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| Paris attacks heighten security fears for 2016 Rio Olympics | | | By Anthony Boadle and Pedro Fonseca BRASILIA/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Last week's Paris killings have raised fears about the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil, a country with so little history of terrorism that the president has played down the chance of an attack and legislators long resisted bills to make it a crime. Diplomats in Brasilia say Western governments are worried about the safety of their athletes and tourists at the games because they believe many Brazilian authorities are complacent, taking too much comfort in Brazil's historical standing as a non-aligned, multi-cultural nation which is free of enemies. Security experts say many Brazilian officials do not realize just how big a stage the Olympics is for anyone seeking to sow terror, either through an attack on game venues, infrastructure nearby or the athletes and 500,000 tourists expected to attend. |
| Italy, Sweden take action against threat of militant attack | | | ROME/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Police in Italy and Sweden tried to track down suspected militants and increased security around public buildings on Thursday after receiving reports that attacks might be planned on their soil following last week's mass killings in Paris. Italy's foreign minister said possible attacks could be aimed at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome or the cathedral or La Scala theatre in Milan. Rome's underground train operator temporarily closed lines on three separate occasions during the day due to suspicious packages, which all proved to be false alarms. |
| No evidence Paris attack mastermind was ever in Greece -Greek official | | | Greece has no evidence that the suspected mastermind of the attacks in Paris, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was ever in the country, a senior interior ministry official said on Thursday. French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve had earlier said that on Nov. 16, after the Paris attacks, an intelligence service of a non-European country had signalled that Abaaoud had been in Greece. Greek authorities raided an apartment in Athens and detained three people in January in connection with a foiled Islamist plot to attack Belgian police. |
| Nepali maids want justice after alleged rape, torture by Saudi diplomat - Amnesty | |  By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Two Nepali maids who say they were repeatedly raped and tortured by a Saudi diplomat in India are demanding justice, despite the fact he has diplomatic immunity and has returned home, Amnesty International India said on Thursday. The police have registered a criminal case against six unnamed people, but have not yet filed charges.
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| Iraq's paramilitaries demand more cash for Islamic State fight, testing PM | | | By Stephen Kalin BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi paramilitaries seen as essential in fighting Islamic State are resisting moves to rein in their budget, highlighting the challenge of imposing government authority on one of the country's most powerful forces. Facing lower revenue because of declining oil prices, OPEC oil exporter Iraq is planning widespread budget cuts next year, with government expenditure set to drop by nearly 10 percent to around $95 billion. The paramilitary forces, which include Iranian-backed Shi'ite Muslim militias under a state-run umbrella called the Hashid Shaabi, complain that instead of accepting their request to fund 156,000 fighters next year, Baghdad plans to cut tens of thousands from its ranks. |
| Dominguez stripped of 2009 steeplechase world title | | | Spaniard Marta Dominguez has been stripped of her 2009 steeplechase world title and banned for three years due to anomalies in her biological passport that pointed to doping, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) said on Thursday. CAS was asked to rule in the case after the Spanish athletics federation (RFEA), of which Dominguez is a former vice president, absolved the athlete of any wrongdoing in February 2014. The IAAF appealed the RFEA's decision and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) filed its own appeal, with the two procedures later consolidated and referred to the same panel of CAS arbitrators. |
| Security in the spotlight as Dortmund look to close gap | | | By Karolos Grohmann BERLIN (Reuters) - Borussia Dortmund will look to move within striking distance of Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich when they travel to Hamburg SV on Friday amid heightened security at the stadium following the Paris attacks last week and a bomb scare that forced the cancellation of a Germany friendly this week. Bundesliga clubs are boosting their security arrangements this weekend after attacks in the French capital left 129 people dead and hundreds injured. A bomb scare only two hours before Germany were due to play the Netherlands in Hanover on Tuesday -- a game that German Chancellor Angela Merkel was planning to attend -- further increased security concerns among Germans. |
| Paris attacks mastermind flew from Germany to Turkey in 2014 - report | | | The suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks was questioned by German police at Cologne-Bonn airport early last year before he boarded a plane to Istanbul, Spiegel magazine reported on Thursday, quoting security officials. Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a 28-year-old Belgian killed in a police raid in the French capital on Wednesday, told German police on Jan. 20, 2014 he wanted to visit family and friends in the Turkish city and would return to Europe, Spiegel said. The German Interior Ministry had no immediate comment. |
| Suspected mastermind of Paris attacks killed in raid, says France | |  By John Irish and Gregory Blachier PARIS (Reuters) - The suspected Islamic State mastermind of the Paris attacks was among those killed in a police raid north of the capital, France confirmed on Thursday, bringing an end to the hunt for Europe's most wanted man. Authorities said they had identified the corpse of Belgian national Abdelhamid Abaaoud from fingerprints in the aftermath of Wednesday's raid, in which at least two people died including a female suicide bomber after a gun battle with police. "It was his body we discovered in the building, riddled with impacts," a statement from the Paris prosecutor said, a day after the pre-dawn raid.
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| Threat of Paris-style attack bursts Germans' security bubble | | | By Paul Carrel and Christoph Steitz BERLIN/MAINZ, Germany (Reuters) - After years of feeling insulated from militant Islamist threats, Germans are worrying that they too could be subject to attacks like those suffered last week in Paris. The Paris attackers' attempts to suicide-bomb last Friday's Germany-France soccer match in the French capital pricked Germans' security bubble. The twin threats struck at the heart of popular culture in Germany, soccer's World Cup holders, unnerving a people who felt for years that their opposition to the Iraq war and their low-key involvement in Afghanistan meant they would not be targeted. |
| EU to tighten external border checks after Paris attacks | |  By Francesco Guarascio and Toby Sterling BRUSSELS/AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The European Union will tighten checks at external borders of the passport-free Schengen area, including for its own citizens who enjoy free movement within the bloc, to boost security after the attacks in Paris by armed militants. The bloc's interior and justice ministers, at an emergency meeting in Brussels on Friday, will discuss beefing up security and new counter-terrorism measures in the wake of the Nov. 13 attacks that killed 129 people in the French capital. Paris requested more controls at external borders of the 26-nation Schengen area, of which most EU countries are members, after law enforcement bodies blamed the attacks on French and Belgian nationals, including an Islamic State fighter returned from Syria.
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| Islamic State claims attack on Italian missionary in Bangladesh | | | Islamic State claimed responsibility on Thursday for the shooting of an Italian missionary in Bangladesh, the fifth attack in recent months the militants said they had carried out in the country. Islamic State members shot Piero Parolari, a doctor, with a gun and silencer, the group's Bangladesh affiliate said in an Arabic-language statement on a wesbite it uses. The statement also said the group had attacked a member of the Bahai religious community and murdered a politician it identified as Rahma Ali. |
| The hunt for the Paris attackers | | | (Reuters) - France, which with Belgium is striving to track down any living assailants and would-be assailants after the Nov. 13 attacks on Paris, says that the suspected mastermind, Belgian Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was among those killed in a police assault north of Paris on Wednesday. Here's what we know about the attackers who died in Friday's attacks on Paris and Wednesday's police assault in Saint-Denis, north of the capital, as well as others key to investigations. SUMMARY OF KEY EVENTS Nov 13: Seven dead assailants, not all named, played direct roles in the Nov. ... |
| Prosecutor: unclear if suspected Paris attack mastermind blew himself up | |  It is unclear at this stage if the suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks, who was found dead after a police raid, blew himself up or not, the Paris prosecutor's office said on Thursday. The Paris prosecutor said earlier on Thursday that Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a 28-year-old Belgian militant, was among those killed on Wednesday in a police raid in a suburb of the French capital.
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| Suspected mastermind of Paris attacks Abaaoud died in police raid - prosecutor | |  The suspected mastermind of the attacks that killed 129 in Paris was among those killed in a police raid in a suburb of the French capital, the Paris prosecutor said in a statement on Thursday. Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a 28-year-old Belgian militant, who had boasted of mounting attacks in Europe for the Islamic State, was accused of orchestrating Friday's coordinated bombings and shootings in the French capital, which killed 129 people. Police originally thought he was in Syria, but their investigations led them to a house in the Paris suburb of St. Denis and heavily armed officers stormed the building before dawn, triggering a massive firefight and multiple explosions.
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