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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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| 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 requests European support in Syria, Iraq, Africa | | | 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, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said. It may be by cooperating with French interventions in Syria, in Iraq, it may be in support of France in other operations," he told a news conference. |
| 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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| Exclusive - Egypt detains two airport staff in connection with Sinai air crash: sources | |  Egyptian authorities have detained two employees of Sharm al-Sheikh airport in connection with the downing of a Russian jet on Oct. 31 that killed all 224 people on board, two security officials 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," one of the officials said. Russia's FSB security service said on Tuesday it was certain a bomb had brought down the plane, joining Britain and the United States in reaching that conclusion.
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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. |
| France strikes Islamic State in Syria again after Paris attacks | |  By Paul Taylor PARIS (Reuters) - France carried out fresh air strikes on Islamic State bases in northern Syria on Tuesday as police made 128 overnight raids across France in the hunt for accomplices to Friday's Paris attacks claimed by the Islamist group. French warplanes targeted a command centre 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. The strike involved 10 fighter jets launched from the United Arab Emirates and Jordan.
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| 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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| Britain says Islamic State militants plotting deadly cyber attacks | |  By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - Islamic State militants are trying to develop the capability to launch deadly cyber attacks against Britain's infrastructure, finance minister George Osborne will say on Tuesday as he announces a doubling of spending on cyber security. Osborne, Prime Minister David Cameron's close ally, said Friday's attacks in Paris, which killed at least 129 people and were claimed by Islamic State (ISIL), underscored the need to improve Britain's protections against electronic attack.
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| French police make 128 overnight raids after Paris attacks | |  PARIS (Reuters) - French police conducted 128 raids overnight following a wave of shootings and suicide bombings in Paris on Friday which left at least 129 people dead, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Tuesday. He told France Info radio station police were making rapid progress in their investigation into the attacks claimed by Islamic State militants but declined to give further details. President Francois Hollande has declared a state of emergency allowing administrative arrests and searches without a warrant following the bloodiest attacks in French history. ...
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| "They'll think we are the enemy": refugees in Germany fear backlash | |  By Joseph Nasr BERLIN (Reuters) - Syrian and Iraqi refugees in Germany fear that the attacks in Paris could further shift public opinion against the Berlin government's welcoming asylum policy. About a dozen men, smoking heavily, discussed the deadliest attacks in Europe since 2004 outside Berlin's Tempelhof airport, an imposing structure built by Hitler to showcase Nazi power and now functioning as a shelter for asylum-seekers. The backdrop to their conversation on Monday was a chorus of demands by right-wing European politicians to halt the flow of migrants into Europe, which some see as providing ideal cover for Islamic State to smuggle in militants -- even if there is as yet no proof.
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| Factbox - Dead killers, hunted suspects after Paris attacks | |  (Reuters) - France, which along with Belgium has launched a massive manhunt for people involved in the attacks that killed at least 129 people in Paris on Friday, is striving to establish the identities of the attackers and chief suspects.
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| Italy says Islamic State could attack Rome with drones during Holy Year | |  Islamic State (IS) could attack Rome with drones during a Roman Catholic Holy Year beginning next month and air space over the capital will be closed to drones throughout the event, Italian Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said on Monday. Countries across Europe are tightening emergency precautions after Friday's gun and bomb rampage in Paris which killed at least 129 people, France's worst atrocity since World War Two, and was claimed by the jihadist IS. Addressing the Chamber of Deputies (parliament), Alfano said drones will be banned from air space over the centre of Rome throughout the Holy Year, or "Jubilee" that begins on Dec. 8 and is expected to draw millions of tourists to the Italian capital.
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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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