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| China says 28 foreign-led "terrorists" killed after attack on mine | | | By Michael Martina 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. Attackers fled into the mountains and authorities launched a manhunt with more than 10,000 people participating every day, forming an "inescapable dragnet", the Xinjiang Daily said. |
| 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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| Huckabee sued for playing 'Eye of the Tiger' at Kim Davis rally | |  By Fiona Ortiz CHICAGO (Reuters) - The co-writer of 1980s hit "Eye of the Tiger" has filed a federal lawsuit against Republican Mike Huckabee's presidential campaign for playing the song at a rally for Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who refused to sign gay marriage licenses. Frank Sullivan, a guitarist and founding member of the band Survivor, sued Huckabee for President for unauthorized public performance of the song. Sullivan, who filed the suit in federal court in Illinois, where he lives, asked that Huckabee's campaign be prohibited from unauthorized performances of the song and asked a federal judge to determine damages.
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| FBI director says no credible threat of Paris-type attack in U.S. | |  By Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) - FBI Director James Comey said on Thursday there was no credible threat of an attack on U.S. soil similar to the ones last week in Paris and that his agency had taken terrorism investigations "up a notch." Comey and Attorney General Loretta Lynch discussed U.S. counterterrorism efforts with reporters as security concerns mounted following the killing of 129 people in Paris last Friday in attacks claimed by the Islamic State militant group. "We are not aware of any credible threat here of a Paris-type attack and we have seen no connection at all between the Paris attackers and the United States," Comey said.
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| Swedish police say arrest man suspected of planning terrorist attack | | | Swedish police on Thursday arrested a man suspected of planning a terrorist attack after a manhunt that saw security tightened across the country days after the attacks in Paris that killed 129 people. Security police left the country's terrorist risk assessment level at its highest ever, four on a scale of five, meaning there is a high probability that "persons have the intent and ability to carry out an attack". On Wednesday, Sweden's Security Police (SAPO) said they had concrete information about a possible attack. |
| Greek police arrest 10 over forged papers for migrants | | | Greek police said on Thursday they had arrested 10 foreigners for supplying forged passports and registration documents to refugees and other migrants arriving in the country. European Union interior ministers are expected to agree on Friday to tighten checks at the external borders of the passport-free Schengen area, a draft document seen by Reuters shows. The falsified documents were mostly used to allow the migrants to travel from Greece by plane. |
| Liberia president says ritual killings on the rise | |  Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Thursday vowed to crack down on those responsible for a rise in ritual killings in the West African country as it seeks to emerge from the shadow of an Ebola epidemic. In some areas of central Africa, body parts are prized for their supernatural powers and are used in black magic ceremonies. Local media have reported at least 10 related murders in Liberia since the summer.
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| Fake pesticides endanger crops and human health in India | |  By Krishna N. Das FARIDABAD, India (Reuters) - Millions of unsuspecting Indian farmers are spraying fake pesticides onto their fields, contaminating soil, cutting crop yields and putting both food security and human health at risk in the country of 1.25 billion people. The use of spurious pesticides has exacerbated losses in the genetically modified (GM) cotton crop in northern India after an attack by whitefly, a pest, say officials. If unchecked, some of India's roughly $26 billion in annual farm exports could be hit.
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