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| U.S. Republicans seek to shut door on Syrian refugees after Paris | |  More than a dozen state governors refused on Monday to accept Syrian refugees after the Paris attacks, part of a mounting Republican backlash against the Obama administration's plan to accept thousands more immigrants from the war-torn country. Leading Republican presidential candidates called on President Barack Obama to suspend the plan to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees in the coming year and some Republican lawmakers began moves in Congress to try to defund the policy. The State Department said the administration would stand by its plan, reiterating that the refugees would be subject to stringent security checks, and Obama said that the terrorism problem should not be equated with the refugee crisis.
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| U.S. looking for opportunities to strike Islamic State, needs others to help: Carter | |  By Yeganeh Torbati WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States continues to look for opportunities to strike at the Islamic State but needs its European allies to make bolder moves to defeat the group militarily, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Monday. In comments during his first public appearance since coordinated attacks in Paris on Friday, Carter said the attacks had "galvanized" France into taking bolder action against Islamic State and cooperating further with the United States, and that he hoped it would have the same effect on other European partners. "We're looking to do more, we're looking for every opportunity we can to get in there and go at ISIL, but we need others to...get in the game as well," Carter said, using an acronym for Islamic State.
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| Venezuela pair held by U.S. for drugs were 'kidnapped' - official | |  By Alexandra Ulmer CARACAS (Reuters) - Two men said to be relatives of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro who are being held in the United States on cocaine smuggling charges were "kidnapped," a senior member of the ruling Socialist Party said on Monday. In the first direct comment on the case from a high-ranking Venezuelan official, National Assembly president and party No. 2 Diosdado Cabello also said it was an attempt by Washington to discredit the country's government right before a vote. Franqui Francisco Flores de Freitas, 30, and Efrain Antonio Campo Flores, 29, were arrested in Haiti last Tuesday and flown to New York for indictment.
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| China security chief calls for greater "de-radicalisation" efforts | |  China needs to deepen its fight against separatists, intensify "de-radicalisation" efforts, and increase global cooperation to defend against terrorism, the country's domestic security chief wrote on Tuesday. The Chinese government says it is facing a threat from Islamist militants and separatists in the far western region of Xinjiang, home to the Muslim Uighur people and where hundreds have died in unrest in the past three years or so. China's foreign minister has already called for greater international cooperation in its fight against Xinjiang radicals in the wake of the Paris attacks at the weekend.
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| CIA chief warns Islamic State may have other attacks ready | | | By Jonathan Landay, Mark Hosenball and John Irish WASHINGTON (Reuters) - CIA Director John Brennan warned on Monday that the attacks in Paris claimed by the extremist Islamic State movement were not a "one-off event" and that the militants may have similar operations ready to launch. Foiling those plots, however, could prove difficult because Europe's intelligence and security resources are severely stretched trying to keep track of the hundreds of European extremists who have returned home from fighting in Syria and Iraq. "A lot of our partners right now in Europe are facing a lot of challenges in terms of the numbers of individuals who have travelled to Syria and Iraq and back again, and so their ability to monitor and survey these individuals is under strain," Brennan said. |
| Belgian connection: from barkeeper to suicide bomber | | | By Robert-Jan Bartunek, Philip Blenkinsop and Alissa de Carbonnel BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Two weeks ago, the mayor of Molenbeek ordered the closure of a neighbourhood bar where Brussels police had found young men dealing drugs and smoking dope over the summer. Last Friday, the owner blew himself up at another laid-back corner cafe, this time in Paris, on a mission of retribution from Islamic State. Brahim Abdeslam's journey from barkeeper to suicide bomber remains a mystery, along with the whereabouts of his younger brother Salah, now on the run as Europe's most wanted man but until recently the manager of Brahim's bar, Les Beguines. |
| Vowing to destroy terrorism, France seeks global coalition against Islamic State | |  By Chine Labbé and Crispian Balmer PARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande called on the United States and Russia on Monday to join a global coalition to destroy Islamic State following the attacks across Paris, and announced a wave of measures to combat terrorism in France. "France is at war," Hollande told a joint session of parliament at the Palace of Versailles, promising to increase funds for national security and strengthen anti-terrorism laws in response to the suicide bombings and shootings that killed 129. Parliamentarians gave Hollande a standing ovation before spontaneously singing the "Marseillaise" national anthem in a show of political unity after the worst atrocity France has seen since World War Two.
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| Eagles of Death Metal fans rally to band's support | | | By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Fans of the California-based rock band Eagles of Death Metal, whose Paris show was turned into a massacre by gunmen who stormed the concert, have mounted a social media campaign to boost downloads of the band's newly recorded track "Save a Prayer." A Facebook page titled "Eagles of Death Metal for No. 1" was launched over the weekend, according to the site, by a handful of British-based "regular gig-goers" with no ties to the band's organisation, its management, marketing or music label. Organizers said they were aiming to drive the song to the top of the British pop singles charts this week, and that the track already had hit No. 1 on Amazon and iTunes rock charts within 24 hours. "Zipper Down" ranked 6 on Amazon's U.S. roster of best-selling rock albums and at No. 3 on iTunes' equivalent chart on Monday - an impressive showing for a release that according to Nielsen SoundScan had sold a meagre 12,000 album downloads and CDs in the United States before Friday's tragedy. |
| Belgium v Spain match called off for security reasons | | | A soccer friendly between Belgium and Spain scheduled for Brussels on Tuesday has been postponed for security reasons after the Paris attacks, the Belgian soccer federation said in a statement. "The URBSFA (federation) was contacted by the government this evening and advised not to organise the Belgium-Spain match tomorrow evening," it said in a statement late on Monday. The statement, in French, said the game had been cancelled though a tweet from the URBSFA official English account said it had been only postponed. |
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