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| Germany says concrete threat led to cancellation of soccer match | | | German politicians urged the public not to be cowed by the threat of Islamist attacks and said a concrete indication of a security threat had led them to cancel Tuesday's soccer match between Germany and the Netherlands. With security worries running high in Europe after shootings and bombings in Paris last Friday which killed at least 129 people, Chancellor Angela Merkel gathered top ministers and intelligence chiefs for a special meeting on the situation. The state premier of Lower Saxony defended the decision to cancel the friendly soccer match, which Merkel had been due to attend in the state capital of Hanover. |
| French govt spokesman confirms Paris suburb police raid over | | | PARIS (Reuters) - A police raid on the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis is over, French government spokesman Stephane Le Foll said on Wednesday, confirming earlier information from police sources. Speaking at a news conference after a cabinet meeting, Le Foll gave no further details. (Reporting By John Irish; Editing by Ingrid Melander) |
| Gunshots rattle Paris suburb, police raid targets suspected attack mastermind | |  By Antony Paone and Emmanuel Jarry SAINT DENIS, France (Reuters) - Gunfire and explosions shook the Paris suburb of St. Denis early on Wednesday when French police raided an apartment where a Belgian Islamist militant suspected of masterminding last week's attacks in the French capital was possibly holed up. A woman died after detonating a bomb at the scene, the French prosecutors' office said, adding that three people in the apartment had been arrested and two others were seized nearby. A judicial source said a second person had died in the pre-dawn raid and two more suspects arrested in the operation to hunt down those responsible for coordinated suicide bombings and shootings that killed 129 people in Paris.
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| Paris suburb police raid is over - police source | |  PARIS (Reuters) - A police raid on the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis is finished, a police source said on Wednesday. "The raid is over," the official said. The raid was linked to attacks that killed 129 in and near Paris on Friday night. (Reporting by Gerard Bon; Writing by Ingrid Melander; Editing by John Irish)
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| Two dead, seven arrests in police raid on Saint-Denis apartment - source | | | Two people holed up in a flat in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis have died and seven have been arrested so far in an ongoing police raid, a source close to the investigation said on Wednesday. A woman blew herself up at the house during the raid, Paris prosecutor's office had said earlier on Wednesday. |
| Getting that sinking feeling in tortuous U.N. climate talks | |  By Alister Doyle BONN, Germany (Reuters) - Abdullahi Majeed was a young delegate for the Maldives when low-lying island states warned for the first time in 1989 that climate change and rising seas could "threaten the very survival" of some nations. Now a 60-year-old veteran, Majeed is still repeating that message, one of a handful of delegates to this month's Paris climate summit who have been attending tortuous U.N. negotiations to combat global warming from the start. "The sense of urgency is simply not there." In countless conference halls from Bangkok to Buenos Aires, Majeed has seen more setbacks than breakthroughs, not least the failed Copenhagen conference in 2009.
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| Italian doctor shot in Bangladesh in latest attack on foreigners | | | An Italian doctor working as a missionary was shot and wounded in the neck during an attack by three assailants in northern Bangladesh on Wednesday and was admitted to hospital, police and a doctor said, reporting the latest in a series of attacks on foreigners. The assault on the man, identified by Italian newspapers as Piero Parolari, in the Muslim-majority country follows the killing of another Italian and a Japanese citizen in attacks claimed by Islamic State at the end of September and early October. The latest attack took place in Dinajpur district, 414 km (258 miles) north of the capital Dhaka, where Parolari has been carrying out missionary work and medical services among the poor for the last 10 years. |
| Suspects had planned attack on Paris business district - source | |  PARIS (Reuters) - The suspected Islamic State militants holed up in a northern Paris apartment following a raid by French police had planned an attack on La Defense business district in Paris, a source close to the investigation said on Wednesday. Gunfire and explosions shook the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis early on Wednesday as French police surrounded an apartment where a Belgian Islamist militant suspected of masterminding last week's attacks in the French capital was believed to be holed up. (Reporting by Emmanuel Jarry; Writing by Bate Felix; Editing by John Irish)
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| German spy head says public events must go ahead despite security fears | | | Germany should not be cowed by the threat of Islamic State violence, the head of the domestic intelligence services said on Wednesday, after an international soccer game was cancelled due to fears of an attack. With security worries running high in Europe after shootings and bombings in Paris last Friday which killed at least 129 people, BfV president Hans-Georg Maassen said Germany, like other Western states, is an enemy of Islamic State (IS). "If IS can hit us, if IS can carry out terror attacks in Germany, it will do so -- that is our big concern," Maassen said in an interview with broadcaster ARD. |
| French police arrests five people after northern Paris raid | |  At least five people are being held for questioning by French police in a suburb in northern Paris following a raid on Islamic State militants suspected of being behind Friday's attacks, Paris prosecutor's office said on Wednesday. "Three men who were entrenched in the apartment were removed and are being held in for questioning," the prosecutor's office said. French police were involved in a prolonged shootout in the northern Paris suburb of Saint-Denis early on Wednesday, where a Belgian Islamic State militant suspected of masterminding last week's attacks was believed to be holed up.
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| Chinese security forces kill 17 in Xinjiang - Radio Free Asia | | | Chinese security forces in the restive far western region of Xinjiang have killed 17 people, including women and children, accused of involvement in an attack at a coal mine that left at least 50 dead, U.S.-based Radio Free Asia said on Wednesday. Hundreds of people have died in unrest in Xinjiang, home to the mostly Muslim Uighur people, and other parts of China over the past three years or so. China blames the violence on Islamist militants. |
| Pakistan suspends deal to accept deportations from Europe | | | By Katharine Houreld ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan will refuse to accept any citizens deported from mainland Europe, halting repatriations at a time when European leaders facing an influx of migration are desperate to streamline procedures, the interior ministry said on Wednesday. Globally, around 90,000 people were deported back to Pakistan last year for a variety of offences, but in some cases they had been sent back without proper determination they were Pakistan nationals, an interior ministry spokesman said. It was not immediately clear exactly how many came from Europe, although the figure is in the thousands, he said. |
| Two Air France flights from U.S. diverted by bomb threats | |  By Victoria Cavaliere and Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Two Air France flights bound for Paris from the United States were diverted for several hours on Tuesday following anonymous bomb threats, and more than 700 passengers and crew were safely taken off the planes, officials said. Flight 65, an Airbus A-380 that departed from Los Angeles, landed safely in Salt Lake City, where passengers and crew were escorted into the terminal, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration said. The Salt Lake Tribune, citing an airport official, said it was carrying 497 passengers and crew.
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| Bangladesh opposition leaders to hang for war crimes | |  By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh's Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected final appeals from two opposition leaders against death sentences for atrocities committed during the 1971 war of independence, rulings that are likely to spark protests by their supporters. Muslim-majority Bangladesh has seen a rise in Islamist violence in recent months, with two foreigners and four secular writers and a publisher killed this year. Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid, 67, secretary general of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was found guilty of five charges including torture and the murders of intellectuals and minority Hindus while he commanded Al Badr, an auxiliary force of the Pakistani army, during the war to break away from Pakistan.
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| Gunfire in north Paris as police hunt attack mastermind - sources | |  French police were involved in a prolonged shootout in the northern Paris suburb of Saint-Denis early on Wednesday, where a Belgian Islamic State militant suspected of masterminding last week's Paris attacks was believed to be holed up. Police and justice sources said Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 27, thought to have pulled the strings from Syria, was strongly believed to be among a group of people holed up in an apartment in the northern suburb near the national soccer stadium, one of the sites attacked by suicide bombers last week. A police source said three suspects had been arrested so far.
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| More gunfire and explosions at site of police raid in north Paris | |  More gunfire and explosions were heard on Wednesday morning at the site of a police raid in the Saint-Denis suburb in the north of Paris. A judicial source said earlier that police believe the suspected mastermind of Friday's attack in the French capital, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, is among those holed up in an apartment there. French television showed images of the street in Saint-Denis where a continuous salvo of gunfire and explosions where heard.
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| India warns of IS threat, tightens vigil at French, U.S. missions | |  By Sanjeev Miglani NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has warned of Islamic State using regional militant groups to mount strikes in the country, and has increased security around the diplomatic missions of the United States, France and Britain among others, a government advisory said. The federal interior ministry said in the note issued to state police chiefs that Friday's attacks in Paris in which 129 people were killed showed the intentions of Islamic State to expand its arc of operations beyond Syria and Iraq. Despite India's large Muslim population, Islamic State has only been able to draw a handful of recruits from the country, although security officials say they don't have a full picture, and that there could be more youth getting radicalised.
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