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- TV star Charlie Sheen says he is HIV positive
- Kerry: need progress on Syria for more cooperation with Russia on Islamic State
- Iran arrests cartoonist as crackdown on free expression goes on
- Britain develops cyber attack powers to take on IS
- France requests European support in Syria, Iraq, Africa
- German police arrest 2 women, 1 man in operation linked to Paris attacks
- Suspect in Paris attacks entered Austria in September
- UN torture watchdog questions China over crackdown on activists, lawyers
- Armed police to patrol England v France soccer match following Paris attacks
- Exclusive - Egypt detains two airport staff in connection with Russian air crash - sources
- Bullets, chemicals found at homes of Belgian Paris suspects - paper
- France, Russia strike Islamic State in Syria, EU aid invoked
- Russia needs to rid sport of state interference - Pound
- U.S.' Kerry says Islamic State feeling the pressure, losing ground
- Hungarian parliament votes to challenge EU migrant quotas in court
- Interview - Rebuffing critics, Jaitley goes for growth, reform
- Iran's Rouhani tells Hollande need "all our might" to fight Islamic State - source
- France makes formal call for EU military help
- Tunisia says it prevented major Islamist attack this month
- German police chief plays down security threat from refugees
- Tear gas and pepper spray fired - again - in Kosovo parliament
| TV star Charlie Sheen says he is HIV positive | |  (Corrects in 6th paragraph to say $1.8 million per episode not annually) NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former "Two and A Half Men" television star Charlie Sheen said on Tuesday he is HIV positive. "I am here to admit that I am in fact HIV positive," Sheen said, saying he was "not entirely sure" how he acquired the virus. Sheen, who is three times divorced, played the womanizing bachelor Charlie Harper on top-rated U.S. comedy series "Two and A Half Men" for eight years before being fired in 2011 for bad behavior that included cocaine-fueled partying with porn stars and a conviction for assaulting his ex-wife.
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| Kerry: need progress on Syria for more cooperation with Russia on Islamic State | |  By David Brunnstrom PARIS (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday increased coordination with Russia in the fight against Islamic State militants would require progress in the political process to end the Syrian war. Kerry, who arrived in Paris on Monday to pay respects to victims of Friday's militant attacks, said agreements reached last week at Vienna peace talks on Syria, meant the country could be "weeks away, conceivably, of a big transition". Speaking to reporters after meetings French President Francois Hollande and Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius in Paris, Kerry referred to independently conducted U.S. and Russian air strikes in Syria.
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| Iran arrests cartoonist as crackdown on free expression goes on | | | Iranian authorities have arrested a cartoonist and sent him to prison to complete a suspended jail sentence, his lawyer said on Tuesday, joining a growing list of journalists, artists and activists detained on security charges. Hadi Heidari, a cartoonist at the Shahrvand newspaper, was arrested on Monday and sent to Tehran's Evin prison, his lawyer told Reuters in a telephone interview from Tehran. The authorities had a different interpretation of his cartoons than he had," the lawyer, Saleh Nikbakht, said. |
| Britain develops cyber attack powers to take on IS | |  By Michael Holden CHELTENHAM, England (Reuters) - British spies are developing an offensive cyber capability to attack terrorists, hackers and rogue states, finance minister George Osborne said on Tuesday after warning Islamic State militants wanted to launch deadly cyber attacks of their own. Osborne said Islamic State (IS) fighters were trying to develop the ability to attack Britain's infrastructure such as hospitals and air traffic control systems with potentially lethal consequences. In response to this threat and others, Britain was creating its own offensive cyber capability so spies could launch counter attacks, he said.
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| France requests European support in Syria, Iraq, Africa | | | By Robin Emmott and Sabine Siebold BRUSSELS (Reuters) - France invoked the European Union's mutual assistance clause for the first time on Tuesday, asking its partners for military help and other aid in missions in the Middle East and Africa after the Paris attacks. The unexpected move to look to the European Union for help, rather than the U.S.-led NATO alliance, requires all of the bloc's 28 members to provide "aid and assistance", which Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said meant taking some of the burden off France as Europe's most active military power. "France cannot do everything, in the Sahel, in the Central African Republic, in the Levant and then secure its national territory," Le Drian told a news conference during a meeting of EU defence ministers in Brussels where he invoked the EU's Article 42.7 mutual assistance clause. |
| German police arrest 2 women, 1 man in operation linked to Paris attacks | | | German police in the western city of Aachen have arrested two women and one man in an operation linked to the attacks last Friday in Paris which killed at least 129 people. "After (receiving) leads we arrested two women and one man," said a spokeswoman for Aachen police on Tuesday, declining to give any information on the identity or nationality of the three individuals. German broadcaster ARD had reported the arrests took place in Alsdorf, a small town near Aachen in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and close to Germany's border with Belgium and the Netherlands. |
| Suspect in Paris attacks entered Austria in September | |  Austrian police are trying to pin down the movements in Austria of a suspect in Friday's attacks in Paris, who entered the country from Germany in early September and told the authorities he was on holiday, the interior ministry said on Tuesday. A government official named the man as Belgian-born Frenchman Salah Abdeslam, 26, who escaped back to Belgium on Saturday after the attacks and eluded a police dragnet in the Brussels neighbourhood of Molenbeek, where he lived with his two brothers.
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| UN torture watchdog questions China over crackdown on activists, lawyers | | | By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. rights experts pressed senior Chinese officials on Tuesday about persistent allegations that torture is rife in their police stations and prisons, especially of political prisoners, and about deaths in custody. China said it was working to combat torture but that it had not been eliminated. The United Nations Committee against Torture's regular examination of Beijing's record came after what the group Human Rights in China says has been "a year of massive crackdowns on rights activists and lawyers" on the mainland. |
| Armed police to patrol England v France soccer match following Paris attacks | | | Armed police will patrol around Wembley stadium on Tuesday, as England and France play a friendly soccer match just days after militants launched suicide bombings outside the Stade de France as part of a wave of attacks in Paris. Common in European countries like France, armed police are generally a rare sight in Britain although they did patrol the London Olympic Games in 2012 and have become more common in recent years due to fears of a militant attack. Prime Minister David Cameron, Mayor Boris Johnson and Prince William are expected to attend the match where English fans will be encouraged to put aside traditional football rivalry and sing the French national anthem. |
| Exclusive - Egypt detains two airport staff in connection with Russian air crash - sources | |  By Ahmed Mohamed Hassan CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian authorities have detained two employees of Sharm al-Sheikh airport for questioning in connection with the downing of a Russian jet on Oct. 31 that killed all 224 people on board, two security officials and an airport employee said on Tuesday "Seventeen people are being held, two of them are suspected of helping whoever planted the bomb on the plane at Sharm al-Sheikh airport," said one of the security officials who both declined to be named. One of the security officials said CCTV footage showed a baggage handler carrying a suitcase from an airport building to another man, who was loading luggage onto the doomed airliner from beneath the plane on the runway.
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| Bullets, chemicals found at homes of Belgian Paris suspects - paper | |  A Belgian newspaper said on Tuesday that police found bullets and a possible bomb-making chemical at the Brussels homes of two men being held on suspicion of terrorist offences in connection with Friday's Paris attacks. Lawyers for the men have said they are innocent and got caught up in the case because they drove to Paris early on Saturday to fetch Salah Abdeslam, now a prime suspect on the run, after he called them to say his car broke down. Salah Abdeslam's elder brother, Brahim, was one of seven men who blew themselves up in Paris on Friday evening with improvised suicide belts.
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| France, Russia strike Islamic State in Syria, EU aid invoked | |  By Paul Taylor PARIS (Reuters) - France and Russia both staged air strikes on Islamic State targets in northern Syria on Tuesday as Paris formally requested European Union assistance in its fight against the group behind last Friday's bloody attacks on the French capital. French warplanes targeted a command post and a recruitment centre for jihadists in the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa in the second consecutive night of strikes ordered by President Francois Hollande, a military command spokesman told Reuters. A French government source said Russia hit targets in the same area, a day after Hollande appealed to Washington and Moscow to join in a grand coalition to fight the Islamist group that controls swathes of Syria and Iraq.
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| Russia needs to rid sport of state interference - Pound | |  Russian Athletics needs to prove it can operate without interference from state security services if it is to compete on an international stage again, the author of an explosive anti-doping report said on Tuesday. Russia was suspended from international athletics after a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) report accused its state security services of colluding with the country's athletics federation to enable athletes to take performance-enhancing drugs with confidence test results would be suppressed. Dick Pound, author of the WADA report, told the BBC Russia's anti-doping laboratory and anti-doping agency needed to prove they could act freely of government pressure in order to bring an end to a state-sponsored drugs culture.
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| U.S.' Kerry says Islamic State feeling the pressure, losing ground | |  Islamic State is losing territory in the Middle East and the Western-backed coalition is making inroads against the group, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday. Daesch has less territory," he said, referring to the Arabic acronym for Islamic State. Kerry, who confirmed French President Francois Hollande would travel to Washington next week to meet U.S. President Barack Obama, was speaking in Paris after a meeting with Hollande.
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| Hungarian parliament votes to challenge EU migrant quotas in court | |  BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's parliament authorised the government in a law passed on Tuesday to turn to the courts to challenge an EU decision on mandatory migrant relocation quotas for EU members. Hungary, the Czech Republic, Romania and Slovakia voted against the quota plan proposed by the European Commission when it was approved on Sept. 22. Slovakia has also said that it will pursue legal means to challenge the decision. (Reporting by Sandor Peto; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
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| Interview - Rebuffing critics, Jaitley goes for growth, reform | |  By Manoj Kumar DUBAI (Reuters) - Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Tuesday he would prioritise growth over cutting the budget deficit, urging critics in his ruling party and the political opposition to back Prime Minister Narendra Modi's economic reform agenda. Modi is seeking to regain the initiative after a bruising election setback in India's third most populous state earlier this month triggered a minor rebellion by elders in his nationalist party. Arun Jaitley brushed aside the restive senior leaders in his party, saying "people must have a sense of responsibility when they speak." He was speaking to Reuters over breakfast at his hotel in Dubai during a visit to attract investments from Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds.
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| Iran's Rouhani tells Hollande need "all our might" to fight Islamic State - source | |  It is of vital importance to fight Islamic State with "all our might", Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday, a day after Paris called for a grand coalition to destroy the group. The (two men) insisted on the importance of the Vienna peace talks to resolve the conflict in Syria, the source said.
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| France makes formal call for EU military help | |  France made a formal request on Tuesday for help from its EU partners following the Paris attacks, invoking a mutual assistance article in the European Union's treaty for the first time. "In Brussels, I have just invoked Article 42.7," French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on his Twitter account during an EU defence ministers meeting. Immediate details of what France will request are not clear, but the EU's Lisbon Treaty says that in the case of a "armed agression" on any EU country, the other countries have "an obligation of aid and assistance by all means in their power".
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| Tunisia says it prevented major Islamist attack this month | | | By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia has arrested a cell of 17 Islamist militants and prevented a major assault on hotels and security forces in the resort town of Sousse planned for this month, a senior government official told Reuters on Tuesday. Sousse was the site of one of two major attacks claimed by Islamic State in Tunisia this year, when 38 foreigners were killed at a beach hotel in June. In March, gunmen killed 21 tourists in an attack at the Bardo Museum in Tunis. |
| German police chief plays down security threat from refugees | |  There is no sign that Islamist militants have entered Germany posing as refugees to commit an attack, the head of the police has said, responding to concerns following the attacks in Paris that an open-door refugee policy poses a security risk. Holger Muench, president of the BKA federal police, told the daily Die Welt he could not discount the threat of militant attacks in Germany as radical Islamists had Western targets in focus, but played down any signs of an imminent attack. "So far, we have no indication that a terrorist has entered Germany as an asylum seeker in order to perpetrate an attack." Muench said about 10 individual migrants were under investigation as possible jihadists or war criminals, after tip-offs mostly from other refugees.
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| Tear gas and pepper spray fired - again - in Kosovo parliament | |  By Fatos Bytyci PRISTINA (Reuters) - Opposition lawmakers in Kosovo fired tear gas and pepper spray in parliament on Tuesday, the latest such incident in a deepening political crisis over relations with former master Serbia. The protest was led by prominent opposition figure Albin Kurti, who has set off tear gas in the chamber several times to demand the government scrap a deal to regulate ties between Serbia and its former southern province. Kurti fired pepper spray at police.
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