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| 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". |
| 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. |
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