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| France makes for formal call for EU military help | |  France made a formal request on Tuesday for help from its EU partners following the Paris attacks, invoking a mutual assistance article in the European Union's treaty for the first time. "In Brussels, I have just invoked Article 42.7," French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on his Twitter account during an EU defence ministers meeting. Immediate details of what France will request are not clear, but the EU's Lisbon Treaty says that in the case of a "armed agression" on any EU country, the other countries have "an obligation of aid and assistance by all means in their power".
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| Tunisia says it prevented major Islamist attack this month | | | By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia has arrested a cell of 17 Islamist militants and prevented a major assault on hotels and security forces in the resort town of Sousse planned for this month, a senior government official told Reuters on Tuesday. Sousse was the site of one of two major attacks claimed by Islamic State in Tunisia this year, when 38 foreigners were killed at a beach hotel in June. In March, gunmen killed 21 tourists in an attack at the Bardo Museum in Tunis. |
| France strikes Islamic State in Syria again after Paris attacks | |  By Paul Taylor PARIS (Reuters) - France carried out fresh air strikes on Islamic State bases in northern Syria on Tuesday as police made 128 overnight raids across France in the hunt for accomplices to Friday's Paris attacks claimed by the Islamist group. French warplanes targeted a command centre and a recruitment centre for jihadists in the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa in the second consecutive night of strikes ordered by President Francois Hollande, a military command spokesman told Reuters. The strike involved 10 fighter jets launched from the United Arab Emirates and Jordan.
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| Egypt detains two airport staff in connection with Sinai air crash - sources | |  Egyptian authorities have detained two employees of Sharm al-Sheikh airport in connection with the downing of a Russian jet on Oct. 31, killing all 224 people on board, two security officials said on Tuesday. "Seventeen people are being held, two of them are suspected of helping whoever planted the bomb on the plane at Sharm al-Sheikh airport," one of the officials said. Egypt has not yet confirmed a bomb downed the jet.
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| German police chief plays down security threat from refugees | |  There is no sign that Islamist militants have entered Germany posing as refugees to commit an attack, the head of the police has said, responding to concerns following the attacks in Paris that an open-door refugee policy poses a security risk. Holger Muench, president of the BKA federal police, told the daily Die Welt he could not discount the threat of militant attacks in Germany as radical Islamists had Western targets in focus, but played down any signs of an imminent attack. "So far, we have no indication that a terrorist has entered Germany as an asylum seeker in order to perpetrate an attack." Muench said about 10 individual migrants were under investigation as possible jihadists or war criminals, after tip-offs mostly from other refugees.
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| Tear gas and pepper spray fired - again - in Kosovo parliament | |  By Fatos Bytyci PRISTINA (Reuters) - Opposition lawmakers in Kosovo fired tear gas and pepper spray in parliament on Tuesday, the latest such incident in a deepening political crisis over relations with former master Serbia. The protest was led by prominent opposition figure Albin Kurti, who has set off tear gas in the chamber several times to demand the government scrap a deal to regulate ties between Serbia and its former southern province. Kurti fired pepper spray at police.
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| Britain says Islamic State militants plotting deadly cyber attacks | |  By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - Islamic State militants are trying to develop the capability to launch deadly cyber attacks against Britain's infrastructure, finance minister George Osborne will say on Tuesday as he announces a doubling of spending on cyber security. Osborne, Prime Minister David Cameron's close ally, said Friday's attacks in Paris, which killed at least 129 people and were claimed by Islamic State (ISIL), underscored the need to improve Britain's protections against electronic attack.
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| French police make 128 overnight raids after Paris attacks | |  PARIS (Reuters) - French police conducted 128 raids overnight following a wave of shootings and suicide bombings in Paris on Friday which left at least 129 people dead, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Tuesday. He told France Info radio station police were making rapid progress in their investigation into the attacks claimed by Islamic State militants but declined to give further details. President Francois Hollande has declared a state of emergency allowing administrative arrests and searches without a warrant following the bloodiest attacks in French history. ...
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| Interview - Rebuffing critics, Jaitley goes for growth, reform | |  By Manoj Kumar DUBAI (Reuters) - Finance Minister Arun Jaitley rebuffed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's critics on Tuesday and challenged the opposition to back a crucial tax reform, pledging also to put investments before budget savings to drive growth in Asia's No.3 economy. Jaitley, in an interview with Reuters, brushed aside senior leaders in Modi's ruling nationalist party who rebelled after a heavy election defeat this month in Bihar, the country's third most populous state. The setback in Bihar dealt a blow to Modi's prestige after he campaigned actively in the state, and has emboldened his opponents in parliament who have used their control of the upper house to delay his economic reform agenda.
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| "They'll think we are the enemy": refugees in Germany fear backlash | |  By Joseph Nasr BERLIN (Reuters) - Syrian and Iraqi refugees in Germany fear that the attacks in Paris could further shift public opinion against the Berlin government's welcoming asylum policy. About a dozen men, smoking heavily, discussed the deadliest attacks in Europe since 2004 outside Berlin's Tempelhof airport, an imposing structure built by Hitler to showcase Nazi power and now functioning as a shelter for asylum-seekers. The backdrop to their conversation on Monday was a chorus of demands by right-wing European politicians to halt the flow of migrants into Europe, which some see as providing ideal cover for Islamic State to smuggle in militants -- even if there is as yet no proof.
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| Factbox - Dead killers, hunted suspects after Paris attacks | |  (Reuters) - France, which along with Belgium has launched a massive manhunt for people involved in the attacks that killed at least 129 people in Paris on Friday, is striving to establish the identities of the attackers and chief suspects.
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| Italy says Islamic State could attack Rome with drones during Holy Year | |  Islamic State (IS) could attack Rome with drones during a Roman Catholic Holy Year beginning next month and air space over the capital will be closed to drones throughout the event, Italian Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said on Monday. Countries across Europe are tightening emergency precautions after Friday's gun and bomb rampage in Paris which killed at least 129 people, France's worst atrocity since World War Two, and was claimed by the jihadist IS. Addressing the Chamber of Deputies (parliament), Alfano said drones will be banned from air space over the centre of Rome throughout the Holy Year, or "Jubilee" that begins on Dec. 8 and is expected to draw millions of tourists to the Italian capital.
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| U.S. Republicans seek to shut door on Syrian refugees after Paris | |  More than a dozen state governors refused on Monday to accept Syrian refugees after the Paris attacks, part of a mounting Republican backlash against the Obama administration's plan to accept thousands more immigrants from the war-torn country. Leading Republican presidential candidates called on President Barack Obama to suspend the plan to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees in the coming year and some Republican lawmakers began moves in Congress to try to defund the policy. The State Department said the administration would stand by its plan, reiterating that the refugees would be subject to stringent security checks, and Obama said that the terrorism problem should not be equated with the refugee crisis.
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| U.S. looking for opportunities to strike Islamic State, needs others to help: Carter | |  By Yeganeh Torbati WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States continues to look for opportunities to strike at the Islamic State but needs its European allies to make bolder moves to defeat the group militarily, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Monday. In comments during his first public appearance since coordinated attacks in Paris on Friday, Carter said the attacks had "galvanized" France into taking bolder action against Islamic State and cooperating further with the United States, and that he hoped it would have the same effect on other European partners. "We're looking to do more, we're looking for every opportunity we can to get in there and go at ISIL, but we need others to...get in the game as well," Carter said, using an acronym for Islamic State.
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| Venezuela pair held by U.S. for drugs were 'kidnapped' - official | |  By Alexandra Ulmer CARACAS (Reuters) - Two men said to be relatives of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro who are being held in the United States on cocaine smuggling charges were "kidnapped," a senior member of the ruling Socialist Party said on Monday. In the first direct comment on the case from a high-ranking Venezuelan official, National Assembly president and party No. 2 Diosdado Cabello also said it was an attempt by Washington to discredit the country's government right before a vote. Franqui Francisco Flores de Freitas, 30, and Efrain Antonio Campo Flores, 29, were arrested in Haiti last Tuesday and flown to New York for indictment.
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| China security chief calls for greater "de-radicalisation" efforts | |  China needs to deepen its fight against separatists, intensify "de-radicalisation" efforts, and increase global cooperation to defend against terrorism, the country's domestic security chief wrote on Tuesday. The Chinese government says it is facing a threat from Islamist militants and separatists in the far western region of Xinjiang, home to the Muslim Uighur people and where hundreds have died in unrest in the past three years or so. China's foreign minister has already called for greater international cooperation in its fight against Xinjiang radicals in the wake of the Paris attacks at the weekend.
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| CIA chief warns Islamic State may have other attacks ready | | | By Jonathan Landay, Mark Hosenball and John Irish WASHINGTON (Reuters) - CIA Director John Brennan warned on Monday that the attacks in Paris claimed by the extremist Islamic State movement were not a "one-off event" and that the militants may have similar operations ready to launch. Foiling those plots, however, could prove difficult because Europe's intelligence and security resources are severely stretched trying to keep track of the hundreds of European extremists who have returned home from fighting in Syria and Iraq. "A lot of our partners right now in Europe are facing a lot of challenges in terms of the numbers of individuals who have travelled to Syria and Iraq and back again, and so their ability to monitor and survey these individuals is under strain," Brennan said. |
| Belgian connection: from barkeeper to suicide bomber | | | By Robert-Jan Bartunek, Philip Blenkinsop and Alissa de Carbonnel BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Two weeks ago, the mayor of Molenbeek ordered the closure of a neighbourhood bar where Brussels police had found young men dealing drugs and smoking dope over the summer. Last Friday, the owner blew himself up at another laid-back corner cafe, this time in Paris, on a mission of retribution from Islamic State. Brahim Abdeslam's journey from barkeeper to suicide bomber remains a mystery, along with the whereabouts of his younger brother Salah, now on the run as Europe's most wanted man but until recently the manager of Brahim's bar, Les Beguines. |
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