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| Six arrests in Brussels police operation after bombings | | | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian police detained six people on Thursday in the course of investigations into Tuesday's Islamic State suicide bombings in Brussels, the federal prosecutors office said in a statement. It said the arrests were made during police searches in the Brussels boroughs of Schaerbeek in the north and Jette in the west, as well as in the centre of Brussels itself. A decision on charging the suspects would be made on Friday. No further details were available. (Reporting by Alastair Macdonald; Editing by Sandra Maler) |
| France says it foils advanced attack plot -minister | | | A French national suspected of belonging to a militant network planning an attack in France was arrested on Thursday morning, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said. The arrest helped "foil a plot in France that was at an advanced stage," Cazeneuve said on Thursday night in a televised address from his ministry. "At this stage, there is no tangible evidence that links this plot to the attacks in Paris and Brussels," said Cazeneuve, who was in the Belgian capital earlier on Thursday. |
| U.S. indicts Iranians for hacking dozens of banks, New York dam | | | By Dustin Volz and Jim Finkle WASHINGTON/BOSTON (Reuters) - Seven Iranian hackers conducted a coordinated cyber attack on dozens of U.S. banks, causing millions of dollars in lost business, and tried to shut down a New York dam, the U.S. government said on Thursday in an indictment that for the first time accused individuals tied to another country of trying to disrupt critical infrastructure. It said the seven accused were believed to have been working on behalf of Iran's government and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard. |
| Brussels suicide bomber Laachraoui 'nice, clever', brother says | |  By Ingrid Melander BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Brussels suicide bomber Najim Laachraoui was a nice, intelligent boy, his brother said on Thursday, and gave no warning signs of being radicalised before he left for Syria in 2013 and broke all contact with his family. A veteran Islamist fighter in Syria, he is also suspected of making explosive belts for last November's Paris attacks. No one in the family saw any change in his attitude before the day he called them to say he had left for Syria, his 20-year-old brother Mourad said.
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| Belgian ministers offer to quit over security lapses | |  By Alastair Macdonald, Foo Yun Chee and Ingrid Melander BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium's interior and justice ministers offered to resign on Thursday over a failure to track an Islamic State militant expelled by Turkey as a suspected fighter and who blew himself up at Brussels airport this week. Brahim El Bakraoui was one of three identified suspected suicide bombers who hit the airport and a metro train, killing at least 31 people and wounding some 270 on Tuesday in the worst attack in Belgian history. At least one other man seen with them on airport security cameras is on the run and a fifth suspected bomber filmed in the metro attack may be dead or alive.
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| Brussels bomber brothers were on U.S. watch lists before attack -sources | |  Two brothers who carried out suicide bombings in Brussels this week were known to U.S. government agencies before the attacks, according to two sources familiar with the matter. The sources said that Khalid El Bakraoui and Brahim El Bakraoui were both on U.S. government counter terrorism watch lists before the March 18 arrest of Salah Abdeslam, a French national whom prosecutors accuse of a key role in the Nov. 13 Paris attacks. Belgian prosecutors have identified Brahim El Bakraoui as one of two suicide bombers who attacked Brussels' Zaventem Airport, while they say Khalid El Bakraoui was the man who carried out a suicide bombing at Brussels' Maelbeek Metro station, near European Union headquarters.
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| Hollywood actors join Georgia boycott threats over gay bill | | | (Reuters) - Anne Hathaway, Julianne Moore and some 30 other Hollywood actors and directors added their voice on Thursday to entertainment industry threats to boycott Georgia if the U.S. state's governor signs a new law seen as discriminating against gay people. Movie and TV studios 21st Century Fox , NBC Universal and Time Warner joined Walt Disney , AMC, Viacom and Marvel Entertainment in either opposing the bill, or saying they would take their productions elsewhere. |
| EU justice ministers pledge to share information after Brussels attacks | |  By Barbara Lewis and Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union Justice and Home Affairs ministers on Thursday called for rapid agreement on stalled plans to share strategic intelligence data after suicide bomb attacks this week in Brussels killed at least 31 people and injured 270. The bombings at Brussels airport and on a crowded rush-hour metro train, only four months after 130 people were killed in Islamist attacks in Paris, laid bare the inadequacy of European cooperation on security. Officials say many of the European Union's 28 nations, including core EU members France and Germany, withhold their most strategic data despite professed willingness to share it.
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| Lawyer for Paris bombing suspect assaulted | | | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Hours after suicide bombers struck Brussels on Tuesday, a man assaulted the lawyer for their suspected accomplice Salah Abdeslam in his office in the city, defence counsel Sven Mary told Le Soir newspaper. "I was forced to shut my chambers to ensure the safety of my staff," he said, adding that he had received hundreds of abusive and threatening messages after agreeing to represent Abdeslam, a suspect in November's Paris attacks after his arrest on Friday. ... |
| Belgium lowers security alert level one notch from maximum | | | PARIS (Reuters) - Belgium lowered its security alert level one notch down from four, the highest level, to three, two days after Brussels airport and metro bombings killed 31 people, the Belgian crisis centre said on Thursday. The body grouping top ministers, police and justice officials said it took the decision after reviewing the situation. "The threat of an attack is less imminent," Paul Van Tigchelt, head of the government agency that assesses threat levels, told a news conference. ... |
| Turkey didn't follow procedure over Bakraoui expulsion - Dutch minister | | | The Netherlands did not realise that one of the Brussels suicide bombers, who arrived at Amsterdam airport, was a dangerous suspect as Turkey failed to follow normal procedures when expelling him, the justice minister in The Hague said. Brahim El Bakraoui, who blew himself up at Brussels airport on Tuesday, slipped through the net and into the Netherlands last July as a result of miscommunication between countries, Ard van der Steur said on Thursday. The Belgian failure to hold Bakraoui prompted two Belgian ministers to offer to resign and raised questions on procedures to monitor or hold suspected Islamist militants returning from the Middle East to their native countries in Europe. |
| Karadzic guilty of Bosnia genocide, jailed for 40 years | |  By Toby Sterling, Anthony Deutsch and Thomas Escritt THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was convicted by U.N. judges of genocide for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, the worst war crime in Europe since World War Two, and sentenced to 40 years in prison. Karadzic, 70, the former president of the breakaway Bosnian Serb Republic, was found guilty on 10 out of 11 charges brought by war crimes prosecutors at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague. "The accused was the sole person within Republika Srpska (the Bosnian Serb Republic) with the power to prevent the killing of the Bosnian Muslim males," said presiding judge O-Gon Kwok, in a reference to the 8,000 killed at Srebrenica.
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| Brussels suicide bomber had violated parole but was released by court | |  Brussels suicide bomber Khalid El Bakraoui violated the terms of his parole last May by maintaining contacts with past criminal associates but a Belgian magistrate released him, De Morgen newspaper said on Thursday. Brahim El Bakraoui, 29, was one of two men who blew themselves up at Brussels airport on Tuesday, while Khalid El Bakraoui, 26, detonated a bomb at Maelbeek metro station in the city centre. The paper quoted prosecutor Christian Henry in the southern city of Mons as saying that on May 13, 2015, Khalid El Bakraoui drew police attention because he parked his car in a one-way street facing in the wrong direction.
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| ICC suspect Al Mahdi admits guilt over Timbuktu destruction | |  A Tuareg Islamist rebel charged by the International Criminal Court with desecrating priceless monuments in the ancient Malian city of Timbuktu has told judges he wishes to plead guilty to the war crimes charges he faces, the ICC's prosecutor said. Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi, a former teacher, was the first person charged by the international court with the crime of damaging humanity's common cultural heritage. In a statement on Thursday, prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said Al Mahdi had expressed the wish to plead guilty during a closed session of the court on March 1, but that this fact could only be made public now.
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