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- Frenchman identified in Islamic State audio claim of Paris attacks
- Little-known Grindel frontrunner to lead German FA
- Egypt says has found no evidence criminal action behind plane crash
- France, Russia strike Islamic State in Syria, EU aid invoked
- German police arrest five in operation linked to Paris attacks
- U.N. torture watchdog questions China over crackdown on activists, lawyers
- Suspect in Paris attacks entered Austria in September
- French teachers use weeping Eiffel Tower image to help kids understand attacks
- TV star Charlie Sheen says he is HIV positive, had been blackmailed
- 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
- U.S., Turkey working to finish shutting off northern Syria border - Kerry
- France requests European support in Syria, Iraq, Africa
- 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
- 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
| Frenchman identified in Islamic State audio claim of Paris attacks | |  The voice of a jihadist claiming Islamic State's responsibility for last week's attacks in Paris has been identified as a 36 year-old Frenchmen authorities believe is now in Syria, a source close to the investigation said on Tuesday. The man, Fabien Clain from Toulouse, reads out a pre-written statement already published earlier this week claiming the attacks that killed 129 people and injured more than 350. Daily newspaper Le Monde, citing sources, said Clain was suspected of orchestrating a foiled attack on at least one French church in April and said he was a close friend of al-Qaeda inspired gunman Mohammed Merah, who killed seven people in March 2012.
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| Little-known Grindel frontrunner to lead German FA | | | By Karolos Grohmann BERLIN (Reuters) - Reinhard Grindel, a Christian Democrat member of parliament and treasurer of the German FA (DFB), was earmarked on Tuesday to take over as president and steer the world's largest soccer federation out of its current troubles. "I personally support the candidature of Reinhard Grindel," interim DFB president Rainer Koch said after meeting with the soccer representatives of Germany's 21 state federations earlier in the day. Koch and Reinhard Rauball, who have run the DFB since the resignation of Wolfgang Niersbach last week in relation to an ongoing World Cup 2006 bribery scandal, have ruled themselves out as candidates. |
| Egypt says has found no evidence criminal action behind plane crash | |  CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt said on Tuesday it would take into account Russia's conclusion that a bomb brought down a passenger plane over the Sinai Peninsula last month but its investigation had so far found no evidence of criminal action. The comments were made at a joint news conference held by the prime minister and several cabinet ministers in Sharm al-Sheikh, the Red Sea resort from which the doomed plane took off. The interior minister said if any security lapse was to blame for the crash then those behind it would be punished. ...
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| France, Russia strike Islamic State in Syria, EU aid invoked | |  By Chine Labbé and Crispian Balmer PARIS (Reuters) - France and Russia staged air strikes on Islamic State targets in northern Syria on Tuesday, punishing the group for attacks in Paris and against a Russian airliner that together killed 353 people. Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a coordinated onslaught in Paris on Friday and the downing of a Russian charter jet over Sinai on Oct. 31, saying they were in retaliation for French and Russian air raids in Iraq and Syria.
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| German police arrest five in operation linked to Paris attacks | | | Police in the western German city of Aachen arrested five people, at least three of them foreign citizens, on Tuesday in an operation linked to the militant attacks last Friday in Paris that killed 129 people. A special police response unit overpowered two women and one man outside a job centre in Alsdorf, a small town near Aachen close to Germany's border with Belgium and the Netherlands. "After the terror attacks last Friday in Paris and the search for the perpetrators and the people pulling the strings, police in Aachen got a lead to suspicious individuals in Alsdorf," a police statement said. |
| U.N. 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 examination of Beijing's record, the first since 2008, 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. |
| 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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| French teachers use weeping Eiffel Tower image to help kids understand attacks | |  PARIS (Reuters) - French teachers are using the cartoon image of a weeping Eiffel Tower to help young children understand what happened in last Friday's attacks in Paris that killed at least 129 people. The image of a grieving, humanised Eiffel Tower holding hands with young children and gazing at a pool of blood appears in a special online edition of the 'astrapi' paper that explains how "men full of hate" carried out the attacks. ...
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| TV star Charlie Sheen says he is HIV positive, had been blackmailed | |  By Jill Serjeant NEW YORK (Reuters) - Charlie Sheen, former star of the hit U.S. television comedy "Two and A Half Men," said on Tuesday he was diagnosed HIV positive some four years ago and had been extorted for more than $10 million to keep the information quiet. Sheen, 50, told NBC's "Today" TV show he was speaking out because he was being blackmailed, and to refute tabloid reports that he has AIDS and was spreading it to other people. "I am here to admit that I am in fact HIV positive," Sheen said, adding he was "not entirely sure" how he contracted the virus.
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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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| U.S., Turkey working to finish shutting off northern Syria border - Kerry | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday his country is starting an operation with Turkey to finish securing the northern Syrian border. "The entire border of northern Syria - 75 percent of it has now been shut off. And we are entering an operation with the Turks to shut off the other remaining 98 kilometers," he said in an interview with CNN. (Reporting by Lisa Lambert)
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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. |
| 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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| 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. |
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