe tracks local Islamists and controls the borders it has opened to half a million Syrian refugees. ...
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| Bundesliga clubs beef up security after attacks, bomb scare | | | By Karolos Grohmann BERLIN (Reuters) - Several German top-flight clubs are beefing up security ahead of Bundesliga matches later this week following the deadly attacks in Paris and a bomb scare that forced the cancellation of an international friendly between Germany and Netherlands on Tuesday. The World Cup-winning national team had to be hustled to safety for a second time in four days on Tuesday after also playing in Paris during Friday's attacks that killed at least 129 people. "We want to be clear that there are at the moment no specific indications that there is any danger for the game against Hanover 96 on Saturday," said Borussia Moenchengladbach CEO Stephan Schippers said in a statement. |
| France had info suspect Abaaoud might have been at St Denis site - prosecutor | |  French authorities who ordered Wednesday's police raid on a building in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis had information that led them to believe the suspected mastermind of Friday's attacks might have been there, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said. "In the context of the inquiry we have had a lot of work done which allowed us to obtain, through telephony, surveillances and witness statements, elements that could allow us to think that Abaaoud might be in an conspirators' apartment in Saint Denis," he said. Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 27, was initially thought to have pulled the strings from Syria for the attacks that killed 129 people in Paris on Friday.
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