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| 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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| 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, multicultural nation which is free of enemies. Security experts say many Brazilian officials do not realise 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. |
| Swiss banks to pay $81 mln, avoid U.S. charges on aiding tax evasion | | | Three Swiss banks will pay a total of more than $81 million to the U.S. Justice Department to avoid possible prosecution for helping Americans to evade taxes, the department said on Thursday. "The BNP Paribas Group is committed to fully complying with the laws and regulations in all markets in which it is active," a spokeswoman said. "Since 2008, the Group has proactively taken steps within its Wealth Management business to reinforce its policies related to U.S. taxpayers." Efforts to reach spokespeople at KBL Ltd and Bank CIC were unsuccessful outside Swiss business hours on Thursday. |
| U.N. panel condemns North Korea abuses, Pyongyang cites U.S. 'plot' | |  By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A United Nations General Assembly committee on Thursday condemned what it said were rampant and planned human rights abuses in North Korea, but Pyongyang denounced the accusation as a hostile plot organised by the United States and its allies. The non-binding resolution adopted by the 193-nation assembly's Third Committee, which was drafted by the European Union and Japan, cited "ongoing systematic, widespread and gross violations of human rights" in North Korea.
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| Kuwait says detains group supplying funds, weapons to IS | | | Kuwaiti authorities have arrested members of an extremist network that supplied funds and weapons, including rockets, to Islamic State militants, state news agency KUNA quoted the Interior Ministry as saying on Thursday. The group included a Lebanese, an Egyptian, five Syrians, two Australians and a Kuwaiti national, KUNA said. KUNA said one of the members coordinated the transfer of militants abroad and was a financier who sent money to accounts in Turkey and Australia. |
| "Spider in web" mastermind of Paris attacks killed in raid | |  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 mangled corpse of Belgian national Abdelhamid Abaaoud from fingerprints in the aftermath of Wednesday's raid and gunbattle in which at least two people died including a female suicide bomber. The body had been found riddled with holes amid the wreckage in the aftermath of Wednesday's raid, Paris's prosecutor said in a statement.
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| VW diesel recall to cost much less than expected - magazine | |  Volkswagen will probably incur much lower costs than expected for recalling 2.4 million diesel-powered cars in Germany fitted with illegal emissions-control software, German magazine Wirtschaftswoche reported on Thursday. The technical fixes for 1.6 litre diesel engines require installing a 10-euro ($10.74) sensor inside the air filter and a software update, the weekly magazine said. A simple hardware solution could reduce total recall costs for the 11 million affected vehicles worldwide by 3 billion euros and enable VW to fix the cars more rapidly, Arndt Ellinghorst, of banking advisory firm Evercore ISI, said in a note sent to reporters.
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| EXCLUSIVE - Attacks to strain France's terrorism victim fund | |  By Andrew Chung PARIS (Reuters) - Friday's suicide bombings and shootings in Paris killed 129 people. As police hunted for fugitives and the investigation widened to trace the path of the attackers, France's public prosecutor was compiling a list of victims to give the Guarantee Fund for Victims of Terrorist and Other Criminal Acts, or FGTI, which pays victims of designated terrorist incidents. The fund, created by the French government in 1986 and financed by a tax on each of the 80 million car, house and business insurance policies in France, will then begin the compensation process.
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| As Obama heads to Malaysia, human trafficking stance questioned | |  By Kanupriya Kapoor, Jason Szep and Matt Spetalnick KUALA LUMPUR/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Inus bin Abul Baser, an 18-year-old from Myanmar's persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority, believed he'd escaped the worst when he managed to buy his freedom from human traffickers in Thailand and enter Malaysia in search of security and work. But within weeks, he was cooped up in a filthy, overcrowded detention center near Kuala Lumpur's international airport, squatting or sleeping on the floor in a hall with scores of other men. Interviews with six former detainees revealed similar treatment. U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to Malaysia on Friday for a Southeast Asia leaders' summit comes amid allegations by U.S. lawmakers and rights groups that his administration ignored Malaysia's abuse of trafficking victims such as Baser to secure the country's help sealing a high-profile trade deal and strengthen ties to offset China's growing political clout. As Reuters previously reported, a U.S. State Department office set up by Congress to independently grade global efforts to fight human trafficking had recommended keeping Malaysia on the bottom grade in its annual Trafficking in Persons Report this year.
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| 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. |
| French National Assembly extends state of emergency | |  France's lower house of parliament extended a state of emergency imposed after attacks in Paris for three months on Thursday and toughened a series of security measures which date back to 1955. France imposed the state of emergency on Saturday, a day after the attacks killed 129 people in the capital, giving police extended powers to search and detain suspects. Lawmakers in the National Assembly approved amendments to the state of emergency law introduced during the Algerian war of independence by 551 votes to six.
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| 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.
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| 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. |
| 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. |
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