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| CIA chief warns Islamic State may be planning other attacks | |  By Jonathan S. Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) - CIA Director John Brennan on Monday warned that last week's attacks in Paris were not a "one-off event," and that the Islamic State may already be preparing similar operations. "I would anticipate that this is not the only operation that ISIL has in the pipeline," Brennan said in a speech to a policy institute, using an acronym for the Islamic State. "And security intelligence services right now in Europe and other places are working feverishly to see what else they can do in terms of uncovering it." Brennan's comments came as authorities in France, Belgium and other nations worked to track down suspects in Friday's attacks on a concert hall, sports stadium, restaurants and bars in Paris that killed 129 people and were claimed by the Islamic State.
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| Food authority challenges lifting ban on Nestle's Maggi | |  By Suchitra Mohanty and Sumeet Chatterjee NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's food safety authority has appealed to the country's top court against a regional court order overturning a nationwide ban on Maggi instant noodles sold by the local unit of Nestle SA , a lawyer for the authority said on Monday. Nestle India resumed selling its popular Maggi noodles this month after getting the green light from government laboratories, as mandated by the Bombay High Court in August. The appeal, if admitted by the Supreme Court, could upset the Swiss food giant's plans to revive Maggi sales after Indian regulators reported in May that some packets of the noodles contained unsafe levels of lead.
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| Islamic State threatens attack on Washington, other countries | |  Islamic State warned in a new video on Monday that countries taking part in air strikes against Syria would suffer the same fate as France, and threatened to attack in Washington. The video, which appeared on a website used by Islamic State to post its messages, begins with news footage of the aftermath of Friday's Paris shootings in which at least 129 people were killed. The message to countries involved in what it called the "crusader campaign" was delivered by a man dressed in fatigues and a turban, and identified in subtitles as Al Ghareeb the Algerian.
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| NATO, EU pledge closer security cooperation after Paris attacks | | | By Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO and the European Union must work closely to prevent more attacks like those in Paris, the head of the Western military alliance said on Monday, underscoring the risks of unconventional warfare such as cyber attacks and radicalism. European officials are struggling to provide quick answers on how to counter the threat from Islamic State and other militant groups at a time of falling defence budgets, the lack of a common EU security policy and an overlap with NATO. "We will redouble our efforts and work even more closely ... to counter the rise of extremism, which can inspire such horrific attacks here at home," said NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg. |
| U.S. to boost intelligence sharing with France after attacks | |  The United States will make it easier to share planning information and intelligence with France after the Paris attacks, the Pentagon said on Monday. "In the wake of the recent attack on France, we stand strong and firm with our oldest ally, which is why the U.S. and France have decided to bolster our intelligence sharing," Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said in a statement. U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper have issued new instructions to U.S. military personnel to allow greater intelligence sharing, the Pentagon said.
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| U.N. diplomat in Thailand settles maid slavery case out of court | | | By Alisa Tang NONTHABURI, Thailand (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An Ethiopian housemaid who was suing the head of the U.N. World Health Organization (WHO) in Thailand and his wife for beating and enslaving her on Monday settled the lawsuits out of court. The wife told the husband, and he brought me medicine," Bezabh told the Thomson Reuters Foundation via a translator at Nonthaburi provincial court. Tegegn brought Bezabh from Ethiopia, his home country, to Bangkok in 2013 when he took up his post as WHO's Thailand country representative and employed her until March this year when she escaped with the help of a neighbour. |
| German police detain Algerian in connection with Paris attacks | |  German police have detained an Algerian man in a refugee reception centre in connection with the attacks in Paris, officials said on Monday. The man, detained in the town of Arnsberg in western Germany, is being investigated on suspicion of having told Syrian refugees at the centre in recent days that fear and terror would be spread in the French capital. The senior public prosecutor in Arnsberg, Werner Wolff, said checks were being made into whether the allegations were credible.
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| Carnage in Paris sends shudders through tourist sector | |  By Dominique Vidalon and Ingrid Melander PARIS (Reuters) - The carnage in Paris has sent shudders through the tourism sector in one of the world's most visited cities with hotel owners, tour operators and others in the industry hoping the expected drop-off in visitors will not last long. Shares in tourism companies fell sharply across Europe on Monday on expectations that people will cut back travel plans after Islamist militants launched coordinated attacks across Paris killing at least 129 people in locations of the type that might be visited by tourists. The Louvre and other attractions such as the Paris Opera reopened on Monday after shutting due to the killings, but Disneyland Paris remained closed through Tuesday and the Eiffel Tower will stay closed until further notice.
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| Massachusetts teenager faces trial for murdering high school teacher | | | By Ted Siefer SALEM, Mass. (Reuters) - A Massachusetts prosecutor on Monday described a 16-year-old former high school student charged with murdering his math teacher as a remorseless killer, while his attorney portrayed the teen as mentally disturbed and not in control of his actions. Philip Chism, 16, is being tried as an adult in the murder of Colleen Ritzer, who had been a popular 24-year-old teacher at his high school in Danvers, Massachusetts, a town of 26,000 people about 20 miles (32 km) north of Boston. "The defendant arrived at Danvers High School with a mask, a boxcutter and a terrible purpose," said Kate McDougall, an Essex County prosecutor. |
| Anonymous hackers declare war on Islamic State after Paris attacks | |  Anonymous, a loose-knit international network of activist hackers, is preparing to unleash waves of cyber attacks on Islamic State following the attacks in Paris last week that killed 129 people, a self-described member said in a video. A man wearing a Guy Fawkes mask appeared on a video posted to YouTube and said the Islamic State militants who claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks were "vermin" and Anonymous would hunt them down. Expect many cyberattacks.
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| Belgium holds two terrorism suspects after Paris attacks | |  By Yves Herman and Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Two people detained in Belgium on Saturday are being held on terrorism charges for their suspected role in the attacks on Paris, Belgian federal prosecutors said on Monday. The two, about whom officials gave no details, face charges of leading a terrorist attack and taking part in the activities of a terrorist organisation. The prosecutors also said that the search of a house in the Brussels district of Molenbeek, which was under police siege for four hours, failed to produce evidence and no arrests were made.
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| Britain hires spies, France seeks tougher EU border security after attacks | |  By Guy Faulconbridge and Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - After the deadliest attack on Europe in over a decade, Britain said on Monday it would hire more spies while France called for better intelligence sharing and tougher controls on the EU's external borders against arms smugglers and Islamist militants. Islamic State warned in a new video on Monday that countries taking part in air strikes against it in Syria would suffer the same fate as France - where at least 129 people died in Friday's bloodbath in Paris - and threatened to attack Washington. With European Union governments faced with defending over 500 million citizens of the bloc from such well-planned attacks, Britain announced it would recruit an extra 1,900 spies.
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| Islamic State tightens grip in central Libya with executions - U.N. | | | By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Islamic State militants have consolidated control over central Libya, carrying out summary executions, beheadings and amputations, the United Nations said on Monday in a further illustration of the North African state's descent into anarchy. All sides in Libya's multiple armed conflicts are committing breaches of international law that may amount to war crimes, including abductions, torture and the killing of civilians, according to a U.N. report. Islamic State (IS) has gained control over swathes of territory, "committing gross abuses including public summary executions of individuals based on their religion or political allegiance", the joint report by the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights and the U.N. Support Mission in Libya said. |
| Israel angered by 'appalling' Swedish comments after Paris attacks | |  Israel described on Monday as "appallingly impudent" comments by Sweden's foreign minister that it interpreted as an attempt to link the Islamic State attacks in Paris to the plight of Palestinians under Israeli occupation. Sweden's ambassador to Israel was summoned to the Israeli Foreign Ministry to explain the remarks Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom made on Saturday to Swedish state broadcaster SVT.
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| Prince joins lists of Europe concert no-shows after Paris shootings | |  Prince has joined Irish band U2 and American group the Foo Fighters and other entertainers in cancelling concerts in France, and elsewhere in Europe, following the carnage at a Paris concert venue on Friday. Vienna's Wiener Konzerthaus, announcing that he would not appear on Nov. 24 as planned, said on its website, "Due to the tragic events in Paris, the tour promoter has decided to postpone the upcoming European tour until further notice." Reports published in France by Agence France Presse and on websites said Prince had also cancelled two shows scheduled for early December at the Palais Garnier in Paris.
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| France police raid homes, vow it's "just the beginning" | |  By Chine Labbé and Crispian Balmer PARIS (Reuters) - Police raided homes of suspected Islamist militants across France overnight arresting 23 people, and investigators identified a Belgian national living in Syria as the possible mastermind behind Friday's attacks in Paris. Much of France came to a standstill at midday for a minute's silence to remember the 129 killed in the co-ordinated suicide bombings and shootings. Police believe one attacker is on the run, and are working on the assumption that at least four people helped organise the mayhem, the worst atrocity in France since World War Two, which appears to have been organised in neighbouring Belgium.
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| Attack suspect personified the enemy France can't find | |  By Matthias Blamont and Tom Heneghan CHARTRES, France (Reuters) - Ismael Omar Mostefai, the first of the perpetrators of the bloody massacre in Paris to have been identified, personified the dilemma facing French authorities as they struggle to fight an enemy they cannot find. "Nothing made you think he would turn violent." Asked about media reports that he had a wife and a young daughter, he said he always saw Mostefai alone. Karim Benayed, an official at the local mosque, said Mostefai was not a frequent visitor.
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| Paris attacks: an international joint venture in violence | |  By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) - Friday's attacks in Paris were probably ordered by a Belgian living in Syria and carried out by a group led by Belgium-based French nationals with an accomplice who may have used a refugee route via Greece. With at least one of the group still on the run, French prosecutors say they have identified five of the seven who died in suicide attacks on Paris bars, a concert hall and a soccer stadium that killed 129 people. Belgian police were hunting for Salah Abdeslam, a 26-year-old Frenchman based in a suburb of Brussels, who is one of at least two brothers believed to have been involved in the plan who managed to cross the border after the attacks.
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| EU countries plan crackdown on firearms after Paris attacks | |  By Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union plans to tighten rules governing the issue and use of guns, EU officials said after interior ministers were summoned to a crisis meeting in Brussels following the deadly attacks by armed militants in Paris. Ministers, who will meet on Friday, will try to push through quickly rules aimed at making it more difficult to acquire weapons and to track them better - possibly marking firearms with serial numbers - and do more to ensure that guns de-activated for sale as collectors items cannot be fired again. Firearms can be de-activated so that they can no longer be used for lethal action.
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| G20 vows more intelligence sharing; divisions remain on Syria | |  By Kylie MacLellan and Humeyra Pamuk BELEK, Turkey (Reuters) - World leaders promised to tighten border controls, step up intelligence sharing and crack down on terrorist financing at a summit in Turkey on Monday, but there was little sign of a dramatic shift in strategy against Islamic State in Syria. The G20 summit in Turkey's coastal province of Antalya has been dominated by Friday's attacks across Paris, which killed 129 people at a concert, restaurants and a soccer stadium and underlined the threat posed by the radical jihadist group far beyond its strongholds in Syria and Iraq.
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| Belgian is prime suspect as commander of Paris attacks - French source | |  By Chine Labbé PARIS (Reuters) - A Belgian national currently in Syria and believed to be one of Islamic State's most active operators is suspected of being behind Friday's attacks in Paris, acccording to a source close to the French investigation. "He appears to be the brains behind several planned attacks in Europe," the source told Reuters of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, adding he was investigators' best lead as the person likely behind the killing of at least 129 people in Paris on Friday. According to RTL Radio, Abaaoud is a 27-year-old from the Molenbeek suburb of Brussels, home to other members of the militant Islamist cell suspected of having carried out the attacks.
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