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| Europol chief says further attacks likely after Paris carnage | |  Europe is likely to face new Islamic State attacks after those in Paris on Friday, the head of Europol, the coordinating organisation of EU countries' police forces, said on Thursday. "It is reasonable to assume ... that further attacks are likely," Europol director Rob Wainwright told lawmakers in a hearing in the European Parliament in Brussels. "The reality of what happened in Mumbai then has now arrived in Europe," Wainwright said.
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| Belgian police carry out Brussels raids related to Paris attacks | | | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian police carried out a series of raids on Thursday in Brussels linked to the Paris attacks, according to a government source and police. Police said one raid had taken place in the poor Brussels district of Molenbeek and another in the neighbouring district of Jette, but would not say if any arrests were made. The government source declined to give further details or comment on a report that the raids were linked to one of the Paris suicide bombers, Belgium-based Bilal Hadfi. (Reporting by Robert-Jan Bartunek and Philip Blenkinsop, writing by Philip Blenkinsop) |
| Off-duty French police allowed to carry guns during state of emergency | | | French police officers will be allowed to carry their weapon while off duty to protect civilians as long as France maintains the state of emergency following the Paris shootings, police said on Thursday. French police spokesman Jerome Bonnet told BFM TV that police officers who volunteer would be able to carry their handgun in order to "protect themselves and the population in public places". "This will allow off-duty police offers to be an additional force outside their hours," police union official Jean-Marc Bailleul said on ITELE television. |
| Factbox: Dead killers, hunted suspects after Paris attacks | |  (Reuters) - France and Belgium are striving to establish the identities of the attackers and chief suspects in the attacks that killed at least 129 people in Paris on Friday Nov. 13, is On Wednesday morning, elite police launched an assault on a flat in Saint Denis, north of Paris. The public prosecutor's office said during the operation that a woman inside the flat blew herself up and police took three men into custody. They also detained a man and a woman, both unarmed, near the flat. ...
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| Beijing vows justice after Islamic State kills Chinese captive | | | By Ben Blanchard and Joseph Campbell BEIJING (Reuters) - China vowed on Thursday to bring to justice those responsible for killing one of its citizens after Islamic State said it had executed a Chinese captive, the only known Chinese hostage to have been held by the group. Islamic State said it had killed a Chinese and Norwegian captive, showing pictures of what appeared to be the dead men under a banner reading "Executed" in the latest edition of its English-language online magazine, Dabiq. In a brief statement, China's Foreign Ministry confirmed the man's identify for the first time, naming him as Fan Jinghui, saying he had been "cruelly murdered". |
| United States warns Italy of militant attack threat - Italian minister | | | U.S. authorities have warned of possible militant attacks in Italy, whose security services are looking for five possible suspects, Italy's foreign minister said on Thursday. Paolo Gentiloni referred to "possible terrorist attacks that could be aimed at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome or the Duomo (cathedral) or Scala theatre in Milan". "As of yesterday our security forces are working to identify five people," he said in an interview with state broadcaster RAI. |
| Attackers planned multiple explosions in German stadium - Bild | | | A group of several attackers planned to set off multiple explosives in Hanover soccer stadium at Tuesday night's friendly match between Germany and the Netherlands, which was called off, daily Bild reported on Thursday. Bild said it had obtained a copy of a document that Germany's domestic intelligence service provided to Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere on Tuesday, the contents of which were so shocking the authorities had no choice but to call off the match. Based on intelligence from a foreign intelligence service, the document detailed how a group of several attackers planned to set off several explosives in the stadium in Hanover, as well as a bomb in the city centre. |
| French PM Valls says chemical warfare risk not ruled out | |  PARIS (Reuters) - France could face the risk of chemical or bacterial warfare in its fight against Islamist militants, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Thursday. "We must not rule anything out. I say it with all the precautions needed. But we know and bear in mind that there is also a risk of chemical or bacteriological weapons," Valls told parliament. "The macabre imagination of the masterminds is limitless," he said in a speech in the lower house of parliament meant to gain approval to an extension of the state of emergency. ...
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| Netanyahu wants U.S. release of Israeli spy Pollard kept low-key | |  By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed Israeli officials to keep low-key about Friday's scheduled release by the United States of Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, a cabinet minister said. The former U.S. Navy analyst's espionage for Israel in the 1980s remains a strain on ties with Washington and his parole terms dictate that he stay in the United States for five years. Pollard, sentenced to life in prison after being convicted in 1987 of passing reams of classified information to Israel, has been behind bars since his arrest in 1985.
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| China detains suspected spy near North Korea "with map in his underwear" | | | Chinese guards near the North Korean border captured a foreigner suspected of spying after he was found with a hand-drawn map in his underwear of military positions along the border, the army-run China Defence News said on Thursday. The suspected spy, caught in late October in Jilin province after a tip-off from a farmer, was also carrying a high-powered telescope and photos of military facilities, the report said. In September and October, China reported detaining some Japanese people for spying. |
| Turkey deports some of eight Moroccans questioned over militant links - official | | | ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey has deported some of eight Moroccans detained and questioned on arrival at Istanbul's main airport over suspected militant links, a Turkish government official said. The eight, who said they had arrived at Ataturk Airport from Casablanca for a holiday, had been arrested on suspicion of having links to Islamic State, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Wednesday. "The individuals were detained in accordance with the assessment of on-site profilers, who flagged the Moroccan nationals as terror suspects," the government official said. ... |
| Indonesia's economic slowdown provides death row reprieve | |  Indonesia is putting off executions due to the slowdown in Southeast Asia's largest economy, the chief security minister said on Thursday, without explaining the connection. Indonesia has executed 14 drug offenders this year, straining relations with Australia, Brazil, the Netherlands and Nigeria, which all had citizens among those shot by firing squad. The last executions took place in April.
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| Japan seeks to speed up intelligence gathering after Paris attacks | | | Japan will speed up the creation of a unit dedicated to gathering intelligence about terror attacks after the deadly assaults in Paris, a government spokesman said on Thursday. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga did not say when the unit would be set up, but the Nikkei business daily had earlier reported the unit could be launched as early as February and have about 20 staff. "Given recent developments, we believe it is extremely important to strengthen the government's intelligence capabilities," Suga told reporters. |
| FBI, New York police aware of Islamic State video, say no specific threat | |  There is no "specific and credible threat" against New York City, despite a newly released Islamic State video suggesting America's most populous city is a potential target of attacks such as those in Paris, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Wednesday. Police Commissioner William Bratton agreed with the mayor during an evening news conference by both men outside a police precinct in Times Square, adding that there was nothing new about the video, which he called "hastily produced." "There is no credible and specific threat against New York City," de Blasio said, encouraging New Yorkers to "go about their business" as normal, while remaining watchful.
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| France to urge EU to tighten passport checks | | | By Alastair Macdonald BRUSSELS (Reuters) - France wants the EU to tighten rules on passport checks on EU citizens entering and leaving the Schengen free-travel zone in the wake of the attacks in Paris, to make it harder for European jihadists to return from Syria unnoticed. The proposal, seen by Reuters on Thursday, is among several to be presented by France to a crisis meeting of EU interior ministers on Friday. It reflects impatience with progress since EU leaders agreed in February after the attack on the French magazine Charlie Hebdo that the passports of all EU travellers routinely be checked against criminal and security databases. |
| Brussels district rallies against home-grown jihadists | |  By Miranda Alexander-Webber and Yvonne Bell BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Molenbeek, the Brussels district that was home to leaders of Friday's Islamist attacks in Paris, staged a candlelit vigil on Wednesday to honour the victims and show the world their borough offers more than violence. Molenbeek gives much more than that," organiser Yannick Bochem told Reuters Television as more than 2,000 people crowded the square in front of the local town hall. "We want to show our respects because we're also shocked by the events, and we're also shocked that it's linked with Molenbeek.
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| Israeli policeman given community service for beating Palestinian-American boy | |  An Israeli policeman was spared jail and sentenced to community service on Wednesday for beating an American teenager of Palestinian descent during disturbances in Jerusalem last year, an incident that had prompted U.S. concern. Tariq Khdeir was visiting from Tampa, Florida, as protests erupted over the abduction and killing on July 2, 2014, of his 16-year-old cousin, Mohammed Abu Khudeir, allegedly by three Israeli Jews. Amateur video showed two Israeli riot policemen setting upon Tariq Khdeir, who was 15 at the time.
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| China denies having political prisoners, says does not allow torture | | | By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - China denied that it held political prisoners and said its government prohibited use of torture when it faced a United Nations' review of its record on Wednesday, evoking derision from exiled dissidents. Winding up a two-day scrutiny of China's human rights performance, senior Chinese officials evaded questions about the number of police or prison guards prosecuted for torture and the treatment of high-profile prisoners, including several of whom died in custody. "The Chinese government prohibits torture and prosecutes any personnel or state organs for torture activities," Li Wensheng, deputy director-general of the legal affairs department in the ministry of public security, told the U.N. Committee against Torture. |
| Islamic State makes Telegram messaging app a major marketing tool | |  The mobile messaging service Telegram, created by the exiled founder of Russia's most popular social network site, has emerged as an important new promotional and recruitment platform for Islamic State. A new feature of Telegram that was introduced in September has become the preferred method for Islamic State to broadcast news and share videos of military victories or sermons, according to security researchers. The group used Telegram to claim responsibility for the Paris attacks, which left 129 people dead, and the bombing of a Russian airliner over Egypt last month, which killed 224.
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