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| China accuses EU of "prejudice" for rights censure | | | China accused the European Union of prejudice and ignoring the facts on Friday after the EU's special representative for human rights expressed concern about the rights situation in the country. Stavros Lambrinidis said he was worried by China's arrest and harassment of lawyers and activists and new security laws that could be used to curtail freedom of expression, according to statement issued after his trip. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said the statement "ignored the facts". |
| China's limited options exposed by Islamic State killing | | | By Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - The killing of a Chinese citizen by Islamic State has shone the spotlight on China's paucity of options when its people are kidnapped abroad, despite its growing military prowess and international profile. With its forces untried abroad and its diplomatic influence limited in the Middle East, it is handicapped when faced with cases like Fan Jinghui, whose killing militants announced this week. China has previously obtained the release of workers kidnapped in places like Pakistan and Africa, though diplomats say it is often by paying ransoms. |
| Islamist gunmen attack luxury hotel in Mali capital, 170 taken hostage | | | Gunmen shouting Islamic slogans attacked a luxury hotel full of foreigners in Mali's capital Bamako early on Friday morning, taking 170 people hostage, a senior security source and the hotel's operator said. The raid on the Radisson Blu hotel, which lies just west of the city centre near government ministries and diplomatic offices in the former French colony, comes a week after Islamic State (IS) militants killed 129 people in Paris. Northern Mali was occupied by Islamist fighters, some with links to al Qaeda, for most of 2012. |
| Aid agencies decry border control measures in Balkans | | | New border restrictions in the Western Balkans, including the profiling of refugees and migrants on the basis of nationality, are creating an increasingly untenable situation, aid agencies said on Friday. The measures are creating tension at border crossings and leaving some families stranded, the U.N. refugee agency, UNICEF and International Organization for Migration (IOM) said in a joint statement. "There is urgent need to put in place additional reception capaicty at the points of entry," Adrian Edwards, spokesman of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), told a news briefing in Geneva. |
| State finance ministers debate GST, urge simplicity | |  By Manoj Kumar NEW DELHI (Reuters) - State finance ministers called on Friday for a proposed Goods and Services Tax (GST) to be simplified but did not discuss what rate it should be set at, indicating scant progress on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's priority reform. With less than a week until the winter session of parliament, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley missed the meeting of a high-level GST committee, which also lacks a permanent chairman after the last one quit amid a corruption scandal. Manish Sisodia, deputy chief minister and finance minister of the Delhi city government, said the panel wanted to focus on simplifying administration of the GST rather than lowering the rate.
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| Indonesia urges greater SE Asian cooperation to foil Paris-style attacks | | | By Kanupriya Kapoor and Randy Fabi SENTUL, Indonesia (Reuters) - Indonesia's counter terrorism chief on Friday appealed to Southeast Asian neighbours to quickly step up intelligence-sharing efforts and combat fears that fighters returning from Syria could wage Paris-style attacks. Indonesians fighting for Islamic State could supply the training, funds and organizational skills to weld the country's many splintered militant groups into a serious threat, said Saud Usman Nasution, head of the National Counter Terrorism Agency. "We have to anticipate returnees and that must be done through cooperation and intelligence-sharing with many countries in the region," Nasution told Reuters in his office outside Jakarta, capital of the country with the world's largest Muslim population. |
| Germans split over joining combat missions against Islamic State - poll | | | Germans are divided over whether the country's armed forces should participate directly in combat missions against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, a poll showed on Friday. Some 52 percent said they were against the idea while 41 percent supported it, according to the survey by pollsters Infratest dimap for broadcaster ARD. Germany is helping to train Kurdish security forces in Iraq but has not joined the United States and France in air strikes against Islamic State positions in Syria. |
| Beckenbauer unhappy with German FA over World Cup affair | |  By Karolos Grohmann BERLIN (Reuters) - Franz Beckenbauer, the former World Cup-winning player and coach at the heart of a scandal surrounding the 2006 tournament, is unhappy with the German FA's response to his offer of a "personal" discussion with the association. The DFB is eager for Beckenbauer to provide answers on several issues including a controversial 2005 payment to FIFA and a draft contract with a disgraced former vice president at soccer's global governing body. At the heart of the affair is the 6.7 million euros ($7.15 million) payment from the German FA to FIFA that Der Spiegel magazine claimed in October was a return on a loan from then Adidas CEO Robert Louis-Dreyfus to help buy votes for Germany's World Cup bid at the FIFA election in 2000.
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| Singapore megachurch leaders sentenced to jail for pop music fraud | |  By Fathin Ungku SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The co-founder of a Singapore church and five other leaders were sentenced to jail terms of up to eight years on Friday, for fraudulently diverting millions of dollars to support his wife's pop singing career. The mix of faith and fraud has fascinated tightly-regulated Singapore, where such cases are rare in an affluent city-state with little tolerance for corruption. Senior pastor Kong Hee heads City Harvest Church, one of a growing number of Singapore's megachurches preaching a "prosperity gospel" that blends spiritual and material aspirations.
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| China says 28 foreign-led "terrorists" killed after attack on mine | | | By Michael Martina and Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese security forces in the far western region of Xinjiang killed 28 "terrorists" from a group that carried out a deadly attack at a coal mine in September under the direction of "foreign extremists", the regional government said on Friday. The news carried by the official Xinjiang Daily was the first official mention of the Sept. 18 attack at the Sogan colliery in Aksu, in which it said 16 people, including 5 police officers were killed, and another 18 people injured. Radio Free Asia, which first reported the incident about two months ago, said at least 50 people had died. |
| Mastermind Abaaoud caught on Paris metro CCTV as attacks went on - source | |  The suspected mastermind behind the attacks in Paris last week has been identified in CCTV footage from a metro station while the attacks that killed 129 people were under way, a police source said on Friday. Police on Thursday confirmed that Abdelhamid Abaaoud was killed in gunbattle when they raided a house in a Paris suburb early Wednesday where the he was holed up. Abaaoud can be seen on CCTV footage at the Croix de Chavaux metro station in the Paris suburb of Montreuil, not far from where one of the cars used in the attacks was found, the police source said, confirming a report on BFM TV.
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| Swedish security police say prosecutor has decided to keep terror suspect in custody | | | STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's security police (SAPO) said on Friday a prosecutor had decided to keep a man suspected of preparing a terror crime in custody. The man was arrested in the Northern mining town Boliden on Thursday and the prosecutor's decision came late the same day, SAPO said in a statement. (Reporting by Daniel Dickson; Editing by Simon Johnson) |
| Russian parliament to propose new counter-terrorism measures - agencies | | | Russian lawmakers will on Friday propose tougher punishment for terrorists and discuss introducing a raft of new security measures at a rare meeting of both chambers of parliament, Russian news agencies reported, citing a draft law. The move is a response to Kremlin confirmation that a bomb downed a Russian passenger plane over Egypt last month, killing all 224 people on board, and follows the Paris attacks in which Islamist extremists killed at least 129 people. Russia stepped up its air strikes against Islamist militants in Syria after concluding the plane had been blown up, but lawmakers say they want to ensure President Vladimir Putin knows he has their full support if he decides to go further. |
| U.S. House passes bill to slow Syrian refugees despite Obama veto threat | |  By Megan Cassella and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives, defying a veto threat by President Barack Obama, overwhelmingly passed Republican-backed legislation on Thursday to suspend Obama's program to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees in the next year and then intensify the process of screening them. The measure, quickly drafted this week following the Islamic State attacks in Paris on Friday that killed 129 people, was approved on a vote of 289-137, with 47 of Obama's 188 fellow Democrats breaking with the White House to support it. It would require that high-level officials - the FBI director, the director of national intelligence and homeland security secretary - verify that each Syrian refugee poses no security risk.
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| In Quebec, like France, security fears may deepen rift with Muslims | | | By Richard Valdmanis MONTREAL (Reuters) - Reluctance among residents in Quebec to accept thousands of Syrian refugees is deepening a rift with the province's Muslim community, raising worries that more Muslims could become radicalized as they have in France and other European nations. Like France, the French-speaking Canadian province has struggled to reconcile its secular identity with a rising Muslim population, many of them immigrants from North Africa. Since last Friday's attacks in Paris claimed by Islamic State militants, an anti-refugee petition launched in Quebec has garnered more than 75,000 signatures nationwide and Montreal police have arrested a man who posted a video on social media vowing to kill one Arab per week. |
| 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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| Syrians flee war to brave smugglers' gauntlet in volatile Latin America | |  By Gustavo Palencia and Dave Graham TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - A group of five Syrians paid smugglers $10,000 each to travel through multiple countries before being detained for carrying false Greek documents in Honduras, their epic journey exposing a little-known southern smuggling route for Syrians fleeing war in their homeland. The young men have told human rights activists their final destination was next-door Guatemala, because their Turkish people smuggler who guided them by phone through an unfamiliar continent promised jobs and a house waiting for them there. "He is a young man, he wants to earn a living, and what will he do in Syria, it's so dangerous," said his brother-in-law Issa Amissa, speaking to Reuters from the United Arab Emirates.
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