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| Bundesliga clubs beef up security after attacks, bomb scare | | | By Karolos Grohmann BERLIN (Reuters) - Several German top-flight clubs are beefing up security ahead of Bundesliga matches later this week following the deadly attacks in Paris and a bomb scare that forced the cancellation of an international friendly between Germany and Netherlands on Tuesday. The World Cup-winning national team had to be hustled to safety for a second time in four days on Tuesday after also playing in Paris during Friday's attacks that killed at least 129 people. "We want to be clear that there are at the moment no specific indications that there is any danger for the game against Hanover 96 on Saturday," said Borussia Moenchengladbach CEO Stephan Schippers said in a statement. |
| Exclusive - Suspects had planned attack on Paris business district - sources | |  By Emmanuel Jarry PARIS (Reuters) - Suspected Islamist militants uncovered in a Paris suburb by police were planning an attack on the French capital's La Defense business district, a source close to the investigation and two police sources said on Wednesday. A woman suicide bomber blew herself up and another militant died when police raided the apartment in the St. Denis suburb as part of the investigation into last week's coordinated bombings and shootings. "The police forces were looking for terrorists who were preparing another attack on the basis of information from the (local) counter-terrorism services and overseas," said the source close to the investigation.
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| Two die in police raid targeting suspected Paris attack mastermind | |  By Antony Paone and Emmanuel Jarry SAINT DENIS, France (Reuters) - A woman suicide bomber blew herself up and another militant died on Wednesday when police raided an apartment in the Paris suburb of St. Denis seeking suspects in last week's attacks in the French capital. Three sources told Reuters the raid stopped a jihadist cell that had been planning an attack on Paris's business district, La Defense, after coordinated bombings and shootings killed 129 across the city. Officials said police had been hunting Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian Islamist militant accused of masterminding the Nov. 13 carnage, but more than nine hours after the launch of the pre-dawn raid it was still unclear if they had found him.
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| France had info suspect Abaaoud might have been at St Denis site - prosecutor | |  French authorities who ordered Wednesday's police raid on a building in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis had information that led them to believe the suspected mastermind of Friday's attacks might have been there, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said. "In the context of the inquiry we have had a lot of work done which allowed us to obtain, through telephony, surveillances and witness statements, elements that could allow us to think that Abaaoud might be in an conspirators' apartment in Saint Denis," he said. Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 27, was initially thought to have pulled the strings from Syria for the attacks that killed 129 people in Paris on Friday.
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| Blatter, Platini lose appeals against provisional FIFA bans | |  By Michael Shields ZURICH (Reuters) - Suspended FIFA president Sepp Blatter and European soccer chief Michel Platini have lost their appeals against provisional 90-days bans by the global soccer body's ethics committee, FIFA said on Wednesday. Blatter and Platini, who had been favourite to take over in February's FIFA presidential election, were suspended on Oct 8., engulfed by a deepening corruption scandal as the sport faces criminal investigations in Switzerland and the United States. The decision by the FIFA Appeal Committee, which rejected the appeals "in full", was a further blow to Frenchman Platini's hopes of standing on Feb. 26 because the electoral committee has said his registration will not be processed while he is suspended.
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| Fresh clashes in Kosovo over Serbia accord | |  Police fired tear gas at a crowd of around 150 people lobbing rocks, bottles and petrol bombs outside the government building in central Pristina. Hours earlier, bomb disposal experts detonated a hand grenade thrown near Kosovo's Constitutional Court, which has been asked to rule on a European Union-brokered accord with Serbia that the parliamentary opposition vehemently opposes. On Tuesday, opposition lawmakers fired tear gas and pepper spray in parliament and police clashed with rock-throwing protesters, the latest in months of violence over the accord.
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| Merkel says cancelling soccer match was 'responsible' decision | | | German Chancellor Angela Merkel defended the decision to cancel a soccer match between Germany and Netherlands on Tuesday evening due to security concerns, just four days after Islamist attacks in Paris killed at least 129 people. "I was just as sad as the millions of fans that the match was cancelled. |
| French govt spokesman confirms Paris suburb police raid over | |  PARIS (Reuters) - A police raid on the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis is over, French government spokesman Stephane Le Foll said on Wednesday, confirming earlier information from police sources. Speaking at a news conference after a cabinet meeting, Le Foll gave no further details. (Reporting By John Irish; Editing by Ingrid Melander)
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| Paris suburb police raid is over - police source | |  PARIS (Reuters) - A police raid on the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis is finished, a police source said on Wednesday. "The raid is over," the official said. The raid was linked to attacks that killed 129 in and near Paris on Friday night. (Reporting by Gerard Bon; Writing by Ingrid Melander; Editing by John Irish)
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| Two dead, seven arrests in police raid on Saint-Denis apartment - source | | | Two people holed up in a flat in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis have died and seven have been arrested so far in an ongoing police raid, a source close to the investigation said on Wednesday. A woman blew herself up at the house during the raid, Paris prosecutor's office had said earlier on Wednesday. |
| Getting that sinking feeling in tortuous U.N. climate talks | |  By Alister Doyle BONN, Germany (Reuters) - Abdullahi Majeed was a young delegate for the Maldives when low-lying island states warned for the first time in 1989 that climate change and rising seas could "threaten the very survival" of some nations. Now a 60-year-old veteran, Majeed is still repeating that message, one of a handful of delegates to this month's Paris climate summit who have been attending tortuous U.N. negotiations to combat global warming from the start. "The sense of urgency is simply not there." In countless conference halls from Bangkok to Buenos Aires, Majeed has seen more setbacks than breakthroughs, not least the failed Copenhagen conference in 2009.
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| Italian doctor shot in Bangladesh in latest attack on foreigners | | | An Italian doctor working as a missionary was shot and wounded in the neck during an attack by three assailants in northern Bangladesh on Wednesday and was admitted to hospital, police and a doctor said, reporting the latest in a series of attacks on foreigners. The assault on the man, identified by Italian newspapers as Piero Parolari, in the Muslim-majority country follows the killing of another Italian and a Japanese citizen in attacks claimed by Islamic State at the end of September and early October. The latest attack took place in Dinajpur district, 414 km (258 miles) north of the capital Dhaka, where Parolari has been carrying out missionary work and medical services among the poor for the last 10 years. |
| Nigeria's Buhari orders arrest of former security adviser for graft | | | Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the arrest of the country's former national security adviser, accusing him of stealing around $2 billion received for phantom arms contracts, the presidency said. The arrest order is part of a campaign by Buhari, who was elected in March, to tackle graft that has enriched an elite but left most normal people in poverty. Buhari's office said former security adviser Sambo Dasuki had "awarded fictitious and phantom contracts" worth around $2 billion for jets, helicopters and ammunition for the army to fight the jihadist Boko Haram group which were never delivered. |
| German spy head says public events must go ahead despite security fears | | | Germany should not be cowed by the threat of Islamic State violence, the head of the domestic intelligence services said on Wednesday, after an international soccer game was cancelled due to fears of an attack. With security worries running high in Europe after shootings and bombings in Paris last Friday which killed at least 129 people, BfV president Hans-Georg Maassen said Germany, like other Western states, is an enemy of Islamic State (IS). "If IS can hit us, if IS can carry out terror attacks in Germany, it will do so -- that is our big concern," Maassen said in an interview with broadcaster ARD. |
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