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| EU to tighten external border checks after Paris attacks | |  By Francesco Guarascio and Toby Sterling BRUSSELS/AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The European Union will tighten checks at external borders of the passport-free Schengen area, including for its own citizens who enjoy free movement within the bloc, to boost security after the attacks in Paris by armed militants. The bloc's interior and justice ministers, at an emergency meeting in Brussels on Friday, will discuss beefing up security and new counter-terrorism measures in the wake of the Nov. 13 attacks that killed 129 people in the French capital. Paris requested more controls at external borders of the 26-nation Schengen area, of which most EU countries are members, after law enforcement bodies blamed the attacks on French and Belgian nationals, including an Islamic State fighter returned from Syria.
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| Islamic State claims attack on Italian missionary in Bangladesh | | | Islamic State claimed responsibility on Thursday for the shooting of an Italian missionary in Bangladesh, the fifth attack in recent months the militants said they had carried out in the country. Islamic State members shot Piero Parolari, a doctor, with a gun and silencer, the group's Bangladesh affiliate said in an Arabic-language statement on a wesbite it uses. The statement also said the group had attacked a member of the Bahai religious community and murdered a politician it identified as Rahma Ali. |
| France confirms suspected mastermind of Paris attacks killed in raid | |  By John Irish and Gregory Blachier PARIS (Reuters) - The suspected mastermind of last week's Paris attacks was killed in the police raid of an apartment north of the capital, French officials said on Thursday. Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a 28-year-old Belgian militant who had boasted of mounting attacks in Europe for the Islamic State, was accused of orchestrating last Friday's coordinated bombings and shootings in the French capital, which killed 129 people. "It was his body we discovered in the building, riddled with bullets," a statement from the Paris prosecutor said, a day after the pre-dawn raid.
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| The hunt for the Paris attackers | | | (Reuters) - France, which with Belgium is striving to track down any living assailants and would-be assailants after the Nov. 13 attacks on Paris, says that the suspected mastermind, Belgian Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was among those killed in a police assault north of Paris on Wednesday. Here's what we know about the attackers who died in Friday's attacks on Paris and Wednesday's police assault in Saint-Denis, north of the capital, as well as others key to investigations. SUMMARY OF KEY EVENTS Nov 13: Seven dead assailants, not all named, played direct roles in the Nov. ... |
| Prosecutor: unclear if suspected Paris attack mastermind blew himself up | |  It is unclear at this stage if the suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks, who was found dead after a police raid, blew himself up or not, the Paris prosecutor's office said on Thursday. The Paris prosecutor said earlier on Thursday that Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a 28-year-old Belgian militant, was among those killed on Wednesday in a police raid in a suburb of the French capital.
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| Suspected mastermind of Paris attacks Abaaoud died in police raid - prosecutor | |  The suspected mastermind of the attacks that killed 129 in Paris was among those killed in a police raid in a suburb of the French capital, the Paris prosecutor said in a statement on Thursday. Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a 28-year-old Belgian militant, who had boasted of mounting attacks in Europe for the Islamic State, was accused of orchestrating Friday's coordinated bombings and shootings in the French capital, which killed 129 people. Police originally thought he was in Syria, but their investigations led them to a house in the Paris suburb of St. Denis and heavily armed officers stormed the building before dawn, triggering a massive firefight and multiple explosions.
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| Swedish police identify terror suspect amid security clamp down | | | By Johan Sennero and Sven Nordenstam STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish police on Thursday identified the suspect in a manhunt launched after the country raised its terror threat assessment to the highest level ever. Security services said on Wednesday they had concrete information about a possible attack on Sweden, days after the Islamist militant attacks in Paris that killed 129 people. Pictures of the suspect, identified as Mutar Muthanna Majid, have been distributed to police around the country. |
| Belgian police carry out series of raids, one person detained | | | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian police carried out a series of raids in Brussels on Thursday to find information related to one of the Paris suicide bombers and also detained a person during a separate house search, federal prosecutors said. Prosecutors said six addresses were searched in various districts across the Belgian capital as part of an existing investigation opened at the start of the year into Belgium-based Bilal Hafdi, who blew himself up near the Stade de France. One person was detained in another raid in northern Brussels related to the Paris attacks, prosecutors added. ... |
| EU clamps down on bitcoin, anonymous payments to curb terrorism funding | |  European Union countries plan a crackdown on virtual currencies and anonymous payments made online and via pre-paid cards in a bid to tackle terrorism financing after the Paris attacks, a draft document seen by Reuters said. Bitcoin is the most common virtual currency and is used as a vehicle for moving money around the world quickly and anonymously via the web without the need for third-party verification.
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| Italy seeks suspected militants as U.S. warns of attack threat | | | U.S. authorities have warned of potential militant attacks in Italy, whose security services are looking for five possible suspects, Italy's foreign minister said on Thursday. Speaking to state broadcaster RAI, Paolo Gentiloni referred to "possible terrorist attacks" that could be aimed at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome or the cathedral or La Scala theatre in Milan. Italy raised its security alert level to 2, the highest possible in the absence of a direct attack, following events in Paris on Friday, when Islamic State gunmen and bombers killed 129 people. |
| Germany says arrested man likely arms runner, Paris link unclear | | | A man from Montenegro who was arrested in southern Germany in early November after guns and explosives were found in his car is probably an arms runner and may have no connection to last Friday's attacks in Paris, German officials said. The 51-year-old was arrested on Nov. 5 near the Bavarian town of Rosenheim and his vehicle navigation system suggested he was heading to Paris. Just over a week later, on Nov. 13, a group of gunmen and suicide bombers attacked bars, a concert hall and a football stadium in the French capital, killing 129 people in the worst atrocity in France since World War Two. |
| Britain arrests Libyan for 1984 murder of policewoman Yvonne Fletcher | | | British police said they had arrested a Libyan man on Thursday over his suspected role in the murder of policewoman Yvonne Fletcher, who was shot dead outside the Libyan embassy in London in 1984. Fletcher, who was 25, was hit by a shot fired from the embassy during a demonstration by Libyan dissidents against Muammar Gaddafi, who then ruled the North African country. The shooting triggered an 11-day siege of the building by London's Metropolitan Police, the deportation of 30 Libyans in the embassy and the severing of diplomatic ties between London and Tripoli. |
| Myanmar's Suu Kyi meets parliament boss, ambassadors | |  By Antoni Slodkowski and Hnin Yadana Zaw NAYPYITAW (Reuters) - Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi met with speaker of parliament Shwe Mann for the second time in a week on Thursday to discuss reconciliation of the disparate political forces in the country in the wake of her historic election victory earlier this month. Suu Kyi has made conciliatory overtures to Myanmar's president, the powerful military and to the party of former generals that has run the country since the junta handed over power to a semi-civilian government in 2011.
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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". |
| Belgian PM pledges security crackdown, rebuffs critics | |  By Robert-Jan Bartunek BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel pledged a security crackdown and an extra 400 million euros ($427 million) to fight Islamist violence on Thursday, while rejecting criticism of Belgium's security services in the wake of the Paris attacks. Michel said in a speech to parliament that the government would introduce laws to jail jihadists returning from Syria, ban hate preachers and close down unregistered places of worship in response to last week's attacks. As he spoke, Belgian police were carrying a fresh raid in Molenbeek related to the Paris attacks, a government source said.
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| 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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